in Japan)
In the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, five wizards (Saruman, Gandalf, Radagast, Alatar and Pallando) are sent to Middle-earth to aid against the threat of the Dark Lord Sauron
In the A Song of Ice and Fire series, the War of the Five Kings is fought between different claimants to the Iron Throne of Westeros, as well as to the thrones of the individual regions of Westeros (Joffrey Baratheon, Stannis Baratheon, Renly Baratheon, Robb Stark and Balon Greyjoy)
In The Wheel of Time series, the "Emonds Field Five" are a group of five of the series main characters who all come from the village of Emonds Field (Rand alThor, Matrim Cauthon, Perrin Aybara, Egwene alVere and Nynaeve alMeara)
Myst uses the number 5 as a unique base counting system. In The Myst Reader series, it is further explained that the number 5 is considered a holy number in the fictional Dni society. Number Five is also a character in The Umbrella Academy comic book and TV series adaptation

Films
Towards the end of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), the character of King Arthur repeatedly confuses the number five with the number three. Five Go Mad in Dorset (1982) was the first of the long-running series of The Comic Strip Presents... television comedy films
The Fifth Element (1997), a science fiction film
Fast Five (2011), the fifth installment of the Fast and Furious film series.
The sums of the first five non-primes greater than zero 
  
    
      
        1
      
    
    {\displaystyle 1}
   + 
  
    
      
        4
      
    
    {\displaystyle 4}
   + 
  
    
      
        6
      
    
    {\displaystyle 6}
   + 
  
    
      
        8
      
    
    {\displaystyle 8}
   + 
  
    
      
        9
      
    
    {\displaystyle 9}
   and the first five prime numbers 
  
    
      
        2
      
    
    {\displaystyle 2}
   + 
  
    
      
        3
      
    
    {\displaystyle 3}
   + 
  
    
      
        5
      
    
    {\displaystyle 5}
   + 
  
    
      
        7
      
    
    {\displaystyle 7}
   + 
  
    
      
        11
      
    
    {\displaystyle 11}
   both equal 
  
    
      
        28
      
    
    {\displaystyle 28}
  ; the 7th triangular number and like 
  
    
      
        6
      
    
    {\displaystyle 6}
   a perfect number, which also includes 
  
    
      
        496
      
    
    {\displaystyle 496}
  , the 31st triangular number and perfect number of the form 
  
    
      
        
          2
          
            p
          
        
      
    
    {\displaystyle 2^{p}}
  −1(
  
    
      
        
          2
          
            p
          
        
      
    
    {\displaystyle 2^{p}}
   − 
  
    
      
        1
      
    
    {\displaystyle 1}
  ) with a 
  
    
      
        p
      
    
    {\displaystyle p}
   of 
  
    
      
        5
      
    
    {\displaystyle 5}
  , by the Euclid–Euler theorem.There are a total of five known unitary perfect numbers, which are numbers that are the sums of their positive proper unitary divisors.