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{{trope}}
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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?
'''Marty DiBergi:''' Put
'''Nigel Tufnel:''' Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
|''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]''}}
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.
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Exactly what is topped can vary. It could be a commercial product ([[How Video Game Specs Work|like computer and gaming tech]]), an architectural feat, a world record, or something else. Whatever thing, this trope is taking the highest bar set, and taking that "Up to Eleven".
For those who aren't into guitar (electric guitar specifically), the phrase "Taking it up to eleven" is a reference to the volume setting on a guitar amplifier; the maximum setting on most (especially older) amps is 10, however newer amps (most often Marshalls) with the "11" option (which is beyond loud, believe us on that one) [[Defictionalization|came out]], and you can even take the volume higher with gain/equalizer settings on distortion boxes. More recently volume eleven has become partially obsolete as many Marshall amplifiers sport 0-20 volume knobs, essentially taking the trope
[[Conspicuous Consumption]] and [[Absurdly High Stakes Game]] often involves this.
Not to be confused with [[Beyond the Impossible]], which is [[Exactly What It Says
Compare [[Serial Escalation]], [[Sequel Escalation]], [[Tim Taylor Technology]], [[Exaggerated Trope]], and [[The Same but More]]. A guiding principle behind [[Rank Inflation]]. Often appears with music if a [[Loud of War]] is on the rampage. In sci-fi settings, it often takes the more literal form of [[Readings Are Off the Scale]].
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Up To Eleven was officially [[Defictionalization|Defictionalized]] by its inclusion in the Oxford Dictionary.
When applied to a trope, said trope is [[Exaggerated Trope|exaggerated]].
{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
* [[Shaving Is Science|RAZOR BLADES]]. O Gillette, why would anybody need five blades with only either one chin or two legs?
** In theory each additional blade shaves the tiny bit of the whisker that the one before it missed. Presumably this means that the more blades you add, the smaller the remaining bit trimmed by the last one... a literal case of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|cutting it fine]].
** Michael McIntyre once did a bit on ''[[Mock the Week]]'' on Gillette ending with "For that closest ever shave. In fact, this one's too close. It'll cut off your face like a potato peeler. Buy the previous Gillette razor, we couldn't get it any closer than that."
*** That said, there tends to be a noticeable difference between, say, a three-blade and five-blade razor. When you've got five-minutes before you have to catch a bus to work, and your face looks like cactus, those five-blades are a godsend. A quick once-over tends to do a passably thorough job, though you might want to bring along the aftershave with you on the commute.
** A long time ago, ''[[
*** Later, they did another commercial parody about "The Platinum Mach 14"
** 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.
** ''[[Mad TV]]'' one-upped ''SNL'' and did a skit with the fiction Spishak Mach 20 which had 20 blades and shaved the man to the ''[[Nightmare Fuel|bone]]''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140111091102/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7TMlrDXtw Watch it here].
** Here's [http://agrumer.livejournal.com/429861.html a 9- and a 114-bladed razor]!
** ''The Onion'' did a parody article called [https://web.archive.org/web/20100317214535/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930 Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades] shortly after Schick introduced their four blade razor in response to the popular Mach3. This is made [[Hilarious in Hindsight|extra hilarious]] by the fact that ''this is what Gillette actually did'' a few years later. And they added one more on the ''back''.
** Rotoshaver - an actual (electric) razor with 9 blades.
** ''[[
** [[The Economist]] published [http://www.grumer.org/lj_images/razors.gif this graph] estimating the rate razor blade technology's increase into the future. We will soon have razors with infinite blades.
** [[Wikipedia
** And once again, ''[[
** ''[[
* "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]]).
* ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[
▲* ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index (Light Novel)|To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'': Accelerator's [[Superpower Lottery|game-breaking power]] is essentially [[Mind Over Matter|telekinesis]] turned Up To One Hundred Eleven.
* Pretty much everything in ''[[
▲* ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]] Z'' went all the way up to eleven, then [[Memetic Mutation|OVER 9000!!!]],
* ''[[
▲* Pretty much everything in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is an example of this. Bigger Mechs! More powerful weapons! Even more [[Hot-Blooded]] shouting!
* Kakashi Hatake from ''[[
▲* ''[[Detroit Metal City (Manga)|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
▲* Kakashi Hatake from ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'' is one of the most powerful ninja his village has to offer, due to his knowledge of techniques, martial arts abilities, determination, and tendency to take it up to eleven. Even though his dial [[Cast From Hit Points|only has about eight notches.]]
▲** 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.}}
*** {{spoiler|Since it has been suggested than Naruto could be a <s> reincarnation</s> successor of the Sage of Six Paths, along with the fact that he is now developing the Tailed Beast Bomb,}} Naruto is definitely going to take it Up To Twelve sometime in the future. {{spoiler|Up to twelve? Check.}}
**** {{spoiler|He's done it now. He's tamed Kurama, melded their chakra, and can use the Tailed Beast Bomb now.}}
* ''[[GaoGaiGar
* ''[[
** There is also the school's tendency to push all school tropes
** Ku Fei starts the series as the most badass of the human characters going toe to toe with demons in the Kyoto arc (as a human mind you just with badass martial arts) and then {{spoiler|she learns to harness her Ki and succeeds in reducing a mountain into a fine dust.}} Seems level ten just wasn't enough for her.
* At one point in the ''[[
* One end-of-episode teaser in ''[[
** Younger Toguro raises his strength in percentage. He reaches 100%, and then pulls out his 100%'s 100%, or 120%. The [[Updated Rerelease]] of a recent YYH videogame added "120%" to its title in a reference to this.
* In the [[Pokémon (
** Done earlier, with speakers, when the Team Rocket trio were dressed as rock stars with ''[[
* ''[[
* The [[Comic Book Adaptation]] of ''[[
** 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
** In the manga adaptation, {{spoiler|Soniel yet again [[Back Stab|BackStabs]] Fou-lu with the [[Evil Weapon]]--and Fou-lu proceeds to manifest an energy sword by will, decapitates Soniel in a spray of gore whilst '''''still having the Dragonslayer sticking through him''''', and then proceeds to shove the Dragonslayer out of his midsection ''by hand'' as Soniel's body sprays blood like a fountain}}.
* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' takes every [[Jerk Jock]] stereotype you can think of and stretches it to logical limits in the form of Agon. Over-developed sense of entitlement? Said to be ''the'' most talented athlete of the century and believes anyone who lacks natural talent (even if they work hard) doesn't deserve to exist. Gets away with anything? Car jacked a woman without getting so much as a scolding. A bully? Aimed a football at the head of a little boy in a wheelchair and seems to mug people on a regular basis. Popular with the ladies? Popular enough to get away with car theft. Chauvinistic pig? Is only relatively nice towards pretty girls, and sees nothing wrong with kicking an ugly girl in the back of the head. And if you're a pretty girl who ignores him, he isn't above using violence to get you to notice him. Jerk is an understatement (to say the least), he's practically a sociopath.
** Although he can't get away with everything. The cops left him alone because {{spoiler|Hiruma had the threat notebook out}}.
* Sana from ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* The ''[[Rosario
* The gore in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* ''[[
* The Book of Darkness from ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' does this to spells it [[Power Copying|copies]], such as getting even [[More Dakka]] out of Fate's Photon Lancer and a city-sized version of Nanoha's Starlight Breaker.
* Schirach Fühler of ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'', as [[The Brute]] of [[Five-Bad Band|the Black Cross organization]], is said to possess abilities that go way, WAY beyond the simple limitations of standard humans.
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== Comic Books ==
* In the Marvel and DC Comics crossover ''[[JLA-Avengers]]'', [[
* The Casket of Ancient Winters from the ''Thor'' comics is a weird example of this. It created a winter so cold when opened that '''''frost giants''''' started freezing to death.
* The [[
* In ''[[Dork Tower]]'', anything Igor Olman does will eventually come to this.
* Issue 27 of ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' has one after the main characters confront a senator about his porno dealings.
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* ''[[Shinji and
* In ''[[An Entry With a Bang
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (
* One memorable line (and not for the right reasons) from the ''[[Harry Potter (
* ''[[Ace Combat:
== Film ==
* Named, of course, for the amplifiers used in ''[[
** The film has a rating of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/ 8 out of 11] on IMDB. (For other films, the scales go up to ten, though even for ''Spinal Tap'', the user can only give up to ten.)
* In ''[[The Princess Bride (
** "Not to fifty!" is itself an example: in the book, it was merely "not to twenty!".
* Lightsabers in ''[[
** ''[[
** And [https://web.archive.org/web/20111110134514/http://3do.jediknight.net/dcm/strips/07.gif this strip] of ''Diary of a Crazed Mimbanite'', back when all we had to go on was the ''Episode I'' trailer.
** 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.
* The villains of ''[[
* ''[[
* [[Stephen King]] wanted cinema houses to play the sound as loud as possible when showing his film ''[[
* Zurg's Ion Blaster in ''[[Toy Story (
* ''[[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.
* At the beginning of the first ''[[Back to
* ''[[Saw
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* There's the guitar scene from ''Cheech and Chong's Next Movie'', where Chong, in a pot high, decides to pretend he's Jimi Hendrix. His guitar is rigged to a big maxed-out amp, and the entire neighborhood knows he's playing. People outside run for cover, a dog covers his ears, and the neighbor's house shakes. Cheech even has trouble getting inside to stop him since the blast from the speaker keeps slamming the door in his face.
** Later on, he tries the same routine in a record store and blows out a "cheap" amplifier within seconds.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', when Iago steals the lamp, he mimics Jafar congratulating him for doing the deed, saying, "On a scale of one to ten, you are eleven."
* In ''[[
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* A character in ''Sewer, Gas and Electric'' goes Up To Eleven in both lavish extravagance and in attempts to impress one's date with one's wealth, investing $10,000 in a top-of-the-line ''pack of condoms''.
* ''[[Dune|Dune Messiah]]'': Alia Atreides engages in a sparring match with a mechanical swordsman, which gets faster, and creates more lights (which reflect off its prismatic body to distract its opponent) every time it is struck. It's noted that the greatest swordsmen in the universe can strike it seven times before it becomes too fast to safely continue. Alia manages to strike it eleven times, before Paul stops her. (Note that this book was published in 1969, which makes Up To Eleven [[Older Than They Think]].)
* [[Matthew Reilly]] bypasses eleven in his books and goes straight to ''sixteen''. One example: the heroes are in a truck and being chased in a tunnel barely wide enough to hold a car. The solution to get rid of the bad guys? Call in a plane, have it fire a missile down the tunnel, and drive the truck hard against the wall so that the wheels on one side ride up the wall, allowing the missile to shoot ''below'' the truck and kill the bad guys. Mind you, this is one of the ''less'' extreme examples.
* The [[
** Luke's powers have been taken Up To Eleven, especially by Troy Denning. (Matt Stover, however, has Luke see the heat death of the universe. Seriously.) Kyle is too; he actually survives being stabbed through the heart with a lightsaber. It actually goes back to Bantam, when Zahn made a big deal about Luke's powers being taken Up To Eleven. He didn't exactly win that battle.
** Even the Jedi who have innate mechanisms to ''prevent'' them from being taken
** Happens to Sith too. Palpatine in ''[[Dark Empire]]'' goes [[Body Surf|body surfing]] and rips the fabric of space-time itself, resulting in a [[Villainous RROD]]. (He gets better due to said body surfing.)
* In ''[[
** The gamebook for the RPG takes this trope...well, one step further. The book describes evil wizards as having arrogance turned
* The children's book ''[[
== 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]].)
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*** 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.
*** Another person got it [https://web.archive.org/web/20051102085038/http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm up to twelve] using a different pattern of folding and a differently shaped piece of
** 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."
* In ''[[Star Trek:
** 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:
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House: Should've been here when I was butchering the ox. What do you expect? I'm an addict. I turn everything up to eleven. }}
** In "TB or not TB", House and Foreman have a bet going on whether a test will gain any results. As soon as it looks like House is losing, he turns the dial up to 11, gets expected results, as well as $20.
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** In ''Frontier In Space'' the Doctor is put on the [[Mind Probe]] to figure out whether he is working with the Draconians. The probe says that he is telling the truth about not working with them so the General becomes convinced that [[Logical Fallacies|the Probe is broken]] and orders that it be [[Hilarious in Hindsight|turned up to eleven]].
* ''Brainiac: Science Abuse'', a British show somewhat similar to Mythbusters, investigated the danger of using a mobile phone in a petrol station by filling a caravan with petrol vapor and a mobile phone and calling it. They then turned it up to eleven by adding a lot more mobile phones and calling them simultaneously. Then somewhat subverted the trope by blowing up the caravan - by having a man dressed in nylon dance in a bucket then touch the end of a long wire running to the caravan.
* ''[[
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': Finster, the [[Monster of the Week]] [[Mook Maker|maker]], [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] this when he tried to make Rita grow back to regular size with one of his devices: "I've never turned it to eleven before!"
** Hell, [[Make My Monster Grow|any time a monster grows]] ([[Once Per Episode]]), it takes it
* ''[[
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'''Spencer''': ''slides down the side of the box'' }}
* On 'TV Heaven, Telly Hell,' Jimmy Carr refers to 'Flavour of Love' as reality TV '
* Heisei-era ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' series love to use the [[Swiss Army Hero]] trope, with the last new form gained being the [[Super Mode]] - and then in post-show projects, said [[Super Mode]] gets a boost:
** In ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]'', Kuuga's regular forms got a "Rising" [[Mid-Season Upgrade]] (Mighty form became Rising Mighty, Dragon form became Rising Dragon, etc.) before he got his [[Super Mode]] of Ultimate form. The version of the character in ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' achieved, logically enough, Rising Ultimate form.
** ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'': Climax Form became Super Climax Form.
** ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'': CycloneJokerXtreme became CycloneJoker Gold Xtreme.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhP4QiK8GzA The trailer] for the [[Disney+]] series ''[[The Muppets Mayhem]]'' makes a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Spinal Tap]]''{{'}}s Trope Namer with a brief shot of one of the Electric Mayhem's amplifiers -- which goes up to ''11.5''.
* A variation on this trope is responsible for David Banner's accidental acquisition of the power to turn into the Hulk in the [[Pilot Episode]] of the 1978 ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' TV series -- a technician in Banner's lab was given to "suping up" the equipment, improving each device's power or efficiency. He had done so to the gamma ray projector, but had not yet relabeled the knob controlling the power level before Banner's late-night venture into experimenting on himself. Banner spun it up all the way to the top, but instead of getting a level of gamma exposure equal to the usual natural maximum he instead got hundreds or ''thousands'' of time more. In this case, 11 wasn't on the dial, but it went up to it anyway.
== Music ==
* In Camera Obscura's "Dory Previn":
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* [[
* 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.
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* Peter Tagtgren from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4hMPcHZJ0M PAIN/HYPOCRISY].
* Citizen King's song "Better Days" features the line "Crank it to eleven/blow another speaker".
* Daniel Ekeroth [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-1vcuKcXeI demonstrates] Swedish Death Metal guitar sound.
* In the documentary film ''Moog'', [[
* Murdoc of [[
* The German band "Die Ärzte" demonstrate this in their animated music video for the live-performed song "Elke". This sarcastic song about a fat [[Fan Girl]] called "Elke" starts out calm, but when the amplifier gets up to eleven, this song rocks hard and the animated over the top violence begins. The "11" even glows red ! ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdayFTI6eVo Here (with English subtitles)]''{{broken link}}
* German Industrial Metal band [[
* Natasha Bedingfield's heart megaphone is set on eleven. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
* The song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHrE5x9mOkQ Smack Down]'' by [[
{{quote|
Gonna start this party
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 ==
* ''[[Warhammer
** And the [[Crazy Awesome|Orks]] would cheerfully turn it up to seventeen if any of them could count that high.
** Tzeentch would then turn the knob backwards....to 999, then [[
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20141025214351/http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/6/63/Warhound9.jpg Examine a Warhound battle titan sometime]. One of the largest and most expensive Forge World models in existence, armed with some of the most powerful guns in the game, and guess what it is? A SCOUT TITAN! The battle titans are so big they don't make models for them.
*** 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.
*** Look at [http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Titan this]
*** Those are not even close to what they had before the Age of Strife hit. During the Dark Age of Technology they had even BIGGER Titans. Why don't they have them now, you may ask. Well, many things were lost in-between the Dark Age and the 41st Millennium.
** The standard sidearms go to ridiculous extremes already. Their numbers include laser guns that can blow limbs off people with a single beam, guns that spray razor-sharp shards of crystallized neurotoxins, guns that spray even sharper shards of crystal, guns that fire rocket-propelled armor-piercing grenades, and railguns that vaporize their iron slugs before firing them. And these are the sidearms.
** You have to buy 11 or more Orks for all of them to get the fearless rule. 11 is also the minimum number of barrels on a baneblade.
* Torpedoes bigger than small frigates, cargo shuttles barely shorter than the [[Star Trek
* The card game ''[[Munchkin (
* ''[[Magic:
** Most ''MTG'' cards at the new "Mythic Rare" rarity level fall under this trope.
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090514050235/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=179496 Progenitus] is "protection up to eleven"
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090527182723/http://ww2.wizards.com/
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090527203701/http://ww2.wizards.com/
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425235811/http://ww2.wizards.com/
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090523044346/http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=Conflux Conflux] is "card-search up to eleven"
*** [http://magiccards.info/autocard.php?card=Maelstrom%20Nexus Maelstrom Nexus]{{Dead link}} is "cascade up to eleven"
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090522040348/http://ww2.wizards.com/
*** ...''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.
*** Blightsteel Colossus does all that, ''plus'' has infect. Infect deals poison damage, which can't be healed in standard and it only takes 10 points to kill you. Yes, Blightsteel Colossus can [[One-Hit Kill]] you without even trying.
** Zendikar is [[Everything Trying to Kill You]] taken up to 11. Get some Rise of the Eldrazi cards and you can take it up to [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193452 15] (the linked monster nukes six of your cards simply by looking at you funny, and is almost impossible to kill).
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[The Dresden Files (
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130724022309/http://
* We'd be remiss without mentioning ''[[
* [[Forgotten Realms
▲== Theater ==
* There is a game in improvisational theater called "Toppers", which is basically this trope.
== Video Games ==
* Moore's Law actually facilitates handheld [[Videogame Systems]] being more powerful than home systems of the same class (should the game company choose to do so), as long as they come out a few years later.
** The [[Game Boy Color]] has a faster processor and more memory than the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]], especially seen in ''[[
** The [[Game Boy Advance]] is not only more powerful than the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]], it's more powerful than the [[Neo Geo]], in everything but screen resolution and color depth. The ''[[Castlevania]]'' games show this quite well.
** The [[Nintendo DS|DS]] tops the [[Nintendo 64]], even though its processors are slower. This was because the processor speeds were mostly for show. The RAM is also more efficient, making it more practical than even the RAM with the Expansion Pak. Plus, it has plenty of texture memory, which can be seen in comparing the graphics of the original and DS versions of ''[[
** The [[
** Early reports from E3 claim that the upcoming [[Nintendo 3DS]] to have graphics that surpass the [[Nintendo
** And now the [[Play Station Vita|PSVita]] doesn't just surpass the [[Nintendo 3DS|3DS]] but is ''even more powerful'' than the [[Play Station 3|PS3]].
* Equipping Demyx with the Ultimate Gear in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
* ''[[The House of the Dead (
* ''[[Rock Band]]'' and ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' are falling into this quite nicely.
** In a nod to ''[[
** An interesting example of this occurs in ''Rock Band: Unplugged''. The standard multipliers (without Overdrive) go up to 5x. Activating Overdrive doubles the multiplier: 1x becomes 2x, 2x becomes 4x... except when used while the multiplier is at 5x... then, the multiplier becomes ''11x''. Why? Because, as Harmonix's Alex Navarro said in an interview, "Eleven is better than ten."
** ''Guitar Hero 5'' matches this by escalating the maximum total band multiplier all the way up to 11x assuming everyone has a good streak and uses star power when a band moment occurs. Keeping in mind the personal score multiplier that's also applied, this pushes the possible score to [[Beyond the Impossible|previously unthinkable amounts.]] [[Nintendo Hard|This is also how you're expected to get the diamond-level score on the "God of Rock score attack" challenge]] (which requires you to score [[Pinball Scoring|10 million points]] - though you only need half of this score to get the gig's unlockable, which requires platinum).
** ''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 ''[[
** Here's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngEmBsuiMgQ Space Oddity Guitar chart]{{broken link}} in ''Rock Band''. Now here's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_868433&v=lzKtfoIONVg Pro Guitar chart for the same song].
* 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.
* In ''[[
* During target practise in ''[[
* In ''[[Burnout|Burnout Paradise]]'' the SFX volume goes up to 11.
* 11 is an [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Eleven intentionally recurring number] in ''[[
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* Games company Team17 were originally known as 17-Bit Software - because they were "that bit better than the rest".
* In ''[[Digimon World 3]]'', {{spoiler|[[Game Breaker|Imperialdramon Paladin Mode]]}} takes digivolving power up to 11 with the following: Heals that do everything but rez KO'ed allies or recover MP, a devastating 3-hit attack technique (not to mention the already crazy physical attack power), a [[One-Hit Kill|OHKO]] attack technique that always works in random encounters {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|and even has a chance of OHKO'ing the 2nd phase of Galacticmon, the final boss]]}}, not to mention his signature technique, {{spoiler|[[Smite Evil|Omega Blade]], which can OHKO an evil Armageddemon (if you have enough strength) on the [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon|Gunslinger satellite]]}}.
** Some Digimon Digivolve beyond Mega, taking them
* ''[[Star Wars]]:
** The enemies in the game also have flesh and bone that is lightsaber and impact resistant. They are just that strong. Not so smart on the field, though.
** In ''Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2'', Starkiller appears to have taken knowledge from the almighty Yoda, as well as Vader, and goes up against a Rancor probably three times the size of the ''huge'' Bull Rancor from the first game. It seems that he has also destroyed the canonical ending of the first game, and now has two lightsabers.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Prototype (
** Despite all this, players feel somewhat underpowered because you can't ''fly'' like Superman, run on water like a genetic antichrist, or pick up tanks with your unearthly strength. For some reason, people also want to be able to drive cars. You can run five times faster than cars, not to mention turn into a walking tank. You do not ''need'' to drive cars in this game.
* In ''[[God of War (
** Lets put it this way. If anything was left alive after ''God of War III'', it's because Kratos hasn't killed it yet.
* Every time the ''[[
* The Fusion Pins in ''[[
* In ''[[Star Trek: Bridge Commander]]'', you can boost the power going to your ship systems up to 125%. There is no downside apart from the increased power drain. What happened to "The engines cannae take it, Captain!"?
* ''[[Half-Life (
* ''[[Pokémon Stadium
* The ''[[
* In the case of the ''[[Capcom vs. Whatever]]'' games (this only applies for the five [[X-Men vs. Street Fighter
* In ''Beautiful Katamari'', of the ''[[
* ''[[
* 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]] ==
* ''[[8-
* In ''[[
* And then [[Reality Warper|Red Mage]] taught Fighter the [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/06/24/episode-1008-charmed-im-sure/ Glorious Chainsaw Method].
* Subject of [http://xkcd.com/670/ this] ''[[
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Blip]]'' gives us Brolove. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130405070700/http://blipcomic.com/373/ Here], it goes to level 8, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130405070626/http://blipcomic.com/374/ here it is] up to 11.
* And now ''[[
** 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''.
* ''[[Wondermark]]'' subverts this trope [http://wondermark.com/590/ here]: it's cranked up to eleven, but the scale goes up to 43.
* ''[[
* The [[Serial Escalation|entire story of]] ''[[
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* ''[[
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'''Ennesby''': I don't know. I'm reindexing "frying pan" for a higher baseline, though. }}
* ''Is It Canon?'' on "[http://www.isitcanon.com/index.php?date=2018-05-17 Regular fantasy vs *anime* fantasy]".
== Web Original ==
* [[
** And it is cranked up to a whole twelve in the Christmas lists, because "IT'S CHRISTMAS!".
** In his "Top Eleven Coolest Movie Clichés" he parodies himself: "Why top eleven? Because I have my own cliche that'll never die!"
* Linkara from ''[[
* Movie-related podcast ''All Movie Talk'' has Top 6 lists because 6 is one more than 5,
* Episode 16 of the web series ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090211202337/http://www.purepwnage.com/episodes/s2/4/ Pure Pwnage]'' opens with the main character activating a series of amplifiers and overdrivers attached to his Xbox360 and dialing up the volume past the labeled 'Max' setting as well as the labeled 'Dude', and 'Srsly' marks to reach 'WTF' before rocking out to ''[[
* With the revamp of [[
* ''[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".
* ''[[
** Add to this the fact that {{spoiler|Tex, already a [[Badass]], apparently [[Took a Level
* ''[[
** 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 ''[[
** Of course, he forgot that the Avatar was ''also'' a firebender, among other things.
* In an episode of ''[[
** At this point Bob jumps up on stage, whips out his own guitar, and the two of them have [https://web.archive.org/web/20140604155755/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al6ssH4vkdY an epic rock-off]. Megabyte then says "I've always wanted to do that", gives Enzo the guitar as a birthday present, and drives off in his stretch limo.
* In ''[[
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* In the opening sequence of ''[[Bump in
* In ''[[The Simpsons (
** Mr. Burns hires a hypnotist to motivate his softball team.
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'''Team''': We are all very good players.
'''Hypnotist''': You will beat Shelbyville.
'''Team''': We will beat Shelbyville.
'''Hypnotist''': You will give 110 percent.
'''Team''': That's impossible. No one can give more than 100 percent. By definition, that is the most anyone can give. }}
* In the ''[[
* In the "S'Winter" episode of ''[[
** Much of the show is the titular brothers taking everything Up To Eleven.
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* In ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[Teen Titans (
* In the episode "Out of this world" of ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'', Frank and Len crank the volume of their music up to eleven curiously at Poe's suggestion. Cue fireworks and an explosion that sends them all into orbit around the moon.
* ''[[Megas XLR]]'' is build around this trope. The Guns, the Robot, even the Karaoke get turned to eleven regularly. Its stereo system goes [[Exaggerated Trope|up to eleven]] [[Over Nine Thousand|thousand]].
** 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.
* One episode of ''[[
* In ''[[
== Real Life ==
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** Huey Long also had built the Louisiana State Capitol, which still stands as the tallest state capitol in the country and the tallest building in Baton Rouge. Local historians state that the Nebraska state capitol, which was being erected concurrently, was going to exceed the planned height of the Louisiana construction. Governor Long responded by increasing the height of his capitol to remain the tallest.
* Amps made by Fender go up to twelve, and still sound clean. Then we have Marshall who decided to one up it by giving it more watts, more speakers, more preamplification for that hard rock sound, and then later going to twenty. Then Mesa Boogie, inspired by Marshall, makes it go even further, creating one of the loudest metal amps. Soldano amps do go up to eleven because of this.
** Averted by Soldano's daughter company Jet
* A lot of the [[Ermine Cape Effect]] is due to this, where royalty would do their best to show the most elaborate [[Bling of War|outfits]] and [[Pimped-Out Dress|dresses]] they could get tailored, especially in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
* One particular king commonly ate his dinners either plated in gold, sprinkled with ground-up pearls, or soaked in expensive perfume. However, the source is ''Ripley's Believe It or Not'', so this idea is probably an exaggeration or taken out of context, at best.
** A far more reliable source (a grade X chemistry school book from the 1970s) stated that Napoleon III, French emperor in the 19th century, used aluminium plates for himself and the empress at official banquets, this metal being the most expensive available in his era.
* On that note, the Age of Imperialism was around those centuries, and all about getting the most colonies.
* How many times have you heard a supervisor or a coach demand a "110% effort"?
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** Best exemplified by the infamous iPhone application "I Am Rich", which was an application which cost $999.99 (the maximum possible at the iPhone store) and did nothing useful besides showing that its owner is rich. {{spoiler|Also, it had a typo.}}
* The FreeBSD [[UNIX]] based operating system had some problems switching from the 4.x to the 5.x version, forcing them to release a 4.10 and 4.11 "production" versions. They lampshaded it releasing promo material with "4.11, ours goes to eleven" on it.
* 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]].
* The Big Ten college sports conference invited an eleventh member (Penn State) to join in 1990, kept their name as the Big Ten, and added an 11 buried in their [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Big_Ten_Conference_Logo.svg/500px-Big_Ten_Conference_Logo.svg.png logo]{{Dead link}}, which they used until 2010.
** 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]].
** Quite a few of the major conferences have been wanting to expand to ''sixteen'' teams since forever, and now it looks like a definite possibility. The Big East will have seventeen starting next season. And the new entry is from [[Everything Is Big in Texas|Texas]].
* The Badwater Ultramarathon: (from ''Sports Illustrated'') Think of [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Badwater]] as [[The Spartan Way|five consecutive marathons, only they're uphill]] (from 280
** The featured runner, Arthur Webb, has run the thing 12 times and has finished around 48 hours (with a record 36 hours being fourth place) each time, [[Nausea Fuel|rips his big toenails out]] so they won't crack as his feet swell in the 130 degree daytime heat, and once lost consciousness... and his pulse (he got better). Oh, and '''''he's 67 years old.'''''
* In a West Indies vs Australia [[Cricket Rules]] match from the early 90s, specialist bowlers Mike Whitney and Bruce Reid (both infamously bad batsmen) were in the Australian side. Whitney came to bat at number 10 (second-last), and after he'd swung wildly at a few deliveries, West Indian commentator Michael Holding (who'd never seen either of them play before) said "can you believe this guy's at number 10?" Ian Chappell replied, "Just you wait. There's someone worse to come."
* 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%]]
* Fun fact: The volume on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120522232026/http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_world_service BBC iPlayer] goes up to 11.
** 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.
** This is probably for files that were transferred from the (usually non-digital) source at less than full
* This is the entire point of Guinness Records.
** The race for the fastest 100 meter dash in particular was stuck on trying to go ''below'' ten seconds for quite some time...and then Usain Bolt broke ''his own'' record by the largest margin to date, ''and'' he was so ahead of the rest of the pack that he slowed down a bit to show off.
* 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.
* The [[Cool Car|Bugatti Veyron's]] power gauge stops neatly at [https://web.archive.org/web/20120916114151/http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-2006/2006-Bugatti-Veyron-Targa-Florio-Gauges-1600x1200.jpg 1001]. Actually it tops at about 1200
** 1001 metric hp (PS) would make around 987
** 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.brewdog.com/index.php Brew Dog] seem to be brewing the world's strongest beer: [
** [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 ''[[
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120601085033/http://dvd.ign.com/articles/037/037306p1.html IGN] also gave the movie 11 out of 10.
* 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
* 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''.
** Powerthirst (from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs this fake commercial]), the most EXTREME energy drink. It actually belongs in this section now, because it's [https://
* 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.
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* 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.
* In a
* The TORRO scale for tornadoes goes up to eleven, with the highest ranking T11 tornadoes having wind speeds in excess of 300
* The [[BBC]] embeded video players actually go up to eleven on the volume adjustment.
* According to James May, in the final episode of ''[[Top Gear]]'' series 16, the original moon buggy was designed to have a top speed of 8
* Footballer [[Small Name, Big Ego|Nicklas]] [[English Premier League|Bendtner's]] confidence was measured to a ten on a scale that goes to nine.
* [http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80457645/ Body suits that make you look like a sex doll]. Gets a creep out rating of 11.
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* Telescope advances are usually more a case of [[Bigger Is Better]], advancing in leaps and bounds, but the Gran Telescope Canarias, the world's largest and built in 2009, has a main mirror a little over 34 feet across. The previous record holder, the Keck telescope, has a 33 feet wide main mirror. You could park a bus on the main mirrors of any of them (and cause a gazillion dollars in damage doing so!)
* [http://longnow.org/clock/ The Clock Of The Long Now] is a mechanical clock designed to run continuously for the next 10,000, that's ''ten THOUSAND'', years. That is the entire length of human civilization, which is actually their benchmark. They want to build lots of them, and scatter them all over the earth.
* NASCAR racecars, the quintessential "ten" of automotive racing in the USA, rates their cars in the 8-
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