Black Canary VS Sindel

Black Canary VS Sindel is the 121st episode of Death Battle, featuring Black Canary from DC Comics and Sindel from the Mortal Kombat series in a battle between martial artist banshees. Black Canary was voiced by Blythe Renay and Sindel was voiced by Caitlyn Elizabeth.
==Interlude==
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick, where Boomstick is shuddering and Wiz is plugging his ears as Princess Fiona's high-pitched cry plays on their monitor.
Wiz: It's a trope we're all familiar with, the damsel in distress crying for help.
Boomstick: Uh, yeah, Wiz, don't think that's the case here, 'cause these two are the opposite. If you ever hear their cry, you're dead.
We cut to the combatants' name cards.
Wiz: Black Canary, the blonde bare-knuckled brawler of DC Comics.
Boomstick: And Sindel, the literal scream queen from Mortal Kombat.
We cut back to Wiz and Boomstick.
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
==Black Canary==
Wiz: Behold, the Justice Society of America. The first recorded team of superheroes in the DC universe.
Boomstick: Where else could you find a boxer in a catsuit chillin' with the spirit of God's divine wrath?
Wiz: And among these men and Gods stood a woman: the judo-chopping Black Canary.
Boomstick: Wait, why a canary? Canaries don't know Judo. ...Or do they?
Wiz: However, this is not the Black Canary we'll be focusing on today. See, the Black Canary of the Golden Age may have been a skilled crime fighter in her own right, but the one who made the moniker a household name was her daughter, Dinah Laurel Lance.
Boomstick: Dinah wanted to be a crime fighter just like her mom, so she trained with Wildcat. The-the furry boxer I mentioned earlier.
Wiz: Her mother wasn't very happy about that, though. Young Dinah's career could've ended then and there, if not for the discovery of what she likes to call her Canary Cry.
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Black Canary uses the Canary Cry, forcing Green Arrow and two others to cover their ears.
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Wiz: Cases such as these weren't ordinary, but well-explained.
Wiz: See, Dinah possessed the metagene, a dormant slice of genetic code present in about 12% of humanity granting superhuman abilities.
Boomstick: Nah, a wizard did it. With her new power and martial arts training, Dinah took up her mother's mantle and became Black Canary. The second one! Is it weird that her mom was also named Dinah? They're really formin' a "Dinah-sty", haha.
Wiz: Fun fact, originally she disguised herself by donning a blonde wig, but eventually just dyed it permanently.
Boomstick: Blonde? Don't you mean... yell-ow?
The music stops abruptly.
Wiz: (groans extensively) Regardless, the Canary Cry is no joke. By emitting focused ultrasonic sound, Dinah can annihilate the eardrums of anyone nearby.
Boomstick: Or just ramp up the volume and blow people away with shockwaves. She can even stop a runaway train!
Wiz: It's quite versatile, too. She can focus her cries into small sonic projectiles, or broaden them to affect entire cities.
Boomstick: And by screaming hard enough at the ground, she can freaking fly! How the hell does that shit work?
Wiz: Let's dig into this for a bit. For a soundwave to become a shockwave, it must possess an intensity of at least 194 decibels. For reference, Black Canary's highest recorded scream clocks in at over 300 decibels.
Boomstick: That's the same level of 'bels as a volcano erupting!
Wiz: All that power comes with a fairly obvious weakness, though; if her throat is damaged, she'll be unable to produce the cry.
Boomstick: That's why she's got some nifty ultrasonic Canary Bombs that do the super shouting for her.
Wiz: Not to say she's useless without her superpower, of course.
Boomstick: She's one of comics' greatest ass-kickers.
Wiz: Thanks to Wildcat and her mother, Dinah has trained in jiu-jitsu, karate, Krav-Maga, capoeira, and many, many more styles of martial arts.
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
Wiz: She knows holds that can put you to sleep, a punch that can detonate your heart, and even how to cause instant death by pushing a single nerve cluster.
Boomstick: She's basically the furious, blood-soaked love child of Kenshiro and The Bride from Kill Bill. Also, before we go on...
He holds up a canary in his hand and Mecha-Goose Howard under his arm.
Boomstick: All this kung-fu talk makes me want to see a Judo canary in action. And what better opponent than our very own Mecha-Goose Howard?
Wiz: Uh, did you teach it Judo?
The Mecha-Goose fires its twin-maser cannons and the canary is turned to dust. The music stops.
Boomstick: So, uh, turns out they don't know Judo. Where was the heads-up on that one, Wiz?
We cut back to the analysis.
Wiz: Even with all that, Dinah's greatest strength is perhaps her uncanny ability to learn and adapt mid-fight. It's what makes her such a great sparring partner to superhuman martial arts masters like Wonder Woman. It was during a fight with her, in fact, that Black Canary claimed she could perceive time down to the nanosecond.
Boomstick: Sounds crazy, right? But believe it. How else could she keep up with someone like Wonder Woman? Or how about the time she battled these Red Tornado androids? Green Lantern was using his Power Ring to scan for weaknesses, but Dinah said, "F That!" and stabbed it hundreds of times super fast. She found its literal Achilles' heel before the Power Ring finished scanning.
Wiz: That's right, she outsped an alien supercomputer. Keep in mind, Dinah does not technically possess superhuman speed or strength.
Boomstick: But I wouldn't be surprised if she secretly drank some super-soldier serum at some point, 'cause she can outmuscle superhumans and smash steel like it's flimsy wood.
Wiz: Given the yield strength of steel and the size of her elbow, Dinah must've exerted a force of around 27 tons.
Boomstick: The gal survived a fall into the ocean from a thousand feet, and even her own Canary Cry reflected back at her.
Wiz: It helps that she has a special membrane in her ears that protects her from shockwaves.
Boomstick: Can't say the same for this robot dude, Amazo! For a murder-happy android with the combined powers of the entire Justice League, he sure could've packed some aspirin.
Wiz: She may be stubborn and hot-headed, but with her powers and training fine-tuned, Dinah proved her mom wasn't the only Black Canary to be reckoned with. She even teamed up with groups such as the infamous Birds of Prey, and at one point in charge of the Justice League, the spiritual successor to the original Justice Society.
Boomstick: Next to her main man, Green Arrow. They spent a lot of time stickin' arrows in that quiver, uh-heh, if you know what I mean. They did sex.
Wiz: Long story short, Black Canary is, without a doubt, one of the most badass women in comic book history.
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Black Canary does two extended punches and a kick before unleashing her Canary Cry at the camera.
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==Sindel==
Wiz: The realm of Edenia was a paradise, a... Garden of Eden, if you will.
Boomstick: You said that like it was supposed to be clever.
Wiz: Under the rule of King Jerrod and Queen Sindel, the realm prospered for millennia. Until the arrival of Outworld conqueror Shao Kahn and the tournament of Mortal Kombat.
Boomstick: MORTAL KOMBAT! 
He sings to the Mortal Kombat theme.
Wiz: By decree of the Elder Gods, an invading force from another realm must defeat the defending world 10 consecutive times in a tournament to the death.
Boomstick: Unfortunately for Edenia, Kahn dabbed on their asses and won Edenia for himself.
Wiz: To legitimize his rule, Kahn murdered Jerrod, married Sindel, and adopted her daughter Kitana as his own. Excessive? Probably.
Boomstick: Needless to say, Sindy wasn't too happy about all that. But it turns out she was a kung-fu sorcerer! So, to avenge her kingdom, she underwent a mystic ritual where she offed herself to protect Kahn's next target, Earthrealm, and it worked!
Wiz: For a time. After 10,000 years of hopelessly failing to take the Earth, Kahn learned how to undo her protective ward.
Wiz: Sindel was resurrected, brainwashed, and transformed into a fierce queen of dark magic and terror.
Boomstick: She was back and ready to slay, and ho-holy shit, did she.
Wiz: Sindel's Edenian physiology gives her superhuman strength, speed, and durability, allowing her to make mincemeat of Mortal Kombat's regular combatants.
Boomstick: You better have said that with a "K".
Wiz: And despite being dead for the past 10,000 years, she's somehow a master of two forms of Chinese kung-fu. Zha Chuan originates from northern China and is known for its eloquent, graceful extended movements. Fu Jow Pai, also known as the Tiger Claw system, focuses on fast, powerful strikes.
Boomstick: Sindel also wields a Kwan Dao. It's a glaive designed for long-range deflection and carvin' people up like a Thanksgiving turkey.
Wiz: Though, she hardly needs a weapon when she already has one: her hair. She can command it to stretch like a tentacle, constrict opponents, and act essentially as an extra prehensile limb.
Boomstick: Not gonna lie, Wiz, that's uh... kinda hot.
Wiz: Oh? Would you still think so if she used it to spin you like a top fast enough to obliterate your body?
Boomstick: What a way to go.
Wiz: Okay... Well, all that pales in comparison to her signature ability: the Banshee Scream.
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We see Sindel using her Banshee Scream.
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Wiz: This ultrasonic shout is powerful enough to detonate heads, split limbs, and rend flesh. Her screaming power can even be focused into mystical fireballs of destruction called Star Screamers.
Boomstick: Oh, like that Transformer that we had that pony eat his soul.
Wiz: No. Sindel once screamed with enough force to annihilate a large part of a canyon. This resembles the effects of a magnitude 5.0 earthquake, comparable to nearly 500 tons of TNT exploding all at once.
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
Boomstick: With power like that, it's no wonder she was able to strut through Earthrealm's mightiest heroes. Which include our old pal, Sub-Zero!
He holds up his skull. Wiz stares.
Boomstick: What? I kept it as a souvenir.
Wiz: Who, along with most of the series' Kombatants, can shatter a block of pure diamond with his bare hand. A feat like this would require a pressure of at least 60 gigapascals. That's over 4,300 tons of force per square inch.
Boomstick: And Kabal!
He holds up his skull.
Wiz: Who was fast enough to swat machine gunfire out of the air, like the flies in Boomstick's bathroom.
Boomstick: ...Accurate.
We cut back to the analysis.
Wiz: Judging by the likely muzzle velocity and rate of fire, Kabal must've been reacting within six-hundredths of a second in order to consistently parry these bullets.
Boomstick: And he blocked a bunch of 'em back to back to back! Too bad Sindel wound up gettin' blown up and brainwashed all over again. Man, this chick can't catch a break. Though the zombie-milf thing's kinda workin' for her.
Wiz: Well, that's only one possible timeline. In the original story, she was actually freed from Shao Kahn and regained control of Edenia. In another, it seems the killing of her royal husband was actually her plan all along.
Boomstick: Either way, we're talkin' about Mortal Kombat. They all die eventually. But compared to the queen, everyone else might as well have been silent.
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Sindel gathers up purple energy and unleashes her Banshee Scream.
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==Prelude==
==Death Battle==
A Mortal Kombat tournament is being held in an arena hosted by Shao Kahn, with most of the spectators consisting of Tarkatans. In the center of the arena, a challenger Tarkatan is brutally defeated by Black Canary.
Black Canary: Tsk. Talk about Scooby-Doo meets Fight Club.
Sindel emerges from behind Shao Kahn's throne and approaches the battlefield.
Sindel: Enough of this farce, Earthrealmer. Behold, your queen!
She levitates and hovers to the opposite side of the tournament stage.
Sindel: I shall strip the flesh from your bones.
Black Canary readies her fighting stance.
Shao Kahn: FIGHT!
Both combatants dash towards each other. Sindel tries kicking Dinah, but she quickly avoids the blow and attacks the queen from behind. She anticipates Sindel's follow-up attacks and punches her away. As Sindel stops to regain her breath, Black Canary leaps upward and grips Sindel in her knees before flipping and tossing her opponent into the ground.
Dinah prepares to unleash a high kick on Sindel's head, but Sindel stretches her hair to snatch and slam Canary into the floor multiple times before tossing her high into the air. Black Canary is sent careening into the sky as Sindel flies and punches her in the gut, breaking a few ribs in the process. She then flips backward before clashing knees with her opponent, which cracks her tibia and fibula.
Black Canary: AHHHHH!
Black Canary falls back onto the ground holding her injured leg, while Sindel floats back down.
Sindel: Are you hurt, child?
Black Canary tries to go for a punch, only for Sindel to grab her fist and her other arm.
Sindel: Let me sing you a lullaby.
Sindel goes for a point-blank Banshee Scream, only for Black Canary to immediately headbutt Sindel, sending her flying back.
Black Canary: No kidding. I almost fell asleep.
Black Canary uses her Canary Cry, Sindel quickly reacts and uses her Banshee Scream, making a stalemate between the scream queens. Dinah ends the stalemate by increasing the intensity of the Canary Cry, which overpowers the Banshee Scream and hits Sindel, making her fly out of the arena and damaging the stadium. Black Canary then turns towards Shao Kahn.
Black Canary: So are ring outs a thing here?
Sindel flies out of the rubble.
Sindel: Insufferable creature, we fight to the death!
Sindel fires out many Star Screamers, only for Dinah to dodge most of them and counter the rest of them with her Canary Cry. Sindel concentrates her Banshee Scream into a large Star Screamer and launches it towards Dinah. Dinah tries to stop it with her Canary Cry to no avail, as it explodes right above her which stuns her.
Sindel: Such a pretty bird, with such an ugly song.
Sindel takes advantage by stretching her hair across the arena and wraps it around Canary's neck.
Sindel: Tell me, can you fly?
Sindel flies up, stopping in front of the moon and begins to strangle Dinah with her hair. Black Canary reaches behind her back and grabs a Canary Bomb and tosses it in front of Sindel while smiling. The bomb explodes, sending Sindel upwards and Canary flying down towards the arena, Dinah notices this.
Black Canary: Oh, SHIIIII-
Black Canary uses her Canary Cry to send her flying back to Sindel, the latter goes for another Banshee Scream, only to be cut short when Dinah punches through Sindel's mouth and decapitates her by jerking her arm. Sindel's body crashes back onto the arena, while Dinah uses her Canary Cry to keep herself from getting hurt from the impact. She raises her arm in victory as Sindel's head falls back down.
Black Canary: Fatality.
==Results==
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
Boomstick: Looks like Sindel's head is blasting off agaaaii- or, well, the first time, technically so, ah, I tried to work it in, guys.
Wiz: This battle was a curious one. For the most part, Sindel's physical strength, projectiles, and aerial maneuverability let her keep up with the Bird of Prey.
We cut to the post-analysis.
Boomstick: Yeah, she was 160 times stronger. But Canary's made a living off fighting superhumans who are even stronger than that, like Mammoth and Giganta. So, I guess that wasn't that big of an advantage, really.
Wiz: Comparing Kabal's bullet timing to her nanosecond reaction, Dinah's reaction speed was easily 60 million times faster. And with her wide array of martial arts abilities, she certainly capitalized on this.
Boomstick: Sure, Sindel had some awesome moves, but sadly, stepping on people like a hot dominatrix doesn't quite stack up when Black Canary mastered way more fighting styles. Plus, she's been training all her life! Edenia was super peaceful before Shao Kahn came along. So, I doubt Sindel was takin' names and kickin' ass all before that.
Wiz: But let's move on to the comparison everyone wants to know: Which was deadlier, the Banshee Scream or the Canary Cry?
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
Wiz: We know Dinah's cry could reach 300 decibels. In comparison, the results of Sindel's most powerful scream are similar to a 5.0 earthquake, which is equivalent to only 235 decibels.
Boomstick: I know what you're thinkin', "That's a difference of only 65 decibels, that can't be all that different." WRONG! It's totally different, 'cause decibels are freakin' weird.
Wiz: See, decibels are not like meters or minutes which scale geometrically. Instead, decibels scale logarithmically. For every 10 decibels a sound is, its intensity increases tenfold. So, 30 decibels is 10 times greater than 20 decibels, 40 is 10 times greater than 30, and so on.
Boomstick: So, every increase multiplies the sound instead of just adding to it. Wait a minute, that means the Canary Cry would be—
Wiz: About a million times stronger than the Banshee Scream, nearly 500 megatons of TNT.
Boomstick: Awesome!
Boomstick opens a can of beer before we cut back to the post-analysis.
Wiz: The closest real-life comparison we can make is the Krakatoa eruption of 1883. A volcano blast so powerful, it could be heard over 3,000 miles away. Not so different from what Dinah has been shown to be capable of.
Boomstick: It also didn't hurt that Canary had those special membranes in her ears to guard against Sindel's scream.
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
Wiz: In the end, Canary had the speed, skill, and raw decibels to finish her.
Boomstick: It was Sindel's time to "die-nah".
Wiz: ...What, no pun about screams?
Boomstick: Well, I was gonna, but I thought a pun that obvious wouldn't be "a-loud".
We cut to the "Winner" card.
Wiz: The winner is Black Canary.
==Original Track==
===Composition===
The track for this fight is "Sirens of Combat" by Brandon Yates. It's a metal track with some violins and soft choir during certain parts. The metal genre could reflect Black Canary's and Sindel's screaming powers, considering that the metal genre in music is focused on loudness.
===Title===
The title refers to how both Black Canary and Sindel are fighters who also use their extremely loud voices as a weapon. "Combat" could also refer to Sindel's home series, Mortal Kombat, though it is noticeably spelled with a C instead of a K.
===Cover Art===
The cover art done by Luis Cruz depicts a silhouette of a canary in between Sindel's eyes, which are all in front of a group of sound waves.
==Trivia==
===Production===
*The core connections between Black Canary and Sindel are that they are both black-clad women who are skilled martial artists and banshees with the ability to produce highly destructive sonic screams (the Canary Cry and the Banshee Scream, respectively). In addition:
**Both are married to wealthy husbands (Black Canary is married to Green Arrow, who is the owner of Queen Industries, and Sindel is both married to Shao Kahn, who is Emperor of Outworld, and formerly married to Jerrod, king of Edenia).
**Both have appeared as playable characters in fighting game series developed by NetherRealm Studios (Injustice and Mortal Kombat, respectively).
**Their respective series have crossed over before in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, but neither were in the game. However, Raiden and Sub-Zero do compare Black Canary to Sindel in Injustice 2. 
*This is the first episode to have a fight announcement since Thanos VS Darkseid back in Season 5, with the next two being The Seven Battle Royale and Heihachi Mishima VS Geese Howard.
**Ironically, the announcer is Shao Kahn, who was the fight announcer in Season 1.
*Boomstick's claim that he kept Sub-Zero's skull "as a souvenir" implies that he took it after he died, though ironically, his only appearance on the show was an episode he won.
**Given Boomstick also has Kabal's skull in spite of the latter having yet to appear on the show up to this point, it's likely a reference more to Mortal Kombat characters' tendencies to die brutally more than an indication of a prior episode.
*In the 255th episode of DEATH BATTLE Cast, the writer of the episode, Liam Swan, stated that this is the worst episode he has written, though he doesn't think it's bad.Death Battle Myths?! | DEATH BATTLE Cast #255
*The Q&A DEATH BATTLE Cast for this episode confirmed that it was done to commemorate the Birds of Prey movie, which features Black Canary as one of the main characters.
*The original thumbnail for this episode used uncredited fan art of Black Canary by AnubisDHL on DeviantArt. As a result, it was changed years later.
**This makes it the 16th episode where at least one of its thumbnails uses fan art, after Zitz VS Leonardo, Kratos VS Spawn, Bomberman VS Dig Dug, Vegeta VS Shadow, Chun-Li VS Mai Shiranui, Ivy VS Orchid, Fulgore VS Sektor, Godzilla VS Gamera, Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie, Metal Sonic VS Zero, Lucario VS Renamon, Raven VS Twilight Sparkle, Leon Kennedy VS Frank West, Nightwing VS Daredevil, and All Might VS Might Guy, and with the next seven being Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia, Zuko VS Shoto Todoroki, Blake VS Mikasa, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Sauron VS Lich King, Frieza VS Megatron, and Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor.
===Easter Eggs===
*Boomstick references Starscream and the Death Battle episode he previously appeared in when Wiz mentions how Sindel's fireballs are called Star Screamers in her analysis, with footage of that episode's finishing blow being shown on-screen.
*Shao Kahn announcing the fight is not only a call back to the Mortal Kombat series, as he's the announcer in several games starting with Mortal Kombat II, but also to Death Battle itself, as Kahn's "FIGHT" voice clip from said game was used to announce every fight in Season 1.
*Boomstick unsuccessfully tries to reference Team Rocket's phrase "Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off agaaaiiiiin!" from the Pokémon anime at the start of the post-analysis regarding Black Canary destroying Sindel's head.
**This is the second episode to reference the line, after All Might VS Might Guy, and with the next two being Goro VS Machamp and Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon.
===Other===
*This is the third episode to have a variation of the "FIGHT!" announcement (as Shao Kahn says it), after Deadpool VS Deathstroke and Balrog VS TJ Combo, and with the next two being The Seven Battle Royale and Heihachi Mishima VS Geese Howard.
*This is the sixth DC VS non-Marvel-themed episode, after Goku VS Superman 1, Goku VS Superman 2, Joker VS Sweet Tooth, Raven VS Twilight Sparkle, and Ben 10 VS Green Lantern, and with the next seven being She-Ra VS Wonder Woman, Flash VS Sonic, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, Harley Quinn VS Jinx, SpongeBob VS Aquaman, Goku VS Superman (2023), and Simon the Digger VS White Lantern.
*This is the third Warner-themed episode, after Meta VS Carolina and Ben 10 VS Green Lantern, and with the next three being Red VS Blue, Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Wile E. Coyote VS Tom Cat.
*This is the 13th Females-themed episode, after Rogue VS Wonder Woman, Felicia VS Taokaka, Chun-Li VS Mai Shiranui, Zelda VS Peach, Ivy VS Orchid, Yang VS Tifa, Cammy VS Sonya, Amy Rose VS Ramona Flowers, Android 18 VS Captain Marvel, Raven VS Twilight Sparkle, Black Widow VS Widowmaker, and Weiss VS Mitsuru, and with the next eight being She-Ra VS Wonder Woman, Batgirl VS Spider-Gwen, Blake VS Mikasa, Korra VS Storm, Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Phoenix VS Raven, and Ruby VS Maka.
*This is the 11th Video Game VS Comic Book-themed episode, after Zitz VS Leonardo, Kratos VS Spawn, Thor VS Raiden, Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare, Wolverine VS Raiden, Joker VS Sweet Tooth, Amy Rose VS Ramona Flowers, Scrooge McDuck VS Shovel Knight, Ultron VS Sigma, and Black Widow VS Widowmaker, and with the next two being Harley Quinn VS Jinx and Trunks VS Silver.
**This is the eighth time the Comic Book character wins, after Zitz VS Leonardo, Kratos VS Spawn, Thor VS Raiden, Joker VS Sweet Tooth, Scrooge McDuck VS Shovel Knight, Ultron VS Sigma, and Black Widow VS Widowmaker, and with the next one being Trunks VS Silver.
*This is the eighth Fighting Game VS non-Fighting Game-themed episode, after Haggar VS Zangief, Yoshi VS Riptor, Thor VS Raiden, Pikachu VS Blanka, Guts VS Nightmare, Hercule Satan VS Dan Hibiki, and Johnny Cage VS Captain Falcon, and with the next one being Goro VS Machamp.
*This is the fifth episode to take place in a tournament arena, after Hercule Satan VS Dan Hibiki, Balrog VS TJ Combo, Sora VS Pit, and Wario VS King Dedede, and with next one being Deku VS Asta.
==References==
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