History Main / TwentyPercentMoreAwesome

* On [[https://homestuck.com/story/36 this page]] of Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}, John finds that sticking fake arms on a cake makes it "at least 300% more hilarious."

SisterTrope to InsubstantialIngredients, where the abstract items are part of a recipe. Contrast MadeWithRealGirlScouts, where it's a bit ''too'' literal.

Known to overlap with AbsoluteComparative in advertising, as in "Now with 50% more delightfulness than the leading brand!"

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': A DoubleSubversion in the episode "Only Human". Since Cyborg is, well, a cyborg, the machine part of him can measure how much effort he is actually putting in. Part of the episode was Cyborg lamenting that he ''cannot'' give 110%... until he finally does it in the final battle by focusing on his humanity.

* The "Winger" and "milliWinger", terms coined by the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom during its earlier days (but which have fallen out of use by now) as a way of quantifying {{Squick}}. According to [[TheWikiRule WikiFur]], "One Winger is equal to the amount of mental disturbance caused by viewing a typical [[{{Yiff}} Doug Winger]] [[GagPenis drawing]]."

* In the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Big Game," Monk is coaching basketball and, being Monk, has asked the players to only give 100%. He responds to the above by telling another player she can only give 90%.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'''s first arc involves Index's friends trying to remove her memory because according to the Church of Necessary Evil, 85% of her memory is taken up by the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a collection of forbidden Magical Grimoires memorised with her photographic memory skills. This leaves 15% of her memory for her daily life, and makes it necessary for the memory to be removed in order for her to survive (the Grimoires cannot be deleted). [[spoiler:This is actually subverted, as the memory limit is proven to be wrong by Touma, who [[LampshadeHanging gets suspicious on how the Church gets values like 85% and 15%,]] and learns that the brain has a huge capacity for memory even if the person has photographic memory. Index's friends then realize that they are being used by the Church to protect the secrets of the forbidden Grimoires by limiting her contact with the world via deleting her memory.]]

* In ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'', the main character, a zombie, uses percentages to reference how much power he's using in his attacks relative to the maximum power a normal human can exert. As a zombie, he's not limited by mortal concepts or limitations of strength, but he can--and sometimes does--damage himself if he puts too much power into his attacks.

* In the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Big Game," Monk is coaching basketball and, [[SuperOCD being Monk]], has asked the players to only give 100%. He responds to the above by telling another player she can only give 90%.

** There probably was none active oxygen, because it would actually destroy the clothes which were washed with the aforementioned powder and the washer in which it was done, unless they were made out of 24-carat gold.

* In ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', Kyon declares that Haruhi's ponytail makes her "36% more charming."

* When the lab rats in ''Manga/{{Science Fell in Love So I Tried to Prove It}}'' go to [[{{Beach Episode}} Okinawa]], Yukimura is shocked that Himuro looks 2.34 times more beautiful in a bikini.

* In ''Tony Stark: Comicbook/IronMan'' #1, Jocasta, being a robot, combines it with LudicrousPrecision:

* This gets a CallBack in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Star-Lord claims to have "part of a plan"; when asked exactly how much of a plan he has, he responds "12%."

** In ''Videogame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', Jack's Body Double will often remark "And the world just got 25% more handsome!" when summoning his holograms.[[note]] Although there were only 2 people who look like Jack (as far as we know) when he summons the holograms, and as he summons two Jack clones this makes 4 Jacks total, meaning the world actually gets 100% more handsome (or 200% of the original handsomeness.) Each time a Jack dies the world becomes 25% ''less'' handsome, and 33.3% more handsome when the next one spawns. When the skill ends the world becomes 50% less handsome. [[SarcasmMode Who knows why this wasn't clearly stated in-game.]] [[/note]]

* The trailer for the Halloween update for Videogame/TheBindingOfIsaac stated that the update had made the game "20% more evil".

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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': A DoubleSubversion in the episode "Only Human". Since Cyborg is, well, a cyborg, the machine part of him can measure how much effort he is actually putting in. Part of the episode was Cyborg lamenting that he ''cannot'' give 110%... until he finally does it in the final battle by focusing on his humanity.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': The sales pitch for [[SmokyGentlemensClub Marshall, Carter and Dark's]] [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-865 "Gentleman's Lash"]] reads that it administers "7.3 kilosades of psychological trauma to its target".

* [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/2492884/Furry+Chart/ This funny chart]] is intended to measure the "[[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism furriness]]" of something. It's a heavily abridged version of a less comical and lesser-known image that does much the same thing -- depicting what different "percentages" of cat traits look like, from fully human to fully cat[[note]]With [[BestialityIsDepraved the full cat]] labeled as "[[YouBastard You sick bastard]]"[[/note]]. The full version has many more examples of different percentages.

'''Officer:''' Well it should have-- try to give it ''twenty-five'' percent more of a feeling of adventure.

-->"Today she would increase her maturity by twenty percent!"

'''Rainbow Dash:''' Got it! Be cool enough to win, but not so cool that we end up showing off the whole ears and tails and rainbows thing. Sooo... about ''twenty percent less cool''.
** Rainbow's song, "Awesome as I Wanna Be" has the lyrics, "''When it comes to makin' music, I'm the ruler / You wish you could be twenty percent cooler.''"

* This gets a CallBack in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Star-Lord claims to have "part of a plan"; when asked exactly how much of a plan he has, he responds "Twelve percent."

-->''Running any given route in the rain makes you feel 50 percent more hard-core than covering the same route on a sunny day.''

* In Creator/DouglasCoupland's ''Literature/JPod'', Ethan declares: "I've come to the conclusion that documents are thirty-four percent more boring when presented in the Courier font."

* ''Series/SquareOneTV'' had a skit with a man singing about how he was giving "Eight Percent of my Love" to his girlfriend, with a breakdown for where the other 92% was going.

-->"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!"

-->"All right, everybody, you're giving 110 percent!"\\

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

* ''Website/TheOnion'' parodies the Real Life example of "giving 110 percent" in one headline-only story saying that a gas station employee only gives 109 and three fourths of a percent.

** One member of the committee creating [[ShooOutTheNewGuy Poochie]] says, "I feel we should Rastafy him by... 10 percent or so."

'''Stan:''' Ten percent more aroused.\\

'''Stan:''' Scale it back two percent.\\

* In any collaborative artistic project such as film and television production there is a fundamental problem trying to quantify artist contribution and abstract concepts of quality. But in order to convey some amount of direction you ARE actually encouraged to give a percentage, as you could either spend five minutes trying to explain how loud you want the actor to scream or just say "scream at ninety percent capacity" and adjust accordingly. It's not a perfect science and prone to being ''too'' contrite when more precise direction is needed.
** Script author Creator/WilliamGoldman once was told by a producer that a script had to be made "forty percent funnier", in the next month. Two weeks later Goldman was asked about the progress. [[StealthInsult He said]]: "I only managed to make it fifteen percent funnier, so I'll have to make it twenty-seven percent[[note]]The proper answer is twenty-two percent.[[/note]] funnier in the next two weeks." The producer, after a {{beat}}: "Yeah, should work out."

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

->''"Just make the whole thing, you know, cooler. ''[beat]'' It needs to be about 20% cooler."''
-->-- '''Rainbow Dash''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited for Success]]"