# Proxy

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**Proxy** or **proxies** may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment and media

### Fictional entities

- Proxy, a mysterious humanoid lifeform in the anime *[Ergo Proxy](/source/Ergo_Proxy)*
- PROXY, a holodroid featured in *[Star Wars: The Force Unleashed](/source/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Unleashed)*
- Proxy, the codename of [Wendy Harris](/source/Wendy,_Marvin_and_Wonder_Dog), a fictional character in the *Batgirl* comic book series
- "Proxy", the name of a fictional character in the 2012 horror film *[Smiley](/source/Smiley_(2012_film))*
- "Proxy", a term, specifically (but not limited to) in *[Slender: The Arrival](/source/Slender:_The_Arrival)*, for a person who is influenced or controlled by the Slender Man
- Proxy, playable main protagonist in *[Zenless Zone Zero](/source/Zenless_Zone_Zero)*.

### Music

- [Proxies (band)](/source/Proxies_(band)), British electronic rock band formed in 2010
- [Proxie (Thai band)](/source/Proxie_(Thai_band)), Thai boy band formed in 2022
- ["Proxy" (song)](/source/Proxy_(song)), a 2014 song by Martin Garrix
- "The Proxy", a song by RJD2 on his 2002 album *[Deadringer](/source/Deadringer_(album))*

### Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

- [*Proxy* (film)](/source/Proxy_(film)), a 2013 horror film directed by Zack Parker
- [*Proxies* (film)](/source/Proxies_(film)), a 1921 silent drama film directed by George D. Baker
- *The Proxy*, a drama web series starring [Stuart Ashen](/source/Stuart_Ashen)
- [Proxy card](/source/Proxy_card), a substitute card used in trading card games when a player does not own the substituted card and also can occur when proxy cards are not tradeable
- [Proxy (novel)](/source/Proxy_(novel)), a 2013 young adult novel by Alex London

## Computing and technology

- [Proxy pattern](/source/Proxy_pattern), a software design pattern in computer programming, also known as a proxy class
- [Proxy server](/source/Proxy_server), a computer network service that allows clients to make indirect network connections to other network services

## Politics

- [Proxy politics](/source/Proxy_politics), a form of politics conducted through proxy political actors
- [Proxy political party](/source/Proxy_political_party), a political party created and controlled by another political subject
- [Proxy voting](/source/Proxy_voting), a vote cast on behalf of an absent person
- [Proxy war](/source/Proxy_war), a war where two powers use third parties as a substitute for fighting each other directly

## Other uses

- Proxy or [agent (law)](/source/Agent_(law)), a substitute authorized to act for another entity or a document which authorizes the agent so to act
- [Proxy (climate)](/source/Proxy_(climate)), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest in climate research
- [Proxy (statistics)](/source/Proxy_(statistics)), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest
- [Healthcare proxy](/source/Healthcare_proxy), a document used to specify an agent to make medical decisions for a patient in case they are incapacitated
- [Proxy fight](/source/Proxy_fight), attempting to influence how company shareholders use their proxy votes
- [Proxy marriage](/source/Proxy_marriage), common amongst European monarchs, where one party is not present in person to their marriage to the other
- [Proxy murder](/source/Proxy_murder), a murder committed on behalf of somebody else
- [Proxy statement](/source/Proxy_statement), information published related to a U.S. stockholders' meeting
- [ProxyAddress](/source/ProxyAddress), a service providing postal addresses for homeless people

## See also

- [Münchausen syndrome by proxy](/source/M%C3%BCnchausen_syndrome_by_proxy)
- *[Proxi](/source/Proxi)*, a computer application
- [Vicarious (disambiguation)](/source/Vicarious_(disambiguation))

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