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In video games, rather than mark the player on a simple success/failure scheme, it is common to give the player some kind of rank (e.g. bronze, silver and gold medals, or grades A+ to F-), depending on their performance. This allows casual players to coast through and simply get the bare minimum required to pass, while those who want a challenge can aim for the gold medals. But then what about the players who are really looking for a challenge for whom mere golds aren't enough? The solution — give them platinum medals to aim for. A-grade not good enough for you? Go for A+, or S.note "S-rank" was popularised by Japanese media - in native academia "S" stands for Shuu - the Japanese reading of 秀 ("excellent"). Sometimes, even these inflated ranks are subject to inflation, with A being about average and the real goal being a higher S rank: SS or even SSS. Compare Harder Than Hard, Random Power Ranking, Score Screen, Pinball Scoring, Serial Escalation. When it's a reviewer doing this, it's Broke the Rating Scale. Contrast with its inverse, F--. No relation to Ridiculous Future Inflation. |
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Late in the sequel, Ward, Victoria briefly notes in the midst of the final battle that there's something off in the distance that her HUD is marking as "Class SS". Exactly what that thing was is never made clear, though most speculate it was Titan Fortuna, which was the mastermind of the whole situation and was preparing to blow up the Earth (in multiple dimensions at once). | |
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Worm: Parahuman threats are ranked for their relative danger level, from Class D up to Class A. Then there's Class S: a national or even global-level threat that can necessitate Enemy Mine situations between heroes and villains. While the Endbringers and certain villains with One-Man Army-level superpowers are the most well-known, the rating is based not on sheer power but rather danger. For example, Jack Slash, head of the Slaughterhouse Nine, is considered Class S despite not really having that impressive a superpower, instead because he's proven extremely resourceful and has slaughtered thousands without getting caught. Late in the sequel, Ward, Victoria briefly notes in the midst of the final battle that there's something off in the distance that her HUD is marking as "Class SS". Exactly what that thing was is never made clear, though most speculate it was Titan Fortuna, which was the mastermind of the whole situation and was preparing to blow up the Earth (in multiple dimensions at once). |
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The Gamespot forums (although Gamespot itself doesn't count) are known to call a game scoring a 7.0 and 7.5 on the main Gamespot page an "A" game; an 8.0 an "AA;" and so on, with console exclusives such as Halo getting an E after it. What does Super Mario Galaxy 2, a Wii exclusive with a 10 by Gamespot translate into? An AAAAE game. | |
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Tokyo Ghoul has Ghoul Threat Ratings and Ghoul Investigator Ranks, which are roughly equivalent to each other according to Word of God. C-rate Ghouls, considered incredibly weak. B-rate Ghouls and Junior Rank Investigators (Ranks 1 - 3) possess moderate strength, and are roughly equal to each other. The average Mook is from this ranking. A-rate Ghouls are considered Dangerous predators, and equal in strength to a senior First Class Investigator. They serve as the Elite Mooks of the series. S-rate Ghouls are high-level threats and serial predators, equal to the senior Associate Special Class Investigators. S+ rated Ghouls are extremely dangerous, equal in strength to the elite Special Class Investigators. SS-rate Ghouls are beings of abnormal strength, typically leaders of major groups or otherwise possessed of extreme abilities. An entire team including at least one Special Class Investigator are suggested for hunting them. SSS-rated Ghouls, the rarest and most dangerous beings. Only two characters in the series hold this rank, being the Big Bad and Big Good, respectively. Operations to challenge them are the largest in scale, often making use of an entire squad of Special Class Investigators and the best equipment available. |
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Espers in A Certain Magical Index are ranked from Level 0 (unusably-weak powers that can only be detected with special equipment) to Level 5 (One-Man Army, only seven currently in existence). The top Level 5 esper (Accelerator) is stronger than all the other Level 5s put together, and claims that the only reason he's not ranked higher is because that's the highest the scale goes. Then the theoretical Level 6, aka "SYSTEM", is introduced, defined as an esper who gains such mastery of the world around them that they "grasp the designs of God". No esper has yet reached that level, but Academy City's best simulations projected that it was possible. | |
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It has happened to naval classification in the Honorverse. Battleships were originally the biggest and most powerful hyper-capable warships there were, until the invention of large, more powerful Dreadnoughts and Superdreadnoughts. Why the classification of "battleship" didn't simply grow upward (since DNs and SDs are similarly armed to BBs, just carrying more weapons and more armor, at least until the evolution of the Pod Superdreadnought) is unknown. Out of universe, for the first few books and the prequels B Bs, D Ns, and S Ds are equivalent to 3rd, 2nd, and 1st rate warships in the Napoleonic Wars. |
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The Simpsons: In the episode "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?", Homer became a restaurant critic for a newspaper. The editor eventually complained that all of his reviews were over-the-top gushing praise, and as an example pointed out a recent article he'd written where he gave a restaurant "9 thumbs up". This prompted Homer to get mean and snarky, and one of his later reviews (to Marge) said "I give this meal my lowest rating ever: 7 thumbs up." In the episode "Lisa Gets an 'A'", Lisa catches a cold and being forced to stay at home. She wasn't able to read a book she's supposed from class for a test because she got addicted to a video game. With Bart's help, she receives the answers from Nelson and cheats the test. She gets an A++++. Actually, A+++ because there's Drambuie on the paper. She gets summoned by Skinner due to her test bumping up the school's GPA qualifying for a grant which trigger's the plot of this episode. |
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The magical power scale used in Lyrical Nanoha: there's F for those without any magic power, and then E- for those with a bit, going up with plus and minus qualifiers through the alphabet until rank A, which is considered the elite, and going further to AA, then AAA, then S, SS, and SSS. The difference between AAA and AAA+ is canonically pretty substantial, which makes most of the cast of the first two seasons (who are estimated to be in the AAA ranks at the time) quite powerful, because of this the next season had Power Limiters become a major element of the story. Mage Rank covers skill, not just power. In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Teana holds Rank B, however, she demonstrates the ability to create spells (specifically, the Variable Bullet) that are normally used by Rank AA mages. Which is why Yuuno, despite being Non-Action Guy, The Medic, and a Stone Wall, is an A-ranked mage. This rank relative high even in universe, for example; Uno, Due, and Sein of the Numbers and Ginga Nakajima) are A-ranked, and pretty strong. Interestingly, while the SSS rank exists, no known mage actually has that rank. The highest ranked mage that is known is StrikerS-era Hayate at SS, and she's got the full strength of the Book of Darkness behind her (though, admittedly, not a whole lot of skill). What a SSS rank would be capable of, then, is a scary thing to think about. Whether anyone has ever achieved SSS rank has yet to be revealed, though the very existence of the rank would seem to imply that someone at some point must have. Otherwise why not just make SS the top of the scale? Fans have thus had a field day speculating about whether big-name figures from the verse's distant past (particularly Sankt Kaiser Olivie Sägebrecht) might have been SSS rank. Fate's mother Precia, the villain of the first season, also has her rank given as SS in supplementary materials, and unlike Hayate her power is entirely natural. This can actually be seen fairly well in the series itself, as she was able to cast a spell powerful enough to disable a spaceship while she was in another dimension, which is quite possibly the single most impressive feat of magic in the entire series. And this was after decades of suffering from an Incurable Cough of Death and insanity from desperation to revive Alicia. |
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PC enthusiast magazine Maximum PC stirred quite a controversy when it rated Half-Life 2 the only 11/10 rating the magazine has done. This trope applies to game rating in general, to the point that it has its own trope. On a scale of 1 to 10, an average game that's nothing special but not particularly bad either ought to score 5, and as per normal distribution most games ought to fall in the 4-6 range, with only the exceptional scoring more or less. All reviews of PC hardware and software (not just games) tend to be inflated. If the item in question didn't get at least a 7 out of 10, you can expect it to suck. |
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In Kiddy Grade, the Nanomachines-based superpowers are ranked by class: C (Copper) is the lowest, S (Silver) is high, and G (Gold) is the highest. The protagonists of the show are C class but actually, they are G class, just suppressing their powers along with hurting memories that come with them. Their Da Chief is also G class, by the way. | |
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In Toriko, the Garagara Gator, being capture level 8, was considered a big deal. Then the Troll Kongs are shown to be level 9. In the next chapter, the Puffer whales are capture level 30. Note that capture level refers to how easy it is to retrieve an edible sample; there are many fragile but harmless ingredients with high capture level, like the aforementioned Puffer Whales, which are like Fugu, but improperly removing the poison bladder make the whole body poisonous, and is located in a different spot in each one. Also note that Capture Levels can also refer to the overall power of an ingredient, since the more powerful creatures tend to be proportionately harder to catch, hence powerful creatures always receive Capture Levels equivalent to ingredients whose Capture Levels are related to the environments they are found in. In the Gourmet World, on the other hand, the lowest Capture Levels are at least 100, which is equivalent to the Four Beast, the ingredient with the highest Capture Level in the Human World... Which is only based on its four "bodies", as the real Four Beast has a Capture level in the mid 300s and kept on increasing beyond that. The Eight Kings of the Gourmet World? Their Capture Levels are in the 6000s, or on the precipice of it at least. |
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In Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Phil Ken Sebben has an Alert level system parodying the color based Terror Alert System used in the US. Above red was "Blackwatch Plaid," which he later pushed even further to "The cover of Rush's seminal album, "Moving Pictures"." | |
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Food Wars!: At Totsuki Academy, assignments are graded on a scale of A (excellent) to E (failure). Chef Chapelle (notorious for giving any assignment not worthy of an A an E) gives Soma and Tadokoro's first assignment an A, and regrets that he doesn't have the authority to give them a higher grade. | |
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The Starbucks example below was parodied in Animaniacs in an episode where Doctor Scratchensniff went to the movies with the Warners. Scratchensniff asks for a small popcorn; the attendant tells him that the popcorn only comes in Large, Super Chubby, and Double Super Chubby sizes. A frustrated Scratchensniff asks why they don't call the Large a Small then, and is greeted with "I'll have to ask my manager." Of course, it finally seems to sink in at the end; Scratchensniff says "Just give me a Large!" and the attendant hands him a truly colossal tub of popcorn. | |
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SCP Foundation started out with three official object classes: Safe (easily contained, though not necessarily harmless), Euclid (harder to contain; most humanoids and animals fall in this category since they're unpredictable), and Keter (extremely difficult to contain). A fourth official class was later added, Thaumiel (can be used to contain other SCPs, but this still doesn't mean they're harmless). Other object classes exist, but are unofficial and usually restricted to one SCP; an example of this is Kronecker, which is actually an SCP itself, which affects the documentation for objects labeled with that class. There are exceptions to this rule such as Hiemal (multiple related SCPs that naturally contain each other), Archon (should not be contained as this would cause severe harm to humanity), Tiamat (cannot be contained covertly and require direct engagement from the Foundation) and Apollyon (uncontainable or about to permanently break containment; essentially the class above Keter). | |
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In Discworld there are eight levels of wizardry recognised by Unseen University, but some foreign wizards try to make themselves look good by inventing extra levels, sometimes as high as 23. (This is actually a Retcon to explain why a foreign wizard in The Colour of Magic described himself as level 15). | |
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A certain squirrel has taken a notice to the same problem. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, thanks to its video game aesthetic, uses numerical Character Levels to rank the Riders' different forms. Level 1 is a Super-Deformed state that's somewhat weak but serves a very important purpose (separating The Virus from its human carriers), Level 2 is their normal combat formnote except Lazer, who turns into a motorcycle, Level 3 is their first upgrade, and Level 5 is the Co-Op Multiplayer power-up shared between the four main Riders. Things start jumping around from there: Level X/Ten has theoretically unknown power, the protagonists end up getting Level XX/Twenty, 50, and 100 Super Modes, one antagonist gets a Level 99 form, and the Big Bad and The Hero's ultimate form don't even bother with levels since they're In-Universe Game Breakers. The concept is spoofed in the post-series movie Kamen Rider Genm vs. Lazer, where Genm (who has a truly monumental God complex) gives himself a Level Billion form...that's just a Palette Swap of Ex-Aid's Level 99 form, earning him mockery from Lazer. | |
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The Machineries of Empire: In Revenant Gun, faced with a major rebellion and the assassination of the old Kel military command, Four-Star Badass Kel Inesser is promoted to the new top rank of "Protector-General". Justified because Kel soldiers are mentally conditioned to obey superior officers. | |
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Kenan & Kel has one episode taking place 1,000 years in the future. Kenan and Kel take a test in alien biology, and Kenan scores an A+, which at that time is considered a failing grade. Kel scores an A++++, which is considered the future equivalent of today's A+. | |
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The Others (latent and practicing mages) in the Night Watch (Series) are placed into seven categories from the weakest (seventh) to the strongest (first). And then, there are practicing mages who considerably exceed the requirements of the first category, who are dubbed "mage/sorceress beyond categories" or "Grand Mage/Sorceress". | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: S.H.I.E.L.D. uses a numbered classification system, with the mere existence of the higher levels being a secret to lower levels. That on its own would raise eyebrows, but they keep adding levels, declassifying the current highest levels only to add more classified ones on top. In the Item 47 short, Level 6 is officially the highest level, but Coulson is level 7. By Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Coulson is level 8, Fury is level 10, and no one is supposed to know about anything above 7. In a flashback in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (when Coulson and May were fresh out of training), it was implied that anything above level 3 was unknown. After Winter Soldier, Coulson eventually gave up. | |
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Connoisseurs in Pokémon the Series: Black & White are ranked from C-Class to S-Class, with Cilan and Burgundy being A-Class and C-Class, respectively. It's Cilan's goal to reach S-Class. | |
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Haruhi Suzumiya joked about this in its first chronological episode, when Taniguchi ranked every Freshman girl from D to A. His favorite (Asakura Ryoko) was ranked AA+. | |
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Mage Rank covers skill, not just power. In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Teana holds Rank B, however, she demonstrates the ability to create spells (specifically, the Variable Bullet) that are normally used by Rank AA mages. | |
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In the first season (the only one to use power levels/ranks) of Jewelpet, the regular ranks are, in crescent order, Acrylic, Glass and Crystal. When Opal got introduced, it also introduced the Super Crystal rank, in order to emphasize how powerful she is. Only two other Jewelpets are ranked so (the newborn Labra and Ruby after undergoing Training from Hell). | |
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Also used in Zoids: New Century Zero. Other Zoids series? Not so much. | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: In the supernatural Gladiator Games, the protagonist's stats are ranked C/B/SS+, the latter of which presumably refers to the fact that the most powerful Amplifier Artifact in the universe is embedded in her skull. | |
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The Pokémon TCG: The "Holo Rare" level has been around since the game started, which are simply a subset of the rare cards which were printed with foil artwork (ironically, there were more Holo Rares in the original Base Set than normal Rares). Ultra Rare was added later, which replaces the Rare card in roughly one pack in five, all of which are cards with that sets gimmick (EX, GX and VMAX being recent examples). In additon, several more common cards have an Ultra Rare variant with alternate art covering the entire card, known as Full-Art cards. Secret Rare cards (or just "Secrets") have collector numbers beyond the official list (for example, 101/100), and about one Rare card in every two boxes of packs will be replaced with a Secret Rare (the "box topper", an extra card for buying a whole box, is also a Secret card but is marked as being just Holo Rare). Originally these were Shiny Pokemon as a nod to their rarity in the videogames, though more recently the Secrets have been alternate prints of less rare cards with a full art rainbow print, known as "Rainbow Rares". These and Full-Art prints can be traded by someone who just wants to play the game to a collector who will happily give a whole pile of the functionally-identical normal print in exchange. |
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In the Daria/Legion of Super-Heroes crossover series Legion of Lawndale Heroes, the myriad powers are ranked on what's known as 'the Claremont-Byrne scale' (an obvious Shout-Out to one of the writers' favorite series). The C-B scale is based partly on the power scales used in the X-Men films (Classes One through Five), with an series of levels within each class (Marginal, Low-grade, Mid-range, High, and Extreme). | |
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In Kubera, mages are graded similar to the American grading system; A+, B+, B, so on. The highest rank is AA. Asha is easily the most powerful mage in existence, breaking records left and right when she took her exam. However, in order to get the AA ranking, you need to be able to interface with a barrier stone, which in turn requires three matching elemental attributes. Asha insisted she could do it despite the fact that her attributes don't match, but they refused to let her try because that would be extremely dangerous. In order to celebrate her incredible achievements regardless, she was given the brand-new rank of A++. Technically, it's no different than A+, but everybody has heard about her, and treats her as befitting her skill. Then, during the siege of Atera, she proved that she is fully capable of interfacing with a barrier stone and keeping a barrier going (by changing the attribute of the barrier to match her own, which should be impossible). The title of that arc is AAA. | |
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Mages in Flipside are ranked from Level 1 to 3 as they pass "dissolving tests" that unlock their abilities. It's later revealed that a distant continent has an even more advanced magical society where Level 4 practitioners are common and that Suspiria is implanted with an Amplifier Artifact that's elevated her to Level 6 or 7, which grants her city-wide Reality Warping Power Incontinence. | |
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In A Christmas Story, Ralphie daydreams that his teacher is so bowled over by his essay that she ecstatically awards him an A++++ while his classmates cheer. When Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs, he gets a C+ and a comment that he'll shoot his eye out.note He wrote about a Red Ryder BB gun, which he wants for Christmas. | |
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A variation in one episode of Futurama: after Professor Farnsworth's latest invention is ridiculed by the scientific community, Wernstrom gives it "the worst grade imaginable...an A-minus-minus!" note Wernstrom is still smarting over Farnsworth giving him an A- 99 years ago and sees this as his vengeance. The worst part? He only got an A- because penmanship counted. | |
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Magic: The Gathering introduced this with its "Mythic Rare" rarity level. | |
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Questionable Content: At Coffee of Doom, drinks are available in size small, medium, large, extra-large, and WTF. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ranks aspects of stands from E to A for things like Strength, Range, Learning (user's ability to fully exploit their stand's powers) and such. The scale isn't weighed on too heavily in the series, but in one notable exception, Giorno Giovanna's Gold Experience Requiem is so powerful that its attributes are literally ALL ranked "unknown", as it is simply impossible to rank such vast powers off the scale. To put things into perspective, Gold Experience Requiem's power is so overwhelming that he could beat practically anyone from any other series/reality (short of a Reality Warper and even then, that's debatable) simply because he can nullify any attack/move that his opponent makes and has what is essentially a One-Hit Kill. | |
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The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious: All worlds that need to be saved are ranked by letters to denote the difficulty of the task. It's also possible for the difficulty rank to increase if the Demon Lord of that world successfully conquers it. | |
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Similar to the Honorverse example above, Perry Rhodan added "super-" (diameter 1500 m) and "ultra-" (2500 m) battleships added to a roster that had previously topped out at just plain battleships (800 m) fairly early in the series. That said, the trend stopped there — what few larger ships came into being later were generally one-of-a-kind designs — and there were some in-universe centuries between the two additions. (The "original" super-battleship, the Veast'Ark/later Titan, was still brand new along with her type in 1984; the first "ultra" model, the Crest III, made her first appearance in early 2404.) | |
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: This happened thrice-over with the classification system in the backstory. Originally, it was simply ranked as "Novice < Beginner < Intermediate < Advanced System"; but "Advanced System" was deemed too vague and so it was reorganized as "F < E < D < C < B < A" where Advanced System was split into C, B, and A class. Then people realized that still wasn't good enough and added in "A < Special A < S < Special S" to better separate the real monsters while giving these ratings the special monikers of "Hazard", "Calamity", "Disaster", and "Catastrophe" respectively, further adding "-" and "+" modifiers to all the tiers for even better classification. "Special S+" class can basically be summed up as "could break the planet like an egg if they go on a temper tantrum". | |
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Ninja missions in Naruto are ranked anywhere from D (picking up trash, catching stray cats) to S (there's a very high chance you'll die.) There was some confusion (and a bit of a Hatedom) when the third Databook came out and the mission to capture or kill Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu- S-Class criminals- was classified as an A-Rank mission, the same as Team 7's first big mission against the weaker duo of Zabuza and Haku. The reason, however, was that missions are ranked not just by difficulty of the task but also the strength of the ninja assigned to the task; in this case, one had a team of three fresh Genin and a slightly out-of-shape Jounin, the other involved teams of seasoned Chuunin and a more in-shape Jounin with another such group behind them as back-up. More typical Rank Inflation has been going on with the strength of jutsu: it starts with E (basic academy stuff like untying ropes, body replacement, One Thousand Years of Death) and goes up to S (which includes bringing one person back to life at the cost of another, making something get hit by a real lightning bolt, and regenerating all the parts of your body including organs), but recently even S rank attacks have been ineffective. In something of a subversion, more powerful attacks continue to be introduced, but new ranks have not. Jutsu are not ranked by strength, but difficulty; Kakashi's Raikiri, for example, is the same strength as Kakuzu's Raiton: Gian, yet that is B-Rank while Kakashi's is S-Rank. Higher ranked jutsu are obviously as powerful as they are difficult -it would be a waste of time learning them otherwise- but there are easier jutsu to learn that are just as strong and useful. There are also several powerful jutsu that are not learned, but derived from unique bloodline traits, such as Amateratsu, Tsukuyomi and Susanoo, which are jutsu unique to the Mangekyou Sharingan, and in and of themselves don't require any skill to use, though they do require practice to perfect. Usually, the stronger jutsus are either forbiddennote Generally because the jutsu is either dangerous to its own user, is particularly heinous (such as involving human sacrifice) or both. (i.e. the first incarnation of "Fuuton: Rasen Shuriken"), or new/not heard of, so they can't be easily categorized. Internationally wanted ninja criminals or "missing-nin" are referred to as "S-class" (including everyone in Akatsuki), though there has been no indication of lower ranksnote Lesser missing-nin who aren't of international concern would normally be tracked down by their own village's ninja, and it's never specified what system each nation uses (if any) to rank the threat and/or priority of their own missing-nin. Most fans assume that such "ordinary" deserters are simply classed according to their ninja rank (genin, chunin or jonin), while "S-rank" missing-nin are all assumed to be significantly more dangerous than a typical jonin regardless of what their official rank in their village was. or this applying to non-criminals. In the Naruto D20 there are also Super-S class jutsus, which are usually forbidden as well. |
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Fairy Tail has a version of this. Normal jobs are just jobs. No ranking whatsoever. There are really tricky ones who are ranked "S" though due to being considered difficult enough that only a guild's S-Class Wizards are allowed to take them. Later, to make the Fairy Tail guild's Gildarts Clive seem that much cooler, they say he can also take "SS" jobs, and was assigned something even more impressive: "The 100 Years Quest", so named because no one has ever managed to complete it in 100 years (and almost none of them managed to come back alive). Unfortunately, he failed because of outside circumstances and had to go home. The interruption was the most powerful dragon in the world tearing out an arm, a leg, and some of his innards in one instant, faster than he could react. The actual specifics of said 100 Years Quest is revealed in the sequel, where the quest well-deserves its title because it involves defeating five dragons nearly as strong as said most-powerful dragon. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Pandora describes Sarah's magic mark as "an S-rank spell". In The Rant Dan says he picked this up from Fire Emblem and sees it as "sort of a like an 11 on a 1-10 scale". | |
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YouTube has changed this, swapping to a Thumbs-Up/Thumbs-Down system. | |
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In most American Contract Bridge League events, the players are grouped into C, B and A ranks. At some national or international tournaments, the strata expand to D, C, B, A and X. Also, the ACBL title "Life Master" initially signified a very high level playernote It included a lifetime membership and subscription to the monthly magazine — now there are Bronze, Silver, Ruby, Gold, Sapphire, Diamond, Emerald, Platinum, and Grand Life Master levels above that. |
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The Anti-Cliché and Mary-Sue Elimination Society formerly ranked targets on a scale of one to eight. Now, it operates on a one to ten scale, with ten being damn near omnipotent. For reference, one Level Nine Stu was able to whoop almost the entire Society. He was the weakest of the Level Nines. | |
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In the South Park episode TMI, after the government publishes an equivalent to BMI for penis size, the many men with below-average penis sizes go crazy and try to create a rebellion. The rebellion is quelled when the government revises the scale so that an "average" size is now far wider, meaning that pretty much everyone now has an at-least average penis size... except Cartman. | |
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A Growing Affection takes the normal E-S ranks, and adds an "X" rank for missions and Bingo book entries. "X" rank is described as requiring the resources of two or more of the great villages. | |
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During a trip to an amusement park, Shana of Shakugan no Shana uses her powers to cheat at a swordfighting virtual reality game, maxing out the score counter and earning a rank of SSS. | |
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The Lensman series, as essentially the prototype for much space opera and military science fiction that came later, had rank inflation in ships right from the start of the genre: the Galactic Patrol had ships ranging from scout ships to battleships, then apparently skipped dreadnoughts to go straight to super-dreadnaughts. Later in the series came maulers, massively-powerful but ponderous warships. Then followed shortly by super-maulers, the super-maulers designed to try and counter the ultimate level in warships that emerged in the eponymous Lensman Arms Race, heavily armed and armoured mobile planets.note Not a descriptive name of a really large ship like the Death Star: a literal planet. | |
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The Negima! Magister Negi Magi manga alludes to a ranking system for combat Mages which promptly falls into this, with ranks going from an unspecified low end up to SA. The only AAA ranked fighter so far (Fate), apparently has a power level of around 3000, with Negi being at around 500 (an A class), and later 2600 or so. Naturally, soon afterward this turns out to be the low end of the spectrum, with Rakan ranking the demon from Kyoto at 8000 (and by extension Evangeline is at least 8000, probably higher) and himself at 12,000. Oh, and Fate is likely over 8000 as well. Then you have Nagi and the Lifemaker, who are both more powerful than Rakan. Of course, Rakan made up the Power Levels himself, and Chisame points out how arbitrary it is. But it doesn't change the fact that the Combat Rankings don't really mean much. | |
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In Kyon: Big Damn Hero Tsuruya gave an S rank to Kyon's speech when she asked him if she should learn about the supernatural in the SOS Brigade. | |
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Power levels of demons in YuYu Hakusho are ranked from D to S. However, anything above B is exceedingly rare (Toguro, one of the strongest beings, was a B class demon). Anything higher than a 'C' is too powerful to travel between worlds; higher ranks were either from Earth originally (like Toguro) or started lower and trained themselves up on this side. Demons of each rank are progressively rarer, and at one point, it's stated that only one out of one hundred C class demons even has the potential to reach B class. Thanks to the plot we see many more A and S rank demons than their rarity would suggest (although this arc takes place in the demon world, and is presumably every demon of that rank; mere thousands out of billions). It is also worth noting that S Rank is actually a very broad spectrum that basically just means "Stronger than A". One demon notes that "S Rank" is a Spirit World codeword for "demons too strong for us to deal with." The three rulers of the demon realm consider it a grave insult, as they are grouped in the same class with their foot soldiers and servants, despite being leagues above them in power. There is also the category of "Upper S class", which is often used for the strongest S class demons such as the three kings and Raizen's friends. Some have even suggested that Raizen in his prime was in a class of his own, "SS" or "Super S" class. |
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