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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A system of measurement for something that doesn't seem like it could be measured in discrete units in the first place. Almost always used for humor. Broke the Rating Scale may invoke this when it gets silly. This is presumably how you tell if something is 20% More Awesome. Compare Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure, which is when someone measures a quantifiable thing in a strange way. Also see Thing-O-Meter. |
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In Ansem Retort, a plan devised to get Zexion elected governor of Pennsylvania by getting his opposition murdered is measured by Zexion in Michael Corleones. | |
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One Achewood comic cites the made-up unit "the fermule" as "the basic unit of physics." One reader lampshades the silliness of this in the comments section: "That's right. Losing control of a 200 kg van on an icy road while traveling at 45 mph, skidding off a 45-degree turn and wrapping that van three times around a tree takes a total of 67 fermules of physics." | |
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An amateur sci-fi writer group on LiveJournal attempted to come up with "Brian's Scale" to measure the fame of sci-fi authors, based on number of non-self-publications, with units ranging from the Trout to the Scalzi to finally the Gaiman. | |
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Cracked's go-to comparison for crazy behavior is none other than Gary Busey. | |
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Vision of Escaflowne Abridged reveals that angst can be measured in megaShinjis. | |
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In Super Paper Mario, when Dimentio first brings the heroes to Dimension D, He believes that his power has increased by 256 times, though it actually increases everyone's power by that amount and he claims that he could obliterate the heroes with the amount of power it would take to lift an eyebrow. | |
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Discworld has the thaum, a basic unit of magical strength "universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls." Naturally, it is measured by thaumometers. Some early books measure magic in "Primes", the amount of magic needed to move one pound of lead one foot. The Companion eventually explained that the Prime was the metric measurement, and the thaum is the "imperial" one. Wizards tending to be hidebound traditionalists, the Prime never caught on. A few straighter examples are found in Moving Pictures. "Numbers" Riktor was a mad wizard who believed everything could be measured, and created such devices as the "swamp meter". In later books, the thaum is regarded as a fundamental particle of magic rather than a unit, though they might happen to coincide. |
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An archon in The Order of the Stick measured evil in terms of kilonazis, with a baseline of a hypothetical offspring of Cruella de Vil and Sauron clocking in at an average of 5 (that means as evil as 5000 nazis). The person being discussed, Belkar, had his worst at around 3.4 kilonazis before meeting his new friend and boss Roy. For comparison, one might assume Adolf Hitler to have been worth about 13,000 kilonazis, if judging by the number of people in his army. Relating to the Dungeons & Dragons example above, an apprentice was sent to get some diamonds, and proudly reveals that they were on sale...only to be sent back for more, because the sale means they aren't "worth" enough to be a spell component. |
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Early on in Schlock Mercenary, there is frequent mention of an absolute system of measurement for pain in Kill-o-Hurtz. Various medical instruments are rated according to how much pain they inflict, as measured by the Ouchdammitometer. The concept hasn't been mentioned in a long time, however, as the Schlock Mercenary universe (if not the actual story) has become somewhat more "serious". | |
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Rather common in roleplaying games featuring magic or anything like it. In Dungeons & Dragons your basic magical ability can come from Intelligence, which is at least something people seriously attempt to measure in real life, but also Wisdom, which has something to do with good moral sense, or maybe attunement to nature if you're a druid, or the ability to see the broad picture - anyway divination spells are based on it. The third potential stat tied to casting spells is Charisma, which is both the measure of one's force of personality and how pretty they are. Certain spells, as well as the creation of magic items, require using materials "worth" a certain number of gold pieces, despite the value of resources (as well as the gold they are equivalent to) being relative and subjective. For instance, a Raise Dead spell requires 5000 gp worth of diamonds, so better hope a new diamond mine opening doesn't cause prices to drop! note Although the notion of value being decided by markets rather than "inherent value" was very uncommon in pre-modern societies. The mode of thinking, at least, is Truth in Television. |
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Words of Radiance: According to Wit, Shalan Davar is exactly 77% more agreeable than her mistress, Jasnah Kholin. He took a poll. | |
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In The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., one of the titular Kusuo Saiki's stranger abilities is a counter that measures love. It's usually used by his parents, often revealing more than they'd like. | |
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One episode of The Colbert Report had Stephen rating Nazis on a scale of 1 to 10 Hitlers. Adolf Hitler himself got only 9 Hitlers because "nobody gets 10 Hitlers." | |
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Phineas and Ferb has devices that cause similar effects, such as Phineas' Cute-Tracker (Isabella made it overload). Santa's elves also carry meters that measure people's relative niceness or naughtiness. | |
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Paranatural has the international scale of creepy to measure PJ's smile. | |
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In Team America: World Police, terrorist acts are measured in multiples of the September 11 World Trade Center attack. One upcoming terrorist event, if not stopped, would be "Nine Eleven times a hundred" ("basically all the worst parts of The Bible"). Another is "Nine Eleven times a thousand." Kim Jong-Il described his ultimate plan, which involves simultaneous terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction across the world as "Nine Eleven times 2356." | |
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One article on The Onion, mocking pseudoscience, features a "biotrician" named Doctor Frankel boasting that his specially-developed insoles "convert the wearer's own energy to match the Earth's natural vibrational rate of 32.805 kilofrankels." | |
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America (The Book) book gauged the value of a news story in Buttafuocos. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Angels' Revenge episode had Tom Servo's "shame-o-meter", for measuring the amount of shame emanating from washed-out actors in a 70s Charlie's Angels rip-off movie. It measured in (Peter) Lawfords. Jim Backus registered well into the giga-Lawford range. | |
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In The Abyss, Hippie measures one of the encounters with the aliens as a 9.5 on the Sphincter Scale. | |
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Good Omens gives us the alp as a way of measuring belief (in reference to the notion that "faith moves mountains"). Most people are only able to generate millialps, while more passionate believers like Anathema Device can raise about half an alp. Adam's belief is measured in Everests. | |
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Futurama once had a device that measured coolness in mega-Fonzies. There was also the funkometer for smells and a device that measured the musical talents of the Beastie Boys. The What-If Machine can answer any what-if question accurately to within one-tenth of a plausibility unit. In "Xmas Story", the department store sells a jolly-seeking missile launcher as an anti-Santa defense. It's stated in Bender's Big Score that a normal person emits about 10 millidooms per second. It becomes a plot point that duplicates created by the Time Sphere emit much larger quantities in order to prevent/correct paradoxes. |
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In The Bible Jesus refers to "faith as small as a mustard seed", implying faith is measured by volume. | |
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The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has "What the Actual Fact?", a recurring segment in which correspondent Desi Lydic rates the Democrats' and Republicans' statements, based on how verifiably true they are. She's rated claims with "a Teletubby", "Chinese character tattoo at a strip mall", and "a hotel porn channel". | |
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Questionable Content: Gets this now and again with its odd 20 Minutes in the Future setting; usually coming from Hannelore, who grew up on a space station. For example, the current arc's "Fournier-Goldman Happiness Transforms", which measure happiness (Marten makes an attempt at calculating Hannelore's happiness for her father's benefit, but he couldn't follow the material after it brought up Irrational Birthday Integers). Faye in this installment claims to be a unit of measurement, but the formula is rather complex. |
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Deadcoders Reviews used Aelita as a measurement of Trauma and Hollywood as a measure of makeup. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Grace refers to "Seymours", a unit of measure for sadness using the infamous "Jurassic Bark" episode of Futurama as a baseline. Also, Elliot and Ellen discussing Noah. "He's third grade Tedd awkward?!" |
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At the end of the first Men in Black movie, J quantifies the battle with the Bug as ranking 9.5 on the "Weird-Shit-O-Meter". | |
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The Spoony Experiment: Doctor Insano built a device to measure gayness in giga-queers. | |
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In Casey and Andy, Andy names the "fundamental unit of time travel" after himself (and the fundamental unit of stupid after Casey). | |
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MegaTokyo features a Magical Girl Detector that's calibrated in sparklogems◊, of course. | |
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Genius: The Transgression has several different unit systems (most likely a reference to all the different temperature scales) to measure "mania". | |
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Destroy the Godmodder features the OP Scale, a scale that measures something's power level. If something is too overpowered, it causes the scale to roll over back to 0 due to integer overflow. This, in turn, decreases the power level of the attack to nothing. Conveniently, the Godmodder is always at the very top of the scale, positioned just so that he never makes it roll over. | |
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