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* [[ShavingIsScience RAZOR BLADES]]. O Gillette, why would anybody need five blades with only either one chin or two legs?
** In theory each additional blade shaves the tiny bit of the whisker that the one before it missed. Presumably this means that the more blades you add, the smaller the remaining bit trimmed by the last one... a literal case of [[IncrediblyLamePun cutting it fine]].
** Michael [=McIntyre=] once did a bit on ''MockTheWeek'' on Gillette ending with "For that closest ever shave. In fact, this one's too close. It'll cut off your face like a potato peeler. Buy the previous Gillette razor, we couldn't get it any closer than that."
*** That said, there tends to be a noticeable difference between, say, a three-blade and five-blade razor. When you've got five-minutes before you have to catch a bus to work, and your face looks like cactus, those five-blades are a godsend. A quick once-over tends to do a passably thorough job, though you might want to bring along the aftershave with you on the commute.
** A long time ago, ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', in response to the 'two blade razors' showed a three-blade razor parody commercial. The fake ad looked completely real until the final line: "Because ... you'll believe anything!"
*** Later, they did another commercial parody about "The Platinum Mach 14" -- A razor with 14 blades.
** One-upped by a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV42I26tx2s real razor ad]]. The 15-bladed Quintippio is a parody, the actual product is an ''electric'' razor.
** ''Series/MadTV'' one-upped ''SNL'' and did a skit with the fiction Spishak Mach 20 which had 20 blades and shaved the man to the ''bone''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7TMlrDXtw Watch it here]].
** Here's [[http://agrumer.livejournal.com/429861.html a 9- and a 114-bladed razor]]!
** ''The Onion'' did a parody article called [[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930 Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades]] shortly after Schick introduced their four blade razor in response to the popular Mach3. This is made [[HilariousInHindsight extra hilarious]] by the fact that ''this is what Gillette actually did'' a few years later. And they added one more on the ''back''.
** Rotoshaver - an actual (electric) razor with 9 blades.
** ''Series/TheDailyShow'' spoofed the Razor Wars in an interview segment with the commentator's own 16-blade razor...it included four four-blade razors connected at the handles to a rotating motor. The skit ended with the commentator leaning his face in towards the spinning razors...
** Magazine/TheEconomist published [[http://www.grumer.org/lj_images/razors.gif this graph]] estimating the rate razor blade technology's increase into the future. We will soon have razors with infinite blades.
** [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki's]] article on technological singularities used to predict this would happen in 2015, illustrated by a picture of the Schick Infini-T. Then [[SeriousBusiness some humorless bastard got hold of the article, obviously.]]
** And once again, ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1186.html plays with it]].
** ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' did a Star-Wars-themed razor parody about a lightsaber razor that actually took off the top layer of skin, but hey, it was cauterized! Closest shave ever!
* "Our Games Go to 11!" was the tagline of defunct publisher Working Designs, known for publishing niche Japanese RPGS in the US with expensive, high-quality packaging (often including lots of {{feelies}}).

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* Recently, the Huckebein Familiy (and the main character) in ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' does this with AntiMagic. And boy, do they give our favorite characters a tough time. They had to do a complete switch of their armament from normal MagicalGirl equipment to something more futuristic.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Accelerator's [[SuperpowerLottery game-breaking power]] is essentially [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]] turned Up To One Hundred Eleven.
* ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' went all the way up to eleven.
* '''EVERYTHING''' in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is an example of this. Bigger Mechs! More powerful weapons! Even more HotBlooded shouting!
* ''Manga/DetroitMetalCity'' offers this less-than-subtle ShoutOut - Krauser attempts to push his record of yelling 'rape' ten times a second Up To Eleven.
* How did ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' take an idiot ninja with a perverted transformation and his plucky sidekicks to a world war where the fate of the entire ninja world is at stake, with the same ninja at the head, leading his own inner demon into combat against five other inner demons?
* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' went this route in the ''FINAL'' OVA, since the enemy at the end of the series proper was so powerful it could take out Jupiter the folks at the Gutsy Galaxy Guard decided they needed a weapon that could out do it. [[spoiler: 3G's weapon can ''Extinguish the Sun'']]
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' starts using this a lot in its more recent chapters, most notably with [[CrazyAwesome Jack Rakan]], who exists solely to continually ramp up the amount of ''''AWESOME'''' the series contains. He ''starts'' with summoning a [[{{BFS}} sword the size of a building]], and only gets more ridiculous from there. He also seems to be rubbing off on Negi, as the entire Negi/Kotaro vs. Rakan/Kage fight in the tournament was essentially a contest to see who could turn the awesomeness knob higher. [[spoiler: After five separate IAmNotLeftHanded moments from Negi, Kotaro turning into a BigBadAssWolf, and Rakan nearly destroying the arena with one punch, the knob gets broken off and the match ends in a draw.]]
** There is also the school's tendency to push all school tropes UpToEleven. WackyHomeroom? Check. ElaborateUniversityHigh? Check. SchoolFestival? Check!
** Ku Fei starts the series as the most badass of the human characters going toe to toe with demons in the Kyoto arc (as a human mind you just with badass martial arts) and then [[spoiler: she learns to harness her Ki and succeeds in reducing a mountain into a fine dust.]] Seems level ten just wasn't enough for her.
* At one point in the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series, the protagonists considered it "cheating" when the main antagonist reached a power level one higher (Mega) than the one they had been told was the apex (Ultimate). Since then, we've had [[FusionDance DNA Digivolution of two Megas]], Mega Mode Change, Ancient Spirit Evolution (the fusion of ''ten'' Ultimate-equivalent level Digimon), Burst Evolution and DigiXros.
* One end-of-episode teaser in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' claimed things would be going UpToEleven in the next episode.
** Younger Toguro raises his strength in percentage. He reaches 100%, and then pulls out his 100%'s 100%, or 120%. The UpdatedRerelease of a recent YYH videogame added "120%" to its title in a reference to this.
* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "A Promise is a Promise", Dr. Namba tells his Electabuzz to "turn it up to eleven," as he turns up his rage machine to greatly increase the Pokémon's power.
** Done earlier, with speakers, when the Team Rocket trio were dressed as rock stars with ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' accents.
* ''Manga/SetoNoHanayome'' has a tendency to make things as absurd as possible (like a SchoolgirlRival declaring war on another girl), but the Finale takes the cake. It involves...well, just read [[Trivia/SetoNoHanayome this.]]
* The ComicBookAdaptation of ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' has a specific case of a story segment from the original game being deliberately ramped UpToEleven as a TakeThat to {{Bowdleris|e}}ation.
** Some background is necessary here. In the original video game, there is a scene [[spoiler: featuring TheEmperor Soniel stabbing WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds and GodEmperor Fou-lu with a [[EvilWeapon soul-devouring sword]]; Fou-lu pulls the sword out and [[OffWithHisHead decapitates]] Soniel [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with the very sword]] he was stabbed with.]] This ended up being [[NoExportForYou Japanese-only]] and was completely {{Bowdlerise}}d out of both international releases and the Windows port, despite the game being a PlayStation release (in an era where gory games were already well known for the platform) and despite [[spoiler: the decapitation scene being depicted solely in black-on-red silhouette]]. (This ended up in fact being rather a bit of a WhatHappenedToTheMouse in this game until videos came out of the censored scenes.)
** In the manga adaptation, [[spoiler: Soniel yet again {{BackStab}}s Fou-lu with the EvilWeapon--and Fou-lu proceeds to manifest an energy sword by will, decapitates Soniel in a spray of gore whilst '''''still having the Dragonslayer sticking through him''''', and then proceeds to shove the Dragonslayer out of his midsection ''by hand'' as Soniel's body sprays blood like a fountain]].
* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' takes every JerkJock stereotype you can think of and stretches it to logical limits in the form of Agon. Over-developed sense of entitlement? Said to be ''the'' most talented athlete of the century and believes anyone who lacks natural talent (even if they work hard) doesn't deserve to exist. Gets away with anything? Car jacked a woman without getting so much as a scolding. A bully? Aimed a football at the head of a little boy in a wheelchair and seems to mug people on a regular basis. Popular with the ladies? Popular enough to get away with car theft. Chauvinistic pig? Is only relatively nice towards pretty girls, and sees nothing wrong with kicking an ugly girl in the back of the head. And if you're a pretty girl who ignores him, he isn't above using violence to get you to notice him. Jerk is an understatement (to say the least), he's practically a sociopath.
** Although he can't get away with everything. The cops left him alone because [[spoiler:Hiruma had the threat notebook out]].
* Sana from ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha'' cranks multiple tropes up to eleven - GenkiGirl, MotorMouth, HumanHummingbird, WheelOFeet, and anything to do with screwball humor.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Ulquiorra defeats Ichigo with his released form. However, he still takes on a second release, something no other arrancar has been seen to possess, to not only kill him, but to defeat him with pure despair. Ichigo's hollowfied response takes this even further, beyond anything even Ulquiorra has seen a hollow be capable of doing.
** The ''Deicide'' arc has Aizen and Ichigo's power levels going beyond eleven, the with both their reiatsu becoming unsensable to every other being in the series...and the latter becoming unsensable to the former.
** Yamamoto's Zanka no Tachi takes all of the tropes associated with PlayingWithFire and PowerOfTheSun and turns them up to their logical conclusion: a sword that blows away everything without a trace and a armour of reiatsu emitting temperatures up to 15,000,000 degrees Celsius, the same as the Earth's core. If left active for too long, it could destroy Soul Society and Yamamoto himself.
* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' does this with [[FoodPorn food.]] It's as awesome as it sounds. One of the chapters is even titled "Beyond 10".
* The ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' anime does this with {{fanservice}}, much to the fury of fans of the manga.
* The gore in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' is ramped up like this compared to that in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''.
* ''Manga/{{Blame}}'' does this with Killy's [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Graviton]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Beam]] [[WaveMotionGun Emitter]]. Now, even at the lowest power, its power can be paralleled by your average space fleet's WaveMotionGun. Now, when he cranked it up to 8 (apparently) and shot it, it gave him the nickname of "[[RedBaron the Calamity]]".
* The Book of Darkness from ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' does this to spells it [[PowerCopying copies]], such as getting even MoreDakka out of Fate's Photon Lancer and a city-sized version of Nanoha's Starlight Breaker.
* Schirach Fühler of ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'', as TheBrute of [[FiveBadBand the Black Cross organization]], is said to possess abilities that go way, WAY beyond the simple limitations of standard humans.
* Ishiyama High, the school of ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'', is noted repeatedly to have a delinquency rate of 120%.
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' starts out as story of three guys a girl and a thing travelling worlds.....then it gets more and more mind-screwing, and the mind-screwing is taken Up to Eleven in the last 5 or so volumes. 
** That thing has the most mentions of mind-screw on its page. 
** Unfortunately but predictably, it ended up dragging its sister series ''{{xxxHOLiC}}'' along for the ride, turning what was on its own a simple series into a mind-screw in its own right. With the two combined, they've just become one big head-hurting mess that's nearly impossible to completely make sense of. ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny EVEN THE CREATORS HAVE ADMITTED THEY ARE CONFUSED WITH WHAT HAPPENED]]''
* ''Manga/YuGiOhR'' has this in one of the cards of its VillainSue Tenma Yako: The Devil's Avatar. Its main ability is that its attack power is always one higher than that of the strongest monster on the field (changed to +100 in the actual card game). [[spoiler: Yugi eventually defeated this creature by attacking it with Obelisk the Tormentor, using Obelisk's effect to make its Attack Score infinite. Try as it could, the Wicked Avatar could not make its Attack Score even higher, because infinity plus 100 is still the same as infinity by all mathematical definitions, and could only manage a draw with the Egyptian God Monster.]]
* In the final round of Kaiser's second duel with Judai in the first season finale of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', he used Power Bond to summon Cyber End Dragon, which doubled its power, then used Limiter Removal to double it again. Judai responded by activating Battle Fusion to increase the power of his monster by that of Kaiser's monster, to which Kaiser responded by actiating HIS Battle Fusion. The end result was Cyber End Dragon having over 36,000 Attack Points when the two monsters finally collided. Judai still was able to end the duel in a draw by using Final Fusion. 
** Truthfully, Kaiser tends to show off a ''lot'' during the run of the show.
* [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]] goes beyond any sane limits all over the place. Crazy martial arts? It starts off with martial arts figure skating and only gets nuttier from there, and while martial arts rhythmic gymnastics doesn´t sound so bad, martial arts cheerleading or eating certainly does. Then there's Principal Kuno´s obsession with haircuts, Happosai's lechery, Mousse pulling out more and more insane weapons from his hyperspace -including a multiple ton bomb and a ''training potty''.
* {{Anime/Redline}}. The whole thing.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'': The story is absolutely full of {{youkai}}, ranging from mooks to very powerful beings who are established and dangerous threats. However, there are a couple of youkai that go well beyond this level to become beings so incredibly powerful that they're officially known as "daiyoukai". The only two youkai referred to as daiyoukai early in the manga are Inuyasha's father and Ryuukossai, the youkai that killed him. Sesshoumaru, who's far more powerful than almost anyone else in the story reaches daiyoukai distinction later in the manga when he [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong achieves his full power]] and just before the FinalBattle, it's revealed that Shippou will one day be able to become one as well, although as a BrattyHalfPint, he still has a long way to go. Youkai are hard to kill, Daiyoukai almost impossible. Ryuukossai could not be killed by stabbing him through his heart, only sealed into stasis. Sesshoumaru also couldn't be killed by stabbing him through the heart. However, unlike Ryuukossai, it won't even seal him into stasis. It'll just annoy him.

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* In the Marvel and DC Comics crossover ''{{JLA-Avengers}}'', Franchise/{{Superman}} says to Comicbook/TheMightyThor, "Tell yourself that, Mister... Ease yourself to sleep at night while you let your world go to '''hell'''! Where I come from, though, '''''LIVES MATTER'''''!" When Thor tries to bring Mjolnir on his head, Superman ''catches'' the hammer, causing an astonished Thor to react, "Odin's beard! How ''can'' you...? The mightiest... mightiest in Nine Worlds cannot..." Superman retorts, "S-sorry... sorry to disappoint... but in... my world, it looks like the dials '''''GO UP TO ELEVEN'''''!" and crushes Thor with a roundhouse punch, knocking him out cold. This caused [[FlameWar a LOT of controversy]] among comic book fans, [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment which fortunately we won't duplicate here.]]
* The Casket of Ancient Winters from the ''Thor'' comics is a weird example of this. It created a winter so cold when opened that '''''frost giants''''' started freezing to death.
* The UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}}an ''Mr. Kiasu'' calls himself "a ''101%'' true-blue Singaporean".
* In ''Webcomic/DorkTower'', anything Igor Olman does will eventually come to this.
* Issue 27 of ''Comicbook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' has one after the main characters confront a senator about his porno dealings.
* President Rexall of ''Comicbook/GiveMeLiberty'' is [[RonaldReagan Reaganism]] turned Up to Eleven.
* ''Comicbook/{{Doom}}'': "I`m the man! I`m a bad man! How bad? Real bad! I`m a 12.0 on the 10.0 scale of badness!"
* In ''Comicbook/TeenTitansGo'', issue #38 has Mad Mod panicking over the titans cranking it up to eleven.
-->'''Mad Mod''': "Oh, no! These amps only go to '''ten'''... but those lads and lassies are rockin' to '''eleven''' at least!"
** And let's not forget issue #51.
--->'''Cyborg''': "Looks like I'm going to have to crank this all the way up to '''eleven...'''"
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[[folder:Fan Fic]]
* ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' Shinji decides to embrace the setting's madness and do everything [[IncrediblyLamePun Up To 121]].
* In ''FanFic/AnEntryWithABang!'', the Americans and Russians announce that they are massively, ''massively'' increasing nuke output for the DeusExNukina defense against intruders into the solar system. We're looking at least 10,000 warheads a year, compared to a mere 2,700 (!) per year as US peak production during the ColdWar. A mercenary leader converted to Clancy-Earth's side, already appalled by the talk of Nuclear '''Rearmament''' since C-Earth alone has many more nukes than any of the Inner Sphere houses, realizes that [[INeedAFreakingDrink he needs a stronger alcoholic drink than beer]] after this.
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter/Manga/SailorMoon/Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' crossover ''The Girl Who Loved'', Harry thought that on the scale where Fleur Delacour and Shampoo were tens, Sailor Pluto was a definite eleven.
* One memorable line (and not for the right reasons) from the Literature/HarryPotter fanfic, ''Fanfic/PassionNight'': ""IF I GO ANY FASTER WE WILL BE AT HYPER SPEEEEEED!" Lupin shouted trying not to moan while he shouted."
* ''Fanfic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar''. Chapter 15. Drama is temporarily turned UpToEleven by killing several ponies. This includes a scene that is probably the most {{tearjerk|er}}ing moment in the story so far.
* A Digimon Fanfiction, ''The Interloper''. Quite a bit actually in terms of power level, the fanfic shows normal humans, which are, well, [[CaptainObvious normal]], then it shows the Digimon, which are much stronger than a normal Human, then it shows the difference between various levels of Digimon, and the major power difference between each one, then there's the Modifiers, humans with powers to modify themselves in the Digital World with little to no limitation, putting them on par with most Mega-Level Digimon, [[UpToEleven then we see the story's OC]], [[OriginalCharacter Christopher Van Numen]] whom stomps everything the fanfic's setting has with little to no effort and whose very skin - let alone his armor - is nigh impenetrable, [[UpToTwelve then we get the villain]], Felicia Portal, whom makes Christopher wince in terror, [[BeyondTheImpossible then we have her boss]].
* Superstarultra dials the randomness of ''FanFic/YouGotHaruhiRolled'' up to 11 for the anniversary chapter, affectionately called "Off the Rails".
* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' fanfic continuum, there is the invention of "Rimwards Howondaland" (based on several unmistakeable hints of its existance in the canon) which is essentially South Africa with all the knobs turned up to eleven, in accordance with Pratchett's Rule Of National Stereotyping. ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6791038/1/The-Black-Sheep The Black Sheep]]'' deals with this place and its people. As a national stereotyping bonus, Sto Kerrig (Holland) also gets full coverage of its national stereotypes...
* ''[[FanFic/TotalDramaIslandByGilbertAndSullivan Total Drama Island, by Gilbert and Sullivan]]'' is like a song fic, but instead of using one song it uses 70 percent of the total verse content of 14 comic operas--some 8,000 lines of verse in all. Up to eleven? More like up to 1100.
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[[folder:Film]]
* Named for the amplifiers used in ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap''. It's then promptly parodied when Marty asks why the amps go to eleven when they could have just made ten louder. Nigel's brain breaks. [[MadnessMantra "These go to eleven."]]
** The film has a rating of [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/ 8 out of 11]] on Website/{{IMDB}}. (For other films, the scales go up to ten, though even for ''Spinal Tap'', the user can only give up to ten.)
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Christopher Guest plays a character who also goes to eleven (fingers). The film also has suggests breaking the scale to perhaps up to five someday. But definitely ''not to fifty!''
** "Not to fifty!" is itself an example: in the book, it was merely "not to twenty!".
* ''LoveActually'' has Colin who believes that his British accent will make him insanely hot in America [[spoiler: it does, but while Americans do find people with British accents sexy, the film makes it out that any British guy who walks into a bar in America will immediately have the hottest women throwing themselves at him later resulting in a foursome.]]
* Lightsabers in ''Franchise/StarWars'' are cool. But then Darth Maul tops this with a dual blade saber in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. And then, General Grievous wields ''four'' lightsabers in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.
** ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' parodied the concept, predicting the escalation [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/82.html before Episode III came out]].
** And [[http://3do.jediknight.net/dcm/strips/07.gif this strip]] of ''Diary of a Crazed Mimbanite'', back when all we had to go on was the ''Episode I'' trailer.
** In canon, the ExpandedUniverse series ''NewJediOrder'' has Lord Nyax, with ''eight'' lightsabers (surgically implanted into his wrists, elbows, and knees). One of the latest RPG books finally gave us a picture of him... [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lord_Nyax.jpg He is a very silly-looking Cuisinart]].
*** The ones on the elbows makes sense though, if the enemy hits them he's going to have a hard time powering through even with two hands, allowing you to get a quick jab in.
* The villains of ''Film/TheFrighteners'' are going for a murder world record [[spoiler:even from beyond the grave]].
* ''Film/Piranha3D'' : [[BloodierAndGorier The whole movie]], and [[spoiler: [[SequelEscalation especially the end]].]]
* Creator/StephenKing wanted cinema houses to play the sound as loud as possible when showing his film ''Film/MaximumOverdrive''--so it would be the loudest movie ever. He later admitted to abusing a popular local anaesthetic during its production. Whether this was connected may never be established conclusively.
* Zurg's Ion Blaster in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' goes up to 11.
* ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' has Captain Tupelev: "Inquire with the engineer about going to 105% on the reactor", and then going to 110% when he doesn't think 105% is fast enough
** It's pretty close to the trope namer in that in this case, "100%" represents a safe maximum power output level, not the theoretical or even practical maximum output of the reactor, like 10 on Nigel's amp. Given the setting, "100%" probably represents what the reactor system can handle without burning up the sub plus a reasonable safety margin. In the original book, a Soviet ''Alfa''-class sub actually does have a reactor meltdown and gets a hole the size of the superheated reaction mass burnt through its hull and sinks.
* At the beginning of the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Marty plugs his electric guitar into Doc's ginormous amps and blows himself across the room with the blast emitted from playing a single note. It seems Doc had taken the speakers up by a POWER of 11 during a recent experiment but hadn't had time to tell Marty yet.
* ''[[Film/{{Saw}} Saw VII]]'' supposedly includes a trap that was "so bloody, so disgusting, and so disturbing, the producers wouldn’t allow them to put it in any of the [previous] Saw films – until now". ([[http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20075 source]]) This in a series that is known for its gory and disturbing traps, and they wouldn't let this one be put in because it was too much? You can bet it will go up to eleven. That, or be a complete anti-climax depending on your opinion.
* In ''Film/TheVillain'', Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger is a White Hat character with a seven-shot six-shooter. When asked why he had it made, he simply looks confused and said "I don't know".
* In ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' there's an amp vs. amp battle between Scott's band, Sex Bob-omb, and the Japanese [=DJs=] the Katayanagi Twins. The Twins kick off the battle by cranking their amp up to +- (11 in Japanese). This little bit also doubles as an ArcNumber[=/=]MythologyGag, as the Twins are Ramona's fifth and sixth Evil Ex-Boyfriends[[note]] "[[RunningGag Evil]] ''[[InsistentTerminology ex]][[{{Foreshadowing}} es.]]''"[[/note]] who Scott has to fight over the course of the film. 5+6=11.
* There's the guitar scene from ''Cheech and Chong's Next Movie'', where Chong, in a pot high, decides to pretend he's Jimi Hendrix. His guitar is rigged to a big maxed-out amp, and the entire neighborhood knows he's playing. People outside run for cover, a dog covers his ears, and the neighbor's house shakes. Cheech even has trouble getting inside to stop him since the blast from the speaker keeps slamming the door in his face.
** Later on, he tries the same routine in a record store and blows out a "cheap" amplifier within seconds.
* ''Film/{{Clockstoppers}}''. So, you're in [[TimeStandsStill hypertime]] thanks to your AppliedPhlebotinum watch. What happens if you get ''another'' watch and go into hypertime again while you're already ''in'' hypertime? Zak finds out in the climax.
* In ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', when Iago steals the lamp, he mimics Jafar congratulating him for doing the deed, saying, "On a scale of one to ten, you are eleven."
* In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' the ship travels at LudicrousSpeed because light speed is too slow.
* The production design, characterizations, dialogue, plot and music in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' exhibit this trope in terms of [[GothicPunk Gothic-ness]].
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[[folder:Literature]]
* A character in ''Sewer, Gas and Electric'' goes Up To Eleven in both lavish extravagance and in attempts to impress one's date with one's wealth, investing $10,000 in a top-of-the-line ''pack of condoms''.
* ''[[Literature/{{Dune}} Dune Messiah]]'': Alia Atreides engages in a sparring match with a mechanical swordsman, which gets faster, and creates more lights (which reflect off its prismatic body to distract its opponent) every time it is struck. It's noted that the greatest swordsmen in the universe can strike it seven times before it becomes too fast to safely continue. Alia manages to strike it eleven times, before Paul stops her. (This book was published in 1969, which makes Up To Eleven OlderThanTheyThink.)
* MatthewReilly bypasses eleven in his books and goes straight to ''sixteen''. One example: the heroes are in a truck and being chased in a tunnel barely wide enough to hold a car. The solution to get rid of the bad guys? Call in a plane, have it fire a missile down the tunnel, and drive the truck hard against the wall so that the wheels on one side ride up the wall, allowing the missile to shoot ''below'' the truck and kill the bad guys. This is one of the ''less'' extreme examples.
* The Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse is full of much "up to eleven" material, including a tiny ship which has a power factor that makes the Death Star itself seem like a cap gun, a Sith Lord who sliced through a ''planet'' with his lightsaber, and combat movements that seem to be too fast for the human eye to collect (Thank God they're written down, then, eh?)
** Luke's powers have been taken Up To Eleven, especially by Troy Denning. (Matt Stover, however, has Luke see the heat death of the universe. Seriously.) Kyle is too; he actually survives being stabbed through the heart with a lightsaber. It actually goes back to Bantam, when Zahn made a big deal about Luke's powers being taken Up To Eleven. He didn't exactly win that battle.
** Even the Jedi who have innate mechanisms to ''prevent'' them from being taken UpToEleven, such as Corran Horn (He can't use psychokinesis, but [[MagikarpPower get him enough energy, and it doesn't matter]].), are taken Up To Eleven, when Corran projects an image of himself as a {{kaiju}} giant. [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Force, make my Jedi...grow!]]
** Happens to Sith too. Palpatine in ''DarkEmpire'' goes {{body surf}}ing and rips the fabric of space-time itself, resulting in a VillainousRROD. (He gets better due to said body surfing.)
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', during the Finale of ''Changes'', this trope is invoked by the narrator when he describes Molly, his apprentice, ramping the battle's chaos UpToEleven with what he calls her One Woman Rave spell. Thomas goes into DanceBattler mode in response with a falcata and an automatic.
** The gamebook for the RPG takes this trope...well, one step further. The book describes evil wizards as having arrogance turned UpToEleven, and Harry's margin notes remark that it should be thirteen. This is followed by Will and Harry re-creating the ''Spinal Tap'' scene with altered dialog.
* The children's book ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'' was written as the result of a friendly bet: Creator/DrSeuss's publisher was impressed that ''Literature/TheCatInTheHat'' was written using fewer than 300 different words, and bet Seuss that he couldn't write another one with a coherent plot using only 50 different words. Seuss hit it right on target.
* Sir Terry Pratchett explicitly invokes this trope on the ''{{Discworld}}''. He said of his portrayal of an AncientEgypt-alike civilization that ''this is Egypt with all the knobs turned up to eleven.'' He also described the Assassins' Guild School as ''a typical British boarding school with all the knobs - including and especially the one marked "violence" - turned up to eleven.'' "Up to eleven" also describes his parodies of various nation states of Earth: these are so over the top as to be caricatures. XXXX = Australia; Quirm = France; Brindisi = Italy; Llamedos = Wales; Uberwald = Bavaria/Switzerland, and so on. 
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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]
* ''Series/MythBusters'' has a policy of "Duplicate the myth, replicate the results." They first test a myth under the claimed circumstances, then ramp up the test to see just what it would take to produce the results the myth claims. And then sometimes they'll take it up to ridiculous levels after that, just for the sake of [[RuleOfCool making a really big explosion]]. Said explosion will ALWAYS demand [[MoreDakka MORE DAKKA!!!!!!!]]
** One episode had them taking many of their previous myths and just pushing it up to insane levels. For example, the myth about the exhaust of a jet engine flipping a car. They'd confirmed the story in the original episode (if only through archive footage; because of insurance concerns they'd been unable to properly do the test that time). In the later episode, they tried the taxi again (and got it to flip), but then they decided to see if it could flip a bus. (It could.)
** Or the "Shooting Fish in a Barrel" episode: it turns out that shooting fish in a barrel is, indeed, quite easy (the shockwave will knock them out even if the bullet misses). So why did they then attack the barrel with a [[{{BFG}} Humvee-mounted]] [[MoreDakka Chaingun]]? [[RuleOfCool Because]]. ([[NoAnimalsWereHarmed No live fish were harmed testing this myth]].)
** And we ''must'' mention the episode where they tried to find out if you could clean out a cement mixer with explosives. Then ''[[StuffBlowingUp filled it with several hundred pounds of ANFO.]]'' Just because.
*** The cement company accidentally overfilled that truck, and the ''entire load'' had set. Tory had unsuccessfully tried to loosen it using a jackhammer, and it had pissed him off. The truck deserved everything it got. At the time it was the biggest explosion ever done on the show (now it's only 3rd or 4th biggest but still one of the coolest). There was ''very little'' left of that truck afterwards.
** The build team did this when they busted the myth that a sheet of paper can be folded in half only 7 times. It culminated in producing and folding a huge sheet of paper (with the same ratio of width to length as a standard sheet of printer paper) in alternating directions to achieve a maximum number of folds... of eleven.
*** Another person got it [[http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm up to twelve]] using a different pattern of folding and a differently shaped piece of paper -- i.e., folding in a single direction using a very long strip of paper.
** The ''Hindenburg'' episode had them using scale models of the ''Hindenburg'' to test the myth that it was the chemicals on the skin of the airship rather than the hydrogen that destroyed it. It turned out to be a "contributing factor". Then - just for the hell of it - they took the last scale model, pumped it with hydrogen, and ''coated it with seventeen pounds of pure thermite''. It burned. Oh yeah did it burn.
** Another episode has them trying to cause two tractor-trailer rigs to fuse together in a head-on collision, with a compact car being crushed between them and lost in the wreckage. They crashed the trucks into the car at highway speeds, but there was no fusion, and the car was still partially there. Next, they built a rocket-propelled sled with the proper mass and crashed it into the car at ''seven hundred miles per hour''. Still no fusion, though it did successfully make the car vanish, bend a piece of one-inch-thick steel plate in half, and throw a multi-thousand-pound block of concrete about thirty feet. They eventually resorted to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_welding explosive welding]]. (The car wasn't just destroyed. ''It was vaporized.'')
---> '''Jamie''': ''What'' car?
** Another favorite motto of theirs: "[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.]]"
** 4 words: "When in doubt, C4."
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Force of Nature", [=LaForge=] is found to be engaged in friendly competition with Commander Donald Kaplan of the ''USS Intrepid'' over their respective ships' power conversion levels. He does manage to one-up him by 0.1%... shortly before a speed limit of Warp 5 is imposed across all Federation Starships.
** This is actually makes sense considering that we learn in "Relics" that Scotty frequently padded his figures so he would look good when he managed to coax more power from the engines. One can infer that because he wrote the book on warp theory that's treated as gospel by modern Starfleet engineers, most Federation ships are actually ''underpowered'' as a result.
** The concept of "anti-time" took RocksFallEveryoneDies Up To Eleven. In Q's alternate timeline, Picard is accidentally reponsible for an energy field that grows as it travels backwards in time, to the point where 4 billion years ago, it has consumed most of the Galaxy and prevented life on Earth from evolving in the first place.
* The ''Series/{{House}}'' season 6 episode 'EpicFail' includes House joking about this to Wilson:
---> Wilson: Doesn't this seem a little bit obsessive?
---> House: Should've been here when I was butchering the ox. What do you expect? I'm an addict. I turn everything up to eleven.
** In "TB or not TB", House and Foreman have a bet going on whether a test will gain any results. As soon as it looks like House is losing, he turns the dial up to 11, gets expected results, as well as $20.
* ''Series/TopGear'' has a few examples of this, a recent one coming from episode 12x03 where Jeremy Clarkson presents to the audience a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDlMLqdvHzI food blender]] powered by a 6.2L Corvette V8. It could blend a brick.
** On the last episode of series 13, Hammond is reviewing the [[InsistentTerminology Holden]] VXR8 Bathurst with a supercharged LS2 V8 engine. His exact words: "What this car does is go to 11."
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Lazarus Experiment", the Doctor uses an organ as a sonic weapon. When it fails to produce the required results, he says to himself "Need to turn this up to Eleven", before using the screwdriver to do exactly that (the readout changes from 100 to 110).
** The Eleventh Doctor does this quite a lot. It's in the name.
** In ''Frontier In Space'' the Doctor is put on the MindProbe to figure out whether he is working with the Draconians. The probe says that he is telling the truth about not working with them so the General becomes convinced that [[LogicalFallacies the Probe is broken]] and orders that it be [[HilariousInHindsight turned up to eleven]].
** "Asylum of the Daleks":
--->'''Rory''': So how much trouble are we in?
--->'''The Doctor''': On a scale of one to ten? Eleven.
::: Naturally, this doubles as an [[ActorAllusion allusion]] to MattSmith being the [[TheNthDoctor Eleventh Doctor]].
* ''Brainiac: Science Abuse'', a British show somewhat similar to ''Series/MythBusters'', investigated the danger of using a mobile phone in a petrol station by filling a caravan with petrol vapor and a mobile phone and calling it. They then turned it up to eleven by adding a lot more mobile phones and calling them simultaneously. Then somewhat subverted the trope by blowing up the caravan - by having a man dressed in nylon dance in a bucket then touch the end of a long wire running to the caravan.
* ''Series/GoodEats'' did a straight-up reference to ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' in one episode where Alton's assistant Paul makes a toaster that goes up to eleven. When another character asks why he didn't just make ten higher, he starts freaking out until Alton puts him in time out.
* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': Finster, the {{monster|OfTheWeek}} [[MookMaker maker]], {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this when he tried to make Rita grow back to regular size with one of his devices: "I've never turned it to eleven before!" [[MakeMyMonsterGrow Any time a monster grows]] (OncePerEpisode), it takes it UpToEleven. Tommy also grows, and a Tommy, Goldar, and Scorpina vs. the Megazord battle takes it UpToEleven. (Until then, the rangers only faced one monster at a time.) Tommy and Goldar have zords too, more UpToEleven, and at the end of Zeo, all the Rangers grow. And [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Dark Specter's]] as big as a small moon.
* ''Series/ICarly'': from the episode "[=iOMG=]", Gibby and Carly put Spencer into a box for their project to see how he reacts to different stimuli, one of them being stink gas.
--> '''Gibby''': Hey Carly, check this out! I turned the stink gas up to eleven!
--> '''Spencer''': ''slides down the side of the box''
* On 'TV Heaven, Telly Hell,' Jimmy Carr refers to 'Flavour of Love' as reality TV 'UpToEleven.'
* Heisei-era ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series love to use the SwissArmyHero trope, with the last new form gained being the SuperMode - and then in post-show projects, said SuperMode gets a boost:
** In ''KamenRiderKuuga'', Kuuga's regular forms got a "Rising" MidSeasonUpgrade (Mighty form became Rising Mighty, Dragon form became Rising Dragon, etc.) before he got his SuperMode of Ultimate form. The version of the character in ''KamenRiderDecade'' achieved, logically enough, Rising Ultimate form.
** ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'': Climax Form combines all four of Den-O's usual Imagin partners. A recurring fifth Imagin can be added to make it Super Climax Form.
** ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'': [=CycloneJokerXtreme=] became [=CycloneJoker=] Gold Xtreme.
** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'': the title rider gains his power from special coins that draw power from desire. His base form The Tatoba Combo, of the various one's he can use, it likey the weakest. In the Final Episode, the protagonist gets duplicates of the coins (They were forged in sets), that Outclasses ALL of his other forms in power (Fans are still not sure if it was the items, or the fact OOO's also absorbed several metric tons of Power which is likewise stored in the form of similar coins). In the post-series movie war film, He gets a super variant of it.
*** "SUPER SUPER SUPER! SUPER TAKA SUPER TORA SUPER BATTA! SU~UPAH! TATOBA TA-TO-BA!
**** SUPAH!
** ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'': One of the movies lets Fourze gain the powers of his ally Meteor, in a form called Meteor Fusion States. The next movie lets him copy ''two'' allies with Meteor Nadeshiko Fusion States.
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[[folder:Music]]
* In Camera Obscura's "Dory Previn":
---> How I adore you,Dory Previn/I'll turn you up to eleven/for the band's ears to bleed
* Music/MichaelJackson's ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2AitTPI5U0 Black Or White]]'' music video features this in the first two minutes, when the [[LoudOfWar son retaliates against his dad.]]
---> ''LOUD / LOUDER / ARE YOU NUTS!?!''
* Buckcherry's cocaine anthem ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcpiF4QGJNY Lit Up]]'' alludes to this when making a comparison between the norm and the coked-up person.
---> "Well you're on ten, but honey, I'm on eleven!"
* Peter Tagtgren from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4hMPcHZJ0M PAIN/HYPOCRISY]].
* Citizen King's song "Better Days" features the line "Crank it to eleven/blow another speaker".
* Daniel Ekeroth [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-1vcuKcXeI demonstrates]] Swedish Death Metal guitar sound.
* In the documentary film ''Moog'', Music/{{Yes}} keyboardist Rick Wakeman remarked that when the Moog synthesizer allowed keyboardists for the first time to fill a role equal to that of guitarists in bands, all the guitarists started looking for the knob that goes to eleven.
* Murdoc of Music/{{Gorillaz}} mentioned taking the bass up to thirteen in [[AllThereInTheManual Rise of the Ogre]].
* The German band "Die Ärzte" demonstrate this in their animated music video for the live-performed song "Elke". This sarcastic song about a fat {{fangirl}} called "Elke" starts out calm, but when the amplifier gets up to eleven, this song rocks hard and the animated over the top violence begins. The "11" even glows red ! ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdayFTI6eVo Here (with English subtitles)]]''
* German Industrial Metal band Music/{{KMFDM}} recently released WTF?!, an album featuring the song "Krank" which features the lyrics "Krank! Krank it to 11/Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid 24/7"
* Natasha Bedingfield's heart megaphone is set on eleven. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* The song ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHrE5x9mOkQ Smack Down]]'' by Music/ThousandFootKrutch mentions turning it to eleven.
-->Come on everybody
-->Gonna start this party
-->If we turn it to 11
-->Then we can't go wrong
* Punk band "Templeton Pek" (yup, an A-Team reference) turn up their speakers Up to Eleven...visually. ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNSzHU9hazY Barriers]]'' (at the end)
* {{Rush}} fell victim to this trope with their 2002 album ''Vapor Trails''. Coming out in the thick of the "loudness war" of the early 2000s, it was mastered so loud that most of the subtle details (including Alex Lifeson's acoustic guitar) were buried, distorted, or badly obscured. In February 2011, the band announced plans to remix the whole album.
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[[folder: Professional Wrestling]]
* King Kong Bundy has, as a central part of his gimmick, the "five-count". Normal pinfalls go to a three-count; when Bundy pins someone, to show how badly he's beaten them, he holds up a hand and yells "FIVE!", demanding the referee count to five instead.
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[[folder: Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' takes the amp, scrawls twelve and thirteen on the amp in gothic script and then plugs it into a Slaaneshi Noise Marine's [[ThePowerOfRock Blastmaster]], causing heads to explode all over the planet.
** And the [[CrazyAwesome Orks]] would cheerfully turn it up to seventeen if any of them could count that high.
** Tzeentch would then turn the knob backwards....to 999, then [[JustAsPlanned clasp his hands]].
** [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/6/63/Warhound9.jpg Examine a Warhound battle titan sometime]]. One of the largest and most expensive Forge World models in existence, armed with some of the most powerful guns in the game, and guess what it is? A SCOUT TITAN! The battle titans are so big they don't make models for them.
*** Forgeworld now make Reaver titans. These guys are bigger than Warhounds and mount an extra weapon on their top carapace. There can only be time before these gentleman crank out a Warlord titan...
*** There are official rules for Warlord Titans and some fans have made them. They are about ''four feet'' tall.
*** Look at [[http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Titan this]]
*** Those are not even close to what they had before the Age of Strife hit. During the Dark Age of Technology they had even BIGGER Titans. Why don't they have them now, you may ask. Well, many things were lost in-between the Dark Age and the 41st Millennium.
** The standard sidearms go to ridiculous extremes already. Their numbers include laser guns that can blow limbs off people with a single beam, guns that spray razor-sharp shards of crystallized neurotoxins, guns that spray even sharper shards of crystal, guns that fire rocket-propelled armor-piercing grenades, and railguns that vaporize their iron slugs before firing them. And these are the sidearms.
** You have to buy 11 or more Orks for all of them to get the fearless rule. 11 is also the minimum number of barrels on a baneblade.
** Don't forget that the spaceships the imperium currently uses were freight ships back in the dark age of technology and titans were used as normal transport utilities. turned up to eleven indeed.
** The Tau will, in desperate times, unleash an [=XV9=] battlesuit to lead their [=XV8=] battlesuits. [[StealthPun Tau count in base 8]].
* Torpedoes bigger than small frigates, cargo shuttles barely shorter than the [[Franchise/StarTrek Starship Enterprise]], frigates the size of [[Franchise/StarWars Star Destroyers]], cruisers that dwarf [[Series/StargateAtlantis Wraith hive ships]], thousands of battlecruisers bigger than anything in fiction beyond a [[Franchise/StarWars Super Star Destroyer]]...TabletopGame/BattlefleetGothic has it all.
* The card game ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' has a card named "Mine goes up to Eleven!" If you play it, people have to reach level 11 instead of 10 as usual.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has a mechanic called "protection" which made a card essentially immune to a certain source (A card with "protection from red" can not be blocked or damaged by red creatures, or targeted by red spells and abilities). Until recently, the mechanic was limited to phrases like "protection from black" or "protection from red" or "protection from artifacts", or occasionally "protection from creatures". Then along came [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=179496 this card]].
** Most ''MTG'' cards at the new "Mythic Rare" rarity level fall under this trope.
*** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=179496 Progenitus]] is "protection up to eleven"
*** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=174876 Kresh the Bloodbraided]] is "gets-stronger-when-something-else-dies (a common ability on Jund creatures) up to eleven"
*** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=175111 Sedris the Traitor King]] is "unearth up to eleven,"
*** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=174948 Rafiq of the Many]] is "exalted up to eleven"
*** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=Conflux Conflux]] is "card-search up to eleven"
*** [[http://magiccards.info/autocard.php?card=Maelstrom%20Nexus Maelstrom Nexus]] is "cascade up to eleven"
*** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=175105 Godsire]] is "token-producing up to eleven,"
*** ...''et cetera''. Although not all Mythic Rare cards make use of an existing mechanic, it's not worth making a card Mythic Rare UNLESS its potency is cranked up to eleven.
** "Darksteel Colossus" has 11 power, 11 toughness, and costs 11 mana. Oh, and it's indestructible. Not only that, but if it is somehow sent to the graveyard, it's shuffled into its owner's library instead. This ability (which also appears on the aforementioned Progenitus) is actually meant as a ''drawback'', as it prevents players from discarding or milling it and then reanimating it.
*** Blightsteel Colossus does all that, ''plus'' has infect. Infect deals poison damage, which can't be healed in standard and it only takes 10 points to kill you. Yes, Blightsteel Colossus can OneHitKill you without even trying.
** Zendikar is EverythingTryingToKillYou taken up to 11. Get some Rise of the Eldrazi cards and you can take it up to [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193452 15]] (the linked monster nukes six of your cards simply by looking at you funny, and is almost impossible to kill).
* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' is FantasyKitchenSink turned up to eleven with ''every RPG genre'' combined together...''with [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Megadamage]]!!''
* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' goes up to eleven. See, it has a system known as Legend, and Scions, gods and other supernatural beings have a Legend score, and they're able to take Epic Attributes and Boons equal to their Legend score minus one. The maximum Legend score is 12. Therefore, the maximum you can take your powers to is 11. The 11-dot Boons and Epic Attributes are the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Avatars]] and Ultimate Attributes, at which point you become a force of nature.
* ''TabletopGame/TheDresdenFiles'' {{RPG}} takes Up To Eleven...Up To Eleven. The section on the Laws of Magic describes breaking the Fifth Law (Never reach beyond the borders of life) as giving an exaggerated arrogance over one's power over life and death, like a doctor's God complex turned Up To Eleven. In the [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis hand-scribbled notes]], Harry himself crosses out the eleven and adds "Thirteen", leading himself and Bob to do a brief parody of the {{Trope Namer|s}} ("...These go to THIRTEEN," Harry insists).
* [[http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0709/star-fleet-battles-demotivational-poster-1191173748.jpg Star Fleet Battles]]
* We'd be remiss without mentioning ''TabletopGame/DystopianWars''. Think the giant robots and tanks from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', then make them bigger. MUCH BIGGER. Throw in some truely bizarre exotic weapons like [[GiantSquid Robotic Squids]], [[HumongousMecha Colossal Robots]] capable of trampling city blocks and [[IfItSwimsItFlies literal Flying Battleships]] and you get something close to the amount of steampunk insanity going on.
* [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Larloch]] had a level one above what was possible for his class, by WordOfGod (the intended implication was 'he'll ''always'' be more powerful than the player characters, no matter what'). Then the edition changed and rules were published that made it possible to reach that level.
** Before the fall of the Netherese Empire, the spell levels ''literally'' went up to 11 (compared to the Mystran regiment of 9), though only a single 11th level was ever created and cast (it promptly became the reason why spells were limited to no more than 9 levels).
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[[folder:Theater]]
* There is a game in improvisational theater called "Toppers", which is this trope.
* Lyrically referenced in one of the choruses of the song "Raise Your Voice" from the musical version of ''Film/SisterAct''.
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[[folder: Video Games ]]
* Moore's Law actually facilitates handheld VideogameSystems being more powerful than home systems of the same class (should the game company choose to do so), as long as they come out a few years later.
** The GameBoyColor has a faster processor and more memory than the [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], especially seen in ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'', which looks closer to the MSX games than the NES games.
** The GameBoyAdvance is not only more powerful than the [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]], it's more powerful than the NeoGeo, in everything but screen resolution and color depth. The ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games show this quite well.
** The [[NintendoDS DS]] tops the {{Nintendo 64}}, even though its processors are slower. This was because the processor speeds were mostly for show. The RAM is also more efficient, making it more practical than even the RAM with the Expansion Pak. Plus, it has plenty of texture memory, which can be seen in comparing the graphics of the original and DS versions of ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. However, when it comes to graphics resolutions, NDS is 32-bit and N64 is 64-bit.
** The [[PlayStationPortable PSP]] has the same processor speed (especially with the CPU cap removed) and memory as the [[PlayStation2 PS2]], and it has texture compression which the [=PS2=] lacked (only a few recent games have truly shown this off though). Unlike the [=PS2=], it also has a proper [=GPU=] (one that can process vertices on its own, rather than needing a separate Vector Unit).
** Early reports from E3 claimed that the Nintendo3DS had graphics that surpass the NintendoGamecube, and, though obviously no one outside of Nintendo has had a chance to look under its hood, the mere fact that it has 3D effects obtained without glasses makes it almost certain to surpass the Gamecube on a technical level as well.
** And now the [[PlayStationVita PSVita]] doesn't just surpass the [[Nintendo3DS 3DS]] but is ''[[BeyondTheImpossible even more powerful]]'' than the [[PlayStation3 PS3]]. It hasn't made up for poor sales, though.
* Equipping Demyx with the Ultimate Gear in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days]]'' changes his sitar into one named Up to Eleven. A slightly more powerful version called Up to Eleven+ is also obtainable.
* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead: Overkill'' has volume dials which can be turned all the way to eleven.
* ''VideoGame/RockBand'' and ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' are falling into this quite nicely.
** In a nod to ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap, ''the volume controls go up to eleven in the first two ''Guitar Hero'' games. In a direct example of this trope, when Neversoft took over the games for the third game (but not the controllers, which have always been made by Red Octane), the volume controls went up to 12. (Also see RankInflation for other examples.)
** An interesting example of this occurs in ''Rock Band: Unplugged''. The standard multipliers (without Overdrive) go up to 5x. Activating Overdrive doubles the multiplier: 1x becomes 2x, 2x becomes 4x... except when used while the multiplier is at 5x... then, the multiplier becomes ''11x''. Why? Because, as Harmonix's Alex Navarro said in an interview, "Eleven is better than ten."
** ''Guitar Hero 5'' matches this by escalating the maximum total band multiplier all the way up to 11x assuming everyone has a good streak and uses star power when a band moment occurs. With the personal score multiplier that's also applied, this pushes the possible score to previously unthinkable amounts.[[NintendoHard This is also how you're expected to get the diamond-level score on the "God of Rock score attack" challenge]] (which requires you to score [[PinballScoring 10 million points]] - though you only need half of this score to get the gig's unlockable, which requires platinum).
** ''Guitar Hero 6'' (Neversoft's rhythm swan song) had "powers" which could be combined. 36x multipliers and running Star Power for ''minutes'' at a time becomes common.
** Australia's ''XBOX Magazine'' gave ''VideoGame/GuitarHero II'' 11 out of ten.
** Here's the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngEmBsuiMgQ Space Oddity Guitar chart]] in ''Rock Band''. Now here's the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_868433&v=lzKtfoIONVg Pro Guitar chart for the same song]].
* In the free flight simulator of ''Flightgear'', a specific aircraft can go at 112% Maximum Speed in space.
* Some of ''AceCombat'''s superplanes have special weapons which are more or less downgraded versions of the superweapons you destroy on a regular basis.
* ''[[http://www.pixelships.com/smine/index.html Super Minesweeper]]'' could be considered this to ''{{Minesweeper}}''.
* In ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', performing [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII Cloud Of Darkness's]] [[LimitBreak EX-Burst]] perfectly requires you to charge the attack to 120% power.
* During target practise in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', Razputin is tasked with killing a THOUSAND dummy mooks that pop out of a dispenser. The only way to actually finish the level is to set the dispenser intensity up to eleven (aptly marked with a skull and crossbones) [[spoiler: which makes the whole shooting range run amok and force you to fight in near-combat conditions.]] [[spoiler:Which actually was the whole point of the practice from the very beginning.]]
* In ''[[{{Burnout}} Burnout Paradise]]'' the SFX volume goes up to 11.
* 11 is an [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Eleven intentionally recurring number]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing''. In particular, the Super-Secret Canadian Mind-Control Device goes Up To Eleven, with a reference to ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap''.
-->The device is currently set to level X. Note that the dial goes to 11. Most mind-control devices have dials that go up to 10, but this one goes to 11. It's one higher.
* Games company [=Team17=] were originally known as 17-Bit Software - because they were "that bit better than the rest".
* In ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld3'', [[spoiler: [[GameBreaker Imperialdramon Paladin Mode]]]] takes digivolving power up to 11 with the following: Heals that do everything but rez KO'ed allies or recover MP, a devastating 3-hit attack technique (and the already crazy physical attack power), a [[OneHitKill OHKO]] attack technique that always works in random encounters [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and has a chance of OHKO'ing the 2nd phase of Galacticmon, the final boss]]]], and his signature technique,[[spoiler: [[SmiteEvil Omega Blade]], which can OHKO an evil Armageddemon (if you have enough strength) on the [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Gunslinger satellite]]]].
** Some Digimon Digivolve beyond Mega, taking them UpToEleven. Imperialdramon Paladin Mode, Omnimon, and Susanoomon are prime examples. Diaboromon falls into this category as well. And probably Kimeramon, if he Digivolved from anything at all.
* ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' is ''Star Wars: Up to Eleven'', in that, not only did it have a MarySue as the main character, but it also went back and "unleashed" all the symbolic battles that took place in the movies and the sort. The game is ''just that over-the-top'' that it destroyed the visual impact of the movies, because suddenly, grabbing a lightsaber from a few feet away using your mind, or pushing a fragile droid over isn't quite as cool as pulling a ''Star Destroyer'' out of the sky, or pushing a stormtrooper so hard off his feet that he flies through a titanium sealed door, landing in a bunch of conveniently placed explosives which effectively destroy the enemy base of operations.
** The enemies in the game also have flesh and bone that is lightsaber and impact resistant. They are just that strong. Not so smart on the field, though.
** In ''Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2'', Starkiller appears to have taken knowledge from the almighty Yoda, as well as Vader, and goes up against a Rancor probably three times the size of the ''huge'' Bull Rancor from the first game. It seems that he has also destroyed the canonical ending of the first game, and now has two lightsabers.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', in the third DLC, they upped the level cap from 50 to 61, explicitly because most games up the cap by 10 at a time.
** ''{{Videogame/Borderlands 2}}'' has an achievement for reaching level 50 called "Capped Out... For Now" which means they're likely to do the same. The sequel's tagline was actually ''87 bazillion guns just got BAZILIONDIER''. Gearbox likes this trope.
** ''{{Videogame/Borderlands 2}}'' has also more literal example. You can have skill levels up to 5. There are "class modules" equipment that give bonuses to several skills, usually up to 5 bonus. One particular type of class mods give +6 bonus to one skill, rising it up to 11.
** Boderlands 2 had an even more literal version of this. What happens when the player plays the hard mode? More badasses. What about bosses? Well when you beat it, all bosses become level 50. Anything else? Yeah, when you beat the game all psycho's become level 51 and get armor. Hey, what about Crawmerax bosses? We'll make way more of them, and while they won't become any harder we don't need to worry, they already take more ammo than MOST CHARACTERS COULD EVER POSSIBLY CARRY.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', although the game has no predecessor, it is constantly breaking its own boundaries as the game progresses. Such improvements reveal the ability to change course of flight without any leverage whatsoever, running up buildings faster than TheFlash can wank, parkouring your way through Manhattan in less than 5 minutes, and the ability to expand and compress your body mass so much that you can both set off a biological bomb inside yourself, and run through practically anything that gets in the way.
** Despite all this, players feel somewhat underpowered because you can't ''fly'' like Superman, run on water like a genetic antichrist, or pick up tanks with your unearthly strength. For some reason, people also want to be able to drive cars. You can run 5 times faster than cars, and turn into a walking tank. You do not ''need'' to drive cars in this game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}'' is a perfect example of "Everything always gets worse". Everytime you do a Story Mission, they always seems to pull something new. From refighting the Hydra, to fighting the equivalent of a walking bulldozer, to taking on a monster the size of a building that launches itself into the air like an acrobat. Then there's the military soldiers, various weapons they use, the evolved, and your ever expanding arsenal of decimation. If anything, the final boss fight is a bit underwhelming after everything else you go through to get there.
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', you took on leviathans, warlocks, and medusas, dueling a God at the end. In the sequel, you take on the authorities of Greek Mythology as a whole, so the goal-meter has been heightened quite a bit. And as for the ''third'' game...
** Lets put it this way. If anything was left alive after ''God of War III'', it's because Kratos hasn't killed it yet.
* Every time the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series uses the Job Class system, S-E invokes this trope. In the original Final Fantasy, you chose classes in the beginning and were stuck with them. In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'', the game gives you several classes that you can switch between anytime you wanted to, with a wide variety of abilities. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' uses a similar system to III, but this time around you can also set a secondary skillset from another class. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' introduces even more classes and not only lets you equip a second skillset, but also gives you a myriad of counterattacks, supportive, and movement abilities to create the most customizable ''FF'' game to date.
* The Fusion Pins in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''. The first is simply the Neku and his partner jumping between the planes attacking with beams. The second adds more character; Shiki's attacks with Mr. Mew, Joshua's summons meteors and Beat's involves riding on chains. Then, the third takes it up to eleven. Shiki's third Fusion is transforming Mr. Mew into ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}-like-proportions'', Beat's summons a giant wave which squashes the Noise and Joshua's ''summons the freakin' moon''.
* In ''StarTrekBridgeCommander'', you can boost the power going to your ship systems up to 125%. There is no downside apart from the increased power drain. What happened to "The engines cannae take it, Captain!"?
* ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life|1}}'' starts with an experiment at Black Mesa to run the [[GoneHorriblyWrong "Antimass Spectrometer"]] to "one-oh-five percent." Whatever that meant, [[FreakLabAccident it didn't turn out well]].
** In Gearbox Software's expansion, ''Half-Life: Decay'', the player character Colette Green was tasked with turning the said Antimass Spectrometer to 105%.
* ''[[VideoGame/PokemonStadium Pokémon Battle Revolution]]'': "The energy level of the fans has been turned up to 11!"
* The ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series seems determined to use every single trope in existence. ''This is not an exaggeration'' - its pages have gotten so large that they've broken the wiki ''several times''.
* In the case of the ''CapcomVsWhatever'' games (this only applies for the five [[VideoGame/{{X-Men Vs Street Fighter}} games]] [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter featuring]] VideoGame/{{Marvel|VsCapcomClashOfTheSuperheroes}} [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2 Comics]] [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 characters]] and ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom''), the attacks of some Capcom characters become '''MUCH''' more flash, powerful, and over-the-top than they actually appear in their series of origin. This is because they'll fit more with the exaggerated and frantic gameplay seen in those games. It's even more noticeable when it comes to the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' characters. As an example, compare Alex's Hyper Bomb from ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike]]'' in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igtR1RoSorQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=128s this video]] to the [[IncrediblyLamePun amplified]] version seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M2VUWVTNeU&feature=player_detailpage#t=153s here]] from ''Tatsunoko vs Capcom''.
* In ''Beautiful Katamari'', of the ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' series, your performance on each level is graded out of 100 points. If you do really, really well, you'll get 120 points instead. The King of All Cosmos comments that even he doesn't understand how that works.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has currently (Cataclysm expansion) a maximum of 10 characters per realm (server). In the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion, they are, in words of one of their forum representatives, [[http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/219158-from-10-to-11/ turning it all the way up to 11.]]
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}} Rosenkreuzstilette Freudenstachel]]'', legend has it that Schirach Fühler of the [[FiveBadBand Black Cross organization]] possesses abilities that go FAR BEYOND the simple limitations of ''standard humans''.
* ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'': "Class 12 psionic waveform pattern detected, the Queen of Blades is inbound". The scale usually caps out at 10.
** It should be noted that Kerrigan was a 10 before being infested. And that she caused the scale to be rewritten because she went beyond the old scale.
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': during the Boomer quest Ant Misbehavin', the player is asked by Loyal about what frequency a sonic emitter would need to have to kill mutated ants. There is a Science check dialogue option. With insufficient skill the player can tell him to "turn it up to elven".
* ''Mohawk and Headphone Jack'' has an option where you can turn the volume up to 11. Of course, the Mode 7 is also turned up to 11, and unlike the sound, by default! Unfortunately for those with weak stomachs, there is no way to turn ''that'' setting down.
* In ''GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', at one point Egon quips while tracking ghosts in the Library:
--> '''Egon:''' These readings are off the charts!... Now I'll have to make new charts.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''[[http://what-if.xkcd.com/35/ What would happen if a hair dryer with continuous power was turned on and put in an airtight 1x1x1 meter box?]]
* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'': Fighter came up with sword-chucks to make a better weapon than nun-chucks. Everyone around him realised this was CoolButStupid.
* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dr. [=McNinja=] one-upped the sword-chucks one with ''[[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=37&issue=5 chainsaw-chucks]]''.
* And then [[RealityWarper Red Mage]] taught Fighter the [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/06/24/episode-1008-charmed-im-sure/ Glorious Chainsaw Method]].
* Subject of [[http://xkcd.com/670/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' comic.
-->'''Musician:''' These amps go to eleven.
-->'''Bystander:''' Is that louder?
-->'''Musician:''' It's one louder.
-->''(if the bystander is a normal person)''
-->'''Bystander:''' Why not make ten louder and make ten the highest?
-->''(if the bystander is an engineer)''
-->'''Bystander:''' But eleven doesn't have any units. It's an arbitrary scale mapping outputs--
-->'''Musician:''' Zzzz... ''(is asleep)''
-->''(if the bystander is a smart engineer)''
-->'''Bystander:''' For two thousand dollars, I'll build you one that goes to twelve.
* ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'': For a sweet little Catholic girl, Carrie sure can [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=82757 rock]] ...
* [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=863 This]] ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' comic. Look at the poster between Marten and Hannelore in panels two through four.
* ''Webcomic/{{Blip}}'' gives us Brolove. [[http://blipcomic.com/373/ Here]], it goes to level 8, and [[http://blipcomic.com/374/ here it is]] up to 11.
* And now ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has brought us the SuperSerum Movit #11 - [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101013 the extra strong version]].
** Subversion: Movit ''#6'' is the maximum any average schmuck should take. #7-#11 are ''all'' too potent for anyone who isn't a fully trained smoke knight to be messing with. On top of that, even the lower numbers are something they reserve for emergencies; so really, what you should be impressed by isn't that there's a Movit #11, but ''what sort of emergency would be serious enough to prompt the knight to reach for it''.
* ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'' subverts this trope [[http://wondermark.com/590/ here]]: it's cranked up to eleven, but the scale goes up to 43.
* ''Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}}'': [[http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=021811 Up to eleven was mentioned.]]
* The [[SerialEscalation entire story of]] ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' takes it up to eleven, then goes up to eleven from ''there'', repeatedly, all the while never taking it back down. Quoth AndrewHussie on the matter:
-->"There was only one sure thing I knew when starting HS. That was that this thing would go batshit insane in ways I couldn't begin to imagine. In fact, it was practically the mission statement."
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' sometimes does this:
--> '''Kevyn''': [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-03-23 When]] you've already been flipped out of the frying pan and into the fire, what do you call it when you get flipped again into something even worse?
--> '''Ennesby''': I don't know. I'm reindexing "frying pan" for a higher baseline, though.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic does top eleven lists instead of {{Top Ten List}}s, "Because I like to go one step beyond."
** And it is cranked up to a whole twelve in the Christmas lists, because "IT'S CHRISTMAS!".
** In his "Top Eleven Coolest Movie Clichés" he parodies himself: "Why top eleven? Because I have my own cliche that'll never die!"
* Linkara from ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' goes "up to 15". Linkara has said that his video personality is his real life personality "turned up to eleven".
* Movie-related podcast ''All Movie Talk'' has Top 6 lists because 6 is one more than 5,
* Episode 16 of the web series ''[[http://www.purepwnage.com/episodes/s2/4/ Pure Pwnage]]'' opens with the main character activating a series of amplifiers and overdrivers attached to his Xbox360 and dialing up the volume past the labeled 'Max' setting as well as the labeled 'Dude', and 'Srsly' marks to reach 'WTF' before rocking out to ''VideoGame/GuitarHero''.
* With the revamp of Website/ScrewAttack's website, ratings can be given up to eleven. [[FanDumb If you care enough.]]
* ''[[http://11points.com 11 Points: Because Top 10 Lists are for Cowards]]''
* The Online Game ''Billy vs. Snakeman'' contains countless references to this trope. The [[AuthorAvatar in-game character of the maker]] is called "[=11billionth=] [=HoCage=]".
* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue: Revelations'' Episode Ten is titled "It Goes To Eleven", in reference to the {{Trope Namer|s}}. Since the entirety of the episode is a fight scene animated by DeadFantasy's Monty Oum, it's extremely appropriate.
** Add to this the fact that [[spoiler:Tex, already a {{Badass}}, apparently TookALevelInBadass, essentially taking {{Badass}} UpToEleven]]
* ''WebVideo/EpicMealTime'' strives to take cooking this way. They built a '''gingerbread house using meat and cheese that totaled 86,997 calories''' and [[MemeticMutation lots of bacon]]. Then there was the Sloppy Roethlisburger, totalling ''over 100,000 calories''. And they ate the entire thing.
** Recently, they utterly pwned that. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAjhG09X9YA&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SP84FBB60DFE42481F Behold. The Turbaconepicentipede.]] '''Over 800,000 calories.'''
* ''RegularOrdinarySwedishMealTime'' - their cooker has a maximum setting of 11 drawn on it.
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[[folder: Western Animation ]]
* The plot of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' revolves around this. Firelord Ozai is the most powerful firebender in the world. But on the day of Sozins Comet, every firebender will be much stronger than usual, which allows him to burn the world! He forgot that the Avatar was ''also'' a firebender, among other things.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'', Megabyte gatecrashes a concert and produces a powerful electric guitar. Unsatisfied with the sound after a couple tests, he reaches for the dial and cranks it up to 11.
** At this point Bob jumps up on stage, whips out his own guitar, and the two of them have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al6ssH4vkdY an epic rock-off]]. Megabyte then says "I've always wanted to do that", gives Enzo the guitar as a birthday present, and drives off in his stretch limo.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''' episode 'Bubblevicious', Bubbles got sick of being the "kid" in the group, so she turned the training simulator up to eleven to prove she was "hardcore". The result is a [[Awesome/ThePowerpuffGirls Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for her, and her sisters acknowledge it.
--> '''Buttercup:''' Wow, [[BadAss she took the laser]] [[ShoutOut all the way]] UpToEleven!
* In the opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight,'' Mr. Bumpy actually uses a crayon to add an 11 setting to his amp before jacking it all the way up.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Pete Townshend (Guitarist for Music/TheWho) has an amp with a setting in place of 11 reading simply "Whuh-Oh", that's strong enough to partly demolish a wall made of solid garbage.
** Mr. Burns hires a hypnotist to motivate his softball team.
--->'''Hypnotist''': You are all very good players.
--->'''Team''': We are all very good players.
--->'''Hypnotist''': You will beat Shelbyville.
--->'''Team''': We will beat Shelbyville.
--->'''Hypnotist''': You will give 110 percent.
--->'''Team''': That's impossible. No one can give more than 100 percent. By definition, that is the most anyone can give.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' video "The Star of Christmas," [[GadgeteerGenius Seymour (Pa Grape)]] sends Bob and Larry's characters to the church where a Christmas pageant is going to be held in a Rocket car. He warns them that although the car has 11 engines, they should only fire engines 1 through 10, and that [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique under no circumstances should they fire the untested rocket 11.]] Larry does anyway when the car shows that the church is out of the range of 1-10.
* In the "S'Winter" episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Doofenshmirtz builds a laser that has a melting capacity of seven...on a scale of one to five.
** Much of the show is the titular brothers taking everything Up To Eleven.
--> '''Phineas:''' Guaranteed to kick any party up to an eleven!
* In ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'', Duane's band SCAB scrawled the number 11 on the far end of their amps' volume dials.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Only Human'', Cyborg is able to exceed the limitations built into his cybernetics in order to defeat Atlas. (The fact that Cyborg's human mind and willpower - not his robotic body - is the stronger part of him is later a big plot element in the third season.)
** Cyborg complains that, as a machine, he cannot go beyond 100% of his ability. He eventually goes up to 130% before the power readout breaks, and he decides not to replace it.
* In the episode "Out of this world" of ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'', Frank and Len crank the volume of their music up to eleven curiously at Poe's suggestion. Cue fireworks and an explosion that sends them all into orbit around the moon.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' is build around this trope. The Guns, the Robot, even the Karaoke get turned to eleven regularly. Its stereo system goes [[ExaggeratedTrope up to eleven]] [[OverNineThousand thousand]].
** Said stereo actually has more security preventing its use than ''all of Megas' weapons'' and is the one weapon Coup actually considers cruel to use. As if that didn't already show how powerful it is, when combined with Coup's off-key voice, it becomes a weapon of mass destruction capable of destroying a massive space station and an army of monsters and robots in seconds.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'', whilst trying to cure one of the other sheep of hiccups, Shaun pulls out an electric guitar and amplifier and turns the amplifier up to eleven. As soon as he plays a single chord, a mushroom cloud is seen rising out of the field.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' takes it one step further by cranking it up to 12 in a song at the end. It's part of the lyrics, even.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Marceline's bass amp goes up to ''XII''!
* in ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'', Batman refers to TheQuestion as wound a little too tightly. 
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[[folder: Real Life ]]
* "Up to eleven" was officially accepted by Webster's Dictionary.
* Roman engineers have not gained particular fame for making new breakthrough inventions. But with the wealth and economic capacities of the Roman Empire behind them, they would often crank up the scale and volume of their constructions far beyond what other cultures had originally done with the technology.
* A common propaganda poster in Soviet Russia displayed a man in workman's dress turning a random machine's production speed to a red-bold "11".
* Skyscrapers were often this, like the Chrysler Building and 40 Wall Street were a race to see which would end up taller.
** The Empire State Building followed by less than a year, and not only beat it, but smashed it (the Empire State's ''top floor'' was 50 m above the tip of Chrysler's ''spire'', Empire's Spire was another 70m above that).
** The Burj Dubai (now named the Burj Khalifa) averted this. Rather than going 'up to eleven' to top the tallest building before it, the new tower went straight up to twenty. ''It's half a freaking mile high''. They've started the construction of yet another skyscraper higher than Burj Khalifa in the same city. Top THAT.
* When Huey Long was governor of Louisiana, he ordered that the LSU swimming pool be 53 meters long, instead of the standard 50. It served no functional purpose and complicated swim races since they ended short of the wall, but hey, longest pool.
** Huey Long also had built the Louisiana State Capitol, which still stands as the tallest state capitol in the country and the tallest building in Baton Rouge. Local historians state that the Nebraska state capitol, which was being erected concurrently, was going to exceed the planned height of the Louisiana construction. Governor Long responded by increasing the height of his capitol to remain the tallest.
* Amps made by Fender go up to twelve, and still sound clean. Then we have Marshall who decided to one up it by giving it more watts, more speakers, more preamplification for that hard rock sound, and then later going to twenty. Then Mesa Boogie, inspired by Marshall, makes it go even further, creating one of the loudest metal amps. Soldano amps do go up to eleven because of this.
** Averted by Soldano's daughter company Jet City--the knobs only go to nine, but they have just as much distortion and volume as the up-to-eleven models.
* A lot of the ErmineCapeEffect is due to this, where royalty would do their best to show the most elaborate [[BlingOfWar outfits]] and [[PimpedOutDress dresses]] they could get tailored, especially in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
* One particular king commonly ate his dinners either plated in gold, sprinkled with ground-up pearls, or soaked in expensive perfume. However, the source is ''Ripley's Believe It or Not'', so this idea is probably an exaggeration or taken out of context, at best.
** Napoleon III, French emperor in the 19th century, used aluminum plates and silverware for himself and the empress at official banquets, it being the most expensive metal avaliable; the electrolyzation process for purifying bauxite into aluminum was not discovered until much later and pure aluminum ore is incredibly rare. Important guests had to settle for solid gold.
* The Age of Imperialism was around those centuries, and all about getting the most colonies.
* How many times have you heard a supervisor or a coach demand a "110% effort"?
* The economic theory of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption Conspicuous Consumption]], which says that people buy useless luxury items like diamond-encrusted dog collars to show off their wealth, which prompts others to find even more extravagant ways of showing off, et cetera.
** Best exemplified by the infamous iPhone application "I Am Rich", which was an application which cost $999.99 (the maximum possible at the iPhone store) and did nothing useful besides showing that its owner is rich. [[spoiler: Also, it had a typo.]]
* The [=FreeBSD=] UsefulNotes/{{unix}} based operating system had some problems switching from the 4.x to the 5.x version, forcing them to release a 4.10 and 4.11 "production" versions. They lampshaded it releasing promo material with "4.11, ours goes to eleven" on it.
* Overclocking computers with the help of liquid nitrogen. ''Liquid motherfucking nitrogen''.
** Then someone did it with [[http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/overclocked_amd_phenom_ii_hits_65ghz_with_liquid_nitrogenhelium_cooling liquid helium]]. For people who would do such a thing, the achievement is an end itself and there's apparently no such thing as "too much". It's all about the RuleOfCool, not the [[IncrediblyLamePun Rule Of Cooling]].
* The Big Ten college sports conference invited an eleventh member (Penn State) to join in 1990, kept their name as the Big Ten, and added an 11 buried in their [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Big_Ten_Conference_Logo.svg/500px-Big_Ten_Conference_Logo.svg.png logo]], which they used until 2010, when the University of Nebraska joined, bringing the total to 12.
** Ironically, they had only formally adopted the name Big Ten in 1987....
** The Atlantic 10 sees your eleven and raises you 14. Given its members in Missouri and Ohio, the name appears to have become an ArtifactTitle.
*** Big Ten calls: starting in the 2013-14 season, Rutgers University and the University of Maryland are part of the conference.
** Quite a few of the major conferences have been wanting to expand to ''16'' teams since forever, and now it looks like a definite possibility. The Big East will have seventeen starting next season. And the new entry is from [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas]].
*** That particular example has been averted, with the Catholic schools splitting off and taking the Big East name with them. The favorite to become the name of the new conference with the remainder of the schools is America 12.
* The Badwater Ultramarathon: (from ''Sports Illustrated'') Think of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Badwater]] as [[TheSpartanWay five consecutive marathons, only they're uphill]] (from 280 ft. below sea-level and 8,360 ft. above), held inside a blast furnace (the temperature hovers above 115 degrees -- at night) and capable of frying runners' brains [[ThisIsYourIndexOnDrugs like a fistful of peyote]] (hallucinations caused by [[TheInsomniac sleep deprivation]] are [[CrazyAwesome part of the event's charm]]).
** The featured runner, Arthur Webb, has run the thing 12 times and has finished around 48 hours (with a record 36 hours being fourth place) each time, [[NauseaFuel rips his big toenails out]] so they won't crack as his feet swell in the 130 degree daytime heat, and once lost consciousness... and his pulse (he got better). Oh, and '''''he's 67 years old.'''''
* In a West Indies vs Australia {{cricket|Rules}} match from the early 90s, specialist bowlers Mike Whitney and Bruce Reid (both infamously bad batsmen) were in the Australian side. Whitney came to bat at number 10 (second-last), and after he'd swung wildly at a few deliveries, West Indian commentator Michael Holding (who'd never seen either of them play before) said "can you believe this guy's at number 10?" Ian Chappell replied, "Just you wait. There's someone worse to come."
* First round of Wimbledon 2010: John Isner versus Nicholas Mahut. They go into a fifth set. Because tie-breakers aren't used in the final set at Wimbledon, the final score of the fifth set was''70-68''. That's not points; that's ''games''. They were at the game so long it had to be suspended and continued the next day - and then suspended ''again''. It was finally finished two days after it began. Isner, still affected by the length of that match, lost in the second round.
* The Space Shuttle Main Engine goes [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSME#SSME_thrust_specifications up to 109%]]
* Fun fact: The volume on the [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_world_service BBC iPlayer]] goes up to 11.
** However Sky's goes up to 12. "So there!" (R. Murdoch)
* VLC media player's volume percentage goes up to 200% in the menu bar then goes on to 400% if you use the scroll wheel over the main window. This isn't just cosmetic, either: The default 100% setting is at the same level as other software, and cranking it higher will manipulate the waveform, [[LoudnessWar clipping and brickwalling it]] as needed.
** This is probably for files that were transferred from the (usually non-digital) source at less than full volume -- somewhat common for bootleg media ripped from VHS tapes and the like, which also tends to use the weird formats only VLC and a few other obscure players can read. Also handy if your laptop's speakers just aren't very motivated and you can't hear the movie you are trying to watch without giving the audio a kick in the pants.
* This is the entire point of Guinness Records.
** The race for the fastest 100 meter dash in particular was stuck on trying to go ''below'' ten seconds for quite some time...and then Usain Bolt broke ''his own'' record by the largest margin to date, ''and'' he was so ahead of the rest of the pack that he slowed down a bit to show off.
* The Russian "Tsar" projects: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bell Tsar Bell]], the world's largest bell; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Cannon Tsar Cannon]], the world's largest howitzer; and the more recent [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Tank Tsar Tank]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba Tsar Bomb]].
* US Navy slang includes the term "All ahead Bendix." The ship's speed is controlled by a device which was often made by the Bendix company. Their logo was just beyond the maximum setting, so it appeared that "Bendix" was an option for higher speed.
* The [[CoolCar Bugatti Veyron's]] power gauge stops neatly at [[http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-2006/2006-Bugatti-Veyron-Targa-Florio-Gauges-1600x1200.jpg 1001]]. Actually it tops at about 1200 hp, but the constructors thought 1001 just looked cooler.
** 1001 metric hp (PS) would make around 987 hp. To keep the power rating at the advertised "over 1001 hp" in both systems of measures, metric and Imperial, Veyron engines make around 1020-1040 hp.
** While not quite as fast as the Veyron, the HTT Plethore LC-1300 "Canadian Supercar" has a 1,300 horse power engine and is designed as a 3-seater with the driver's seat and steering column in the centre like a Formula 1 car, and two passengers to the rear flanks of the driver.
* [[http://www.brewdog.com/index.php Brew Dog]] seem to be brewing the world's strongest beer: [[http://www.brewdog.com/sink_the_bismark.php Sink the Bismarck]]. At a alcohol level of 41% they have REALLY cranked beer up to eleven. It is even drinkable. But the company wisely include a bottle stopper with each sale so that you won't drink a whole beer as strong as whisky in one sitting.
** [[http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66S3SR20100729 And 't Koelschip]] went into overdrive outdoing BrewDog with the Start the Future, at a massive 60% ABV.
* One of the Wiki/TVTropes forums discusses this in terms of bodybuilding, noting how contestants went from being strongmen who happened to have highly defined muscles (and actually looked pretty good) to freakishly huge guys more obsessed with adding mass than being healthy.
** Compare [[http://scooby1961.blogspot.com/2011/09/does-phil-heath-use-steroids.html the 2011 Mr. Olympia winner with a winner before steroids were available.]]
* Appropriately, at the Website/{{IMDB}} [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/ page]] for ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'', the ''rating'' is displayed as <number>/11.
** [[http://dvd.ign.com/articles/037/037306p1.html IGN]] also gave the movie 11 out of 10.
* If you thought the Snuggy was bad, behold "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S2p7AiNX9g Forever Lazy]]".
* Advanced Micro Devices [[http://blogs.amd.com/work/2011/01/31/bulldozer-goes-to-11/ used the trope]] OUTRIGHT in their blog, literally citing the ''Spinal Tap'' scene to explain what the Turbo CORE technology does in the Bulldozer processor architecture. The processor will often try to overclock all its cores by as much as 500MHz depending on the workload. If less than all the cores are being used, say in a single or dual-threaded program, it will underclock the unused cores and overclock the used ones even MORE. Depending on the program and conditions, it gives you 4.0GHz OUT OF THE BOX.
* Energy drinks, in both can size and caffeine content. Originally an 8.3 oz. can of Red Bull was a lot. Then came other energy drinks that made Red Bull look like tea, and larger can sizes. 16 ounces is the standard, and there are also 24 and ''32'' ounce cans, as well as ''boxes''.
** Powerthirst (from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs this fake commercial]]), the most EXTREME energy drink. It actually belongs in this section now, because it's [[https://www.powerthirst.ca/ REAL.]]
* Finnish Navy corvettes "Turunmaa" and "Karjala" used Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines (yup, the same as in Concorde), and they were equipped with special restrictors equipped with security seals. The normal maximum speed of those corvettes was 38 kn, but they logged regularly 43 kn speeds. But when breaking the security seals and overriding the restrictors, the vessels could achieve 50 kn speeds - although the engines would not stand such stress for a long time.
* War Emergency Power on Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial engine. Used on P-47 Thunderbolt, [=F6F=] Hellcat and [=F4U=] Corsair. The WEP device consisted of water-methanol injection on the already turbocharged engine. When breaking the security seals and applying WEP, the pilot could stress some 20% more power momentarily out of the engine than usually.
** A similar German device was [=HaHa=]-Gerät, which injected nitrous oxide (laughing gas) in the engine, supplying extra oxygen and making the engine run hotter.
* Rubik's Cubes. Thought the 3x3x3 cube was hard? There are cubes up to 7x7x7 commercially available, and a method has been patented that can take the cube's size up to eleven. When it comes to computer-simulated cubes, you can just [[SerialEscalation go infinitely higher]]: How about a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbPhwajuqg&feature=related 20x20x20]] or a ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Vhs0Xe02k 1000x1000x1000]]'' cube? There are also ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AqMb-edXlc 4-dimensional cubes]]'' or even '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81gGxSEm2i0&feature=related 5D cubes]]'''.
** 5D is so last millennium, they're up to [[http://astr73.narod.ru/MC7D/MC7D.html 7D]] now, 5^7 to be precise.
* In a recent [[http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/postcards-showing-year-2000-circa-1900.html interview]] about ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', the journalist inquired jokingly, "So at what point in development did it become clear that you needed to be flinging horses at the player character?" Ken Levine responded that, "...in video games, everything always has to be amped up to eleven..." and that they needed to show to the player that the antagonist shown was badass.
* The TORRO scale for tornadoes goes up to eleven, with the highest ranking T11 tornadoes having wind speeds in excess of 300 mph. Because of its origins as a relationship between the Beaufort scale and Mach speeds, the Fujita Tornado scale goes up to [[OhCrap twelve]], where a theoretical F12 ranking would have wind speeds that break the sound barrier. Fortunately for us, tornadoes only go up to F5 (at least on this planet.)
* According to James May, in the final episode of ''TopGear'' series 16, the original moon buggy was designed to have a top speed of 8 mph, but the astronauts managed to push it up to 11 mph.
* Footballer [[SmallNameBigEgo Nicklas]] [[EnglishPremierLeague Bendtner's]] confidence was measured to a ten on a scale that goes to nine.
* [[http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80457645/ Body suits that make you look like a sex doll]]. Gets a [[UncannyValley creep out rating]] of 11.
* For nurses, the questions on the NCLEX examination can feel like this if you've previously passed the CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) exam.
* Telescope advances are usually more a case of BiggerIsBetter, advancing in leaps and bounds, but the Gran Telescope Canarias, the world's largest and built in 2009, has a main mirror a little over 34 feet across. The previous record holder, the Keck telescope, has a 33 feet wide main mirror. You could park a bus on the main mirrors of any of them (and cause a gazillion dollars in damage doing so!)
* [[http://longnow.org/clock/ The Clock Of The Long Now]] is a mechanical clock designed to run continuously for the next 10,000, that's ''ten THOUSAND'', years. That is the entire length of human civilization, which is actually their benchmark. They want to build lots of them, and scatter them all over the earth.
* NASCAR racecars, the quintessential "ten" of automotive racing in the USA, rates their cars in the 8-900hp range. The brand new Shelby Mustang's track version takes the horsepower UpToEleven...hundred.
* Drag racing, particularly the Top Fuel classes, is the motorsport equivalent of taking things up to eleven, [[ShapedLikeItself up to eleven.]] [[http://moparforums.com/forums/f35/cool-drag-racing-facts-3585/ The facts and numbers]] behind the cars are simply mind-boggling. They literally shake the ground when they launch, to the point that a pair of Top Fuel dragsters launching will register 2.3 on the Richter Scale. Theoretically, you could give a twin-turbo Corvette a mile-long head start, cross the line at 200 mph, at which point the dragster takes off, and the 'Vette will still be beaten in the last quarter-mile.
* [[http://blog.gunspec.com/gear/the-szecsei-double-bolt-rifle-the-worlds-only-double-bolt-rifle-designed-for-hunters-of-dangerous-game/ Some Austrian gunsmith]] felt that having a bolt-action rifle [[OhCrap when the beast charges you]] may not be enough - so he built a rifle with '''two''' bolt actions in one. That is, two barrels, two triggers, two parallel magazines, on the same bolt, which is doubled inside and reloads both barrels with same motion. Not incidentally, the gun is custom made and enormously expensive.
* Averted by architect Antoní Gaudi, who designed the Sagrada Famila cathedral in Barcelona, Spain, to be exactly one metre lower than Montserrat hill, dominating the Barcelona landscape. He said ''my works shall not exceed Lord's works''.
* When finding out the person that they are speaking to is SIGHT impaired, many people start to talk several levels louder.....because we all know louder is always better.

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* ''Manga/InuYasha'': The story is absolutely full of {{youkai}}, ranging from mooks to very powerful beings who are established and dangerous threats. However, there are a couple of youkai that go well beyond this level to become beings so incredibly powerful that they're officially known as "daiyoukai". The only two youkai referred to as daiyoukai early in the manga are Inuyasha's father and Ryuukossai, the youkai that killed him. Sesshoumaru, who's far more powerful than almost anyone else in the story reaches daiyoukai distinction later in the manga when he [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong achieves his full power]] and just before the FinalBattle, it's revealed that Shippou will one day be able to become one as well, although as a BrattyHalfPint, he still has a long way to go. Youkai are hard to kill, Daiyoukai almost impossible. Ryuukossai could not be killed by stabbing him through his heart, only sealed into stasis. Sesshoumaru also couldn't be killed by stabbing him through the heart. However, unlike Ryuukossai, it won't even seal him into stasis. It'll just annoy him.

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