#Tvtropes tales from the borderlands serial#

The fake ad looked completely real until the final line: 'Because. A long time ago, Saturday Night Live, in response to the 'two blade razors' showed a three-blade razor parody commercial.A quick once-over tends to do a passably thorough job, though you might want to bring along the aftershave with you on the commute. When you've got five-minutes before you have to catch a bus to work, and your face looks like cactus, those five-blades are a godsend. That said, there tends to be a noticeable difference between, say, a three-blade and five-blade razor.Buy the previous Gillette razor, we couldn't get it any closer than that.' It'll cut off your face like a potato peeler. Michael McIntyre once did a bit on Mock the Week on Gillette ending with 'For that closest ever shave.Presumably this means that the more blades you add, the smaller the remaining bit trimmed by the last one. In theory each additional blade shaves the tiny bit of the whisker that the one before it missed.O Gillette, why would anybody need five blades with only either one chin or two legs? When applied to a trope, said trope is exaggerated. Up To Eleven was officially Defictionalized by its inclusion in the Oxford Dictionary. The Loudness War is a direct result of this (and is not about the listener increasing the volume on their player), as is Orange-Blue Contrast in examples where it gets out of hand. In sci-fi settings, it often takes the more literal form of Readings Are Off the Scale. Often appears with music if a Loud of War is on the rampage. A guiding principle behind Rank Inflation.

#Tvtropes tales from the borderlands serial#

This trope is more likely to be a competition between two or more groups or one group against itself, where one group goes beyond what is considered the limit.Ĭompare Serial Escalation, Sequel Escalation, Tim Taylor Technology, Exaggerated Trope, and The Same but More.

Not to be confused with Beyond the Impossible, which is beyond what should be possible according to the internal logic of a story. More recently volume eleven has become partially obsolete as many Marshall amplifiers sport 0-20 volume knobs, essentially taking the trope Up to Eleven.Ĭonspicuous Consumption and Absurdly High Stakes Game often involves this. Whatever thing, this trope is taking the highest bar set, and taking that 'Up to Eleven'.įor those who aren't into guitar (electric guitar specifically), the phrase 'Taking it up to eleven' is a reference to the volume setting on a guitar amplifier the maximum setting on most (especially older) amps is 10, however newer amps (most often Marshalls) with the '11' option (which is beyond loud, believe us on that one) came out, and you can even take the volume higher with gain/equalizer settings on distortion boxes. It could be a commercial product ( like computer and gaming tech), an architectural feat, a world record, or something else. This may or may not be a good thing, depending on the circumstances.Įxactly what is topped can vary.

Then you top that new thing, this can lead to an all-out 'topping' war. So you've been forced to leave room for your own thing to be topped later on. So you just end up topping the last thing by a small amount. Unfortunately, things like time, money, technology, and/or other factors will only allow that so far. Either way, you would like to take something, and push it beyond what's been done before. It could be because of dissatisfaction with something, a need to best someone else (often known as 'Keeping up with the Joneses'), or some other reason. Often, some people have the need to top things.