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Nymphonomicon Meatbag Since: Jan, 2001
Meatbag
Jul 4th 2021 at 12:04:35 PM •••

This might be worthy of a notice under Anime/Manga or Films/Animated, but the way I hear it, the fourth Evangelion Rebuild film is being titled in such a way that avoids using the number four; "Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.01 Thrice Upon a Time".

WUT?
SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
Mar 22nd 2021 at 10:19:14 AM •••

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Used for different meanings -- split?, started by Zalis on Aug 29th 2011 at 5:34:21 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
somebody_cares Since: Dec, 2017
Dec 19th 2017 at 2:23:55 PM •••

Why does eight link to Discworld?

Freshmeat Since: Nov, 2015
Jan 23rd 2016 at 1:00:04 PM •••

In the real life section, the following is stated:

  • Wolf packs are at their most dangerous with 4 members hunting together. Larger packs tend to be less organized and have less experience together, 4 member packs however, are composed of Wolves with plenty of experience working together, thus their successful kill percentage is significantly higher.

Can anyone confirm this? This looks like shoehorning, but Reality Is Unrealistic exists for a reason.

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rougestone Since: Apr, 2014
Apr 4th 2014 at 9:03:22 AM •••

In Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time the Shadow Temple is not absolutely the fourth dungeon. It is possible to complete either the Shadow or Spirit Temple fourth after the lens of truth and longshot are acquired. Additionally the warping song for the Spirit Temple is in the fourth slot out of seven, not the Shadow temple. Though both involve death/the time after death as a spirit. So it is still applicable but the wording should be changed so that the section reflects how both choices have connotations of death.

In my opinion the Spirit Temple is about redemption and forgiveness/forgetting evil deeds after death versus the penchant of the Shadow Temple being betrayal and banishment being equal to death.

Made my account here to fix this so if there aren't any replies in a week I'll change it myself.

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MyFinalEdits (Ten years in the joint)
Apr 5th 2014 at 10:38:47 PM •••

Fine by me.

While I'm here, I'll make a brief edit on the Wind Waker example.

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superkeijikun Since: Aug, 2010
Feb 2nd 2014 at 6:19:06 PM •••

Would Left 4 Dead count? It has the number 4 right in the title, and centers around four survivors fighting against a deadly plague.

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MyFinalEdits (Ten years in the joint)
Feb 2nd 2014 at 7:09:11 PM •••

As long as the trope's role is perfectly detailed.

In the past, there were countless "kind of" examples and other shoehorned stuff that were deleted because they didn't really fit the trope.

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TARINunit9 Since: Oct, 2010
Jun 6th 2012 at 12:01:24 AM •••

Is it just me, or do a LOT of supposed "examples" of Four Is Death fall under the jurisdiction of People Sit On Chairs? It's not so bad on the Four Is Death page itself, but on every other page

markusgrey Since: Feb, 2011
Jan 20th 2012 at 6:28:13 PM •••

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

MikeRosoft Since: Jan, 2001
Jul 5th 2011 at 8:23:23 AM •••

Removed:

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.

Long live Marxism-Lennonism!
Warden Wanderer Since: Jan, 2010
Wanderer
Nov 15th 2010 at 11:27:21 PM •••

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.

OOZE Don't feed the plants! Since: Dec, 1969
Don't feed the plants!
Oct 17th 2010 at 5:35:58 PM •••

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

I'm feeling strangely happy now, contented and serene. Oh don't you see, finally I'll be, somewhere that's green...
GummyTuna Since: Feb, 2010
Jul 24th 2010 at 11:57:46 AM •••

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?

Ultimatum !Disasturbator (Old as dirt)
!Disasturbator
Jun 1st 2010 at 3:07:19 PM •••

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

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SomeGuy Since: Jan, 2001
Jun 1st 2010 at 3:52:09 PM •••

Done. Most of the extra fluff was really only helpful for linguist nerds.

See you in the discussion pages.
billybobfred [[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Cosine!]] Since: Jan, 2001
[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Cosine!]]
Apr 28th 2010 at 5:56:00 AM •••

Removed this here page image.

(Troll edit removed. Original image was JAFAAC.)
It appears to be Just A Face And A Caption. Except, y'know, it's a whole guy.

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SomeGuy Since: Jan, 2001
Jun 1st 2010 at 3:51:48 PM •••

I've re-removed the picture on the grounds that "deathy-looking-guy with a four on his chest" isn't really much of a descriptor for a page that's basically about a superstitious concept. If the four was a recurring theme with his outfit, like four swords, or four fingers or four recurring patterns, it would work better.

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