History Main / OverlyNarrowSuperlative

* The town of Marietta, Ohio is known as the first settlement founded by American pioneers outside the original 13 states, founded in 1788. Some settlements already existed in Kentucky and Tennessee by then, but they were parts of Virginia and North Carolina at that time, so they don't count. Vermont, Maine and West Virginia had yet to break off of their original states too, but they're east of the Appalachians (or, in the case of West Virginia, ''in'' the Appalachians) and so don't count either. Even then, the Northwest Territory was still inhabited by Native Americans, English fur traders who retained their citizenship after American independence, and settlers from the former New France, so Marietta can only be the first pioneer city if one discounts everything else.

* Records and firsts are getting increasingly specific. "First woman to do X". "Fastest 100-yard dash by an Asian". "Biggest statue created by a left-handed Norwegian guitarist while on crack"...

** ''Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann'', while on Creator/{{MSNBC}}, was very proud of being the #1 cable news show [[TakeThat not on]] Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}.

* The promotional website for ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare Game & Wario]]'' describes Ashley's minigame as "the best game where you guide a child witch through a world made entirely out of candy while dodging obstacles".

* Website/RottenTomatoes refers to ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth'' as "a pioneering feat in the field of twerking polar bear animation."

** Britta describes Music/BareNakedLadies as "the most celebrated Canadian alt-rock band of the mid-90s."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

** In an out-of-universe example, fans have also dubbed the movie the best [[spoiler:ComicBook/HowardTheDuck]] film ever made [[spoiler:([[Film/HowardTheDuck out of two]], and Howard only appears in TheStinger of this one - later upped to four, with Howard still only getting one-scene cameos in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'')]].

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* A RunningGag throughout the first act of the first ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' movie is people claiming to be the Xth Strongest Man on Mipross Island. Mipross Island isn't very large, and none of them last longer than a few minutes against out-of-towner Lina -- she even one-shots the eighth, seventh and fifth strongest ''simultaneously'' -- mere moments after having bested the tenth.

* The conclusion of Creator/CleolindaJones's ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' recaps: "It was the best series starting with a teenage girl in love with a mysterious boy in her class that ended up with a teenage girl defending her growth-accelerated mutant hybrid baby from an ancient clan of evil vampires with her magical psychic shield that I ever read."

** He described ''VideoGame/{{Tunic}}'' as "...the best game since ''The Sacred Armour of Antiriad'' to be named after the entire contents of the main character's laundry list."

* The ''Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords'' books are full of "standard" records, like world's longest beard, but it also has gems like the world record for cycling backwards with a violin. They also called ''Film/SilentMovie'' the sound film with the least spoken dialogue: A single one-syllable word ([[spoiler:"no," spoken by ''French mime Creator/MarcelMarceau'']].)

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Encanto}}'': Mirabel calls Dolores her favorite older cousin while trying to wheedle information out of her, though she only ''has'' one other older cousin. In some dubs, she narrows it further by calling Dolores her favorite older female cousin (of which Dolores is the only one), since those languages have separate words for "male cousin" and "female cousin".

Another Overly Narrow Superlative is such a big deal that it rather cancels the over-narrowness, though. ENIAC was the first computer known to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_complete Turing Complete]] ''during its operational life''. (The Z3 ''was'' Turing Complete, but this was only demonstrated in 1998, using programming techniques not available in its time. The Mark I (appeared after the Z3 and before the ENIAC) was also Turing Complete, proven in 1998. The Zuse Z4 from 1945 was not Turing Complete right from the start -- the conditional jump instruction was added after 1945 (possibly in 1950). Coincidentally, the ENIAC also lacked a conditional jump instruction at first and was not Turing Complete, until it was "hacked" to allow for some sort of conditional execution.[[note]]Back in these days, few people cared about whether a computer was Turing Complete or not. Usually, the problems the computers had to solve did not require Turing Completeness.[[/note]]

* One of the best of these was for ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'', which proclaimed in large letters, '''The #1 Movie in America!''' [--that's a comedy written by a Canadian who's left-handed--]'.

* One of the best of these was for ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'', which proclaimed in large letters, '''The #1 Movie in America!''' '[--that's a comedy written by a Canadian who's left-handed--]'.