KnownUnknown
Since: Jan, 2001
Apr 1st 2010 at 5:55:20 PM
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Known Unknown: Odd cases. Technically they are The Adjective Number, since numbers are adjectives, but not in the form that the trope is representing. But yeah, get rid of em.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
KnownUnknown
Since: Jan, 2001
Apr 1st 2010 at 5:55:20 PM
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Known Unknown: Odd cases. Technically they are The Adjective Number, since numbers are adjectives, but not in the form that the trope is representing. But yeah, get rid of em.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
johnnye
Since: Jan, 2001
Apr 2nd 2010 at 6:11:12 AM
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The Adjective Number is supposed to be a mad-libs style title meaning the examples should read "The [adjective] [number]". I'd say there are enough examples of that form to cut these, which aren't.
AceNoctali
Since: Nov, 2009
Apr 2nd 2010 at 12:03:03 PM
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AceNoctali : I'm the Troper who added most of the discussed examples above. I do not mind if you cut those examples, but :
- For one, I'd like to note that, if you're using that definition of the trope, then the current name for it, The Notable Numeral, is then misleading.
- Two, the page quote too doesn't fit this trope, as, if I'm not mistaken, "hive" is a common noun, not an adjective.
- Three, I think that the trope definition should be either enlarged to include the cut examples, or creating a page specifically for them, as IMO it's a signifiant trope used often in fiction.
Should these examples be on the page? They don't fit the trope as currently described.
- The Four Kings of the Volts
- The Four Heroes, and later the Five Heroes
- The Four Angelic Knights of Silesia
- The Three Dragon Generals of Bern
- The Four Fangs
- The Six Generals of Grado
- The Twelve Crusaders of Jugdral
- The Eight Divine Generals of Elibe
- The Three Heroes of Tellius
- The Four Heaven Kings (in the Hibikino Saga)
- Les Six Compagnons, famous French teenage detectives by Paul-Jacques Bonzon
- Eight, an eight-branched international criminal gang that fights Mandrake The Magician.
- The Eight Generals of Valpha-Valaharian
- The Forty Thieves
- The 108 Stars of Destiny
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