Four Heavenly Kings (disambiguation)

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Four Heavenly Kings may refer to:

• The Four Heavenly Kings is the name of the four Buddhist deities who protect the four quarters of the world.

• The Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop are Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, and Aaron Kwok, while Hacken Lee was later called the "Unnamed Fifth King". In the early 1990s, they were the most popular Hong Kong male artists, ranked in terms of record sales and popularity.

• Four Heavenly Kings was a 2006 mockumentary film directed by Daniel Wu. It was a film about the Cantopop industry that debuted at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

• The Four Young Heavenly Kings of Mandopop are Jay Chou, Wang Lee Hom, David Tao and JJ Lin.

• The Four Heavenly Kings of puroresu are Akira Taue, Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa and Toshiaki Kawada, legendary in 1990's All Japan Pro Wrestling. Also, there have been references to a New Four Heavenly Kings consisting of KENTA, Naomichi Marufuji, Takeshi Morishima and Takeshi Rikio.

• The Four Heavenly Kings of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party are Annette Lu (Taiwan's Vice President), Su Tseng-chang( Premier of Taiwan), Frank Hsieh (Former Premier of Taiwan and currently DPP's candidate for the Taipei Mayoral election in 2006), and Yu Shyi-kun (Chairman of the DPP Party), a term commonly used by the Taiwanese media.

• The Four Heavenly Kings in Sailor Moon refers to four characters of the Dark Kingdom, the primary villains of the first story arc.

• The Four Heavenly Kings in Konjiki no Gash Bell!! refer to the most powerful of the thousand-year-old demons. In the American adaptation Zatch Bell!, they are called the Four Supreme Mamodo.

• The Four Heavenly Kings is another name referring to Pokémon's Elite Four, a fictional team of four highly-skilled Pokémon trainers in the Pokémon world.

• The Four Heavenly Kings of King of Fighters were Goenitz, Chris, Yashiro Nanakase, and Shermie; all four served Orochi.

• The Four Heavenly Kings of Shadoloo in the Street Fighter series, commonly known as "The Grand Masters" in America, refer to the fighters known as M. Bison, Balrog, Sagat and Vega in Japan.

• The Four Heavenly Kings of the Mega Man Zero series (also known as "the Big Four" or "the Four Guardians) are Fighting Fefnir, Sage Harpuia, Fairy Leviathan, and Phantom. They are the guardians of Copy X.

• The Four Heavenly Kings, in the anime Dragon Ball Z are Gashyu, Tado, Salt, and Vinegar. They are the four guardians of Garlic Jr.

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• The Four Guardian Kings, warriors of medieval Japan.