Four Heavenly Kings (disambiguation)

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Four Heavenly Kings may mean or refer to:

Contents 1 Religion 2 People 2.1 Hong Kong/China 2.2 Japan 2.3 Taiwan 3 Popular culture 3.1 Film 3.2 TV 3.3 Anime 3.4 Video games

[edit] Religion

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

[edit] People

[edit] Hong Kong/China

• The Four Heavenly Kings (Chinese: 四大天王) of cantopop are Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, and Aaron Kwok. Hacken Lee was later called the "Unnamed Fifth King". In the 1990s, they were the most popular Hong Kong male artists, ranked in terms of record sales and popularity.

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

[edit] Japan

• The Four Heavenly Kings (Japanese: 四天王) also known as Shitennō (samurai), is applied to four loyal retainers of Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, and some of the other great samurai of legend.

• 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.

[edit] Taiwan

• The Four Small Heavenly Kings of Taiwan are Takeshi Kaneshiro, Nicky Wu, Alec Su, and Jimmy Lin. They were the four most popular teen idols in Taiwan in the early 1990s.

• 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 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.

[edit] Popular culture

[edit] Film

• 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.

[edit] TV

• The Four Heavenly Kings in the Ultraman Mebius series refers to four extremely powerful aliens who intent to destroy the Ultras, particularly Ultraman Mebius. They serve under the all-powerful Alien Empera and are said to be survivors of the Ultimate Wars - a war beetwen the Ultras and race of aliens who attacked their home planet. They are: Alien Mefilas, Deathrem, Glozam, and Yapool.

[edit] Anime

• 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. These trainers are referred to as gods, and can be identified from other trainers by their cockiness and bragging ability. Many in the Pokémon world look up to them as role models (Misty to Lorelei, Brawly to Bruno, senior citizens to Agatha, Clair to Lance, etc.) They serve as the player's final foil before facing the Pokémon League current reigning champion.

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

• The Four Heavenly Kings in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo are Captain Battleship, Kittypoo, Over, and Halekulani of the Maruhage Empire. There is also another set of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Reverse Maruhage Empire. They are Halon Oni, The Three Sacks, Crimson, and LOVE.

[edit] Video games

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

• The Four Heavenly Kings or Four Devas of Shadoloo in the Street Fighter series, commonly known as "The Grand Masters", refer to the fighters known as Balrog, Vega, Sagat and M. Bison, the final four bosses of Street Fighter II.

• 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 Kunio-kun series refers to four particular students from the Reihou Academy which are (in the order fought) Taira, Mochizuki, Kinoshita and Kobayashi (the head of the group). In River City Ransom, these characters are known as the Zombies.