Misused: All Of Them

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#1: Aug 27th 2020 at 7:34:57 PM

All of Them is supposed to be an answer to questions of quantity, as is emphasized in the description, with:

Note for Examples: This trope only applies if "All of Them" is a response to a direct question about quantity, and it isn't a literal response.

But I think it hasn't been cleaned, and that answering a question of options, and getting a response of, well, All The Options is a separate trope from, the current, which has a perfectly good name in its redirect, "How Many?" "All Of Them"...

And if the split happens, I guess we should use the old page image, this◊, of El Goonish Shive for All The Options.

Wick Check: 56 / 227 wicks (Still left: Characters.Star Wars to D + Film.L to Web Video):

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All The Options (26; How Many All Of Them = 6)

HowManyAllOfThem wicks:
- Heinz Hybrid: In Making Money, Moist is asked to guess what breed Mr. Fusspot is, and can only manage to say, "Er, all of them?" He's half "spoon hound," but whatever else he is is unknown.
- Survival Tips for S.H.I.E.L.D. Recruits: Tip #272: Stop asking Stark what items he can weaponize, and just operate under the assumption that the answer is 'all of them'.
- Jingo: Detritus uses a variant; when Reg Shoe asks how far the barometer has sunk, Detritus (who was in charge of the aforementioned Emergency Cargo Dump) replies "All der way."
- The Guild: Vork is surprisingly able to speak Korean and Hindi. When Zaboo asks how many languages he speaks, he replies "All of them". (Though season 3 shows that he can apparently only speak Spanish haltingly and with the aid of a phrasebook.)
- Epic Meal Time: Mathematician's Answer: In "Meat Building 101", Paolo asks Tyler what kind of meat they used to build the Slaughterhouse. Tyler stumbles over his answer, but essentially tells him, "All of the meat".
- Battleship: (Which I removed in somewhat error): The final trailer:
  Warning Red. Weapons tight. I want everything loaded.
AllOfThem wicks:
- Even the Rats Won't Touch It: In an episode of Ozzy & Drix, Hector did a science project on what cafeteria food his dog wouldn't touch. Turned out to be '[[All of Them all of it]]'.
- Hollywood Hacker:
  - A "leaked" version of Michael Bay's script for The Dark Knight (it's fake) contains a hilarious version of this quite close to the Penny Arcade example.
Bruce: We hack the internet.
Alfred: Hack the internet?
Bruce: Yes, hack the internet.
General: Nobody's ever hacked the internet before.
Bruce: Well, there's a first for everything.
General: Okay, I like it, but which one of the internets do we hack?
Bruce: All of Them.
- The page quote also has one, but it's not wicked.
- Understatement: The NFPA diamond is a label giving a brief representation of the hazards of a substance. It is divided into 4 sections, with numbers 0–4 in them or special symbols. The blue section represents health risk, the red one flammability, the yellow one reactivity, and the white one reserved for special hazards like acid or oxidation. A handy guide for the number scale for each section lists yellow 4 as "may detonate". This led to the following conversation with a supervisor: "'May detonate'? Under what conditions?" "All of them." This rating is reserved for nitrogylcerin, nitrogen triiodide, chlorine dioxide, and similarly temperamental chemicals.
- Film.Alita Battle Angel: When Ido warns Alita through radio that the motorball match is a trap, she asks which one of her opponents will try to kill her. The answer, of course, is "All of them!"
- Awesome.Death Battle Season Four: Caption.
- YMMV.Death Battle: Shocking Moments: Megazord vs Voltron was a long time coming, and they made sure to pull out all the stops, apparent with just a few words in the climax.
  Keith: (As Pidge's lion head flies over to grab the Blazing Sword after the Red Lion's fallen off) Give [Pidge] cover fire!
  Allura: With what?!
  Keith: EVERYTHING!
- Awesome.The Bridge: Gigan goes all out against Kaizer Ghidorah in the purest form of Determinator to keep Kaizer from hurting Irys or Megalon, deliberately shutting off his safety protocols on his systems despite warnings saying doing so can result in death. What follows is a parade of all the powers the character has ever had in the franchise unloaded on Kaizer in a flurry set to ''One for the Money''
  Gigan's Systems: "-Mass Override Can Cause Critical Failure In This State. Limit Operations For Safety. Which Combat Operations Do You Require?-"
  Gigan: *teleports in front of Kaizer Ghidorah* [[All of Them "E͞͏̡̀̀V̸̢͝É̛͞R̢̛̕͟Y͏̷͠͡T̴̵͘͡H̴̢͘͝I̸̧̕Ǹ̀Ģ̀!"]]
- Characters.Death Battle Season Three: Agent Carolina: At one point in the fight, she asks for Church to trigger her armor enhancements. When he asks which, she responds All of them.
- Characters.MCU Ulysses Klaues Organization: Ulysses Klaue: His answer when one of his subordinates asks him who he is supposed to kill between the Avengers and Ultron.
  Klaue: Shoot them.
  Klaue' Mercenary: Which ones?
  Klaue: ALL OF THEM!
- ExplainExplainOhCrap.Western Animation: Danger Mouse: In the episode "The Day of the Suds", after Danger Mouse defeats Greenback's army of dish washer robots, Greenback realizes too late that his You Have Failed Me punishment was too widespread:
Greenback: Stiletto!
Stiletto: Si, Barone?
Greenback: Destroy them all!
Stiletto: Si, Barone! [pushes the command into the controls] Si! Si! Si! [Beat] Hey, Barone?
Greenback: Well?
Stiletto: Destroy them all?
Greenback: All!
Stiletto: [Referring to the dish washer they're standing on] Including this one?
Greenback: Yes! Includ- [with realization] No! Wait! [Kaboom!] AAAAAHHHHH!
- Fanfic.Tales Of The Monkey Queen: Despite not using the exact phrase, Bulma makes it very clear at one point that she wants all the liquor.
Bulma: Heidi, send up the liquor.
Heidi: Which bottle, Ms. Bulma? Your family has a pretty extensive cellar.
Bulma: The liquor, Heidi. Not some of it. Not a few bottles of it. The. Liquor.
Heidi: R...rum or scotch or-
Bulma: I'm not gonna say it again, Heidi!
- Webcomic.Dominic Deegan:
Warnings from which country?
Um... All of them, your majesty.
- Fanfic.Futari Wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon:
"They're fighting each other and us!" Night skidded back. "Which ones do we even fight?"
Sunday turned her head over. "All of them?"
- Fanfic.Harry Potter And The Invincible Technomage: Harry and Tony Stark start preparing to sue Dumbledore in case Dumbledore fails to prevent Harry from being entered against his will in the Triwizard Tournament. When Dumbledore asks which wizarding law firms Tony Stark has contacted in that preparation, Harry Stark answers "All of them." Later it's revealed that Tony Stark hired half the wizarding legal firms and Sirius Black hired the other half, adding up to all the wizarding legal firms.
- Fanfic.Mortal Kombat Vs Marvel Universe: When Tony and Steve find out that Cassie is the Phoenix's host...
Tony: Assemble the team? (Steve nods) Which ones?
Steve: All of Them.
- And after Kitana and Liu explaining to the revenants the events from their leaving the Netherrealm to now:
Nightwolf: Okay. I did not see that coming.
Liu: Me becoming an assassin and marrying Kitana, Raiden going insane, Johnny Cage quitting acting and becoming an industrialist, or he and Sonya remarrying and having a second daughter?
Stryker: Honestly...? All of the above,
- Film.Annabelle Comes Home: To people not previously acquainted with the reality and lethality of the supernatural phenomena the Warrens deal with, their museum proves to be be an irresistible lure, as Daniela comes to find out.
Mary Ellen: What did you touch?
Daniela: Everything.
- Film.Avengers Age Of Ultron: After Ulysses Klaue gets his arm severed to a bit above the elbow and is subsequently stuck in the middle of a fight between the opposing teams of The Avengers versus Ultron, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver.
Klaue: Shoot them!
Lackey: Which ones?
Klaue: All of them!
- Film.Batman Begins: Bruce, in response to a homeless guy asking who was going to come looking for Bruce: "Everyone."
- Film.Contagion: During the autopsy on Patient Zero, the moment they take a look at what's left of her brain.
Younger Pathologist: (backing away) Should I call someone?
Older Pathologist: Call everyone.
- Film.Deadpool 2016: Right before Wade goes on his final Roaring Rampage of Revenge at the climax, when he's found out Ajax has kidnapped Vanessa. This is humorously subverted later in the movie, where Deadpool forgets to bring the duffel with ALL THE GUNS in it to the fight, leaving him with only his katanas to fight with.
Deadpool: I need guns.
Weasel: Okay, which ones?
Deadpool: I need ALL THE GUNS!

Question of quantity (16, How Many All Of Them = 2)

HowManyAllOfThem wicks:
- Ultraviolet: When the Arch-Ministry computer tries to tally Violet's Hyperspace Arsenal. It eventually gives up and just says "many" in a very surprised-sounding voice.
- RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness.Tropes D To I: In Act VII chapter 3, when Moka's Evil Knockoff breaks free and kills a mook, Xia-Long calmly dials up the other members of Fairy Tale and requests that they send in their men to restrain said Evil Knockoff if they can. When asked how many, Xia-Long responds, "All of them."
AllOfThem wicks:
- Final Solution: In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Survivors", a god-like alien who'd taken human form saw everyone on the colony where he was living killed by hostile aliens called the Husnock, after not using his powers against them because he's a pacifist. After he sees his human wife's dead body, he snaps and kills the Husnock. As he explains to Captain Picard, who mistakenly thinks the alien's sense of guilt is merely over his failure to save his wife, he didn't just kill the crew of the attacking Husnock ship. He killed [[All of Them all 50 billion of them]]. Picard, who doesn't feel adequate to judging such a powerful being for such an immense crime, decides to leave him with his solitary guilt.
  Alien: "No, no, no, no, you don't understand the scope of my crime. I didn't kill just one Husnock, or a hundred, or a thousand. I killed them all. All Husnock, everywhere."
- We've Got Company: Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Well, at least it precedes a pretty cool exchange.
John: We got company.
Dyson: Police?
Sarah: How many?
John: Uh, all of 'em, I think.
- Fanfic.Waking Nightmares:
Heavy: "SOLDIER! SNIPER! Go retrieve bacon!"
Soldier: "Sir, yes sir! How much bacon, sir?"
Heavy: " ALL OF THE BACON!"
- WesternAnimation.Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles:
  - During the Zephyr Campaign, the Zephyr has crashed on a frozen asteroid and is besieged by "firefries," Bugs which breathe fire. When Razak was away from the ship and being called back by Higgins, he asked how many Bugs were attacking. Higgins responded with "too many."
- WesternAnimation.My Little Pony Equestria Girls Rollercoaster Of Friendship: This is Vignette's answer when Fluttershy asks how many people will be watching them perform at the parade. Naturally, this makes her all the more nervous.
- WesternAnimation.Megas XLR: Coop has a button that says, "Missiles", another that says, "More Missiles", and finally one that says, "All The Missiles". Thing is, it doesn't actually launch all of them since we see him use more in the same episode.
- Webcomic.The Whiteboard: Swampy is phoning a window repair company after yet another bout of explosive hilarity:
Swampy: Hey, Rog, they want to know how many windows got damaged this time.
Roger: Um...
Swampy (to the receiver): I don't even know why I asked. He's just gonna say "all of 'em".
Roger: No, I think the one in the bathroom hasn't broken...
- Webcomic.Schlock Mercenary: A common punchline. A typical example is this exchange between Massey Reynstein and Col. Menendez of Sanctum Adroit.
Massey: Slap some numbers on it and let's sign.
Menendez: You haven't seen the numbers.
Massey: I know what numbers look like.
Menendez: How much money do you actually have?
Massey: I know what all the numbers look like.
- Webcomic.Dresden Codak: Dark Science #16 – "The Missing Sun":
How much food did you order?
All of it.
My prostheses run on glucose. Thanks for lunch by the way.
- Fanfic.Beat The Drums Of War: During the battle over New Romulus, Obisek goes to evacuate Proconsul D'Tan. They're interrupted by the ambassador from the Romulan Star Empire.
Ambassador tr'Ethian: Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?
Reman Shadow Guard: What are you saying, ehl'alha?
tr'Ethian: The fvillhu^note has sent the Galae!^notethe Romulan Star Empire's Space Navy
D'Tan: How many ships, Llairhi tr'Ethian?
tr'Ethian: No, you, don't understand, lhhei, he sent the Galae, the entire Galae!
(Followed by a fleet of Star Empire warbirds decloaking in orbit and laying a metric ton of whoop-ass on the Heralds' rears.)
- Fanfic.Chrysalis Visits The Hague: Estermann and the judge Mullan talk about Chrysalis:
Mullan: Hey… She’s a disgraced monarch in exile. Treat her to a bottle of vermouth, and the guilt shall be overcome by breakfast.
Estermann: She’s a mother.
Mullan: Ah... oh. That’s a bit harsher. How many, did she say?
Estermann: By the looks of it... all of them.
- Fanfic.Ponies And Dragons: Apparently during the events of the season 6 finale, Sunburst was left keeping the Changelings impersonating the royal family of the Empire busy without exposing himself. When asked how many ways he had to come up with to do this, this trope is his response.
- Film.Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: Abe's response when asked how much silver they should collect to forge into ammunition? "All of it."
- Film.Into The Storm 2009: Used in George and Churchill's first conversation, regarding the movement of the British Army ("How many of them (will go to France)?" "All of them. The entire British army.")
- Film.John Wick: A variation. Viggo's attempted negotiation with John fails miserably and decides to kill John before he can start his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
Viggo: Task your crew.
Avi: How many?
Viggo: How many do you have?

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AllOfThem wicks:
- Mook Depletion: (Removed this for not being in response to a clear question. It's also in the trope page...): In the third movie, "Bender's Game", despite one of her sons wanting to leave behind a contingent, Momon insisted on [[All of Them all]] her forces being sent into battle, which left her lair defenseless for Fry to invade. It also didn't help that all her minions ended up getting killed. True, she won in the end, but the trope was still in effect.
- Open the Door and See All the People: (This is anticipating a question, I think?): In a Lighter and Softer segment of Strangers in Paradise (which turns out to be All Just a Dream, then a Dream Within a Dream), in which the usual cast are all costumed superbeings, a particularly incompetent "villain" accidentally blows up the Earth. Cut to Heaven, where a junior angel opens the Pearly Gates, panics, and goes running to tell St. Peter that "the people are here! All of Them!"
- CameraAbuse.Western Animation: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Make New Friends But Keep Discord", Pinkie Pie grabs and excitedly shakes the camera after Discord orders "all the cakes" at Sugar Cube Corner:
  Pinkie Pie: All of them?
  [grab and shake while saying the following]
  Pinkie Pie: He wants all of the cakes!
- YMMV.The Professional: Memetic Mutation: Everyone? EEEVVERYYYYOOONNEEEE!!!
- WesternAnimation.Superman Brainiac Attacks: Lex Luthor is practically doing this for the whole movie.
  Inform my attorneys. All of Them.
- WesternAnimation.Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles:
  - Before the invasion of Klendathu, Higgins attempted to get information about the upcoming mission from Razak for his report. When he asked about the scale of the invasion, Razak replied "Every ship, every trooper."
  - In the Homefront Campaign, the Bugs invaded Earth. How many Bugs? All of them.
- Fanfic.The Great Alicorn Hunt: Twilight Sparkle frantically begs for ALL the vanilla ice cream to extinguish the burning in her mouth from Tabasco-frosted cupcakes.

Indexes and stuff (3)

Edited by Malady on Aug 30th 2020 at 4:51:44 AM

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu

#2: Aug 28th 2020 at 1:51:39 AM

Opening.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

eroock Since: Sep, 2012

#3: Aug 28th 2020 at 3:09:50 AM

Isn't a wick check supposed to contain at least 50 wicks?

Edited by eroock on Aug 28th 2020 at 3:10:20 AM

FernandoLemon Nobody Here from Argentina (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: In season

Nobody Here

#4: Aug 28th 2020 at 3:44:48 AM

50 wicks, or the square root of the wicks. Whichever one's larger. So yes.

I'd like to apologize for all this.

WarJay77 Big Catch, Sparkle Edition (Troper Knight)

Big Catch, Sparkle Edition

#5: Aug 28th 2020 at 5:35:03 AM

Yeah, we need more information.

Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#6: Aug 28th 2020 at 5:43:20 AM

I'm hearing you! More wick checks will be performed, on a Rolling Updates basis until I hit 50 non-redirect / indexing wicks.

- OK!

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Berrenta MOD How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love

How sweet it is

#7: Aug 28th 2020 at 7:11:19 AM

Temp-locking.

~MaLady, let me know when you are done with the new wick check.

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Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love

How sweet it is

#8: Aug 30th 2020 at 8:32:21 PM

Now that we got a 50-wick check, reopened.

I'm good with a trope transplant.

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wingedcatgirl I'm helping! from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!

I'm helping!

#9: Aug 30th 2020 at 8:34:46 PM

I honestly thought this trope had already been split.

Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.

Spark9 Gentleman Troper! from Castle Wulfenbach Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords

Gentleman Troper!

#10: Aug 31st 2020 at 3:05:20 AM

I don't see how "which option? All of them" is meaningfully a different trope to "how many? All of them". So I suggest just removing that restriction from the trope description, and leaving the examples alone. Splitting this is just going to make a bigger mess with overlapping examples and people confusing the two tropes.

Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!

FernandoLemon Nobody Here from Argentina (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: In season

Nobody Here

#11: Aug 31st 2020 at 7:42:55 AM

Perhaps soft-splitting (dividing the article into sections, but keeping the trope as one) could do the trick.

I'd like to apologize for all this.

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#12: Aug 31st 2020 at 7:46:09 AM

+ - I'm fine with removing the restriction, especially since that's the only reason for this TRS.

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GastonRabbit Sounds good on paper (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me

Sounds good on paper (he/him)

#13: Aug 31st 2020 at 7:46:24 AM

I agree.

Edit: Added an arrow because I got ninja'd.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2020 at 9:47:29 AM

Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.

crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010

NaNo 4328 / 50,000

#14: Aug 31st 2020 at 7:50:27 AM

+1 for expanding the definition. Dislike the soft-split, but I won't vote against it.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.

Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)

#15: Aug 31st 2020 at 8:44:31 AM

I don't think they're distinct enough to soft split. to the description tweak.

WarJay77 Big Catch, Sparkle Edition (Troper Knight)

Big Catch, Sparkle Edition

#16: Aug 31st 2020 at 11:38:39 AM

Expand Softsplit

Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness

Tabs Since: Jan, 2001

#17: Aug 31st 2020 at 2:12:49 PM

Yes to expand, no to split. Not enough meaningful distinction between "which of them" and "how many of them"

wingedcatgirl I'm helping! from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!

I'm helping!

#18: Aug 31st 2020 at 2:34:53 PM

My opinion is expand or hard split, but I'm neutral as to which one. fuck soft splits, all my homies hate soft splits

Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.

GastonRabbit Sounds good on paper (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me

Sounds good on paper (he/him)

#19: Aug 31st 2020 at 2:35:10 PM

I didn't mention this when I voted in favor of expanding, but I'm against soft-splitting.

Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.

FernandoLemon Nobody Here from Argentina (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: In season

Nobody Here

#20: Aug 31st 2020 at 5:14:46 PM

Alright, seems like we decided soft-splitting will *not* do the trick, then.

I'd like to apologize for all this.

eroock Since: Sep, 2012

#21: Sep 7th 2020 at 5:02:42 AM

I don't see a categorical difference between the two scenarios as long as "all of them" is an unexpected reply and works a punch line. Expand and keep such examples in one list.

Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)

#22: Sep 29th 2020 at 10:08:54 AM

Bumping. Crowner? Or more votes to expand?

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#23: Sep 29th 2020 at 11:48:48 AM

It's about 9 (Consensus / Not Against) for Expand. Anyone want to recount: From here down.

Anyone who hasn't said yet?

Edited by Malady on Sep 29th 2020 at 11:52:09 AM

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FernandoLemon Nobody Here from Argentina (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: In season

Nobody Here

#24: Sep 29th 2020 at 12:10:00 PM