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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|''"Wait, if you're the H.I.V.E. Five, [[Lampshading\|why are there six of you]]?"''\|'''Kid Flash''', ''[[Teen Titans (~~Animation~~animation)\|Teen Titans]]''}} If you have a group of people banding together to fight evil, or to cause it, then it's good to have a good team name that people will remember. If you can't think of anything else, then why not name yourself after the number of members you have, plus a nice adjective that describes you? Maybe try to tie it together in a pun or something. In the end, what do you have? Why, [['''The Notable Numeral]]''', of course! This naming convention is popular in [[Real Life]] to describe people who make the news as a group, usually as either the victims of a crime or as the people arrested for a crime (often in historic/sensational cases of people who are believed to be wrongly accused, whose case seems to represent a broader issue or who grab the public's attention in some other way), such as the Buffalo Six and the West Memphis Three. [[The Other Wiki]] calls these [~~http://en.~~[wikipedia~~.org/wiki/~~:Category:~~Enumerated_defendants~~Enumerated defendants\|"Enumerated defendants."]] Describing a single such defendant, usually fictional, as the something-or-other ''One'' is a [[Stock Parody]]. Beware, if excess alliteration disturbs you, then it might be best to look elsewhere. Line 13: {{examples\|Examples (Numerically Ordered For Your Convenience):}} * [[My Hero Zero]] * [[The Chosen One]] Line 20 ⟶ 19: * [[Saturday Night Live\|The Ambiguously Gay Duo]]. * [[Wacky Races\|The Gruesome Twosome]] * The [[~~Dirty Pair (Light Novel)\|~~Dirty Pair]] * ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' * [[Great Teacher Onizuka\|The Onibaku Duo]] * ''[~~http://en.~~[wikipedia~~.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Three~~:The Amazing Three\|The Amazing Three]]'' * [[Tentai Senshi Sunred ~~(Manga)~~\|Kishou Sentai Weather Three]] * The [[Power Trio]] ** The [[Freudian Trio]] * [[Batman\|The Terrible Trio]], and [[Terrible Trio\|namesake trope]] * The "Untouchable Trio" (plus one) of the ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]''. * ''[[The Three Musketeers (~~Literature~~novel)\|The Three Musketeers]]'' * [[Hercule Poirot\|The Big Four]] * [[Pokémon\|The Elite Four]] (a.k.a. The Shitennō, which translates to Four Heavenly Kings.) Line 39 ⟶ 38: * [[Tantei Opera Milky Holmes\|Genius 4]] * [[The Monkees\|The Pre-Fab Four]] * [[The Tick (animation)\|The Civic-Minded Five]] * In sports, Michigan basketball's Fab Five. * The Famous Five. Who were a bunch of Canadian feminist icons; sadly, they aren't that famous. Line 45 ⟶ 44: * The [[Legion of Super-Heroes\|Fatal Five]]. * [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)\|The Fearsome Five]] * [[The Specials\|The Femme Five]], of which there are seven. ("Traditional counting is an oppressive patriarchal tool.") ** [[Teen Titans (~~Animation~~animation)\|Otherwise known as the HIVE F.I.V.E.]] * [[Darkwing Duck\|The Other Fearsome Five]] * [[Bigtime\|The Fearless Five]] Line 55: * ''[[Dai Sentai Goggle Five]]'', ''[[Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman]]'' and ''[[Rescue Sentai Go Go Five]]''. Is there another team of five we should know about? Say, one that blends these series' [[Sentai]] sensibilities with the [[Magical Girl]] genre? * ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun\|Yes!]] [[Yes! Pretty Cure 5\|Pretty Cure 5]].'' * [[Pulp Fiction\|Fox Force Five]] - "Fox as in we're a bunch of ''foxy'' chicks. Force as in we're a ''force'' to be reckoned with. Five as there's one, two, three, four, five of us." * [[~~Earthbound~~EarthBound\|The Runaway Five]] (which apparently actually contains six people) * The [[Bionic Six]]. * [[Lost\|The Oceanic Six]] * The [[Secret Six]] from DC Comics. * [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)\|The Sinister Six]] * ''[[Blake's ~~Seven (TV)~~7\|Blakes Seven]]''. * [[Mission: Impossible\|The Sinister Seven]] from the NES game. Subverted, since it's never said who they really are. * The eponymous ''[[~~Killer 7~~Killer7]]''. * [[Koi Koi 7]] (though there are only six of them) * ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]''. Line 70: * The Great Ten, a China-based team of [[DC Comics\|DC]] super heroes. * ''The Terrible Ten,'' a series of short films in the 1940's and 50's * ''[[~~Oceans~~Ocean's 11\|Ocean's]] [[~~Oceans~~Ocean's Eleven\|Eleven]]'', ''Twelve'', and ''Thirteen''. * ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]''. * [[Kingdom Hearts\|Organization XIII]] * For an example of the trope applied to ''victims'' of crime, ''[[Being Human (TVUK)~~\|Being Human~~]]'' has the "Box Tunnel 20" * The [[Kill Bill\|Crazy 88]]. Probably a subversion, since there aren't 88 of them. [[Rule of Cool\|They just thought it sounded cool]]. * 108 Righteous Bandits, a Chinese gang in [[Deadlands]]. There isn't exactly 108 of them, they chose the name because it features heavily in Buddhist mysticism. Line 80: [[Category:Naming Conventions]] [[Category:Number Tropes]] [[Category:~~The~~Alliterative ~~Notable~~Trope ~~Numeral~~Titles]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Notable Numeral, The}} [[Category:~~Trope~~{{PAGENAME}}]]