History Main / HorsemenOfTheApocalypse

* These guys show up twice in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} IV'', once in the "Omens" official scenario, and again in the FallFromHeaven [[GameMod mod]].

* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Londo Mollari refers to his three, much-hated wives as "Pestilence", "Famine", and "Death". The viewer is left to infer that Londo is, by exclusion, [[ForeShadowing War]].

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' featured them once, though they decided to go the biblical route and had Strife instead of Pestilence, as mentioned above, and War seemed to be their leader (as opposed to Death in most other media, assuming they even have any sort of hierarchy). It's hinted that any powerful evil warlock may be chosen by the Source to serve as a Horseman, and have done so repeatedly in the past.
** They are responsible for every disaster that happens in the world. And they have their own agency.
** They are also beyond the Charmed Ones' powers to vanquish as they can only be [[YouHaveFailedMe killed by the Source]] by showing there is [[PowerOfLove too much good in the world]].

** In ''RaidouKuzunohaVsKingAbaddon'', the player can encounter the horsemen in special battles on a new moon or as part of various sidequests given out by the game's resident LouisCypher. The catch is that they are directly referred to the reward items gained from beating them (i.e. The Crown of Victory for beating the white rider, The Sword of War for the red, etc.).

** ''VideoGame/StrangeJourney'' features them again, as hidden bosses each in a different sector of the Schwarzwelt. They can be fought and summoned using the Fiend Converter.

* [[TheDCU DC Comics]] recently introduced their Four Horsemen of Apokolips, tying them into Jack Kirby's New Gods mythos as primordial deities of the aforementioned evil planet, with the Horsemen themselves being mere vessels created to contain a fraction of their power.

* "Music/WeirdAlYankovic" Yankovic's newest album, Alpocalypse, features 3 of the 4 Horseman, with Al himself replacing the missing Horseman (Famine, in case you were wondering).

* {{Coldplay}}'s "Death And All His Friends" is probably about this ("No, I don't want a battle from beginning to end, I don't wanna cycle or recycle revenge, I don't wanna to follow death and all of his friends").

* {{WCW}}, and the NWA before it, had a long-running {{heel}} stable called The Four Horsemen. It was led in all its incarnations by RicFlair, although the name was coined by Arn Anderson. Of course, they were not actually depicted as the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse; the name was simply a symbolic reference. Their gang sign was holding up a hand, all four fingers on each spread apart (although, strangely, sometimes they'd hold up ''both'' hands in the 4-finger sign; with all four doing this, that of course signifies the coming of the 32 Horsemen of the Apocalypse).

* The outspoken atheist intellectuals RichardDawkins, ChristopherHitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett are occasionally referred to as the "Four Horsemen of Atheism".

Some Bible historians have tried to identify them as some historical figures of the time the Revelation was written -- [[MindScrew but let's get into that, okay?]]

Some Bible historians have tried to identify them as some historical figures of the time the Revelation was written -- [[MindScrew but don't let's get into that, okay?]]

->-- '''Literature/{{Revelation}} 6:1-8, NRKJ version'''

->-- '''Literature/{{Revelation}} 6:1-8'''

Literature/TheBible has a name[[hottip:*:only the fourth name was actually said aloud, and the other three are inferred]] and item for each horseman and a color for each horse (seen [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+6&version=NIV here]]).

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIMAGINE'' also has these bosses, albeit you have to use Ultimate Summon Orbs to, well, summon them. Oddly enough, three of the Riders are found in one dungeon, and the Pale Rider is all by himself in another.[[hottip:*: They are found in, respectively: Suginami Tunnels and Celu Tower.]]

* Arguably, the Chaos gods from TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} and TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} are analogous to the Four Horsemen: Pestilence is Nurgle, War is Khorne, Death is Tzeentch, and Famine is Slaanesh.

** It's highly dubious that "Hades" is being anthropomorphized as a horseman in the original passage. Presumably, they needed something to keep the theme intact, and [[LampshadeHanging that's kind of how it's treated in-universe]]. The Forgotten (the Threshold associated with Hades, representing Death by Chance) originally didn't have an association with a Horseman until one of them began talking about a vision of a Gray Horseman who represented them. Sin-Eater culture as a whole went, "[[SureWhyNot Um... 'kay.]]"

** Not quite true - [[spoiler:Kreia didn't actually want to kill all life, as much as she sought a way to separate all life from the Force, so that it could survive without being manipulated. It was that specific desire that led her to the Exile, who seemed to be a perfect example of someone who had been cut off from the Force yet survived, in the hopes of learning precisely HOW it had happened.]]

* ''Film/ComeAndSee'', a Soviet war movie, was influenced by the verses about the Horsemen, especially Death. Also, during the film, the protagonists have to endure illness, guerrilla and hunger during the Nazi invasion. Death is... well, everywhere.

** ''ShinMegamiTenseiIMAGINE'' also has these bosses, albeit you have to use Ultimate Summon Orbs to, well, summon them. Oddly enough, three of the Riders are found in one dungeon, and the Pale Rider is all by himself in another.[[hottip:*: They are found in, respectively: Suginami Tunnels and Celu Tower.]]
** ''StrangeJourney'' features them again, as hidden bosses each in a different sector of the Schwarzwelt. They can be fought and summoned using the Fiend Converter.

*** Conquest: [[spoiler: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-231 SCP-231-7]], a young woman being contained under the belief she was an ApocalypseMaiden.]]

* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Londo Mollari refers to his three, much-hated wives as "Famine", "Pestilence", and "Death". The viewer is left to infer that Londo is, by exclusion, [[ForeShadowing War]].

* The horsemen are [[http://mountaincomics.com/2009/06/25/do-you-want-your-possessions-identified/ present]] in MountainTime, though as Paul, Chris, Barry and Bertram (complete with a shout-out to Nethack). They're short one horse, though.

* In the "Painting that Ate Paris" arc of Creator/GrantMorrison's ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'', the team encounter the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (Oblivion or Nullity) at the bottom of an infinite regress of paintings inside the eponymous painting, each of which represent a different art school/style. (It's actually ''more'' confusing than it sounds.) The Horseman is finally defeated when the heroes get it to go through Dada, where it is turned into a rocking horse.

** Two of them even started families. Death has his adopted daughter and her daughter with their own series. War married a Valkyrie and they had at least three children together; sons Panic and Terror and daughter Clancy.

* They're featured to wonderful effect in a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ptfS7DuW0 Spitting Image song-and-video segment.]]