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* ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] by the group of YGGDRASIL players called "Nine's Own Goal." They originally called themselves that because they had nine members and performed suicidal actions (being an all-monster group that regularly adventured in human lands), but continued to do so even as their numbers grew. By the time they established a formal guild, they knew the name made no sense but were too attached to it to throw it out completely, so they opted to corrupt it into the meaningless "Ainz Ooal Gown."

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'' introduces Xion, the fourteenth member of Organization XIII. [[spoiler:She isn't actually a member. She's not even a Nobody, just a manifestation of Sora's memories. By the end of the game, she was RetGone'd from everyone's memories.]]

** As the name suggests, Rikudo Pain is a collective of six bodies representing six paths, but the vital aspect of the jutsu is the seventh path, who controls the other six paths, and is the ''actual'' controller of the bodies.

* The Pleiades Star Cluster are named after the seven Pleiades sisters from Myth/ClassicalMythology. However, there are actually nine bright stars in the cluster (the other two are named after their parents, Atlas and Plione). What's more, the star Sterope is actually two close stars sharing the same name. Finally, a look through even a low-power telescope shows way more than 7 stars. Given the motion of stars over time, it's possible that the Greeks actually ''did'' see seven "stars" when they first named it.

** And the Big 12 Conference currently has... 10 member schools. However, the Big 12 ''was'' founded by 12 schools, and stayed at that number before Colorado and Nebraska left in 2011.

** In the sequel, ''Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest'', this applies to [[spoiler:the Five Dragon Gods, survivors of the Dragon King Festival who hid from Acnologia and gained the strength to match him over the centuries. As it so happens, the wizard who requested these dragons to be sealed away was hiding the existence of a ''sixth'' dragon already sealed in a labyrinth near his home.]]

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', "[[Recap/TeenTitansS5E8Lightspeed Lightspeed]]"

* The original ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'' were ComicBook/GreenArrow and Speedy, Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy, Vigilante, Shining Knight, and the Crimson Avenger and Wing. Wing, the Avenger's sidekick/chauffeur, was the "unofficial eighth soldier", even though there were two sidekicks as full members. When Green Arrow was removed from the line-up ComicBook/PostCrisis, and replaced with the sidekickless Alias the Spider, Vigilante's sidekick Stuff, the Chinatown Kid was added, so Wing was ''still'' the unofficial eighth soldier. This becomes a plot point in the mid-2000s reboot, where it's revealed that, just like the old team, this version of the Seven Soldiers also has an eighth member: namely, [[spoiler:the Spider, who turns out to have been GoodAllAlong]].

** One of the villainous groups is the [[GratuitousSpanish Oracion Seis]] ("six prayers"), made up of six very powerful mages. There is also the seventh member, Klodoa, who is [[BigBad Brain's]] talking staff. Also depending on how you see it, Brain's [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Superpowered Even More Evil Side]] Zero may count as the eighth member. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the anime.
** In the anime-only arc "Key to the Starry Skies", the Neo Oracion Seis (made of up of many of the same members of the original that escaped prison) are also made up of six powerful mages. One of these members, Jackpot, is eventually revealed to be Klodoa again, who still calls himself the Neo Oracion Seis's seventh member, [[spoiler:which sets up TheReveal of the true sixth member of the group being the innocent and helpful Michelle Lobster, actually [[ArtificialHuman Imitatia]]]].
** The Golden Keys of the Zodiac represent and summon the twelve Celestial Spirits based on the WesternZodiac. It's later revealed there is a thirteenth Key which summons Ophiuchus the Serpent Bearer, who is the most powerful of the Golden Spirits and second in power only to the Celestial Spirit King himself.

* The only two sequel seasons in the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' franchise, ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart'' and ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5 [=GoGo=]!'', added a SixthRanger to their respective teams who weren't officially classified as Cures because it would have contradicted the headcount in the titles. [[note]]The "Futari" in the former refers to a pair of LovelyAngels while the latter is a FiveManBand.[[/note]] Subsequent seasons would forego the numbering in the titles so they could add new {{Sixth Ranger}}s during the story without hassle.

* ''Manga/FairyTail''

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':

* Although the original Sinister Six had six members, the all-new Sinister Six in ''ComicBook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'' consists of: Boomerang, Shocker, Speed Demon, Beetle and Overdrive. The number tends to dwindle more as the story goes on.

* The Hive Five in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' have six members. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Kid Flash. It was probably a good thing for them that Jinx quit.
* A ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "Jeopardy Sheriff" in which Popeye starts to read Swee'Pee the story of the Three Bears: Moe, Sam, Lefty, and George. Also referred to as "The three bears of which there were four."

We can expect that the [[FiveManBand Furious Five]] will have five members, and the [[PowerTrio Three Templars]] to have three members. After all, it's outright said in the name, right? [[NonIndicativeName Not always]]. These groups often have [[SixthRanger one extra member]] in them.

* [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Witches 5]] in the third season of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' actually has six members. However, [[SingleMindedTwins Cyprine and Ptilol]] are really the same person manifesting in two different bodies, so it's {{justified|Trope}}.

* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' has the Battleship Five Quartet. It has six members.
* ''Manga/FairyTail''
** One of the villainous is the [[GratuitousSpanish Oracion Seis]] ("six prayers"), made up of six very powerful mages. There is also the seventh member, Klodoa, who is [[BigBad Brain's]] talking staff. Also depending on how you see it, Brain's [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Superpowered Even More Evil Side]] Zero may count as the eighth member. {{Lampshaded}} in the anime.
** In the anime-only arc "Key to the Starry Skies", the Neo Oracion Seis (made of up of many of the same members of the original that escaped prison) are also made up of six powerful mages. One of these members, Jackpot, is eventually revealed to be Klodoa again, who still calls himself the Neo Oracion Seis's seventh member, [[spoiler:which sets up TheReveal of the true sixth member of the group being the innocent and helpful Michelle Lobster, actually [[ArtificialHuman Imitatia]]]].
** The Golden Keys of the Zodiac represent and summon the twelve Celestial Spirits based on the WesternZodiac. It's later revealed there is a thirteenth Key which summons Ophiuchus the Serpent Bearer, who is the most powerful of the Golden Spirits and second in power only to the Celestial Spirit King himself.
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', there are the Sensui Seven, with the eighth member Shinobu Sensui as the leader. The seven subordinates have the SevenDeadlySins theme, so do Sensui's six other personalities.
* In ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'', there is the Behemoth's 34-Pillar Division...which consists of 397 members! The number 34 comes from the 10 Pillar Barons and the 24 Pillar Generals. However, the leader Jabberwock is not included in the name, and Behemoth himself is not even a part of the division.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': Team 5D's is named after their five Signer Dragons and has seven members. [[spoiler: And a sixth Signer Dragon is revealed in a later arc]].
* So far, it's inverted in ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV''. Despite the series' title having the Roman number V (5) in its title, the plot focuses on four dimensions, four boys with identical faces and their four dragons, and four girls with identical faces and their four bracelets. Although, to be fair, there IS a fifth dimension. [[spoiler: Its splitting apart is the reason there are 4 dimensions in the first place.]]
* The only two sequel seasons in the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' franchise, ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart'' and ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5 [=GoGo=]!'', added a SixthRanger to their respective teams who weren’t officially classified as Cures because it would have contradicted the headcount in the titles[[note]]The “Futari” in the former refers to a pair of LovelyAngels while the latter is a FiveManBand[[/note]]. Subsequent seasons would forego the numbering in the titles so they could add new {{Sixth Ranger}}s during the story without hassle.

* Although the original Sinister Six had six members, the all-new Sinister Six in ''Comicbook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'' consists of: Boomerang, Shocker, Speed Demon, Beetle and Overdrive. The number tends to dwindle more as the story goes on.
* The Comicbook/SecretSix pull a LampshadeHanging on this trope while filming a commercial for their services when it's pointed out that there are currently 8 of them and so the name makes no sense. Typically the team has between 6 and 7 members depending on the story arc.
* There have been multiple times when the ComicBook/FantasticFour have had five members without changing the name or logo (even though "Fantastic Five" works just as well).

* ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' -- there were actually 6 of them, though only 3 in any given short. (Larry, Moe, Curly, Shemp, Curly Joe, and Joe)

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', the Goblet selects Literature/HarryPotter as a fourth participant in the Triwizard Tournament. Everyone has to go along with it because the Goblet's choice is apparently binding, even though Harry didn't enter his own name and someone else seems to have rigged the selection. As with a lot of the Potterverse's magic, the book doesn't go into that much detail on how the Goblet itself works, but at least TheReveal at the end spells out ''who'' rigged it and ''why''.
* ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}'': PlayedWith by the group of [=YGGDRASIL=] players called "Nine's Own Goal". They originally called themselves that because they had nine members and performed suicidal actions (being an all-monster group that regularly adventured in human lands), but continued to do so even as their numbers grew. By the time they established a formal guild, they knew the name made no sense but were too attached to it to throw it out completely, so they opted to corrupt it into the meaningless "Ainz Ooal Gown".

* On ''Series/TheLateShow with Creator/DavidLetterman'''s "Small Town News" segment, one of Dave's self-described favorite categories of news is things like "Classical Trio performs" with a picture of 4-6 members.
* Inverted. ''Series/BlakesSeven'' never had more than six human members. You had to include one or more of their sentient computers to bring the group up to seven.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' arguably falls under this trope when counting off regenerations of the Doctor, because two of them didn't increase the sequential numbering. "Journey's End" has the Tenth Doctor regenerate into himself, and "The Name of the Doctor" [[spoiler:reveals a previously unknown and unnumbered incarnation known as the War Doctor, who existed between the Eighth and Ninth Doctors.]] As a result, the Eleventh Doctor was on his twelfth face and thirteenth life. The Doctor continues regenerating and reaches the Thirteenth Doctor, and this is where things get ''very'' messy. [[spoiler:An unrecognizable new incarnation who claims to be from the Doctor's ''past'' appears, and then the story of the Timeless Child is unveiled and may signify an indiscriminate amount of past lives predating the First Doctor have existed. Then there's the anomalies like the Watcher and the Valeyard and the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, as well as an unseen incarnation who was impersonating Merlin. Finally, we have an apparent incarnation awaiting the Doctor's life in the far future called the Curator, a retired Doctor with the face of his fourth incarnation, only elderly.]] WordOfGod justifies the retroactive presence of these unnumbered incarnations and the lack of change to the numbering of the already numbered incarnations by saying that numbering the Doctor's incarnations is an out of universe convention and the Doctor themself does not use numbers to label their incarnations.
* The Rowdy Three of ''Series/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'' consists of four members - they were originally captured as a group of three, but Blackwing later added Vogel to their group because of his similar [[EmotionEater power set]]. With the addition of [[DisabilitySuperpower Amanda]] and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Beast]], they have a total of six members by the end of season 2, but still keep the name.
* ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger''. "Kyu" can have multiple meanings in context, but one of them is "nine" and the team originally had nine members. When the team's commander becomes a Ranger himself, he tries to update the team name to ten as "Jyuranger" but the rest of the team shoots him down (as a MythologyGag to the fact that [[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger that name was taken already]]). By the end of the show, the "Ninerangers" have twelve members.

* The Grammy-Award-winning GirlGroup Salt-n-Pepa consisted of Salt, Pepa, and DJ Spindarella.
* Similarly, Music/RunDMC constisted of Run, DMC, and Jam Master Jay.
* The band "The 4 of Us" has had five members at some points in its history.

* The pop band Music/{{Maroon 5}} now has 6 members.
* The late 30s band, the Raymond Scott Quintette had six members.

** The Atlantic 10 Conference has an ever-changing number of teams other than ten.[[note]] Since 1991, it has had (in order) 9, 8, 9, 12, 11, 12, 14, 16, 13, and 14 members.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'' introduces Xion, the fourteenth member of Organization XIII. [[spoiler: She isn't actually a member. She's not even a Nobody, just a manifestation of Sora's memories. By the end of the game, she was RetGone'd from everyone's memories.]]

* Famously in Franchise/{{Pokemon}} with the [[BossRush Elite Four]]. In the original release, the player completed the gauntlet [[spoiler: only to have a sequential battle with their rival at the end.]] In every following generation, they're still referred to as Four though the title excludes the League Champion, whom the player will face immediately after.

* The Hive Five in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' have six members. {{Lampshaded}} by Kid Flash. It was probably a good thing for them that Jinx quit.
* A ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "Jeopardy Sheriff" in which Popeye starts to read Swee'Pee the story of the Three Bears: Moe, Sam, Lefty, and George. Also referred to as "The three bears of which there were four".

* ''Film/DayOfTheWolves'': * OneExtraMember: The "Wolves" call themselves Numbers 1-7, but there's an eighth robber (the man who picks the others up from the airport and flies the getaway plane) who isn't assigned a number, and never interacts with any of the others except #1.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', "Recap/TeenTitansS5E8Lightspeed Lightspeed]]"

->'''Billy Quizboy:''' It's out! I did it! So, am I part of the Triad?
->'''The Alchemist:''' Triad implies three, so...
->'''Billy Quizboy:''' All right, then you guys have to pay my rather steep fee...
->'''The Alchemist:''' Welcome to the mystical Order of the Triad, Special Brother Billy!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', "The Better Man"

* The pop band Music/{{Maroon 5}} now has 7 members.

** In ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'', the villains are Roidmudes numbered from one to OneHundredAndEight. One of the key players in the conflict is No. 000, the Roidmude prototype.

* The pop band Music/{{Maroon 5}} now has 6 members.

* The Hive Five in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' have six members. {{Lampshaded}} by Kid Flash.

* The original ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'' were ComicBook/GreenArrow and Speedy, Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy, Vigilante, Shining Knight, and the Crimson Avenger and Wing. Wing, the Avenger's sidekick/chauffeur, was the "unofficial eighth soldier", even though there were two sidekicks as full members. When Green Arrow was removed from the line-up ComicBook/PostCrisis, and replaced with the sidekickless Alias the Spider, Vigilante's sidekick Stuff, the Chinatown Kid was added, so Wing was ''still'' the unofficial eighth soldier.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' arguably falls under this trope when counting off regenerations of the Doctor, because two of them didn't increase the sequential numbering. "Journey's End" has the Tenth Doctor regenerate into himself, and "The Name of the Doctor" [[spoiler:reveals a previously unknown and unnumbered incarnation known as the War Doctor, who existed between the Eighth and Ninth Doctors.]] As a result, the Eleventh Doctor was on his twelfth face and thirteenth life. The Doctor continues regenerating and reaches the Thirteenth Doctor, and this is where things get ''very'' messy. [[spoiler:An unrecognizable new incarnation who claims to be from the Doctor's ''past'' appears, and then the story of the Timeless Child is unveiled and may signify an indiscriminate amount of past lives predating the First Doctor have existed. Then there's the anomalies like the Watcher and the Valeyard and the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, as well as an unseen incarnation who was impersonating Merlin. Finally, we have an apparent incarnation awaiting the Doctor's life in the far future called the Curator, a retired Doctor with the face of his fourth incarnation, only elderly.]] WordOfGod justifies the retroactive presence of these unnumbered incarnations and the lack of change to the numbering of the already numbered incarnations by saying that numbering the Doctor's incarnations is an out of universe convention and the Doctor himself does not use numbers to label his incarnations.

* This was initially averted by the cluster of cities on the Mississippi River initially known as the Tri-Cities in the late 19th century, as Davenport (Iowa), Moline, and Rock Island (both in Illinois) were about equal size to each other and when East Moline, IL grew in the 1930's they renamed themselves the Quad Cities. Then in the 1950's it was played straight when Bettendorf, Iowa's population exploded, surpassing that of East Moline and a debate rose as to whether Bettendorf had replaced East Moline in the hierarchy or whether they should be renamed the "Quint Cities". They eventually settled on a compromise where they remain known as the Quad Cities but include Bettendorf as the fifth member.

* In ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'', there is the Behemoth's 34 Pillar Division... which consists of 397 members! The number 34 comes from the 10 Pillar Barons and the 24 Pillar Generals. However, the leader Jabberwock is not included in the name, and Behemoth himself is not even a part of the division.

* So far, it's inverted in ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV''. Despite the series' title has the Roman number V (5) in its title, the plot focuses on four dimensions, four boys with identical faces and their four dragons, and four girls with identical faces and their four bracelets.

* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', there are the Sensui Seven, with the eight member Shinobu Sensui as the leader. The seven subordinates have the SevenDeadlySins theme, so do Sensui's six other personalities.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' arguably falls under this trope when counting off regenerations of the Doctor, because two of them didn't increase the sequential numbering. "Journey's End" has the Tenth Doctor regenerate into himself, and "The Name of the Doctor" [[spoiler:reveals a previously unknown and unnumbered incarnation known as the War Doctor, who existed between the Eighth and Ninth Doctors.]] As a result, the Eleventh Doctor was on his twelfth face and thirteenth life. The Doctor continues regenerating and reaches the Thirteenth Doctor, and this is where things get ''very'' messy. [[spoiler:An unrecognizable new incarnation who claims to be from the Doctor's ''past'' appears, and then the story of the Timeless Child is unveiled and may signify an indiscriminate amount of past lives predating the First Doctor have existed. Then there's the anomalies like the Watcher and the Valeyard and the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, as well as an unseen incarnation who was impersonating Merlin. Finally, we have an apparent incarnation awaiting the Doctor's life in the far future called the Curator, a retired Doctor with the face of his fourth incarnation, only elderly.]]

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'' arguably falls under this trope when counting off regenerations of the Doctor, because two of them didn't increase the sequential numbering. "Journey's End" has the Tenth Doctor regenerate into himself, and "The Name of the Doctor" [[spoiler:reveals a previously unknown and unnumbered incarnation known as the War Doctor, who existed between the Eighth and Ninth Doctors.]] As a result, the Eleventh Doctor was on his twelfth face and thirteenth life. The Doctor continues regenerating and reaches the Thirteenth Doctor, and this is where things get ''very'' messy. [[spoiler:An unrecognizable new incarnation who claims to be from the Doctor's ''past'' appears, and then the story of the Timeless Child is unveiled and may signify an indiscriminate amount of past lives predating the First Doctor have existed. Then there's the anomalies like the Watcher and the Valeyard and the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, as well as an unseen incarnation who was impersonating Merlin and another incarnation called The Other or The Stranger who may have been responsible for cultivating Time Lord society and its technologies along with helpers Omega and Rassilon. Finally, we have an apparent incarnation awaiting the Doctor's life in the far future called the Curator, a retired Doctor with the face of his fourth incarnation, only elderly.]]

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** The Atlantic 10 Conference has an ever-changing number of teams other than ten.[[note]] Since 1991, it has had (in order) 9, 8, 9, 9, 9, 12, 11, 12, 14, 16, 13, and 14 members.[[/note]]

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* Famously in Franchise/{{Pokemon}} with the [[BossRush Elite Four]]. In the original release, the player completed the gauntlet [[spoiler: only to have a sequential battle with their rival at the end.]] In every following generation, they're still referred to as Four though the title excludes the League Champion, whom the player will face immediately after as the [[TrueFinalBoss ''True'' Final Boss]].

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* The Hive Five in [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Teen Titans]] have six members. {{Lampshaded}} by Kid Flash.
* A {{Popeye}} cartoon "Jeopardy Sheriff" in which Popeye starts to read Swee'Pee the story of the Three Bears: Moe, Sam, Lefty, and George. Also referred to as "The three bears of which there were four".

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