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[[folder:Fan Works]]
->'''[[Franchise/KungFuPanda Mantis]]:''' ''[casually]'' Hey, mouse, how many bugs do you think are down there, watching?\\
'''Mouse Bandit:''' Th-thousands?\\
'''Mantis:''' At least. There's ''hundreds'' of thousands in [[MouseWorld Wei Fu Woods]]. And how many mice came over from Zhi Village?\\
'''Mouse Bandit:''' ...a few hundred.\\
'''Mantis:''' I see, interesting. So, now that the idea of using superior numbers to overwhelm enemies has been planted in their heads, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion how long do you think you can keep subjugating people]]?
-->-- ''FanFic/OogwaysLittleOwl'', after [[Literature/{{Worm}} Taylor]] has just finished telling the story of ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' to a village of opressed insects.

->'''Mikey:''' The Shredder thinks if he throws enough Foot ninja at a problem, it'll go away.\\
'''[[OriginalCharacter Breech:]]''' That's right. There'll be less Foot ninja for a start.
-->-- ''The Long Walk'', a ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' fanfic
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[[folder:Film--Animation]]
->''"You let one ant stand up to us, then they ''all'' might stand up! Those "puny little ants" outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line. That's why we're going back! [[FauxAffablyEvil Does anybody else wanna stay?]]"''
-->-- '''[[BigBad Hopper]]''', ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''

->'''Z:''' ''[panicked]'' Hey, wait a minute! Let's not get... we're being too hasty here! [[BigCreepyCrawlies These guys sound like bruisers!]] Just how were you figuring on beating them?!
->'''[[OldSoldier Barbatus]]:''' Superior numbers, kid! Overwhelm their defenses, and kill their queen!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}''[[note]][[DeconstructedTrope We get to see the aftermath of such a tactic]][[/note]]
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[[folder:Film--Live-Action]]
->''"The one with the rifle shoots! The one without follows him! When the one with the rifle gets killed, the one without picks up the rifle ''and shoots!''"''
-->-- '''[[ThePoliticalOfficer Political Officer]]''', ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates''

->''"[[MesACrowd More.]]"''
-->-- '''Smith''', ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''

->''"There's too many of 'em!"''
-->-- '''Bruce Banner''', ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''
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[[folder:Literature]]
->Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commissars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo.
-->-- ''Literature/StarshipTroopers''

->'''Corporal Vanhala''': [[BadassBoast A Finnish soldier is as good as ten Soviets!]]\\
'''Corporal Lahtinen''': Yes, but what do you do when the eleventh one comes?
-->-- ''Literature/TheUnknownSoldier''
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
->''"You know nothing of violence. Twelve mangy dogs can kill a lion."''
-->-- '''Marc Antony''', ''Series/{{Rome}}''
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
->Throw enough goblins at a problem and it should go away. At the very least, there'll be fewer goblins.
-->-- FlavorText for "Goblin Piledriver", ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

->''[[DespairEventHorizon We cannot live through this.]] Mankind...cannot live through this. In a single day, they have covered the surface of this planet with a flood of living blades and needle-fanged mouths! Kill one, and ten take its place!''
-->'''Magos Varnak''' on the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]], ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
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[[folder:Video Games]]
->''The Tiger tank is a legendary war machine.\\
Allied guns can barely scratch the thick steel skin. Few enemies can survive the Tiger's bite, an 88mm cannon that destroys most allied tanks with a single shot.\\
Germany constructed 1,347 Tigers. The US produced almost 50,000 Sherman tanks.\\
A Tiger crew would often run out of ammunition before the enemy ran out of tanks.''
-->-- ''VideoGame/BattlefieldV'': "The Last Tiger"

->''"One down, millions to go."''
-->-- '''Scout Sergeant Cyrus''' after killing a [[Characters/Warhammer40000Tyranids Tyranid]], ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar II''

->''"There're ''thousands'' of Zerg!"''
-->-- '''Tychus Findlay''', ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty''

->'''Tychus Findlay''': So how was it, Jimmy, fightin' them zerg?\\
'''Jim Raynor''': All the scrapes we got into back in the day, all the narrow escapes, none of it compares to how terrible they are, Tychus. You don't know what ''true fear'' is till you've got a ''thousand'' of these sons of bitches barrelin' down on ya.
-->-- ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty'', conversation prior to [[HoldTheLine Zero Hour]]

->''"It doesn't matter. We're the Swarm; we can sacrifice thousands for each one of their soldiers."''
-->-- '''Kerrigan''', ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm''

->Whoa! A horde of (insert Pokémon name here) appeared!
-->-- ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' / ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire]]'', during the beginning of a Horde Encounter.

->''"[[VictoryByEndurance Some battles can be won by attrition]]. This is not one of them. As you have observed, [[FishPeople the draug]] and [[ZombieApocalypse their waterlogged victims]] are able to spawn like newts. [[BigCreepyCrawlies The forest insects]] are equally prodigious. The military position will not, cannot hold."''
-->-- '''Richard Sonnac''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->''"Oh, God! Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers!"''
-->-- '''Sam Stone''', ''VideoGame/SeriousSamTheSecondEncounter''

->''"A goblin has entered your domain. On his own he is a [[DirtyCoward cowardly beast]], but in a horde becomes a useful fighting force."''
-->-- '''The Mentor''', ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper 2''
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
->'''Haley:''' I'm sorry, but they're [[RPGMechanicsVerse 1-HD]] hobgoblins. I think each soldier can handle 3 of them.\\
'''[[OldSoldier O-Chul]]:''' Right, because the forces of evil are always considerate enough to [[MookChivalry attack in discrete 3-person groups]]. ...Let's say your Armor Class is so high they need a [[CriticalHit natural 20]] to hit you. Statistically, that means that one out of every twenty attacks is still hurting you. If each hobgoblin gets off 4 attacks before you can put them down, then for every 5 foes you face tomorrow, you'll be stabbed once. So what are you going to do if the entire army attacks, say, the south wall? Can you survive fighting 100 hobgoblins until we can reinforce your position? How about 200? 2000?
-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0417.html "The Most Important Place to Be"]]
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[[folder:Web Original]]
->'''Jack''': We shouldn't underestimate [[{{Mooks}} Tutti-Frutti's minions]]!\\
'''Cobalt''': [[SarcasmMode Yeah, they are soooooo effective!]]\\
'''Jack''': Very effective, and more importantly very numerous!\\
'''Dora''': Yeah, beware, there must be ''seven'' of them inside!\\
'''Jack''': Seven ''hundred'', to be specific.\\
''[{{Beat}}]''\\
'''Dora''': ... [[OhCrap Okay, now I get your point]].
-->-- ''AudioPlay/KingdomPaf''

->kekekekekekekeke ZERG RUSH! ^________^
-->-- Korean ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' servers, traditional

->Not sure if your opponent has assembled a ''"Cloak of the Undead King"''? Don't worry, I have a foolproof method of finding out! Mouse over his stack of Power Liches in combat, note down the number, if it's somewhere between ''several hundred thousand'' or if the text box is flickering and glitching out, he ''probably'' has it assembled. Let me explain, normally, Necromancy revives only Skeletons, but with a Cloak of the ''[[BlatantLies Balanced]]'' King, you revive ''Liches'' instead. Liches are Level 5 Necropolis Shooters, and your opponent has ''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck billions of them.]]'' He has ''so many'', that if he ''ever'' tried to split the stacks in his inventory, ''his game will crash.''
-->-- '''[[https://youtu.be/sw8v5__Ytf4?t=404 SsethTzeenatch:]]''' briefly discussing how the [[DemBones Necropolis faction]] can abuse this with the right items in becoming an unstoppable force in ''[[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic Heroes of Might and Magic III]]''

->"Let me put it like this: Would you rather have a hundred cheap tanks, or fifty expensive ones? Because a hundred tanks is not just a hundred tanks. That's ''twice'' the crew, ''twice'' the training, ''twice'' the fuel, ''twice'' the supply trucks following them around, ''twice'' the spare parts! Meaning those 100 cheap tanks [[DeconstructedTrope can end up costing you a lot more than you would've thought]]."
-->-- '''Lazerpig''' on when this trope doesn't apply, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIZ6PFYUM5o The T-34 is not as good as you think it is]]''

->'''D-Class Player:''' There's three of us and one of him!\\
''[Two D-Classes rush into the room [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome only for the Scientist to shoot them both to death]]]''\\
'''Scientist:''' [[LampshadeHanging But I have a gun, see?]]
-->-- Several players in ''VideoGame/SCPSecretLaboratory'', ''[[https://youtu.be/mI8St6iUO6o "There's three of us and one of him"]]''

-> '''Tex''': War is not about ''quality'', it is about ''quantity''.
-->-- Tex Talks Battletech: The Madcat
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
->'''Jack''' Why, there must be a ''hundred'' of you mice!
->'''Mouse:''' Sure, the castle is ''infested'' with us.
->'''Jack:''' Then what are you afraid of the cat for?
->'''Mouse:''' Well, a mouse is always afraid of the cat.
->'''Jack:''' ''A'' mouse, maybe, but not ''mice''. Didn't you guys ever hear of "E. pluribus union"?
->'''Mouse:''' E. Pluribus ''Who?''
->'''Jack:''' Yeah, two can do what one can't. And twenty can do five or six times better than that.
->'''Mouse:''' But we're so teeny and weeny, and the cat is so darn ferocious.
->'''Jack:''' But all you gotta do is add all your teeny, weeny, little selves together in one big ball of fight.
-->--Creator/HannaBarbera's ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk''
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