History Main / TwentyPercentMoreAwesome

* In ''{{Borderlands}}'' one of the slogans Marcus' vending machines gives for "Torgue" brand guns is:

* The [[WorldOfGoo Tower of Goo Memorial Park and Recreation Center]] advertises itself as being "20% more infinite in all directions."

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* ''{{Bedazzled}}'' (2000): "Ah... well, you know, you go out there and you give a 110%, and you wanna play good, and, you know, you hope you play good... I think we played pretty good tonight!"

* Averted with Cyborg in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Only Human". Since Cyborg is, well, a cyborg, the machine part of him can measure how much effort he is putting in.

* The [[WorldOfGoo Tower of Goo Memorial Park and Recreation Center]] advertises being "20% more infinite in all directions."

* 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 [[Literature/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.
** So would -1 Helen be the ugliness to drydock a thousand ships? Is drydocking the opposite of launching? Sinking?

* The Zen Ball in Peggle:

* Pretty much everything Fi says in SkywardSword uses this trope

*** This one...actually makes a strange sort of sense. One game is fun, thus two games must be more fun. Pity her if she ever gets near an [[OvenLogic microwave]].

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

* 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.]]

* 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 doesn't work.

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? [[hottip:*:[[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder It would be one million times the conversion factor between sob and cry, because "kilo" refers by definition to "thousands of" and "milli" refers by definition to "thousandths of."]] ]] [[hottip:**:Well, sob and cry are different bases, so you couldn't convert them.]] [[hottip:***: Not true. They quite obviously measure the same quantity, they are just in different measurement systems. You just have to convert.]]

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? [[hottip:*:[[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder It would be one million times the conversion factor between sob and cry, because "kilo" refers by definition to "thousands of" and "milli" refers by definition to "thousandths of."]] ]] [[hottip:**:Well, sob and cry are different bases, so you couldn't convert them.]]

** In a DVD commentary, the writer's insisted [[InherentlyFunnyWords the word "underpants" is 20% funnier]] than "underwear".

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? [[hottip:*:[[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder It would be one million times the conversion factor between sob and cry, because "kilo" refers by definition to "thousands of" and "milli" refers by definition to "thousandths of."]] ]] [[hottip:**:Well, "sob" and "cry" are different bases, so you couldn't break free.]]

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? [[hottip:*:[[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder It would be one million times the conversion factor between sob and cry, because "kilo" refers by definition to "thousands of" and "milli" refers by definition to "thousandths of."]] ]]

* In ''Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword'' by Barry Deutsch, a graphic novel set in an Orthodox Jewish community, the narrator declares, "Naps on Shabbos afternoon are ''twelve'' times as refreshing as naps taken any other day! It's a scientific ''fact''!"

(Should be 20% Cooler, but people are stupid.)

* 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. (More like somepony was being stupid. It's pretty obvious that "20% Cooler" doesn't refer to coldness.)]] 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.]]