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* ''VideoGame/MissionImpossibleKonami'': The Sinister Seven. Although it's never said who they really are.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': The Furious Five.

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* The Original Six (NHL hockey teams).
* The UsefulNotes/{{NCAA}} UsefulNotes/{{basketball}} conference The Atlantic 10, also currently with 14 members and 2 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports).
* College basketball's Final Four.
* [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball The Big 12,]] currently with 10 members and 11 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports).
* [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball The Pac 12,]] currently with 12 members and 4 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports). (As noted above, membership changes can make this trope ''very'' awkward.)
* [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball The Big Ten,]] currently with 14 members and 2 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports).
* The UsefulNotes/{{NCAA}} March Madness college UsefulNotes/{{basketball}} brackets: Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, and Final Four.
* In sports, Michigan basketball's Fab Five.

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* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Three The Amazing Three]]''

* ''Art/TheSevenDeadlySinsDix'': It applies because the {{painting|s}} depicts the seven sins as {{anthropomorphic personification}}s.

* ''The Terrible Ten,'' a series of short films in the 1940s and 50's.

* ''The Return of the Secaucus 7'' (1980, John Sayles)

* The "Untouchable Trio" (plus one) of the ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable''.
* [[Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone The Awesome Foursome]]
* ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'''s main characters are collectively called the "Chatpata Four" ("chatpata" means "spicy" in Hindi) in one of Hotstar's official episode descriptions.
* In sports, Michigan basketball's Fab Five.
* The Famous Five. Who were a bunch of Canadian feminist icons; sadly, they aren't that famous.

* [[Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7 The Super 7]] (though they're rarely called that InUniverse, inseatd opting to go by "The Super Sensors" or "The Super Borys").
* ''[=DV8=]'' -- in-universe they're called the Deviants, which is much more appropriate since it's rare for all 8 members to be active at once. "[=DV8=]" was probably just easier to trademark when it came time for them to get their own comic.
* ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'' The 8 Gang. It was a global criminal enterprise with many members, but broken up into 8 sub-gangs that each got their own story arc as Mandrake defeated them one by one over a period of years.
* [[Franchise/TheElderScrolls The Nine Divines]] of Tamriel, nine (originally eight, later joined by a DeityOfHumanOrigin) divine beings who sacrificed portions of themselves to create the mortal world. Phrases like "By the Nine" are used like "Oh my god".
* [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Organization XIII]]
* The UsefulNotes/{{NCAA}} March Madness college UsefulNotes/{{basketball}} brackets: Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, and Final Four.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': The Dynamic Duo, comprised of Robin and Batman.

* ''Website/TVTropes'': Tropes that follow this naming convention include MyHeroZero, TheChosenOne, ThoseTwoGuys, FreudianTrio, and PowerTrio.

* [[Franchise/{{Batman}} The Terrible Trio]], and [[TerribleTrio namesake trope]]

%% [[VideoGame/EnsembleStars The Three Oddballs]], formerly referred to as the Five Oddballs (see below).

* College basketball's Final Four.

* ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'': The Fearsome 5.
* The [[VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus Fiendish Five]]
* ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': The Runaway Five (which apparently actually contains six people)
%% [[VideoGame/EnsembleStars The Five Oddballs]], which later became the Three Oddballs when two of their number temporarily went into hiding.
* The ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenka-Goken tenka goken]]'', Five Swords Under the Heaven, are five real-life historical Japanese treasure swords.
* [[VideoGame/Hitman2016 The Sarajevo Six]] - formerly a squad of mercenaries who fought in UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, presently a bunch of fugitive war criminals.
* The Sinister Seven from ''VideoGame/MissionImpossibleKonami''. Subverted, since it's never said who they really are.
* The Great Seven from ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'' are a group of seven notable Franchise/DisneyVillains, who are revered in-universe historical figures.
* The eponymous ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}''.

* [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV The Ehcatl Nine]], [[InvokedTrope so named because it sounded better than "Ehcatl Twenty-Or-So"]]

* [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball The Big Ten,]] currently with 14 members and 2 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports).
* [[VideoGame/DeusEx Majestic 12]].
* [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball The Big 12,]] currently with 10 members and 11 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports).
* [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball The Pac 12,]] currently with 12 members and 4 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports). (As noted above, membership changes can make this trope ''very'' awkward.)

* ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101''. The team in the game is actually called the "Wonderful 100" (with 100 pronounced as "one-double-oh")- the trailer stated that the extra 1 represented the player, [[spoiler:but at the end of the game the team gains a new member and officially becomes the "Wonderful 101".]]

* ''Website/TVTropes'': Tropes that follow this naming convention include MyHeroZero and TheChosenOne.

* [[Series/SaturdayNightLive The Ambiguously Gay Duo]].
* ThoseTwoGuys
* ''Series/{{Akumaizer 3}}''

* The PowerTrio
** The FreudianTrio

* [[Music/TheBeatles The Fab Four]]

* Music/MarginalNumber4
* [[Music/TheMonkees The Pre-Fab Four]]
* The ''other'' [[Music/TheRutles Prefab Four]]

* The "Final Five" and "Significant Seven" [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Cylons]].
* Music/GrandmasterFlashAndTheFuriousFive
* [[Music/MichaelJackson The Jackson Five (or 5ive?)]]
* Also from pop music, The Dave Clark Five.
* ''Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive'', ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'', ''Series/RescueSentaiGoGoFive'' and ''Series/UchuuSentaiKyuranger'' (Kyu means 9, but the team ends up with 12 members by the end)
* ''Film/PulpFiction'': Fox Force Five, the main characters of an in-universe failed television pilot of the same name.
-->'''Mia:''' 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.

* [[Series/{{Lost}} The Oceanic Six]]
* The Original Six (NHL hockey teams).

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''.

* [[{{Series/Community}} The Greendale Seven]]
* [[Music/AKB48 Kami 7 (Seven Goddesses)]]

* ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]''.

* ''Film/TheHatefulEight''.

* ''The Terrible Ten,'' a series of short films in the 1940's and 50's.

* The UsefulNotes/{{NCAA}} UsefulNotes/{{basketball}} conference The Atlantic 10, also currently with 14 members and 2 "affiliates" (schools that only compete in the conference in 1 or 2 sports).
* ''[[Film/{{Oceans 11}} Ocean's]] [[Film/OceansEleven Eleven]]'', ''Twelve'', ''Thirteen'' and ''[[Film/OceansEight Eight]]''.
* ''Film/TheDirtyDozen''.

* ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'': For an example of the trope applied to victims of crime, the "Box Tunnel 20"
* [[Literature/AliBaba The Forty Thieves.]]
* Music/AKB48 was originally planned to have three teams, each made up of sixteen members.
* The [[Film/KillBill Crazy 88]]. Probably a subversion, since there aren't 88 of them. [[RuleOfCool They just thought it sounded cool]].

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': The Dynamic Duo.

* [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces The Gruesome Twosome]]

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor The Warriors Three]]

* [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender "The Fearsome Foursome!"]]
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour''
** The [[PsychoRangers Frightful Four]], a group of Fantastic Four villains.
** The Four, the AlternateCompanyEquivalent and EvilCounterpart Fantastic Four from ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}''.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheTick The Civic-Minded Five]]

* The [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Fatal Five]].
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': The Fearsome Five
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': The H.I.V.E. Five, the animated version of [[ComicBook/TeenTitans the Fearsome Five]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': The Fearsome Five.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': The Furious Five

* ''ComicBook/Dynamo5''

* ''ComicBook/InferiorFive'': The Inferior Five are a humorous Creator/DCComics superteam consisting of the offspring of more popular, powerful supers.

* The WesternAnimation/BionicSix.
* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic The Mane Six]].

* The ComicBook/SecretSix from DC Comics.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The Sinister Six
* WesternAnimation/TheSuper6.
* [[Comicbook/NewGods The Deep Six.]]

* [[ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician The 8 Gang]]. It was a global criminal enterprise with many members, but broken up into 8 sub-gangs that each got their own story arc as Mandrake defeated them one by one over a period of years.

* The Great Ten, a China-based team of [[Creator/DCComics DC]] super heroes.

* ''ComicBook/CombatKellyAndHisDeadlyDozen''

See also TheAdjectivalSuperhero, where the adjective describes a person or team instead of a number -- teams where the number specifies how many elements a plural noun has (for example, ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'') more properly go under that trope. Can cross with SuperheroSobriquets if it's a nickname and not the team's proper name.

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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': 'The Three Little Witches', which is also the title of [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/371-the-three-little-witches a story]].

* In ''Animation/YamuchasKungFuAcademy'', the squid gang are collectively referred to as the Mountain Thieves F4, with the "4" referring to how there are four of them.

%% Cardinal Sin's ''Seven Deadly Sinners'' from Literature/WhateleyUniverse's [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/747-silver-ghost-golden-angel-part-2 Silver Ghost, Golden Angel Part 2]].

%% [[Literature/SnowWhite The Seven Dwarfs.]]

* [[Literature/{{Brennus}} The Rabid Eight]].
* [[Literature/{{Worm}} The Slaughterhouse Nine]], a team of psychopaths who later [[spoiler: get way more than Nine members]].

%% [[Literature/TheBible The twelve apostles]].

* The eponymous band of pirates in ''[[Literature/JimButton Jim Button and the Wild 13]]''. [[spoiler:They were actually never more than twelve, they just epically fail at math.]]

* ''Manga/{{Kingdom}}'': The Six Great Generals of Qin.

%% ''The Three Little Witches'' of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', where it's also the title of [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/371-the-three-little-witches a story]].

* [[Literature/HerculePoirot The Big Four]]

* [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} The Elite]] [[Anime/KillLaKill Four]] (a.k.a. The Shitennō, which translates to Four Heavenly Kings.)

* [[Anime/TanteiOperaMilkyHolmes Genius 4]]

* ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' and ''Literature/TheSecretSeven'', child detectives in two series by Creator/EnidBlyton.

* [[Literature/{{Bigtime}} The Fearless Five]]

** Is there another team of five we should know about? Say, one that blends these series' {{Sentai}} sensibilities with the MagicalGirl genre?
*** ''[[{{Pun}} Yes!]] [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Pretty Cure 5]].''

* [[Literature/{{Brennus}} The Dark Five]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6''

* [[Literature/{{Brennus}} The Savage Six]].

* The Splendid Six in "Literature/ClublandHeroes". It's mentioned in the backstory that they were the Good Fellows Four before recruiting two new members; at the end of the story, there's a summary of how the various members moved on from the team, during which it becomes the Splendix Five, then the Splendid Three, before the remaining members give up and officially disband.

%% [[Manga/OnePiece Seven Warlords of the Sea (Shichibukai)]].

* For an example of the trope applied to ''victims'' of crime, ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' has the "Box Tunnel 20"

* The 108 Righteous Bandits of ''Literature/WaterMargin'' -- [[Mystical108 108]] being a number of major mystical significance throughout many eastern religions.
* A Chinese gang in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' is called the [[Mystical108 108]] Righteous Bandits. There aren't exactly 108 of them, they just thought the name was cool enough to appropriate.

* The Literature/DirtyPair
* [[Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka The Onibaku Duo]]

* [[Manga/TentaiSenshiSunred Kishou Sentai Weather Three]]

* [[Manga/BoysOverFlowers The F4]]

%% [[Manga/OnePiece The Four Emperors of the New World (Yonkou)]]

* [[Manga/BoboboboBobobo The Battleship Five Quartet]]. Parodied, along with everything else under the sun in that series, by virtue of having six members. [[spoiler: This fact perplexes their leader so much he fires them all.]]

%% [[Manga/{{Kingdom}} The Six Great Generals of Qin]].

* ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' (though there are only six of them)

* [[Manga/FoodWars The Tōtsuki Elite Ten Council]].

* [[Manga/OnePiece The Eleven Supernovas]]

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* The Dynamite Duo from "Dynamite Magazine"

* ''Theatre/TheOddCouple''

* MyHeroZero
* TheChosenOne
* The theme song for ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' refers to the eponymous duo as "Motu aur Patlu ki jodi" ("the awesome twosome, Motu and Patlu").
* [[Franchise/{{Batman}} The Dynamic Duo]]

* [[WesternAnimation/{{TheSuper6}} The Super 6]].

*** ''[[IncrediblyLamePun Yes!]] [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Pretty Cure 5]].''

* ''Inferior Five'', a humorous Creator/DCComics superteam consisting of the offspring of more popular, powerful supers.

* The Sinister Seven from the NES game ''VideoGame/MissionImpossible1990''. Subverted, since it's never said who they really are.

* The LightNovel/DirtyPair

This naming convention is popular in RealLife 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. Wiki/TheOtherWiki calls these [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Quantified_groups_of_defendants "Quantified groups of defendants."]] Describing a single such defendant, usually fictional, as the something-or-other ''One'' is a StockParody.

%% [[Franchise/TheElderScrolls The Nine Divines]] of Tamriel.

* ''Film/PulpFiction'': 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."

* [[Comicbook/TeenTitans The Fearsome Five]]
** [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Otherwise known as the HIVE F.I.V.E.]]
* [[WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck The Other Fearsome Five]].
* [[VideoGame/PaperMario64 The ''other'' other Fearsome 5]].

* [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda The Other Furious Five]]

* [[Film/PulpFiction 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."
* [[VideoGame/EarthBound The Runaway Five]] (which apparently actually contains six people)

* [[Comicbook/SpiderMan The Sinister Six]]