History Main / TwentyPercentMoreAwesome

Often seen in the form of "giving 110%."

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* From ''[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1605295809/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=kingtroll-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=1605295809 The Runner's Book of Rules]]'', by Mark Remy (of ''Runner's World'' magazine):
-->"Running any given route in the rain makes you feel 50 percent more hard-core than covering the same route on a sunny day."

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* ''HowIMetYourMother'' episode "Not a Father's Day" (2008): "Lily, no part of Barney Stinson does anything less than 110%. If one my little Michael Phelps has got loose, he is swimming for a gold."
* {{Monk}} (2002 TV Series), Episode: Mr. Monk and the Big Game (2006)
-->"But Coach Hayden said we should give 110%."
-->"Well, I'm going to give 110%."

* Andrew in ''{{Angel}}'' boasts that he's become "82% more manly" since he saw Spike last.

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-->"This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill \\
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will \\
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain \\
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!"

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* A common source of comedy in ''{{Cracked}}'', especially the articles that center on charts and graphs.
* In the online review circle, some reviewers (occasionally JesuOtaku or others) will use a star system with the star replaced by concepts.
* [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/2492884/Furry+Chart/ This funny chart]] is intended to measure the "[[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism furriness]]" of something.

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* ''TheInvincibleIronMan'': "Wonderful news, Tony, Howard. We'll support you both 110%."

-->"All right, everybody, you're giving 110 percent!"
-->"Just do it! Okay, all right, now that's 110%, 100%, 100% 115%, 75%.

--> "One hundred percent more awesome! Also, Torgue doesn't make their guns out of freaking wood!"

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* ''{{XKCD}}'' has done this a few times. In [[http://xkcd.com/523/ cartoon 523]], a character has made a graph showing the decline of a relationship.
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', an angel shows Roy a graph of Belkar's evil against time. Note that since it is a fantasy world, it could very well be that it is not a "subjective quality" at all but that evil can be really measured objectively there (Kilonazis is the term of measurement used, by the way).

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': one member of the committee creating ThePoochie says, "I feel we should rastafy him by ... 10 percent or so."

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', there's apparently a Party God who lives in the clouds in the sky, who seems to use the term "party" as a unit of measurement when possessing Jake to the extent that he "parties forever"!
* The (partial) TropeNamer is the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Suited for Success", where Rarity asks Rainbow Dash how to improve Dash's dress. Being disengaged and bored from the situation, she replies, "It needs to be about 20% cooler.", which of course drives Rarity up the wall at such maddening vagueness. [[MemeticMutation The phrase immediately went memetic.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': When the Planet Express crew see TheBeastieBoys (or their heads) in concert, Leela marvels, "They're bustin' mad rhymes with an 80 percent sucess rate."

* ''The Invincible IronMan'': "Wonderful news, Tony, Howard. We'll support you both 110%."

** Notably ''Friendship is Magic'' would be the full fledged TropeNamer if it weren't for the fact that it is quite possible to be 20% cooler... in temperature. (Provided you stop to decide just how you're going to define that, since commonly used temperature scales have arbitrary zero points.)

** Notably ''Friendship is Magic'' would be the full fledged TropeNamer if it weren't for the fact that it is quite possible to be 20% cooler...in temperature.

** In another episode, Rainbow Dash gave a particular facial expression when talking about how "awesome" Applejack is, which is also memetic, and could also be associated with this trope.

** [[LargeHam Princess Luna]] is taught what the concept of "fun" is. Soon after, she expresses her approval with: "HAHA! THE FUN HAS BEEN DOUBLED!"

** Burlier repo men do have a distinct advantage over shorter, scrawnier ones.

* The (partial) TropeNamer is the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Suited for Success", where Rarity asks Rainbow Dash how to improve Dash's dress. Being disengaged and bored from the situation, she replies, "It needs to be about 20% cooler." [[MemeticMutation The phrase immediately went memetic.]]

* In the old AmericanGladiators show, competitor Barry "Two Scoops" Johnson gave an ever-increasing percentage of effort for every show he won, topping out at six digits for the championship.

** [[LargeHam Princess Luna]] is taught what the concept of "fun" is. Soon after, she expresses her approval with: "HAHA! HE FUN HAS BEEN DOUBLED!"

->Just make the whole thing, you know, cooler.
->[{{beat}}]
->[[MemeticMutation It needs to be]] [[TropeNamer about 20% cooler]].
--> -- '''Rainbow Dash''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''

* The (partial) TropeNamer is the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Suited for Success", where Rarity asks Rainbow Dash how to improve Dash's dress. Being disengaged and bored from the situation, she replies, "it needs to be about 20% cooler." [[MemeticMutation The phrase immediately went memetic.]]

** [[LargeHam Princess Luna]] when summoning a spider. "THE FUN HAS NOW BEEN DOUBLED!"

** [[LargeHam Princess Luna]] when summoning a spider. "THE FUN HAS NOW BEEN DOUBLED!]]

** In another episode, Rainbow Dash gave a particular expression when talking about how "awesome" Applejack is, which is also memetic, and could also be associated with this trope.

->[[TropeNamer It needs to be about 20% cooler]].

* ''X Play'' on G4 uses concepts in place of stars in a ratings systen during their video game reviews.

// I'M SORRY, WHAT DID HE SAY??

See also ThingOMeter, where the value is actually somehow measurable. Compare/contrast ArtisticLicenseStatistics, which is also about misusing statistics, but with material that actually can be measured.