Canid117 said:
There is the four horsemen of the apocalypse from the bible.
On a less frivolous note, there would be serious drawbacks to being too much like one of them.
I don't have a bible here and I'm not trekking 15 miles to borrow my great-grandmother's so I'll have to go from memory but ...
The first has a bow and a crown and conquers stuff. That's not too bad, I suppose, but is that all you'd get to do? Arnold didn't look
happy at the end of
Conan.
The second takes peace from the Earth, so basically everywhere you go wars break out. The one in
Good Omens used this as the basis of a career as a war correspondent, but you'd never get to enjoy the full playlist at any concert or sit through an entire sports match again.
The third one went around weighing stuff and had OCD about fair pricing and proper transport of food and beverages, which frankly sounds like a terrible way to live. It also sounds like the European Union, if you go by the stories in the
Sun and
Mail.
The fourth one, well, you get to be Death but that means very few people welcome your embrace. Hell follows with you, so you never get invited to garden parties or weddings. Of course, you can go there anyway, but you're unlikely to be welcome. You get power over a fourth part of the Earth to kill with the sword and with hunger and with death and with the beasts of the Earth, which might be really cool as long as you kept your self-control. You could, at the very least, have Eminem eaten by a pack of wild badgers (credit Edible Dirt for the idea). Given that, I'd teach the various whaling fleets to fear a certain fourth part of the Earth.
Whichever one you got, though, wouldn't you be stuck waiting for some freaky seven-eyed lamb to come and open the seals and let you out?
