r/TopCharacterTropes • • 3h ago

Groups Incomplete numbered groups.

1. The Self Referential Six (Rick and Morty): excluding and Imprisoning Rhett from the group for supposedly being very dangerous.

2. Uno, Dos and Cuatro (Ferdinand): they don't want to talk about Tres.

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u/Yanmega9 2h ago

Sex Pistols - JoJo's Bizzare Advenure

They're numbered 1-6, but with a 7 instead of a 4, because Mista is really superstitious about the number 4

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u/NeverMore_613 2h ago

I know that the Chinese glyphs for 4 and death are either the same or very similar, I wonder if it's something similar (or a direct borrowing)

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 2h ago

I think it's a general old superstition in East Asia, same way the west has 13

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u/Howlett92 1h ago

Which is funny because Mista is Italian.

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u/newshirtworthy 1h ago

The word for 4 in Japanese is “shi”, and the Kanji for death (死) is also “shi”.

In Japan, they sometimes skip the 4th floor of hospitals and hotels out of superstition.

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u/Artistic-Fortune2327 2h ago

Nope. One of his childhood neighbours got their eye clawed out by a kitten adopted from a litter of four, leaving the neighbour with a four-claw scar in place of where the eye was

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u/panteradelnorte 1h ago

On one hand, that’s fucked and rough.

On the other hand, it’s one helluva story.

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u/participatience 11m ago

yeah it’s the pronunciation, but not the glyphs. I’ll even throw in that my mom said that in Tagalog, one of them is “apat” and the other is “patay”, which isn’t quite the same but still an interestingly close comparison

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u/nobadabing 1h ago

In all fairness to him the number 4 does play a big part in his backstory. During the shootout that got him thrown in prison, he was attacked by 4 assailants. They opened fire on him and none of them were able hit them as he proceeded to gun them down.

Abbachio ate the 4th slice of cake that Mista was freaking out over in his introduction, and well…

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u/satanism_is_badass 2h ago

The Seven in The Boys go a really long time without having 7 members

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u/M-Shadowtoad 2h ago

Homelander even uses it as reasoning for why he's disbanding the Seven as a whole.

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u/W1D0WM4K3R 50m ago

Well maybe if he quit murdering prospects

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u/Huurghle 49m ago

Isn't it only the first episode that The Seven truly has that many members? And then from there anytime they get back to Seven, something happens to bring the number back down within the same episode?

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u/Transsandwitch 2h ago

The superior six There's only been 5

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u/DuxHunt 1h ago

My goats

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u/Transsandwitch 1h ago

Group full of girlfailures

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u/SkylandersKirby 2h ago

Isn't there some mermaids in one piece that are named like "One" Two" "Three" "Four" and "Four Two"

Or am I thinking of something else

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u/LoveMinaMyoi 2h ago

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u/mal-di-testicle 2h ago

How was Yonka 2 rendered in Japanese? It’d be really funny if she introduced herself as Go-yonka

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u/Status_Advantage3075 2h ago

ヨンサツー (yonkatsuu) is how the OG japanese had her named.

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u/LtSoba 2h ago

The Vinsmoke family is literally named Ijji, Niji Sanji and Yonji Oda really likes that naming gag

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u/abadminecraftplayer 1h ago

For the Americans: 1ji, 2ji, 3ji, and 4ji

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u/W1D0WM4K3R 53m ago

Much appreciated

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u/sikotic4life 15m ago

Wanji, Tuji, Threeji, Foji

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u/wurmsrus 40m ago

Don't forget the daughter who was born before all 4 sons, Reiju (0ju)

also not sure how much good spoilering Sanji is when it's the third name and people with basic japanese knowledge and/or pattern recognition skills could figure it out

edit: oh you misspelled Ichiji BTW

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u/modsarestraight 2h ago

Despite their name, Twenty One Pilots is comprised of two people

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u/Frankenstein____ 2h ago

Maroon 5? More like Maroon Lies

I count 6, Adam, 6!!

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u/DarkySurrounding 1h ago

They aren’t fully maroon all the time either.

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u/ThatMLGGamer 1h ago

"This is Maroon 5, not Maroon 1"

"Even though now there are 6 of us"

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u/sindervaal 1h ago

QUE SE JODAN

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u/maxence0801 2h ago

Are they pilots?

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u/Witty-Ad5743 1h ago

Stone Temple certified.

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u/Gussie-Ascendent 11m ago

i dont' think either of em are pilots either so it's all wrong

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u/PartialCred4WrongAns 11m ago

How many flight hours between the two of them?

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u/BrickDesigNL 2h ago

The Sinister Six (No Way Home)

The sixth transported multiversial ‘antagonist’ and final member didn’t show up because he got drunk in Hawaii.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 2h ago

Hate how we still haven't got Venom yet and as much as i loved Brand New Day, they easily could've had the symbiote suit arc for it but ig they're saving it for Secret Wars

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u/icaromb25 1h ago

Yep, we really need a Spiderman with Black Cat and Venom, actually, take Liz from Homecoming and make her Black Cat in the MCU. Peter remembers her, she doesn't remember Peter, but she ended up as a thief after Spiderman arrested her father.

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u/No_Location_8199 2h ago

(Battlestar Galactica)

The Cylon models are numbered One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, and Eight. The absence of Seven is explained later.

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u/Vast-Ideal-1413 2h ago

Why? Did Seven eat Nine?

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u/No_Location_8199 2h ago

One ate Seven

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u/Theorist129 6m ago

And here I thought it was Seven Of Nine. This is from the series with the big spaceship alone in deep space on a desperate course for Earth? The one with the cybernetic enemies who also sometimes look like humans? The series whose title is the name of the spaceship?

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u/elchuni 2h ago edited 6m ago

The Psychic Six - Psychonauts

There were originally The Psychic Seven until Lucrecia had to come back to her own country to save her sister from the war which she success and becomes minister of war until the Grulovian Flood happened and turned into Maligula. She had to be erased from any records with her team and her part of the mural was hidden behind a curtain just like you see on the image.

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u/Shark_Waffle_645 1h ago

> had to be erased from the records

that bit reminds me of the lost Primarchs from Warhammer 40k

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u/M-Shadowtoad 2h ago

The Six(Generator Rex): A group of the Six deadliest assassins/fighters in the world. Originally consisted of the deadliest man in the world named One and the 5 he trained. However even after One died and Six left the group, they still go by The Six. Partially because none of the four is willing to dishonor One's memory by taking his place.

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u/Dragonfang65 2h ago

And even then. It is ranked by “Deadliest” in how willing they are to kill. And Six proves he is definitely not the weakest.

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u/SettTheCephelopod 2h ago

The H.I.V.E. Five from the Teen Titans 2003 cartoon.

There are six of them, as pointed out by Kid Flash.

EDIT: FUCK, this is the opposite of this trope.

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u/Dragonfang65 2h ago

Mammoth: Look we made the name before we got six members. And it is too much effort to rename everything. Also it rhymes.

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u/BrightNooblar 1h ago

Also, six works well for a hive anyways. Little hex-a-best-a-gons.

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u/W1D0WM4K3R 51m ago

And the sixth is effectively hundreds of members

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u/stilldisgruntled 2h ago

The Fantastic Four (Pearls Before Swine). They have three members. They're not good at math.

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u/Leon921 2h ago

Hullo zeeba neighba leesten

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u/TehTJ13 2h ago

The primarchs (Warhammer 40k). They’re number one to twenty, but 2 and 11 don’t exist. Also 20 is a set of twins.

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u/Punny-Aggron 2h ago


The Mighty Nein (Critical Role)

There’s only seven of them at a time* *

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u/Shark_Waffle_645 1h ago

…not to detract from the point, but Liam O’Brien really resembles Matthew Lillard in that low-quality gif

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u/Responsible-Pen-8338 54m ago

Did they ever explain why they did it in or out of universe

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u/res30stupid 2h ago

The Crazy Eighty-Eights in Kill Bill.

When talking about O-Ren's death and the killing and maiming of her guards, Bud is incredulous that the Bride killed eighty-eight people besides her target. Bill then states that no, it wasn't close to that amount but "the name sounded cool".

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u/DessieScissorhands 2h ago

It's the kind of name that someone who fucks with Yakuza would come up with. They should go home to their mother.

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u/Captain_JohnBrown 2h ago

The Cylons in the Battlestar Galatica revival: Over the course of the series, we meet 7 model numbers (Number 1-6, 8) and five additional Cylons who were hidden within the population (The Final Five). We never see a Number Seven, with it eventually being explained that their entire line was wiped out in a jealous rage by specific Number One model, Cavil.

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u/rathosalpha 2h ago

The 11 fatui harbingers, theres no tenth

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u/MegaAssasine_ 2h ago

There also hasn't been a eighth for many years. Neither has there been a sixth or a third.

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u/Just_A_Comment_Guy_7 2h ago

Three was only lost recently but yeah they’re dropping like flies.

Pantalone’s probably dying of lung cancer as we speak

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u/TraditionalBonus188 2h ago

The things in the cat in the hat movie

Where's thing 2

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u/TalmondtheLost 2h ago

It's theorized the monster is thing 2

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u/Frankenstein____ 1h ago

So, I actually got to look this up for this post and I'm happy I did.

The hip-hop collective D12 is short for the Dirty Dozen (sometimes erroneously called the Detroit 12). Now no matter what the D12 is short for, it doesn't change the fact that there's only 6 fucking guys in the group.

Now I was curious why a group of 6 would call themselves 12. It turns out when they formed the group, each member gave themselves an alter ego who they could tap into when they needed to change their flow or act out of character.

And thus, 6 members is now 12 personas in the group.

Eminem can turn into Slim Shady. Proof can turn into Dirty Harry. Bizarre into Peter S. Bizarre. Kon Artis into Mr. Porter. Kunniva into Rondell Bean. Swifty McVay into Swift.

I just thought this was so interesting. Thanks, OP. Lol.

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u/tiggernate_ 2h ago

hive five (teen titans)

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u/Nekrotix12 2h ago

I never liked Connie TinuityError because her name is so awkward. It could'vejust been Connie Tinuity and that would've been way better.

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u/mrbananas 36m ago

yeah her name was a [pause] mistake

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u/GoodGrades 15m ago

Maybe Rhett can do something about that

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u/throwawayventing2001 57m ago

apparently, according to some of their dialogue, there used to be more hanks than just the 5 shown in date everything. we don't talk about them, though...

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u/Virghia 2h ago

The opposite: The Hitchhiker's Guide is a "trilogy of six books" (The final book was written by a different author after Douglas Adams' death)

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u/Gibbon-Face-91 2h ago

IRL, the fleet of the Snowdon Mountain Railway in North Wales; while the locomotive numbers go up to 12, numbers 1, 7 and 8 are absent from the roster.

No. 1, LADAS, was destroyed in an accident on the railway's opening day (derailed and fell down the mountain, the results as shown above), and No. 7 Ralph and No. 8 Eryri have been withdrawn, dismantled and stored offsite with no current plans to rebuild them.

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u/Tristapillarrr 2h ago

The Fearsome Four/Five (The Stickworld)

The Fearsome Four are a group of five magicians of varying power, individually named "Number #" in accordance to their rank of power within the group. Questioning why they're the Fearsome Four despite having five members leads to them attacking. After the group was literally kicked by the Great Size-Changer, they changed the name of the group to the Fearsome Five. The kick had severely weakened the strongest two, knocked two of them unconscious, and killed the weakest, meaning they were down to four members, and the change of the group name was to honour the dead Number 5.

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u/NaranjaJoestar 2h ago

In Minions: Rise of Gru, the main antagonists are a group of villains called Vicious Six, with Wild Knuckles was the leader. Until they decide to betray him, taking away the Zodiac Stone he stole and leaving him to die. Belle Bottom take his place as the leader. At one point, they wanted to recruit a new member to the team, but didn't happened in the end.

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u/AAHedstrom 2h ago

not exactly the same, but in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency there's a group called The Rowdy 3 and there's 4 of them

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u/Atillawurm 44m ago

IM WILDLY AWARE!

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u/t40xd 2h ago

Don't know if it really happened, but I remember seeing someone talking about a senior prank they did in which they released three chickens labeled 1, 2, and 4

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u/Patient_Panic_2671 1h ago

In Psychonauts 2, the founding members of the titular organization are known as the Psychic Six. Midway through the game, it is revealed there was a seventh founding member who went rogue. In the postgame, after everything has been resolved, the group is called the Psychic Seven.

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u/PKspyder 1h ago

Real life trope: Seal Team 6 was created as the sixth team but only teams 1 and 2 existed at the time.

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u/RoadsidePicnik 1h ago

The World's End (2013)

Gary, Andy, Steven, Peter and Oliver are the Five Musketeers. Wasn't it three? Four if you count D'Artagnan...

🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

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u/Rustyspottedcats 1h ago

The band Ben Folds Five has 3 members.

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u/KingZaneTheStrange 2h ago

The Hive 5 have six members but call themselves that because it sounds cooler (teen titans)

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u/cfbethel 2h ago

Pearls Before Swine had a couple storylines with these guys

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u/RingoBingo823 2h ago

It always pissed me off that they didn't just name her Connie Tinuity

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u/panconjamon1996 2h ago

The opposite case: the chilean band Los Tres incorporated a fourth member not much after they were formed, but they were getting known as Los Tres so they decided to keep the name, por eso Los Tres son cuatro.

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u/panconjamon1996 1h ago

The english art group Throbbing Gristle released their first album in 1977, called "The Second Annual Report". The next year they published their second album "D. o. A: the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle". Nine years later, a bootleg of 1976's discarded recordings would appear under the name of "The First Annual Report", but never as an official release.

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u/AdditionalTip865 1h ago

Girls 5eva - One of them died in a tragic infinity pool accident.

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u/Miss_Torture 1h ago

Is it Pokémon Snakewood that has the shadow triad but there's actually like seven of them??

God it's been a long time since I played Pokémon ROMs

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u/rycool 1h ago

The slaughterhouse 9 (worm) when they arrive in the story they are down a member and so they are recruiting…. By force

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u/Seed0fDiscord 51m ago


The Chanels (Scream Queens)

A clique of sorority girls, who all take on the name of their ring leader Chanel Oberlin

At the start of the series it’s Chanel, Chanel No.2, Chanel No.3, and Chanel no.5, it’s mentioned that prior to the series Chanel no.4 got meningitis and died, and for the deaths by serial killers, Chanel no.2 is the first to be killed

Thus we mainly follow Chanel 1, 3, and 5

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u/wurmsrus 25m ago

Been a very long time since I read time but IIRC in A Series of Unfortunate Events , there were triplets where one of them was like dead or missing and presumed dead and the two remaining got annoyed when people assumed they were twins.

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u/GulliasTurtle 24m ago

FexEx's first plane had an 8 on its tail, in part to make competitors think they had 7 other planes already in the air.

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u/PartialCred4WrongAns 11m ago

Daisy Jones & The Six, who never have six members

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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone 4m ago

Mambo #5, what ever happen to the first four mambos?

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u/IronTemplar26 2h ago

Oh! Rhett is a CONvict