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1->''"I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine."''
2-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''', about ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'', demonstrating this trope's LogicalExtreme
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4OnAScaleFromOneToTen, [[SubvertedTrope this trope gets a rating of Subversion]].
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6Basically, OffTheScale applied to reviews: the movie/video game/whatever has made such an impact on the reviewer that they are willing to break the usual rules of classification of their medium to rate it. The reviewer may consider the work a DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment of Awesome]], or even Headscratching Moment of "Huh?".
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8There are six categories:
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10* '''Still Within Bounds (but pushing it):''' This is {{discussed|Trope}} -- which is to say, the reviewer openly admits to being tempted to go outside the established bounds of the rating system, but [[AvertedTrope ultimately they adhere to the rating scale]];
11** '''First To Hit The Limit:''' A subtype of this category refers to a limit (either upper or lower) that may have been alluded to, but never before reached.
12* '''Out of Bounds:''' The score is simply outside the established bounds of the reviewer's usual ratings scale (compare RankInflation and FMinusMinus; note that this may even cause the rating scale to be expanded);
13* '''Meaningless Comparison:''' The score is paired with [[TwentyPercentMoreAwesome a nonsensical]] or [[AbstractScale unusual unit of measure]], though often it's thematically relevant to whatever they're reviewing (note that a rater can use an idiosyncratic unit of measure but not qualify for this category if they make clear the scale they're using);
14* '''Meaningless Value:''' The score is ''itself'' a nonsensical value (and quite often a TakeThat);
15* '''Impossible to Rate:''' The reviewer admits to having no idea what score to give it ([[ShrugOfGod this is essentially a shrug]]);
16* '''Refusal to Rate:''' And the LogicalExtreme, the reviewer simply -- and usually explicitly -- ''refuses to assign a rating at all''. This can be because the reviewer found the work downright repulsive, decided that rating it would be unfair, thought the work was so personal to the artist that a rating was inappropriate, or decided that a rating was otherwise inapplicable. This could be because the work put in so little effort that it would be downright insulting to dignify it with a proper review. Sometimes overlaps with DancingBear, when the refusal isn't because the work is so bad, but because rating its quality would be beside the point.
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18May appear as part of a CriticBreakdown. Compare ReadingsAreOffTheScale, for when this is done with things other than reviews, or FMinusMinus. Some forms of rating-breaking can involve GradeSystemSnark.
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20!!Examples:
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24!!Still Within Bounds ("I'd give it a zero, but I can't.")
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26[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
27* WebVideo/JesuOtaku usually gives out unusual review scores (see below), but when reviewing ''Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts'', he only gave it "one greasy burger out of four" "because frankly, I don't have a lower score."
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31* snakesonasora
32** Present in their famous sporking of the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' badfic [[http://snakesonasora.livejournal.com/2619.html#cutid1 "Naga Eyes"]]. The rating scale (sometimes more a warning scale) is typically 1 to 5 [[TheGoomba Shadows]]. For particularly terrible fics, there exists a rare rating of [[BigBad Ansem]], which includes everything from 5 Shadows plus extra-high doses of WTF-ery. "Naga Eyes" earned an Ansem, but with this addition attached:
33-->'''snakesonasora:''' THE ANSEM IS ONLY A FORMALITY. THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH SHADOWS, BEHEMOTHS, ANSEMS, OR XEMNASES TO PROPERLY ILLUSTRATE THE LEVEL OF HORROR PRESENT IN THIS FIC.
34** Their sporking of [[https://snakesonasora.livejournal.com/tag/if%20i%20was%20your%20nazi "If I Was Your Nazi"]] gained a similar ranking and attachment, albeit more focused on the offensiveness of the fic's premise:
35-->'''snakesonasora:''' There will never be enough Ansems in this world to fully convey just how horrible, how offensive this...writing is.
36* In ''Fanfic/TotalLadyDramaIsland'', after an experimental food substitute causes every female contestant to undergo various degrees of [[ClothingDamage clothes-destroying]] BreastExpansion, the show's ratings drop to zero. Not because everybody simultaneously chose to stop watching, but because the incident caused viewership to spike so high that the Nielsen servers literally exploded.
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39[[folder:Film]]
40* Film critic Leonard Maltin claimed the movie ''Tarzan: The Ape Man'' starring Creator/BoDerek was so bad it nearly convinced him to create a rating in his book lower than BOMB. He ended up simply pronouncing it a mere BOMB.
41* Alex Abad-Santos' ''Vox'' [[http://www.vox.com/2015/7/24/9032149/pixels-review-garbage review]] of ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' is either this, or extremely close to this (it got a zero; it's not clear if that's a part of the usual scale on ''Vox''), basically implying he'd give it an even lower score if possible with this opening:
42-->''Pixels'' is a movie.\
43This is the nicest thing I can say about it. It is a motion picture in the same way that any space with four walls and a window is considered a bedroom in Manhattan, and in the same way that lampreys are fish. It's not so much a film as it is an all-out assault on the senses, a middle finger to anyone with a brain. It's an open taunt, daring people (and their children) to spend money on a gaping malpractice of creativity.
44* On the same movie, [[Creator/BobChipman Moviebob]] (who didn't give out ratings of this kind at the time, so it's here of necessity) did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=544&v=BFD2293oGvA review]] of ''Pixels'' that explicitly states:
45-->''Pixels'' is awful on a level that defies even the most negative conventions of review. Not a single joke lands, not a single performance works, the story is lazy, the stakes make no sense, the staging is limp and lifeless, and director Chris Columbus has finally made a movie worse than ''Film/NineMonths''. It demands some kind of new metric below the stars or thumbs number scales, like "how many fingers should the people responsible for this piece of shit be allowed to keep".
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49* "I might have to modify our grading schedule and give it a Z except that [[InsultToRocks the poor letter Z did nothing to deserve]] being permanently stuck on a Cassie Edwards novel." --[=SBSarah=] from romance novel review site ''Smart Bitches, Trashy Books'', reviewing ''Savage Moon'', which got an "F". Read the rest [[https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/reviews/savage_moon/ here.]]
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52[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
53* In ''Series/HellsKitchen'', Chef Creator/GordonRamsay is ''very'' tempted to give incredibly bad Signature Dishes (especially if they hit one of his {{Berserk Button}}s: canned ingredients) a zero, but he always gives them a one.
54* In the ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Emancipation", a new teacher creates a ranking system for Malcolm's class, forcing the students to compete against each other for the #1 slot. Malcolm at first rebels and ends up in the #12 position, but then he decides to be so good that he breaks the system. His name climbs up the ranks until he's doing so well the teacher is forced to place his name ''on the wall several spaces above the #1 spot'' (which would appear to make this an example of "Out of Bounds", but he is still technically #1).
55* [[https://www.ign.com/articles/the-mandalorian-season-2-episode-8-finale-review The IGN review]] of ''Series/TheMandalorian''[='s=] second season finale stated a desire to break out of the scale:
56-->''Can we all agree that this episode is an 11 out of 10? Our scoring system doesn't technically allow it, but I feel confident saying that "The Rescue" is the most momentous episode of The Mandalorian yet.''
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60* An old joke has a college student asking his professor why he received an F on an exam, as he thinks he didn't deserve one. The professor replies, "I don't think you did either, but it is the lowest grade I am allowed to give."
61* Pet-based channel Clint's Reptiles [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-j3avVHNN0 gave the peregrine falcon]] a 1/5 for Care (as in, how easy it is to take care of one), and noted that he considered giving it a 0. He clarified that his scale actually does include a 0, but the only thing he could think of that would score a 0/5 in that category would be an actual human baby--the fact that a falcon even ''approaches'' that level of difficulty is a testament to how troublesome they are to house, feed, and train.
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65* The famous [=RPGNet=] review of ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'' awarded a 1/1 rating (out of five) for "Style[=/=]Substance", which the reviewers considered [[InsultToRocks an insult to every other game that had scored so badly to date]], but going any lower would require them to get the webmaster to modify some backend code.
66* In Dungeon Dudes' review of the Sorceror subclasses from the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' book ''Tasha's Cauldron of Everything'', not only did the Aberrant Mind and Clockwork Soul easily qualify for S Tier, but they mentioned being tempted to retroactively downgrade the other subclasses due to how powerful they were.
67** And then, when reviewing the ''Tasha's'' Cleric subclasses, they actually ''did'' end up retroactively downgrading some of the other subclasses thanks to the Peace and ([[GameBreaker especially]]) Twilight Domain.
68* In ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'', [[PsychoForHire Adam Smasher's]] in-game Empathy Stat is listed as "[[LackOfEmpathy Yeah, right...]]".
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72* [=GameCentral=]’s [[http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/886778-postal-iii-review-boll-movement review]] of ''VideoGame/PostalIII'' gave it a 0/10, though it begins with the reviewer wondering whether the game’s self-awareness should push it up to 1/10, or if the fact that the developers clearly knew they were releasing a terrible game should push it into the negatives.
73* When rating ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'', the official [=PS2=] magazine (Greek edition) commented that they would give it an 11/10, but weren’t allowed to, so instead they settled on a 10/10.
74* ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' editor Chris Slate responded to one reader that he had been tempted to award some games a 10.5 out of 10, but won’t because that will mess up the scale by making 10.5 the new standard. (At the time, only ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', and ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' had received a 10.)
75* The now-defunct ''[[http://thegia.psy-q.ch/sites/www.thegia.com/ Gaming Intelligence Agency]]'' gave ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' a 1 out of 5, and a relentlessly negative review that found basically no redeeming value in it. At one point, the AltText on the score graphic said that they would’ve given it a zero if their rating scale allowed it. The mirror of their site at the time of its closing no longer reflects this.
76* On Website/SomethingAwful, the review giving ''Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu'' the lowest possible rating (–50) ended by saying "I hate that I can’t give this game the score it deserves because the SA rating system won’t let me use scientific notation.” It’s not the only time reviewers have expressed a wish to go below –50, with various degrees of seriousness. The absolute worst thing ever reviewed there did get a “minus infinity”, but it’s better [[BrainBleach not to]] [[SchmuckBait speak of that]].
77* Throughout LetsPlay/RoahmMythril’s ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man|Classic}}'' Perfect Run videos, he strictly adheres to a scale of 1–10 for difficulty rankings, though there are some Robot Masters that test the limits. For example, he says that giving [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Top Man]] a score of 1 is being generous, because he wants to be fair by not going any lower. Conversely, [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Quick Man]] gets a 10, after which Roahm jokes “Can I give you more?” and temporarily fills the rest of the screen with rating icons and the text [[MemeticMutation “OVER 9000!!”]]
78** His [[VideoGame/MegaManX X series]] successor, [=Kevvl14=], thought that giving Blaze Heatnix from ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX6 X6]]'' a perfect 10 would almost be an insult to his time. He compromises by giving Heatnix the [[VisualPun biggest ten he's ever given]].
79* The 1996 PC fighting game ''Catfight'', often counted today as one of the worst games ever made, got a lot of lowest-rating-we've-ever-given reviews. The wittiest came from ''Next Generation'' magazine: "Our scoring system won't let us give zeroes, so Atlantean owes us one star."
80* ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'''s foot rating scales initially (in 1998) went from a low of 1 to a maximum of 8, quickly amended with a 9-footer in ''2nd Mix'' six months later, and then a 10-footer in ''[=MAX2=]'' in 2002. Here, the rating scale stood still for quite some time, with a few new songs in every release getting harder and harder despite still being rated as 10-foot songs (compare ''MAX 300'', the first 10, to later 10s like the ''Fascination'' and ''Pluto'' series). Eventually in 2008, Konami relented and introduced a new ratings scale in ''Dance Dance Revolution X'', with all previous ratings inflated by about 50% and a new top-end of 20-foot for future expansion.
81** Similarly with ''{{VideoGame/Beatmania}}'', the difficulty rating for IIDX topped out at 7. They sort of broke it with 7+ until the 12th style, Happy Sky, which they expanded it out to 12. However, they're pretty much back where they started due to SequelEscalation.
82* During ''Magazine/ElectronicGamingMonthly''[='s=] review of ''187: Ride or Die'', one reviewer said he awarded it a "4.0" as a game but as a product a "negative f*** you" because it was such a crass and blatant attempt to capitalize on gangsta culture with no appreciation for how to make it into a quality game.
83* Ceave Gaming [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT7xRrSvCTA said this]] of the [[DemonicSpiders Hammer Bro]] when rating ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2'' enemies on how integral they are to the game, noting that he didn't give it a 0 because "the official competition rules require me to award each enemy at least one Fuzzy for showing up."
84* The Polish magazine ''CD-Action''[='=]s review of ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater 3'' gave it a 10/10, though one of the only two cons they listed in a summary was "It nearly escaped our rating scale!"
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88* Rata of ''WebVideo/Rank10YGO'' had used a three-point scale to grade archetypes in various categories before introducing a five-point scale when grading the Ancient Gears. In the grading process, he admitted that he was tempted to give the archetype a grade of 10 for Power before ultimately settling on giving them a 5.
89* Many, ''many'' reviews on websites such as Website/{{IMDb}} note that the reviewer gave it a "1" solely because the option to hand out "0" isn't offered.
90* ''[[Creator/LoreSjoberg The Book Of Ratings]]'' would never award an F rating to anything, because the author would ask himself, "Is this as bad as [[TheScrappy Scrappy-Doo]]?" and decide that at least it wasn't that bad. Tellingly, when the time came to rate Scooby-Doo characters, one of them finally got the vaunted F.
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94* WebVideo/FriendlyNeighborhoodLibrarian operates on a one- to five-star scale, and says that she doesn’t officially give out 0 stars on the show, but for ''WesternAnimation/{{Wayside}}'', she wishes she could. Instead, she ended up giving it one star. She also gave Dario Argento’s ''Phantom of the Opera'' movie “one star, barely.”
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97!!First to Hit The Limit ("Yes, there ''is'' a Zero.")
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99[[folder:Fan Works]]
100* ''Fanfic/SoulmateSurvey'': A new matchmaking app named "Soulmate Searcher" takes the world of ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' by storm. Unlike many other dating apps, this one has phenomenal, long-lasting success for pairing up couples. Of course, it’s supposed to be impossible for two people to match each other at higher than 85%. But when Marinette and Adrien sign up, they are matched with one another... at 100%.
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104* Music reviewer Creator/MarkPrindle awarded Music/{{Madonna}}'s much-maligned album ''Music/AmericanLife'' his first and ''only ever'' [[http://markprindle.com/madonnaa.htm#american zero out of ten]], with a specially-themed ratings graphic for it to boot, on the basis that aside from being musically awful (to the point that he specifically mentions he rated ''Music/MetalMachineMusic'' higher than it), Madonna's self-pitying "first world problems"-style lyrics were downright intolerable. Prindle directly says at one point (in ''very'' sanitised terms) that you could tell him every racist and homophobic joke going and he'd still find it less offensive than one of the richest and most famous people in the world shrieking about how awful their life is.
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108* "This game officially received the lowest score in the history of [=GameSpot=]: a 1.0. And by lowest, I mean ''it can't go any lower!'' We don't hand out zeroes, but maybe we should have for ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing''." -- Alex Navarro, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPqDWad358I&t=3m9s GameSpot's Top 10 Most Frightfully Bad Games of 2004]]''. The video review instead showed him Refusing to Review ([[SilentSnarker unless]] [[DisapprovingLook looks of dismay]], {{Face Palm}}ing, {{Head Desk}}ing, [[DespairEventHorizon and ultimately]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaving his desk in disgust]] count, in which case his review was not a positive one). Three other games would subsequently receive this abysmal score - ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'', ''Air Control'', and ''VideoGame/RavensCry'' - but ''Big Rigs'' was the first.
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112* WebVideo/CrashThompson gave ''One More Light'' by Music/LinkinPark 0.5/5, suggesting that there was a possible 0 score. In 2019, Creator/DougWalker's [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS12E33 parody of]] Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'' was that zero, and the zero was accompanied by a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that ended in Crash dropping his Rock Critic persona because [[BrokenPedestal that branding was inspired by Walker]].
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116* At the [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames 1976 Summer Olympics]] in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci obtained a perfect score of 10. While this had ''technically'' been possible the whole time[[note]]it was not even ''Nadia's'' first perfect 10, which she had earned at the European Championships the year before; the first ever awarded, also at the Europeans, had been given to Vera Caslavska in ''1967''[[/note]], it was deemed impossible to do at a competition as prestigious as the Olympics[[note]]traditionally speaking, in gymnastics, as the competitions get more prestigious, the scoring gets tougher; a random early-season domestic meet is going to be scored much more loosely than the World Championships later that year, for example[[/note]], so the Olympic scoreboards could only reach up to 9.99. Her score was displayed as an abysmal ''1.00''. Whoops. And then, just for good measure, she proceeded to do it ''six more times''. She left the entire gymnastics world gaping in awe as she turned the sport upside down and inside out, and then shook it just to see what came out. It's ''still'' reeling from the aftershocks.
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119!!Out of Bounds ("OnAScaleFromOneToTen, this one [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap goes up to eleven]].")
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121[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
122* From the Anime News Network preview guides: Jacob Chapman gave a negative five out of five to the first episode of ''Kiss X Sis''.
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125[[folder:Comic Books]]
126* Spiderfan.org, which rates ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' comic books on a scale of 1 to 5 webs, gave 1998's ''The Final Chapter'' no webs, citing Aunt May being brought BackFromTheDead with [[VoodooShark a truly absurd explanation]], and general bad writing. The review concluded by saying the story was a waste of precious paper.
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130* ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'': Popular fanblog Blog/EquestriaDaily gave the fic a "GRIMDARK AS FUCK" tag, as opposed to usual {{dark fic}}s which usually only get a "Dark" or a "Grimdark" tag. Similary, the [[{{Doorstopper}} epic-length]] ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'' got the tag '''''Legendary'''''.
131* In chapter 42 of ''Fanfic/CrimsonAndNoire'', Plagg makes a ranking list of people that are part of his weilder Marinette's life, and invoke this trope by saying that anyone with a negative rank should be avoided at all cost. [[spoiler:Lila]] is the lowest rank at -10,000,000 because he recognizes her as a ManipulativeBitch towards Marinette despite his warnings falling on deaf ears.
132* Rage Reviews (a review group on Platform/FimfictionDotNet) normally grades fanfics on a scale of 0% to 100% Rage, with higher percentages being worse scores. But for stories even worse, inspiring the hatred of multiple reviewers, there's the 120% Rage score. And for stories even worse than that, there's 200% Rage, which can only be awarded with permission from the group's founder. And beyond even that, the group made a "Literally Broke the Scale" score, represented by a .gif that randomly cycles through various four-digit percentages. That one was initially created just as a joke -- but they wound up actually awarding it to ''The Rise of Spike the Dragon''.
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136* When ''SFX'' magazine did their ratings from A to D-minus, rather than a star system, there was one object (a plastic, life-sized grey embryo in a jar) which they decided was worthy of an E.
137** The film ''Film/SpeciesII'' got an F on the same scale.
138** At the other end, when the star system came about, they gave ''Series/{{Chuck}} Versus The Ring'' eleven stars out of five.
139* The Dread Central review of ''The 13th Alley'': [[http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/13th-alley-the-2008 One BILLION knives out of 5]] (the review thought it was a SoBadItsGood masterpiece). Note: "Knives" ''are'' a standard unit for this site, which is why this doesn’t fit a Meaningless Comparison.
140* The book and film reviews in the Czech sci-fi/fantasy magazine ''Ikarie'' normally go from one to five stars, with zero stars reserved for “So Bad It’s Horrible” ones. (And yes, half out of five was occasionally used as well.) There was one movie for which the reviewer didn’t feel zero was enough, so it got a 00.
141* [=IGN's=] [[http://dvd.ign.com/articles/037/037306p1.html DVD review]] of ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' received 11/10 instead of a real score.
142* [[http://www.1000misspenthours.com 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting]] gives stars. It also gives ''negative'' stars to SoBadItsGood movies. Zero stars are reserved for films that fail even that test.
143* ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' received minus 1 star from the ''UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}} Star''. No other movie has been rated so lowly.
144* Creator/RogerEbert:
145** He chose to remove the film ''Film/{{Shoah}}'' from his list of candidates for the top ten films of 1985 (in its place appeared ''Film/TheColorPurple1985''). He felt it deserved higher accolades.
146** On the other hand, Ebert occasionally gave zero-star ratings. These differed from his occasional "no-star" ratings in that to earn zero stars, a movie had to offend his moral sensibilities in some way. This is why ''Film/TheHumanCentipede II'' got zero stars (as opposed to the first movie, which got no rating) and why the original version of ''Film/DeathRace'' got zero stars vs. the remake’s half star even though Ebert had admitted that he considered the former more competently made. Ebert talks more about his no-star rating in his [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/death-wish-ii-1982 review of Death Wish 2]].
147* Donald Clarke of ''The Ticket'' awarded six stars (out of five) to Creator/MichaelHaneke's ''The White Ribbon 3D'', an English-language remake of the director’s own ''Film/TheWhiteRibbon''. This was a joke: no such movie exists and the review was published on April Fool’s Day.
148* ''The UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} Globe'' gave ''Film/TheHumanCentipede II'' no stars out of five. As did ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Mail]]''.
149* ''Video Hound Golden Movie Retriever'' will normally give movies a score of one to four bones. For some films that are either [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] or horrendously bad, they will offer a rating of ''Woof!''
150* Similarly, Leonard Maltin will give films that don’t rate a star and a half a BOMB rating.
151* And the "DVD & Video Guide" by Nick Martin and Marsha Porter substitutes a turkey symbol for movies that would otherwise receive one star.
152* Only one movie, ''Daltry Calhoun'', has ever received a [[http://ca.ign.com/articles/2005/09/22/daltry-calhoun-2 zero]] from IGN (see below for the third and first things the site considered as “utterly lifeless and dull” as this one).
153* WebAnimation/{{Spill}}.com used to have "some ol' bullshit" as its lowest rating. The films of Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg motivated them to add an even lower "Fuck you" as its new lowest.
154* Website/IMDb’s user rating for ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' is out of 11. Subverted, though, as the film is currently rated 8.0 out of 11.
155* Lou Lumenick, the movie critic for the ''New York Post'', gave the sketch comedy film ''Film/{{Movie 43}}'' [[http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/movie_is_aggressively_unfunny_GrC6L1aNDk6tj55TmFN1wO negative four stars]], calling it “the worst movie I’ve ever seen”.
156* [[http://drsalt.deviantart.com/art/Opinionated-Vampire-41856875 Dr. Salt]], complaining that ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' received an inexplicable four stars in a television magazine, wrote that in his book it would get zero stars ("and that's only assuming I can't give negative stars"), with every other movie given one extra star just to make ''From Dusk Till Dawn'' seem worse.
157* An InUniverse example with ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''. Master Shifu tells Po that there's no Level 0 when it comes to kung fu training. After Po [[EpicFail majorly fails in the training chamber]], Shifu says "There is now a Level 0".
158* An "off the scale" option is implicit in the review icons long used by the Sunday edition of the (combined) ''San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner''. Instead of stars, each option shows a cartoon figure of a little man in a movie seat. From highest to lowest: little man leaping in the air applauding wildly; little man sitting upright clapping his hands; little man slumped dully in his seat; little man fast asleep ... and, finally, an empty seat.
159* Vox [[https://twitter.com/nzle/status/890651171504889857 rewrote the site's code]] to give ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' half a star.
160* In-universe in ''Film/PopstarNeverStopNeverStopping'': [=Connor4Real's=] sophomore album, [=CONNquest=], gets a -4.0 score on Pitchfork and a 💩/4 on Magazine/RollingStone. The only "positive" review comes from Website/TheOnion.
161* Christian film website Movieguide gave ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' a content grade of -4 (could be -4 billion).
162* According to blogger Blog/UnshavedMouse, the fact that his daughter ''begged him to let her watch something else, halfway through the movie'', means that ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron'' is a scale-breaking EpicFail. (Ultimately subverted, however, as he ends up giving the film a final score of 34%.)
163-->'''Unshaved Mouse:''' Dreamworks? She's a five year old girl. If you can't sell a five year old girl a cartoon with horses, you have FAILED. You have failed more totally than it should be possible for human beings ''to'' fail. You have created a masterpiece of ineptitude. ''You broke the damn scale.''
164* Critically Acclaimed podcast hosts William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold broke their C- to C+ scale to "reward" ''Cats'' with a D+, stating that the film was so awful on a wholly different level that it in some way had to be seen to be believed while also being truly awful.
165* ''Film/{{Godmothered}}'' has an InUniverse example. Grant's news show is said to get fifth place on a list of news shows, even though there are only four news shows.
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169* ''Literature/MaximumRide'' has a house in-universe that rates "on a scale from 1 to 10--an easy 15".
170* Website/ImpishIdea writers Fair & Finn ended their [[http://impishidea.com/spork/nibly-the-bear-visits-the-people-town-chapter-6-finale spork]] of ''Nibly the Bear Visits the People Town'' asking the commenters what rating they would give the book (presumably out of 10). The two responses were both in this category: Swenson gave a rating of -85, whereas Brendan Rizzo went even further, with a rating of negative infinity. Then, crossing over with Refusal to Rate, he said that he couldn't give it a rating at all because it does not qualify as a story, and compared it to ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing''.
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174* On Junior Masterchef Australia, a contestant was scored an 11 (on a 10 point scale) by two judges. Clearly they thought that his dish was better than the example dish provided by the professional chef.
175* Website/SFDebris gave the notorious ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold Threshold]]" 0 on a one-to-ten scale, with an added message "[[ShoutOut May God have]] [[Film/BillyMadison mercy on your soul]]". This opened the floodgates, as it were, and he's since handed out another for ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]''[='s=] "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS02E05ANightInSickbay A Night in Sickbay]]". A few horrible episodes only missed this mark because another is worse, and he tries to preserve the Zero for the absolute worst episodes of each series -- the one episode of a series that brings shame to the entire ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise by association (the aforementioned "Threshold", "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E23ProfitAndLace Profit and Lace]]" for ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E3CodeOfHonor Code of Honor]]" for ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'' and "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E4AndTheChildrenShallLead And The Children Shall Lead]]" for ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS]]'').
176** "My Way or JANEWAY" -- Chuck measures how his own parody of Captain Janeway would handle each scene from the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E11LatentImage Latent Image]]", then sees how ''Voyager''’s Janeway measures up. He gives up within four minutes, after the real Captain's actions are more extreme than her parody's.
177** For his non-''Franchise/StarTrek'' reviews, Chuck does not use a numerical scale, but rather "Must See", "Strongly Recommended", "Recommended", "Fine", "Watchable" and "Avoid". ''Series/DoctorWho's'' "The Twin Dilemma" and ''Series/StargateSG1's'' "Emancipation" were rated simply "The Worst".
178* Keith D.A. Candido gave the fifth-season finale of ''Series/{{Highlander}}'', “Archangel,” a 0 out of a 1–10 scale, citing the episode’s introduction of an ancient Zoroastrian demon into the ''Highlander'' universe, Richie’s [[DroppedABridgeOnHim death scene]] happening as a result of him being handed the IdiotBall, and a whole bunch of story elements that just don’t make sense.
179* The Zettai ni Oishii segments of ''Series/GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende'', which feature the cast’s attempts at making a specified dish [[CordonBleughChef with unusual ingredients]], already has built-in negative values on its ratings scale of –2 to 10. Positive scores are represented by stars, negative scores by skull marks. But on at least one occasion, a dish has been awful enough to get ''two full skeletons''.
180* IGN gave its third zero in the site’s history [[https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/01/03/work-it-pilot-review to the pilot of]] ''Series/WorkIt''.
181* In-universe example in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', for the price of a wedding dress. The scale given is [[UndisclosedFunds “never” to “never ever”]]. The rating is “never ever ever ever ever times infinity”. It's later revealed to be $8,000.
182* For a while, back in the Creator/DavidTennant run, the ''Series/DoctorWho'' website contained episode reviews from a family who gave them a "fear factor" from 1 (mildly scary) to 5 (extremely scary), shown by the children of the family holding up scorecards. For both [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]], the children apparently made or found scorecards with sixes on them. On the website the overall scores for these episodes are listed as 5.5 ("Off the Scale") and 6 ("Beyond Fear") respectively.
183* The show ''Series/MythBusters'', since the second season, has a rating scale of sorts for the myths it tests: "Confirmed" (for a myth which fits the criteria within the original parameters), "Plausible" (for a myth which does not fit the original criteria but has been shown to be possible in realistic circumstances), or "Busted" (for a myth which is not possible anywhere near the original criteria, even if the concept behind it is sound). Quite a few myths have a Meaningless Comparison deviation, such as "Plausible, but ludicrous".
184** The myth of being killed by a falling bullet from [[FiringInTheAirALot a gun fired straight up]] was rated "all of the above", that is, Busted, Plausible, ''and'' Confirmed. This was because they determined that firing a bullet perfectly vertically would make it tumble as it fell back down, and not gain enough velocity to be lethal (Busted); but if the gun is aimed just a few degrees from vertical, the bullet won’t tumble and could kill someone when it lands (Plausible), and a doctor showed them X-ray slides of people who were actually killed in this way (Confirmed).
185* ''Musings of an X-Phile'' is a retro review page devoted to analysing ''Series/TheXFiles''. Salome’s aim is to analyse all the episodes and both the movies. The episodes get grades like at school, and only the very best episodes have merited A-plus. ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture'' review has two parts: one based on the storytelling and the plot, while the other is based on Mulder and Scully’s relationship. The latter got A-plus-plus-plus.
186* Website/TheOnion AV Club's reviews of ''Series/{{Hostages}}'' mainly dealt out Ds and Fs, but episode eleven was so horrendous that [[http://www.avclub.com/review/off-the-record-106117 the rating scale looped itself]] and Sonia Soraiya gave it an "A".
187* In-universe in the [[Series/TheMuppetShow Muppet Show]] -- Waldorf and Statler love Diana Ross so much that they freely deal negative ratings on an (implicit) 0-10 rating scale to the other acts. This also has the side effect of riling up the audience - during the episode's "UK Sketch", in which Beaker tries to sing Albert Morris' "Feelings", they boo him so much that Animal has to tell them to be quiet halfway through, and they do some ProducePelting before Gonzo can perform his stunt, causing him to call it off and get Diana back on the stage.
188* In-universe on ''Series/{{Friends}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW8-9sUaQas when Joey is preparing to audition the role of a 19 year old.]] He wears a jersey over a t-shirt, a touque and boxers above his waistline, and says "wack" and "'sup". When he asks Chandler if he's 19, Chandler says "Yes. On a scale from one to ten, ten being the '''dumbest''' a person can look, you are definitely 19."
189* In ''Series/SquareOneTV'''s MusicVideo [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0-DCA5uJg "Less Than Zero"]] Stanley O'Toole manages to get negative scores in diving, dance, and rollerskating competitions. When he competes in the hammerthrow he throws it backwards, netting a -55 feet score.
190-->Worse than nothing is my battle cry!
191* In the second episode of ''Series/ICarly'' featuring Nevel Papperman, upon seeing Nevel's "[[HackerCave nerd cave]]", Sam says that she used to rank nerds on a scale from 1 to [[StealthInsult Freddie]] but that Nevel just broke that scale.
192* ''Series/CanadasWorstDriver'': After a Season 3 challenge, Shelby ranks his performance.
193-->On a scale of one to ten, this drive was probably a zero.
194* ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'': New Zealand censors, when classifying the show, had to build a new classification of [=RP18=] (Persons under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian) from scratch, created specifically for the series. The censors deemed the subject matter too important to teens for the show to be given the existing R18 rating, yet the [=RP16=] rating was considered to be too low of a rating and did not cover vulnerable 16 and 17 year olds in a country with the highest teen suicide rate in the OECD.
195* The ''Series/{{House}}'' wiki maintains a 1 to 10 "zebra factor" for how improbable the diagnosis of the week is - for the episode that featured fake human parthenogenesis, they pointed out that it would have received an 11 had it been real.
196* In the eponymous series, ''Series/{{Automan}}'' has been programmed to learn from the best person in every discipline, so when he materializes for the first time and he discusses his abilities with his creator, he says literally ''"In a scale from 1 to 10, think of me as an eleven"''.
197* A recurring challenge on ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' has one Joker showing someone a dating profile created by the other three. The person is then asked to rate the profile on a scale of 1-10, and the profile with the lowest score loses. In "Prince + Charming", Murr's profile was given a rating of negative 10. The other Jokers decided to [[NonStandardGameOver give him the loss on the spot since the score was so bad]].
198* In an April Fool's Day episode of ''Series/XPlay'', they decided to "re-review" a game they'd previously given a bad review of, ''VideoGame/CrisisCore''. Said re-review basically amounted to a StrawFan [[HongKongDub blatantly overdubbing the original with random praise in place of critiques]], topping it off with a 6 out of 5 star score (''X-Play'' reviews normally only go to 5 stars).
199* ''Series/TheState'' received a number of alarmingly bad reviews in its first season, including a rating of '''minus 2 stars''' from ''The New York Times''. MTV and the crew responded by working the bad reviews into an actual ad for the show.
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203* Creator/MarkPrindle gave Music/{{Madonna}}’s ''Music/AmericanLife'' a [[http://markprindle.com/madonnaa.htm#american zero out of ten]]. While he’s known for often being a CausticCritic, this was the sole album to get a zero from him, and to ‘commemorate’ this he used a new graphic rather than representing the score with those tiny records as usual (in which the lowest score is 1 out of 10).
204* Thrash metal band Music/FlotsamAndJetsam’s debut album ''Doomsday for the Deceiver'' [[http://www.allmetallica.com/info/interviews/kerrang86.php got 6 Ks out of a possible 5]] from Kerrang! magazine. Kind of a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for a relatively obscure band[[note]]The band is generally known for being the band Music/JasonNewsted left to join Music/{{Metallica}}, with their music being rather obscure.[[/note]], considering no other album in the magazine’s history has ever received the honour.
205* The late, great British radio DJ John Peel ranked new songs on his programme on a 5-star system. When he first played “Teenage Kicks” by The Undertones—a song which would become his favourite song of all time (lyrics from the song are even ''on his tombstone'')—not only did he play it twice in a row, but he gave it a score of 28 out of 5 Stars.
206* When Music/GogolBordello played Roskilde Festival in 2006, one reviewer gave them 7 out of 6 stars, declaring that he’d draw the last star himself.
207* WebVideo/TheRapCritic gave "No Love" by Music/{{Eminem}} (featuring Lil Wayne) six stars out of five, possibly as much from shock that Eminem was on form after several years of mediocrity and Lil Wayne showed his poetic chops in the same song as much as anything. He has since given a few songs 6 out of 5 when they surpass the potential he thinks they had or otherwise "break the barometer"--among other things, he gave ''The Marshal Mathers LP 2'', as a whole, 5.5 stars.
208* Music and film publication ''Slant Magazine'' has given at least two zero-star ratings in its music section: to John Rich's ''Son of a Preacher Man'' and to Music/FaithHill's ''Fireflies''. Both reviews read more as Jonathan Keefe venting his spleen against the artists in question than actually reviewing their product.
209* Music/{{Chic}}'s song "26" invokes this:
210-->On a scale of one to ten, my baby's a twenty-six.
211* [[WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop Anthony Fantano]] once made a joke review of ''NOW That's What I Call Music Vol. 69''. [[OverlyLongGag He wasn't present at all and said absolutely nothing during the review]], despite the video's otherwise normal editing (including cuts to an absent Cal Chuchesta). Even so, he gave the compilation a Strong 69, presumably using his normal 10-point scale.
212* When Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart was a child, he took a piano exam that was scored from 1 to 5. After he had finished, the examiner marked a 5, thought for a moment, then added three pluses, commenting "That wasn't an examination. That was a concert!"
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216* The star ranking system, thought up by industry insider Wrestling/JimCornette and Newsletter writer Weasel Dooley, popularized by ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'', is mostly defined by three marks. 0 is DUD, 2 is average, 5 cannot be improved upon. The system originally was a joke by Cornette, who compared Weasel Dooley's in depth analysis of matches to decide whether they were "good" or "bad" to TV Guide's deconstruction of movies, which it grades on four stars, because there can be no perfect movies. Jim and Weasel, while believing there can be no perfect matches either, agreed Wrestling/JerryLawler and Wrestling/TerryFunk put on one so good in 1981 that four simply wasn't enough, redefining the scale.
217* Dooley took it a step further by giving negative star ratings, most famously rating a match between Plowboy Frazier, and Chief Thunder Cloud “negative as many stars as there are in the Andromeda galaxy".
218* ''The Wrestling Observer Newsletter'' became famous for these simply because few reviewed matches ever get more than 3 or less than 1 from the publication, at least when the difficult to impress Dave Meltzer is the one reviewing...that was until 1984 in Madison Square Garden when David Schultz defeated Wrestling/RockyJohnson[[note]]as in Wrestling/{{Dwayne|Johnson}}'s father[[/note]] in a match Meltzer gave "minus 3 stars". This was surpassed at the 1985 ''The Wrestling Classic'' after Meltzer rated a match between Wrestling/JunkyardDog and [[Wrestling/TheMoonDogs Moondog Spot]] "minus 5 stars", which presumably means cannot get any worse.[[note]]As of April 2022 5 matches have received the full negative monty and 109 matches have been rated below DUD.[[/note]]
219* On the positive end, Meltzer first broke the rating scale for a June 3, 1994 Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling match, which had been shooting 5 out regularly during the decade, between Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa and Toshiaki Kawada, which got 6 stars to symbolize he thought it might have been the greatest pro wrestling match of all time. Another match wouldn't get such a rating from Meltzer until the ''Wrestle Kingdom 11'' main event between Wrestling/KennyOmega and then-reigning [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling IWGP]] Heavyweight champion Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada on January 4, 2017. Meltzer then later stated that the second match between Omega and Okada a few months later at ''Dominion 6.11'' was better than the first, giving it 6.25 stars. A year later, at ''Dominion 6.9'', the Omega/Okada 2 out of 3 falls title match scored ''seven'' stars. The first Omega/Okada match sort of acted as a breakthrough moment, as since then Meltzer has awarded more matches to those he believes deserve it, mostly crediting the newer age of wrestling for having better in-ring action than before.
220* Website/WrestleCrap’s description of the Black Scorpion’s final appearance, where he landed in a spaceship, says, “On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the ultimate in stupidity, this rates 178.”
221* The infamous "MINUS. FIVE. STARS." given to the Sharmell/Jenna Morasca match at Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s ''Victory Road'' 2009 by ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'''s [[CausticCritic Bryan Alvarez]] that eventually wound up in Website/{{Botchamania}}'s opening sequence.
222* Bryan Alvarez of ''Wrestling Observer'' rated the Wrestling/TheIronSheik and Wrestling/NikolaiVolkoff vs. Wrestling/TheBushwhackers match at the 1998 PPV, ''Heroes of Wrestling'', "minus more stars than there are stars in the universe, and the universe is infinite". Similarly, Dave Meltzer rated the match as "Absolute Zero stars" [[note]](-459.67 stars on the Fahrenheit scale, or -273.15 stars on the Celsius scale)[[/note]].
223* Meltzer was "impressed" again when he rated the abysmal main event of ''Hell in a Cell 2019'', which ended in a no contest due to {{kayfabe}} fear of injury, as "-2 stars".
224* ''WebVideo/WrestlingWithWregret'' initially stuck to a 1/2-to-4 star rating system (later expanded to 1/2-to-five). The Wedding Gown match at ''Bash at the Beach 2000'' was so pathetic that Bryan Zane introduced ''zero'' stars. Later still, ''Halloween Havoc 1991'' and the Van Hammer vs. Doug Sommers match proved so unimaginably bad[[note]]It lasted just over a minute and ''still'' contained numerous botches, including one that could easily have killed or paralyzed Sommers[[/note]] that Zane gave up and rated it ''-3 stars''. Reviews since have used negative stars when Zane feels it necessary.
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228* A RunningGag for comedian Creator/GabrielIglesias is his scale of fatness. There used to be five levels on the scale: "Big", "Healthy", "Husky", "Fluffy", and "DAYUM!". Then he met people who were even fatter than "DAYUM!" and was forced to add a sixth level: "Aw HELL Naw!"
229-->'''Gabriel:''' What's the difference? ''You're still willing to work with Level 5.'' Example: If you're on an elevator, and you're with your friend, and this really big guy gets on, and you and your friend look at each other, and you're like, "Daaaaayum!" ''But you still let the big guy ride your elevator.'' That's the difference. Level 6? You see walking ''towards'' your elevator. ''[monstrous bellow]'' "Aw HELL naw!" ''[mashing the Close Door button]'' ''[bellow]'' "NO!" ''[bellow]'' "NO! NO!" ''[kicks fat guy out of elevator as doors close]'' That's the difference.
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233* [=SandTrap=], a reviewer of the early days of Pojo's TabletopGame/YuGiOh Card of the Day, had a habit of doing this quite often, at one point complaining about the fact that the site disapproved of his giving bad cards ludicrously negative ratings, when all cards are supposed to be rated from 1 to 5. A notable example is in his review of [[http://www.pojo.com/yu-gi-oh/COTD/2003/May2003/22.shtml Bite Shoes]], a card which he gave a rating of -75.3 out of 5 and said that he would give anyone using it a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown [[DisproportionateRetribution until they died]].
234* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''
235** Head designer Mark Rosewater has a "Storm Scale" of how unlikely he thinks it is for a particular mechanic to return to Standard, so named because the infamous {{Game Break|er}}ing mechanic "Storm" is the definition of a 10. The only mechanic he's ever given an 11 is {{That One|Rule}} {{Useless Useful|Spell}} ScrappyMechanic, "Bands with other".
236** Various tournament formats have their respective banlists, but Vintage is the only format where all cards, no matter how absurdly broken (such as the legendary Power Nine), are legal, although the strongest cards are nevertheless restricted to one copy per deck, with only truly problematic cards being flat out banned for reasons outside gameplay and power level (such as ante cards which run afoul with real-life gambling laws). However, [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=479746 Lurrus of the Dream-Den]] proved itself ''so overpowered even in Vintage'' that it became [[https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/may-18-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement the very first (and so far only) card banned in a format where the most powerful game breakers are legal]]. This ban was only lifted when Companion mechanic, an overall-overpowered mechanic that Lurrus and a handful other broken cards have, was nerfed.
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240* The ''Angry Video Game Nerd'' claimed ''VideoGame/CrazyBus'', a "game" (actually a tech demo) with no enemies, no obstacles, only one screen, awful graphics for a Sega Genesis game, an atrocious soundtrack, and no goal or purpose whatsoever other than driving the bus forward and backward by holding the D-Pad left or right for eternity broke the 'shit scale' and somehow managed to outclass in awfulness the two other games he had reviewed that he originally claimed were the worst games ever made, "[[VideoGame/PennAndTellersSmokeAndMirrors Desert Bus]]" and ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing''.
241* Apparently, ''Net Jak'' rewrote its code so that it could give ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' a ''zero''.
242* For a fictional example, there’s [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/05/13 this]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip. After enough bribes have been heaped up, ''VideoGame/DonkeyKonga 2'' winds up with an 11 out of 5 at Gamespy … (see [[ExecutiveMeddling/OtherMedia this page]] for more info)
243* ''Series/XPlay'' awarded that [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames infamous]] ''[[VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'' [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames game]] a ‘Zero’ out of five, measured on a scale that bottoms out at 1.
244* ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' got at least one 11/10 review (as yet another ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' reference).
245* Polish magazine ''CD-Action'' gave ''VideoGame/LimboOfTheLost'' a ''negative'' score for plagiarism alone.
246* When the original ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' was released in 1990, it broke several scales in the positive direction. ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'', for example, rated it as six out of five stars.
247* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' was awarded an 11/10 by ''Maximum PC'' magazine. At the end of a rare-for-that-publication exclusive 5-page spread. If this took place in a gaming magazine, it would indicate an incredible amount of marketing control over the content of the magazine; as it is, with ''Maximum PC'' being a hardware-centric publication that happens to review games on occasion, and the long spreads devoted to a single game being a rarity rather than the norm, it just stands out as extreme fanboyism.
248* ''Computer Gaming World'', which normally bottomed out at 1 star, had an ‘unholy trinity’ of games that received zero: ''VideoGame/Postal2'', ''Mistmare'', and ''VideoGame/DungeonLords''.
249* ''Magazine/ElectronicGamingMonthly'':
250** Averted by EGM — at the beginning and end of the column’s lifespan, "Creator/{{Seanbaby}}'s Rest of the Crap" was for games that would warrant zeroes and negative scores on the normal rating scale used by the other reviewers. Pretty much the only reason he was doing this was for the humor value, since, as the very premise states, even the best of the games he reviewed were all the worst in UsefulNotes/{{shovelware}}.
251** Also played straight: ''The Guy Game'', ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 Mortal Kombat Advance]]'' and ''Ping Pals'' all received 0.0s from one of the 3 reviewers (with Ping Pals getting two zeroes).
252* Hex and Bajo (of ''Series/GoodGame'') gave ''VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack'' an utterly "ridonkulous" score of [[http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/stories/s2907940.htm 8971]] rubber chickens (a standard unit on the show) out of 20.
253* Swedish gaming magazine Super PLAY gave ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' 11/10. There were likely a few reasons for this, one being that [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap 'this one goes to eleven']] just fits the nature of the game, the other one being that it was the last issue of the magazine and they broke quite a few rules in it.
254* IGN sometimes gives out a score of less than 1 out of 10, but only ever gave a zero once for a video game, for ''[[http://ign64.ign.com/articles/152/152309p1.html Olympic Hockey Nagano ’98]]'' (the first thing they ever gave that score), because it was ''[[SerialNumbersFiledOff exactly the same game]]'' as ''Wayne Gretzky Hockey ’98'' with a PaletteSwap.
255* An in-game example of a similar system, but not used for ratings: In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', wands and other magical items that have magical charges normally have some whole number of charges, between zero and a positive whole number, inclusive. If they run out by being used down to zero, they can (usually) be recharged. If you zap a wand of cancellation (whose spell is meant to erase magical effects) at them, their number of charges is set to –1: They can’t be recharged at all, even if you have scrolls of charging.
256* TOM from Creator/{{Toonami}} gave ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' a 100/10 (while the expansion ''Dawnguard'' only got an 8/10).
257* The [[http://www.reptonresourcepage.co.uk/ Repton Resource Page]] rates the difficulty of individual ''VideoGame/{{Repton}} 3'' levels on a 0–10 scale. Levels in the {{Expansion Pack}}s exceeded a ‘10’ rating so often that the scale was changed to "more skulls = harder" without any specific maximum. So far, the highest rating given is 16.
258* Yahoo Games gave ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' a 6 out of 5.
259* ''WebVideo/SomeCallMeJohnny'' gave ''VideoGame/Superman64'' a –64/10.
260* ''Magazine/PCPowerPlay'', which has a ten-point scale, gave ''The War Z'' (now known as ''Infestation: Survivor Stories'') a rating of 0/10.
261* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' does not give numerical scores at all, but the original ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' still effectively broke the "scale". Yahtzee, who [[AccentuateTheNegative usually portrays games as horribly flawed and unplayable]] regardless of whether he likes them or not, said nothing negative about ''Portal'' and summarized his opinion as "...absolutely sublime from start to finish, and I will [[EyeScream jam forks in my eyes]] if I ever use those words to describe anything else ever again."
262** ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' won the ''Zero Punctuation'' "Lifetime Achievement Award for Total Abhorrence" in his Top 5 of 2013 episode instead of winning a slot on the Bottom 5 (led by ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts''), it being so horrible it wasn't even worthy of being the top worst game of that year. Consequently, when he later ranked his best and worst games of each year of the 2010s, ''Ride to Hell'' was listed outside of the Worst list (whose #1 was ''VideoGame/HuntDownTheFreeman'') with a question mark, and pictured with a bottle of Jack Daniels in hand.
263* ''Magazine/GamePlayersMagazine'' gave ''Cosmic Race'' a 0% (the only game to ever have this "honor") and even named the rating after the game; the next range up (1–9%) is "Shoot me" just to let the reader know how bad they felt the game was.
264* ''Game Pro Magazine'', in the January 1997 issue, gave ''VideoGame/BattleArenaToshinden URA'' for the Platform/SegaSaturn a 0.5 fun factor. Up until that point, the lowest score a game could get in ANY category (Graphics, Sound, Control, Fun Factor) was a 1.0. This (along with a rather negative fan reaction to the reviewer faces they were using at this time) was probably what prompted Gamepro to change their reviewing faces in the next issue.
265* ''Computer + Video Games'' reviewer Tim Metcalfe, who viewed bullfighting as SickAndWrong, gave ''Ole, Toro'' a 0 (out of 10) in all categories but value, which was "less than 0."
266* In-game example: the "Turn it up to 11" achievement in ''VideoGame/GameDevTycoon'' requires that a reviewer give a score of 11/10 to one of your games. It's not easy, as you need the game to be utterly perfect to even stand a chance.
267* ''Amiga Concept'', a French Platform/{{Amiga}} magazine, gave a -31% score to the PortingDisaster of ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}''.
268* Each of the DownloadableContent map packs for ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros2'' has a difficulty rating from one to five stars. The second hardest set, Nerve-Wrack Pack, is rated five stars. The hardest, [[PlatformHell the Impossible Pack]], is rated "'''[[OhCrap DANGER!]]'''"
269* The website ''Game Revolution'' often rates the video games it reviews on a five-star scale (with 1 star being the lowest). The first (and so far only) game to earn a zero-star rating from them was the Platform/WiiU minigame compilation ''Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade'', citing that every single aspect of the game, right down to the [[NeverTrustATitle title]], was horrible.
270* When it comes to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'s'' {{metagame}}, Pokémon are ranked on Website/{{Smogon}} by [[CharacterTiers tier]] from [[GameBreaker Uber]] to Never Used. However, [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Mega Rayquaza]] turned out to be '''so broken''' (in fact, the most broken Pokémon in the history of the franchise) that it actually got ''banned from Ubers'' and a new "tier" called Anything Goes had to be created just to house it! In short, Mega Rayquaza has in fact ''broke the metagame''! The only other things to be banned to Anything Goes since then are [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Arceus in the Gen 4 metagame]] (albeit retroactively), [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Crowned Sword Zacian]], the Dynamax mechanic in general, and Shadow Rider Calyrex in ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet''.
271* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' is another game to rate its DLC maps with a star system. One star is easy and five stars is difficult. The map known as [[BrutalBonusLevel Apotheosis]] forgoes this and is only described with but one word. "''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck Insane]]''".
272* ''WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'' usually uses .5 decimals, but the review of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess HD'' broke this pattern by by giving it, [[MemeticMutation naturally]], an 8.8.
273* In {{Webanimation/Retropokon}}, Skapokon gave Bakushow (also known as LOL in the USA and Archime DS in Japan) a -1/10, and even refused to call it a "game".
274* In his step-by-step reviews of every single Pokémon, Website/{{Bogleech}} typically reviews each Pokémon a scale of 'one to five Poké Balls'. Some Pokémon, however, such as Gloom or Paras among others, receive a rating of ' five ''gold'' Poké Balls', while Gallade and Lucario earn a rating of 'rotting, rancid Lucario skull' out of five.
275* ''Magazine/{{NGamer}}'' gave the Nintendo DS game ''Secret Flirts II'' a score of -47, calling it "a hateful piece of software".
276* ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon'' usually gives out a maximum of three awards at the end of every review, usually detailing the most interesting or noteworthy aspects of the game. ''Maabus'' had so many interesting elements, that Ross decided to give it an extra fourth award: [[spoiler:Best Story by a Six-Year-Old]].
277* In one episode of ''Series/JudgementDay'', Tommy gave the game ''High Heat Baseball 2003'' a 0.0. He really disliked the game and thought it had no good qualities.
278* Australian magazine ''Magazine/N64Gamer'' gave ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' a rating of 101%, with a part of their long review dedicated to why the rating was 101% instead of just 100%.
279* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' rates most Servants on a scale of one star to five stars, with (in general) the one-star Servants being the weakest and most common and the five-stars being the strongest and rarest. Angra Mainyu, though, is considered in-story and out to be so [[JokeCharacter horribly weak]] that he is rated a ''zero''-star Servant.[[note]]He's treated in-game as a two-star in terms of his cost and max level, and he has stats roughly on par with one, but his skillset and Noble Phantasm are so awful that they drag him down on the tier list.[[/note]] Ironically, he's also regarded as [[JunkRare even rarer than a five-star]].
280* ''VideoGame/GirlsFrontline'' rates Tactical Dolls from two stars to five, with with lower ratings generally equating to being more common, easier to acquire, and requiring fewer cores for dummy-linking, but with less power and potential for growth as they're leveled up. Later added were neural upgrades to boost a T-Doll's abilities further, the last of which bumps up their star rating by one (or two, in the case of a 2-star), which in the case of a Doll that's already 5-stars boosts them up to a new 6-star rating.
281* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' was given 11/10 by the Italian Official Nintendo Magazine. As the magazine had always been known for being far too generous regarding scores to Nintendo games, some readers were outraged.
282* ''VideoGame/{{Transistor}}'': The Jump Ratings, after Perfect, breaks the algorithm: "Rating Algorithm: ?".
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286* ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'' uses video-game-styled profile pictures on the cast page that list the characters’ stats and inventory. Several of them break the rating scale.
287** Cucumber’s dad, Lord Cabbage, has a Jerk rating that goes above the five star metric. He's the only one who even ''has'' a "Jerk" rating.
288*** Likewise, Splashmaster's Attack rating goes above five as well.
289** Saturday's inventory is just "everybody else's stuff".
290** All of Peridot's stats just say "better than Almond".
291** All of Cordelia's stats are rated as Unknown.
292** The BigBad, Nightmare Knight, breaks the rating scale on every possible stat, and his entire inventory is unknown.
293** Cosmo takes this further, with his stats and inventory ''both'' being listed as Unknown.
294* In ''{{Webcomic/Freefall}}'', Raibert subverts this. When asked if something is a ten on a "[[OnAScaleFromOneToTen How bad is it?]]" scale, he says 8.5 — nothing is a ten, because things can always get worse.
295* ''Webcomic/SexyLosers'' is the highest scoring entry on the [[http://lopow.keenspot.com/hof.html List Of Potentially Offensive Webcomics]], having been awarded six "toilets" out of a possible five.
296* In ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'', Gerda has broken the ''Kinsey'' Scale -- she's "[[https://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-351/ a Kinsey Seven, a type of lesbian so profound it was previously thought not to exist in nature]]". Which, of course, in no way means she doesn't want to see Tip and Konstantin mud-wrestling, same as every other female character in the strip.
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300* One episode of ''Podcast/PlumbingTheDeathStar'' ranks ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros64'''s cast's stepfathering ability on a scale of ten. Things start off pretty bad when the two Franchise/{{Pokemon}} both get zeroes for being wild animals, but things get even worse with Donkey Kong, a wild ape who can't talk, and worse, comes with ''in-laws''. He gets a negative ten out of ten.
301* ''WebVideo/OnCinema'': Tim has at times given films six bags of popcorn (the show's version of star ratings) despite claiming the highest rating is 5 bags of popcorn (although, there is sometimes inconsistency with what the highest rating is).
302* In the ''Website/{{Bogleech}}'' reviews of Franchise/{{Pokemon}} characters from the Gen 1 games and anime, Wojcik apparently feels so strongly about [[TerribleTrio Team Rocket]] that he gives them a ten... out of ''five''.
303* Filmmaker Dan Bell has two main series on his Platform/YouTube channel: one where he explores dying/dead malls, and another where he explores creepy and/or [[NoTellMotel sleazy]] hotels and motels across the country with his friends. They often rate the properties on a 1-5 scale with 5 being best, given how rundown they are. After discovering a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvNbsi4aDuk motel in Maryland]] where the rooms were literally ''covered in blood'', one of Bell's companions gave the room a 0.
304* The fact-checking website Politifact.com rates statements (from politicians, media commentators, Facebook posts, and such) on a scale of truthfulness: True, Mostly True, Half True, Mostly False, and False. Then there's [[ThatLiarLies Pants On Fire]], for a statement that is [[BlatantLies obviously false, laughably stupid and/or has already been disproven multiple times]]. Each rating on the scale is depicted with a galvanometer-type gauge, and for Pants On Fire, [[ExplosiveInstrumentation the gauge itself in on fire]].
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308* When rating the use of English in a music video the WebVideo/EatYourKimchi scale is 1–5 with 5 the highest rating. Simon gave rapper G. Dragon a 37 out of 5 for the English in ''Get Your Crayon''.
309* In ''WebVideo/DemoReel'', Jimmy Boyd's movie [[Film/JingleAllTheWay Jingle Sells]] received 0.2 stars on Website/IMDb. The lowest rating a movie can receive is 1.
310* WebVideo/TheRapCritic rated Music/LupeFiasco's song "Bitch Bad" a 6 out of 5, and then explains: "Yeah, I can go over the limits of my own rating system--if I can have a zero, I can have a six!" (This actually wasn't the first song he had given a rating of 6.)
311* On ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall,'' Linkara lists the "Top 15 Worst Comics I've Ever Reviewed." However, before he begins, he notes that ''ComicBook/HolyTerror,'' of course, is the worst comic he's reviewed, so he's taking that off the list just so that the #1 spot will be a surprise. Technically, this makes the list "Top 15 Worst Comics I've Ever Reviewed, Other than ''Holy Terror,''" but that wasn't as catchy.
312* ''WebVideo/DoubleToasted's'' rating system mostly corresponds to a four-star scale: "Full Price", "Matinee", "Rental" and "Some Ol' Bullshit". They break the scale on both ends: On the "Better than good" scale, there's "BetterThanSex". On the opposite end, there's "Fuck You" -- reserved for the worst of the worst or a movie that pushed one of the hosts' {{Berserk Button}}s.
313* The crew of ''WebVideo/WrecklessEating'' ordinarily rate the dishes they eat on a scale of one to five (insert reviewer's name) faces, but they've encountered so many awful foods that they've had to extend the scale downward. Anything they would only eat again if they were starving to death gets a Big F.U.; anything they ''still wouldn't touch'' if they were starving to death receives [[ClusterFBomb 5 out of 5 F.U.'s]].
314* WebVideo/{{Brutalmoose}}:
315** In his "Brutalfoods" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88l41TVd6wQ review of Lunchables pizza]], he assigns "Ian Points" to the various boxes. For the first meal (all-cheese pizzas) he grants it 10 points for the pizzas themselves, 8 for the Capri-Sun drink, and 15 for the Air Head dessert... then takes away 100 for the incredibly terrible comic that came with it, giving it a final score of -67. For the second (pepperoni and cheese) he grants 2 for the pizza, 9 for the Capri-Sun and 10 for the Crunch bar, then takes away ''500'' for another comic that is not only terrible, but is in fact the ''exact same'' one as the first, leaving it at -479. The third (deep-dish) gets 5 for the pizza, 3 for the Cheez-Its, 7 for the fruit roll-up, 1 for the Kool-Aid mix, 20 for the water bottle the Kool-Aid goes into... and then takes away '''''20,000''''' because he decided to put at least a bit of all the other ingredients into the Kool-Aid and drink it all at once, to which he jokes "they didn't tell me that I had to do this, but [[NeverMyFault it's still their fault somehow]]" and leaving it with -19,964 points. By the time of the fourth (a "healthier" organic version) he's crossing over into the Meaningless Value area, giving it no Ian Points whatsoever and, when summing up the scores at the end, labeling it as simply "BAD".
316** For his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfT-xwo1f4Y review of several Twinkies recipes]], he instead decides to simply rank them in a top-4 list - which ends up ranking the [[Film/{{UHF}} Twinkie wiener sandwich]] as #85 out of 4 because it was ''so'' bad, and then skips #2 entirely because, while he liked the Twinkie grasshopper milkshake (enough that, purely by how much he liked it, he said it would have otherwise been tied with the deep-fried Twinkie), he felt the Twinkie was too incidental to that recipe; anything similarly sugary and creamy could be substituted without noticeably changing the final result.
317* [=JelloApocalypse=]'s "Every [blank] Reviewed in Ten Words or Less" series initially used a positive/negative 1-10 scale (with the positives being based on genuine enjoyment and the negatives being based on SoBadItsGood factor), but he felt the need to add a 0 after watching ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens''. Since then, a few other movies have also gotten stuck with one.
318* Rata of ''WebVideo/Rank10YGO'' uses either a 1-3 scale or a 1-5 scale in various categories to grade archetypes, but gave the Sparrow Family series a 0/5 on every category, with the exception of Versatility (which dictates the kinds of threats the deck can be built to respond to), which got a -1/5. As he put it, "these guys could lose to a deck of Uno cards."
319* ''Fasion Photo Ruview'' is a web series in which Raja and Raven, alumni of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'', give their opinions on various fashion outfits, most often the runways from that week's episode of ''Drag Race'' but also sometimes actual runways or drag queen's social media posts. The show uses a simple two-point scale for the most part; "Toot" if a look is good, "Boot" if it's bad. However, there have been certain outfits on the show that have caused the two to go beyond the two-point system, in both directions:
320** Chi Chi [=DeVayne's=] Book Ball outfit, which she made entirely out of paper by herself, was deemed to go beyond a Toot in terms of quality, and led to Raja inventing the "Shoot" to appreciate its excellence. Several exceptional looks since have received Shoots.
321** ... On the other end of the scale, while Kim Chi and Naomi Smalls were rating several of Raja and Raven's looks, they were confused by an outfit of Raja's that looked like it was pulled out of the closet, and crowned the "Scoot" for looks worse than just a Boot.
322** Upon seeing Peppermint's poorly-done & mismatched makeover of a crew member, Raja called it a "Poot" because of how bad it was. When Raven pointed out that Scoot already exists, Raja claimed "A Poot's worse than a Scoot." Meaning Peppermint's outfit was so bad [[ExaggeratedTrope it broke an already broken rating scale!]]
323** Raja felt so saddened by Dusty Ray Bottom's martian look that she gave it a "Bless": A rating which encompasses when you see an outfit and say "aw, bless" and can't bring yourself to judge it further.
324** During Season 10's Mermaid runway, Aja served as a stand-in judge for Raven. She believed that Monique Heart's look met the baseline expectations of a mermaid-themed runway, but didn't go above or beyond in any way, leading her to create "Noot" for a look she felt truly neutral about. Raven, however, rejects this term when Raja tries to use it in a later episode, insisting that every look should be rated one way or another, and it's scarcely popped up since.
325** For Naomi Small's stunning Final Four look on All Stars 4, Raja and Aquaria both give it a Shoot, but Raja further gives it a "Gawdammit", the only emotion she is able to convey over the look.
326** One week, Katya and Violet Chachki are tasked with reviewing Music/TaylorSwift's runway looks, after openly admitting there are not big Taylor Swift fans. After tearing into ''many'' of her looks in a row, they decided to break the tradition of giving a "Top Toot of the Week" to the look they most like, and instead reward a "Top ''Boot'' of the Week" to the look they hated most.
327* In WebVideo/ScottTheWoz's video covering E3 1995, the same video that introduced his five knee-slap scale (a standard for his videos covering the various E3 conferences, keeping this from being a Meaningless Comparison), [[MicDrop Sony's "$299" moment]][[labelnote:Explanation:]]Sega had just announced the Platform/SegaSaturn was available in retailers across America ''right then'', rather than in four months as originally announced, for $399; Sony simply announced afterwards that the Platform/PlayStation would launch for a hundred dollars less[[/labelnote]] caused Scott to slap his knee at such a rapid and continuous rate that he was visibly scarred and bloody, going up to fourteen knee-slaps before the video cut away from Scott slapping his knee.
328* [=JarekTheGamingDragon=]'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaLPGuWzhO4 Top 7 FPS Pistols Of All Time]]", after the honorable mentions before the #1 spot, had to take a moment to explain that he was taking the ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' pistol and tossing it out of consideration entirely to give it its own "God" rank, because it's just ''so'' good that it would have been a guaranteed win and there was no other way to include it while being even remotely fair to any other pistol from any other FPS; without it in the regular consideration, the top slot went to ''VideoGame/KillingFloor2''[='=]s dual Desert Eagles. The fan poll on his Discord server included it normally and, under the (ultimately correct) assumption that it would win anyway, he asked the viewers to vote for two pistols rather than just one, essentially "really" asking to vote for their second-place choice, which ended up being the ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' Python (the only surprise being that the ''Halo'' pistol didn't beat it by anywhere near as wide a margin as Jarek was expecting).
329* ''LetsPlay/TheOnlineWarrior'' has, now that ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' has run its DLC course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT7hmgUfSNg rated every trailer the game had to offer out of 10]], as part of a then-ongoing series to rate every ''Smash'' trailer. By his own admission, by ''Ultimate'' the art of making the trailers had been refined to a sheen, with a lot of trailers getting 10/10's. Both [[VideoGame/FatalFury Terry]] and [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]], however, got an 11/10. [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]? '''15'''/10.
330* WebVideo/SchaffrillasProductions' ranking of the ''VideoGame/MarioKart8Deluxe'' courses has him, upon request, rank the Battle Mode courses from the original iteration of ''VideoGame/MarioKart8''. As these were existing courses and none of them were built for Battle Mode, he ranks them in reverse order and expresses heightened frustration with them, to the point where nearly all of them are F-tier. In particular, he called Toad's Turnpike so deeply painful of an experience that he doesn't think F-tier accurately conveys his feelings toward it, and assigns it to G-tier.
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334* Creator/{{Seanbaby}} gave the ''[[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends Challenge of the Super Friends]]'' version of The Riddler a –1. He gave ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} a 1. He did explain the logic behind it: Riddler is as useless as an ordinary human being would be against the Superfriends, and then makes it ''worse'' by giving away the Legion of Doom's plans in his puzzles. He's actually a 2 for the heroes' side subtracted from his basic 1, making The Riddler, "as useless as an ordinary human being", a better hero than Aquaman.
335** An earlier version of the page gave Marvin, Wendy, Wonder Dog, and Gleek all a zero, ranking them below Aquaman. Unlike Riddler, there wasn't any special logic besides them just being that useless.
336* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' short "Mabel's Guide to Dating", Soos somehow scores a twelve out of five on Mabel's dating quiz.
337-->'''Soos:''' My grandma was right all along, I am the world's most perfect man!
338* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Jimmy and his friends somehow manage to win 8th place in a contest with only 7 entrants.
339* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', Johnny and Suzy entered a competition that (thanks to Johnny) they got 18th place in, [[EpicFail when there were only twelve contestants]].
340* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Strong Arms of Ma", Marge develops agoraphobia after being mugged by a hobo. During an attempt by the family to help Marge overcome her agoraphobia, she is told to describe her anxiety level using a number from one to ten. However, while Homer attempts to get rid of a beehive, Marge says "12," then "15". When the swarm of bees attack the family, Marge screams, "703!"
341* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'', Yzma creates a clone of Kuzco to fail all of his classes. At one point he gets a [[FMinusMinus G-]] on a test.
342* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has an example when Rigby is trying to make a videogame for Mordecai, and he has to pass physical and intellectual tests, that are graphed. His results in the intellectual test are so low that his result doesn't even appear on the graph; conversely, the physical test results were so high that the graph's upper limit wasn't high enough to correctly gauge his result.
343* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'': In "[[Recap/InsideJobS1E4SexMachina Sex Machina]]", the attractiveness-judging algorithm gives Glenn a score of zero... on a 1 to 10 scale.
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347* In the aftermath of the 2009 Australian bushfires, authorities introduced a new fire danger category above "Extreme", named "[[OhCrap Catastrophic—Code Red]]".
348* Air pollution in TheNewTens in China has gotten so bad that it broke the Air Quality Index used by the EPA, which once topped out at 500. [[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/science/earth/beijing-air-pollution-off-the-charts.html In 2013 the @beijingair Twitter account]], which used readings from the US embassy there, was forced to coin a new term for AQI above 500; fittingly, it was "Beyond Index".
349* In physics, the Mohs scale of hardness is defined as capping out at 10 with diamond, which was at the time the hardest substance known to man. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregated_diamond_nanorod Aggregated diamond nanorod]], or "hyperdiamond", is much harder than diamond and thus goes off the top of the scale.
350* Oil prices at Canadian gas stations used to be advertised with large placards that only go up to 99.9 cents/litre. When gas prices finally went through the dollar/litre ceiling in 2009, there was a lot of bitter joking on the streets of Toronto over the "suddenly cheap gas" as gas stations were forced to display the new prices as 4.7 for 104.7 cents/litre.
351* In 2012, Hurricane Sandy was renamed "Superstorm" Sandy by many commentators, as it wasn't ''technically'' a hurricane by the time it landed, but the size of the storm and destruction it caused (the second-costliest on record for the United States until 2017) was well beyond that of a "mere" tropical storm.
352* In the United States, the USDA [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_carcass_classification#United_States_grading_system rates meat quality from Canner to Prime]] on grades 1–5. The Japanese-made Wagyu beef past a certain grade (notably the A5 grade) has a reputation for being un-rateable due to being too good.
353* The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rates the safety of cars on a scale of 1–5 stars. The Tesla Motors Model S electric car [[http://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-s-is-the-safest-car-ever-produced-1171606291 got a score of 5.4 stars]]. Apparently, not having an engine up front gives the Model S a large crumple zone.
354** Tesla's follow up, the Model S [=P85D=], broke the ''Consumer Reports'' scale and [[http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/08/28/tesla_model_s_p85d_breaks_consumer_reports_ratings_scores_103_out_of_100.html earned a 103 out of 100]].
355* [[http://www.jewornotjew.com Jew or Not Jew]] rates how Jewish people are on a scale of 0–15 based on heritage, appearance/behavior, and how proud they would be to have them as Jews. UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, naturally, got a –1 on the last one, with a total score of 0 (weighed down by a 1 in appearance).
356* The January 1985 issue of Britain's ''Car'' magazine had a comparison test of four "poverty" cars: the Citroen 2CV, the Lada Riva, the Reliant Rialto, and the Skoda Estelle. For the occasion, they made up a rating system called the "Cavalier Rating", where a car got 10 points in a category if it was as good as a [[SoOkayItsAverage Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 GL]] and no points if it was as bad as a [[TheAllegedCar Fiat 126]]. The three-wheeled Rialto was given a "handling/stability" rating of -5.
357** The Rialto also had the only "10" rating in the test, for "fuel efficiency". However, one wonders how meaningful that is, since a [[FridgeLogic Fiat 126 is likely to have better fuel efficiency than a Vauxhall Cavalier]].
358* The US Armed Forces' service-independent aptitude test, the ASVAB, can work like this. Someone who scores well on, for example, the Air Force's score breakdown will completely annihilate the Army's breakdown.
359* The Dvorak Intensity Scale, used to measure hurricane intensity, maxes out at 8.0. Hurricane Patrica registered an ''[[OhCrap 8.3]]''
360* After Swedish football defender Glenn Hysen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdgD9msBASM pretty much single-handedly]] kept England from scoring in the away match during the qualifications for the 1990 World Cup, the newspaper Expressen rated his performance as six out of five. To this day, he's the only player to get that rating.
361* Dark Bunny Sauces are rated from 0-10, with empty and filled-in pepper symbols demonstrating the heat rating on the bottle itself (0 depicts all peppers as empty, 10/10 shows them all filled). Bradley's Blood, Nuclear Narwhal, Obscure Octopus, Rabbit's Revenge, and both versions of Terrified Trashpanda (tea-based and coffee-bassed) clock in at 11/10; the tenth pepper is depicted as bursting. Then there's Wailing Werecat which takes this type [[ExaggeratedTrope even further]] by going up to 12.
362* During the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak, the National Weather Service introduced a new alert above "Tornado Warning", being "Tornado Emergency", indicating a violent tornado that could produce more damage and more fatalities than usual.
363* Clint's Reptiles [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ_P9sDKa7I considered]] the king cobra to be a 0/5 in Handleability, the category determining how much you can physically handle or play with a pet. It shouldn't take much explaining as to why, but the fact that he considered other poisonous snakes like the gaboon viper or rattlesnake, or even large predators like the American alligator, to be a 1/5, expresses just how dangerous the cobra is. He gave the same score to the black mamba, noting that it was, if anything, worse.
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366!!Meaningless Comparison ("Final Score: 7 [[CountingToPotato Bananas]].")
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368[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
369* Zac Bertschy of Anime News Network awarded ''Manga/SilverSpoon'' with “3 moos out of five” and ''Anime/{{Free}}'' with "4-pack, halfway to a 6, gotta do more crunches this summer" (probably meaning 4/5).
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373* When Polish Creator/MarvelComics fansite Avalon was running weekly ''Avalon Pulse'' - compilation of reviews of new books submitted by forum members - there was no clear rating system, but most people would stick to 1 to 10 or 1 to 6 (like Polish school grading system). However, then were at least two cases when an user hated a book or a bunch of books so badly to replace their usual ratings with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale Bristol stool scale]].
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376[[folder:Film]]
377* The Dread Central review of ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'': [[http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/birdemic-shock-and-terror-2010 5 out of 5 Exploding Eagles]] (same as the ''The 13th Alley'' review).
378* In film critic Leonard Maltin’s movie guide, he gives the movie ''Film/TheNakedGun 33⅓'' a rating of 2⅓ stars, the only time he has given anything a score not in an increment divisible by one-half (or BOMB). In his review of ''Film/TheNakedGun 2½'', he gives it 2½ stars and parenthetically explains, "What else?"
379* In-universe example in ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' when Disgust assesses how she, Fear and Anger handled Riley without Joy and Sadness.
380-->'''Disgust:''' On a scale of one to ten, I give this day an F.
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384* On ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''[='s=] Weekend Update recurring character [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_characters_appearing_on_Weekend_Update#Aunt_Linda Aunt Linda]] (played by Kristen Wiig) gives such ratings as "seven 'Ghaaas?' and one-and-a-half 'Yougottabe Frigginkiddingme!'" (Note that those were both for one work.)
385* Lampshaded in the ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' (US) episode "Beach Games": Pam is keeping track of the points that Michael gives various competitors in the office games, but Michael keeps changing the method in which he rates them (i.e., a gold star to the winner of event 1, 10 points for event 2, a checkmark in event 3, etc.). The end result is that Pam can’t convert the scores over between events and has no idea who's actually winning.
386* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', Dave Lister frequently talks about writing Michelin Guides or similar about various settings, resulting in ''Legion'' getting a psycho rating of "four and a half chainsaws, maybe five". Rimmer suggests that the G-Tower from The Tank in series 8 probably gets “the full five slop-out buckets” in the guide to Penal Hell-Holes.
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389[[folder:Music]]
390* Music critic Anthony Fantano (theneedledrop) gave Music/TheLonelyIsland's ''Turtleneck and Chain'' 5 dicks out of 10.
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393[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
394* When pro wrestling reviewer Creator/ScottKeith has to review a particularly horrendous match, and the 5-star to negative 5-star system fails to express how disgusted he is with the product, he breaks out the "Hot Poker up the Ass" rating system. The general idea behind is that he takes one person (usually the main guy responsible for the horrible show, such as Wrestling/VinceRusso) and rates each segment by the number of hot pokers that person deserves to have shoved up their ass for subjecting viewers to it. Wrestling/KevinNash and, during his Wrestling/{{WCW}} days, [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]] announcer Wrestling/TonySchiavone have been victims of this as well.
395** Another example he used once was the "Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon Unconditional [=ReFund=]" ([[FunWithAcronyms SMURF]]), supposedly based on an incident in which a friend of his was sitting behind Shane at a show and got paid actual cash money to quit complaining about the show. Basically, how bad each match was would be measured by the approximate refund amount to justify not complaining about it.
396* Bryan Alvarez described the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]] Souled Out Pay-Per-View from 1997 as "twenty asses."
397[[/folder]]
398
399[[folder:Video Games]]
400* ''Series/XPlay'' regularly gives its review scores nonsensical values, usually related to the game being reviewed, somehow.
401* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' has [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/08/31 a comic]] where Gabe and Tycho briefly review ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden 13]]'', ending with a game review score of 9x and 3/(two footballs).
402* ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle'' has official stats for each character measuring their Attack, Speed, Range, Casual[[note]]How easy the character is to use[[/note]], and Luck, on a scale of one to eight stars. For some characters, however, the Luck stat is replaced with something else:
403** Rachel Alucard has a Georg score of three frogs, a reference to her using a frog named George XIII extensively in her space control strategies from her home series.
404** Iron Tager has a GETB[[note]]Genesic Emerald Tager Buster[[/note]] score of eight stars.
405** Nu-13 has a [[{{Yandere}} Ragna score of five hearts]].
406** Jubei's luck stat is replaced with paw prints, and this stat has a score of four additional sets of paw prints.
407** Hakumen has a Counter score of five stars.
408** Gordeau has a Grim Reaper score of six stars.
409** Carmine has a Blood score or six stars.
410** BadassAdorable characters such as Es, Platinum, Orie, and Ruby replace their luck stats with "Kawaii" stats, which range [[OffTheScale ten to twelve stars]].
411[[/folder]]
412
413[[folder:Web Video]]
414* When ''WebVideo/BroTeamPill'' reviews a game, its rating ''always'' nonsensical. ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R. 2]]'' got a "I would rate this game". ''Garshasp'' got a "Cool out of yes". ''Videogame/Battlefield3'''s review concluded with him reviewing the review video, claiming it's better than his ''FEAR'' review.
415* In WebVideo/ProJared's main review videos, he'll give the game he's playing a comedic score that does not fit a numbered rating. Said scores are meant to serve as a metaphorical way to express how he's feels about the game, such as giving ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' "a clock without hands out of ten", representing his belief that the game is "timeless". When it comes to his reviews of recently released game, which tend to be more serious than his main review videos, he'll use a regular numerical rating. Starting from his review of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' (his first video after his 2019 SeriesHiatus), however, he would ditch the comedic scores.
416* ''WebVideo/TheTourettesGuy'' tried out a mattress at Sears, and only gave the comment "Wrestling/TripleH would shit his pants."
417* ''WebVideo/RamZaes'' has a series called Fandoms in a Nutshell which ends with him rating the fandom with a nonsensical, but related value out of 10. For example, he gave the ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'' fandom a seesaw out of 10.
418* ''WebVideo/ThePopArena'' grades every ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book , "[an inanimate object] out of 10."[[note]]However, ''Literature/GoEatWorms'' "fixed" the scale; Greg hated it so much, he graded it, "0/10. This would later happen with ''Literature/HowILearnedToFly'' where he gives it an actual score, because the book wasn't a traditonal entry, so it doesn't need the usual scoring system. [[/note]]
419[[/folder]]
420
421[[folder:Web Original]]
422* Inverted by WebVideo/JesuOtaku. He normally scores things with some sort of strange unit out of 4 (e.g. ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' got "three [[PullingThemselvesTogether and a half]] [[{{Fingore}} de-fingerings]]" and ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' got "four characters who [[ScrewDestiny just won't do what they're told]]"), but ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'' was so depressing he couldn't bring himself to make fun of it and just used stars.
423* LetsPlay/ProtonJon: when he gives ratings to the romhacks he plays, he will usually let out a few of these, such as:
424** ''Mario’s Wacky World''—4 "Captain Falcons driving Sonic like he was an ''VideoGame/FZero'' car" out of 5. ''[--"Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!"--]''
425** ''Super Metroid Omega Boss Battles''—4 [[VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe Henshin-A-Go-Go Babies]] out of 5.
426** ''Resident Evil 5''—LetsPlay/SuperJeenius gives it "Resident Evil out of 10", Jon gives it "Football out of 10".
427* In one of the ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'' shorts on ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', Cheerleader's attempt at diving [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext into the mouth of a live lion]] is rated at “3 noses?”
428* WebVideo/JonTron's "Game Reviews???" frequently employs this; he has awarded ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' "Six golden bananas plus out of Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto" and VideoGame/SonicColors an "A/5".
429* In a filler video between two Let's Plays, LetsPlay/ChipCheezum did a parody review of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' (the video itself only consisting of one of the protagonists getting a bike stuck in his aunt's sofa for a few minutes). At the end the screen displayed "FINAL SCORE:" with a image of the poster for Citizen Kane as the score.
430* Internet movie reviewer Creator/JeremyJahns normally rates movies with a descriptive statement, ranging from "Awesometacular!" (the best) and "It's a good time, [[INeedAFreakingDrink no alcohol required]]" (third best) to "Dogshit!" (the worst). He gave ''Film/TheSmurfs2'' "Smurfshit!" He also gave ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga: Literature/BreakingDawn Part 1'' and ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' a "Black screen of nothing" rating.
431* The "ratings" the monsters from ''WebVideo/MonsterFactory'' have received include a golf score, a batting average, a wanted level, a movie title, and a computer error.
432* Website/{{Letterboxd}} uses stars for its rating scales, but for ''Film/PortraitOfALadyOnFire'' [[https://letterboxd.com/film/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/ they replaced the stars with flames.]]
433* WebVideo/SsethTzeentach very rarely gives a straightforward score for any of his reviews. Anything that isn't a blatant 10/10, he'll give it "a (very/extremely) good/high score", an explicitly arbitrary rating, or grades them using some items or abstract concept out of another abstract game item/concept (Ex. He gave ''VideoGame/{{SYNTHETIK}}'' a 325 Terror Level (about to go to 350) out of "[his] rapidly depleting health bar") or something nonsensical (Ex. He gave ''VideoGame/CavesOfQud'' whatever a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_spiral logarithmic spiral]] on a TI-83 calculator is supposed to mean).
434* [=YouTuber=] [=FUNKe=] sometimes reviews video games, and when he does so, the rating scale is based on Music/{{Weezer}} albums, with their first "Blue Album" being the standard, and the score being any of their other albums according to [=FUNKe=]'s opinion.
435* Josh Strife Hayes' Worst MMO Ever? series rarely gives straight ratings out of 10, opting to give the [=MMOs=] he plays an odd but still apt description of his experience (e.g. [=NosTale=] got a Broken Tutorial Window/10, VideoGame/{{Vindictus}} got a Disappointing Abandoned Lovechild of VideoGame/GuildWars and VideoGame/{{TERA}}/10, etc.). VideoGame/AuraKingdom was the rare time he did give an actual score, mainly because it was good enough to avoid an insulting joke rating, but not good enough for an endearing one.
436[[/folder]]
437
438[[folder:Other]]
439* [[http://unheardastronaut.tumblr.com/post/79425673458 On a scale]] from [[Literature/TheHungerGames Katniss Everdeen]] to [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Ned Stark]], how much would you say you trust the government? [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Dale Gribble]].
440[[/folder]]
441
442!!Meaningless Value ("[[TakeThat Up Yours]] out of 10.")
443
444[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
445* Zac Bertschy from ''Anime News Network'' was infamous for these during the annual season previews, especially harem comedies and ecchi shows. Here's a list:
446** ''Manga/LinebarrelsOfIron'' got a "welp time to hang myself" out of 5.
447** ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}} After Story'' got a "whatever it is you think the rating should be (of 5, but you can change that scale if you need to because it might be unfair)", supposedly to mock fan demand for "objective" reviews.
448** ''Manga/ZeroSevenGhost'' got a "whatever".
449** ''Literature/AsuraCryin'' got an emoticon of an angry smiley head banging itself against a wall... out of 5. The middle of the preview is adorned with a picture of a bunny and an invitation to move along.
450** The first episode of ''Anime/QueensBlade'' got an animated GIF of a smiley face shooting itself in the head out of 5.
451** ''Manga/FairyTail'' got a "screw this".
452** ''Literature/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'' got a "it doesn't matter". The review consisted entirely of a picture of a bucket of fish as a metaphor for the show, and another of seals as a metaphor for the intended audience.
453** ''Manga/BGataHKei'' got a "spro-oi-oi-oingggg!! aoooooogggaaahh!".
454** ''[[BrotherSisterIncest Kiss X Sis]]'' got a Picard facepalm instead of a rating. He also edited the screenshot used with many "NO"'s and "WHY"'s.
455** ''Literature/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'' got a bored face.
456** The second season of ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' got a "shrug?".
457** ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' got a "who cares, zombies".
458** ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'' got a rating of “quiet I am trying to nap here”, a preview that cut off into ZZZZZZZZ halfway through, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTI7cmwwuC0 a video of a cute kitten]] as a better alternative for something to watch.
459** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' got a "whaaatever" for the story, but the art design got an honest 5/5.
460** ''Astarotte's Toy'' got a "doesn't matter".
461** ''Literature/{{R15}}'' got a GIF of a smiley head holding a gun to itself.
462** ''Literature/MayoChiki'' got a "blergh".
463** ''Anime/KaitouTenshiTwinAngel'' got a "guh". He ended the review with a picture of a rabbit pouting to express his feelings on the show.
464** ''Literature/OniAi'' got a "another one of these, oh boy" due to its BrotherSisterIncest premise.
465** ''Literature/ListenToMeGirlsIAmYourFather'' was rated thusly:
466--->'''Rating if you think this sounds hilarious and sexy''': probably 6 out of 5 or something\
467'''Rating if this makes you nauseous''': stay way, ''Anime/{{REDLINE}}'' is out on bluray next week right?
468** ''Anime/LagrangeTheFlowerOfRinne'' got a "zzzzzzz".
469** ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' got a "boobs".
470** ''Manga/MysteriousGirlfriendX'' got some sort of music file for a rating. Considering the rest of the review, it's safe to say it's of this category.
471** ''Manga/{{Upotte}}'' got a BigWhat and YourHeadAsplode picture in the middle of the review.
472** ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' got "boobapalooza 2013" in lieu of a rating.
473** ''Manga/CuticleDetectiveInaba'' got a "zilch".
474** ''Anime/DayBreakIllusion'' got a "heavy, ragged sigh".
475** ''Anime/CrossAnge'' got a 'nope nope nope nope nope' out of five.
476** ''Literature/Overlord2012'' got a "YOU'RE IN THE GAME!!" rating, pointing out how tired the "trapped in video game world" plot is.
477* ''"Heh heh heh....... He Is the Weakest of the Four Heavenly Kings." I Was Dismissed From My Job, but Somehow I Became the Master of a Hero and a Priestess'' has one of these that could probably also count as "out of bounds" depending on how you see it. The magic orbs meant to measure potential glow and return a phrase. A properly prophesized Hero returns the phrase "Just what the hell are you?" which is considered the top of the scale. Level 1 ex-member of the Four Heavenly Kings Caspodia gets "Damn. Just damn." which is a result that has ''never happened before''.
478* Jacob Hope Chapman aka WebVideo/JesuOtaku has become prone to these since he started working with ANN in preview guides, often for the same reasons as Bertschy.
479** ''Manga/IDontLikeYouAtAllBigBrother'' got a "GTFO" rating.
480** ''{{Anime/Hamatora}}'' received an "oh my god I don't care" out of 5.
481** ''Anime/CrossAnge'' got a "worthless" rating.
482** ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'' got a screenshot of Franchise/IndianaJones saying "Nazis. I hate these guys."
483* The ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'' anime's pilot achieved the rare and dubious honor of getting this type of score from almost every ANN reviewer. Nick Creamer gave it a "Two middle fingers right the heck up there." Lynzee Loveridge gave it a "I think my brain is bleeding." James Beckett gave it a ''negative'' 5 out of 5, and said attempting to score it properly would be "an exercise in futility." Theron Martin gave it a "WTF." Jacob Chapman, true to form, rated it "╭∩╮('・ω・´)╭∩╮". Its only legitimate score was a 1.5/5 from Rebecca Silverman.
484[[/folder]]
485
486[[folder:Fanworks]]
487* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11898648/46/Harry-Potter-and-the-Rune-Stone-Path Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path]]'', Harry's trying to express just how weird his life is:
488-->'''Harry''': On a scale of one to shadow panther I think we hit Giant Squid on that one.
489[[/folder]]
490
491[[folder:Film]]
492* CHUD.com's infamous "Fuck You Out of 10" review of the ''Film/Halloween2007'' remake.
493* Dread Central reviewer Scott Foy’s now trademark “FUCK THIS MOVIE” rating. Foy doesn’t use profanity often, so when one of his reviews contains the phrase (and now rating) “Fuck this movie” it means that the film in question is ''really'' bad.
494* [[WebAnimation/{{Spill}} Spill.com]] (an online movie review site) gives a rating of "Fuck You" for movies they absolutely hated. They've got "Full Price!!", "Matinee!", "Rental", and "Some Bullshit!" as the other ratings instead of a numbered scale, but "Fuck You" is not in their regular rating scale. However, sometimes they find films so bad and offensive that they can't even give it "Some old bullshit", instead resorting to this. Often accompanied with a picture of Korey flipping the bird.
495** ''Film/DisasterMovie'' was the first movie they reviewed to earn this dubious honor.
496** ''Film/VampiresSuck''. Spill's video reviews are usually 4–5 minutes long and have the profanity spoken by the reviewers censored. The review, including intro and outro, is only ''44 seconds long'', consisting only of a clip from the film, which then cuts to a disgusted Korey staring blankly at the camera for several seconds before issuing his “Fuck You” rating, which this time goes ''uncensored''.
497* [[http://www.mutantreviewers.com/rfireflies.html Sue]] at ''Mutant Reviewers from Hell'' gave ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' a rating of “'''GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!'''”
498* WebVideo/{{Phelous}}, a reviewer of bad horror movies, described ''Film/ASerbianFilm'' as the worst thing he’s ever watched. And he’s watched movies like ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'' and ''Five Across the Eyes''.
499** Notable is the fact that he usually watches a movie for a review twice (once just to watch it, and again to take notes) and he was so disgusted with it he refused to watch it again after the first viewing.
500[[/folder]]
501
502[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
503* Victoria Jackson’s tenure on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' in the late 1980s shaded into this trope. Her rating scale was “4: Pretty good. 3: Best movie ever. 2: Worst movie ever. 1: Pretty good.”
504* Creator/ConanOBrien does this on occasion with his ''Clueless Gamer'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwJnk6QRZ8Q reviews]]. He usually starts by noting that he’s the worst possible person to review games as the last game he was good at was ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}'', and then ends with a completely nonsensical rating—and rating scale.
505-->'''Conan:''' Out of an 88—an 88 being pretty good, a 110 being excellent, a 150 being awful, and a 3 being... not bad—I'd give this... a 26 C.
506[[/folder]]
507
508[[folder:Music]]
509* Pitchfork seems prone to this:
510** They gave Jet’s ''Shine On'' the rating “[[http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9464-shine-on/ video of a chimp drinking its own piss]]”. After a site redesign, a 0.0 score is displayed; the video is posted where the review would be.
511** Their rating of Music/{{Radiohead}}’s ''In Rainbows'' seemed like this: instead of a score, there was an input box for users to submit scores (a reference to the band’s ‘pay what you feel like’ distribution method for this album), though upon entering a score, the editor’s score (9.3 out of 10) became visible. However, after a site redesign, only the reviewer’s score remains.
512** They gave ''Do You Like Rock Music?'', the second album by English rockers Music/BritishSeaPower, the rating of Music/{{U2}}.
513** They gave ''Meow The Jewels'', the joke remix album of ''[[Music/RunTheJewels Run The Jewels 2]]'' where all the beats were remade with cat sounds, a cat emoji with heart-shaped WingdingEyes, likely meant as a positive rating.
514* Cokemachineglow's alleged review of Music/{{Starflyer 59}}'s ''Dial M'' (which began with the reviewer admitting that they could not objectively review the album, and immediately derailed into a rage-filled rant against ChristianRock) gave the album a score of "†%".
515* ''Terrorizer'' magazine gave Music/SunnO’s album ''Monoliths and Dimensions'' the rating O))). They actually intended this as a compliment, however, awarding it a glowing review.
516* [[WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop Anthony Fantano]] typically rates albums and mixtapes on a 10 point scale -- but if he ''really'' doesn't like an album, he refuses to assign it a number at all, and simply calls it ''NOT GOOD'' (complete with explosion SFX).
517** Anthony also gave both Music/GEazy's ''When It's Dark Out'' and Music/PostMalone's August 26th Mixtape a rating of whitegirlturnupmusic/10 on separate occasions.
518[[/folder]]
519
520[[folder:Podcasts]]
521* ''[[http://mediumpopocorn.podomatic.com/ Medium Popcorn]]'' has a four-star ratings scale: "Small", "Medium", "Large" and "Extra-Large". For those movies they deem unworthy of even a "Small", they have the rating of "Pile of Dog Shit" And they can (and do) add as many piles on to the rating as they feel, depending on how much the movie in question pissed them off. For example, co-host Justin Brown gave ''Film/GoodBurger'' (which he despised) [[https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mediumpopocorn/episodes/2016-11-02T06_17_18-07_00 thirty-six piles of dog shit]] ("Twelve bags of dog shit, with each bag containing three piles").
522[[/folder]]
523
524[[folder:Video Games]]
525* WebVideo/AngryJoe's review of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'' is both this and still within bounds. He wishes he could give the game [[Creator/KevinSpacey Kevin]] [[TakeThat Spacey]] out of 10 before lamenting that that isn't a score on his scale and just giving it a [[SoOkayItsAverage 6/10]]
526* Sure, the rating scale of ''Website/ScrewAttack’s VGR'' show is pretty idiosyncratic in itself (“Buy It”, “Rent It” and “F It”), but they still do occasionally play with the scale for certain games. For example, ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'' was given a “rent it, just never return it” in protest of Creator/{{Activision}}’s infamous price hike they demanded for that game.
527* During his stint at ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'' reviewing horrible games, Creator/{{Seanbaby}} once gave a ''Trolls'' game a score of "a picture of a Troll riding a Hotdog."
528* The highly divisive {{Sh|ootEmUp}}mup Space Giraffe received what [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Giraffe The Other Wiki]] describes as an "unusual" rating of "Holy crap this is awesome hell yes/10" from a review on Angry Gamer.
529* ''WebVideo/JonTron''[='s=] "[[StylisticSuck Game Reviews?]]" hand out scores that do not make sense at all, such as an A out of 5 for ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' and 6 Golden Bananas+ out of Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto for ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns''.
530* A variant in ''[[Franchise/TouhouProject The Grimoire of Marisa]]'', wherein Marisa rates and offers her opinions on some of the many spellcards in the series. Marisa’s rating scale itself is fairly normal, giving the spellcard a certain number of stars based on her perceived difficulty of [[PowerCopying "Referencing"]] the spell. However, she sometimes breaks the “difficulty level" boundary and rates some by "Show-Off Level," "Temperature," "Believability," "Volume," and "Whimsicalness."
531* ''Top Ten FTW'''s Top 10 Most Difficult Games introduced a Frustration Index Meter that gave mostly nonsensical scores like [[RefugeInVulgarity "Balls deep in that ass"]] and "Double Obama Teriyaki"
532* TOM from Toonami liked ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' that he reviewed it before finishing it, and noted he doesn't want it to end. So he gave it a score of "ARRRRRRRR!"
533* Paul Tassi of Forbes expressed a mixture of horror and admiration when reviewing ''VideoGame/FlappyBird'', questioning how a game so inherently pointless and lacking in content could become a major phenomenon. In light of its inexplicable fame and appeal, he rated it "Cthulhu/10".
534* In response to many publishers in the game industry abusing Metacritic and other review aggregate websites as a means of awarding "merit" based bonuses to developers, a lot of websites that review video games (Such as Kotaku, Ars Technica, and Joystiq) no longer give out a quantifiable score as an "Up Yours" to the industry.
535* The closest thing Yahtzee, the host of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'', gave to a numerical value was one of these. In his 2019 Games I Haven't Reviewed Roundup, his final score for ''VideoGame/TerminatorResistance'' was Fine out of 10.
536* InUniverse in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''. Checking Temmie reveals that, instead of having ATK and DEF scores, she's just "[[{{Pun}} RATED TEM OUTTA TEM]]". The Mad Dummy also breaks the scale by having a DEF score of "[[NighInvulnerable YES]]".
537* ''VideoGame/{{Furcadia}}'' has a seasonal contest for minigames (called Dreams), and one well-known creator—known as Graphite—experienced a variation of this (as his creations were contest entries, there were no ratings beyond First Place, Second Place, Third Place, etc.).\
538Graphite was sure his creation [=ColdFusion=] (essentially a game of Atomica built on the Furcadia platform) would win because his creation was so innovative and different. He took patching (adding special graphics) and skinning (altering the appearance of the game interface itself), and [=DragonSpeak=] (scripting) to such an extreme that his game [[InterfaceScrew didn't resemble Furcadia at all]].\
539[[AssumedWin Unfortunately, this meant the judges had no idea how to rank it, and so placed it in a category all its own.]] To quote Graphite, [[http://www.bottledindigo.com/furcadia/contests.php#coldfusion "This dream was in fact so innovative that the judges decided to create a special category for my dream alone in which I ended up getting first place, last place, and every place in-between."]]\
540The judges did agree that the dream was SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome, gave it a glowing review, and awarded Graphite handsomely for essentially taking [=DragonSpeak=] and Patching and creating something that didn’t resemble Furcadia at all in either appearance or gameplay. To quote Felorin (Co-Founder of Furcadia), “This dream is going to receive a special Puzzling, Mind-boggling, Patching and [=DragonSpeak=] Mastering Trickster award of Triwings for Life and a dozen Purple Roses. (Whew that’s a mouthful!)”\
541Sadly, every update made to Furcadia since then makes the dream less and less compatible, leaving it virtually unplayable now.
542* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110913082555/http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/tattoo.htm This review]] of ''VideoGame/TattooAssassins''. At the end, in a scale of 1 to 10 it rates it with a picture of A.C. Current [[{{Fartillery}} farting]].
543* After explaining why Website/GiantBomb wouldn't be able to formally review ''VideoGame/Fallout76'', Jeff Gerstmann informally rated it "fucking don't play this game".
544[[/folder]]
545
546[[folder:Web Original]]
547* "Horribifuckus", courtesy of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic.
548** He also declared ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' ([[BerserkButton/WebOriginal "BAT-CREDIT CARD????!!!!!"]]) to be "Supercrapafuckerifficexpialibullshit." [[Film/MaryPoppins In song]].
549** Out-of-character, Creator/DougWalker said that "despise" is too little to describe his feelings for ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'', and that the word for his hatred "probably doesn't even exist".
550* Creator/StuartAshen's guest Jon Blyth said "If you want me to give it a score, then I give ''Renegade III'' this noise: (back-of-throat gurgle/scream noise)".
551** Similarly, Stuart's final summary of a selection of games for the Tiger Game.com is as follows, "In Conclusion: (smash cut to Stuart curled up in a corner, holding his face, screaming)"
552* In Website/SomethingAwful's ROM Pit, games are normally rated from zero to negative fifty. The game ''Werewolf: The Last Warrior'', however, was simply rated "[[AtomicFBomb FUCK]] '''[[AtomicFBomb MEeeeeeee]]'''".
553* Kimi Sparkle (a parody of WebVideo/MLPAnalysis videos, from one of the creators of ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'') normally rates episodes on a scale of one to five stars. When reviewing "Castle Mane-ia", she hates it so much that she wants to give it zero stars, but she can't because that would just be an empty screen. So she awards it ''one rock'' instead.
554* ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'' had this in [[https://youtu.be/DL8OTb0w0ho Episode 95]]. Near the end of each episode, the host sums up his feelings towards the video with Final Thoughts. In this episode, [[spoiler:it is part of a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch involving a man throwing himself out a window, followed by a black screen with the words [[Series/HowIMetYourMother "AND THAT'S HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER"]] with the ending theme from ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark''.]]
555* In his review of ''3, 2, 1, Smurf!'', WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}} jokes that the game "was also one of the only games in the world that Official UK [=PlayStation=] Magazine'' gave a "FUCK OFF AND DIE" out of ten". (They actually gave it a 1/10.)
556** Caddicarus himself sometimes employs the "out of bounds" method, as one of his gimmicks is whether he "slaughters" the game for being bad, or "salvages" it for being good. On occasion, the game has been in-between, thus getting a "slauvage".
557* WebVideo/{{Chadtronic}} has a series dubbed ''Cursed Commercials'' where he rates how “cursed” certain television ads are. Some of the ratings that he gives to the commercials reflect the ads themselves.
558** In Cursed Commercials #1, he gives the "Dr. Amigo" commercial a “bootleg out of ten.”
559** In Cursed Commercials #3, Chad rates the "Fushigi" ad a “scam out of ten.”
560* In the Blog/WhatIf entry "[[https://what-if.xkcd.com/65/ Twitter timeline height]]", Randall Monroe has an analogy involving [[RidiculousFutureSequelisation twenty-seven]] ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' sequels, and illustrates this with a list of their star ratings. Most of them don't seem to be very good, but a number have odd ways of displaying it like "half a star, but not the first one", "the bottom halves of all the stars" and so on. Conversely, ''The Land Before Time XXVI'' somehow goes Out Of Bounds and scores five stars out of four.
561* On ''WebVideo/TheBookWasBetter,'' KrimsonRogue gave both ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' and ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' a Fuck You!/5, because a 1/5 was too much.
562* Normally, ''[[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay Every Garfield Comic]]'', a Website/{{Twitter}} gimmick account reviewing every ''ComicStrip/{{Jon}}'' and ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comic in chronological order, would rate the strips in a standard 1-10 scale. When [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1348590794710642689 reviewing]] the ''Jon'' comic for March 25, 1976, however, it's considered so baffling that it was given a rating of "🤡/10". Likewise, [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1351882944567267331 the May 27, 1976 comic]] was given a "❓/10" rating. [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1352634174650331136 June 10, 1976]] gets no other comment than "[[https://twitter.com/i/status/1352634655216971777 This gif]] / 10", the GIF in question taken from an infamous NRJ Mobile advertisement. Meanwhile, [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1353294402341498880 the June 24, 1976 comic]] gets a "😾/10", [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1354096154078801939 the July 8, 1976 comic]] gets a "💯/10", [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1356955496876560384 the September 2, 1976]] just gets a "/10", [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1358425978083495936 the October 7, 1976 comic]] gets a "💩/10", [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1359524369161191428 the October 28, 1976 comic]] gets a "🤯/10", [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1363087473497235458 the January 13, 1977 comic]] gets a "😞/10", [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1364543172517523458 the February 17, 1977 comic]] gets a "🐝/10", [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1365331720380289035 the March 3, 1977 comic]] gets an "😮/10", and [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1365674623048777731 the March 10, 1977 comic]] gets an "🏅/10". As for "0/10" ratings, the ''Jon'' comics for [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1350080561482760192 April 22, 1976]] ("because I have no fucking clue what to make of this"), [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1362459934928097285 December 30, 1976]] and [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldAllDay/status/1365043050616147969 February 24, 1977]] got them.
563[[/folder]]
564
565[[folder:Other]]
566* Asexuals receive an X on the Kinsey Scale.
567[[/folder]]
568
569!!Impossible to Rate ("[[FlatWhat What.]]")
570
571[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
572* Zac Bertschy of Anime News Network gave the first episode of ''Manga/{{Upotte}}!!'' a rating of “WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT”.
573* Hope Chapman rated ''Manga/PrisonSchool'' "???".
574* Apparently the first episode of ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'' broke ''[[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/preview-guide/2018/winter/pop-team-epic/.126131 everybody]]'' on ANN, with the majority of the scores being this.
575[[/folder]]
576
577[[folder:Fan Works]]
578* Rage Reviews (a review group on Platform/FimfictionDotNet) normally grades fanfics on a scale of 0% to 100% Rage. For stories that exist on a completely different axis, they have a few other scores: "??%" for stories that are too confusing to inspire rage, "MEH" for stories that are too boring to get angry over, and "SAD" for stories that just make the reviewer feel sorry for the author.
579[[/folder]]
580
581[[folder:Comic Books]]
582* Paul O’Brien of ''The X-Axis'' picked up ''ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody'' #32, on the assumption that a relaunch of a title, which had as its gimmick that stuff had happened in all the unpublished issues since the cancellation, would be a great out-of-context jumping-on point. He was wrong, and rated it [[http://www.esoterica.demon.co.uk/reviews/190999.html#quantum n/a]], on the basis that he simply couldn’t judge what someone who knew what the hell was going on might get out of it.
583[[/folder]]
584
585[[folder:Film]]
586* ''Film/AnimalHouse'' features this, when Dean Wormer dresses down the group for their terrible grades. Though most of them get C's at most, and D's and F's more frequently, D-Day's grade isn't applicable - he hasn't done enough work to be counted as having completed a single course.
587[[/folder]]
588
589[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
590* ''Series/MythBusters'' (see above) once had a myth fail to yield useful results—the Supersize JATO Rocket Car, because the rocket car blew up before it could launch off the ramp. Adam decided to call this myth “Appropriately Supersized”.
591[[/folder]]
592
593[[folder:Music]]
594* Mixed with Meaningless Comparison in Jon Savage's review of Nurse With Wound’s 1979 LP ''Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella'' for ''Sounds'' magazine, in which he gave the album "????? out of five" instead of the usual five stars (he couldn't decide whether it was "pure genius" or "sheer nonsense").
595* Similarly, Pitchfork's [[http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6383-relaxation-of-the-asshole/ review]] of ''Relaxation of the Asshole'', a bizarre comedy album by Music/GuidedByVoices singer Robert Pollard, gave it both a 0.0 ''and'' a 10.0 (the current version of the site just displays the 0.0 though).
596* [[http://www.countryuniverse.net/2009/07/10/toby-keith-american-ride/ This]] review of Music/TobyKeith's "American Ride", in which he is so baffled by the song (he can't seem to pinpoint whether it's an IndecisiveParody, SoBadItsGood, or a MindScrew), ending his review in "I'm afraid the 'Ride' has just left me stranded too deeply in WTF-limbo to render a verdict." He eschews the site's A-to-F rating scale to give the song a rating of "AMERICA!… I mean, N/A."
597* Pascal Wyse's [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/oct/01/popandrock.shopping1 review]] of Creator/WilliamShatner's 2004 spoken-word album ''Has Been'' in ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Guardian]]'', in which he eschewed the paper's normal 1- to 5-star scale, instead calling it "beyond the star system".
598-->This CD is beyond good or bad. It is from a world where concepts such as "unique" and "indispensible" [''sic''] live happily alongside "hilariously, brain-tearingly wrong".
599* Music/JohnnyGuitarWatson's 1954 instrumental "Space Guitar" was so out-there for its time that the ''Billboard'' magazine could only rate it a "??" out of 100.
600[[/folder]]
601
602[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
603* 411Mania reviewer Larry Csonka admitted he had no idea what rating to give the 2020 Money In The Bank ladder match(es)[[note]]Both the men's and women's matches happened simultaneously[[/note]], although he said he enjoyed it overall.
604* On a recap of ''Wrestling/WWERaw'' on Bleacher Report, the segment of [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana Lana]] and Wrestling/BobbyLashley's marriage puzzled the writer so much that he gave it a "Grade: WTF".
605[[/folder]]
606
607[[folder:Video Games]]
608* ''Magazine/{{NGamer}}'' gave ??% to ''Bakushow'' (aka ''LOL''), on the grounds that its score depends ''entirely'' on what the player makes of it.
609** ''VideoGame/WarioWareDIY'' got 100%, as the game itself is one ''of making games''. The thinking was that [=NGamer=] made all the games, and [=NGamer=] is infallible. Therefore, [=NGamer=]’s games must be perfect.
610** On separate occasions under its previous names (NGC Magazine and N64 Magazine), it awarded scores of ??% to two Japan-only games that they found completely unable to comprehend- ''[=GiFTPiA=]'' on the Gamecube (which they suspected was probably really good) and ''Get A Love: Panda Love Unit'' on the Nintendo 64 (with the mini-review reading “Impenetrable Japanese girlfriend simulator. No, hang on, ThatCameOutWrong.”)
611** It also gave a DS entry in the Cabela hunting series ":(" and ''Mizuiro Blood'' "???".
612** Similarly, the UK ''Nintendo Official Magazine'' gave a blank space where the percentage score traditionally was for ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution''. The review essentially degenerated into a series of screenshots of humorous quotes sent to random online opponents.
613* Magazine/PCGamer UK once gave a terrible University management game XX% and the review was written as a multiple choice exam so the reader could choose the final score. The highest possible was no more than 10% and the lowest was a flat 0.
614* Creator/{{Toonami}}:
615** When TOM reviewed ''Dropship: United Peace Force'' for the Platform/PlayStation2 the game received a “?” rating. Tom had no idea how to rate the game since he could never get past the sixth level. This was accompanied by repeated footage of TOM losing on that level. (And per the guy in charge of Toonami, [[https://twitter.com/Clarknova1/status/208662351057141760 to this day, they still haven't beaten it.]])
616** Post-revival, when reviewing ''VideoGame/{{Slender}}'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9E1cmWekf4&feature=related TOM couldn’t decide what score to give it due to his utter terror]] (though he did like it).
617* Equestria Gaming has handed out “Ungradeable—??/10” ratings on occasion.
618* In a case of it being this trope or ReadingsAreOffTheScale, ''[[Franchise/TouhouProject Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''’s author Akyuu gives ratings for friendliness and power. Unlike ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'', which had definite ratings, she actually gives out “Unknown” ratings for when she cannot define the character. Reiuji Utsuho is a unique case: ''both areas'' are rated as “Unknown”.
619* Video game magazine [=Zzap64=]! already did this in 1987 when they reviewed the Shoot 'Em Up Construction Kit. This is mainly due to the fact that they thought that the game's quality depends on the things that you make with it. They said however that the game is a great tool to make shoot 'em ups with which is why they awarded it a gold medal. This has probably made this trope OlderThanTheyThink.
620* Smogon placed the Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Darmanitan Zen Mode in an "untiered" position for quite some time, due to the difficulty in how to place it: it's essentially a transformation of Darmanitan that can only activate mid-battle, and it's generally agreed to make its user ''worse'' rather than better. Later on, when more Pokémon with transformation abilities were introduced, it was decided that it should just get the same tier as regular Darmanitan and be treated as an ability instead.
621[[/folder]]
622
623[[folder:Web Video]]
624* ''WebVideo/TheHardcoreKid'' gives works a rating of "Hardcore Hit" if he likes them, and "Hardcore Headache" if he doesn't. ''Series/MarvinMarvin'' got a "Hardcore Tumor" because of how reprehensible he found it, and ''Anime/BagiTheMonsterOfMightyNature'' a "Hardcore Catflap" because it was such a MindScrew to him.
625* ''WebVideo/TierZoo'' couldn't rank the players of the very, ''very'' weird Abyssal Server because nobody has any real knowledge of it aside from a few screenshots and twitch clips--just enough to make it clear that the server is completely different from any other. (In other words, he couldn't rank the animals of the ocean floor because scientists have very little information about it and the conditions are incomparable to anything on land.)
626* ''WebVideo/Rank10YGO'':
627** Ojamas were graded on every scale to be an Ojama King/3. He acknowledged that if the deck were to be graded conventionally as a single archetype, it would probably be named average at best at every grade - but as the deck is more of an unusual engine of highly variable synergy and quality rather than a conventional archetype, this wouldn't really work.
628-->"You can't grade Ojamas. They're like an engine, if the engine was a double-A battery powering up the entire USS Enterprise... Ojamas are actually decently consistent, but it's like having a lifetime supply of bootleg game consoles. No matter how many of them there are and no matter how much they try to convince you, that's not a Playstation and there is no such game as Super Mario Bros 16."
629** Similarly, Kaijus got a Minilla/5 on every scale, for about the same reason - dedicated "pure" kaiju builds are almost impossible and the deck is far more useful as a removal engine in something else, making traditional grades much less applicable.
630** Frogs got a descriptive rating of Good Water Engine/5 because, again, the deck is almost never played "pure" and works mainly as an engine in other Water-based decks.
631** When looking at the Signer Dragons, he was unsure how to rate the banned Ancient Fairy Dragon on the video's scale of one to five D's, ultimately settling on "Banned D's out of 5?"
632** He simply gave joke ratings to Triamids (Carolinian Dirt Mountain/5), Chemicritters (Carbon Monoxide Poisoning/5), and Digital Bugs (Digital Shrug/5), as due to their small scale and lack of support, as well as external elements, it's very difficult to make a "pure" build of any of them in the standard game.
633* In the [[https://youtu.be/yVTXhfBcx4I?t=2640 2020 Quarter Three FIMI video]], WebVideo/CrashThompson reacted to Music/WillWood's ''The Normal Album'' with a bewildered look, a tilted head, and a very confused "Huh?" And "Huh?/5" was the rating it got.
634[[/folder]]
635
636[[folder:Web Original]]
637* Creator/{{Seanbaby}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' page had this reaction to Lex Luthor, as Seanbaby couldn't figure out how to rate the guy. In terms of his actual strength, he was [[EvilGenius just a bald guy with some gadgets]] going up against [[VillainousUnderdog some of the most overpowered characters in Western fiction.]] But on the other hand, the fact that he was able to corral and order [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits the Legion of Doom]] and give the Superfriends as much trouble as he did suggested him to be [[BadassNormal an absolutely brilliant leader and brave beyond belief.]] Eventually, Seanbaby gave him a rating of "1-8?", surmising that if nothing else, Lex had some huge balls.
638[[/folder]]
639
640[[folder:Other]]
641* The aforementioned Dark Bunny sauces also has Bunny's Garden 2016 and Bunny's Cupboard, each with a heat rating of ?/10; while Rabbit's Rub and Heffalump are listed as variable.
642[[/folder]]
643
644!!Refusal to Rate ("Scores don't apply here.")
645
646[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
647* Zac Bertschy refused to rate the anime adaptation of ''Manga/BunnyDrop'' (the space where the rating would go reads "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ENDING", somewhat crossing over with a Meaningless Value rating), as Zac couldn't get over the creepiness of the source material's ending where [[spoiler:the adoptive father/daughter duo marry each other]], but still held out hope that the anime would end differently, as he thought the story was enjoyable up until that point.
648[[/folder]]
649
650[[folder:Comic Books]]
651* ''The X-Axis'' again: Paul didn’t give a rating to the 2004 relaunch of ''ComicBook/XForce'', holding that judging its quality by any normal standard was beside the point—it was exactly what you’d expect a relaunch of ''ComicBook/XForce'' by Creator/RobLiefeld to be like and therefore, presumably, the people who bought it did so because that’s what they wanted (whether to make fun of it or because they were genuinely fans of the Creator/RobLiefeld style).
652* On ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall,'' Linkara has a video of "Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review." He has various reasons--some viewer suggestions he actually likes, he won't review porn, etc.--but some, like ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay,'' fall into the category of rage-inducingly bad. He eventually did it anyway.
653[[/folder]]
654
655[[folder:Film]]
656* Creator/RogerEbert did this occasionally:
657** From his [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pink-flamingos-1997 review]] of ''Film/PinkFlamingos'':
658--->'''Ebert:''' Note: I am not giving a star rating to ''Pink Flamingos'', because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object.
659** In [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-human-centipede-2010 his review]] of ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'', which he disclaimed as not being "so much a review as a public service announcement," he was more explicit in his refusal.
660** [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls-1980 He refused]] to give a star rating to ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'' not for quality or content reasons, but because he wrote the screenplay and could not be objective.
661* There was a review of one of ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'' movies that rated it "Stars? Who needs stars?"
662* On a positive note, the website [[http://www.1000misspenthours.com/index.html 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting]] does not give star reviews to movies that either predate the concept of filmmaking (Georges Méliès' "stunt films") or are not in any state to be objectively reviewed (the stills-based reconstruction of the famed lost ''Film/LondonAfterMidnight''). These films are still reviewed, but their rating is "Not Applicable".
663** A more straightforward example: The film ''Film/{{Roar}}'' (Creator/TippiHedren, her family, and ''several dozen '''untrained''' lions'') got a "[[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/roar.htm ?!?!?!]]".
664--->'''El Santo:''' What makes ''Roar'' such astonishing viewing — and what ultimately forced me to invent a brand new rating just for it — is the stark divergence between the movie that Marshall and Hedren set out to shoot and the one that actually emerged from their efforts. What was supposed to be a treacly, Disneyish family adventure flick, with an uplifting moral about humans living in harmony with nature, came out instead as the most authentically terrifying animal attack picture I’ve ever seen. They thought they were making ''Grizzly Adams'', but they came within an ace of making ''Film/GrizzlyMan''.
665* The only film currently without a star rating in ''Website/TheEditingRoom'' is ''Gooby''; [[http://the-editing-room.com/gooby.html and that particular script needs to be read to be believed]]. This might be more a case of Impossible to Rate, however.
666* Blog/UnshavedMouse's review of ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' ends with him withholding a score to the "piece of corporate propaganda".
667* Creator/JamesRolfe attracted some minor backlash from fans of ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' when he, an avid and vocal fan of the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' franchise, issued his "no review" and simply refused to watch or support it, and by extension and in the interest of fairness, refused to give it a rating. His "review" of it instead consists of him matter-of-factly explaining how people should "rate" it by voting with their wallets, admitting he's too biased and attached to the original films to give it a fair rating as he felt it would taint his memories of the original films, and simply criticising the trailers for their jokes and special effects and the title itself for simply using the name of the original film instead of having a subtitle as if it's trying to replace the original.
668--> '''James Rolfe:''' Instead of a review, for once, I'm doing something a little different: a non-review. Because I refuse to watch it. Judging from the trailers, it looks awful. So, instead of doing what everybody else is gonna do -- go see the movie and then talk about how bad it is -- I'm going to do something different. Something unheard of. I'm not gonna see it! Wow, what a novel concept, right? If you already know you're gonna hate it, why give them your money? If this is the Ghostbusters movie no one wanted, then the box office results should reflect that.
669* DVD Talk gave the [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox Fox]] Cinema Archive's PanAndScan [=DVDs=] zero stars in all categories, and automatic "Skip It" advice, with the reviewer insisting that no good reason exists in TheNewTens for a widescreen movie to have its picture cropped to 4:3.
670%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM1Ay9vsbXI A review of Brazilian movie]] ''Motorrad'' had the critics refusing to give it a grade, because while they didn't like it, they couldn't make any sense out of the movie - it still later made their list of the worst movies of the year.
671[[/folder]]
672
673[[folder:Literature]]
674* ''Smart Bitches, Trashy Books'' has a grade of "DNF", for books they Did Not Finish.
675* [=ARamone=], who reviews on ''[[https://archeddoorway.com/ The Arched Doorway]]'', once refused to rate a book she hadn't finished; the closest she got was saying she wouldn't recommend it.
676[[/folder]]
677
678[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
679* Chuck Sonnenburg of Website/SFDebris has done this with a couple of his ''Franchise/StarTrek'' reviews.
680** The ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E2Family Family]]" was a good natured case. While Chuck liked the episode, he refused to rate it because, as he put it, the episode consisted entirely of plot threads which in other episodes would've been [[PlotThreads B plots]].
681** He also did this for ''Series/DoctorWho''[='s=] "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor Vincent and the Doctor]]", for the same reason -- he could not compare it to other episodes for rating, when it is so different to them.
682** He also skipped out on ranting the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' episode, "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E22ElevenFiftyNine 11:59]]", for a similar reason, saying that he found it to be too much unlike ''Trek'' for him to make a qualified judgement on it.
683** Another ''Voyager'' episode, "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E11MortalCoil Mortal Coil]]", also went unrated, though for a somewhat less good natured reason. Chuck felt that the episode relied heavily on the viewer, if not outright liking, then at least having some sympathy for Neelix's character. In the summary, he admitted up front that he simply despises Neelix too much for that to ever happen, so he recused himself from rating the episode, explaining that he simply felt incapable of giving it a fair shake.
684[[/folder]]
685
686[[folder:Music]]
687* James Wolcott’s [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/metal-machine-music-19750814 review]] of Music/LouReed’s ''Metal Machine Music''.
688-->"What's most distressing is the possibility that ''Metal Machine Music'' isn’t so much a knife slash at his detractors as perhaps a blade turned inward. At its very worst this album suggests masochism. He may be, to shift weaponry images, moving to the center of fire so that we critics-as-assassins can make a clean kill. Fine, Lou, go ahead. Just stand there. Don't move, But [sic] damned if I'll squeeze the trigger."
689* [[http://www.savingcountrymusic.com/song-video-review-forever-country/ This]] review of the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover single "Forever Country" by the blog Saving Country Music gives an N/A out of N/A rating because he simply felt that it was more of a product than a song, and not worth his time.
690* Deconstructed and PlayedForDrama for [[http://drownedinsound.com/releases/19863/reviews/4150889 Drowned In Sound's review]] of Mount Eerie's "A Crow Looked At Me". The justification is that it's such a personal album, about the death of Phil Elverum's wife, that even giving a score feels rude and disingenuous.
691** WebVideo/SpectrumPulse couldn't bring himself to give it any kind of rating for the much the same reason.
692[[/folder]]
693
694[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
695* 411mania does not give ratings to {{Squash Match}}es.
696[[/folder]]
697
698[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
699* The writer of the tier system for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons 3.5e'' refused to give the truenamer class a rating—due to poorly-written formulas, after the first few levels it can’t use its powers at all without extremely heavy MinMaxing, and even then it’s a SquishyWizard with worse spells than some MagicKnight classes. He would later note that a truenamer that has pushed themselves enough to use their powers regularly is in Tier 4 (about as good as a warlock or rogue), while a truenamer that hasn't is Tier 6 (the same as {{Joke Character}}s like the commoner and infamous trainwrecks like the samurai and divine mind).
700* In [[https://youtu.be/ytWVadoWiaM Dungeon Dudes' ranking of spells]] for TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons 5e book ''Tasha's Cauldron of Everything'', they refused to give "Dream of the Blue Veil" a ranking as it was entirely a plot device.
701* rpg.net writer Shannon Appelcline made a list of "[[https://www.rpg.net/columns/advanced-designers-and-dragons/advanced-designers-and-dragons44.phtml The Top 10 Infamous [=RPGs=]]]", which did not include the games referred to as "The Vile Trio":
702--> Three games nowadays tend to placed at the top of lists of infamous [=RPGs=]: Racial Holy War (2001), FATAL (2002), and HYBRID (2006). None of them were professionally published, and none them seem to have been created in good faith as actual [=RPGs=], so they aren't included in this list. (They're also not deserving of any attention.)
703[[/folder]]
704
705[[folder:Video Games]]
706* ''Series/XPlay'' required any game they reviewed to receive a rating of 1 to 5 stars. Any other rating was not allowed, so games that the hosts felt didn't deserve even 1 star were never given a review.
707** The hosts refused to rate ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' because giving it 1 star ''[[EpicFail would imply that it was actually a game]]''. Other games featured in the 'games you should never buy' segment, such as ''Barbie Horse Adventure'' or ''Flags'' (a 'flag waving in the wind' simulator), also were not rated.
708** ''X-Play'' gave ''VideoGame/PokemonChannel'' a 1 out of 5, but they later said it should've been left unscored since it too wasn’t technically a game.
709* PlayedForLaughs by [[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling’s]] “[[http://www.destructoid.com/100-objective-review-final-fantasy-xiii-179178.phtml 100% objective review]]” of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''. The "review" consists of Sterling rattling off things about the game that are technically true, but give no opinion on the actual content, such as "''Final Fantasy XIII'' is a video game." It was made as a TakeThat to people who attacked negative reviews for not being "objective." Sterling would later say that a review is, by its nature, the reviewer's opinion, declaring the complaints meaningless.
710** Played straight in Sterling's review of ''VideoGame/VelvetAssassin'', where the game is so horrible they couldn't finish it and gave it an 'N/A' score.
711** Was also played straight in Sterling’s review of ''VideoGame/KnightsContract'', where they stated that while they couldn't give it a score because they did not finish it, they assured readers that "it would not get a ten out of ten".
712* Although ''[[https://videogamecritic.com/ Video Game Critic]]'' typically grades on a standard A to F scale, he will occasionally give a game an 'NA' (ostensibly for 'Not Applicable'.) This is typically for one of three reasons: either the game is simply an enhanced remake of another one, an unfinished prototype, or it's meant for preschoolers and thus it would be slightly unfair for him to give it a grade.
713* When Magazine/{{NGamer}} reviewed the infamous witch-touching game ''Doki Doki Majo Shinpan!'', the rating for each category simply said "'''[[{{Squick}} NO]]'''". It was even awarded the “VideoGame/Superman64 [[MedalOfDishonor Award For Worst Game (of 2007)]]”. In a similar vein, they gave a game based around hunting wild animals a ''':(''' score, saying that 'We haven't felt this depressed in a long time'.
714* ''Tomcat Alley'', an FMV flight simulator on the Sega CD, was given no score on a scale from 0–100 by a magazine called ''Interface'' (“TA claims to be an ‘interactive movie’ and not something as lowly as a mere videogame. And since our business is games it gets no score. No arms, no cookies!”).
715* Again from ''The Grimoire of Marisa'': Marisa outright refuses to rate the spellcards of Suika and Medicine. Suika because all but one of her moves aren’t even danmaku (her being a fighting game boss who uses brute force), and Medicine because her body can't handle using poison.
716* Kill Screen's review of ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' probably stands as the most extreme example of this; not only did the reviewer refuse to give a score, the entire site decided not to give out scores ''ever again''.
717-->"We didn't think it would be possible for a single terrible game to change our entire scoring system. Congratulations, Duke, you've broken us."
718* In place of verbally receiving its 1, or any verbal review at all, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3a0gixfwI Alex Navarro’s video review of]] ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' ends with him turning his back on his desk, walking out to the street, lying down on it, and shaking his head.
719* In response to the technical issues involving the Always-On DRM and the disastrous launch, Jonathan Cresswell's [[http://www.jonathancresswell.co.uk/2013/03/review-simcity/ "review"]] of the 2013 ''VideoGame/SimCity'' is nothing more than a fake loading screen and "Estimated load time: <random number> minutes."
720** Platform/YouTube game reviewer WebVideo/ProJared did something similar in his [[http://youtu.be/0FsrzqJNQF8 One-Minute Review of the game]]. He just showed himself struggling to get into the game, gave up 10 seconds into the review, and just ended it with the line, "F*** it, I'm going to bed," cutting to a black screen for the rest of the one-minute video.
721* In ''WebVideo/SomeCallMeJohnny'', Johnny chose not to give ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' a score.
722--> '''Johnny:''' We're not going to give it a score, it doesn't '''deserve''' one.
723* Polygon's "review" for ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' has their reviewer being so aggravated with the game that [[http://www.polygon.com/2016/4/20/11466308/not-a-review-star-fox-zero he not only refused to complete it]] (thus not giving it a score), but also insisted that [[ExaggeratedTrope he hadn't actually made a review of the game]].
724--> This isn't a review of Star Fox Zero. Save for very rare, extreme circumstances, Polygon reviews require that a game be completed, or at least a good-faith effort be made to complete it. I am not playing any more Star Fox Zero.
725* [[Website/{{Bogleech}} Jonathan Wojcik]]'s Pokémon reviews are generally given some sort of rating (see elsewhere on this page for when he gave some Pokemon a 'six out of five' or a 'moldy, festering Lucario skull out of five') but when he reached [[http://www.bogleech.com/pokemon/p704goomy.html Goodra]], he found that his feelings were too split (by his love of what the Pokémon represents but also his desire for what Goomy and Sliggoo seemed to be leading up to[[note]]On multiple occasions leading up to this, Wojcik expressed a desire to see a fully troglobytic final evolution, and Sliggoo's eyes are stated to be slowly degrading, leading it to rely on other senses[[/note]]) to give it a good or a bad rating, but also too strong to give it a neutral one.
726-->For the first time, I'm not going to rate a Pokémon at all. I don't want to give Goodra a "bad" rating, because at the end of the day it's still a dragon type slug with green slime dribbling off it, but neither can I bring myself to give it a good one. Not after a betrayal this unspeakable.
727** In Wojcik's Franchise/{{Digimon}} reviews, the coverage for Nanimon ends as follows:
728--->It's just ... it's godless. I'm not religious, that's just the only thing that this is. Godless.\
729'''RATING: NO GOD'''
730** The [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Wind Spirit]] line got ratings of "Ew", "Nah", and "??!!?!??!???!????????", as they were generally decent (or at least interesting) designs, but they were [[FetishRetardant incredibly skeevy]] as the HenshinHero forms of a character meant to be eleven.
731* When Kevvl, mentioned above, perfect-ran Duff [=McWhalen's=] stage in ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'', he refused to give Duff [=McWhalen=] a difficulty rating because, after an entire stage consisting of [[MarathonBoss a very long, multi-phase fight with a miniboss]], Duff [=McWhalen=] himself is incredibly easy. Instead, the U-555 (the stage's miniboss) gets the rating, and it's a 10/10.
732* Website/GiantBomb refused to publish a review score for ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' because none of their staff could stand to play the game enough to finish it properly in order to review it.
733* ''WebVideo/TheCompletionist'': Jirard occasionally declines to give official ratings in circumstances when he's either close personal friends with the developers or has otherwise been involved behind-the-scenes, as he feels that he is just too biased in the game's favor for his ranking to be valid. (He'll still give unoffical ratings, though.) He's done this with ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' spinoffs ''Pocket Dungeon'' and ''Dig'', and ''VideoGame/WrestleQuest''. However, he considered ''VideoGame/SeaOfStars'' so good that he excitedly encouraged viewers to "Complete it!" (his highest rating, that it's worth it to pursue HundredPercentCompletion) ''despite'' acknowledging his bias.
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737* LetsPlay/{{Skawo}}: When rating Green Stars, and all of Battle Belt Galaxy's Green Stars where in very similar uninspired places, the first two got a 0 stars/[[VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey Odyssey]] [[TakeThat Moon]] rating, while the third star gets a rating of negative 5 stars/Indescribable
738-> I mean, I don't have to justify this, do I? Good.
739* Website/SomethingAwful's "WTF, D&D!?" column reviews bad or otherwise bizarre TabletopGames. However, their page for ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'' wasn't so much a review as it was [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/fatal-worst-rpg.php a top-ten list of reasons why]] they ''refused'' to review it.
740* ''Blog/BloggerBeware''[='=]s [[http://www.bloggerbeware.com/2008/07/r-e-t-r-o-s-p-e-c-t-find-out-what-it.html retrospective]] on the original ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' books lists the ten best and worst books. In the latter category, ''Chicken Chicken'' (a book he found to be [[DudeNotFunny absolutely horrible]]) ranks #0, with this paragraph accompanying it:
741-->"This book doesn't deserve a number. It doesn't even deserve to be listed. To list it implies some value, even as a marker for the lows of the series. But this book doesn't deserve the attention it will garner just by virtue of its position. This isn't a case of 'So bad it's good,' this is 'So bad I want to vomit[...]'. ''Chicken Chicken'' very nearly ended the blog two years ago, but I ultimately decided to push forward. I don't know what else to say except '''''it really is ''that'' bad''''''."
742* WebVideo/TheRapCritic refused to give a grade to "Loyal" by Music/ChrisBrown because "it would validate him as a rapper".
743* Much like the Drowned In Sound example above, Mark Grondin from WebVideo/SpectrumPulse refused to give Mount Eerie's "A Crow Looked At Me" a rating because it was a too raw and personal record for him to give it a score.
744* In [[WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop Anthony Fantano]]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNS2lFLHedE review]] of Yung Lean's Unknown Death 2002 mixtape... Anthony doesn't review the mixtape at all, instead chanting "my hands are bread" repeatedly.
745** A more sincere version happened in his review of Music/TaylorSwift's ''Music/{{Fearless}} (Taylor's Version)''. The review was done with the full knowledge that [[TheNotRemix the re-recorded album]] was done less for artistic purposes and more as a personal act of defiance against her former label.[[labelnote:Explanation]]In short, following her departure, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork the label adamantly denied her the rights to her own music released through them]], prompting her decision [[LoopholeAbuse to re-record said music and ensure personal ownership of the newer versions]][[/labelnote]] Because of this, in lieu of giving it a number rating as if it were solely about the music, Anthony rated it with "Screw your old record label. Do what you wanna do. Cool?"
746* As mentioned above in Out of Bounds, ''Fasion Photo Ruview'' is a web series in which ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' alumni Raja and Raven give their opinions on various fashion outfits, usually looks from ''Drag Race'' but also sometimes actual runways or drag queen's social media posts. The only time they have outright refused to rate a look was Joy Villa's "[[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Make America Great Again]]" dress from the 2017 Grammys, deciding that even giving it hate with a rating would only give the look more publicity and infamy that she was looking for by wearing it. It did cause Raja to retroactively give a Toot (a good rating) to a look she had previously Booted, deciding "anything is better than this dress".
747* WebVideo/CrashThompson refused to review or rate ''Goodness, Gracious'' by Back Up Kid on the grounds that this was basically a basement recording by a hobbyist rather than a professional recording by a professional artist or musician. He then demanded his viewers consider how they'd feel if such meagre efforts of their own were held up to scrutiny. Thompson continued by stating that he ''did'' enjoy the recording, and [[ThrowTheDogABone encouraged Back Up Kid to keep making music.]]
748* As noted above, Poparena rates ''Goosebumps'' books with a random object out of 10. However, he gave both ''Night of the Living Dummy III'' and ''Say Cheese and Die-Again!'' nothing. The former is said in his usual way and was due to being so disappointed by it and the latter is said in rushed anger because of how much it offended him.
749* ''WebSite/SFDebris'' usually rates [[Franchise/StarTrek Star Trek]] episodes on a scale of 1 to 10, but he was unable to assign a rating to the TNG episode "Family", because it was so completely unlike Star Trek (although he noted that that didn't necessarily mean it was bad).
750* During his usual ''WebVideo/MothersBasement'' "Hottest Trash" reviews, Geoff normally rates the series he selects for the videos a rating from 1 to 5 based on how trashy (read: not "bad") he thinks they will be. When it came time to rate the anime of ''Manga/TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer'', he refused to assign it a score, instead giving it "the bullet" because he loves all of Creator/SatoshiMizukami's works and was so appalled by the low quality of ''Biscuit Hammer[='=]s'' animated adaptation that it didn't feel it qualified as comparable to his usual trash.
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754* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'':
755** They usually commented on music videos, but in two cases (Music/MilliVanilli and Music/VanillaIce), they just stared in silent horror for a while before changing the channel.
756** A positive variation occurred when they spent an entire [[Music/TheRamones Ramones]] video headbanging.
757** Another video was so dull and clichéd they simply turned the TV off. [[OverlyLongGag The home viewers’ screen was also black, with no commentary, for the rest of the video-watching segment.]]
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