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* The ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' games have all featured the elemental Roshambeau concept. Individual demons may be weak, resistant, or some degree of immune to the 4 elements (8 in some games) and the 3 (or more) types of weapon damage; there's also the Almighty damage type, which almost nobody is strong or weak against.
** In addition to extra damage, recent games in the series award extra combat actions to the player for exploiting enemy elemental weaknesses, and penalize actions for hitting monsters with elements they're immune to.
* Spoofed in the browser-based [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', which features a set of five rather ridiculous elements: hot, cold, stench, sleaze, and spookiness. Each "element" is weak against two of the others, sometimes with little logic to those weaknesses (spooky-elemental monsters, for example, are weak against hot and stench attacks).
** Well, the interesting thing is that "sleaze" seems to be defined as "oily" half the time. Bacon grease, motor oil, even [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Halibut a rotting fish] (though that rather obviously also deals stench damage).
** There are also a few minor elements like Bad Spelling that aren't part of the cycle, and it's possible to discover that the game supposedly has a ''sixth'' major element: {{spoiler|Cuteness}}. Maybe.
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** The pleasure element is a defining aspect of the series, being inflicted by sexual acts. Succubi are both good at using and resisting this element.
** Bio and sonic are associated with poison and sound-based attacks, respectively.
* ''[[Lust Grimm]]'' has a strange set of elements due to being a [[H-game]]: the elements are body parts of enemies: hand, foot, mouth,
== Webcomics ==
* The mages in ''[[What's Shakin']]'' have the powers of all elements, but excel in only one. In contrast to typical canon, ice and water elements are weak against fire as seen in the ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130313045855/http://whatsshakincomic.com/2011/08/22/page-48-2/ fight against Fred]''.
* In the ''Triquetra Cats'', the main characters have control over the elements of Earth Fire and Water, their mother has control over the element of Air, (as they are all on the same side it has never been resolved if one is weaker/stronger than the other save for minor sibling rivalry squabbling, in which they use their powers in possibly the weakest strength possible anyway)
* ''[[Adventurers!]]!'', in addition to the standard RPG elements, includes [https://web.archive.org/web/20150501160531/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0268.html "Tastes Like Orange Tang"], "Doesn't Taste Like Orange Tang", and even [https://web.archive.org/web/20150501172141/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050818.html "Peanuts"] (which Khrima apparently has an allergy to). The main quest has the party collect about a hundred elements from the elemental table.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' is based on the four [[Word of God|among others, ancient Buddhist]] elements, represented by the four nations. Although in 'real life' no element is shown to be particularly stronger than the others, they do have their own ''literal'' Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors, as in [http://screenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/214/080.jpg a game]{{Dead link}} (earth beats fire apparently). It was also somewhat parodied in one of the [http://screenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/017/008.jpg chibi shorts]{{Dead link}}, where they spent the episode arguing over "what beats what".
** While the bending elements are all equal in terms of power they do have very different mental aspects that put them in opposition of
* In an episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', Master Splinter defeats the Foot Mystics (who represent steel, fire, water, earth, and wind) with a powerful sword by making them use their elements against each other, while using the following quote:
{{quote|'''Master Splinter:''' ''Fire melts metal, water puts out fire, earth swallows water, wind scatters earth, and I shall quell the wind!''}}
** The turtles themselves' personalities are based around the four elements - Leonardo as Water, Raphael as Fire, Donatello as Earth and Michelangelo as Air.
*** And it should be mentioned that pizza, the
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