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9. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (24 points)
Nominated by: handsomeboy2012 (0/5 remaining)


Importance: 10
Fear: 7.5
Snake: 6.5

Death. Famine. War. Pestilence. The Four Horsemen are like the archetypes to end all archetypes. Hailing from the Bible's Book of Revelation, they signal the end times for our planet, pushing all of our society's woes, troubles, and otherwise negative happenings to their natural conclusions. While interpretations of the Horsemen have shifted and morphed to reflect contemporary events over the years, the Horsemen's arrival has increasingly received diminishing returns, as they become more metaphorical, more separated from their biblical roots and have basically become beloved cultural icons at this point. I mean the Horsemen now appear as protagonists in their own video game series. I think culture has shifted enough that we don't really need physical manifestations of humanity's worst fears anymore. It's come to a head where what they represent have become so real and inescapable that we must wonder, how long does this friggin' end time take anyway? There's no bite to them anymore as figures, but as individual shorthand for fictional symbolism, well, that's where the money's at with these guys. Taking them from a more figurative angle, there's still a lot of fear to be mined in fiction and are perfect for post-apocalyptic jaunts and period piece fantasy as allegories for our human society's greatest strifes. And if that ever falls by the wayside, well, I must say, they still look pretty badass grouped together in art pieces, don't they?

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Bare feet on the tile with my head up in the clouds
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