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== Literature ==
* ''[[Circle of Magic]]'': 4 siblings (by adoption), each with a type of magic they have, a teacher, a student (two for Daja), a lost family (or, in Tris' case, disowned), two books in which they ultimately save the day and a crisis they save it from, and a reason they don't fit in at Winding Circle.
* ''[[Keys to
* ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'': 7 incarnations, each with a book, duty, way they're selected, and possibly some other things.
* ''[[Deltora Quest]]'': 7 tribes, each with a gem, city, guardian and dragon.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'': All seasons have 5+ rangers, each with a colour, [[Five
** By extension, ''[[Super Sentai]]'' does this, but with variations dependent on the series (some have associated elemental powers, associated animal motifs, and so on).
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== [[Religion And Mythology]] ==
* Occurs in [[The Bible]] a lot, particularly around the number Twelve, and the four Evangelists.
** As well, in Catholic tradition, each Saint has a Feast Day and a list of attributes, and many are patrons of particular professions, places, or against particular dangers. For example, St. Jude, who helps impossible cases, St. Cecilia, who protects musicians, and they didn't draw the name [
* [[Classical Mythology]] gives each god a name, a few titles, a domain, a sacred tree, a sacred bird, and a few symbols associated with them.
* Ayurvedic medicine is ''made'' of this. Each personality type has specific traits, foods that are good/bad for that type, health signs, etc. Every chakra has specific color, location in the body, personality, planetary influence, and gemstones that are good for it. So important is the
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* In ''[[Persona 3]]'' and ''[[Persona 4|4]]'', each of the major characters has a specific Tarot Arcana assigned to them that is usually reflective of their role in the story.
* In the ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' series, each of the original four games' settings is associated with a compass direction, a season, and an element. Game 3 doesn't fit the theme because it wasn't part of the original series plan.
* All over ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]''. As of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'', Link, Zelda and Ganon each possess a Triforce, with the powers courage, wisdom and power respectively, left by the three creator goddesses Farore, Nayru and Din respectively. Each of also correspond to a mystical pearl and, via their associated races (Kokiri, Zoras and Gorons respectively) a spiritual stone.
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** A more thorough listing of the similarities can be found [http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Homestuck_Kids here] on the series's Wiki.
** And now there are 28 more of them.
** [[Rule of Three|Not to mention]] the fact many of the [[NPC
* ''Homestuck's'' predecessor, ''[[Problem Sleuth]],'' was no slouch either. *Takes deep breath* There are three detectives, each with a certain body type (which in turn are each associated with a type of food, a truck carrying that food, and a district of the city that is named after the makers of that food, a gentleman with some sort of optical accessory, and a room in the Sleazy Brothel in the sky), an office, something keeping them from escaping their office, a different kind of window/portal to the World of Imagination, a stat in which they excel, a standard weapon/key, a candy weapon, a type of candy armor, a [[Super Mode]] based on both a classic movie monster and type of candy, a [[Distaff Counterpart]] (each of which have their own weapon/other object, two of which get a weapon/object used in painting and a undergarment that warps their physical properties, and one of which is just a clone of one of the detectives wearing a wig), an ultimate move, and a non-human race they go on a quest for (each of which terrorizes another of the races somehow, and each of which has some kind of emissary and a champion that represents a [[Fantasy Character Classes|Fantasy Character Class]]). The [[Big Bad]] gets in on most of this as well.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Captain Planet]]'': Each of the Planeteers wears a ring that taps into the powers of one of the four classical Greek elements. ([[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|Heart]], of course, being the misfit cousin.)
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