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Welcome, Comrade. Have some cake. * And that is my cosplay of Azazel from X-Men First Class. Not Satan. Describe Belfagor here.
Short version: reserved, polite, snarky, movie-going science-maniac anal retentive Communist.
For the long version, keep reading. But before, you'd better read Belfagor's rant (it will be mentioned only here) TV Tropes is an overall great site, however... well, let's say something's wrong when anybody can write tons of historically inaccurate libel about Communism and on the other hand you can't give Phyrexia some justice without somebody cutting it off as natter (right, I'm talking to you, tro llacctid). Seriously, Real Life experts, stop reading Robert Conquest. It will induce dementia and paper cuts. Good, now you can keep on reading. Thanks for the attention.
Belfagor is not, as someone would expect, an Egyptian phantom with a soft spot for Louvre. Pity. Instead, Belfagor is a 21 years old troper (born in 1990) living in Italy. He follows TV Tropes since June 2010, contributing here and there. He has a soft spot for Louvre, anyway.
Due to his somehow strong political beliefs Belfagor prefers NOT to edit sections about real-life politics, to avoid accidentally starting a Flame War. You won't however, see him giving up the littlest inch of what he thinks.
Also, Belfagor openly supports the complete removal of Real Life sections from tropes that are sensible to the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment, especially because too many tropers seem to have some issues with history.
Belfagor: But don't take it bad, most of you are from the Eagle Land, so the expectations weren't that high. Sorry guys, but history has never been your brightest feature. Like economy. And politics. Noir movies, that's what you're good at instead. And those chocolate chips cookies.
On a lighter tone, Belfagor also writes on Fanfiction.net and Fictionpress. But he never has time for this.
P.S.: About that Real Life section in Token Evil Teammate... don't pay attention to Real Life, in case somebody rewrites it. It's just a bunch of Hollywood History.
Tropes Belfagor has launched so far:
Belfagor also created the page for Alan Cumming and Jason Flemyng, found the page quote for Saved by the Fans and the page image (along with many examples) for Creepy Cleanliness. Generally, you can find him editing Criminal Minds, Desperate Housewives or Magic: The Gathering.
Belfagor provides examples of the following tropes:
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Tropes that apply to Belfagor
- Affably Evil: Or, better, Affably Blue.
- Agent Scully: Without the part about religious faith.
- Always Second Best / Always Someone Better: To the extent that for him the only (and only one) tearjerking moment in a movie was the ending of Amadeus.
Salieri: I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
- Animal Motifs: Foxes. However, you'll never know why.
- Asexual: With slight heteroromantic hints.
- Atheist: The result of logic and reason.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: When he focuses his obsessive and overly precise mindset on something, he can obtain a lot of information. After all, that's what a good chemist should be able to do.
- Badass Family: His ancestors were in charge of killing rats (thus avoiding the spread of plague), many of his relatives were in La Résistance during World War II (his grand-grandfather being famous for beating every Nazi and fascist he came across, especially in the aftermath), his father is a fire weapons expert, his mother stopped and threatened a snatcher while she was pregnant.
- Beneath the Mask: What? You didn't really think I was going to reveal something, did you?
- Berserk Button: Being called a Commie Nazi and lack of order or cleanliness. Also, see below.
- Big Brother Instinct: Bordering on Knight Templar Big Brother. Really, don't mess with his sister.
- Appropriately enough, his surname derives from Absalom.
- Bookworm
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Prone to this.
Belfagor: It has been a really hard week. I reviewed six movies, studied for the Computer Science exam, organized a dinner for ten people and went to the hospital due to a massive nosebleed.
Belfagor's Friend: Dear Lord!
Belfagor: Some stitches were torn. Too bad I had to procrastinate that exam.
- Brutal Honesty: At least he warns you with his Catch Phrase: "To be honest..."
- Caustic Critic: On an amateur level, about movies. No Bias Steamroller allowed, however.
- Control Freak
- Creepy Monotone
- Deadpan Snarker: After all, world is full of Snark Bait.
- Dirty Communists: He's subjected to this being a Marxist-Leninist (which actually means Stalinist, no matter what some uninformed dirty bird thinks) but he also subverts it (he's a very clean person).
- Driven By Envy: Sometimes.
- Dull Surprise
- Emotions vs. Stoicism: Strongly on the stoic side.
- Fascinating Eyebrow: To the point it has become a Running Gag among his friends.
- Fetish Fuel: For Halloween 2011, he dressed up as Azazel
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- The Fettered
- Giggling Villain
- Good Parents: They are.
- Good With Numbers
- Gosh Darn It to Heck!: He really hates foul language.
- Grammar Nazi
- Green-Eyed Monster: Sometimes. Ironically, he also has...
- Green Eyes
- Hates Being Touched
- Ho Yay: Like you wouldn't expect.
- "I'd really like you to lie on a bed... I mean, to dissect you."
- Once asked one of his friends for a trashy song he could like. The suggestion was Cascada's "Bad Boy".
- Then he asked another friend for a judgment about his Nightcrawler's costume. The answer was a slap on his ass.
- And then, of course, there was that kiss during 2011 New Year's Eve.
- Even lampshaded by one of his professors during a lab session: "Exactly, how long you two have been married?"
- The Insomniac: In a non-funny way. Once he spent 42 hours without sleeping. It wasn't good.
- I Regret Nothing
- Italians Talk With Hands: Not very much, but it's unavoidable.
- Knight Templar: Many would call him this once considered his political ideas. He's surely worried about this.
- Lawful Evil: By the standards of This Very Wiki. As he would say, there's a big difference between an utopist and him. He knows that the greater a progress is, the greater is the sacrifice required to achieve it. That's why he loves concepts like Terror and dictatorship of the proletariat. When not in a conflict, he can switch to Lawful Neutral.
- Lean and Mean: 190 cm tall and weighing only 73 kg. Blame the strange metabolism. Alright, that and the lack of physical exercise.
- Made of Iron: You wouldn't expect it, but so far he has (in order) banged his head against an iron fence, accidentally hit and broken a floor tile with his head, been trampled by three guys during a soccer game at school, fallen off course during a sled race and defended Communism on this site. All without a single scratch.
- The Movie Buff
- Neat Freak
- Nightmare Fetishist: As long as spiders are not involved.
- Ninja Editor
- No Sell: Due to a rather funny Noodle Incident known as "I Reject Your Kung Fu", he seems to be unaffected by martial arts.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: Which foreshadowed his asexuality before it reached obvious levels.
- Only Sane Man
- Order Versus Chaos: Order. As Engels would say, have you ever seen something more authoritative than a revolution?
- Parenthetical Swearing: When he says "Looks like you have a point here", most of the time it sounds like "I'd cut your tongue and feed it to the dogs if only there weren't witnesses around.".
- The Perfectionist
- Pet the Dog: Oh, so many times.
- Reality Ensues: He actually invokes this trope every time he thinks it's important. Which is quite often.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue Oni. Snarky, rational, introverted, orderly, close to earth. Given the page image, it's rather ironic.
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: Enlightenment, obviously.
- Rooting For Phyrexia: All will be one!
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
- Sharp Dressed Man
- Silver Fox: He'll probably grow into this, given that he already has some white hair and his father's hair turned grey when he was in his twenties.
- A Sinister Clue: Left-handed and proud of it!
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Scientifically realist, which means in the perfect middle.
- The Smart Guy: Finished high school with top notes, currently studying Chemistry, loves science and making lists of everything, has studied three foreign languages (English, French and German) and has a rather wide knowledge about movies. On the other hand, physically unimpressive, socially reluctant, introverted, criticized for being too cold and analytical.
- The Spock
- Stepford Smiler: Type A, but more in the past.
- The Stick
- The Stoic: Despite some curious antics, he's generally the most rational and controlled one in his group...
- Straight Edge: Just some wine, beer or vodka (which is excellent when you have a cold).
- Sugar and Ice Personality
- Super OCD: About order, cleanliness, handwashing, symmetry, number 3, avoiding cracks, clearing throat, potential illnesses, hurting somebody. Also add comorbidity with Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder to the mix.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Loves to state that while mimicking Scar's annoyed gesture. Of course, he's also surrounded by smart people.
- Sweet Tooth: Want a slice of his Better-Than-Sex Lemon Meringue Pie? No? No problem, there'll be more for him.
- Terrified of Germs
- The Unsmile
Belfagor's Friend: I think also the rest of your face should express that you're smiling.
- Third-Person Person: Just in this section of this TV Tropes page. In the Real Life, that would be simply weird.
- Undeathly Pallor: When he's not wearing that red paint, he's really pale.
- Utopia Justifies the Means
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Potentially, at least.
- Wicked Cultured
Tropes that describe Belfagor (by other tropers)
Just remember to sign your edits. You can also add tropes I've already applied myself. And don't forget the alphabetical order, I thrive on it.
- Above Good and Evil: Comes with having Blue and Orange Morality ~Nightraid
- Affably Evil: You seem pretty nice. - Mort08
- A God Am I: idk couldn't think of anything mellochan42
- All Animals Are Domesticated: Your arctic foxes are very friendly. ~ paradisedj32
- Amazing Technicolor Population: No-one is that red regularly. ~a fan
- Anti-Hero: Good Is Not Nice variety; a la Batman. It is the impression I get. With a bit of Blue and Orange Morality. But still good. Mostly. Since you're an Anti-Hero. - /@darkclaw
- I am the goshdarn Belfagor.
- The Anti-Nihilist: Cause wangsty shitheads can kiss our collective assholes. - Ekuran
- Anti-Villain: Type III or maybe IV - risingdreams
- Arson, Murder, and Admiration: I'm saying this because I can't figure out whether to compliment you or not...
- Asexuality: I can't believe no one put this yet. Anyway, I admire this about you. ~Enzeru
- And still no useful notes.
- Blue and Orange Morality: You give off this impression at times. —risingdreams
- They look good opposed, don't they?
- Badass Beard: It looks cool on you.
- And it's red when I'm not cosplaying.
- Beard of Evil - ~ InverurieJones
- Berserk Button - Communist stereotypes - Eternal Noob
- Card-Carrying Villain - You said evil Huh? -Tenzen12
- The Chessmaster: Probably redundant. ~mellochan42
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: He is red, so you can tell that Belfagor is a Communist. -paradisedj32
- Don't worry, I always remember I'm dealing with people who come mostly from USA.
- Coincidence Magnet: Why do I always manage to post right after you in the apply tropes thread? ~mellochan42
- Cosplay: Unless your skin's naturally red, of course. -Bisected8
- Cruel Mercy: From the Void, I extend this courtesy to you. May your judgement be swift and unrelenting.
- Cuteness Proximity: White foxes make you go d'aww.- Eternal noob
- They're so cute, aren't they? Red foxes do the same.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Well, in your case, Red is not evil. Well, I guess. Not the best guy to state that. AS far as I'm concerned, a chainsaw to the knee is a proper way to introduce yourself to a godlike being...You ain't godlike, are you ? :D ~Dhana Ragnarok
- No, unfortunately. But we can say that Red Is Not Chaotic.
- Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: You seem nice enough to pull this off. - Mort08
- Oh, the things I would do to have a nice afternoon tea!
- The Dragon ~ Rockonman
- To who? That caught me unprepared.
- Eldritch Abomination: :3 ~mellochan42
- Entry Pimp: Congratulations on making the Dysfunctional Family Index! I'm glad I managed to see it the day it got made! -added watch- ~Enzeru
- I think I need a pimp cane now.
- Everything's Worse With Wolves: Your new avatar. mellochan42
- Evil Genius: I think it fits you. ~ Savato
- Evil is Cool ~ Rockonman
- Fantastic Foxes ~paradisedj32
- Gentleman Snarker ~Nightraid
- Goshdang It To Heck: The Goshdarn Belfagor can still make criminals crap themselves just by hearing the aforementioned name. - Darkclaw
- Gratuitous Italian: Well.... Inhopelessguy
- Gratuitous Spanish: averted 'HARD' ~mellochan42
- The Hero: In the "Apply Tropes to the above Troper" thread: "Don't worry, I'm coming to the rescue." ~Enzeru
- According to your page pic, maybe hero antagonist??? ~Rockonman
- Horse of a Different Color: He now rides a Space Whale! —jcruz
- That was really nice of yours.
- Hot As Hell ~paradisedj32
- Actually, when it comes to that, I'm rather cold.
- Humanoid Abomination: Red skin ? Evil ? Communist ? Yeah, definitely. ~Dhana Ragnarok
- Irony - is apparently a "blue oni" despite being painted red in that photo. —Bisected8
- Italians Talk With Hands: Why of course. ~Rockonman
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold - Am I wrong? :) - dRoy
- I've always seen myself more as Affably Evil, but if you think it fits...
- The Lancer ~mellochan42
- Lawful Good: You strike me as this, somewhat. Minus the "extreme" part. — Punkreader
- In a Socialist state, that would be my alignment.
- Law of Chromatic Superiority: Picture of himself painted red, page (and work done) suggests that he is superior in many aspects in this troper's eyes. ~theindefiniteone
- Light is Not Good: as per your awesome page picture, at least. - Punkreader
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Your avatar sends off this vibe...~Dhana Ragnarok
- Memetic Badass: I couldn't decide whether to add this or NiceGuy...
- Memetic Molester: >:) mellochan42
- Memetic Mutation: You will forever be a meme to me ~raigakuren
- Nice Guy: So I added both! ~Enzeru
- Noble Demon. And he's Italian! ~Rockonman
- And that's actually the only "nobility" about me.
- Not so Above It All: Despite being polite and evil, you are still as eccentric and light hearted as most of us here.
- Obviously Evil - lolacat
- Our Demons Are Different -Landorkus
- Red and Black and Evil All Over - lolacat
- Red Ones Go Faster: Quite obvious, judging from the rest of the page. :P ~ betterthanstrawberry
- Red Right Hand: And face and god knows what else... ~ InverurieJones
- Red Scare: On. So. Many. Levels.~ InverurieJones
- Satan: What, too obvious ? ~Dhana Ragnarok
- Shipping Goggles: Me and lolacat ~mellochan42
- Sitcom Arch Nemesis: You and moi
- DAAAAARKCLAAAAAW!
- Hey, what's up? I have been really busy with schoolwork, homework and a mixed martial arts place I joined. So...I couldn't reply on your page until I thought of a witty comment....I got nothing at the moment though but this...BEEEELLLLFFFAAAGGGOOOORR!
- Sophisticated as Hell: You are Lawful Evil. -Eternal Noob
- The Spock. 'Cause I mean, look at him. ~Rockonman
- Stop Being Stereotypical: If your completely understandable dislike of Communist steroetypes is any indication. Correct me if I'm wrong.
- You're right, extremely right. Or left.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Strange ? Check. Card-Carrying Villain ? Check. Communist ? Check. Unexplicable love for Schrodinger ? Double check ! ...Sorry to break you the news like that. ~Dhana Ragnarok
- Super OCD: Using the heading of this section as the basis for rapid Flanderization, you are declared to have this. ~ Balmung
- Weaksauce Weakness: Dislike for spiders ~Vanishing Reality
- Why We\'re Bummed Communism Fell ~ paradisedj32
- Wicked Cultured: Light on the wicked, heavy on the cultured. —Electrum Zephyr
- Has many Wesleys, as shown by the tropes he's started ~Rockonman
- Younger than They Look: I'd never guess you're (currently) 21. ~Premonition45
 Arctic fox suddenly out of nowhere.
Belfagor's Intellectual Spot
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Twilight sucks
And she's a Mary Sue
—Belfagor's To A Twilight Fan
Belfagor's Red List
Belfagor's Black List
You really wouldn't like ending up here.
People and works
Tropes
- Abuse Is Okay When It's Female On Male
- The Ace: Simply because it's impossible. Unless it turns into a Broken Ace.
- America Saves the Day/America Wins The War: Please...
- By the way, some of you can't even be honest to themselves about Vietnam, let alone Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Badass Israeli: You know, given what they're doing in Palestine, it's not that funny.
- Commie Nazis: Moronic, moronic, moronic results of reading too much Hannah Arendt. And guess what? Still moronic.
- Convenient Coma
- Dirty Communists: In case you hadn't got it already.
- Doing in the Scientist: Bad, bad, bad idea.
- Failure Is the Only Option: Sounds like Wangst.
- Foe Yay: It's funny when played explicitly, but otherwise can become morbid. And the Real Life examples are distilled Squick.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: Macbeth, Machiavelli, Lucrezia Borgia, Richelieu, Salieri, Robespierre, Saint-Just, Stalin and many others would support my hatred.
- Hollywood Atheist
- Karma Houdini: Because, you know, there's nothing more original and artistically professional than creating a Complete Monster and then leaving him/her to get away with everything.
- Ludd Was Right
- Nietzsche Wannabe: Nietzsche himself was ridiculous, go figure his mindless admirers.
- Noble Bigot with a Badge
- Postmodernism
- Science Is Bad: Cue some anvils falling down, falling down, falling down...
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog
- Wangst
Before proceeding, relax with this playlist I really like.
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I am Belfagor
Look upon my works, ye might—
If you want to chat, feel free to write here. Any (polite) question is welcome. And, if there are Italian tropers around here, Belfagor would love if they wrote here in Italian, just For The Italianz.
- Alex Sora 89: Bwahahahaha! How are you? Nice to see you used my Troper Talk idea, too. And as you can see, I've answered to your entry within mine. I've had a bit of a case of Political Correctness Gone Mad while editing it (I wrote a line about political stuff before reading your page - go figure see the whole story
so, after writing said line, I cut it when I noticed that in your opening paragraph "political beliefs" linked to Dirty Communists, but it was because I thought that implied your political beliefs were about Communists being "dirty"; then- Of course I'm a Communist. The problem is, it's quite difficult to find a good trope about Commies, but who cares, right? Or left? And don't worry about the sleep deprivation, looks like it's another thing we have in common :)
- I do have a question. When you say that you're a Leninist-Marxist, and that it means you are a Stalinist, what does that mean? The terms are a little unclear. -desdendelle
- Marxism-Leninism is a term that unites Marx and Engels' work with Lenin's development (which included the study on imperialism). Stalin didn't make significant additions, so he's to be considered a Marxist-Leninist. However, revisionists make use of the term "Stalinist" to denigrate not only Stalin, but also those who defend him, in order to put a distance between them and the so-called "true" Marxist-Leninism. In fact, however, "Stalinism" is the same thing as Marxism-Leninism, while for example "Trotskyism" isn't. TV Tropes isn't immune to this: if I remember well, this error is present on Bertolt Brecht page (who, by the way, was a true Marxist-Leninist). I hope the explanation is exhaustive.
- I see. You really think that what Lenin did (to Russia, to the world) was good? -desdendelle
- Hey, Belfagor, I'm curious: care to share your thoughts on universal health care? This particular American thinks it's not such a bad idea, especially if it frees me up from worrying whether an unexpected hospital bill will put me in the red. There's more important things I could be doing with my time, you see. -T-bone61
- I think that universal health care is one of the best features a country could ever have. The more the State can administrate, the less citizens will have to rely on unreliable corporations. However, since we live in capitalist countries, the government is more or less directly controlled by these corporations, thus it's always a battle between them and citizens in need. I.e., in Italy we have a predominance of public health care, yet recently they've applied much stricter measures on free services, which means that we'll have to pay for some from now on. The problem is, taxes are getting higher, families are getting poorer, and of course people with medical needs cannot afford too many expenses. Then again, I'd never exchange this system with the American one (or any other private-oriented one).
Free vandalism right here!
- Meg The Maggot: Vandal vandal vandal. Thanks for the compliment!
- These are not the vandals you are looking for. - X2X
- I find your lack of vandalism disturbing.
- (is Force Choke-d) - X2X
- Very well. I shall vandalize. Y'AI'NG'NGAH YOG-SOTHOTH H'EE-L'GEB F'AI TRHODOG UAAAAH Got any dead that need raising? - Karl Kadaver
- Sure, I keep them in the basement. Just one minute, somebody's knocking at the door...
- Oh no! This page is being corrupted! The only things we can use to fix it now are dance and jiggy power! (Actually, I could go for some jiggies right about now.) ~Enzeru
- Enneagram buddehs! - Turtle
- Italiano non è la mia prima lingua, ma lo tenterò di fare. Buono articolo riguardo al movimento di le mani. Io non ho di sinistra, ma penso che ciascuno ha il diritto a la sua opinione... e tutti sappiamo lo sensibile che è il soggetto (risi). Spero non avere suonato come Robocop o Hulk! - Amused Troper Guy
- (What I wanted to say: Italian isn't my first language, but I'll give it a try. Good article about the hands movement. I'm not from the left, but I think that each one has the right to his own opinion... and we all know how sensible is the subject (laughs). I hope I haven't sound like Robocop or Hulk!)
- Rispetto alle volpe, mi piace pensare che tiene un "foxy afro".
- Quite a good translation, the most difficult part is of course the structure of the phrase; that's also why my sentences in English are so formal. [Laughs for the foxy afro.]
- Unfortunately, I'm not a big fan of Marxist theories, although I have to admit that Leninism definitely sounds intriguing and more realistic than most of the other schools. I'll leave my mark here, anyway, and hope that we'll eventually come to an ideological compromise. -Milos Stefanovic
- Well, Leninism is an evolution of Marxism which luckily was applied practically. So it's good to see you're interested in it.
- I lost the bomb. Do you have it? -desdendelle
- Of course! But there's no way I'm going to tell a Social Democrat where I put it. [goes away singing Trololo]
- Communist scum! Feel the power of AMERICA! (Oh, and, your page is amusing). :P ~ USAF713
- Thanks, that was menacingly kind from you.
- We all know that secretly, deep-down, communists and capitalists are tsundere for each other... and then they give birth to social democrats like me! :D (Wait, that somehow became creepy in the transition from my head to text... 0_o).
- I can't believe you wrote that! Tonight I'm going to have Kautsky-themed nightmares!
- Muahahahaha! All According to Plan! :P
- Hey there Belfagor! Can you mineralize some MacGuffin for me? I need some limestone for smelting. —jcruz
- Vandalism commencing. Edit lock in T minus 19 minutes. — Liberated Liberater
- I'm really excited for the Milan derby this upcoming weekend. Mind you, I'm not gonna be watching for the sport; I just want to see these guys shout at each other. —Sean Murray I
- Actually I don't care about soccer too, but... crazy speakers shouting their voice off? Love it.
- SHOOOONEEEN
- I've always wondered how I would look in a manga. Definitively not a Bishōnen, however. I'm not enough pretty.
- Hey, it's-a-me ! Georges ! ~Dhana Ragnarok
- Hey, it's-a-me again ! So...How is that sunburn going ? Feels better or still red as a lobster ? ~Dhana Ragnarok
- Right now I'm back to my sickly pale version, but of course I'm still red at heart.
- I hope I'm not the only one who's gotten your little Belphegor pun. On the other hand, I finally know someone else has seen that movie. -Canidaemon
- What is up, good sir? ~ Rockonman
- Nothing exciting, actually. But I might be working on a new Evil Plan...
- WHO MURDER TEH EMPERAH?~Aliroz The Confused / ATC
- What type of Lawful Evil are you? -Canidaemon
- Wait a second. You're an evil Chessmaster. I'm a creepy Mad Scientist. We totally should team up. ~Dhana Ragnarok
- Prepare to be already vandalised. Your page anyway ~ Who Needs Sleep
- I'm a fox, not a wolf!! Get it RIGHT, peoples!! ~ Fergzilla
- Vielen Dank für deinen Vandalismus. Ein Hoch auf die zynisch-melancholische deutsche Perfektionistenkultur! ~ Savato
- It turns out that I personally am tired of unbridled capitalism myself. —Electrum Zephyr
- Bridled capitalism is a comfy delusion too, my dear.
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