Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in popular culture

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have appeared many times in popular culture.

Contents 1 Real life 2 Literature and comic books 3 Visual Arts 4 Film 5 Television 6 Music 7 Video games 8 References

Real life

• The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame was a group of football players at the University of Notre Dame under coach Knute Rockne in 1924. They were Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley, and Elmer Layden. A United States Postal Service stamp was issued in their honor in 1998 bearing a black and white image from 1925 of the four players all on dark horses.
• "The Four Horsemen" informal discussion (30 September 2007) between Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett, during which they discuss definitions of atheism and the legitimacy of their attacks on religion.^[1]
• "The Four Hideous Horsemen - Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair. Unhappy drinkers will understand!" is an important reference within the Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous) Page 151, Chapter 11 A Vision For You.
• The famous pro wrestling faction that competed in the National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling in the 1980s and 1990s were known as The Four Horsemen. The original incarnation of the faction consisted of Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, Tully Blanchard, and James J. Dillon, with other members including Lex Luger, Sid Vicious, Sting, Steve McMichael, Dean Malenko, Chris Benoit, Brian Pillman, Curt Hennig, Barry Windham, and Paul Roma.

Literature and comic books

• Terry Pratchett has parodied the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse several times.
  • In Thief of Time, part of Pratchett's Discworld series, a fifth horseman is mentioned: Ronnie Soak (Kaos spelled backwards). He is the fifth member who quit before the group became famous and now works as a milkman.
  • In Good Omens, co-written with Neil Gaiman, the Four Horsemen (or Horsepersons, as War is female) ride motorcycles. Pestilence is changed out for Pollution, who took over in 1936 when Pestilence left "muttering something about Penicillin." War is a war correspondent, and Famine is the author of a bestselling diet book. They have aliases that allude to their traditional colors (i.e. Raven Sable, Carmine Zuigiber). There is also a group of four Hells Angels that follow them, taking the names of more mundane plagues such as Cruelty to Animals and No Alcohol Lager.
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a 1918 novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (ISBN 978-1-4264-0564-8), was adapted to the big screen in 1921 and again in 1962.
• The Horsemen of Apocalypse are a team of Marvel Comics supervillains (usually manipulated superheroes; Angel, Wolverine and Gambit, for example, all had stints as Horsemen of Death) who serve Apocalypse, an ancient, evil mutant who believes in survival of the fittest and causes disasters to this end.
• Incarnations of Immortality, a long-running series of fantasy novels by Piers Anthony, was influenced by the mythology of the Four Horsemen. The titles of two books in the series, On a Pale Horse and Wielding a Red Sword, refer to Death and War respectively, though they are not formally titled such; the books revolve around characters whose supernatural duties are similar to those of the Horsemen. The Incarnation of War has four associated lesser incarnations in a seeming of the Four Horsemen: Famine, Pestilence, Conquest, and Slaughter.
• In Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want To Save The World, Blart and the gang, when facing Zoltab, have to fight the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
• The Four Horsemen appear in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comics. War also appears as a play-able character in the Tournament Fighters video game.
• Women of the Apocalypse,^[2] an anthology of four novellas by Eileen Bell, Roxanne Felix, Ryan T. McFadden, and Billie Milholland (ISBN 978-1-77053-000-3) features four modern, Albertan heroines facing down the Four Horsemen, in four speculative fiction variants on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
• In the Unicron Trilogy portion of Transformers, the Four Horsemen are Transformers who serve under Unicron.^[3]
• In The Talismans of Shannara, the Four Horsemen are dispatched to kill Walker Boh.
• In Army of Darkness comics, Ash is faced with the Four Horsemen.
• In Scud: The Disposable Assassin, Scud fights and kills the four horsemen of the apocalypse
• Psychologist John Gottman uses the term for the four most destructive behaviours harming relationships
• in Marvel Family #48 the Marvels face the Four Horsemen in a story titled The Four Horsemen Ride Again, where they try to cause disasters.
• In DC comics the Four Horsemen of Apokolips were foretold in the Crime Bible. They were created by a coalition of evil scientists and caused Black Adam to go insane by killing his brother-in-law Osiris, and his wife Isis, though he killed all of them. Their leader is Death, and they were later able to posess people's bodies to resurrect themselves. Sobek is the Horseman of Famine, Yurrd.
• The title of best-selling author James Patterson's fifth book in the Women's Murder Club series, The 5th Horseman, is a reference to the biblical story.
• Those who come to retrieve Sethe in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved are referred to as the four horsemen: "When the four horsemen came—schoolteacher, one nephew, one slave catcher and a sheriff—the house on Bluestone Road was so quiet they thought they were too late” (174).

Visual Arts

Artist Brian Whelan has used the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as a metaphor for the tragic 9/11 attacks.

Film

• In The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a 1921 silent movie produced by Metro Pictures Corporation, based on the novel "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, the Four Horsemen were implied to be the result of human greed and war.
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1962. Another film based on the same book, but changing the timeline from the First to the Second World War. Starring Charles Boyer and Glenn Ford, and directed by Vincente Minnelli
• At least two of the Four Horsemen appear near the end of The Rapture. However, their role is mostly off-camera and allegorical. Also, the film mislabels War as the first Horsemen.
• In the movie Elf, the Four Horsemen are referenced in the scene where Santa is in Central Park and the police horses are closing in on him.
• Horsemen features murders that are inspired by the Four Horsemen.
• In Tombstone, during the opening in a Mexican town Johnny Ringo: Quoting the Bible, Book of Revelation. "Behold the pale horse". The man who "sat on him was Death... and Hell followed with him".
• In The Crow: Wicked Prayer, four satanic cult members call themselves after the non-biblical four horseman - Death (David Boreanaz) who drives a black car, War (Marcus Chong) who drives a red SUV, Famine (Yuji Okumoto) who drives a sickly yellow muscle car, and Pestilence (Tito Ortiz) who drives a green Ford Pinto truck.

Television

• In The Real Ghostbusters animated TV series from 1986, there is an episode where the protagonists hunt the Four Horsemen in order to stop the Apocalypse.
• In Digimon Adventure, the final enemies the Digidestined face are the four Dark Masters (MetalSeadramon, Machinedramon, Puppetmon, and Piedmon), followed by Apocalymon, paralleling the story of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
• In Highlander: The Series, the Four Horsemen are the Immortals Kronos (the leader of the Horsemen), Methos (Duncan McLeod's friend who previously refused to admit to being a Horseman, also claimed himself as Death), Silas, and Caspian.
• In the X-Men animated series, Apocalypse captured and changed four beings into his Horsemen, giving them the names War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death, each of them containing abilities that their given name implies.
• In the final episode of Tru Calling, "T'was the Night Before Christmas...Again", Tru calls her foil character Jack the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, as he is frequently referenced as "death".
• In the Charmed episode "Apocalypse Not", the horsemen are depicted as well-dressed demons who run the Apocalypse like a business, and have to try to bring it about by a certain time or they will be vanquished by the Source of all Evil.
• In the episode "Cracked China" of Robot Chicken, the Four Horsemen are referenced in a sketch called "Apocalypse Ponies", parodying both My Little Pony and the Four Horsemen.
• In Supernatural, the Four Horsemen are referenced in the fourth season episode "Death Takes A Holiday" by the demon Alistair before he goes to kill two reapers in an effort to break a seal that will lead to releasing Lucifer from Hell. Alistair claims that the scythe he is carrying was borrowed from an old friend who didn't "really ride a pale horse" but who does "have three amigos" who are "jonesing for the Apocalypse". After the rising of Lucifer at the end of the fourth season, the Horsemen are unleashed onto the world. Each takes the form of an elderly male, with an appropriately coloured car and a ring that imbues them their power; in "Hammer of the Gods" these rings are revealed to have the power to recapture Lucifer.
  • In the fifth season episode "Good God, Y'All!", War, portrayed by Titus Welliver, makes an appearance. He drives a cherry red Ford Mustang and uses the ring on his right ring finger to make people hallucinate and kill each other.
  • Later in the season, The Horsemen Death is summoned to earth by Lucifer via a ritual in the episode "Abandon All Hope", albeit unseen. He is then mentioned in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid", though again not seen, where he raises 15 dead who return to their families only to turn rabid after a certain time. In "Two Minutes to Midnight", Death, now portrayed by Julian Richings, is shown walking along the street with a cane; he bumps into a man, who after making a pithy remark, soon falls over dead. Death explains to Dean that he is unwillingly bound to Lucifer, and is not particularly interested in the apocalypse. Death provides his ring, extracting a promise that Dean will do anything to stop Lucifer. This version of Death claims to be as old, if not older, than God, as neither of them can remember who came first. An eternal being, Death reappears multiple times later, after the apocalypse.
  • In the episode "My Bloody Valentine", Famine, portrayed by James Otis causes suicides in a town by making people consume/perform what they hunger for until their death, by overeating, overdosing, etc. Arriving with an entourage of demons in a black SUV, he would feast on souls until he was strong enough to spread on his own.
  • Pestilence, portrayed by Matt Frewer appears at the end of "Hammer Of The Gods". He walks into a service station and spreads disease by spreading sickly, green slime everywhere and bringing flies into the place. He is then shown driving away in a dirty Pinto whilst flies flood the car; his rampage is shown in the next episode, "The Devil You Know", spreading slews of swine flu east across the nation. He actively appeared in "Two Minutes to Midnight", shown capable to infect humans with a plethora of diseases, also being a pivotal of Lucifer's apocalypse; his pandemic of swine flu allowed the distribution of the Croatoan virus in under the guise of vaccines. He was working in a nursing home, crafting hybrid diseases that caused instant death; Castiel was ultimately responsible for destroying him.
• In the Red Dwarf episode "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", the regulars find themselves in a computer simulation of a Wild West town, facing a gunfight against the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
• In the The Simpsons episode "Simpsons Bible Stories", the Simpson family sleep through a church sermon and wake up to the apocalypse, where the Four Horsemen are shown riding on a red cloud through the sky.
• In the The Simpsons episode "Bart Gets an Elephant", when Stampy the elephant walks through the Flanders' yard, Ned Flanders wakes up and gasps, "It's the four elephants of the apocalypse!" Maude immediately corrects him, "That's horsemen, Ned."^[4]
• The Colbert Report, an American late night news satire television program, features a recurring segment called "Four Horsemen of the A-Pop-calypse". In this segment, Stephen Colbert's character denounces the media (divided into the four categories of books, television, movies and radio) for supposedly hastening the apocalypse.^[5]
• In Babylon 5 the Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari refers to his three unloved wives as "Famine", "Pestilence" and "Death". Which is ironic as apparently such labelling leaves the title of "War" to himself.
• An episode of Stargate SG-1, "The Fourth Horseman", references the horseman of conquest when a Jaffa becomes a Prior of the Ori
• In the "Revelations" episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, the archangel Michael releases the Four Horsemen to end the World. Hercules and Iolaus team with Ares in an attempt to stop them.
• In Jericho, season 1, episode 3 "Four Horsemen", after the storm ceases, Jake devises a plan in which four cars drive in four directions in an attempt to contact survivors and gather information. Gray Anderson, the Mayor's main political rival, refers to the scout party as "The Four Horsemen".
• In The Young Ones, season 1, episode 5 "Interesting", which first aired in the UK in 1982, Rick Mayall and Nigel Planer are preparing the house for a party when a born-again Christian preacher, played by Dawn French pushes her way inside. As she warns the guys to behold Armageddon and the four horsemen of the apocalypse the scene cuts to a surreal comedy sketch featuring the Four Horsemen on a hillside.
• In Dexter, Season 6, episode 3 "Smokey and the Bandit", the closing scene of the episode sees the Season 6 villains staging the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in order to scare residents of Miami, and features a close-up on the decapitated head of a man previously killed.

Music

• Lead singer, M. Shadows, of the band Avenged Sevenfold has the Four Horsemen tattooed on his left arm.
• The punk band The Clash, on their album London Calling, have a song called "Four Horsemen".
• The album artwork for Muse's fourth studio album, Black Holes and Revelations, features the four horsemen sitting around a table on the planet Mars. Their respective horses are small, and on the table in front of them, to represent how each affliction of the horsemen has outgrown those of their horses.
• Thrash metal band Metallica's 1983 song "The Four Horsemen" directly references the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. However in their version the riders are Time, Famine, Pestilence and Death (perhaps for Metrical-Rhythmical reasons), while in the Bible the first three are "Conquest" or "Pestilence", "War" and "Famine".
• Parody band Beatallica wrote the song "For Horsemen", a mash-up of Metallica's "The Four Horsemen" and The Beatles' "For No One".
• Coldplay's album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends is a reference to The Four Horsemen; quoting the last line of the last song: "I don't want to follow Death and all of his friends."
• The song "The Four Horsemen" on the Judas Priest album Nostradamus directly references the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
• The lyrics to "Cattle and the Creeping Things" by The Hold Steady refer to the Four Horsemen (among several other Biblical references): "They got to the part with the cattle and the creeping things. They said I'm pretty sure we've heard this one before. Don't it all end up in some revelation? With four guys on horses, and violent red visions? Famine, and death, and pestilence and war? I'm pretty sure I heard this one before."
• The lyrics to "Revelations" by DragonForce feature a veiled reference to the Four Horsemen in the latter part of the chorus: "And the Horsemen shall come, they will judge all your lives, Revelations will now be unveiled."
• The punk band Gallows reference the four horsemen in their song "Death Voices" with the lyric 'Four riders, four horses. Bring me famine, bring me death. Bring me war and pestilence.'.
• In the song "The Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash, there are multiple references at the beginning and end of the song to the four horsemen, namely Pestilence or Conquest and the pale horserider Death.
• Megadeth's song "Blessed Are The Dead" from the album United Abominations refers to 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", referencing the Four Horsemen. However, the white horse and the pale horse's representations are switched, with the white horse representing death instead of pestilence, and vice versa for the pale horse. The album cover also features mascot Vic Rattlehead with traits of the Horsemen (white with blood-stained wings like Conquest, long black hair and a black cloak resembling the black horse of Famine, wielding various firearms like the sword used by the War Horseman, and has pale, veinous-looking skin like that of Death).^[6])
• Klaxons refer directly to the four horsemen of the apocalypse in a hidden track at the end of their debut studio album.
• Aphrodite's Child's song "The Four Horsemen" directly references the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
• The song Revelation (Death's Angel) by Manowar features many references to the Four Horsemen and the Apocalypse itself.
• Marilyn Manson's song, "Four Rusted Horses" references the four horsemen as being worn out.
• The band Jesus H. Christ & The Four Hornsmen Of The Apocalypse is a reference.
• The extreme metal band Demonoid's debut album Riders of the Apocalypse is a concept album about the Four Horsemen.
• Swedish metal guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen has a song called 'Four Horsemen (Of The Apocalypse)' on his 2008 album Perpetual Flame.
• Finnish doom metal band Reverend Bizarre has a song called 'Apocalyptic Riders'. The song has direct citations from the Bible about The Four Horsemen.
• The music video "I Feel Better" by Hot Chip is loosely based on The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse
• In the storyboard film for Gorillaz' Rhinestone Eyes, the Boogieman is hinted at being a contemporary of the Horsemen, or possibly the Fifth Seal.
• In the music video for Magnetic Man's "Getting Nowhere ft John Legend" it depicts 4 urban BMX riders in hoodies biking throughout the city. The 4 bikers are seen wearing Black, White, Red and Grey hoodies, symbolizing the colors of the Horsemen. Throughout the video they are present during situations of conflict, famine and death.
• Rapper Canibus has a song called 'Horsementality' (aka 'Abide By') on his album 2000 B.C. (Before Can-I-Bus) featuring Ras Kass, Kurupt, Killah Priest. The four came together and formed the super group called The HRSMN aka "The Four Horsemen" where each member references themselves to each rider.
• The cover of the "Weird Al" Yankovic album Alpocalypse features Yankovic riding the black horse (whose mane has Yankovic's trademark curly hair), accompanied by the other three horsemen.
• Die Apokalyptischen Reiter [German for Rider of the Apocalypse] a German Metal Band
• The Horsemen feature prominently in The Indelicates album David Koresh Superstar.
• In the song "The Grand Conjuration" by Opeth from Ghost Reveries makes a reference to the pale horse rider (Death) searching the Earth.
• In the Genesis song "Anyway", from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, the character Rael is facing death in an underground cave and sings "Anyway, they say she comes on a pale horse, But I'm sure I hear a train."
• The Harvey Danger song "Plague of Locusts", off the EP Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas (Sometimes), directly refers to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the lines, "The names are in the Book, not yours, Four horsemen ride the range, Hark! The herald angels' carnage, Pestilence and bloodshed wash away all your mistakes, Before they cast your wretched flesh into the Fiery Lake."

Video games

• The abilities of the playable character Yorick in League of Legends are named after the four riders, where Pestilence replaces Conquest as it fits better with the champion's necromancer theme.
• The final level in Nethack features the three riders Death, Famine, and Pestilence. The fourth rider, War, is assumed to be the player.
• The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse was a game project by 3DO.
• "The Four Horsemen" are bosses encountered in Naxxramas, a raid in World of Warcraft: Zeliek as the White Rider of Conquest, Mograine (now Baron Rivendare) as the Red Rider of War, Blaumeux as the Black Rider of Famine, and Korth'azz as the Pale Rider of Death. Naxxramas was originally a level 60 raid, however with the release of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion it was re-tuned for level 80 players and the original version was removed.
• In City of Heroes, players must defeat the four Riders in the second mission of The Lady Grey Task Force. These Riders are said to be among the alien Rikti race's most fearsome warriors and have the names Rider: War, Rider: Famine, Rider: Pestilence, and Rider: Death. In this high level (45-50) task force, a team of both heroes and villains can work together to defeat these enemies as they appear repeatedly throughout the mission. The mission culminates in a battle against all four Riders at once and allows players to continue onward in their drive to save the world from total war and invasion by the alien forces of the Rikti.
• In Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon the Four Horsemen appear as Red Rider, White Rider, Black Rider and Pale Rider and present challenging boss battles to the protagonists of both games.
• RuneScape refers to the four horsemen in the "Stronghold of Security" area, except the names War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death are applied to Dungeon Levels as opposed to actual characters. At the end of every level, a finishing reward of an opposing nature to the dungeon is awarded. The rewards are "The Gift Of Peace", "The Grain of Plenty", "The Box Of Health", and "The Cradle Of Life" respectively.
• In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the four primary antagonists are collectively referred to as "the Four Horsemen". One of them on the group photograph remains unidentified, but is implied to be already dead (he's crossed out like the others will be). In the games sequel, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2", the main antagonist, Vladimir Makarov, bears a heavy likeliness to the unidentified horseman from the first game. Considering both the exploits of Makarov and that the Modern Warfare series was planned as a trilogy, it is very likely that he is the Second Horseman 'War'.
• In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, the once-evil kingdom of Daein holds four generals of utmost skill and power in battle who are referred to as the "Four Riders"-- a reference to the Four Horsemen.
• In Hexen 2, the Four Horsemen are featured as episode bosses. They appear in the order of Famine, Death, Pestilence and War. Each of the episodes featuring the Horsemen had a unique historical cultural setting in which they took place: Medieval Europe for Famine, Mesoamerica for Death, Ancient Egypt for Pestilence, and Greco-Rome for War. In the story, the Horsemen are said to be the generals of Eidolon, who is the final boss of the game.
• In Guild Wars, one of the quests in The Underworld is called the Four Horsemen, where one has to kill four ghostly horsemen. However, these are named differently.
• In Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, players can randomly stumble across the four horsemen while wandering the world map (The encounter being named "Four Horsemen of the Post-Apocalypse" in reference to the nuclear war). They are sitting around a campfire, and make comments about the apocalypse, which has already occurred. Each horseman is in the "almost dead" health range, indicating that they have very low health compared to their maximum health. However, if a player attempts to heal any of the horseman, it becomes obvious that they each have ridiculous amounts of health, and that "almost dead" is still extremely high. Upon exiting the area, the player's party leader is switched for the squad member with the lowest charisma, thanks to the chaotic nature of the horsemen.
• In Darksiders, the player takes on the role of War, one of the four legendary Horsemen of the apocalypse. The game begins with War starting the apocalypse. However, it turns out that is not supposed to occur as the seven seals were not broken. As a result, War is stripped of his powers and returns to Earth 100 years later to find out who is responsible for initiating the apocalypse and destroying the balance between Heaven, Hell, and Earth. The other three horsemen are only mentioned in dialogue and are only seen arriving from far away at the game's end. The game's manual lists their names as "Death", "Strife" and "Fury". The sequel, Darksiders 2, will feature Death in the spotlight, in a story parallel to War's story in the first game.
• In Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, a boss battle takes place where four assassins calling themselves the Four Horsemen attack Solid Snake in an elevator.
• In The Darkness, after you commit suicide, you find yourself in the Otherworld and can locate 4 physical manifestations of the Four Horsemen before proceeding through the level and return to the living, only Death (three people upside-down on a cross) and War (a massive, grotesque cannon) being necessary.
• In Apocalypse, Trey Kincaid (the protagonist, played by Bruce Willis) must battle The Reverend, who has unleashed The Four Horsemen who were called Death, Plague, War and Beast, who are the minor boss fights.
• In Heroes Over Europe, upon receiving a Hawker Tempest, Danny Miller comments "seems the RAF wanted me to be one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse".
• In Champions: Return to Arms, the Four Horsemen can be battled in a bonus stage.
• In Afterlife (computer game), the Four Horsemen are depicted as the Four Surfers of the Apocalypso, which are summoned if a player stays in extreme debt for too long a period. The Four Surfers appear riding a wave of fire and destruction and destroy the player's afterlife, thus ending the game.
• "Ice Station Santa", the first of the 5 episodes of Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space for Xbox 360/Wii/PC, will require you to collect four horsemen action figures for a puzzle
• In the Xenosaga series, one of the main characters - chaos insinuating that the four U.R.T.V. variants (biological weapons) - Rubedo, Albedo, Citrine and Nigredo (from no. 666 to 669) are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• In the Red Dead Redemption downloadable add-on, Undead Nightmare, 4 of the mountable mythical beings are horses labeled as Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death. They are associated with their own Rank, gaining a rank for every horse mounted and tamed. Each horse has its own special ability allowing you to deal with the undead differently. They are known as "The Four Horses of the Apocalypse."
• In Quake 4 the convoys which carries the EMPs to the tetranode are called "War", "Famine", "Pestilence" and your convoy is "Death".
• In Ace Combat 5:The Unsung War, there is a mission called The Four Horsemen.
• In Final Fantasy VII, the final boss uses an attack called "Pale Horse."
• In The Binding of Isaac, the horsemen appear as bosses throughout the game.
• In "Pokemon: Black and White", four legendary Pokémon were introduced designed after the Four Horsemen.

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