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[[File:Missing floors 6301.jpg|frame|Four's bad. Fourteen's even worse. Thirteen was glad for the company.]]
In Chinese, [[Japanese Language|Japanese]], and Korean, the words for "four" (四) and "death" (死), despite being written differently, are pronounced similarly (somewhat like "''sì''" in [[Mandarin]], "''sei''" in [[Chinese Dialects and Accents|Cantonese]], "''shi''" in Japanese, and "''sa''" in Korean). As a cultural trope, Asian works of media tend to treat the number the same way Western writers treat the number 13 (except 13 isn't half a letter away from "death", although numerologically speaking, what is 1+3?... [[Fridge Horror|Oh my God!]]).
As a similar point of reference, building floors and apartments are (mis)numbered accordingly to avoid the number (the US does the same with the number 13. Floors will go straight from 12 to 14, while the UK skips Rm13), and some Japanese people prefer to say "''yon''" (another word for four) instead of "''shi''".
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* The four of spades in the [[Osamu Tezuka]] [[Reused Character Design]] playing card deck is Kiriko, the doctor of death from ''[[Black Jack]]''.
* The fourth episode of ''[[Shiki]]'' is appropriately titled "Fourth Death". It repeats for episode 14, given the kanji used.
* In ''[[Your Name]]'', it is on October 4th that a fragment breaks off the comet Tiamat and strikes Itomori, causing the death of 500 including Mitsuha.
== Comic Books ==
* The Frightful Four was a group started by the Wizard in an attempt to form a villainous counterpart to his foes, [[The Fantastic Four]], consisting of himself, the Trapster, the Sandman, and Medusa. Problem is, however, Medusa was an [[Amnesiac Hero]] at the time, and when she recovered her memory, she betrayed them and left. Since then, the Wizard's inability to find a permanent fourth member of the team has almost become a [[Running Gag]].
** The Fantastic Four itself is this, in-universe, to a lot of alien races who have tried to conquer Earth and failed. Many alien cultures now view them as the [[Four Horsemen]].
== Fan Works ==
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* The [[Rance]] just loves the number four. There are the four apostles of Xavier, the four Demon Lords under the Demon King, that badly drawn monster that looks like a mutated 4-leaf clover, and so on.
* In ''[[Honkai Impact 3rd]]'', the Fourth Herrscher, {{spoiler|Wendy}}, is the first character to die, and this happens in the fourth chapter.
* In ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza]] 0'', there are four Mr. Shakedowns, basketballer-tall brick shithouses that are slow but immensely durable and who will put Kiryu or Majima's health and wallet in the grave quickly if they land any hits.
* In ''[[Saints Row 2]]'', the fourth mission in each gang's questline is the most dire, with {{spoiler|Carlos's [[Mercy Kill]]-worthy disfigurement, Gat getting hospitalised from a stab in the stomach, and Shaundi's abduction.}}
== Web Comics ==
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