History UpToEleven / WebComics

'''Engineer''': But Eleven doesn't have any units. It's an arbitrary scale mapping outputs--\\

* 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:

* ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'': For a sweet little Catholic girl, Carrie sure can [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=82757 rock]] ...

** The comic has a spinoff question and answer column called "What If", in which various hypotheticals are pondered. For example: [[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?]] The Guy in a Hat (and the Cat Who Steps on Keyboards) would go on to be recurring characters that introduce increasingly absurd scenarios.

* And then [[RealityWarper Red Mage]] taught Fighter the [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/06/24/episode-1008-charmed-im-sure/ Glorious Chainsaw Method]].

* While on the subject of ''MSPaintAdventures'', the final fight with [[spoiler:Demon Mobster Kingpin]] in ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' had this in spades, but none more ludicrous than the health bar. The first phase had one health bar, and the second had two bars with added regeneration. The third phase, naturally, had three bars and faster regeneration...and then when those were taken off, [[spoiler:DMK]] decided to spite the heroes by growing a stack of life bars that flew off the screen, burrowed into the surface of the Earth, and broke through ''into hell''. All with instantaneous regeneration, so any bar had to be popped off on the spot to count. [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001743 The readers took it well]].

* While on the subject of ''MSPaintAdventures'', the final fight with [[spoiler:Demon Mobster Kingpin]] in ''ProblemSleuth'' had this in spades, but none more ludicrous than the health bar. The first phase had one health bar, and the second had two bars with added regeneration. The third phase, naturally, had three bars and faster regeneration...and then when those were taken off, [[spoiler:DMK]] decided to spite the heroes by growing a stack of life bars that flew off the screen, burrowed into the surface of the Earth, and broke through ''into hell''. All with instantaneous regeneration, so any bar had to be popped off on the spot to count. [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001743 The readers took it well]].

* ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' has a spinoff question and answer column called "What If", in which various hypotheticals are pondered. For example: [[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?]] The Guy in a Hat (and the Cat Who Steps on Keyboards) would go on to be recurring characters that introduce increasingly absurd scenarios.

-->'''Normal person''': Why not make 10 louder and make 10 the highest?
-->'''Engineer''': But Eleven doesn't have any units. It's an arbitrary scale mapping outputs--
-->'''Smart Engineer''': For $2,000 I'll build you one that goes to 12.

* While on the subject of ''MSPaintAdventures'', the final fight with [[spoiler:Demon Mobster Kingpin]] in ''ProblemSleuth'' had this in spades, but none more ludicrous than the health bar. The first phase had one health bar, and the second had two bars with added regeneration. The third phase, naturally, had three bars and faster regeneration...and then when those were taken off, [[spoiler:DMK]] decided to spite the heroes by growing a stack of life bars that flew off the stage, through space, burrowed into the surface of the Earth, and broke through ''into hell''. All with instantaneous regeneration, so any bar had to be popped off on the spot to count. [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001743 The readers took it well]].

* 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.

** 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''.

* ''[[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?]]