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In most Chinese languages and languages that borrow words from it, the words for "four" (å››) and "death" (æ») are written differently but pronounced similarly ("sì" and "sÇ�" respectively in Mandarin, "sei3" and "sei2" respectively in Cantonese, "shi" for both in Sino-Japanese, "tứ" and "tá»" respectively in Sino-Vietnamese, and "sa" for both in Sino-Korean). As a cultural trope, East Asian works of media tend to treat the number in much the way Western writers treat the number 13 (a number that Arabian and European cultures consider Magical, and usually in a bad way). As a similar point of reference, building floors and apartments are (mis)numbered accordingly to omit the fourth floornote The US does the same with the number 13. Floors will go straight from 12 to 14, while the UK skips Rm13. or replace the numeral with an alternative sign, such as the letter F or 3A. Cardinal numbers in Japanese are customarily read using the on'yomi (Sino-Japanese) pronunciation, aside from 4 and 7, which are read using the kun'yomi (native Japanese) readings of "yon" and "nana" instead of the on'yomi "shi" and "shichi", respectively.note Of course, it also handily prevents them from being confused with each other when read aloud. Apparently the Japanese word form "shi ni" (four twos), which translates to 'death', gives the number eight a related association. On an unrelated note, Christianity also has several examples of Four Is Death, with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (the fourth of which is Death) and the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Hell, and Glory). Compare Mystical 108, 13 Is Unlucky and the Number of the Beast. Note: This is not a repository for every time the number 4 just happens to appear in a work (or for series where the fourth installment was particularly bad), nor for when bad things coincidentally happen in the fourth episode, in the fourth installment, to the fourth person to be introduced, and so on; this is for when the trope is consciously addressed by having the number 4 intentionally and unambiguously associated with death or misfortune. Particular examples of common groups of four that are normally unrelated to this trope are the Elite Four, The Four Gods, the Classical Elements Ensemble, and the Four-Temperament Ensemble. In particular, most groups of four mini-bosses in Eastern RPGs refer to one of those or to the shitennÅ� — often localized into the Elite Four or the Four Heavenly Kings — and have no relation to this trope. |
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Death is forced to take a vacation: Fall Harvest is sent off to work in zone four of the farm where he works. Naturally, that area is where he dies. | |
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Daughter of the Lilies inverts this trope. The main team has four members (as of Chapter 6), and the phenomenally adorkable Thistle appears particularly gifted in life magics and fighting evil. | |
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Usagi Yojimbo features a band of four assassins called... Shi. It is made explicit that this is an intentional pun on their part. | |
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In Kamen Rider Wizard, the mysterious White Wizard is attempting to recruit and train four other magic-users, including the titular Wizard. Because he has a spell to restore his dead daughter to life, and it requires sacrificing the lives of four magic-users... as well as everybody within the magic circle they form, which in this case would be all of Tokyo. | |
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In the Team Fortress 2 comic "The Naked and the Dead", a dying Scout meets God in Heaven, who then sends him back to Earth saying that he'll die on December 4th, 1987. | |
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Umineko: When They Cry It presents the entire Ushiromiya clan composed mainly of the Kinzo family head and his 4 children in order of age, Krauss, Eva, Rudolf and Rosa. The last one in particular is a Struggling Single Mother and literally the epitome of a Troubled Abuser who takes out her pain on her only daughter, Maria and for this reason she is the most targeted by Beatrice (Maria's best friend) and her allies, all of whom are more than happy to experience on her the power to take and restore life over and over again to create particularly horrific scenarios of endless torture. | |
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In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Haruto gets killed by the Four of Swords card. More importantly, the death is from the fourth sword as Yayoi blocked the first three. | |
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Done in Gotham twice with Jerome Velaska, including with his actual death: His fourth episode is also his last. He'd have died sooner had Theo allowed him to go a fourth round of Russian Roulette. |
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The Mummy (1999): Four men are in the presence of a cursed chest containing the Book of the Dead and four canopic jars. When Imhotep is awakened, he tracks the men one-by-one on the streets of Cairo and assimilates their organs and fluids to regenerate his body. | |
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The fourth and last Chapter of End of An Empire, Celldweller's newest album, is named Death. | |
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The only "evil" Netking in TOME is Rubirules, who is designated as Netking Number Four. | |
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2: The clock stops with the minute hand pointing at the number 4 at the very moment Gwen Stacy dies. The actual time shown is 1:21, a subtle reference to Amazing Spider-Man #121, the original comic in which the same event occurs. (Also 1+2+1=4) | |
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In Diamonds Are Forever, when trying to kill James Bond at Slumber Inc., Albert Wint pushes the button labeled "4" on the incinerator control panel's Oven subpanel. Thanks to some well-placed forgeries, it doesn't work. | |
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Harry Potter: The Dursleys, Harry's abusive foster parents, live in 4 Privet Drive. J. K. Rowling once stated that she was never fond of number four, which was why she slapped it as the Dursleys' address. Part of the prophecy surrounding Harry is that his parents defied Voldemort thrice. This means James and Lily Potter encountered Voldemort three times and survived them, but were killed when it happened again (i.e. the fourth time). The Triwizard Tournament is supposed to involve three contestants only, but bad things happen when the one held in Goblet of Fire involves four. It culminates in the death of one of the contestants, Cedric Diggory. |
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Evangelion 303: In this fancomic we have Unit-04. During a trial flight, one of its engines exploded and the Unit crashed and blew up. One of its two pilots died and the another nearly did, spending several months in a coma. | |
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Courtroom 4 bore witness to the mid-trial suicide of Terry Fawles in Case 4 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations. | |
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The prequel to Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily, the entire story changes in the fourth car Gladion enters (the 400 Rabbits Car), which is a four-part arc and deals with the death of the original White Rabbit by the Apex and Paul London having to shatter Lampetia in the fourth chapter and had drawn a Four of Clubs in a fortune-reading. | |
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House of Leaves has a lot of this: the Navidsons put four locks on the door leading to the scary parts of the house; the house is explored in teams of three with one person remaining behind to man the radios; there are four members of Will Navidson's nuclear family; there are four Exploration videos; and lots of little things peppered throughout the text. | |
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Four (Ryo Tetsuda) from Dark Matter (2015) is a murderous, brooding ninja. Since he's Japanese (and the crown prince of a space empire), his silent acknowledgement of his new name is pretty telling. | |
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God of War Zhao Zilong is a China-produced series about the backstory of Zhao Yun from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, meaning that there's a lot of new gaiden characters with no Plot Armor to speak of. The traitorous Gao Ze is responsible for four of them — and the last one is in episode 44. Being a gaiden character himself, it's also his last, too. | |
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In the episode "Phantom Traveler" of Supernatural, planes keep crashing after 40 minutes of their departure. Later it is even mentioned that this is because four is a "biblical number" and "means death" (Noah's ark and the forty days of flooding given as an example). Hell, the episode itself is the fourth episode of the show ever! On top of this, try to guess what's the number of the gate the last plane takes off? Talk about numerological motifs! A very literal example occurs in Season 5, where the Winchesters encounter the Four Horsemen. The last one they meet is Death. |
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Same goes for Zanki/Kamen Rider Zanki in Kamen Rider Hibiki. | |
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A strangely literal example: while the previous three Discworld books contained Death as a character, it took until the fourth book, Mort, to feature him as a main character. This is doubly so in French-speaking countries, where 'Mort' is a word for 'death', so to them, the fourth Discworld book is Death. And in the Discworld the unlucky number is eight — twice four. | |
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The Sensational She-Hulk: The Black Talon, the main villain of issues #34 and #35, revives four dead X-Men villains as zombies to do his bidding. | |
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Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail The Cyan Desert Car takes place throughout four days and it is the darkest arc in Act 2. The trope gets referenced by Henry and Lexi, as Henry Townsend observes that the alliance that the Red Lotus Trio made with Amelia has made them a quartet rather than a trio. Chronologically, Chloe is the fourth person from the Pokémon world who encountered the Apex with Trip, Tokio and Gladion coming before her. She's the one who brings about the end of the Apex. Moreover Chloe is one of four Pokémon Trainersnote the others being Hop, Paul and Alain who were "chosen" to help unleash the Cage of Flauros; not only is she the one trying to stop the Cage from activating she's the only trainer of the four who actually dies (thankfully Atticus saves her with the Pendant of life) in Chapter 34. |
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Kamen Rider Agito: Kino Kaoru/Kamen Rider Another Agito is the 4th Rider and is the only one who ends up dying. | |
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Kamen Rider Drive: The Roidmudes want to evolve four of their members to the ultimate state of being, in order to instigate The End of the World as We Know It. In their point. It's complicated. Additionally, there are 108 Roidmudes overall. 004 serves as Big Bad Gold Drive's right-hand man, and self-destructs in an attempt to take out the Riders. |
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In Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, the 4th Rider introduced in the series, Kuujou Kiriya/Kamen Rider Lazer, was the first Rider getting killed in the show. | |
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Even if he's the 3rd Rider, Fukamiya Kento/Kamen Rider Espada is the 4th to appear in Kamen Rider Saber, and ends up having a pseudo-death. | |
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The Machineries of Empire: The Hexarchate Galactic Superpower believes the number four to be profoundly unlucky, except for the military Kel faction, who have the Gallows Humor joke that Kel luck is always bad and that four is therefore lucky to them. | |
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The Order of the Stick #444 is entitled "He's Dead, Jim", referring to Roy, who fell to his death on the previous page. | |
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Oddly enough, the maximum possible score for video game reviews in the Japanese video game magazine Famitsu is 40. So far, twenty-seven games have received perfect scores from Famitsu, three of them were developed by western studios: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Grand Theft Auto V and Ghost of Tsushima. | |
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In his last WWE PPV match, King Kong Bundy was the fourth victim of The Undertaker's WrestleMania undefeated streak | |
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Turning Red: Grandma Wu makes a passing mention of this trope after Ming tells her the SkyDome light is from the 4*Town concert occurring at the same time, complaining that “four is the worst number." She's also unamused when she's forced to break her own talisman and use a piece of 4*Town merchandise as a hasty replacement, specifically a plastic necklace in the shape of the number 4. She blames it for her losing a poker hand when she held four of a kind: four fours, to be exact. The winning hand, which is briefly visible is four eights. | |
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The Stepford Wives: Bobbi, Charmaine, and eventually Joanna are all turned after four months of living in Stepford. It seems to take four months to perfect a robot wife. | |
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Exalted: In-universe, the number four is often considered unlucky and ill-omened by Realm citizens due to being one short of the count of the Five Immaculate Dragons, and thus short of their divine perfection. | |
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Geist: The Sin-Eaters: Some Sin Eaters have the number four tattooed onto them as a reminder of their deaths. | |
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As a little Easter Egg in Spirit Hunter: NG, the birth date of the spirit-fighting protagonist is 4/4. | |
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In the Everyone Lives With Knives series, due to cultural issues around the number four Jiang Yanli's pregnancy with her fourth child is closely watched. It does turn out to be a difficult one for both mother and baby, with Jin Hua arriving several weeks early and Yanli nearly dying. | |
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In Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, Big Bad Gengestu Kibaoni and his followers are resurrected as Youkai exactly 444 years after his death at the hands of the Ninningers' ancestors. Also in episode 44, the Ninningers are horrified to learn that the final step to gain the title of Last Ninja is to kill the current one, their own grandfather. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: The Way of Kings (2010) introduces us to the bridge crews, a collection of slaves tasked with carrying the bridges to cross the innumerable chasms that cover the Shattered Plains. As the region is an active warzone and the bridge crews are always on the front lines, the death toll across the board is absurdly high, by design. The crew that experiences the brunt of the losses is the bizarrely unlucky Bridge 4, to which Kaladin is sent to with the intent to die. in the end he has other plans. | |
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Klaus Hargreeves from The Umbrella Academy (2019) is "Number Four" of seven adopted children and has the ability to see and communicate with the dead. It is later revealed he can also manifest them into the psychical world to do his bidding. | |
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Billions: Discussed when "Dollar" Bill accuses a Chinese-American co-worker of stealing his lucky dollar. The co-worker retorts that everyone knows that Bill's dollar has four fours in a row in the serial number, so no Chinese-American would consider it lucky. | |
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Chapter 4 of Infinity Train: Crown of Thorns features a full flashback dealing with the untimely demise of The Apex. | |
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This shows up in Jackie Chan Adventures, most notably the final faceoff in the main Season 2 arc where four demon sorcerers assault the protagonists. Said demons have Four-Fingered Hands. | |
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Sucker Punch has a Five-Man Band of girls. On the first mission where only four instead of five take part someone dies and things go From Bad to Worse. What's more is that this is the fourth mission. | |
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In Ace Combat: Wings of Unity, the main enemy squadron of pegasi is known as the Reapers and they fly in a formation of four. | |
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In The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "Superstitious Stimpy", Stimpy considers the unluckiest day on the calendar to be Tuesday the 17th, which is four days after Friday the 13th. | |
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Ludicrous Power has Eve fight a lich in comic #44, titled "Deathty-Death". | |
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In Boxers & Saints Four-Girl was unwanted by her family and wasn't even given a name, called a devil and believed to be bringing misfortune onto the family. | |
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The four number is carried on in Kira Is Justice, to the point that sixteen is a number used a few times. For example, the sixteen SIS agents. | |
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The Korean horror film White: The Melody of the Curse is about a K-pop group made up of four members, who all become cursed after covering a song haunted by a ghost. | |
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish invokes this trope a couple of times. After the Death Montage showing Puss dying in 7 ways (in addition to the death shown before the montage), Puss (claiming he was never a math guy) guesses that he's died four times. The bounty hunter wolf has four fingers on each paw, foreshadowing that he is in fact The Grim Reaper. Puss also encounters Death four times before the climax, and it is the fourth encounter where the Wolf reveals his true nature. |
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Kamen Rider Kamen Rider Agito: Kino Kaoru/Kamen Rider Another Agito is the 4th Rider and is the only one who ends up dying. Same goes for Zanki/Kamen Rider Zanki in Kamen Rider Hibiki. In Kamen Rider Den-O, Momotaros, who counts his attacks, ends up missing "Part 4" due to some combination of tiredness and feeling unappreciated. When Ryotaro calls him out on this, he claims that not using four is cool and proves it by counting from one to ten... while skipping four. In Kamen Rider Wizard, the mysterious White Wizard is attempting to recruit and train four other magic-users, including the titular Wizard. Because he has a spell to restore his dead daughter to life, and it requires sacrificing the lives of four magic-users... as well as everybody within the magic circle they form, which in this case would be all of Tokyo. Kamen Rider Drive: The Roidmudes want to evolve four of their members to the ultimate state of being, in order to instigate The End of the World as We Know It. In their point. It's complicated. Additionally, there are 108 Roidmudes overall. 004 serves as Big Bad Gold Drive's right-hand man, and self-destructs in an attempt to take out the Riders. In Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, the 4th Rider introduced in the series, Kuujou Kiriya/Kamen Rider Lazer, was the first Rider getting killed in the show. Even if he's the 3rd Rider, Fukamiya Kento/Kamen Rider Espada is the 4th to appear in Kamen Rider Saber, and ends up having a pseudo-death. The 4th episode of Kamen Rider Outsiders concluded in a Downer Ending. The good guys destroyed the Ark, leaving its fate to an Uncertain Doom until season 2. Zein manages to overthrow the Ark and now has the right to decide the fate of humanity by relaunching an already Deadly Game by turning it into a humanity self-destruction game so that it plans to sacrifice unsuspecting players to the villains. |
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The Emoji Movie: Alex's phone store appointment is at 4:00, which is the time the phone is to be erased. Prior to this, he calls the store at 12:00 and the appointment is in four hours from then. | |
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The song 4ã�®æŒ (Song 4) on BABYMETAL's first album BABYMETAL is full of wordplay based on this. Although it is track 8 on the album. | |
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Shutter features a horror sequence where the protagonist is running down a series of stairs. No matter how many flights he goes down, it's always level 4. Creeeepy. | |
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Journey to Chaos: When Eric uses a series of tricks to defeat Gruffle for the right of living under Cutlass Bridge, he frames the series of defeats as lessons for his guild junior; "lesson four is death, care to learn it?". This becomes a Running Gag between them as they clash throughout the series. In Mana Mutation Menace Gruffle has become a necromancer and states that he now knows "lesson four" far better than Eric does. | |
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The game show Press Your Luck had the Whammy, which not only reset a player's score to zero, but getting four of them total disqualified them from the game permanently; even if there is an all-zero tie, anyone who has four Whammies have already automatically lost the game in addition to no money, so they won't be invited back. | |
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The Triwizard Tournament is supposed to involve three contestants only, but bad things happen when the one held in Goblet of Fire involves four. It culminates in the death of one of the contestants, Cedric Diggory. | |
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Ultraman Mebius: Big Bad Empera's generals are known as the 4 Heavenly Kings, four powerful and malevolent aliens who prove to be some of Mebius and GUYS' most challenging foes in the series. | |
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Numerous occurrences on Lost. Four is one of the show's Numbers. Boone wears multiple t-shirts in the first season containing fours or sets of four and is the first regular character to die. In a Season 5 flashback, Miles discovers his ability to speak to the dead by finding a dead man in Apt. #4. In Jacob's cave, Locke is indicated by the number 4, and is the first of the six uncrossed names to be crossed out (as he is dead). There are many other instances. | |
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NCIS: In the second episode, "Hung out to Dry," Tony initially refuses a switch of reserve parachutes with a marine because their reserve is number 4, citing the fact that four is unlucky in China. He relents when Gibbs points out they're not in China. Turns out that the reserve Tony had (Number 13) was unable to open as the marine he swapped with sabotaged it to kill the victim. It was up there as part of a Batman Gambit by Gibbs to expose him. The number of the "dirty" reserve parachute was selected because the victim was like a living rabbit's foot. The guy's mindset wouldn't let him say no to taking the 'chute. In Season 7, Gibbs brings up Rule #40: If you think someone's out to get you, they are. It's the first time a rule in the 40s comes up in the series, and it's not the last time in the season; Abby and Tony are both immediately on guard due to the subtext: |
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In The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, the fourth book is titled The Necromancer, and it also marks the point where Dee is declared an outlaw by his masters, Josh makes something of a Face–Heel Turn to join him and characters start dying. | |
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BattleTech: The Dire Wolf omnimech was assigned the code name Daishi (Fourth) by the Japanese-speaking Draconis Combine specifically because it was such a powerful and deadly foe. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, Courtroom number 4 is bombed, and ends up being the only courtroom to be a murder scene. | |
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In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "The Phantom of Retroland", after the Phantom turns out to be Nick, another shows up that turns out to be Cindy and Libby, then a third that's actually Judy, and then finally the real Phantom shows up. | |
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Cars 3: Lightning McQueen's crash during the Los Angeles 500 occurred at lap 461, with 40 laps to go. He was also in fourth place when he crashes. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Courtroom 4 bore witness to the mid-trial suicide of Terry Fawles in Case 4 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations. In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, Courtroom number 4 is bombed, and ends up being the only courtroom to be a murder scene. |
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The Gang of Four in Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky: Huang Chan, Shorty, Taizan, and Hai. | |
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In the Robert Duvall vehicle Broken Trail, his character rescues from sexual slavery five immigrant Chinese girls. Since none of them speaks English, and he obviously doesn't speak Chinese, he names them "Number One" to "Number Five". When the girls realize this, "Number Four" objects to being given an unlucky number for a name. One of the other girls eventually accepts to be "Number Four", and she does so because she fully expects a tragic fate to befall her — which indeed it does. | |
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The Noordegraaf Files: The number 4 shows up a lot. The second page has the numbers 4 and 4444 written in binary, along with the GRAVE "`" key in groups of four. Not to mention the panel was about the inescapability of death. Also, pages post every Wednesday (4th day of the week, not using biblical calendar) at 4:00. | |
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In The Last Spartan, Wrex actually says four is considered a lucky number among Krogans. Krogans, incidentally, hail from Tuchanka. | |
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In Versus, the Forest of Resurrection is the 444th Portal out of 666. | |
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Mika Koizumi starts off Choudenshi Bioman as Yellow Four. She ends up Dying to Be Replaced in Episode 10, with Jun Yabuki taking up her mantle. | |
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Royal Warriors has the heroine, Michelle, and her friends being targeted by a quartet of vengeful terrorists, all four of them whom are killing machines and leaving behind piles of dead bodies everywhere they go. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has Demonic Pact. It has four effects, the fourth of which will result in the player who controls it losing the game, and each effect can only be used once while that copy of Demonic Pact is in play. | |
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The Fresh Off the Boat episode "Very Superstitious" focuses on this, with Jessica being forced to sell a house with the number 44 on 4th street, containing 4 bedrooms. Her commission cheque also has the number 4444, convincing her to destroy it. Cutaways also show that she's removed the number from the entire house — all her children had two third birthdays, and the clocks have the number flipped to look like a lowercase 'h'. | |
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In An Acceptable Arrangement from The Untamed fandom, Hou Yue dies in childbirth at the end of her fourth pregnancy. Her baby, however, survives. | |
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hololive streamer Calliope Mori, as the apprentice of The Grim Reaper, loves the number 4 precisely for this reason. For example, she alluded to this trope when she got 44,400 followers, and her birthday is on April 4, which can be written as 4/4. | |
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Ju-on, the Japanese movie on which The Grudge is based, features a scene in which Mizuho goes back to her school to meet her boyfriend, Tsuyoshi, only to find that he isn't there. All she discovers is a mysterious cell phone that happens to be lying around. She ends up having to wait inside the school whilst a member of staff searches the building — suddenly, the room goes dark, Toshio starts running around out of her eyesight, and the cell phone she found earlier begins to ring when she is hiding underneath a desk. The number displayed on the screen is simply "4444444444". And when she takes the call, she only hears Toshio's creepy mewing noise. Of course, Toshio also happens to be right behind her at this point. Obviously, these are ghosts who like making culturally appropriate dark jokes. There's also the Ju-on short film, which is simply titled 4444444444. It is set during the first movie, and is directly connected to the scene above — it details just what happens to poor Tsuyoshi after he also discovers the mysterious phone. | |
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Infinity Train: Blossomverse Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail The Cyan Desert Car takes place throughout four days and it is the darkest arc in Act 2. The trope gets referenced by Henry and Lexi, as Henry Townsend observes that the alliance that the Red Lotus Trio made with Amelia has made them a quartet rather than a trio. Chronologically, Chloe is the fourth person from the Pokémon world who encountered the Apex with Trip, Tokio and Gladion coming before her. She's the one who brings about the end of the Apex. Moreover Chloe is one of four Pokémon Trainersnote the others being Hop, Paul and Alain who were "chosen" to help unleash the Cage of Flauros; not only is she the one trying to stop the Cage from activating she's the only trainer of the four who actually dies (thankfully Atticus saves her with the Pendant of life) in Chapter 34. The prequel to Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily, the entire story changes in the fourth car Gladion enters (the 400 Rabbits Car), which is a four-part arc and deals with the death of the original White Rabbit by the Apex and Paul London having to shatter Lampetia in the fourth chapter and had drawn a Four of Clubs in a fortune-reading. Mallow's Train number was "44" and she ran away as she was unable to comprehend the truth of her mother dying. Her mother died age 44. In the sequel to Blossoming Trail, Infinity Train: Voyage of Wisteria, Goh explained what happened during his first day on the Train in Chapter 4, which includes having to see Ogami murder Satou and Shio. Grace's backstory reveals how she befriended three other passengers in the Pirate Car. All four of them die and become reincarnated as denizens on the train — Ariana becomes Romsca, Horace becomes Tomas, Mark becomes Ogami and Grace becomes Warler — with Grace the fourth and final member to kick the bucket. |
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In Where There's A Will, There's A Road, this is referenced when Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao find four branching paths and consider the find unlucky. | |
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Stranger Things: During the climax of Season 4, the protagonists realize that Vecna needs to kill four people, and create a gate to the Upside-Down at each location, in order to create a super gate large enough to wreck Hawkins and allow for a full-scale invasion of Earth. | |
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Super Sentai: Mika Koizumi starts off Choudenshi Bioman as Yellow Four. She ends up Dying to Be Replaced in Episode 10, with Jun Yabuki taking up her mantle. In Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, Big Bad Gengestu Kibaoni and his followers are resurrected as Youkai exactly 444 years after his death at the hands of the Ninningers' ancestors. Also in episode 44, the Ninningers are horrified to learn that the final step to gain the title of Last Ninja is to kill the current one, their own grandfather. |
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Battle for BFDI: The host of the season is Four, an extraterrestrial with the body of the number itself, and compared to the Announcer or any of the Speaker Boxes from the original Battle for Dream Island, Four is much more Ax-Crazy and destructive, at least until he's resurrected in BFB 10 and becomes somewhat nicer. Four's Establishing Character Moment has him grabbing Pin and mutilating her, describing her mangled corpse as "pretty cool". | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Face Freeze!", one of Mr. Krabs's stories involves a person who liked to make funny faces, most enjoyably sticking his tongue out. After doing it 444 times, he couldn't get it back in until most of it crumbled off of him. In the episode "One Coarse Meal", when Plankton is scared by Mr. Krabs too many times, he tries to get run over by a bus that comes at 4:00. It also happens when there are 4 minutes left in the episode. |
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In the Shadowrun short story "It's All Done with Mirrors", the characters go to meet with a Yakuza boss who arrived in Seattle because of mishaps in his business to ask what will appease him into leaving. The Yakuza boss then outlines a task they will have to do for him. One of the mob boss's servants lays out sake with cups, and the boss offers to pour the drink for his guests. When The Smart Guy asks what will happen if they fail, the mob boss doesn't answer but pours three times into his cup and four times into the cups of his guests. Only The Smart Guy, the Genius Bruiser, and The Professor in the group get the message. | |
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Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000: The games have the four evil Chaos Gods, omnicidal eldritch creatures that feed on emotions and mess around with the real world for the lulz. They are the main antagonists of both settings. 40k also had the four C'Tan, the material gods of the Necrons, though those have been broken into pieces and can be used like forces of nature in weapon form. Games Workshop has since filled out their ranks a bit, though in order to differentiate them from the Chaos Gods. The Eldar pantheon was slaughtered by Slaanesh, leaving only three survivors: Isha, Khaine and Cegorach. The Eldar are trying to make a 4th one, Ynnead, from the souls of their fallen in the hopes that he'll rise up and defeat Slaanesh. Unfortunately, Ynnead is a god of death and will require every last one of their race to come into being. For the Eldar, four really is death. However as of the events of The Gathering Storm, Ynnead has come into existence without the sacrifice of all the Eldar. It even has an Emissary, Yvraine; and a physical avatar, the Yncarne. On the tabletop, Yvraine and the Yncarne are both One Man Armies, so it becomes Four is Death for everyone else. |
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In The 10 WEIRDEST Superstitions in the World! by Matt Santoro, Matt mentions how some Chinese buildings don't have fourth floors. | |
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Doctor Who: "Forest of the Dead": Other Dave's last words are repeated four times before the Doctor realizes he's been eaten by the Vashta Nerada and the words are echoing through his neural relay. The death of the Tenth Doctor is heralded by the prophetic Arc Words "He will knock four times." Ultimately, this refers to Wilfred Mott knocking four times on a plexiglass window when he is trapped, and rescuing him requires the Doctor to absorb a lethal dose of radiation. |
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Shang-Chi's younger half-sister, Sister Dagger, is positively gleeful about this association when she gets to fight the Fantastic Four. | |
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The motif is continued in entry #40 - posted on May 4, with screen tearing occurring at 4:40 on the YouTube player and The Operator showing up moments later. | |
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In 7-Second Riddles, there's a mirror rumored to kill people if they look in it at 4:44. However, this is subverted; it actually kills people at 7:16, when the mirror image of the clock reads 4:44. | |
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A Hercule Poirot novel, The Big Four, gives the fourth member of the titular group the moniker "the destroyer", and indeed is responsible for killing those who would oppose the Big Four. As the mastermind (Number 1) of the group is Chinese, this is justified. | |
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In the CSI seventh season episode "Toe Tags", this trope is mentioned as they investigate the drowning of the bodyguard of an Asian high roller at a casino. She had been drowned because the high roller had bad luck and came unexpectedly back to his room and found her taking a bath in the bathtub he had sprinkled with rose petals for good luck. So he blamed her for his bad luck. | |
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The 4th episode of Kamen Rider Outsiders concluded in a Downer Ending. The good guys destroyed the Ark, leaving its fate to an Uncertain Doom until season 2. Zein manages to overthrow the Ark and now has the right to decide the fate of humanity by relaunching an already Deadly Game by turning it into a humanity self-destruction game so that it plans to sacrifice unsuspecting players to the villains. | |
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Lorien Legacies features numbered characters, who can only be killed in that order as long as they stay apart. By the time of the first book, it's Four who's next on the chopping block, so he constantly gets into hazardous situations because an entire alien army desires his destruction first and foremost. In addition, when the order gimmick is rendered moot, Eight (as in the aforementioned 'shi ni' example) dies protecting the others. | |
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In Kamen Rider Den-O, Momotaros, who counts his attacks, ends up missing "Part 4" due to some combination of tiredness and feeling unappreciated. When Ryotaro calls him out on this, he claims that not using four is cool and proves it by counting from one to ten... while skipping four. | |
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In Doki Doki Literature Club!, there are four members of the club to start with. All of them end up either dead or deleted in some form during the game. A meta example is that the game ends when Act 4 is cleared.note Note that, while the game is developed in America, it takes place in Japan and is designed to resemble a Japanese VN. | |
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In Fengshen Yanyi, when Taiyi Zhenren controls the newly born Nezha and learns from his father Li Jing that he was born on the fourth hour of the morning he claims that it's an ill omen, signifying that Nezha is doomed to break the commandment on killing. Indeed, when he's still ten he ends up killing the Yaksha Li Gen, the sea dragon Ao Bing (both in self defense) and Lady Rock's disciple Biyun (by mistake). | |
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In Triangle of Moons the number 4 belongs to Big Bad and is associated with it so hard it is never actually used. Except in rhyming chants dedicated to the Big Bad. | |
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Bobby, Angel, Jeremiah, and Jack Mercer, the titular hooligans in Four Brothers reunite in the first act to investigate and avenge their adoptive mother's murder. They also lose Jack before it's all said and done. | |
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Our Little Adventure has introduced four high-ranking members of the Souballo Empire who each seem to be in charge of a department. | |
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Used lightly in the crossover The Bridge, fittingly due to one of the properties being primarily Japanese. There are four times kaiju are brought to Equestria. The first, King Caesar is summoned by a magical being to aid historical Equestria against Tirek. The second and third times were uses of Dimension Tide. The fourth was a purposeful invasion by Bagan | |
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Divergent's dystopian Crapsack World has Chicago divided into five factions. The point where things start going to hell for the society is when one faction is slaughtered, knocking the factions down to four. | |
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Squid Game: The fourth episode has a massive riot in the bunk room, which kills off a lot of contestants. The event reveals that the creators are willing to let deaths happen outside the games, meaning everyone are truly on their own. It's in the fourth game that the show begins killing off the main characters, namely, Ji-yeon, Ali, and Il-nam (although the last one is later revealed to have been faking his death). |
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In the Hey Arnold! episode "Operation: Ruthless", Helga is advised not to get in the bumper car numbered 4 because it has a faulty accelerator, so she tries to get Ruth into that particular car in the hopes that she'll get in an accident. Sure enough, Helga accidentally gets Ruth into the car numbered 3 and she and Phoebe get into the one with 4, ending in their car flying off the track and into a hot dog truck. | |
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Code Prime sees Dorothea Ernst, the Knight of Four, be the first member of her group to get killed in R2. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: All four tests guarding the Holy Grail have different ways of killing those who seek it. The first test has decapitation and bifurcation. The second and third tests have those who step the wrong way plummet to their deaths. The fourth and final test will make you rapidly age and take away your vitality by choosing the wrong grail. | |
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The number four shows up more than what should be considered coincidental in Marble Hornets: In Entry #26, Jay receives a mysterious text message on the 4th of April (i.e. 4/4). Two weeks later, he receives a tape dated 4.4.2010 which contains footage of Jay's missing friend Alex and his girlfriend Amy narrowly avoiding an attack by the Operator, which happens at 4:04 PM. There is also some distortion around the entry's 4:04 mark. The Totheark video "Decay" was uploaded on April 4, 2012, and it shows some of the footage from the tape in Entry #26, distorting it so that the date and time overlay each other. The last seven seconds of the video, when run through a spectrograph, reveal an image with the text, "TODAY IS YOUR LAST BIRTHDAY," with four dots under the word "birthday." Alex's birthday is April 4th. In the same video, Totheark writes, "(HE WILL) LEAD ME TO DEATH." The motif is continued in entry #40 - posted on May 4, with screen tearing occurring at 4:40 on the YouTube player and The Operator showing up moments later. |
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In Dragon Pearl, the planet known as the Fourth Colony is a ghost-ridden hellhole after the colonists accidentally called up Gaia's Vengeance. The main character specifically mentions four being unlucky when she's thinking about how it ended up as it is. | |
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Charmed: The third season ends on a cliffhanger wherein Prue and Piper are fatally injured. The fourth season confirms that while Leo was able to save Piper, Prue died, and they don't have any magic that can bring her back. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Sasuke Samurai #4. When it battles an enemy, if the player gets a coin flip right, SS4 instantly destroys that enemy without actually battling it. If you're playing one of the video games, expect the computer to ALWAYS FREAKIN GET THE RIGHT FLIP. The Number archetype of Xyz Monsters doesn't follow this rule universally, but there are plenty who do: "Number 40: Gimmick Puppet of Strings" lets you place String Counters on every other face-up monster on the Field during your turn. Then, at the end of your opponent's turn, all monsters with String Counters are destroyed and the opponent loses 500 Life Points for each one. "Number 43: Manipulator of Souls" is a necromancer that draws power from a Number in its controller's Graveyard and whenever its controller gains Life Points, draining an equal amount from the opponent's Life Points and straight into its own ATK. "Number 44: Sky Pegasus" is a bright and pleasant monster. Its effect forces the opponent to choose between letting one of their monsters be destroyed or sacrificing their own Life Points to protect it. "Number 45: Crumble Logos the Prophet of Demolition" is an ominous zombie centaur that can target one card on the Field and negate not only its effects but the effects of all cards with the same name. "Number 48: Shadow Lich" is, naturally, a lich that draws power from the Tokens it spawns. |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: The Four Horsemen; Agent MacTaggert details their importance in En Sabah Nur's cult. | |
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In Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex, the titular mental disorder partly manifests as obsessive-compulsive disorder. As a result, Artemis starts seeing five as "lucky" but has a phobia for the number four, with his narration noting the Chinese superstition. | |
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In "Hard Luck", a Season 4 episode of Code Lyoko, in which Odd is suffering from a case of bad luck from a broken mirror, as the gang are traveling to one of X.A.N.A.'s Replika via the Skid are talking about bad luck — to Odd's annoyance — Yumi remarks something similar to the following: "People in Japan avoid anything to do with the number 4 because it sounds like the word for death." | |
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Since the 2000s, as the Importance of the Asian Box Office has increased, few film series ever get to 4 (reboot the series instead). When they do, 4 is usually not in the title (Even when numbers are in early installments). Examples include X-Men Origins: Wolverine or First Class, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Fast & Furious (followed by Fast Five), Rambo, Penguins of Madagascar, Live Free or Die Hard, Open Season: Scared Silly, The Prophecy: Uprising, The Final Destination (followed by 5, a prequel), The First Purge, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, Terminator Salvation... | |
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In the sequel to Blossoming Trail, Infinity Train: Voyage of Wisteria, Goh explained what happened during his first day on the Train in Chapter 4, which includes having to see Ogami murder Satou and Shio. | |
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Kagerou Project has the Mekakushi Dan, who numbers their members. Member number four is Marry, who is not only the granddaughter of a Medusa referred to as a Shinigami, or Death God, but also is forced to watch her friends die over and over again as she resets the timeline so she can see them once more. | |
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James and the Giant Peach: James Henry Trotter's parents were killed and eaten by an escaped rhinoceros when he was four years old. | |
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In the Gravity Falls episode "Double Dipper", Dipper's fourth attempt at cloning himself gets a paper jam (the copy machine copies people), resulting in this clone coming out hideously deformed. During the scene where most of the clones are melted, Paper Jam Dipper treats his death as a Mercy Kill. Yikes! | |
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The Happy Heroes Story Arc "God of War Legend", from Season 7, consists of four episodes. The story arc features a significant character death that doesn't occur until the fourth and final part. | |
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