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** 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, ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', in response to the 'two blade razors' showed a three-blade razor parody commercial. The fake ad looked completely real until the final line: "Because ... you'll believe anything!"
*** Later, they did another commercial parody about "The Platinum Mach 14" -- A razor with 14 blades.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'': Accelerator's [[Superpower Lottery|game-breaking power]] is essentially [[Mind Over Matter|telekinesis]] turned Up To One Hundred Eleven.
* ''[[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.
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* At one point in the ''[[Digimon]]'' series, the protagonists considered it "cheating" when the main antagonist reached a power level one higher (Mega) than the one they had been told was the apex (Ultimate). Since then, we've had [[Fusion Dance|DNA Digivolution of two Megas]], Mega Mode Change, Ancient Spirit Evolution (the fusion of ''ten'' Ultimate-equivalent level Digimon), Burst Evolution and [[Digi Xros]].
* One end-of-episode teaser in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' claimed things would be going [[Up to Eleven]] in the next episode.
** 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 (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.
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* Sana from ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'' cranks multiple tropes up to eleven - [[Genki Girl]], [[Motor Mouth]], [[Human Hummingbird]], [[Wheel-O-Feet]], and anything to do with screwball humor.
* ''[[Bleach]]'': Ulquiorra, after stomping all over Ichigo in his released form, decides to {{spoiler|bring out his far more powerful Second Release in an attempt to invoke despair}}. And immediately following {{spoiler|Ichigo's supposed death, Hollow Ichigo takes over and returns the favor in full}}.
* ''[[Toriko]]'' does this with [[Food Porn|food.]] It's as awesome as it sounds. One of the chapters is even titled "Beyond 10".
* The ''[[Rosario
* The gore in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' is ramped up like this compared to that in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''.
* ''[[Blame]]'' does this with Killy's [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|Graviton]] [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Beam]] [[Wave Motion Gun|Emitter]]. Now, even at the lowest power, its power can be paralleled by your average space fleet's [[Wave Motion Gun]]. Now, when he cranked it up to 8 (apparently) and shot it, it gave him the nickname of "[[Red Baron|the Calamity]]".
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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 [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] is full of much "up to eleven" material, including a tiny ship which has a power factor that makes the Death Star itself seem like a cap gun, a Sith Lord who sliced through a ''planet'' with his lightsaber, and combat movements that seem to be too fast for the human eye to collect (Thank God they're written down, then, eh?)
** 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.
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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 [http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm up to twelve] using a different pattern of folding and a differently shaped piece of paper -- i.e., folding in a single direction using a very long strip of paper.
** 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.'')
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** Tzeentch would then turn the knob backwards....to 999, then [[Just As Planned|clasp his hands]]
** [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|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.
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' has a mechanic called "protection" which made a card essentially immune to a certain source (A card with "protection from red" can not be blocked or damaged by red creatures, or targeted by red spells and abilities). Until recently, the mechanic was limited to phrases like "protection from black" or "protection from red" or "protection from artifacts", or occasionally "protection from creatures". Then along came [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=179496 this card].
** Most ''MTG'' cards at the new "Mythic Rare" rarity level fall under this trope.
*** [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=179496 Progenitus] is "protection up to eleven"
*** [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=174876 Kresh the Bloodbraided] is "gets-stronger-when-something-else-dies (a common ability on Jund creatures) up to eleven"
*** [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=175111 Sedris the Traitor King] is "unearth up to eleven,"
*** [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=174948 Rafiq of the Many] is "exalted up to eleven"
*** [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] is "cascade up to eleven"
*** [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=175105 Godsire] is "token-producing up to eleven,"
*** ...''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).
* ''[[Rifts]]''' is basically [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] turned [[Up to Eleven]] with pretty much ''every freakin' RPG genre'' combined together...''with [[No Kill Like Overkill|Megadamage]]!!''
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** 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 ''[[Super Mario 64]]''.
** The [[
** 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.
** And now the [[Play Station Vita|PSVita]] doesn't just surpass the [[Nintendo 3DS|3DS]] but is ''even more powerful'' than the [[PlayStation 3|PS3]].
* Equipping Demyx with the Ultimate Gear in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
* ''[[The House of the Dead (series)|House of the Dead]]: Overkill'' has volume dials which can be turned all the way to eleven.
* ''[[Rock Band]]'' and ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' are falling into this quite nicely.
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** ''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 ''[[Guitar Hero]] II'' 11 out of ten.
** Here's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngEmBsuiMgQ Space Oddity Guitar chart] 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.
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* In ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'', you took on leviathans, warlocks, and medusas, dueling a God at the end. In the sequel, you pretty much take on the authorities of Greek Mythology as a whole, so the goal-meter has been heightened quite a bit. And as for the ''third'' game...
** 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 ''[[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''.
* 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 (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!"
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* ''[[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''.
* [[Starcraft II]]: "Class 12 psionic waveform pattern detected, the Queen of Blades is inbound". The scale usually caps out at 10.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Dr. McNinja one-upped the sword-chucks one with ''[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=37&issue=5 chainsaw-chucks]''.
* And then [[Reality Warper|Red Mage]] taught Fighter the [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/06/24/episode-1008-charmed-im-sure/ Glorious Chainsaw Method].
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* In the opening sequence of ''[[Bump in the Night]],'' Mr. Bumpy actually uses a crayon to add an 11 setting to his amp before jacking it all the way up.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Pete Townshend (Guitarist for The Who) has an amp with a setting in place of 11 reading simply "Whuh-Oh", that's strong enough to partly demolish a wall made of solid garbage.
** Mr. Burns hires a hypnotist to motivate his softball team.
{{quote|'''Hypnotist''': You are all very good players.
'''Team''': We are all very good players.
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* 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], which they used until 2010.
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** 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.brewdog.com/index.php Brew Dog] seem to be brewing the world's strongest beer: [http://www.brewdog.com/sink_the_bismark.php Sink the Bismarck]. At a alcohol level of 41% they have REALLY cranked beer up to eleven. It is even drinkable. But the company wisely include a bottle stopper with each sale so that you won't drink a whole beer as strong as whisky in one sitting.
** [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.
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