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* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium is full of this - there are the Two Lamps, the Two Trees, the Five Wizards, the Three Rings, the Seven Rings, the Nine Rings, and, of course, the One Ring.

* ''Literature/TheBasicEight'': The Basic Eight is the name of our protagonist's friend group.

[[RuleOfThree Three]] and [[LuckySeven Seven]] are particularly common values of ''n''. Compare TheNotableNumeral.

* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium is full of this - there are the Two Lamps, the Two Trees, the Three Rings, the Five Wizards, the Seven Rings, the Nine Rings, and, of course, the One Ring.

''One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne''\\
--'''Literature/{{The Lord of the Rings}}''

In this story, there are a group of [[{{Plot Device}} whatsits]]. There are ''n'' of them, to be precise, and they form a set. But nobody likes infodumps, so there has to be a way to succinctly get across that this set of ''n'' whatsits is important. In fact, there is one simple and direct technique:

[[{{Rule of Three}} Three]] and [[{{Lucky Seven}} Seven]] are particularly common values of ''n''. Compare {{The Notable Numeral}}.

* The premier super"hero" team in ''ComicBook/{{The Boys}}'' are called The Seven. Even when they have fewer than seven members.
* Comicbook/{{Iron Man}}'s enemy, the Mandarin, wields the Ten Rings.

* Franchise/{{Tolkiens Legendarium}} is full of this - there are the Two Lamps, the Two Trees, the Three Rings, the Five Wizards, the Seven Rings, the Nine Rings, and, of course, the One Ring.
* The main setting of ''Literature/{{A Song of Ice and Fire}}'' is the Seven Kingdoms. The empire's main religion has seven gods, who are collectively referred to as The Seven.
* ''Literature/{{The Wheel of Time}}'s'' {{backstory}} has the Hundred Companions, of whom there were actually 113.
* ''Literature/{{Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves}}'' has the Forty Thieves.

* The Literature/{{Poetic Edda}} mentions the Nine Realms.
* Literature/{{The Bible}} describes the Twelve Tribes of Israel, the Ten Commandments, the Twelve Apostles, the Seventy Disciples, and the Four and Twenty Elders.

* One of the most opaque plot points in ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}'' is the enigmatic group known only as “the Nine.” It’s not until Year 2 of ''Destiny 2'' that it’s revealed what they’re even nine ''of''.
* ''Videogame/{{Fire Emblem}}'' uses this trope quite a bit.
** The Akaneia games, ''[[Videogame/{{Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light}} Shadow Dragon (and the Blade of Light)]]'' and ''[[Videogame/{{Fire Emblem Mystery of the Emblem}} (New) Mystery of the Emblem]]'', have the Three Regalia. This is even more evident in the Japanese version, which simply calls them the Three Weapons.
** The Twelve Crusaders feature in the backstory of the Jugdral games, ''[[Videogame/{{Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War}} Genealogy of the Holy War]]'' and ''[[Videogame/{{Fire Emblem Thracia 776}} Thracia 776]]''.
** The Tellius games. ''[[Videogame/{{Fire Emblem Path of Radiance}} Path of Radiance]]'' and ''[[Videogame/{{Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn}} Radiant Dawn]]'', have the Four Riders of Daien.
** ''[[Videogame/{{Fire Emblem Three Houses}} Three Houses]]'' has the Ten Elites, the Four Saints, and, in the DLC, the Four Apostles as part of its backstory; depending on choices made, at least some of them will also play a role in the present.

** ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound Beginnings}}'' has the Eight Melodies, which Ninten and his friends must collect to sing to Queen Mary. [[spoiler: They're also your weapon against the FinalBoss, [[BigBad Giegue]].]]

* The Seven Sisters are, (depending on who you ask), seven historically-female colleges in the United States (DistaffCounterpart to the male-dominated UsefulNotes/IvyLeague at the time), seven [[UsefulNotes/JosephStalin Stalinist]] high-rises in UsefulNotes/{{Moscow}}, seven oil companies that formed a ''de facto'' cartel from the 1940s to the 1970s, or seven big law firms based in UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}

--'''Literature/{{The Lord of the Rings}}..

In this story, there are a group of [[{{Plot Device}} whatsits]]. There are ''n'' of them, to be precise, and they form a set. How do you know they're a set and also important? Why, because everybody refers to them as "The ''N'' Whatsits", of course. And they probably {{capital| letters are magic}}ise the phrase, too.

* Literature/{{The Bible}} describes the Twelve Tribes of Israel, the Ten Commandments, the Twelve Apostles, and the Seventy Disciples.

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* ThreeAmigos
* TheFourGods
* SevenCardinalVirtues
* SevenDeadlySins
* MagnificentSevenSamurai
* EightDeadlyWords
* Usefulnotes/The47Ronin

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* The premier super"hero" team in ''Comicbook/{{The Boys}}'' are called The Seven. Even when they have fewer than seven members.

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* In ''Film/NowYouSeeMe'', the four stage magicians go by the name the Four Horsemen.
* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'', the Nine Pirate Lords (each one ruling over a different portion of the world's oceans and seas) possess the Nine Pieces of Eight, the sigils of their office. [[NonIndicativeName Despite the name]], though, only one of the pieces (Jack's) is an actual coin; the others are seemingly random objects, including a pair of eyeglasses, a playing card, and even Ragetti's wooden eye. Joshamee Gibbs explains that the first Pirate Lords "were, to a one, skint broke" and so had to use whatever they had on hand as the Pieces. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that the Nine Pieces of Eight were designed to seal the sea goddess Calypso in a mortal form.]]

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* Franchise/{{Tolkiens Legendarium}} is full of this - there are the Two Lamps, the Two Trees, the Three Rings, the Seven Rings, the Nine Rings, and, of course, the One Ring.

* The American states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado come together at a point called the Four Corners. Tourists commonly have their picture taken while stretched out with a limb in all four states at once.

* Toyed with in James Howe's ''The Misfits''. The protagonist and his best friends refer to themselves as the Gang of Five, but there are only four of them. The narrator indicates that it's to leave space in case they find someone else who would make a good addition to the group (though the epilogue suggests that this never manifested).

* Several squares in Russia (one in Saint Petersburg, one in Murmansk and one in Nizhny Novgorod) are known as the Five Corners.

* {{Three Amigos}}
* {{The Four Gods}}
* {{Seven Cardinal Virtues}}
* {{Seven Deadly Sins}}
* {{Magnificent Seven Samurai}}
* {{Eight Deadly Words}}
* Usefulnotes/{{The 47 Ronin}}

* One of the most opaque plot points in ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}'' is the enigmatic group known only as “the Nine.”

* In ''The Queer Feet'', a ''Literature/FatherBrown'' story, the plot focuses on an exclusive club called ''The Twelve True Fishermen'' Though there's indeed twelve of them, the only fish-related thing they do is eat an exclusive fish dish in an exclusive hotel.

''This is what I thought {{The Notable Numeral}} was about. Trying again after I didn't include a laconic in my first attempt and bugs happened.''

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