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* Prince Ansom used this against Parson in the first book of ''[[Erfworld]]''; and nearly succeeded, although Parson was very good at exploiting the weaknesses of that strategy:

{{quote|Parson: Ansom's thinking he can overwhelm us with numbers, but that's ''additive''. [[RPG Mechanics Verse|I've been playing with this combat system for a week now. And it's all about force multipliers.]]}}

* Subverted in ''[[Girl Genius]]'':

{{quote|'''Tarvek:''' If we sacrificed every minion we had, we might take out ''one'' of them.

'''Gil:''' There are another ''twenty'' of them! We don't have enough minions!

'''Minion:''' Er... }}

* The [[SCP Foundation]] never seems to run out of D-class "employees", and given the length of the franchise, the claim that all of them are irredeemable death row inmates often pushes the [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] a little far, especially when you factor in the claim that a D-class who survives whatever experiments they are subjected to for 30 days is then executed; given what they are put through, this is often considered a [[Mercy Kill]]. A common fan theory is that there is a limited supply of such inmates and the Foundation uses cloning technology to obtain most of them; given the technology they have access too, this would be incredibly easy.