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Literature

• The Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez wrote a bestselling novel in 1916 called The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The novel was so successful that it was published in over 200 editions and in almost every language. It tells the story of two related families divided by war. See below for the two film versions of the novel.

• The novel Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, includes an appearance by the four horsepersons (three male and a female) - Death, War (the female member of the group), Famine, and Pollution (Pestilence having retired after the advent of penicillin). In deference to the changing times, the horsepeople form a motorcycle gang, supported by bikers with other adopted names (Grievous Bodily Harm; Cruelty To Animals; People Covered in Fish, Formerly Treading in Dogshit, Formerly No Alcohol Lager, Formerly Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping; and Really Cool People).

• Terry Pratchett's Discworld series features the "Four Horsemen of the Apocralypse", most notably in Sourcery and Thief of Time. The latter introduces the fifth horseman (Kaos), also known as Ronnie Soak), who had left before they became famous (akin to a Fifth Beatle). Like Death, the other horsemen have a personality beyond the job; War, for instance, is married with three kids: Panic, Terror and Clancy.

• In an essay by Timothy Clarke, child pornographers, terrorists, money launderers and drug dealers are called the "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse". The Government and public fear of the four horsemen stops powerful encryption for public use.

• In Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, the Horsemen are incorporated in a different way. Death, War, Fate, Nature, and Time are all actually humans who are taking on the powers of their respective office. The first book, On a Pale Horse is about a man who takes over the office of Death and, while he works with War as a fellow incarnation, they are not full-time associates (though Death does indeed ride a magical pale horse). In the fourth book Wielding a Red Sword, a man becomes the Incarnation of War. He is garbed in a golden cloak, rides a golden horse, and (as the title suggests) wields a red sword. He's also assisted full-time by four horsemen (lesser incarnations): Conquest, garbed in white with a white horse; Slaughter, in red; Famine; in black; and Pestilence, in brown.

• Mystery author James Patterson, referenced the Four Horsemen in the book Pop Goes the Weasel. The main antagonist plays a game called "The Four Horsemen" as Death where he murders random people depending on a roll of the die. The other players are known as War (the red horseman), Famine (the black horseman), and lastly Conqueror, also known as Pestilence (white horseman). Conqueror comments that the protagonist, Alex Cross, is also in the game and also hints at Alex as the fifth horseman.

• Milton William Cooper wrote a book called Behold A Pale Horse which presents a variety of conspiracy theories including UFOs and the government.

• In Terry Brooks' The Talismans of Shannara, the four horsemen; Pestilence, War, Death and Famine all challenge Druid Walker Boh while sieging the castle of Paranor. Pestilence is depicted as a man covered in bugs and insects, War as a large man in red armor, Famine as a man with a skeletal frame, and Death as the Grim Reaper.

• In Douglas Adams' Mostly Harmless, Arthur Dent looked up at the sky "which was sullen, streaked and livid, and reflected that it was the sort of sky that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse wouldn't feel like a bunch of complete idiots riding out of."

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Films and television

• The 1921 silent film based on the novel is The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• The 1962 film version of the novel is Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
• A 1991 animated short Les Quatre Cavaliers de l'Apocalypse (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) (Web page in French)
• In That Touch of Mink, Cary Grant refers to Doris Day's character, Cathy Timberlake, as "the fifth horseman: there is War, Death, Famine, Pestilence, and Miss Timberlake!"

• In Wag the Dog (1997) mention is made of the film as an example of a difficult task, i.e. "Try making The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Three of the horsemen died".

• Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider (1985) alludes to the fourth horseman in its title. The film, like Eastwood's earlier High Plains Drifter, is a vaguely supernatural western.

• In The Best of Times (1986), it is stated that "Outlined against the November sky, the four horsemen ride again. They were once known as disease, famine, pestilence, and death."

• In Seabiscuit (2003) it is claimed that even The Four Horsemen of the Apocalyspe will not make any difference as "War Admiral is a superior horse with superior breeding".

• On The West Wing the President played by Martin Sheen is trying to remember a quote from the book of Revelation, when Lord John Marbury played by Roger Rees speaks it: "and I looked and I beheld a pale horse, and the name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."

• An episode of the second season of Charmed, "Apocalypse Not", dealt with the Four Horsemen, who affected the image of corporate CEOs with business suits with colored ties, overseeing a vast global operation to bring about the end of the world from an office headquarters. The Horsemen depicted differ from the traditional lineup in that Pestilence is replaced with Strife.

• In Highlander: The Series, the Four Horsemen were four Immortals (Kronos, Methos, Silas, and Caspian) who murdered and looted in the ancient world.

• In Once Upon a Time in America (1984) a reference is jokingly made to a group of four characters as "There they are. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Mention is then made explicitly of the film.

• In the TV show Ill-ustrated, Satan calls upon the four horsemen of the apocalypse, who turn out to be Ashton Kutcher, P. Diddy, Carson Daly, and Ryan Seacrest.

• In The X-Files episode "Millennium", a crossover with the television show Millennium, the Four Horsemen are men who have killed themselves as part of a plot to bring about the end of the world at the turn of the millennium. They rise as zombies when a preacher chants the verse John 11:25, and when one is prematurely destroyed, a new Horseman must be created before midnight on New Year's Eve.

• Stargate SG-1, Season 9, "Fourth Horseman, Part 1", deals with a plague let loose on humanity by the Ori. While the fourth horseman is traditionally interpreted as Death, it appears that the writers intended to refer to Plague/Pestilence.

• The film Tombstone (1993) has the Wyatt Earp character (Kurt Russell) representing the fourth horseman, Death, in the events leading up to the shootout at the O.K. Corral and subsequent Cochise County War. Early in the film the gunslinger Johnny Ringo recites the line, "…and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him", foreshadowing Earp's imminent arrival on the railroad, the "iron horse" of the West. After a gunfight with assassins of the Cowboy faction, Earp shouts the threat "You tell them I'm comin', and Hell's comin' with me!" In the film's finale, Earp, Doc Holliday and two allies wage war against the Clanton/McLaury cowboy gang while riding four horses side-by-side with matching saddles and collars – a perfect visual to complete the "Four Horsemen" allusion.

• The sitcom Red Dwarf includes four horsemen named after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as characters in a western themed artificial reality representing a computer virus in the episode "Gunmen of the Apocalypse". Pestilence was depicted as a man surrounded by flies, War as a fire eater and Famine as a fat man eating chicken.

• The sitcom The Young Ones features an episode "Interesting" in which the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse discard a large ham sandwich from up high, which half-demolishes the student house and is eventually used as a couch.

• One of the most famous professional wrestling stables of all time was the Four Horsemen. They were led by "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair & ran in the World Championship Wrestling from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s.

• In the film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death, Prince Prospero (played by Vincent Price) says "Believe? If you believe you are gullible. Can you look around this world and believe in the goodness of a god who rules it? Famine, Pestilence, War, Disease and Death! They rule this world."

• In the fifth series of the American Big Brother reality TV show, four of the players made an alliance and called themselves The Four Horsemen. The players were Drew, Jase, Michael, and Scott.

• In the fifth season of Scrubs, episode 508 "My Big Bird", Dr. Cox refers to Turk, Carla, J.D. and Elliot as "The Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse".

• In The Simpsons episode "Bart Gets an Elephant" (Season 5, Episode 98), Ned Flanders is awakened in the wee hours of the morning by an elephant stampeding down the street. He sees the animal from his bedroom window and wails, "It's the four elephants of the apocalypse!" His wife reminds him, "That's four horseman, dear." Ned shrugs and says, "Well, gettin' closer!"

• In the end of The Simpsons episode "Simpsons Bible Stories" (Season 10, Episode 18) the world comes to an end. Four skeletal horseman can be seen riding on a cloud.

• In an early draft of the screenplay for The Matrix, the character Apoc is said to have been the author of the "Four Horsemen" computer virus, which would indicate that his name is short for "Apocalypse".

• In one segment of the animated film anthology The Animatrix, a robotic horse of a pale color is shown riding across the field before a decisive battle, foretelling that many humans are about to perish.

• A TV pilot was made called "Waiting Four Horsemen" which was screened at Channel 102, which was a sitcom where the four horsemen shared an apartment and were waiting for God to give them the green light to start the Apocalypse.

• In The Real Ghostbusters episode "Apocalypse, What Now?", the Ghostbusters must prevent the end of the world after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have been released from an ancient tome.

• In the series finale of X-Men: Evolution, Apocalypse drafted Storm(Famine), Prof. X (Death), Magneto (War) and Mystique (Pestilience) to protect the "pyramids" planted around the globe, that would kill all normal humans around the globe.

• The first episode of the BBC series Survivors (1975) is called "The Fourth Horseman."

• In the second season of Robot Chicken, a spoof of My Little Pony was made called Apocalypse Ponies. The four featured in the fake commercial were named
  • War, a fire breathing pony
  • Pestilence, a disease giving pony
  • Famine, a pony who destroys food and causes hunger
  • Death, a pony whose breath kills

• In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Satan says "The four horsemen are drawing nigh" when he learns of the impending execution of Terrence and Phillip. He is referring to a "prophecy" which says once the blood of the two Canadians touches the ground, he will be free to wreak havoc upon the Earth. In this sense, the reference to the four horsemen is an allusion to the apocalypse.

• In the 2005 movie The Crow: Wicked Prayer, the name of the gangsters are the names of the four horsemen.

• At the beginning of Stephen King's mini-series The Stand (about the war between good and evil and the end of the world as we know it), the 4 horsemen are quoted from the Bible.

• During the opening credits to 2004's Dawn of the Dead, the song in the background is Johnny Cash's "When the Man Comes Around". Cash sings passages from the Bible about the horsemen in the song.

• During the initial discussion between Jack Starks, Dr. Lorenson, and Rudy Mackenzie in The Jacket (2005), Rudy makes a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse not bringing him flowers, therefore making it hard to organize his day.

• In the 2006 period film Sugar Creek the main character must journey through a post-Civil War landscape, and encounters four horsemen who reveal themselves to be the archetypal Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

• The third episode of the first season of television series Jericho is called Four Horsemen.

• The Sci-Fi television series Babylon 5, Londo Mollari, Ambassador from the Centauri Republic, (who maintains a fascination with human culture) referred to his four wives as the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, when talking to his aide Vir Cotto.

• On The Colbert Report, there is an occasionally recurring segment, "The Four Horsemen of the Apopcalypse," with movies, TV, music, and books being one of the Four Horsemen. Colbert brings up an example from each medium and "explains" how it is "hurting" America.

• There is a POSSIBLE reference to the Four Horsemen in the My Little Pony pilot episode. Tirac is kidnapping ponies to pull his Chariot of Midnight. At one point, Tirac explains to Scorpan (his servant) that his chariot requires four ponies (which are later transformed into monsters). Tirac intends to use the Chariot of Midnight to bring never-ending darkness upon the world.

• Another alliance on a CBS reality show appeared in the 14th season of Survivor, which filmed in Fiji. Once the tribes had been reshuffled, New Ravu splintered and an alliance reformed from the ashes. Consisting of Edgardo, Alex, Mookie, and Dreamz, the downfall of this alliance was widely regarded by fans to be a favorite part of the season, and resulted in the first three members' hatred for Dreamz at the Final Tribal Council.

• In "Charmed" episode "Apocalypse Not" (Season 2, Episode 20).

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Politics

• Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has used the phrase "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" in his criticisms of the country's four private media networks: RCTV, Globovisión, Televén and Venevisión.

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Music

• The gothic band The 69 Eyes has a song on their album Angels (album) called "Angels" which references the Four Horsemen in the lyrics:

"Read my bloodstained apoca-lips/21st century son of a bitch/Speaking with the mouth of a whore/Riding with the horsemen of four/Countdown has begun"

• The American "shock rock" metal band W.A.S.P. states the four horsemen in their song "The Headless Children."

• The crust band Misery has a song called "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse". It's featured on Apocalyptic Crust, a split cd with Extinction of Mankind.

• Metallica's 1983 album Kill 'Em All features a song called "The Four Horsemen". The horsemen referenced in the lyrics are Time (instead of War), Famine, Pestilence, and Death.

• Megadeth's 2007 album United Abominations features a song called "Blessed Are The Dead". It states the four horseman and what they represent. Official lyrics are:

"A white horse on the clouds of death

A red warhorse to end all wars

A pale horse and pestilence led

By a black horse with famine and scales...

A crowned rider with arrows and bow

A red rider with a great fiery sword

Plagues from the one colored death

Horror and apocalypse follows..."

• The Johnny Cash song "The Man Comes Around", originally featured on his 2002 album American IV: The Man Comes Around, quotes relevant lines from the Book of Revelation, and in the beginning mentions the white horse, and in the end, the pale horse and that its name is Death, and that Hell followed it. (lyrics).

• Outkast references the horsemen on "Da Art Of Storytellin', Part 2" from their 1998 album Aquemini.

• Aphrodite's Child's "The Four Horsemen" from their 1972 album 666.

• Axxis, a German power/progressive metal band, features a song called "The Four Horsemen" on their 2001 album Eyes Of Darkness.

• Beck in the song "I've Seen The Land Beyond", from his One Foot in the Grave album, mentions the Pale Horse in the line, "When the pale horse is turning red." Debatably, he could also be mentioning the Red Horse.

• The Bollock Brothers named their most known album The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse, released 1985.

• The Blood Brothers have a song on their album, Crimes called "Teen Heat" which opens, "I wanna tell you about the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse."

• The Clash recorded a song entitled "Four Horsemen" on their 1979 album London Calling.

• The Dead Milkmen, a punk rock band from Philadelphia, whose symbol was a guilty looking bovine, named their greatest hits collection Death Rides a Pale Cow.

• Bruce Dickinson focuses on the Four Horsemen in his song "Darkside of Aquarius" on his 1997 solo-album Accident of Birth.

• The Halo video game soundtrack features a track entitled "On a Pale Horse".

• The Des Moines, Iowa Metal/Southern Rock band On A Pale Horse

• The metal band Savatage has a song on their album Hall of the Mountain King called "Devastation", which references the Four Horsemen in the lyrics:

"The Four Horsemen have started their ride / Can you see them in the sky / Glaring down at the ground / Smile on their face / As they commence / The end of the human race"

• The Electronic Collage band Noble Gas did a graphic based upon the Four Horseman, called "The Legend of Johnny Spray."

• Swedish blackened death metal band Demonoid's 2004 album Riders of the Apocalypse is a concept album based upon the crimes of humanity and the imminent arrival of the Four Horsemen, who come to seek revenge for these crimes.

• Ska band The Aquabats reference "The Pale Rider on his Horse / Decapitating people in the parking lot" in their song "Chemical Bomb" on their 1999 album Aquabats vs. The Floating Eye of Death.

• National Lampoon's 1982 album, called National Lampoon's Sex, Drugs, Rock'n'Roll and The End of the World., includes a track entitled "Apocalypso Now!". The track depicts the events at and after the apocalypse.

• A Metallica tribute album was produced in 2003, titled A Tribute to The Four Horsemen, featuring various Metal artists, including Primal Fear, Therion, Destruction, Anthrax, Sonata Arctica, Burden Of Grief, Dark Tranquillity, Thunderstone, and Crematory.

• Iced Earth has a song, Damien, based on the 1976 horror film The Omen, containing the lyrics: "Now Disciples of the watch/see your prince of darkness rise/through famine and destruction/the four horsemen at my side." The song is featured on both their 2001 album, Horror Show, and their 2004 "greatest hits" album, The Blessed and the Damned.

• Manowar made a song called Revelation (Death's Angel) in 1981. The lyrics contain the sentence "By The Morning Star The Four Horsemen Ride", not very hard to realize it means the White horse, the Red horse, the Black horse and the Pale horse.

• In the song "Mr. Crowley", on Ozzy Osbourne's 1980 album, Blizzard of Ozz, Ozzy sings "Mr. Crowley, won't you ride my white horse?". This is thought by some to be a reference to the white horse. This is a subtle way of the prince of darkness to affirm his title as the "Anti-Christ".*[Correction: Although it may appear that way, it is a well known fact that Heroin is called the white horse by many users, and Aleister Crowley was a heavy heroin user. so it may just be referring to his (Crowley's) drug habit.]

• Seattle-based bands Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains were known as "the Four Horsemen of Grunge" during the height of the genre's popularity in the early to mid 1990s.

• Scooter, a German Techno group recorded a song "The Leading Horse", on their 2005 album Who's Got the Last Laugh Now?.

• Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer, Oratorium Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln for soli, choir and orchestra, 1935-37. Text from the Bible, Apocalypse of John. When opening the first four seals the four Apocalyptic Riders are released on Earth. First performance in Vienna, 1938.

• Muse, English band Muse refer to the Four Riders of the Apocalypse in their 2006 album Black Holes and Revelations through both its cover art and its closing track, "Knights of Cydonia."

• Jedi Mind Tricks, In the song "War Ensemble" Ikon the Hologram refers to himself as the Fourth Horseman.

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• On DevilDriver's "The Fury of Our Maker's Hand", track 7 is titled "Pale Horse Apocalypse", and mentions death by someone's hand, although they don't mention who it is they are speaking to.

• On Pride & Glory's self-titled 1994 album, the track "Horse Called War" is about the second horse.

• Swedish band Tiamat mention the four horsemen in their 2002 song "Cold Last Supper".

• The Bleach Boys, an original 1970s punk band from Hitchin in England, named their first full length CD The Four Cyclists of the Apocalypse.

• New Rave band Klaxons have a song called "Four Horsemen of 2012" on their 2006 EP Xan Valleys and their 2007 album Myths of the Near Future (album).

• Industrial band (Insert-Name-Here)Core has a 4-track EP entitled The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, in which they describe the four horsemen, in order.

• Currently based out of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse is a premier chamber ensemble.

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Comics

• In Dreamwave Comics' Transformers: Energon series, the Four Horsemen of Unicron are former Transformers: Armada characters who were taken by Unicron and converted into his servants. Rhinox is War, Terrorsaur is Famine, Cheetor is Pestilence and Airazor is Death. The four ride on mechanical horses.

• In the Marvel Comics universe, the mutant supervillain Apocalypse is an enemy to the X-Men, and whenever he resurfaces he typically converts four mutants into his Four Horsemen, dubbed Death, War, Famine and Pestilence. The most notable of these was Warren Worthington III, the X-Man once known as Angel, who became the horseman Death until he threw off Apocalypse's influence and rejoined the X-Men as Archangel, although he is sometimes still called Angel. And Gambit, who after problems with Rogue and the other X-Men is converted into Death after Apocalypse resurfaces following the events of House Of M. Several other X-Men have also been drafted as Horsemen (willingly or otherwise), including Wolverine, Sunfire, andPolaris.

• The Fantastic Four (Giant-Size Fantastic Four #3, 1974) also faced a relatively obscure foursome of aliens of the Axi-Tun Empire calling themselves the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It should be noticed that these aliens had no link to the mutant Apocalypse, a character not yet created.

• In the Archie Comics Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comics, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were villains who appeared in a crossover with the Mighty Mutanimals and were destroyed by Screwloose.

• The webcomic End Times by Bailey "Horse Cock" Piling and Philip "the Suck Master" Rigby portrays four young girls who died on the same day as becoming the "Four Horsewomen". Each of the girls died in a way that pertains to the name she acquires; for instance, the girl who becomes Famine died of anorexia, and the girl who becomes Pestilence died of an exotic disease.

• The Dark Judges, enemies of Judge Dredd, seek to impose their rule on Earth from their Dark Dimension where they have "judged all life, and found it wanting" and killed everything. Judge Death, Judge Fire, Judge Fear and Judge Mortis are obviously inspired by the Four Horsemen, though they do not ride horses or follow the colour scheme or organization chart exactly: they dress as judges of Dredd's time, suggesting their clothing and accessories change with the times, or more likely, their victims' perception.

• In the first series of Billy: Demon Slayer, the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse assist the Devil in his plans to evade Heaven but acquiring passes through the Pearly Gates. Pestilence is said to be on holidays with Pollution filling in active duties.

• At the end of the 20th century, Vertigo published a mini-series called Four Horsemen. It was a black comedy that took place on 31 December 1999, where the Horsemen arrive to bring on the Tribulation. They find the world much changed from what they remember it, and each has a meeting with a modern person who changes that Horseman's view of the world. At the end of the series, each of the Horsemen takes on a new name representing a new condition of the world. Famine become Fecundity, representing the fear of becoming overweight; War becomes Incorporation, because all wars are now fought in the boardroom; Pestilence becomes Information, because information is the new plague on the world; and Death becomes Incomprehensiblity, representing that fact that many people can't comprehend that their actions will have consequences. In the end, the Horsemen climb into their limos, and decide to each take their own path to the world's destruction, they plan to return in a century, as they think that is all it will take to usher in the Tribulation.

• A fictional band Pale Horse is featured in the graphic novel Watchmen, apparently headed by a man named D'Eath.

• In DC Comics' 52 Week 38, a group of bioengineered monsters were created called The Four Horsemen. Each one is based off of the rulers of the Ages of Dread described in the Crime Bible. The first horseman is Roggra, the personification of War, a mechanical behemoth. The second is Zorrm, the personification of Pestilence, a creature who wields disease-inducing toxins. The third is Azraeuz, the personification of Death, a winged, goat-legged, scythe-wielding, Angel of Death with a cattle skull for a head. The fourth is Yurrd the Unknown, the personification of Famine. He debuted before the others in #26 as a talking crocodile named Sobek, who befriended the Black Marvel Family as a sleeper agent. He finally acted when he tricked Osiris into reverting to his human form and then promptely devoured him. The Four were created on Oolong Island by a cader of mad scientists kidnapped by Chang Tzu.

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Games

• In the game The Darkness for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, the character travels to a place called "Otherworld." In this world, each of the four horsemen appear as checkpoints. War is abundant in "Otherworld," as it appears to be in the middle of World War I. Pestilence is shown as a winged demon, stuck to a wooden cross. Famine is shown as a starving horse, with a barrel full of apples in front of it. Death is shown as a dead, decaying horse.

• The ultimate weapon of Jagged Alliance 2, the Rocket Rifle, is humourously described as the weapon of choice for the four horsemen.

• The MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot features the four horsemen of the apocalypse as enemies in its raid dungeon Caer Sidi under their quasi-Latin names Fames, Bellum, Morbus and Funus.

• The computer game NetHack features Famine, Pestilence and Death as the final enemies of the player character. Owing to the violence committed en route to the end game, the player himself has become War.

• The computer game HeXen II features one of the four horsemen at the end of each of the four continents through which the player travels. They are fought in the order of Famine, Death, Pestilence (who rides a large warthog) and War.

• The video game Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse refers to the three brothers Rubedo (Jr.) as the red horse, Nigredo (Gaignun) as the black horse, and Albedo as the white horse. Their father, Dimitri Yuriev, has been speculated to be considered the Pale Horseman in Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra.

• In the RPG game Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne ("Lucifer's Call") in Europe, the main character must fight the four horsemen of the Apocalypse to get candelabrums and get through to Third Kalpa. He can later fuse demons together to create the horsemen and make them fight by his side. In the game, they are named by the color of the horse they ride: White Rider, Black Rider, Red Rider, and Pale Rider.

• In the video game Final Fantasy VII for the Sony PlayStation, the final enemy you need to defeat to complete the game - Safer Sephiroth - uses an attack called "Pale Horse", most likely a reference to Death.

• The Warlords Battlecry game series includes 4 gods known as the dark horsemen, each of whom is associated with one of the races in Etheria. Bane, Lord of Death, leads the undead faction, Melkor, Lord of Famine, is tended to by The Swarm, (a race consisting of giant insects and scorpions), Antharg, Lord of Plague, is served by the Plaguelords (a collection of creatures mutated by Antharg's various diseases), and Sartek, Lord of War, is served by Minotaurs (originally human tribes corrupted by Sartek's magic). Warlords Battlecry 3 also introduces a fifth horseman, Gorgon, Lord of Destruction.

• In the role-playing game Rifts, the Four Horsemen are powerful Demons who, when brought to a world, immediately seek each other out, where they will merge and form a monster who will bring about the end of that world. They appeared in Africa, where heroes had been summoned from all over the world to battle them.

• In the PlayStation 2 version of Spy Hunter, the plot centers around the Nostra Corporation's "Four Horsemen" which are four missiles that, if launched, will bring the world back to the stone age.

• The game X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse features the mutant Apocalypse, the main antagonist of the game, aided by his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Holocaust, Abyss, Mikhail Rasputin and (later) Archangel.

• A canceled video game was entitled Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, and featured a story revolving around an angel protecting people from the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.

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• If the player fails to build a working Heaven and Hell in the computer game Afterlife, both realms receive a visit from "The Four surfers of the Apocalypso", who surf over everything to destroy the afterlife.

• In the PlayStation game Apocalypse (1998), Trey Kincaide (portrayed by Bruce Willis) must save the world from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who were unleashed on the world by a dark shadowy figure known as The Reverend. Here, the horsemen are named Death, Plague, War and Beast.

• In the video game Quake 4, the four EMP weapons sent to destroy the Strogg Nexus are codenamed War, Famine, Pestilence and Death.

• Part 1 of the last level of Halo, The MAW, is entitled "…And the Horse You Rode In On." This is a double-layered reference. It nods first to the swath of destruction Master Chief has carved through the Covenant and Flood all the way to the end of the game, having figuratively "become death" to them. It is also a "sanitized" allusion to a well-known saying—an indulgently mean-spirited retort to the now-doomed enemies that have been opposing Chief, a stab specifically at the Monitor's assumption of superiority, and a victorious barb playing off the defiant (and flagrantly pyrotechnic) manner in which Master Chief finally triumphs. That idiom in its entirety, of course, is "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on." It could possibly also just be a reference to the fact that the level takes place on the Pillar of Autumn, which is the spacecraft that the first level of the game takes place in. There is also a song on the soundtrack entitled "On a Pale Horse", which seems to be referring to the Master Chief as Death.

• In the PlayStation 2 game Champions: Return to Arms, the Four Horsemen Of Death, Famine, Pestilence, and War appear in a level called "Blood Bath" after the player finishes the plane of war.

• In the game Final Fight: Streetwise, once the player has uncovered the plot behind the drug that's running rampant throughout Metro City known as Glow, he comes across the brother of the now-deceased boss of the old Mad Gear Gang, Belger. Belger's brother, who goes by the name Father Bella, is a priest that feels that he must purge the world of sin and chaos through his own sick and twisted means. He takes some of the people that live in Metro City that Kyle Travers (Cody Travers's brother and main character of the game) comes across in his search for his brother Cody. The final bosses run like a gauntlet almost with the first boss being War (Weasel that runs the Blue Baller gang), the second being Famine (Vito's assassin and eventual killer Blades), the third being Pestilence (this one is its own entity taken orders from the doctor that helped to create it and the other Four Horsemen), and the final boss being Death (Cody Travers).

• The MUD Sneezy MUD has 4 NPC's: Death, Famine, War, and Pestilence, that will kill you on sight, steal all your food, summon warriors to kill you, and infect you with the plague, respectively.

• The Four Horsemen of World of Warcraft are presumed to be based on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse considering each is colored correctly: White (Sir Zeliek), red (Highlord Mograine), black (Lady Blameaux) and pale green (Thane Korth'azz). Some of their abilities seem related (White performs a close-ranged Holy based attack and "Death" casts Meteor every eight seconds, which does 13,500 damage divided by the number of people effected, which means instantly killing a single person) whilst others aren't (Red/War doing heavy fire based damage, Black/Famine doing area-of-effect shadow damage).

• The game Auto Assault for the PC features four bosses named after the riders. Riders Pestilence, Famine, War, Death and an additional one called Darkness are leaders of a post-apocalyptic motorcycle gang.

• In the mech fighting videogame "Armored Core: Project Phantasma", the ranker in 3rd place is known as Pale Horse.

• For a few years, Graal the Adventure (now known as Graal Classic) had a magic system. The evil half of the spectrum consisted of War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.

• In the MMORPG "RuneScape" the Stronghold of Security dungeon has four floors in the following order: (The Vault of) War, (The Catacomb of) Famine, (The Pit of) Pestilence, and (The Sepulchre of) Death.

• The Warlords expansion pack for Civilization IV features a scenario detailing a different version of the French and Indian war where the Four Horsemen interfere. Playing as either British forces (Under Major George Washington) or the French (Under Marquis Duquesne) the players must increase the influence of their respective religion by converting the native Lenape and capturing opposing bases. Periodically three messengers in the form of the first three Horsemen; Pestilence, Famine and War appear as incredibly strong units and attack the side that has lesser influence. When the fourth horseman, Death, appears the player's religion must have at least 75% influence to gain a conquest victory.

• The miniatures game Mage Knight featured a series of limited print, "ultra rare" figurines based on the four riders.

• The last chapter in Act V of Gears of War is titled "Pale Horse."

• A random encounter in Fallout Tactics features the "Four Horsemen of the Post-Apocalypse," who idly chat about having nothing to do now that the world has ended.

• In the game Runescape, there is a place called the Stronghold of Security where there are four levels called, in order, War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.

• In the Civilization IV mod Fall from Heaven 2, the four riders appear as Barbarian heroes when the Armageddon counter reaches 60, 63, 66 and 69. They are Stephanos (War), Buboes (Famine), Yersinia (Pestilence) and Ars Moriendi (Death). They show up after the Blight (counter at 40) and before the Hellfire (counter at 70).

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Miscellaneous

• The "Four Horsemen of Notre Dame" were the legendary backfield of Notre Dame's 1924 American football team, namely quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, fullback Elmer Layden and halfbacks Jim Crowley and Don Miller. They were so dubbed by sportswriter Grantland Rice in his account of the Notre Dame-Army game October 18, 1924, at the Polo Grounds in New York City: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore, they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden."

• Students at the Georgia Institute of Technology often refer to the "Four Horsemen" as four calculus instructors who have achieved a level of infamy in distributing abnormally low, often failing, grades to their students. The "Four Horsemen" have become somewhat of an elite order whose members are inducted involuntarily by student consensus and retain the dubious distinction as long as they continue to teach calculus.

• During the 2004 U.S. presidential election, the Bush/Cheney campaign argued that American leadership should not "change horses in midstream." Opponents played upon the idiom by referring to the four horsemen ("don't change horsemen in the middle of an Apocalypse").

• The Four Horsemen was a professional wrestling stable from National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling, featuring varying wrestlers including Ric Flair and Arn Anderson. They are arguably one of the greatest and most influential stables in wrestling history. Ric Flair was seen as the group's leader, although he was always referred to as "The 4th Horsemen"- which in the biblical senses is "Death".

• The British computer magazine Amiga Power featured "The Four Cyclists of the Apocalypse" in their later issues. The Cyclists mainly appeared advertising Amiga Power subscriptions and small ads.

• NBA star Lebron James' group of close friends is referred to as the Four Horsemen

• Three of the Rahkshi in LEGO's Bionicle saga have powers that can be interpreted as Pestilence, War and Famine (Lerahk having poison, Kuhrahk having Anger, and Vohrahk having Hunger).

• Four Horsemen Studios is a group of four action figure sculptors who formerly worked for McFarlane Toys, and whose work has included the new 2002 line of He-Man toys.

• Four Horsemen as a cocktail is one shot each of Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Johnnie Walker, and Jose Cuervo. See also the Three Wise Men.

• In the British Punch magazine, a cartoonist has someone looking at the four horsemen who look rather miserable, who says words to the effect "your mother must have been a hag".

• A Group of Online Anime, Manga etc. raters calles themselves the 4 Horseman of Anime

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See also

• Antichrist
• Apocalypse
• Book of Revelation
• Death
• Death (personification)
• Eschatology
• Famine
• Horsemen of Apocalypse (comics)
• Pestilence
• Summary of Christian eschatological differences
• War