May 14, 2016 10:56 AM
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catalystdwarf
In the Bible it goes like this: rider on white horse with bow, rider on red horse with sword, rider on a black horse with scales, and death.
DocWino
Would make some bad ass tats.
Muzzleshield
Who else thought of Red Dead Redemption?
JainaSoloFel
☝
Aquatomahawk
https://youtu.be/PghNEN-29CQ
DXAshram
Man, Metallica taught me Time was a Horseman...
xblacknredsocks
Same here didn't realize war was one
1douchebag
Yeah, you figure Hetfield would have been on top of that one with his Christian Scientist upbringing.
lance11
Was the 15,000th upvote, woo!
TheDroidLukeAlmostBought
Scrolled to the bottom half expecting Michael Cera
?1
Hecklah
Imgur you scary
covertvector
Source: http://www.bradburriscreative.com/20th-ce">y-fox-1">http://www.bradburriscreative.com/20th-century-fox-1, http://thomasguindon.com/project/x-men-apocalypse/
DiabloGrandeArts
Thanks. :)
drakhavik
Thankyou. They have a picture of them all side by side... finally a wallpaper I like.
chadders87
What about Ronnie Soak a.k.a Kaos. It's not his fault he quit the team before they became famous, there were artistic differences afterall.
Splaih
How is this not a deck of cards?
Unbarring
Damn I want a new Darksiders game alrighty
Clancy117
This makes me think of Darksiders as well. I got to play the second game. Did both playthroughs and beat the game 100%.
SilverJack0
Same here! I need a game with all four horsemen kicking ass
umpalumpasuckedmydong
And then on the good side we have.... Chuck
kittencana
This art is amazing! 10/10!
Anubisx3000
Gave me goose bumps!
Yourmomismymom
http://imgur.com/m5kjGMJ made it a proper background for computer
mrfirebass
I want a multiplayer darksiders game
PrometheanHost
Eh I prefer single player, and I just want a new Darksiders game. If the game is multiplayer I want it to be multiplayer optional.
yeah like borderlands where its not essential but it does help, and i would also like local multiplayer as an option as well 4-player
wwcasedo
Those types of games don't exist anymore... Might as well ask for Ultimate Alliance 3
agh, right in the nostalgia, marvel ultimate alliance 1 and 2 is how i got most of my marvel knowledge
AbsolutelyBarbaric
Nice, but Pestilence isn't considered one of the Four Horsemen. It should be Conquest instead. (Only vaguely sure about any of this)
jaychay
Surely, famine and pestilence are quite simmilar ????
I mean, I feel like starving to death is different than dying of dysentery.
Blakfyre77
It's up to interpretation, but it was originally Conquest, then Pestilence became popular during the Black Plague. For obvious reasons.
ThisNameIsRegistered
TheBadassGunslingerFromtheChi
I see you illuminati.
mockingbird75
That all seeing eye seems bored af.
ereHemaNoN
Maybe it has seen enough?
Swiggy1957
There should be a Trump card in this deck.
PacoAlaTaco
It's the last one
Nah it's the 3rd
DoctorSpaceDog
lol i disagree with a politician so he's literally going to destroy the planet
Yeah we'll have the last laugh when Trump, Magneto and the gang get here. Not letting you inside the X-Mansion
SonnyDunkin
The REAL 4 Horsemen are Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Barry Windham & Sid Vicious.
ertwurmjim
Woooooooo!
RoosterHogburn
Lose Windham and Vicious, take the original Four - Ric Flair, Arn and Ole Anderson, and Tully Blanchard!
I appreciate your knowledge of old school WCW, but those 4 were my favorite version of the Horsemen. Brainbusters 4 life tho.
thebluestthingsonearth
WOOOO!!
Anyone got a translation for the hieroglyphics? I tried with a chart from google and it was complete gibberish
Supernatural still has the best intro for death ever. Like shit man. Chills up the spine.
ChaoticScholar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHgpW4b5ew
https://youtu.be/PghNEN-29CQ here's a HD clip of it
DeanWinchesterIsMySpiritAnimal
I was looking for this comment. +1
allwehavetodecideiswhattodowiththetimethatisgiventous
"Ohhhh Death"
Zaprox
Originally the first one was Conquest not Pestilence.
Bystandr
Actually the order is traditionally war-famine-pestilence-death
'Conquest is arguably a mis - translation. It was decided pestilence is closer as it encompases all things that can infest.. be they fungoid
, insect , bacterial , viral or what have you.
Greypuppy
I always thought it was War, Famine, Conquest, and Pestilence.
JTstupidhead
conquest leads to war leads to famine (resources) which leads to death.
joggertg
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/bindingofisaac/images/e/ed/Conquest.png/revision/20120716115805
MolotovCockatiel88
Playing tboi is the only reason I knew that too lol
HandsomeMcMuscles
Wasn't it a mistranslation? Something like that.
blairmichod
Nope. Revelations make it explicit. However, 'Conquest' sounds like 'War' and thus
'Pestilence' arose to replace it in popular culture.
nitpick, but *Revelation.
TwoLeftNipples
I know these because of the binding of Isaac
JIM0rgan
Get me one o dem cubes of meat. (Or balls of bandages)
legofan1199
Thanks me too
bweern
Same.
classynurse
v
Saberslayer1738
Pretty cool
TimeAndMemeLordOfGallifrey
Could see this playing with the Nyan cat theme music
IuryCampos
Where is this from
not sure originally, found it as a signature on forums long time ago, kept it because it was neat
MoesToes
Aw, they're so cute.
AskingTheRealQuestionsToTheInternet
.
eludedjoy
So little so evil.
9Gag12YrOld
I rate this a 5/7, better than fight club
Frutzen
A perfect score
roachbug101
Finally someone remembered conquest exists
takeusthereskitch
5th Horseman: Procrastination
TheSwedishStag
*Masturbation
Spartan0311
We are going to include him right after this Walking Dead marathon.
Stevangelist
5th Horseman: Your mom. (and I never make those jokes)
weastside
They're working on the picture for that...... someday
Procrastinatron
You rang?
sapyro
I'll find a picture for procrastination later
ChuckGrant
It will come for you tomorrow. Or next month. Whenever he feels like it.
vondeluth
Sloth, basically.
ATransgenderedRose
No, that was just planned, he never actually got around to it before the world ended, that's why there's only 4.
Virtuoso
Kaos
therealsiem
Ronny Soak
Ronnie*
In my defence, it's been a number of years since i read it
ectopunk
I'll comment on this post later.
SumYungHo
shouldn't that be the 1st Horseman
NyamoDarrath
I thought it was Kaos the milk deliverer?
UrsaUrsa
Good ol' Ronny Soak :D
ManofScience
Thief of Time will always be my favourite
serakaida
Don't forget he changed his name to Chaos. Slightly more organised.
glacialbae
Hmm. Having only listened to those books, I didn't know it was spelled like that..
grumblegrumblegrumble
Yeah, you'd expect Chaos but it's a kind of half-anagram of (Ronnie) Soak so... *pushes glasses up nose*
Nythrohotep
7th: Imigir.
YodasLeftEar
i like me some imigir
GoodGameYoungLad
The most deadly horseman of all
SpamYarBlockers
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
flufmasaflex
I feel like "death" could just do it all instead of taking a 1/4 cut
Hardest worker for sure
IReallyWonder
Nah he's a lazy fuck. He prefers hanging back and let the others do all the groundwork, he has enough on his plate with aging and nature.
Wombatish
Death isn't (always) suffering, especially in the Christian worldview, nor does it always show the ills of man.
seanagon
The other 3/4 wont always kill you but will always leave you permanently changed
BacalaoPequeno
The 4 Horsemen mythology comes from before people knew what brain aneurysms and heart attacks were. They probably just thought people died 1
Because Death decided to kill them, and for no clear reason. So I'd say Death encompasses what the others don't
LiterallyYourMom
Death is inevitable though, the rest aren't. He's like the doom metal of horsemen.
GnomeChompski
Well biblically speaking, the four horseman were actually war, conquest, famine, and death/pestilence.
ThrKingLion
There are thousands of ways to wind up dead....
TheMachineKill3r
You need some suffering before you can die, duh
verynamesuchamazewow
Death gets everyone eventually but she's the nice one. The others aren't as patient. Death is the calm one that keeps the others in line.
Sephiyevon
One quarter portion.
HowlingDysphoria
I read it in his voice
ExpressDownvoteElevatorToHell
Pretty sure War has the other three covered.
Terraplex
Death just does the clean up work for everyone else.
DushBid911
Well, there IS a game where he just rips shit apart. Darksiders 2?
IEatBush
Death can also be an easy way out compared to the other three.
We don't know that, he's pretty vague. That scares me, what if it's death by disappointing lottery draws
I think you're much better off than the guy who is starving...
Wow take a joke
MisterNesbitt
Where should we take this joke?
Mordreas
Didn't you hear, pestilence quit. Muttering something about penicillin. Pollution has his job now.
AmateurArtist001
Nice reference
Feegert
In some parts of the world Gluttony has taken Famine's job :(
MyBodyIsBready
Just finished this on Friday!
pestilence is about to make a comeback
Robootman
Tell that to Malaria
LePuma
Ineffable
GingerLaird
Nah, Pestilence is still a horseman, he's just taken up the form of cancer.
ziggyahoo
You can thank dean and Sam for that
ThatOneGuyAzazel
Love that book
7snowmen
Haven't you heard? Antibiotics are not working so well anymore.
browsib
I thought Sam and Dean killed him
IDoNotTotallyUnderstandWhatIsGoingOn
I think he's on his way back with the antivaccers
PegLegSteg
You forgot about AIDS
PuppermintJerryJr
DAMMT, YOU BEAT ME TO IT.
XenomorphZZ
All that colistin resistant bacteria in China yo.
MrPredator
Naw, VRSA is coming with a vengeance, along with MDRTB.
MuldersSexSlave
Googled it. Thanks for the nightmare fuel.
Heh heh. There is far, far greater nightmare fuel, trust me. VRSA is just the tip of the anti-biotic resistant apocalypse.
HEXADECIMAL
http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/about.html
Ben4983
Excellent reference!
Aguynamedcarl
Necrolyte: "you'll need more than a dose of penicillin to get rid of me"
MLGsamantha
And his job was originally Conquest's. Man, don't be a Horseman of the Apocalypse, the turnover rate is huge. Massive red flag there.
mithiwithi
War and Death still seem to be stable gigs.
busdriverdan
Yeah, they even got their own games! Lucky!
Pestilence2k
I'm actually relevant. (See: drug-resistant superorganisms)
ZeroZeta
I love you for this comment.
that808guy
Favoriting this just for the comment
friendlyneighborhoodanesthetist
Forgot about anti-vaxers. And economic barriers to healthcare access. :/
NazaxPrime
-_-
striketwo
"Radiation may last for thousands of years but arsenic is forever."
LuGaroux
As someone deathly allergic to penicillin: heh.
Nopssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Pestilence its still here, humans are the plague now.
TheCausticCynic
Oh you think penicillin guaranties our safety from diseases, that's cute.
hyl3rid
pestilence will find it ways back
justleaveittome
We are quickly leaving the antibiotic age.
imjeremiad
Pestilence will ride again when supply chains break down.
izAbean
It's supposed to be Conquest. I don't know why people keep switching him for Pestilence. Though Pollution works, I guess...
RoelTheDeer
It was replaced in popular culture at some point and now it is just in collective consciousness.Even Christians don't know the original four
Rapiecage
somewhere in the middle ages, pestilence became more of a thing, and conquest less common.
WhereCanYouSeeLions
Because it made for a better joke.
JackHammahTattoos
Think about it, conquest used to bring all the rest of the riders with him in mini apocalypses. Why there are ancient civs noone knows
Gonz000
I feel like conquest and war seem a bit too similar. Also though, everything else is objectively bad. Conquest somewhat isnt.
TheFoxCouncil
I wouldn't say that death is objectively bad. Just part of life.
girlpants
I'd probably say that famine is the only thing from the 4 that could be feasible defeated entirely, with effort.
It depends how far you extend the concept of war.
jweeks
Conquest and War though sound similar in normal use mean something closer to Conquest from an outside force and Civil War
ThePotatoBandit
Oh no he's not out of the job yet, not if Anti-vaccinators have anything to say about it, which might be a thing. FUN FACT TRUMP IS ANTIVAX
notDylanOBrien
Malaria
CaptnTightPants
And his signature was smudged, where it might have ended in "estilence" or "ollution"
DrNoise
Must be left handed because that is one major fuck up.
chettlar
Yeah but some signatures though man, ya know?
True. I'd have to say that my signature is quite awful. Right handed though, I have no excuse for ir being bad.
Phorenzic
All hail the harbingers
IAMCHAZZ
They missed Grievous Bodily Harm
EvilLesbian
I was about to say! No love for GBH? And Answerphones/Really Cool People, Cruelty to Animals, and... whatever Scuzz is called at the moment.
boneclawmother
Sodding covered in fish!
I would have listed all his names, but I couldn't fit them in the comment box! :P
ISayFuckAllTheTime
Writer needs help: polar opposite of pestilence, which is ALSO a bad thing. Example: famine->gluttony, war->stagnation...
ArtemisOzzimmer
I thought he said "Have some MRSA bitches, and tell Ebola he still owes me 20 bucks".
WhatsAHoya
"I got this new party trick, it's called AIDS. And you're gonna LOVE retro day, when measles and rubella make a comeback!"
daementia
As a survivor of MRSA...that shit will fuck you up.
A Nurse friend of me lost her eye to MRSA.
NinitaPita
I have a giant scar on my booty where I got it. They had to dig it out twice cause they missed some the first time. Sucked.
Mmann2014
Had it twice... still got my arm and leg, literally.
pomegranatearmageddon
Pretty surprised this isn't here already. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1520
ravensourcious
That's what they thought, but now he has MRSA
SavageOfFirmanach
Brilliant
OddlyDrawnWerewolf
+1 for anything DiscWorld
TheBigGay
i mean this is good omens but yes
Oh poop and he's my favorite author too. I should've gotten this
pugofstardock
Pratchett but not discworld. Good Omen
madmanrampant
And Neil Gaiman
HereticsAllOfYou
Halfway through that book right now.
boattrash
It's quite excellent!!
Finished re-reading it a week ago :D Now I'm reading "Science of Discworld" and it's great :)
MattCale
How does it stack up to small gods?
Small Gods is a Discworld novel, Good Omens is about the Apocalypse and set mostly in England :D
You must not have met his new bff antibiotic resistant super bug. But I laughed so +1.
BootsCatsBeeeeeeez
Exactly
IMadeThisOnlyForDestinyCodeBegging
It's from a book. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Also antivaccers
Totallyscrewedinaustin
That problem will sort itself out
TheSaintedPhysicianDoctor
Hooray for natural selection
Attacker732
Not soon enough to avoid serious problems for the people who are allergic to or aren't strong enough for vaccines.
cmo2424
That's still kinda natural selection
SmallLoanOfAMillionSpins
“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
Cheekymonkey82
Why is death yelling at us!
2717101295
He doesn't yell, or speak for that matter. You simply hear him in your head. That's why Death doesn't have quotation marks and full caps.
shutupjusttrustmeimanemtigotthisohmygodwhatthehellisthat
SQUEAK
DinosaurusRex24
YEEE GOOD OMENS
libaf
Bet he grinned too. Not like he has a choice anyway.
ThePiethief
AH, DRAMA
JlHADJOE
Getting stuck in traffic sucks. Plus when you get to the party all the seats are taken and someone's eaten all the hotdogs.
dschuma
I loved at the beginning of mort when mort is running around and just eats shit, his parents are just like... jesus christ hes an idiot
ionlyunderstandsomereferences
I just finished the book, so
doctopussy
Me too!!
Same, just yesterday
TooFastTim
Also same would like to read that
justinbaker1996
What book?
TotallyNotATerrorist
Apparently it's "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
SirWindstorm
Yea should have spotted the quote I feel dumber now
LongCommentChainAppreciator
Terry Pratchett writes awesome books.
IPostPrettyGirlsForEzPoints
OriginalUsername133
Dying wasn't a good omen last time I checked.
catalystdwarf
In the Bible it goes like this: rider on white horse with bow, rider on red horse with sword, rider on a black horse with scales, and death.
DocWino
Would make some bad ass tats.
Muzzleshield
Who else thought of Red Dead Redemption?
JainaSoloFel
☝
Aquatomahawk
https://youtu.be/PghNEN-29CQ
DXAshram
Man, Metallica taught me Time was a Horseman...
xblacknredsocks
Same here didn't realize war was one
1douchebag
Yeah, you figure Hetfield would have been on top of that one with his Christian Scientist upbringing.
lance11
Was the 15,000th upvote, woo!
TheDroidLukeAlmostBought
Scrolled to the bottom half expecting Michael Cera
tfbrown69
Hecklah
Imgur you scary
covertvector
Source: http://www.bradburriscreative.com/20th-ce">y-fox-1">http://www.bradburriscreative.com/20th-century-fox-1, http://thomasguindon.com/project/x-men-apocalypse/
DiabloGrandeArts
Thanks. :)
drakhavik
Thankyou. They have a picture of them all side by side... finally a wallpaper I like.
chadders87
What about Ronnie Soak a.k.a Kaos. It's not his fault he quit the team before they became famous, there were artistic differences afterall.
Splaih
How is this not a deck of cards?
Unbarring
Damn I want a new Darksiders game alrighty
Clancy117
This makes me think of Darksiders as well. I got to play the second game. Did both playthroughs and beat the game 100%.
SilverJack0
Same here! I need a game with all four horsemen kicking ass
umpalumpasuckedmydong
And then on the good side we have.... Chuck
kittencana
This art is amazing! 10/10!
Anubisx3000
Gave me goose bumps!
Yourmomismymom
http://imgur.com/m5kjGMJ made it a proper background for computer
mrfirebass
I want a multiplayer darksiders game
PrometheanHost
Eh I prefer single player, and I just want a new Darksiders game. If the game is multiplayer I want it to be multiplayer optional.
mrfirebass
yeah like borderlands where its not essential but it does help, and i would also like local multiplayer as an option as well 4-player
wwcasedo
Those types of games don't exist anymore... Might as well ask for Ultimate Alliance 3
mrfirebass
agh, right in the nostalgia, marvel ultimate alliance 1 and 2 is how i got most of my marvel knowledge
AbsolutelyBarbaric
Nice, but Pestilence isn't considered one of the Four Horsemen. It should be Conquest instead. (Only vaguely sure about any of this)
jaychay
Surely, famine and pestilence are quite simmilar ????
AbsolutelyBarbaric
I mean, I feel like starving to death is different than dying of dysentery.
Blakfyre77
It's up to interpretation, but it was originally Conquest, then Pestilence became popular during the Black Plague. For obvious reasons.
ThisNameIsRegistered
TheBadassGunslingerFromtheChi
I see you illuminati.
mockingbird75
That all seeing eye seems bored af.
ereHemaNoN
Maybe it has seen enough?
Swiggy1957
There should be a Trump card in this deck.
PacoAlaTaco
It's the last one
PrometheanHost
Nah it's the 3rd
DoctorSpaceDog
lol i disagree with a politician so he's literally going to destroy the planet
PacoAlaTaco
Yeah we'll have the last laugh when Trump, Magneto and the gang get here. Not letting you inside the X-Mansion
SonnyDunkin
The REAL 4 Horsemen are Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Barry Windham & Sid Vicious.
ertwurmjim
Woooooooo!
RoosterHogburn
Lose Windham and Vicious, take the original Four - Ric Flair, Arn and Ole Anderson, and Tully Blanchard!
SonnyDunkin
I appreciate your knowledge of old school WCW, but those 4 were my favorite version of the Horsemen. Brainbusters 4 life tho.
thebluestthingsonearth
WOOOO!!
Blakfyre77
Anyone got a translation for the hieroglyphics? I tried with a chart from google and it was complete gibberish
Aquatomahawk
Supernatural still has the best intro for death ever. Like shit man. Chills up the spine.
ChaoticScholar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHgpW4b5ew
Aquatomahawk
https://youtu.be/PghNEN-29CQ here's a HD clip of it
DeanWinchesterIsMySpiritAnimal
I was looking for this comment. +1
allwehavetodecideiswhattodowiththetimethatisgiventous
"Ohhhh Death"
Zaprox
Originally the first one was Conquest not Pestilence.
Bystandr
Actually the order is traditionally war-famine-pestilence-death
Bystandr
'Conquest is arguably a mis - translation. It was decided pestilence is closer as it encompases all things that can infest.. be they fungoid
Bystandr
, insect , bacterial , viral or what have you.
Greypuppy
I always thought it was War, Famine, Conquest, and Pestilence.
JTstupidhead
conquest leads to war leads to famine (resources) which leads to death.
joggertg
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/bindingofisaac/images/e/ed/Conquest.png/revision/20120716115805
MolotovCockatiel88
Playing tboi is the only reason I knew that too lol
HandsomeMcMuscles
Wasn't it a mistranslation? Something like that.
blairmichod
Nope. Revelations make it explicit. However, 'Conquest' sounds like 'War' and thus
blairmichod
'Pestilence' arose to replace it in popular culture.
RoosterHogburn
nitpick, but *Revelation.
TwoLeftNipples
I know these because of the binding of Isaac
JIM0rgan
Get me one o dem cubes of meat. (Or balls of bandages)
legofan1199
Thanks me too
bweern
Same.
classynurse
Saberslayer1738
Pretty cool
TimeAndMemeLordOfGallifrey
Could see this playing with the Nyan cat theme music
IuryCampos
Where is this from
classynurse
not sure originally, found it as a signature on forums long time ago, kept it because it was neat
MoesToes
Aw, they're so cute.
AskingTheRealQuestionsToTheInternet
.
eludedjoy
So little so evil.
9Gag12YrOld
I rate this a 5/7, better than fight club
Frutzen
A perfect score
roachbug101
Finally someone remembered conquest exists
takeusthereskitch
5th Horseman: Procrastination
TheSwedishStag
*Masturbation
Spartan0311
We are going to include him right after this Walking Dead marathon.
Stevangelist
5th Horseman: Your mom. (and I never make those jokes)
weastside
They're working on the picture for that...... someday
Procrastinatron
You rang?
sapyro
I'll find a picture for procrastination later
ChuckGrant
It will come for you tomorrow. Or next month. Whenever he feels like it.
vondeluth
Sloth, basically.
ATransgenderedRose
No, that was just planned, he never actually got around to it before the world ended, that's why there's only 4.
Virtuoso
Kaos
therealsiem
Ronny Soak
Virtuoso
Ronnie*
therealsiem
In my defence, it's been a number of years since i read it
ectopunk
I'll comment on this post later.
SumYungHo
shouldn't that be the 1st Horseman
NyamoDarrath
I thought it was Kaos the milk deliverer?
UrsaUrsa
Good ol' Ronny Soak :D
ManofScience
Thief of Time will always be my favourite
serakaida
Don't forget he changed his name to Chaos. Slightly more organised.
glacialbae
Hmm. Having only listened to those books, I didn't know it was spelled like that..
grumblegrumblegrumble
Yeah, you'd expect Chaos but it's a kind of half-anagram of (Ronnie) Soak so... *pushes glasses up nose*
Nythrohotep
7th: Imigir.
YodasLeftEar
i like me some imigir
GoodGameYoungLad
The most deadly horseman of all
SpamYarBlockers
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
flufmasaflex
I feel like "death" could just do it all instead of taking a 1/4 cut
weastside
Hardest worker for sure
IReallyWonder
Nah he's a lazy fuck. He prefers hanging back and let the others do all the groundwork, he has enough on his plate with aging and nature.
Wombatish
Death isn't (always) suffering, especially in the Christian worldview, nor does it always show the ills of man.
seanagon
The other 3/4 wont always kill you but will always leave you permanently changed
BacalaoPequeno
The 4 Horsemen mythology comes from before people knew what brain aneurysms and heart attacks were. They probably just thought people died 1
BacalaoPequeno
Because Death decided to kill them, and for no clear reason. So I'd say Death encompasses what the others don't
LiterallyYourMom
Death is inevitable though, the rest aren't. He's like the doom metal of horsemen.
GnomeChompski
Well biblically speaking, the four horseman were actually war, conquest, famine, and death/pestilence.
ThrKingLion
There are thousands of ways to wind up dead....
TheMachineKill3r
You need some suffering before you can die, duh
verynamesuchamazewow
Death gets everyone eventually but she's the nice one. The others aren't as patient. Death is the calm one that keeps the others in line.
Sephiyevon
One quarter portion.
HowlingDysphoria
I read it in his voice
ExpressDownvoteElevatorToHell
Pretty sure War has the other three covered.
Terraplex
Death just does the clean up work for everyone else.
DushBid911
Well, there IS a game where he just rips shit apart. Darksiders 2?
IEatBush
Death can also be an easy way out compared to the other three.
flufmasaflex
We don't know that, he's pretty vague. That scares me, what if it's death by disappointing lottery draws
IEatBush
I think you're much better off than the guy who is starving...
flufmasaflex
Wow take a joke
MisterNesbitt
Where should we take this joke?
Mordreas
Didn't you hear, pestilence quit. Muttering something about penicillin. Pollution has his job now.
AmateurArtist001
Nice reference
Feegert
In some parts of the world Gluttony has taken Famine's job :(
MyBodyIsBready
Just finished this on Friday!
Bystandr
pestilence is about to make a comeback
Robootman
Tell that to Malaria
LePuma
Ineffable
GingerLaird
Nah, Pestilence is still a horseman, he's just taken up the form of cancer.
ziggyahoo
You can thank dean and Sam for that
ThatOneGuyAzazel
Love that book
7snowmen
Haven't you heard? Antibiotics are not working so well anymore.
browsib
I thought Sam and Dean killed him
IDoNotTotallyUnderstandWhatIsGoingOn
I think he's on his way back with the antivaccers
PegLegSteg
You forgot about AIDS
PuppermintJerryJr
DAMMT, YOU BEAT ME TO IT.
XenomorphZZ
All that colistin resistant bacteria in China yo.
MrPredator
Naw, VRSA is coming with a vengeance, along with MDRTB.
MuldersSexSlave
Googled it. Thanks for the nightmare fuel.
MrPredator
Heh heh. There is far, far greater nightmare fuel, trust me. VRSA is just the tip of the anti-biotic resistant apocalypse.
HEXADECIMAL
http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/about.html
Ben4983
Excellent reference!
Aguynamedcarl
Necrolyte: "you'll need more than a dose of penicillin to get rid of me"
MLGsamantha
And his job was originally Conquest's. Man, don't be a Horseman of the Apocalypse, the turnover rate is huge. Massive red flag there.
mithiwithi
War and Death still seem to be stable gigs.
busdriverdan
Yeah, they even got their own games! Lucky!
Pestilence2k
I'm actually relevant. (See: drug-resistant superorganisms)
ZeroZeta
I love you for this comment.
that808guy
Favoriting this just for the comment
friendlyneighborhoodanesthetist
Forgot about anti-vaxers. And economic barriers to healthcare access. :/
NazaxPrime
-_-
striketwo
"Radiation may last for thousands of years but arsenic is forever."
LuGaroux
As someone deathly allergic to penicillin: heh.
Nopssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Pestilence its still here, humans are the plague now.
TheCausticCynic
Oh you think penicillin guaranties our safety from diseases, that's cute.
hyl3rid
pestilence will find it ways back
justleaveittome
We are quickly leaving the antibiotic age.
imjeremiad
Pestilence will ride again when supply chains break down.
izAbean
It's supposed to be Conquest. I don't know why people keep switching him for Pestilence. Though Pollution works, I guess...
RoelTheDeer
It was replaced in popular culture at some point and now it is just in collective consciousness.Even Christians don't know the original four
Rapiecage
somewhere in the middle ages, pestilence became more of a thing, and conquest less common.
WhereCanYouSeeLions
Because it made for a better joke.
JackHammahTattoos
Think about it, conquest used to bring all the rest of the riders with him in mini apocalypses. Why there are ancient civs noone knows
Gonz000
I feel like conquest and war seem a bit too similar. Also though, everything else is objectively bad. Conquest somewhat isnt.
TheFoxCouncil
I wouldn't say that death is objectively bad. Just part of life.
girlpants
I'd probably say that famine is the only thing from the 4 that could be feasible defeated entirely, with effort.
TheFoxCouncil
It depends how far you extend the concept of war.
jweeks
Conquest and War though sound similar in normal use mean something closer to Conquest from an outside force and Civil War
ThePotatoBandit
Oh no he's not out of the job yet, not if Anti-vaccinators have anything to say about it, which might be a thing. FUN FACT TRUMP IS ANTIVAX
notDylanOBrien
Malaria
CaptnTightPants
And his signature was smudged, where it might have ended in "estilence" or "ollution"
DrNoise
Must be left handed because that is one major fuck up.
chettlar
Yeah but some signatures though man, ya know?
DrNoise
True. I'd have to say that my signature is quite awful. Right handed though, I have no excuse for ir being bad.
Phorenzic
All hail the harbingers
IAMCHAZZ
They missed Grievous Bodily Harm
EvilLesbian
I was about to say! No love for GBH? And Answerphones/Really Cool People, Cruelty to Animals, and... whatever Scuzz is called at the moment.
boneclawmother
Sodding covered in fish!
EvilLesbian
I would have listed all his names, but I couldn't fit them in the comment box! :P
ISayFuckAllTheTime
Writer needs help: polar opposite of pestilence, which is ALSO a bad thing. Example: famine->gluttony, war->stagnation...
ArtemisOzzimmer
I thought he said "Have some MRSA bitches, and tell Ebola he still owes me 20 bucks".
WhatsAHoya
"I got this new party trick, it's called AIDS. And you're gonna LOVE retro day, when measles and rubella make a comeback!"
daementia
As a survivor of MRSA...that shit will fuck you up.
HEXADECIMAL
A Nurse friend of me lost her eye to MRSA.
NinitaPita
I have a giant scar on my booty where I got it. They had to dig it out twice cause they missed some the first time. Sucked.
Mmann2014
Had it twice... still got my arm and leg, literally.
pomegranatearmageddon
Pretty surprised this isn't here already. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1520
ravensourcious
That's what they thought, but now he has MRSA
SavageOfFirmanach
Brilliant
OddlyDrawnWerewolf
+1 for anything DiscWorld
TheBigGay
i mean this is good omens but yes
OddlyDrawnWerewolf
Oh poop and he's my favorite author too. I should've gotten this
pugofstardock
Pratchett but not discworld. Good Omen
madmanrampant
And Neil Gaiman
HereticsAllOfYou
Halfway through that book right now.
boattrash
It's quite excellent!!
UrsaUrsa
Finished re-reading it a week ago :D Now I'm reading "Science of Discworld" and it's great :)
MattCale
How does it stack up to small gods?
UrsaUrsa
Small Gods is a Discworld novel, Good Omens is about the Apocalypse and set mostly in England :D
Spartan0311
You must not have met his new bff antibiotic resistant super bug. But I laughed so +1.
BootsCatsBeeeeeeez
Exactly
IMadeThisOnlyForDestinyCodeBegging
It's from a book. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
izAbean
Also antivaccers
Totallyscrewedinaustin
That problem will sort itself out
TheSaintedPhysicianDoctor
Hooray for natural selection
Attacker732
Not soon enough to avoid serious problems for the people who are allergic to or aren't strong enough for vaccines.
cmo2424
That's still kinda natural selection
SmallLoanOfAMillionSpins
“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
Cheekymonkey82
Why is death yelling at us!
2717101295
He doesn't yell, or speak for that matter. You simply hear him in your head. That's why Death doesn't have quotation marks and full caps.
shutupjusttrustmeimanemtigotthisohmygodwhatthehellisthat
SQUEAK
DinosaurusRex24
YEEE GOOD OMENS
libaf
Bet he grinned too. Not like he has a choice anyway.
ThePiethief
AH, DRAMA
JlHADJOE
Getting stuck in traffic sucks. Plus when you get to the party all the seats are taken and someone's eaten all the hotdogs.
dschuma
I loved at the beginning of mort when mort is running around and just eats shit, his parents are just like... jesus christ hes an idiot
ionlyunderstandsomereferences
I just finished the book, so
doctopussy
Me too!!
MyBodyIsBready
Same, just yesterday
TooFastTim
Also same would like to read that
justinbaker1996
What book?
TotallyNotATerrorist
Apparently it's "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
SirWindstorm
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TooFastTim
Yea should have spotted the quote I feel dumber now
LongCommentChainAppreciator
Terry Pratchett writes awesome books.
IPostPrettyGirlsForEzPoints
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OriginalUsername133
Dying wasn't a good omen last time I checked.