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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Apparently, [[Net Jak]] rewrote its code so that it could give ''[[Big Rigs Over the Road Racing]]'' a ''zero''.
* For a fictional example, there's [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/5/13/ this] ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' strip. After enough bribes have been heaped up, ''[[Donkey Konga]] 2'' winds up with an 11 out of 5 at Gamespy... (see [[Executive Meddling/Other Media|this page]] for more info)
* ''[[X-Play]]'' awarded that [[The Problem with Licensed Games|infamous]] ''E.T.'' game a "Zero" out of five, measured on a scale that bottoms out at 1.
* ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' got at least one [[Up to Eleven|11/10]] review.
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* In the aftermath of the 2009 Australian bushfires, authorities introduced a new fire danger category above "Extreme", named "Catastrophic - Code Red".
* In physics, the Mohs scale of hardness is defined as capping out at 10 with diamond, which was at the time the hardest substance known to man. [[wikipedia:Aggregated diamond nanorod|Aggregated diamond nanorod]], or 'hyperdiamond', is much harder than diamond and thus goes off the top of the scale.
* By definition electric heating is 100% efficient, as electric device efficiency is measure by how much of the result is heat instead of the intended product (for example, a incandescent light bulb is 5% efficient because 5% of the electricity is converted to light while 95% becomes heat). Using electricity to run heat pumps, which relocate existing but unused heat (typically from outside or underground) can result in more used heat than that same electricity being used to make heat, resulting in a process that is ''more'' than 100% efficient.
* Inverted by Canadian laboratory WinterLab, which rates winter boots. Their scale was originally intended to be a 0 snowflake to 5 snowflake rating, but quickly found ''zero'' boots in their first 100 pairs tested were worthy of being rated two and only ten pairs merited even a one, so the scale was limited to zero to three. May potentially be played straight in the future, as with the rate boots are improving, the staff seriously suspects a four will show up eventually.
== Type 2 -- On a scale of 1-5: [[Mind Screw|5 Bananas]] ==
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* Zac Bertschy from ''Anime News Network'' is infamous for these during the annual season previews, especially harem comedies and ecchi shows. He gave the first episode of ''[[Queen's Blade]]'' an animated gif of a smiley face shooting itself in the head out of 5. ''[[Kiss×Sis]]'' got a Picard facepalm instead of a rating. ''[[Infinite Stratos]]'' got a rating of "quiet I am trying to nap here", a preview that cut off into ZZZZZZZZ halfway through, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTI7cmwwuC0 a video of a cute kitten] as a better alternative for something to watch. Also provides an example of Type 1: Zac sarcastically gave [[Sengoku Collection]] a 10 out of 5.
* Hope Chapman aka [[JesuOtaku]] gave ''[[Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne!!]]'' a "GTFO" rating in ANN season previews. The second season of ''[[Strike Witches]]'' was given a shrug.
=== [[Fan Works]] ===
* A mixed type 2/3 combined with a type B of [[On a Scale From One To Ten]] can be found in this passage from chapter 73 of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic ''[[The Arithmancer|Lady Archimedes]]'':
{{quote|"So on a scale of one to whatever it was you did to Umbridge, how horrifying is this going to be?" George said.
Hermione looked over the rune setup one last time. "I'd say somewhere between Inferius and what Filch and Mrs. Norris get up to in their spare time," she replied.}}
=== [[Film]] ===
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=== [[Film]] ===
* [[Roger Ebert]] does this occasionally:
** From [https://web.archive.org/web/20110609183343/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
{{quote|'''Ebert''': "Note: I am not giving a star rating to ''[[Pink Flamingos]],'' because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object. "}}
** In [https://web.archive.org/web/20110806120639/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20100505%2FREVIEWS%2F100509982 his review] of ''[[The Human Centipede]]'', he was more explicit in his refusal:
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