History Main / TwentyPercentMoreAwesome

* Ai from ''{{Yatterman}}'' uses made up percentages to display her reaction to ''everything''.
* ''StarBlazers (SpaceBattleshipYamato)--'' I.Q.-9: "That's Doctor Sane. He's a little eccentric. About five degrees."
** GeniusBonus: Eccentricity actually is a measurable quantity in planetary orbits, and it ''is'' measured in degrees.

* On one occasion in KeroroGunsou, the A.R.M.P.I.T. platoon's deep sea expedition takes a surprising turn when their submarine is surrounded by mysterious, unseen shapes that command them to leave. Keroro reaches for the intercom button, but accidentally launches the torpedos instead and hits one of the entities dead-on. The whole crew understandably panics, especially when the sub's sensors reveal that the entity was completely unharmed.
-->'''Giroro: But how?! Our missles are 500% more lethal than necessary!'''

* The (partial) TropeNamer[[hottip:*:It would have been a true Trope Namer, but "20% cooler" could also have another meaning that does not fit this trope.]] 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.]]

* On one occasion in KeroroGunsou, the A.R.M.P.I.T. platoon's deep sea expediton takes a surprising turn when their submarine is surrounded by mysterious, unseen shapes that command them to leave. Keroro reaches for the intercom button, but accidentally launches the torpedos instead and hits one of the entities dead-on. The whole crew understandably panics, especially when the sub's sensors reveal that the entity was completely unharmed.

* Jack Donagey in [[ThirtyRock 30 Rock]] is dating two women that he loves equally, so he decides to use his HEART:[[FunWithAcronyms Hard Equations And Rational Thinking]], to decide which one is better for him. It doesen't work.

* Occurs on the Reel Big Fish live album, Our Live Album is better than Your Live Album, on the track "Suburban Rhythm." The RBF perform many verisons of the song, one of which is a blues version. Before this version is played, the lead singer says they need to "bluesify it, by like 20%."

* On one occasion in KereroGunsou, the A.R.M.P.I.T. platoon's deep sea expediton takes a surprising turn when their submarine is surrounded by mysterious, unseen shapes that command them to leave. Kerero reaches for the intercom button, but accidentally launches the torpedos instead and hits one of the entities dead-on. The whole crew understandably panics, especially when the sub's sensors reveal that the entity was completely unharmed.

* On one occasion in Sgt.Frog, the A.R.M.P.I.T. platoon's deep sea expediton takes a surprising turn when their submarine is surrounded by mysterious, unseen shapes that command them to leave. Kerero reaches for the intercom button, but accidentally launches the torpedos instead and hits one of the entities dead-on. The whole crew understandably panics, especially when the sub's sensors reveal that the entity was completely unharmed.

* On one occasion in SergeantFrog, the A.R.M.P.I.T. platoon's deep sea expediton takes a surprising turn when their submarine is surrounded by mysterious, unseen shapes that command them to leave. Kerero reaches for the intercom button, but accidentally launches the torpedos instead and hits one of the entities dead-on. The whole crew understandably panics, especially when the sub's sensors reveal that the entity was completely unharmed.

'''Giroro: But how?! Our missles are 500% more lethal than necessary!'''

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

* In KoreWaZombieDesuKa, 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 (apparently, since he's a zombie, he's allowed to go many times over the maximum since he's already dead and doesn't have to worry about his body).

* Probably the most common use of this in real life is the Helen, a measure of beauty. A Helen is defined as the beauty required to launch a thousand ships, in reference to [[TheIliad the Greek myth]]. Thus, a milliHelen is the beauty required to launch a single ship. Amusingly, this manages to be the rare example of this trope that has a defined value, but in a bit of a VoodooShark moment, its definition is just as vague as standard for this trope.

* Probably the most common use of this in real life is the Helen, a measure of beauty. A Helen is defined as the beauty required to launch a thousand ships, in reference to [[TheIliad the Greek myth]]. Thus, a milliHelen is the beauty required to launch a single ship. Amusingly, this manages to be the rare example of this trope that has a defined value, but in a bit of a VoodooShark moment, it's definition is just as vague as standard for this trope.

* Utility in Utilitarianism, which is subtly different from economics. For example, it can be aggregated between people. It's measured in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year QALYs]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year DALYs]]. Basically, a QALY is the net happiness a healthy person feels in an average year, and a DALY is negative one QALYs, i.e. the net pain felt in a year.

* The concept of utility in economics. Two utils are not seen as twice as liked as one util, but used to measure something that is liked more than one one util, but not as much as three.

* In {{KoreWaZombieDesuKa?}}, 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 (apparently, since he's a zombie, he's allowed to go many times over the maximum since he's already dead and doesn't have to worry about his body).

** Although eccentricity actually is a measurable quantity in planetary orbits, and it ''is'' measured in degrees.

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

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* The song "Remember The Name" by Fort Minor uses this trope heavily. The chorus of the song goes:

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Ah, statistics... The ally of mathematics, business and hard science. [[LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics How infallible]]. There seems to be a problem here though... What instrument can you use to measure "awesome", for example? How do you calculate a 14% drop in sadness? And then there are the ''units'', often measured using an AbstractScale -- how many millisobs do you need to get one kilocry?

* Ai from {{Yatterman}} uses made up percentages to display her reaction to ''everything''.

* 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.]]

** 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 the commonly used temperature scales have arbitrary zero points.)

* ''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."

* Probably the most common use of this in real life is the Helen, a measure of beauty. A Helen is defined as the beauty required to launch a thousand ships, in reference to the greek myth. Thus, a milliHelen is the beauty required to launch a single ship. Amusingly, this manages to be the rare example of this trope that has a defined value, but in a bit of a VoodooShark moment, it's definition is just as vague as standard for this trope.

* a commercial for Bear Swamp Recovery on was true TV says that they're the best in the repo business pound per pound.