History Main / TooManyHalves

* Bender from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has claimed at various points to be 30% iron, 40% zinc, 40% titanium, 40% lead, and 40% dolomite (that last one having at least some demonstrable truth to it because he survived swimming in molten lava). According to the professor he's mostly made up of a titanium-osmium alloy with a .3% nickel impurity.

** ''Discworld/{{Eric}}'' has the Aztec-flavoured god Quezovercoatl, who is described as "half-man, half-chicken, half-jaguar, half-serpent, half-scorpion and half-mad", making "a wossname total of three homicidal maniacs".
** In ''Discworld/MenAtArms'' CMOT Dibbler's Genuine Authentic Soggy Mountain Dew claims to be 150 per cent proof. Of course, nothing [[HonestJohn Dibbler]] writes on a label can be considered any kind of [[{{pun}} proof]].
** In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', Ridcully calls for the team to give 110%, and Ponder explains that they can only give 100%, although it might be a ''bigger'' 100% than previously thought. In the same book, the captain of the Cockbill Boars claims his team always gives 120% "and you can't give more than that".

* Played with in ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}''. Despite being built from the ground up to parody various role playing game clichés (and the entire concept of role playing games in general), the "Half-Breed" card only lets you play two Race cards at once, as the name implies. To play three Race cards, you'll need a "1/3-Breed" card. (But then, the rules encourage cheating...)

* In the ''[[ChooseYourOwnAdventure Give Yourself]] Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''The Deadly Experiments of Doctor Eeek'', one of the Bad Endings has you being turned into a half human, half-dog half-basketball, the latter taking the place of your head.

* WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'s Vinny, in his stream of ''GoldenEye: Source'' 5.0, said of his language skills, "I say big words from time to time. I make my own words the other half of the time. And then I say words wrong... like... the other... all the time." (beat) "[[LampshadeHanging I'm also very good with percentages.]]"

* "Anguished English", a collection of pupil bloopers, funny typos etc. dug up: "[[GeorgeFredericHandel Handel]] was half German, half Italian and half English. He was very large."

* This is the whole concept between improper fractions, including literal examples such as "4/2"

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* In ''Webcomic/ChainmailBikini'', Josh's character is half-human, half-ogre, and half-dark elf.

* ''WesternAnimnation/KimPossible'' uses a variation on the "110%" version when Bonnie declares her intention of wresting the cheer squad captaincy away from Kim:

* On ''WesternAnimnation/TotalDrama,'' [[TroubledButCute Duncan]] claims to have fought a mutant that was "half-lion, half-bear and half-poison."

* WebOriginal/{{Vinesauce}}'s Vinny, in his stream of ''VideoGame/GoldenEyeSource'' 5.0, said of his language skills, "I say big words from time to time. I make my own words the other half of the time. And then I say words wrong... like... the other... all the time." (beat) "[[LampshadeHanging I'm also very good with percentages.]]"

** 61.2% Fiend / 38.8% Human, actually.

* In a ''StarTrekExpandedUniverse [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' novel, Quark bamboozles a trader into agreeing to a "sixty sixty" split, confident that any Ferengi arbiter would agree that, since 60% to both parties is impossible, 60% to Quark and 40% to his partner is a perfectly reasonable interpretation.

* The Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/{{Eric}}'' has the Aztec-flavoured god Quezovercoatl, who is described as "half-man, half-chicken, half-jaguar, half-serpent, half-scorpion and half-mad", making "a wossname total of three homicidal maniacs".

* WebOriginal/{{Vinesauce}}'s Vinny, in his stream of ''VideoGame/GoldenEye: Source'' 5.0, said of his language skills, "I say big words from time to time. I make my own words the other half of the time. And then I say words wrong... like... the other... all the time." (beat) "[[LampshadeHanging I'm also very good with percentages.]]"

* When Creator/EricFlint expanded ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' from a one-off novel to a SharedUniverse, he set out to avert this trope, by laying down rules for what characters other writers could create. Otherwise,
--> ... In addition to the half who are rocket scientists and the other half who are SEALS, Eric has provided us a list of the following additional halves:
--> The half who are engineers, which are in turn divided into half electrical engineers, half locomotive engineers, half chemical engineers, half mechanical engineers, and too many thirds and quarters to count.
--> ...
--> There is, I believe � at last count � exactly one person in everybody's fantasy Grantville who is elderly and illiterate. Of course, he's also the son of Alvin York and shoots even better than his daddy. "[[http://1632.org/authors_manual/many_halves.html The Many Halves of Grantville]]"

* From the Literature/KnownSpace book ''Destiny's Forge'':
-->'''[[ColonelBadass Tskombe]]''': Half a sense of adventure, half a sense of duty, half no better plan for my life.\\
'''[[LadyOfWar Cherenkova]]''': That's three halves.\\
'''Tskombe''': If I was smart enough to do math I wouldn't be in the infantry.

* ''CarTalk'': Frequently, Tom & Ray would give the answer to last week's Puzzler, then promise "We'll have a new Puzzler for you in the third half of the show."

* This quote from [[{{Baseball}} Yogi Berra]]:

* A ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short has the Big Bad Wolf telling his son that catching pigs is "fifty percent" whatever lesson he's trying to teach at the moment. Eventually, the son dryly informs him of just what all the "fifty percents" add to by that point.