Line #182 Main/TheNotableNumeral


1	->''"Fox Force Five. Fox, as in we're a bunch of foxy chicks. Force, as in we're a ''force'' to be reckoned with. And five, as in there's one, two, three, four, five of us."''
2	-->-- '''Mia''', ''Film/PulpFiction''
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4	If you have a group of people banding together to fight evil, or to cause it, then it's good to have a good team name that people will remember. If you can't think of anything else, then why not name yourself after the number of members you have, plus a nice adjective that describes you? Maybe try to tie it together in a pun, some AddedAlliterativeAppeal or something.
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6	In the end, what do you have? Why, The Notable Numeral, of course!
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8	This naming convention is popular in RealLife to describe people who make the news as a group, usually as either the victims of a crime or as the people arrested for a crime (often in historic/sensational cases of people who are believed to be wrongly accused, whose case seems to represent a broader issue or who grab the public's attention in some other way), such as the Buffalo Six and the West Memphis Three. Website/TheOtherWiki calls these [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Quantified_groups_of_defendants "Quantified groups of defendants."]] Describing a single such defendant, usually fictional, as the something-or-other ''One'' is a StockParody.
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10	This can get awkward when you have a change in membership (unless the net change is zero). When changing the name would be very difficult, you'll just have to live with the name being an ArtifactName due to the OneExtraMember (or one less member, as the case may be).
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12	Beware, if excess alliteration disturbs you, then it might be best to look elsewhere.
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14	See also TheAdjectivalSuperhero, where the adjective describes a person or team instead of a number--teams where the number specifies how many elements a plural noun has (for example, ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'') more properly go under that trope. Can cross with SuperheroSobriquets if it's a nickname and not the team's proper name.
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17	!!Examples:
18	[[foldercontrol]]
19
20	[[folder:Animation]]
21	* ''Animation/MotuPatlu'': The theme song refers to the eponymous duo as "Motu aur Patlu ki jodi" ("the awesome twosome, Motu and Patlu").
22	* ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'': The Super 7, though they're rarely called that InUniverse, instead opting to go by "The Super Sensors" or "The Super Borys".
23	* ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'': The main characters are collectively called the "Chatpata Four" ("chatpata" means "spicy" in Hindi) in one of Hotstar's official episode descriptions.
24	* ''Animation/YamuchasKungFuAcademy'': The squid gang is collectively referred to as the Mountain Thieves F4, with the "4" referring to how there are four of them.
25	[[/folder]]
26
27	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
28	* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'': The Battleship Five Quartet. Parodied, along with everything else under the sun in that series, by virtue of having six members. [[spoiler: This fact perplexes their leader so much he fires them all.]]
29	* ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'': The F4 BoyBand.
30	* ''Manga/FoodWars'': The Tōtsuki Elite Ten Council.
31	* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'': The Onibaku Duo.
32	* ''Manga/{{Kingdom}}'': The Six Great Generals of Qin.
33	* ''Manga/KoiKoi7'': The titular team, though there are only six of them.
34	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
35	** The Eleven Supernovas.
36	** The Four Emperors of the New World (Yonkou).
37	** Seven Warlords of the Sea (Shichibukai)
38	* ''Anime/TanteiOperaMilkyHolmes'': Genius 4.
39	* ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''
40	* ''Manga/TentaiSenshiSunred'': Kishou Sentai Weather Three.
41	%%* [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} The Elite]] [[Anime/KillLaKill Four]] (a.k.a. The Shitennō, which translates to Four Heavenly Kings.)
42	[[/folder]]
43
44	[[folder:Arts]]
45	* ''Art/TheSevenDeadlySinsDix'': It applies because the {{painting\|s}} depicts the seven sins as {{anthropomorphic personification}}s who satirize inter-war German society.
46	[[/folder]]
47
48	[[folder:Comic Books]]
49	* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
50	** The Dynamic Duo, comprised of Robin and Batman.
51	** The Terrible Trio.
52	* ''ComicBook/CombatKellyAndHisDeadlyDozen''
53	* ''ComicBook/Dynamo5''
54	* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'':
55	** The titular team, of course.
56	** The [[PsychoRangers Frightful Four]], a group of Fantastic Four villains.
57	** The Four, the AlternateCompanyEquivalent and EvilCounterpart Fantastic Four from ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}''.
58	* The Great Ten, a China-based team of [[Creator/DCComics DC]] super heroes.
59	* ''ComicBook/InferiorFive'': The Inferior Five are a humorous Creator/DCComics superteam consisting of the offspring of more popular, powerful supers.
60	* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': The Fatal Five.
61	* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': The Warriors Three.
62	* ''Comicbook/NewGods'': The Deep Six.
63	* ''ComicBook/SecretSix''.
64	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The Sinister Six
65	* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': The Fearsome Five.
66	[[/folder]]
67
68	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
69	* ''ComicStrip/TheAmazingThree''
70	* ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': The "Untouchable Trio" (plus one).
71	* ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'' The 8 Gang. It was a global criminal enterprise with many members but broken up into 8 sub-gangs that each got their own story arc as Mandrake defeated them one by one over a period of years.
72	[[/folder]]
73
74	[[folder:Fan Works]]
75	* ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone'': The Awesome Foursome.
76	[[/folder]]
77
78	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
79	* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6''
80	* ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'': The Furious Five.
81	* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'': The five main characters refer to themselves during their transformation song as the Holy Quintet.
82	[[/folder]]
83
84	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
85	* ''Film/TheDirtyDozen''
86	* ''Film/TheHatefulEight''
87	* ''Film/KillBill'': The Crazy 88. There aren't 88 of them. [[RuleOfCool They just thought it sounded cool]].
88	* ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960''
89	* ''Film/OceansEleven'': ''Ocean's Eleven'', ''Twelve'', ''Thirteen'' and ''[[Film/OceansEight Eight]]''.
90	* ''Film/PulpFiction'': Fox Force Five, the main characters of an in-universe failed television pilot of the same name.
91	-->'''Mia:''' Fox as in we're a bunch of ''foxy'' chicks. Force as in we're a ''force'' to be reckoned with. Five as there's one, two, three, four, five of us.
92	* ''Film/TheReturnOfTheSecaucus7'' (1980, John Sayles)
93	* ''Film/TheTerribleTen'': A series of short films in the 1940s and 50's.
94	[[/folder]]
95
96	[[folder:Literature]]
97	[[AC:By creator:]]
98	* Creator/EnidBlyton: Her child detective series ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' and ''Literature/TheSecretSeven''.
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100	[[AC:By work:]]
101	* ''Literature/AliBaba'': The Forty Thieves.
102	* ''Literature/{{Bigtime}}'': The Fearless Five.
103	* ''Literature/{{Brennus}}'':
104	** The Dark Five.
105	** The Savage Six.
106	** The Rabid Eight.
107	* ''Literature/ClublandHeroes'': The Splendid Six. It's mentioned in the backstory that they were the Good Fellows Four before recruiting two new members; at the end of the story, there's a summary of how the various members moved on from the team, during which it becomes the Splendix Five, then the Splendid Three, before the remaining members give up and officially disband.
108	* ''Literature/DirtyPair''
109	* ''Literature/HerculePoirot'': The Big Four.
110	* ''Literature/JimButton the Wild 13'': The eponymous band of pirates. [[spoiler:They are actually never more than twelve, they just epically fail at math.]]
111	* ''Literature/SnowWhite'': The Seven Dwarfs.
112	* ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''
113	* ''Literature/WaterMargin'': The 108 Righteous Bandits--[[Mystical108 108]] being a number of major mystical significance throughout many eastern religions.
114	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
115	** 'The Three Little Witches', which is also the title of [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/371-the-three-little-witches a story]].
116	** Cardinal Sin's 'Seven Deadly Sinners' from "[[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/747-silver-ghost-golden-angel-part-2 Silver Ghost, Golden Angel Part 2]]".
117	* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': The Slaughterhouse Nine, a team of psychopaths who later [[spoiler:get way more than Nine members]].
118	[[/folder]]
119
120	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
121	* ''Series/Akumaizer3''
122	* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': The "Final Five" and "Significant Seven" Cylons.
123	* ''Series/{{Being Human\|UK}}'': For an example of the trope applied to victims of crime, the "Box Tunnel 20"
124	* ''Series/BlakesSeven''
125	* ''Series/{{Community}}'': The Greendale Seven.
126	* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': The Oceanic Six.
127	* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': The Ambiguously Gay Duo.
128	* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'':
129	** ''Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive''
130	** ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman''
131	** ''Series/RescueSentaiGoGoFive''
132	** ''Series/UchuuSentaiKyuranger'': Kyu means 9, but the team ends up with 12 members by the end.
133	[[/folder]]
134
135	[[folder:Magazines]]
136	* "Dynamite Magazine": The Dynamite Duo.
137	[[/folder]]
138
139	[[folder:Music]]
140	* Music/AKB48:
141	** The group was originally planned to have three teams, each made up of sixteen members.
142	** Kami 7 (Seven Goddesses).
143	* Music/TheBeatles: The Fab Four.
144	* Music/TheDaveClarkFive
145	* Music/GrandmasterFlashAndTheFuriousFive
146	* Music/TheJacksonFive: Or 5ive?
147	* Music/MarginalNumber4
148	* Music/TheMonkees: The Pre-Fab Four.
149	* Music/TheRutles: The other Pre-Fab Four.
150	[[/folder]]
151
152	[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
153	* The ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenka-Goken tenka goken]]'', Five Swords Under the Heaven, are five real-life historical Japanese treasure swords.
154	* ''Literature/TheBible'': The twelve apostles.
155	[[/folder]]
156
157	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
158	* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'': A Chinese gang is called the [[Mystical108 108]] Righteous Bandits. There aren't exactly 108 of them, they just thought the name was cool enough to be appropriate.
159	[[/folder]]
160
161	[[folder:Theatre]]
162	* ''Theatre/TheOddCouple''
163	[[/folder]]
164
165	[[folder:Video Games]]
166	* ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': The Runaway Five, a team which apparently actually contains six people.
167	* ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'': The Five Oddballs, which later became the Three Oddballs when two of their number temporarily went into hiding.
168	* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'': Majestic 12.
169	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': The Nine Divines of Tamriel, nine (originally eight, later joined by a DeityOfHumanOrigin) divine beings who sacrificed portions of themselves to create the mortal world. Phrases like "By the Nine" are used like "Oh my god".
170	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': The Ehcatl Nine, so named because it sounded better than "Ehcatl Twenty-Or-So".
171	* ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'': The Sarajevo Six, formerly a squad of mercenaries who fought in UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, presently a bunch of fugitive war criminals.
172	* ''VideoGame/Killer7''
173	* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': Organization XIII.
174	* ''VideoGame/MissionImpossible1990'': The Sinister Seven. Although it's never said who they really are.
175	* ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'': The Fearsome 5.
176	* ''VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus'': The Fiendish Five.
177	* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': The Great Seven are a group of seven notable Franchise/DisneyVillains, who are revered in-universe historical figures.
178	* ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'': The team in the game is actually called the "Wonderful 100" (with 100 pronounced as "one-double-oh"). The trailer states that the extra 1 represented the player, [[spoiler:but at the end of the game the team gains a new member and officially becomes the "Wonderful 101".]]
179	[[/folder]]
180
181	[[folder:Websites]]
182	* ''Website/TVTropes'': Tropes that follow this naming convention include MyHeroZero, TheChosenOne, ThoseTwoGuys, FreudianTrio, PowerTrio, and TerribleTrio.
183	[[/folder]]
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185	[[folder:Western Animation]]
186	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': "The Fearsome Foursome!".
187	* ''WesternAnimation/BionicSix''
188	* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': The Fearsome Five.
189	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': The Mane Six.
190	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuper6''
191	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': The H.I.V.E. Five, the animated version of [[ComicBook/TeenTitans the Fearsome Five]].
192	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'': The Civic-Minded Five.
193	* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'': The Gruesome Twosome.
194	* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': In a sense, the Trix, as they are a TerribleTrio of witches and Trix alludes to both the number three (the tri- prefix) and the -trix feminine Latin suffix (of praecantrix).
195	[[/folder]]
196
197	[[folder:Non-Fiction]]
198	* The Original Six (NHL hockey teams).
199	* The UsefulNotes/{{NCAA}} UsefulNotes/{{basketball}} conference The Atlantic 10, also currently with 14 members and 2 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports).
200	* College basketball's Final Four.
201	* [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball The Big 12,]] currently with 10 members and 11 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports).
202	* [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball The Pac 12,]] currently with 12 members and 4 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports). (As noted above, membership changes can make this trope ''very'' awkward.)
203	* [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball The Big Ten,]] currently with 14 members and 2 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports).
204	* The UsefulNotes/{{NCAA}} March Madness college UsefulNotes/{{basketball}} brackets: Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, and Final Four.
205	* In sports, Michigan basketball's Fab Five.
206	[[/folder]]
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208	[[folder:Real Life]]
209	* The Famous Five. Who were a bunch of Canadian feminist icons; sadly, they aren't that famous.
210	[[/folder]]
211
212	[[folder:Unsorted]]
213	* ''[=DV8=]'': In-universe, they're called the Deviants, which is much more appropriate since it's rare for all 8 members to be active at once. "[=DV8=]" was probably just easier to trademark when it came time for them to get their own comic.
214	[[/folder]]

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