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{{quote|'''Nigel Tufnel:''' What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

 

Often, some people [[Bigger Is Better|have the need to top things]]. It could be because of dissatisfaction with something, a need to best someone else (often known as "Keeping up with the Joneses"), or some other reason. Either way, you would like to take something, and push it beyond what's been done before.

Up To Eleven was officially [[Defictionalization|Defictionalized]] by its inclusion in the Oxford Dictionary.

 

 

== Advertising ==

* [[Shaving Is Science|RAZOR BLADES]]. O Gillette, why would anybody need five blades with only either one chin or two legs?

*** Later, they did another commercial parody about "The Platinum Mach 14"—A razor with 14 blades.

** One-upped by a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV42I26tx2s real razor ad]. The 15-bladed Quintippio is of course a parody, the actual product is an ''electric'' razor.

** Here's [http://agrumer.livejournal.com/429861.html a 9- and a 114-bladed razor]!

** Rotoshaver - an actual (electric) razor with 9 blades.

** ''[[The Daily Show]]'' spoofed the Razor Wars in an interview segment with the commentator's own 16-blade razor...it included four four-blade razors connected at the handles to a rotating motor. The skit ended with the commentator [[Nightmare Fuel|leaning his face in towards the spinning razors...]]

* "Our Games Go to 11!" was the tagline of defunct publisher Working Designs, known for publishing niche Japanese RPGS in the US with expensive, high-quality packaging (often including lots of [[Feelies]]).

 

* ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' went all the way up to eleven, then [[Memetic Mutation|OVER 9000!!!]],

* Pretty much everything in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is an example of this. Bigger Mechs! More powerful weapons! Even more [[Hot-Blooded]] shouting!

* ''[[Detroit Metal City]]'' offers this less-than-subtle [[Shout-Out]] - Krauser attempts to push his record of yelling 'rape' ten times a second Up To Eleven.

** Naruto himself has gone Up to Eleven: {{spoiler|Learning [[Super Mode|Sage Mode]], [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|beating Kyubi]] and then stealing its power for a new [[Super Mode]]. Oh, three words: [[Sphere of Destruction|Choodama Rasen Tarengen]].}}

*** Seriously pushing it into [[Serial Escalation]] territory as of one of the latest chapters; in English, he's developed {{spoiler|the Rasengan Riot, where he forms multiple Rasengan behind him with chakra tails and attacks multiple targets simultaneously, the Vacuum Rasengan, where he forms a Rasengan above his back and slams enemies violently against it, and a MINI RASEN SHURIKEN.}}

* In the [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] episode "A Promise is a Promise", Dr. Namba tells his Electabuzz to "turn it up to eleven," as he turns up his rage machine to greatly increase the Pokémon's power.

** Done earlier, with speakers, when the Team Rocket trio were dressed as rock stars with ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'' accents.

* The [[Comic Book Adaptation]] of ''[[Breath of Fire IV]]'' has a specific case of a story segment from the original game being deliberately ramped Up to Eleven as a [[Take That]] to [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerisation]].

** Some background is necessary here. In the original video game, there is a scene {{spoiler|featuring [[The Emperor]] Soniel stabbing [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] and [[God-Emperor]] Fou-lu with a [[Evil Weapon|soul-devouring sword]]; Fou-lu pulls the sword out and [[Off with His Head|decapitates]] Soniel [[Hoist by His Own Petard|with the very sword]] he was stabbed with.}} This ended up being [[No Export for You|Japanese-only]] and was completely [[Bowdlerise]]d out of both international releases and the Windows port, despite the game being a [[PlayStation]] release (in an era where gory games were already well known for the platform) and despite {{spoiler|the decapitation scene being depicted solely in black-on-red silhouette}}. (This ended up in fact being rather a bit of a [[What Happened to the Mouse?]] in this game until videos came out of the censored scenes.)

 

 

 

== Film ==

* Lightsabers in ''[[Star Wars]]'' are cool. But then Darth Maul tops this with a dual blade saber in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]''. And then, General Grievous wields ''four'' lightsabers in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]''.

** ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' parodied the concept, predicting the escalation [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/82.html before Episode III came out].

** In canon, the [[Expanded Universe]] series ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' has Lord Nyax, with ''eight'' lightsabers (surgically implanted into his wrists, elbows, and knees). One of the latest RPG books finally gave us a picture of him... [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lord_Nyax.jpg He is a very silly-looking Cuisinart].

*** The ones on the elbows makes sense though, if the enemy hits them he's going to have a hard time powering through even with two hands, allowing you to get a quick jab in.

* ''[[Piranha 3D]]'' : [[Bloodier and Gorier|The whole movie]], and {{spoiler|[[Sequel Escalation|especially the end]].}}

* [[Stephen King]] wanted cinema houses to play the sound as loud as possible when showing his film ''[[Maximum Overdrive]]''—so it would be the loudest movie ever. He later admitted to abusing a popular local anaesthetic during its production. Whether this was connected may never be established conclusively.

* ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' has Captain Tupelev: "Inquire with the engineer about going to 105% on the reactor", and then going to 110% when he doesn't think 105% is fast enough

** It's pretty close to the trope-namer in that in this case, "100%" represents a safe maximum power output level, not the theoretical or even practical maximum output of the reactor, like 10 on Nigel's amp. Given the setting, "100%" probably represents what the reactor system can handle without burning up the sub plus a reasonable safety margin. In the original book, a Soviet ''Alfa''-class sub actually does have a reactor meltdown and gets a hole the size of the superheated reaction mass burnt through its hull and sinks.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** One episode had them taking many of their previous myths and just pushing it up to insane levels. For example, the myth about the exhaust of a jet engine flipping a car. They confirmed it in the original show (if only through archive footage) but then they decide to see if it could flip a bus. (It could.)

** Or the "Shooting Fish in a Barrel" episode: it turns out that shooting fish in a barrel is, indeed, quite easy (the shockwave will knock them out even if the bullet misses). So why did they then attack the barrel with a [[BFG|Humvee-mounted]] [[More Dakka|Chaingun]]? [[Rule of Cool|Because]]. ([[No Animals Were Harmed|No live fish were harmed testing this myth]].)

*** The cement company accidentally overfilled that truck, and the ''entire load'' had set. Tory had unsuccessfully tried to loosen it using a jackhammer, and it had pissed him off. The truck deserved everything it got. At the time it was the biggest explosion ever done on the show (now it's only 3rd or 4th biggest but still one of the coolest). There was ''very little'' left of that truck afterwards.

** The build team did this literally when they busted the myth that a sheet of paper can be folded in half only seven times. It culminated in producing and folding a huge sheet of paper (with the same ratio of width to length as a standard sheet of printer paper) in alternating directions to achieve a maximum number of folds... to eleven.

** The ''Hindenburg'' episode had them using scale models of the ''Hindenburg'' to test the myth that it was the chemicals on the skin of the airship rather than the hydrogen that destroyed it. It turned out to be a "contributing factor". Then - just for the hell of it - they took the last scale model, pumped it with hydrogen, and ''coated it with seventeen pounds of pure thermite''. It burned. Oh yeah did it burn.

** Another episode has them trying to cause two tractor-trailer rigs to fuse together in a head-on collision, with a compact car being crushed between them and literally lost in the wreckage. They crashed the trucks into the car at highway speeds, but there was no fusion, and the car was still partially there. Next, they built a rocket-propelled sled with the proper mass and crashed it into the car at ''seven hundred miles per hour''. Still no fusion, though it did successfully make the car vanish, bend a piece of one-inch-thick steel plate in half, and throw a multi-thousand-pound block of concrete about thirty feet. They eventually resorted to [[wikipedia:Explosive welding|explosive welding]]. (The car wasn't just destroyed. ''It was vaporized.'')

** Another favorite motto of theirs: "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing"

** Four words: "When in doubt, C4."

** The concept of "anti-time" took [[Rocks Fall Everybody Dies]] Up To Eleven. An energy field grows to the point of consuming Earth before life on Earth evolved.

* The ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' season 6 episode '[[Epic Fail]]' includes House joking about this to Wilson:

** ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'': Climax Form became Super Climax Form.

** ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'': CycloneJokerXtreme became CycloneJoker Gold Xtreme.

 

== Music ==

* In Camera Obscura's "Dory Previn":

{{quote|How I adore you,Dory Previn/I'll turn you up to eleven/for the band's ears to bleed}}

* Buckcherry's cocaine anthem ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcpiF4QGJNY Lit Up]'' alludes to this when making a comparison between the norm and the coked-up person.

{{quote|"Well you're on ten, but honey, I'm on eleven!"}}

* In the documentary film ''Moog'', [[Yes]] keyboardist Rick Wakeman remarked that when the Moog synthesizer allowed keyboardists for the first time to fill a role equal to that of guitarists in bands, all the guitarists started looking for the knob that goes to eleven.

* Murdoc of [[Gorillaz]] mentioned taking the bass up to thirteen in [[All There in the Manual|Rise of the Ogre]].

* German Industrial Metal band [[KMFDM]] recently released WTF?!, an album featuring the song "Krank" which features the lyrics "Krank! Krank it to 11/Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid 24/7"

* Natasha Bedingfield's heart megaphone is set on eleven. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].

If we turn it to 11

Then we can't go wrong }}

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* King Kong Bundy has, as a central part of his gimmick, the "five-count". Normal pinfalls go to a three-count; when Bundy pins someone, to show how badly he's beaten them, he holds up a hand and yells "FIVE!", demanding the referee count to five instead.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** And the [[Crazy Awesome|Orks]] would cheerfully turn it up to seventeen if any of them could count that high.

*** Forgeworld now make Reaver titans. These guys are bigger than Warhounds and mount an extra weapon on their top carapace. There can only be time before these gentleman crank out a Warlord titan...

*** There are official rules for Warlord Titans and some fans have made them. They are about ''four feet'' tall.

* Torpedoes bigger than small frigates, cargo shuttles barely shorter than the [[Star Trek|Starship Enterprise]], frigates the size of [[Star Wars|Star Destroyers]], cruisers that dwarf [[Stargate Atlantis|Wraith hive ships]], thousands of battlecruisers bigger than anything in fiction beyond a [[Star Wars|Super Star Destroyer]]...TabletopGame/BattlefleetGothic has it all.

* The card game ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'' has a card named "Mine goes up to Eleven!" If you play it, people have to reach level 11 instead of 10 as usual.

** Most ''MTG'' cards at the new "Mythic Rare" rarity level fall under this trope.

*** ...''et cetera''. Although not all Mythic Rare cards make use of an existing mechanic, it's basically not worth making a card Mythic Rare UNLESS its potency is cranked up to eleven.

** "Darksteel Colossus" goes up to eleven literally. It has 11 power, 11 toughness, and costs 11 mana. Oh, and it's indestructible. Not only that, but if it is somehow sent to the graveyard, it's shuffled into its owner's library instead. This ability (which also appears on the aforementioned Progenitus) is actually meant as a ''drawback'', as it prevents players from discarding or milling it and then reanimating it.

* ''[[Scion]]'' quite literally goes up to eleven. See, it has a system known as Legend, and Scions, gods and other supernatural beings have a Legend score, and they're able to take Epic Attributes and Boons equal to their Legend score minus one. The maximum Legend score is 12. Therefore, the maximum you can take your powers to is 11. The 11-dot Boons and Epic Attributes are the [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Avatars]] and Ultimate Attributes, at which point you quite literally become a force of nature.

* ''[[The Dresden Files (game)|The Dresden Files]]'' [[RPG]] takes Up To Eleven...Up To Eleven. The section on the Laws of Magic describes breaking the Fifth Law (Never reach beyond the borders of life) as giving an exaggerated arrogance over one's power over life and death, like a doctor's God complex turned Up To Eleven. In the [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|hand-scribbled notes]], Harry himself crosses out the eleven and adds "Thirteen", leading himself and Bob to do a brief parody of the [[Trope Namer]] ("...These go to THIRTEEN," Harry insists).

* [[Forgotten Realms|Larloch]] had a level one above what was possible for his class, by [[Word of God]] (the intended implication was 'he'll ''always'' be more powerful than the player characters, no matter what'). Then the edition changed and rules were published that made it possible to reach that level.

 

* There is a game in improvisational theater called "Toppers", which is basically this trope.

 

== Video Games ==

** The [[PlayStation Portable|PSP]] has the same processor speed (especially with the CPU cap removed) and memory as the [[PlayStation 2|PS2]], and it has texture compression which the PS2 lacked (only a few recent games have truly shown this off though). Unlike the PS2, it also has a proper GPU (one that can process vertices on its own, rather than needing a separate Vector Unit).

** Early reports from E3 claim that the upcoming [[Nintendo 3DS]] to have graphics that surpass the [[Nintendo GameCube]], and, though obviously no one outside of Nintendo has had a chance to look under its hood, the mere fact that it has 3D effects obtained without glasses makes it almost certain to surpass the Gamecube on a technical level as well.

* Equipping Demyx with the Ultimate Gear in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days|Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days]]'' changes his sitar into one named Up to Eleven. A slightly more powerful version called Up to Eleven+ is also obtainable.

* ''[[The House of the Dead (series)|House of the Dead]]: Overkill'' has volume dials which can be turned all the way to eleven.

** ''Guitar Hero 6'' (Neversoft's rhythm swan song) had "powers" which could be combined. 36x multipliers and running Star Power for ''minutes'' at a time becomes common.

** Australia's ''XBOX Magazine'' gave ''[[Guitar Hero]] II'' 11 out of ten.

* In the free flight simulator of ''Flightgear'', a specific aircraft can go at 112% Maximum Speed in space.

* Some of ''[[Ace Combat]]'''s superplanes have special weapons which are more or less downgraded versions of the superweapons you destroy on a regular basis.

* Every time the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series uses the Job Class system, S-E invokes this trope. In the original Final Fantasy, you chose classes in the beginning and were stuck with them. In ''[[Final Fantasy III]]'', the game gives you several classes that you can switch between anytime you wanted to, with a wide variety of abilities. ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' uses a similar system to III, but this time around you can also set a secondary skillset from another class. ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' introduces even more classes and not only lets you equip a second skillset, but also gives you a myriad of counterattacks, supportive, and movement abilities to create the most customizable ''FF'' game to date.

* The Fusion Pins in ''[[The World Ends With You]]''. The first is simply the Neku and his partner jumping between the planes attacking with beams. The second adds more character; Shiki's attacks with Mr. Mew, Joshua's summons meteors and Beat's involves riding on chains. Then, the third takes it up to eleven. Shiki's third Fusion is transforming Mr. Mew into ''[[Godzilla]]-like-proportions'', Beat's summons a giant wave which squashes the Noise and Joshua's ''summons the freakin' moon''.

* ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]'' starts with a experiment at Black Mesa to run the [[Gone Horribly Wrong|"Antimass Spectrometer"]] to "one-oh-five percent." Whatever that meant, [[Freak Lab Accident|it didn't turn out well]].

* ''[[Pokémon Stadium|Pokémon Battle Revolution]]'': "The energy level of the fans has been turned up to 11!"

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has currently (Cataclysm expansion) a maximum of 10 characters per realm (server). In the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion, they are, in words of one of their forum representatives, [http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/219158-from-10-to-11/ turning it all the way up to 11.]

* In ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette|Rosenkreuzstilette Freudenstachel]]'', legend has it that Schirach Fühler of the [[Five-Bad Band|Black Cross organization]] possesses abilities that go FAR BEYOND the simple limitations of ''standard humans''.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* And then [[Reality Warper|Red Mage]] taught Fighter the [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/06/24/episode-1008-charmed-im-sure/ Glorious Chainsaw Method].

* ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'': For a sweet little Catholic girl, Carrie sure can [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=82757 rock] ...

* [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=863 This] ''[[Questionable Content]]'' comic. Look at the poster between Marten and Hannelore in panels two through four.

* And now ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has brought us the [[Super Serum]] Movit #11 - [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101013 the extra strong version].

** Subversion: Movit ''#6'' is the maximum any average schmuck should take. #7-#11 are ''all'' too potent for anyone who isn't a fully trained smoke knight to be messing with. On top of that, even the lower numbers are something they reserve for emergencies; so really, what you should be impressed by isn't that there's a Movit #11, but ''what sort of emergency would be serious enough to prompt the knight to reach for it''.

{{quote|'''Kevyn''': [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-03-23 When] you've already been flipped out of the frying pan and into the fire, what do you call it when you get flipped again into something even worse?

'''Ennesby''': I don't know. I'm reindexing "frying pan" for a higher baseline, though. }}

 

== Web Original ==

* Linkara from ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' goes "up to 15". Linkara has said that his video personality is basically his real life personality "turned up to eleven".

* Movie-related podcast ''All Movie Talk'' has Top 6 lists because 6 is one more than 5,

* ''[http://11points.com 11 Points: Because Top 10 Lists are for Cowards]''

* The Online Game ''Billy vs. Snakeman'' contains countless references to this trope. The [[Author Avatar|in-game character of the maker]] is called "11billionth HoCage".

* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: Revelations'' Episode Ten is titled "It Goes To Eleven", in reference to the [[Trope Namer]]. Since the entirety of the episode is a fight scene animated by [[Dead Fantasy]]'s Monty Oum, it's extremely appropriate.

* ''[[EPICMEALTIME]]'' strives to take cooking this way. They built a '''gingerbread house using meat and cheese that totaled 86,997 calories''' and [[Memetic Mutation|lots of bacon]]. Then there was the Sloppy Roethlisburger, totalling ''over 100,000 calories''. And they ate the entire thing.

** Recently, they utterly pwned that. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAjhG09X9YA&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SP84FBB60DFE42481F Behold. The Turbaconepicentipede.] '''Over 800,000 calories.'''

* ''[[Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time]]'' plays this delightfully literally - their cooker has a maximum setting of 11 drawn on it.

 

== Western Animation ==

* The entire plot of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' revolves around this. Firelord Ozai is the most powerful firebender in the entire world. But on the day of Sozins Comet, every firebender will be much stronger than usual, which allows him to burn the entire world!

** Of course, he forgot that the Avatar was ''also'' a firebender, among other things.

* In ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''' episode 'Bubblevicious', Bubbles got sick of being the "kid" in the group, so she turned the training simulator up to eleven to prove she was "hardcore". The result is an entire [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for her, and her sisters acknowledge it.

{{quote|'''Buttercup:''' Wow, [[Badass|she took the laser]] [[Shout-Out|all the way]] Up to Eleven!}}

** Said stereo actually has more security preventing its use than ''all of Megas' weapons'' and is the one weapon Coup actually considers cruel to use. As if that didn't already show how powerful it is, when combined with Coup's off-key voice, it becomes a weapon of mass destruction capable of destroying a massive space station and an army of monsters and robots in seconds.

* In ''[[Shaun the Sheep]]'', whilst trying to cure one of the other sheep of hiccups, Shaun pulls out an electric guitar and amplifier and turns the amplifier up to eleven. As soon as he plays a single chord, a mushroom cloud is seen rising out of the field.

* In ''[[Adventure Time]]'' Marceline's bass amp goes up to ''XII''!

 

== Real Life ==

* Overclocking computers with the help of liquid nitrogen. ''Liquid motherfucking nitrogen''.

** Then someone did it with [http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/overclocked_amd_phenom_ii_hits_65ghz_with_liquid_nitrogenhelium_cooling liquid helium]. For people who would do such a thing, the achievement is an end itself and there's apparently no such thing as "too much". It's all about the [[Rule of Cool]], not the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Rule Of Cooling]].

** Ironically, they had only formally adopted the name Big Ten in 1987....

** The Atlantic 10 sees your eleven and raises you 14. Given its members in Missouri and Ohio, the name appears to have become an [[Artifact Title]].

* First round of Wimbledon 2010: John Isner versus Nicholas Mahut. They go into a fifth set. Because tie-breakers aren't used in the final set at Wimbledon, the final score of the fifth set was''70-68''. That's not points; that's ''games''. They were at the game so long it had to be suspended and continued the next day - and then suspended ''again''. It was finally finished two days after it began. Isner, still affected by the length of that match, lost in the second round.

* The Space Shuttle Main Engine goes [[wikipedia:SSME#SSME thrust specifications|up to 109%]]

** However Sky's goes up to 12. "So there!" (R. Murdoch)

* VLC media player's volume percentage goes up to 200% in the menu bar then goes on to 400% if you use the scroll wheel over the main window. This isn't just cosmetic, either: The default 100% setting is at the same level as other software, and cranking it higher will manipulate the waveform, [[Loudness War|clipping and even brickwalling it]] as needed.

* The Russian "Tsar" projects: [[wikipedia:Tsar Bell|Tsar Bell]], the world's largest bell; [[wikipedia:Tsar Cannon|Tsar Cannon]], the world's largest howitzer; and the more recent [[wikipedia:Tsar Tank|Tsar Tank]] and [[wikipedia:Tsar Bomba|Tsar Bomb]].

* US Navy slang includes the term "All ahead Bendix." The ship's speed is controlled by a device which was often made by the Bendix company. Their logo was just beyond the maximum setting, so it appeared that "Bendix" was an option for higher speed.

** 1001 metric hp (PS) would make around 987 hp. To keep the power rating at the advertised "over 1001 hp" in both systems of measures, metric and Imperial, Veyron engines make around 1020-1040 hp.

** While not quite as fast as the Veyron, the HTT Plethore LC-1300 "Canadian Supercar" has a 1,300 horse power engine and is designed as a 3-seater with the driver's seat and steering column in the centre like a Formula 1 car, and two passengers to the rear flanks of the driver.

** [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66S3SR20100729 And 't Koelschip] went into overdrive outdoing [[Brew Dog]] with the Start the Future, at a massive 60% ABV.

* One of the Tv Tropes forums discusses this in terms of bodybuilding, noting how contestants went from being strongmen who happened to have highly defined muscles (and actually looked pretty good) to freakishly huge guys more obsessed with adding mass than being healthy.

** Compare [http://scooby1961.blogspot.com/2011/09/does-phil-heath-use-steroids.html the 2011 Mr. Olympia winner with a winner before steroids were available.]

* Appropriately, at the [[IMDb]] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/ page] for ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'', the ''rating'' is displayed as <number>/11.

* If you thought the Snuggy was bad, behold "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S2p7AiNX9g Forever Lazy]".

* Advanced Micro Devices [http://blogs.amd.com/work/2011/01/31/bulldozer-goes-to-11/ used the trope] OUTRIGHT in their blog, litterally citing the ''Spinal Tap'' scene to explain what the Turbo CORE technology does in the Bulldozer processor architecture. The processor will often try to overclock all its cores by as much as 500&nbsp;MHz depending on the workload. If less than all the cores are being used, say in a single or dual-threaded program, it will underclock the unused cores and overclock the used ones even MORE. Depending on the program and conditions, it gives you 4.0&nbsp;GHz OUT OF THE BOX.

* Energy drinks, in both can size and caffeine content. Originally an 8.3 oz. can of Red Bull was a lot. Then came other energy drinks that made Red Bull look like tea, and larger can sizes. 16 ounces is pretty much the standard, and there are also 24 and ''32'' ounce cans, as well as ''boxes''.

* Finnish Navy corvettes "Turunmaa" and "Karjala" used Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines (yup, the same as in Concorde), and they were equipped with special restrictors equipped with security seals. The normal maximum speed of those corvettes was 38 kn, but they logged regularly 43 kn speeds. But when breaking the security seals and overriding the restrictors, the vessels could achieve 50 kn speeds - although the engines would not stand such stress for a long time.

* War Emergency Power on Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial engine. Used on P-47 Thunderbolt, F6F Hellcat and F4U Corsair. The WEP device consisted of water-methanol injection on the already turbocharged engine. When breaking the security seals and applying WEP, the pilot could stress some 20% more power momentarily out of the engine than usually.

* Rubik's Cubes. Thought the 3x3x3 cube was hard? There are cubes up to 7x7x7 commercially available, and a method has been patented that can take the cube's size literally up to eleven. When it comes to computer-simulated cubes, you can just [[Serial Escalation|go infinitely higher]]: How about a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbPhwajuqg&feature=related 20x20x20] or a ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Vhs0Xe02k 1000x1000x1000]'' cube? There are also ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AqMb-edXlc 4-dimensional cubes]'' or even '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81gGxSEm2i0&feature=related 5D cubes]'''.

** 5D is so last millenium, they're up to [http://astr73.narod.ru/MC7D/MC7D.html 7D] now, 5^7 to be precise.

* The TORRO scale for tornadoes goes up to eleven, with the highest ranking T11 tornadoes having wind speeds in excess of 300&nbsp;mph. Because of its origins as a relationship between the Beaufort scale and Mach speeds, the Fujita Tornado scale goes up to [[Oh Crap|twelve]], where a theoretical F12 ranking would have wind speeds that break the sound barrier. Fortunately for us, tornadoes only go up to F5 (at least on this planet.)

* The [[BBC]] embeded video players actually go up to eleven on the volume adjustment.

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