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* There's a ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' gadget that measures a person's intelligence, stamina, athletic skills, and other stats, and Nobita is dismayed that compared to his peers - Gian, Suneo and Shizuka - he's right at the ''very bottom''. An annoyed Nobita then tries manually dragging his own indicator off the chart; said indicator literally gains a life of it's own and drags Nobita to study until his intelligence matches the new indicator's.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[AltText Logarithmic scales are for quitters who can't find enough paper to make their point properly.]]]]
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSkCEYpShA This]] ''Stride Gum'' commercial most readily comes to mind for an appropriate example of the trope. At the beginning, the president of Stride Gum uses a ruler to point at the rapidly descending red line on the chart, which continues off the chart and ''onto a piece of paper tacked onto said chart.'' The CEO then taps the paper with his ruler for added emphasis. It's not TakeThatUs; Stride's flavor supposedly lasts ''so'' long that everyone bought one piece and never needed to buy another, sending sales down the drain.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSkCEYpShA This]] ''Stride Gum'' commercial most readily comes to mind for an appropriate example of the trope. At the beginning, the president of Stride Gum uses a ruler to point at the rapidly descending red line on the chart, which continues off the chart and ''onto a piece of paper tacked onto said chart.'' The CEO then taps the paper with his ruler for added emphasis. It's not TakeThatUs; SelfDeprecation; Stride's flavor supposedly lasts ''so'' long that everyone bought one piece and never needed to buy another, sending sales down the drain.
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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'': After [[spoiler:the player first depletes [[FinalBoss Ganondorf]]'s life meter, he moves into his [[SequentialBoss his second phase]], which begins with the life meter regenerating back to full, then filling up even further until it's about doubled in size, nearly reaching the edge of the screen, [[PaintingTheMedium selling just how persistant and durable the Demon King truly is]]]].

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