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The Four Horsemen: SCP and bonus

To begin this section dedicated to the representations of the Four Horsemen on the web, I'll mention the webcomic SSDD (see the strip here: http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20000103.html ) This comic strip is not much, but I still find it interesting. We see the four main characters of the webcomic represented as the Horsemen. War is dressed in an American military outfit, armed, wielding a gun, with a helmet saying "Born to Kill". His eyes are pure darkness, and he rides a horse that looks like he was skinned alive and then a sort of metallic armor was put on him (he even has what seems to be the muzzle of a gun coming out of its mouth). Pestilence is a long-haired, shaggy and dirty man, with worn-out and stinking brown rags as well as a top hat. Surrounded by flies, his eyes glow green and he rides a brown horse with a green hood. Famine is a skinny, bony and emaciated man, constantly scarfing down a bucket of fried chicken, with eyes entirely red, as red as blood, and a brown horse with a red hood. Finally Death takes the shape of a typical Grim Reaper: a man with a black hooded robe and wielding a scythe. His eyes glow of a white/greyish color, and he mounts a brown horse with a blue hood. Here, War is a bit too eager to cause the Apocalypse when the year 2000 strikes. As Pestilence reminds him, all the signs of the Apocalypse are missing, and these signs are: rivers of blood, the sun going out, the return of the Christ and the comeback of disco. Now, to go on to "bigger fishes" of the Internet, let's take a look at the SCP Foundation, host of all the weirdest things you can imagine and experts at twisting folklore. The Four Horsemen are actually an SCP, SCP-1295. I am spoiling you the document, but basically the Four Horsemen arrived on Earth when the atomic bomb blew off at the end of World War II, War mistaking it for the sign that the end was coming. When they realized that it wasn't at all the Apocalypse, but merely another human fight, they ended up stuck on Earth, and now they wait for the end of times. They spend every day, from nine AM to 6 PM, at "Meg's Good Eatin", a highway diner, under the appearance of "elderly men". The twist here is that the real danger of the Horsemen is when they decide NOT to be there, or NOT to enforce their own disasters. As in, if the Horsemen are ever prevented to enter the diner or forced out of it, they will just say "Fine, do without me!" or go grumpy and say "I'm not doing my job anymore" and it will lead to destructive results. (Also, each Horseman has a human name but it is unclear is this is their real name or an alias) # If War ("Warren") is the one angered, people around him (one hundred meters around him during the first hour, then two hundred, then three hundred...) will lose all kind of self-preservation instinct and enter in a lethargic state that will make any kind of accident potentially fatal. Because without War, there is no kind of self-defense or desire to act, live, fight. # If Famine ("Frederick") is the one angered, people will lose their ability to differentiate what is edible or not, endangering or killing themselves by eating metal, toxic products, trash, "living flesh", etc... If there is no Famine, everyone can eat everything! # If Pestilence ("Pat") is the one removed, everyone will see their bodies "lose all form of microbial lifeforms associated with them". For exemple, the digestive system flora will disappear, resulting in an incapacity of digesting food normally. If Pestilence is out, well all microbes and bacterias may as well die, even the most useful ones! # If Death ("Dwight") is the one removed, he will cause the opposite of War's effects. Everyone will see their self-protective instincts rise up and become sharper, to the point of hypochondria and paranoia, so strong and so debilitating that people refuse to do anything that might put them into danger, no matter how small or ridiculous this danger may be. After all, isn't the best way to prevent people from dying merely to make them perpetually conscious and perpetually afraid of their own mortality? In a very funny way, War reveals himself to be very old-fashionned, preferring elephants over all those "new trends" that he doesn't understand, such as drones, remotes and "electro-thingies". And Famine always asks the other if they will finish their orders. Always. Even though they have always finished their orders in sixty years. As Frederick says, he is an "optimist". In the Japanese webcomic adaptation "</i>Oversimplified SCP</i>", the Four Horsemen were interestingly re-interpreted. The Horseman that causes the lose of self-preservation and a debilitating lethargy is there Conquest, all dressed in white, with a crown drawn on his cap. As elderly as the others, he has a brown beard. Famine is still the same, represented as a chubby, dark-skinned, elderly man with grey hair and dressed in black and gray. His scale is drawn on his sweater, and he is kind of the meak, timid, almost cute one. The Horseman that kills the bacterias is reinterpreted as Death here, a bald man with a grey mustache, a blue bandana ornated with skulls, and dressed in a delinquant/biker kind of way. (And here he acts in a very violent and wrathful way). Finally, the Horseman that makes people fear any kind of danger is reinterpreted as War, a sharply-dressed and calm elderly man with white hair and a red suit, using a katana as a cane, ironically always calm and never angry or overtly emotional.