title: Usurper (disambiguation)
text: # Usurper (disambiguation)
  
  A usurper is a person who makes an illegitimate or controversial claim to power.
  
  Usurp, usurper, or usurpation may also refer to:
  
  ## Literature
  
  * Conan the Usurper, a 1967 collection of fantasy stories
  * Usurper!, a Way of the Tiger gamebook
  * Usurpers, novel by Francisco Ayala
  
  ## Other
  
  * HMS Usurper (P56), a Royal Navy Second World War submarine
  * Usurp Synapse, a screamo band from Indiana
  * Usurpation of Qi by Tian, a series of events between 481 and 379 BCE during which the Tian clan overthrew the Jiang clan in the ancient Chinese state of Qi
  * Nest usurpation, when the queen of one species of eusocial insects takes over the colony of another species
  