History Main / TwentyPercentMoreAwesome

* VideoGame/{{Civilization}}: As your empire progresses through time, you discover new technologies and civic developments. It's just about understandable how you can quantify an empire's science per turn (important discoveries and so on), but you also generate a quantified amount of ''culture'' per turn. This is then put towards developing civics, so developing International Trade requires around 20 Culture. These are even measured to one decimal place. ''Civ 6'''s Gathering Storm expansion also added Diplomatic Favor, a quantified resource of your international diplomatic standing (which can traded and sold to other civs the same way you would a lump of iron).

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII'': Since one role of Monks, other than healing, is to convert enemy troops to your side mid-battle, there is a corresponding tech you can research that makes your troops 50% more resistant to religious conversion. There is also a tech to make Monks recover their faith faster after converting.

* The [[AltText votey]] in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1716#comic this]] ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' illustrates the proper units of measure for anger, fear, and awkwardness.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires2'': Since one role of Monks, other than healing, is to convert enemy troops to your side mid-battle, there is a corresponding tech you can research that makes your troops 50% more resistant to religious conversion. There is also a tech to make Monks recover their faith faster after converting.

[[AltText "There is also]] [[AllPeriodsArePMS a spike on the Fourier transformation at the one month mark where-]]" "You want to stop talking right now."[[/labelnote]]]]

This trope is for when a character cites a statistic for something which is incapable of being measured. It's almost always done for [[RuleOfFunny comedy]], though it may appear in more serious works as a sarcastic rejoinder.

** Bender's MadLibsCatchPhrase where he claims to be "40%" of something often extends to concepts, like being "40% lucky." (He justifies this one by claiming that his scrap metal composition included "a truckload of horseshoes from the luckiest racehorses in Mexico, who had just been sent to a glue factory.")

* ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass'': The FlavorText of Buddy Bee Honey, is "50% friendlier than normal honey."

--> If I were to compare you to an earthquake,
--> On the Richter scale, you are
--> A sinfully beautiful man.

** Kind of odd, though, mixing metric prefixes with [[IncrediblyLamePun Troy units.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': When the Belchers put on a murder mystery dinner theater, they are asked to tone down on the gore. Their banner for the second show advertises "20% less gore".

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. Compare AppliedMathematics.

-->'''Andy Bhang:''' Tell me, how awful do I look right now''?\\

* While objective measurement of how [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome paroxysmically awesome]]/[[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible painfully sucktacular]] something is can be difficult to obtain, it's possible to measure an individual's perception of that something. For example, neuroscientists use functional magnetic resonance imaging ([=fMRI=]) to [[http://io9.com/scientists-succeed-in-objectively-measuring-pain-472456061 identify objective measures]] of ''pain''.

* Often invoked in modern sports where the term 'give 110%' has become something of a cliche. Aside from the vagueness of what the athletes are supposed to be giving, as noted above, by definition 100% is everything a person can give.

** Producer/Director Larry Kasanoff's [[TroubledProduction confusing instructions]] to ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'' animators were to make animation sequences "more awesome" or "30 percent better".

* ''Music/FlightOfTheConchords'': In one episode, Murray keeps a graph of the state of his various friendships. After Brett and Jemaine offend him a few times, it drops their friendship to "Strangers."

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

* In **Film/{{Interstellar}}**, Cooper regularly tells TARS to change his honesty and humor settings to 75%, 60%, 95%, or some other arbitrary percentage.

** In ''Videogame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', Jack's Body Double will often remark "And the world just got 25% more handsome!" when summoning his holograms.