Use in Popular Culture
- John Crowley's 2009 novel Four Freedoms is largely based on the themes of Roosevelt's speech.
- In the game series Splinter Cell there are numerous references to the Four Freedoms, with the commanding officer of protagonist Sam Fisher, stating at one point, "this is fifth freedom territory", indicating that the situation (in the game plot) has gotten so grave that one or more of the Four Freedoms are threatened. In the opening sequence of the first game, the Four Freedoms are displayed in text version as a splash screen at the opening of the game, with a fifth freedom added: The freedom to protect the other four—by any means necessary. It is this "fifth freedom" that the game's protagonist operates under.
- The Marvel Comics superhero team the Fantastic Four was based in the Four Freedoms Plaza building from 1986, to 1998, when it was destroyed by the Masters of Evil (in the guise of the Thunderbolts).
- Florida International University's Wolfsonian museum hosted the Thoughts on Democracy exhibition that displayed posters created by sixty leading contemporary artists and designers, invited to create a new graphic design inspired by American illustrator Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” posters of 1943.
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