ChsFilm.The Wandering Earth: For anyone outside China, Rescue team's sequence CN171-11 is an reference to a real-life rescue team flying a Mi-171 helicopter who gave their lives rescueing people from the Grand Earthquake of Wenchuan in 2008, 11 years until the film's debut.
Characters.SCP Foundation SC Ps: The number 7 is used repeatedly in the article. There are seven examples of works affected by SCP-2747 (all of which prominently feature 7), seven footnotes, and seven crosslinks to other SCP's. It's implied that the seventh of all of these things is the "core" that leads to the anomaly. Several of the works feature six of something (characters, settings, etc.), implying a seventh one that is never revealed. The last cited work, ex lux, centers around the concept of interconnected narrative, and the last crosslink leads to Swann's 001 proposal (i.e. the real world). Furthermore, when SCP-2747 confronts Murphy Law/SCP-3143 personally at some unknown point in time, she laments that she still can't kill him, saying that there's seven of a lot of things but only six bullets in her revolver. The ending of SCP-5317 also claims that the Scarlet King's own use of the number is yet another one of the anafabula's schemes.
StargateSG1.Tropes A To F: Five. Or rather, its ordinal form fifth. It is used in the titles of two separate episodes ("The Fifth Race" and "The Fifth Man"), the name of a recurring character (Fifth), and as a pseudo-series goal for humanity to become 'the fifth race'.
Recap.Criminal Minds S 14 E 14 Sick And Evil: Not a specific number, but whatever number of times the original dwellers were stabbed, that's the number of times the will stab the new inhabitants.
Literature.Unsong: The kabbalistically significant numbers 4, 10, 22, and 72.
Film.Star Trek Generations: Scotty manages to save 47 people. 47 is an arc number in all the modern Star Trek series.
Literature.Game Of The Gods: Out of universe. Except for the first part, (Which has nine chapters if you include the prologue), each part is divided up into eight chapters. Subverted twice with Parts Nine through Thirteen, as the seventh chapter of each part is noticeably missing.
Trivia.Petscop: Meaningful Release Date: In-game, you can change your mind and return a child to the Child Library up to six months after taking them home. Rainer also went missing between June and December of 1997 and 2000, a period of six months. According to the channel description, the owners received the game on Christmas Day from Rainer. Petscop 11 was uploaded on Christmas 2017, six months after Petscop 10.Episodes 22, 23 and 24, which all featured the prominent number set of 9 2 19, came out on September 2nd, 2019 at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time... or 9/2/2019.
ComicBook.Winter Soldier: 2. Everything happens twice; everyone gets a second chance.Bucky's second chance at life is what inspires him to offer it to others. The timeskip between issue one and two is two weeks. After that there's no timeskip. Bucky meets with two clients before the plot kicks off. Bucky needs to replace his metal arm twice. RJ takes his second chance at life even when it rejects him. RJ turns down his second chance to kill Bucky. RJ loses his father, Richard, twice. Also, while it's technically Bucky's third solo run, it the second run to be titled only "Winter Soldier".
WesternAnimation.Chaotic: The number 7 is a recurring theme throughout the franchise (for example, Chaotic has 7 letters, and "Cothica" is just an anagram of that) and there were supposed to be 7 seasons. There are also 7 Codemasters, and if the first letters of their names are placed in a specific order, they can spell both "Chaotic" and "Cothica", to have a match against a Codemaster, and players need to win in the Codemaster's drome a total of 7 times. The symbol for Mugic is a heptagon which has 7 sides, and all Mugic abilities play a 7 note melody upon activation.
Literature.Chronicles Of The Kencyrath: Three, and multiples of three, are a recurring motif of the Kencyrath. Jame: Nearly everything in the Kencyrath comes in threes: The faces of God, the Tyr-ridan, the three times three major houses and temples. The Kencyr creator deity is the Three-Faced God, personifying respectively creation (Torrigon), preservation (Argentiel) and destruction (Regonoreth). The Tyr-ridan and three Objects of Power are each aligned with one of the faces too. The Kencyrath are sometimes called the Three People because they're made up of three races: Highborn, Kendar and Arrin-ken. Three professional colleges: the Scrollsmen's College, the Priests' College and the Randon College. Multiples of three:Nine (3x3) great houses whose lords comprise the High Council. Nine temples to the Three-Faced God built across Rathillien. Twenty-seven (3x3x3) is the age at which a Highborn Kencyr comes of age.
Series.The 100: 100. It's the number of delinquents originally planned to be sent down to earth, the number of slots left in Arkadia in Season 4, and the number of representatives each clan gets to send to the bunker. 12 and 13:The Ark was formed by 12 nations, each corresponding one of its 12 stations. It originaly had 13 stations, but Polaris, the 13th station, was destroyed. The Grounders have 12 clans. Skaikru becomes the 13th. There are 12 Primes. Gabriel, the 13th Prime, defected against them after his "moral awakening".
DarthWiki.Memories Of Magic: Arc Number - One that's never explained. With the sole exception of episode 7 itself, every episode afterward whose digits added up to 7 impacted the series in some major way. Episodes 52, 70, and 106, most notably.
YMMV.Puyo Puyo: That One Rule: The unspoken limit of 24 fully-playable characters, starting with Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary and continuing through the other 2010s Puyo Puyo games, is far less cute to the fandom than it apparently is to the developers. Puyo Puyo Champions is the most extreme case of this trope upsetting the fanbase, as it trims what the fandom considers major characters in Ecolo and the Klug-Lemres-Feli triangle in order to hit 24 characters. However, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 lacks this rule, as it had 28 characters at launched and ended with 40 when DLC packs stopped being released.
VideoGame.Hatsune Miku Project Diva: Separate game packages notwithstanding, Future Tone is also kept roughly up to date with the corresponding Arcade installment via DLC packages that add new Songs, Modules, and EXTRA EXTREME tracks according to the relative Arcade updates. In addition to separate availability, you can also purchase the Season Pass for 3900 yen, which not only grants access to all upcoming content, but also includes a set of 40 avatars for your PlayStation Network account.
Fridge.Wild Arms 4: Brionac loses track of Yulie's whereabouts after the Eulalia is destroyed, but catches up to the party once they reach Platapana Passage. Coincidentally, this is immediately after Jude tells Gawn who they're running from and he takes off. It's likely Gawn tipped them off. Which might explain why he didn't just fight the Kraken back in the Cerulean Tunnel. He knew the party would be passing through there any moment and didn't want to risk blowing his cover. Also some situational irony as to Gawn's fate: He's the mysterious 11th member and trump card of Brionac, a revelation that helps them finally capture Yulie. He himself gets trumped by Gungnir's 11th missile where there were only supposed to be 10.
Manga.Black Paradox: The four friends' reasons for committing suicide all circle around duality.
Music.Hed PE: The band often refers to the year 2012, and draws lyrical themes from various theories surrounding the year.
Characters.Eyeshield 21 Deimon Devil Bats: 21 popped up a lot with Sena. Aside from the obvious, his birthday was 12/21, and it always became his test number whether during the entrance exam of Deimon or that of the Enma University.
Music.Homestuck: Savior of the Waking World (featured here, on the 612th day of Homestuck)
Webcomic.Ennui Go: 049. It first shows up as the title of a strip referring to how many "magic mushrooms" Izzy ate, then in a horoscope reading, and in a much later strip (7/29/17, NSFW) Len calls them "the mystical numerals" during a blood ritual.
YMMV.Marathon Expanded Universe: The Salinger Plank gives us the insidious MaserBoBs, wielders of the powerful, perfectly-accurate Dangi Maser. If he sees you, you're as good as dead; they're more-or-less the human counterparts to the Enforcers. Luckily, you can pilfer their Masers and the ammo to load it with. Also, interestingly, at least "Core Wars" has significantly fewer MaserBoBs in Rubicon X than it did in Rubicon. Compared to in Rubicon, where it has something like seven, to the Rubicon X version, where it has two. Unsurprisingly, Dr Sumner cleared out the RX version about eight and a half minutes faster. (The RX version of the level also deleted some 140 polygons for unknown reasons; it's one of several levels that was completely overhauled for the re-release.)
Film.Pi: Rather than just being a motif, it's the driver of the plot — a 216-digit number that can do anything from predict the stock market to revealing the true name of God.
Characters.SCP Foundation Other: Unwitting Pawn: SCP-5317 suggests he may be serving the function and/or goals of the anafabula or an entity related to it without his knowledge. This allows them to wreak untold destruction much more efficiently than he can while the Scarlet King himself remains none the wiser, thinking that the Arc Number seven and the role of embodying chaos are his, when in reality, he's nothing but a Red Herring doomed to be resealed again and again while the anafabula rampages across the infinite narrative sandwich.
Characters.Enter The Arena As Your Avatar Neutral And Independent Characters: All According to Plan: Turns out, the heroes helping Mr. Pew Pew/Skippy Wildgrin ended up playing directly into the Chairman's backup plan - forging the χ-blade, using the shards of light and darkness produced by a total of 13 boss battles including the first half of his own final battle, to unmake and restart the Tooniverse.
Film.Jeepers Creepers: Twenty-three. The Creeper only comes out every twenty-three years for twenty-three days to eat.
Memes.Homestuck: On 4chan's /co/ board, due to the massive amount of shipping and general threads, "HOMOSUCK IS SHIT" has evolved into an all-around catchphrase for anything that's too invasive or clutters up the board.HOMOSUCK became canon on 6/12/13
MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.Tropes A To B: The number six has great importance throughout the show. There are six Elements of Harmony, distributed among six friends. In Season 4, there are six Friendship Keys. In Season 7, the Mane Six's predecessors are the six Pillars of Equestria. And by Season 8, there are six main students at the Friendship Academy.
WebVideo.Arby N The Chief: Every time you see a clock, it will either display 3:43, 13:37 or digits that will add up to 7 (which is a reference to Bungie).
Characters.Homestuck The Felt: He is numbered 12, Biscuits is numbered 13, and both make their first appearances in the Intermission at 12:13, as indicated by the giant clock on the safe door.
Music.Mili: The number 617 appears multiple times in Mili's lyrics:In "Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery" the Witch describes Page 617 as dealing with "scientific witchery." In "Summoning 101", the book the magician compiles over her life spent searching for her lost companion has 617 pages, possibly placing the song as prequel to "Ga1ahad". In "Salt, Pepper, Birds and the Thought Police", the narrator is arrested for violating Act 617: Illegal Thoughts.
Webcomic.Sweet Jade And Hella John: 616 in a similar manner to 413/612/1025/111 in Homestuck. Arguably, 214 fits this as well. 496 becomes one from the second act onwards. It's the number of "beings" that Darkhorse spouted in his "WTF Attack," the number of Vampire Dave's shirt in an alternate universe where John and Jake are dead, and it's the last three digets in the comic's final total page numbernote Though Pikmin Fan has implied adding or even removing pages in the upcoming reversion of the comic.
Music.In Extremo: 7. There are seven band members, their logo is a heptagram, they call themselves the seven vagrants and their seventh album is simply called 7.See also Rule of Seven
Theatre.Macbeth: 3. Three witches, three murderers, twenty-seven (three cubed) scenes, et cetera.
AvengersEndgame.Tropes A To C: 47, a recurring one for the MCU films as a whole. This time it's Bunker E-47 at Camp Lehigh that Steve and Tony have to infiltrate, to retrieve the Tesseract and a supply of Pym particles.
VideoGame.Tokyo Seventh Sisters: 7. The leader of the 7th Sisters bears the surname Nanasaki, the studio you work in as the manager is named Three Seven (hence 777☆SISTERS), you have 49note if you either count the Karakuri sisters separately or count Coney in playable characters (that makes 7 to the 2nd power).Comically averted with 7th Sisters actually only having 6 members, alongside Nicole hiding her identity under the surname of Rokusakinote with 'Roku' also meaning 'six'
TheLegendOfKorra.Tropes A To F: The number ten thousand is heavily featured in the "Beginnings" two parters. Wan means ten thousand, and he lived about ten thousand years before Korra. The Harmonic Convergence, a battle between Raava and Vaatu, occurs every ten thousand years. Vaatu boasts that he lived ten thousand lifetimes before humans "crawled out of the mud". And of course, returning from the original series, we have Wan Shi Tong, "he who knows ten thousand things". This has some context. If you're familiar with Taoist philosophy, you'll know that the number ten thousand is used as a shorthand for anything that is too great or numerous to count. In particular, "the ten thousand things" is used to refer to everything that emerged from the duality of Yin and Yang, which is... well, everything.
Swordfish.Video Games: Used in all manner of fashions in Fallout 3. The hacking minigame involves educated guesses involving plaintext words (the computer tells you how many letters there are and which ones are right and in the right place, i.e., lets you play Mastermind with the password system), and passwords that get given to you run the gamut from the name of the daughter of the Vault Overseer to a hexadecimal pointer string. The last mission even ends with you inputting a security code that's never told to you outright but you've been hearing throughout the storyline. Bad Wolf?
WebVideo.Project New World: The number 7 appears throughout the series, key examples being: THEWICKEDSEVEN, journal 4 - lucky number seven, the fact that "journal" has seven letters, and the season one finale being journal 14, which is 7/2.
VideoGame.Kingdom Hearts 3 D Dream Drop Distance: Both 7 and 13. While both numbers have been present in the series up until this point, their full In-Universe significance is finally revealed as they are the number of light and dark fragments, respectively, that are necessary to forge the χ-blade. This is also the seventh game in the series.
WebVideo.Critical Role Campaign Two: Nine has become one for the whole campaign; starting as a joke when the cast began rolling a disproportionate number of nines, it became an increasingly creepy coincidence as major parts of the story centered around the number nine - including the three eyes each on the three demigods in the Uko'toa arc, the ninth school of magic being dunamancy, and finally the Eyes of Nine being the final boss of the campaign.The group have even taken to calling themselves The Mighty Nein, even though there are only seven of them (six when Yasha is elsewhere). At the end of the campaign the group name is finally fulfilled, with Essek and the revived Molly filling the final two of nine. Interestingly, one of Molly's former names turns out to be "Nonagon"; i.e., a nine-sided polygon. Matt has confirmed on Twitter that he came up with the name Nonagon before nine became the group's arc number.
Fanfic.First Flight: 36. Kerm trees alone are no smarter than a regular tree. However, as a Kerm tree is joined with more Kerm tree cuttings or a kerbal, they become more and more sentient, until they reach 37 or more in total, where they experience a Mind Break without their Keeper by their side. Once they hit 38, their minds begin Shattering, and without the help of a Keeper and two kerbal anchors, will lead to the Kerm becoming fully sapient.
Fanfic.Klaanon: The repeating appearances of 6 were initially parodic in nature, as every group in the Bionicle universe seems to automatically have six members. However, recent events considered there might be something more sinister behind this.
Music.Dare To Be Stupid: Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: From "Cable TV," and actually with the number 27 (an Arc Number for Al): My friends are getting kinda worried, They think I'm turning into some kind of freak. Aw, but they're just jealous, 'cause I've seen Porky's Twenty-seven times this week.
Literature.The Bone Season Series: Numerological Motif: The number seven crops up a lot, being strongly associated with the supernatural and the divine: there are seven Seals, seven orders of clairvoyance, seven books in the series, and seven tarot cards predicting Paige's future. The arch-traitor of Bone Season XVIII was XVIII-39-7. Also, Paige's London gang is based in Seven Dials, where seven roads converge on a sundial pillar. May also qualify as Arc Number.
Characters.Arrowverse Oliver Queen: The number "5" is heavily attached to him, specifically;He was away from home for five years after the yacht incident. He has five prominent identities throughout the series; his actual identity (Oliver Queen), The Hood, The Arrow, Al Sah-him and Green Arrow. His team is a Five-Man Band for most of the series.
WesternAnimation.Catwoman Hunted: Mythology Gag: Catwoman and Batwoman fight 52 ninjas in Paris. 52 is the series where Kate Kane debuted, and 52 in general is an Arc Number for DC Comics. They also count exactly 16 ninjas on-screen, which is a recurring number in Young Justice, set on Earth-16. Black Mask's lieutenant has the codename Number One and ends up being killed by his boss. In The Batman, Black Mask also has a Number One that usually dies and is replaced by a new Number One. Catwoman wears one of her early Golden Age costumes to the masquerade party.
Recap.Gilmore Girls S 06 E 07: The theme of Rory's long-planned twenty-first birthday was going to be the number twenty-one. She and Lorelai were going to play 21 and buy 21 things with the winnings, and do something involving 21 guys that wouldn't really be appropriate now that they're in exclusive relationships.
ScottPilgrim.Tropes K To R: People Jars: Gideon has kept his ex-girlfriends cryogenically frozen and hooked up to some sort of ominous-looking machine that he draws his power from. There are seven tubes attached to the machine. Six are occupied, one stands empty and waiting for Ramona.
Fanfic.SO Schip: Absent has a bit of a penchant for the number 13 - in Chapter 3, for example, in the montage he manages to get out questions to thirteen of the Vandertramps. Later on, the number 13 continues appearing in regards to Absent. Similarly, multiples of 13 are also rather common for him- he even evolved, in-universe, on what would have been February 26th on Earth. oghond's Arc Number, similarly, is 11, which according to the real oghond is actually her mother's Arc Number in real life. 23 and 2112 also come up as arc numbers for her, as do multiples of 11. Similarly, her evolution occurs in-universe on February 22nd. As for a series-wide arc number, while none has come up yet, it's planned to be the number 912, a reference to the day in which the S.S. Tex-Kofschip was discovered in-universe.
Music.Oneohtrix Point Never: Several phone numbers with the area code 617 (which used to be his) show up in Garden Of Delete.
Film.Reefer Madness The Musical: 420note a number/phrase associated with pot culture due to Memetic Mutation appears throughout the film, including a time on a clock, the street address of the hash house, and the hymn board in the church.
ArcWords.Video Games: Fallout 3 combines this with Arc Number in the bible passage: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely." -Revelation 21:6.
Webcomic.Sarah Zero: The number 28 pops up suspiciously often, although it's not yet been stated how this number is significant.
Literature.Twenty Three Twelve: 2312. Several allusions are made to the year in the snippets of future history sprinkled between the chapters, and is said to be a pivotal year for humanity in general.
Film.Labyrinth: The film puts a lot of emphasis on the number 13. Sarah has thirteen hours to rescue her half-brother, the entire climax lasts around thirteen minutes, and Jareth has thirteen Mooks overall.
Minecraft.Tropes A To F: 11, usually whenever horror is involved. The music disc that plays a man running away from things until it suddenly cuts out is named "11". Herobrine was removed 11 times. The only update in the Herobrine removal period that didn't have him being removed? 1.1. (And then 1.10 removed him again, long after the joke fell into disuse...) Music Disc 11's disc id is 11 and its length is 1:11. Hell, Minecraft 1.0 was released on 11/11/11!
SquidGame.Tropes A To I: The number 456 recurs a bit; Gi-hun wins 4.56 million won betting in the first episode (which Sae-byeok then pickpockets from him), and there are 456 players in the game, with a grand prize of 45.6 billion won (100 million per player). In the final episode, the PIN number Gi-hun uses to access his winnings is his player number, 0456.
Ride.Doctor Dooms Fearfall: The number "4" appears in the attraction a few times, and each time it's purposely designed to look like the Fantastic Four logo, highlighting just how obsessed with the team Doom is.
VideoGame.Four Elements: Four. Four elements, four books, four sections in each book, four keys, four items in each hidden object stage, four power-ups, four normal piece colors in one level, four match-three levels per section.
TabletopGame.The Wild Beyond The Witchlight: The numbers 3 and 8 appear a lot across the module. The domain of Prismeer has been split into three pieces, controlled by a coven of three hags. Prismeer has three rules that govern it. The Witchlight Carnival only reappears every eight years and runs for eight hours. The adventure encourages the dungeon master to incorporate the numbers, such as having the party be awakened from a long rest by three songbirds on the eighth hour. The layout of the Witchlight Carnival also resembles a giant "8" according to its map.
Animation.The Haunted House The Secret Of The Ghost Ball: Four Is Death: Four is practically an Arc Number for the show. The Koo family lives in apartment 444, on the fourth floor of Shinbi Apartments. The maze ghost Keyclaws exists in a pocket dimension between the fourth and fifth floor. The Speeding Bus Ghost, especially, is bus number 4444, which arrives twice a day at exactly 4:44 AM and 4:44 PM.
ComicBook.Captain America Sentinel Of Liberty: 5.The five-pointed stars on Cap's shield and Bucky's arm. Five members of the Outer Circle: the Money, the Power, the Love, the Machine, and the Revolution. The five assassins working for them; Winter Soldier, the Destroyer, the Dryad, the Redacted, and a MODOC (Mental Organism Designed Only for Control).
Funny.Hiveswap Friendsim: Mallek's route has a song called "fortnite funny moments epic fails episode 413", which James said he named in the hope of confusing people who were actually looking for Youtube videos about funny moments from Fortnite after hearing that the Friendsim music had been uploaded to said site.
Fanfic.The Last Spartan: True to form, variants of the number seven appear throughout the story. For example, some of the "named" Geth troopers have serial numbers divisible by seven, and not counting the Chief himself, there are seven members of the Normandy ground team.And when the author read this page and noticed the above entry, expressed glee when someone noticed, saying: "Yes! Finally! Someone picked up on that!" Count how many words are in that phrase. Funnily enough, Liara mentions that seven is bad luck in Asari cultures.
Characters.Midnightstuck: Big Eater: Inverted. Hussie will order absolutely ridiculous amounts of food at the diner, but usually just uses the food in creative ways to mess with people. He still is going through the 413 Andrew Huss Puppies he ordered weeks after purchasing them.
ShoutOut.Dangan Roleplay: The comment required count to make the trial successful on an OOC level for the fourth trial was 413. Both the victim and culprit were Homestuck characters and that's the Arc Number for the series.
Characters.Vinesauce Tomodachi Life Islanders Episodes 1 Through 26: He has a tendency to avoid the number three. He'll even cancel Half-Life 3 in favor of Half-Life 4, and completely skips saying the "3" in Half-Life 3 in the song The Time Has Come until it's spelled out as "three".
VideoGame.Nier Automata: In the "Deserving of Life" music video, the numbers 1728 crop up quite frequently and are associated with emotions.
Characters.Friday Night Funkin Marios Madness: L Is Real 2401 is the most common interpretation of the statue; however, Eternal Star is also fairly popular, with both being related back to Luigi.
Characters.Hololive Indonesia Generation Three: LOL, 69: Kaela considers 69 to be her luckiest number, claiming it has nothing to do with the sex act. In fact, she only learned about that association later into her streaming career, to her horror. She was originally inspired by Moona's own obsession with said number, and after launching her channel's membership on June 9, it became her Arc Number of sorts.
Gush.Literature: The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Niel, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end.
