Removed this here page image. It appears to be Just A Face And A Caption. Except, y'know, it's a whole guy.

That entire first paragraph needs to be trimmed,or removed completely.

Just a possible quick fix to the top of the page: Isn't 4, in Chinese anyway, romanized "si" and pronounced similarly? There's no "sh" in the mix. Could we change this?

Would a work where four characters die and the finale shows their dead bodies in a line of four count?

Removed the following:

"*Shinji can be somehow intrepreted as 42, which sounds like (is)dead in japanese."

Reasoning: From the sounds of things Bat Deduction was used to reach this conclusion. As 4 can read as shi and 2 is read as ni in Japanese, if you combine the sounds of 4 & 2 you get Shi-Ni (which is Shinji without the J) which is homo-phonic of how you'd say death in the context of say shinigami etc. The problem is that Shinji in the context of the series is meant to be read as "son of god" or something like that, not to mention the fact that even with the above considered 42 would still be read as Shi-Ju-Ni (which is 42) rather than Shi-Ni (probably equivalent to 4, 2).

If I'm wrong feel free to put it back under the EVA series dot points.

Removed:

• In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Quattro (four in Italian) of the Numbered Cyborgs is the nastiest of them all, and she was also the most brutally pwned one by Nanoha.

I don't think this is really an example. Due would have matched the trope better, as she was an assassin for Jail, and also the only one of the Numbers who actually got killed.

Relevant in some regards, I am born April 4...