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Han Solo: Six, seven, eight of them. The more, the better.
Leia Organa Solo: The more, the better?
Han Solo: Yeah, when we get enough of them in here, we can't possibly lose.
Leia Organa Solo: Now I know why you never want to be told the odds. Because you don't know what they mean!
The bigger the bunch, the weaker the monster!
—Raven, Tales Of Vesperia
"You wanna fight? There's only one ninja left, and that means I'm death incarnate!"
—House Kubota Assassin, The Order of the Stick
A horde of elite ninjas are useless against a lone opponent, but one dead, rotting and retarded ninja can perform occasional miracles.
Always choose a bigger enemy. It makes him easier to hit.
— Snibril in The Carpet People, Cohen the Barbarian in Interesting Times, etc. etc.... Terry Pratchett likes this one.
"Wow! Do we really suck, or is this guy really THAT DAMN GOOD!?"
— Hertz, Shoot 'Em Up, right after Smith outperforms his entire army of mooks.
"No! There are a hundred of us! GET HIM. What is happening?!"
"Did I hear one of you ask how this glory can be real? I remember...when you stormed my mansion, and you alone cut through my army of ninjas and I kept hearing "He's just one man! He's just one man!" I didn't realize it until them, but that was how I defeated all of your peoples in the 80's. I was just one man. And now I am just one man again! And I am killing you! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
— Frans Rayner Dr. McNinja, invoking the same trope. 
"There are three of them! Three! Anything can be killed if you do your damn jobs!"
— Jedore, Mass Effect 2, tempting fate.
Supporting Characters often gang up in the desperately misguided belief that more thugs are somehow more dangerous. You'd think they'd learn, but no amount of evidence seems to be able to persuade them.
"I thought samurai would be fun! But you bore me. You're useless. Even more useless in great numbers."
— Kiga, 13 Assassins
"Bullshit. Can't be. How could 3 men do this?"
—Amir Kaffarov lampshading this trope, Battlefield 3
"You know how to fight six men. We can teach you how to engage six hundred."
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