I have been thinking about the no 4 in ST because this number haunts me in my dreams
And one of the first assumptions i had was the
4 horseman of apocalypse
There is some interesting shit about it.
One of the most important parts is that the aftermath of the gates opening is in direct reference to the typical symbolism of the four horsemen.
The White Horse
The White Horse is very unclear of what it specifically means. There are a lot of interpretation about it. But one of the interpretations that struck me the most is pestilence/plague. Because Wills possession has been called a virus in S2. We have multiple occasions of people bringing cancer in. People in S1 ask El if she has cancer. Owens compared the tunnels to cancer in S2. Mike asks Hopper if his Nana has cancer in S3. (I haven't seen one in S4)
The red horse
The red horse represents war or more specifically civil war.
The vigilantes Jason motivated will play a role in S5. They will hold a grudge against every hellfire member. So they will target them.
Also purging and looting is a common aftermath in catastrophes like what happened to Hawkins. Which is also very civil waric.
The black horse
The black horse stands for famine. This symbolism is not only shown in the aftermath by the dying flowers. We already saw it happening in S2 with the pumpkins and Chrissy's visions of the rotten food.
The pale horse
The pale horse symbolizes death himself. He is followed by hades (not the greek god).
Hades following him, jaws open and receiving the victims slain by Death. Death's commission was to kill upon the Roman Earth with all of the four judgements of God—with sword, famine, pestilence and wild beasts
The except is from Wikipedia and it perfectly fits likely S5 scenarios
Sword = humans who fight our characters because of Hellfire or the military trying to find El
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fourgate - The foreshadowing of the number 4 in stranger things
moots who are following me for little while longer will know that I am obsessed with the number 4 in Stranger Things.
And while during all my findings I was struggling to see a pattern I think I finally cracked the code... Well mostly at least.
I will split this in parts. Because it's way easier for me to do it season for season.
Fair warning: I am just a human and as of now I didn't made a full rewatch so there is a big chance that this analysis will miss some mentions of the number 4. I tried to include as much as I remembered so just lean back and enjoy!
General
The number 4 is generally a bad sign in the show. Obviously since S4 we can connect the number 4 with Vecna/One/Henry because 4 chimes, 4 kills, 4 gates. But the number was a bad thing way before we learned about him and his plan.
This analysis will cover mostly obvious mentions of the number. Mentions meaning showing the number in for- or background or a character talking about this number. I will only concentrate on those (mostly). There are a lot of subtile mentions in the blurry background, digit-sums or as part of a number. I won't cover those (for now) because for that I would have to rewatch ST completly at half speed. And as of right now I don't have the time to do it so I will concentrate on this for now.
The number generally foreshadows something bad happening in some more or less immediate response after the mention. More or less immediate means that it can be directly afterwards but also take a while. The scenes will always be in direct connection between showing/telling of the number and the bad thing happening but it's possible that longer scenes and cuts are between the mention and the bad thing happening. (You will know what I mean)
Season 1
So let's get started with season 1. You may wonder, if the number 4 plays a huge role in Season 1. And yeah it definitely does.
The very first time the number is directly mentioned is in this scene
The party had to end their campaign and Will, Dustin and Lucas are leaving. Dustin talks about how Nancy has a stick up her butt and that she used to be cool because she did dress up for campaign. And Mike responded with Four years ago.
And hopefully you remember in what bad thing this mentioned resulted.
Do I need to say more?
This is what I mean when I say less immediate. The scene with the mention is directly connected to the bad thing.
Just wanna add that there are two honorable mentions of the number 4 in this scene.
First when we get told that Will needs to roll a 13 (digit sum 4) to defeat the demogorgon and later when Will wants X-men issue 134 as reward for winning the race against Dustin.
The second Time the number 4 is very obviously shown is in E3. When "Will's" Body is found in the quarry. THIS is the reason I started to dig into this number!
Again. Every fan on here knows what comes next, don't you?
So let's get ready for the third.
Looking at this scene you may ask what bad is coming in more or less immediate context. And I get what you mean but let me explain okay.
Yes, yes I know there are a lot of things happening between Dustin saying he joined the party in 4th grade and Mike jumping from the cliff. BUT it's still in direct connection. Mike and Dustin are on their way to find El in the scene where Dustin mentions the number 4. El destroys the door in the grocery store. Mike and Dustin search for her in the woods and then they get hunted by Troy and James. It's takes it time but it's still in one context.
The one's shown above were very obvious mentions. The following one's are more subtile but I still count them for this analysis,
Yes it's not directly the number itself but 4 paws are not coincidentally. (Have tigers 4 paws I don't know). This "Mention" is resulting in the Demogorogon coming through this Wall.
Next one supporting my mention:
It's 10:04 and results in this:
Just for confimation about the time:
Additional background mention:
Part 2 will come in the next days. If you find a mention of 4 in any season that might fly under the radar please comment/reblog it on this post.
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