History Main / FourisDeath

** This may yet be played totally straight in RebuildOfEvangelion, as it appears that the series will now be 4 full-length features, rather than 2 fulls, and 2 half-length shorts to make a third, and we all know [[EndOfEvangelion how the original series ended, after all...]] Of course, with three and four in DevelopmentHell, it looks like we'll never know.

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[[caption-width-right:175:Four’s bad. Fourteen’s even worse. Thirteen was glad for the company. Zero is shunned for reasons unknown. Although why Nine [[hottip:*:9 in Japanese is ''Ku'' or ''Kyuu'' can also be read as suffering. Gives Kyubey's new a whole new degree of evil!]] is still there is beyond belief?]]

[[caption-width-right:175:Four’s bad. Fourteen’s even worse. Thirteen was glad for the company. Zero is shunned for reasons unknown.]]

** the third arc actually averts this by having the QuirkyMinibossSquad be 5 villains.

* This could be a bit of a stretch but the German word for the number 4 (vier), sounds like "fear."

** The Sony company has created several successive types of digital video tape, named D-1, D-2, D-3, etc. There was no D-4, due to the stigma associated with the number ([[FridgeLogic Yet they had no problem with using the fourth letter of the alphabet...]]). Averted with the {{PlayStation 4}}, however[[note]]Although it did look like they were going for this initially, the official announcement dropped the ''Orbis'' monicker and calls the device the PlayStation4[[/note]].

* Literature/TrappedOnDraconica: Inverted. Erowin is the fourth dragokin sister and was blessed with the power to ''heal'' in addition to her elemental powers. [[spoiler: She is the only one of the four to die and then come back from the dead.]]

** Morty, the fourth Gym Leader in Johto, uses the Ghost type. Ghosts are associated with death.

* Since its first inception, the Pokemon games have presented players with the greatest challenge of their story arc, the Elite Four (Shitennou) [[spoiler: though, this is something of a subversion since the player is then tasked with facing a fifth opponent, the Champion]].

* As West (西) is another near-homophone for death, one Chinese metaphor for death is "to return to the west", in a similar fashion to the way a broken piece if machinery is said in English-speaking countries to have "gone south".

* Richmond Hill, Ontario's city council has banned new street numbers with the number 4. The area is known to have a large Chinese-Canadian community.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', Link must visit four dungeons, kill the four boss monsters, and retrieve their four masks. It turns out, though, that [[spoiler:the four masks hold the spirits of the Four Giants of Termina, who are good guys that help stop the moon from falling into the world at the end of the game.]]
** Including the Fierce Deity's Mask, there are four transformation masks (and being the fourth mask, it's the deadliest). The dungeons lie in the four compass directions. If you draw lines connecting the temples/areas in the order you visit them in on the map, it will be a big four (on its side). And [[spoiler:if you count the cut scenes at the end of the game, Link is in Termina for four days.]] The number was ''very'' important to this game.

** Hunk comes back as one of the four characters in the Mercenaries mode of VideoGame/ResidentEvil4. Consequentially, the fourth stage has the deadliest enemy in the game, which can spawn four times in a run.

** Likewise, the first game has Wily acquire four superprograms to create the Life Virus. Later on, ''Battle Network'' '''''4''''' has the impending impact of a meteor that will wipe out Planet Earth- which turns out to be an insanely powerful and near-omnipresent robot called Duo. ''4'' is also regarded as one of the weakest titles of the ''Battle Network'' series.

* This could be a bit of a stretch but the German word for the number 4 (vier), sounds like "fear."

* Noboru Yamaguchi, author of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', died on April 4, 2013, before he could complete the light novels (though [[ItMakesSenseInContext technically, he did live to complete the series]]). Particularly noteworthy because of the date.

Probably unrelated is the fact that 4 is the most common numeral at which NumberedSequels peter out and are replaced with some subtitle instead. The RuleOfThree may also be implicated.

* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series often has a group known as the Four Fiends or some synonym thereof, called the Shitennō in Japanese versions of the games. They usually consist of a FourElementEnsemble that form the villain's chief minions.