History SciFiWritersHave / NoSenseOfUnits

* ComicBook/{{Galactus}} is often called the "slayer of millions" when he has been devouring inhabited worlds at a rate varying from once a century (early in his life) to once a month (more recently) since shortly after the Big Bang. This is... [[MetaphoricallyTrue technically correct]], but not really indicative of the real scale of things. It's kind of like saying "well over ten people live in Hong Kong." Even if the "millions" is a count of worlds, he would already be well into the billions by now.

* Often times, singular (or a handful, if the writer is in the mood for "realism") Imperial Guard regiments are mentioned as taking/holding entire ''planets'', with large campaigns apparently containing a few dozen regiments at the most. This is usually justified as Imperial Guard units being in the tens or even ''hundreds'' of thousands of men (e.g. ''Eisenhorn: Xenos'' mentions 750,000 men in the Gudrun 50th Regiment, while every Imperial Guard codex mentions the Valhallan 18th Light Infantry Regiment with 120,000). [[VoodooShark However, given the lack of intermediate battalions between Companies and Regiments, as well as higher-level military units like divisions and corps such hypothetical battalions could be grouped into, this only begs the question of how forces of such numbers could even be organized.]]

** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' claims that there are only 28 planets that support intelligent life in the whole of Universe 7 (and that's after you subtract previously inhabited planets blown up by Freeza, the Saiyans, or Beerus). That is, quite simply, a ridiculously low number of life-supporting planets for an entire universe, assuming that it's anywhere near the size of the real one. It also makes the Frieza Force's entire business model of conquering planets and selling them to the highest bidder ridiculous, because who are they going to sell them ''to'' if there are so few inhabited worlds in the first place? And that's not even taking into account that Earth, New Namek, and Jaco's world are out of the equation, and there has to be at least ONE planet buying them, which means that Frieza's business empire has really been trading around at MOST only 24 planets somehow, and that's with the ridiculous and borderline impossible assumption that Frieza has conquered those 24 planets (which would also mean he owns 90% of the universes intelligent life) and sold them to just a single solitary planet buyer. Then again, Universe 7 is also supposed to be the second-worst Universe out of the 12 in terms of its "Mortal Life Level", so the low number of planets might be indicative of ''tremendous'' mismanagement by U7's gods ([[spoiler:so bad, in fact, that the TopGod Zen'O had already decided U7 doesn't deserve to exist and should be annihilated, along with the gods in charge of it]]).

* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', there were various sources that put the Separatist droid army in the quadrillions or quintillions. However, the prequel-era movie novelizations had already established the Republic as having a hundred thousand worlds, tens of thousands of star systems, and a population which included "trillions of commonfolk." Unlike most of the other examples, this figure goes in the opposite direction by being way too ''high''. A droid army of quintillions would mean at least 10 trillion droids per world, and battle droids would outnumber every other being in the Republic put together by several orders of magnitude.

* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', there were various sources that put the Separatist droid army in the quadrillions or quintillions. However, the prequel-era movie novelizations had already established the Republic as having one hundred thousand worlds, tens of thousands of star systems, and a population which included "trillions of commonfolk." Unlike all the other examples, this figure goes in the opposite direction by being way too ''high''. A droid army of quintillions would mean about 10 trillion droids per world, and battle droids would outnumber every other being in the Republic put together by several orders of magnitude.

* Coruscant is described as one big city, with a population of one trillion. It's 12,400 km in diameter, making it approximately Earth-sized. A population of one trillion spread evenly across such a planet (assuming no large bodies of water or other uninhabitable areas) would have an average population density less than 6,000 per square kilometer, and yet we see huge, sprawling, skyscraper-laden areas that are almost completely full of people (Manhattan has a population density of ''28,000'' per square kilometer, now imagine multiple layers of that). However, this isn't necessarily a contradiction because population density isn't uniform across the entire planet. There are marginally inhabited, burned out and deserted areas (like what Dooku flew over) and landing zones (like what Anakin crashed into), and the hugely populated parts in the movies are in the same general area, so it may simply be the (or at least ''a'') "downtown" sector of the planet.

* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', there were various sources that put the Separatist droid army in the quadrillions or quintillions. However, the prequel-era movie novelizations had already established the Republic as having one hundred thousand worlds, tens of thousands of star systems, and a population which included "trillions of commonfolk." Unlike all the other examples, this figure goes in the opposite direction by being way too ''high''. A droid army of quintillions would mean about 10 trillion droids per world and outnumber every other being in the Republic put together by several orders of magnitude.