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* ''Manga/WelcomeToDemonSchoolIrumaKun'': Iruma Suzuki, age 14, is the only known human living in the Netherworld[[note]]His parents sold him to a demon for money. The demon then adopts Iruma as his grandson and sends him to school. His life greatly improves in the Netherworld as a result[[/note]] and lacks any natural magic or superior strength the demons have. During a survival test in his first year at Bablys Academy, he looks to find the rarest item, the Legend Leaf. Key to this is the Seed of Beginnings which is guarded by a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever powerful sphinx-like deity named Thoth]]. Thoth will give the seed to any who either best him in combat or tells him a story that moves him but he hasn't heard before. Being centuries old and [[GeniusBruiser having an encyclopedic knowledge of all literature in the Netherworld]][[note]]When a companion of Iruma's tries a joke, Thoth cites which book that came from[[/note]], either task is apparently insurmountable for any demon, let alone a first year high school student. Iruma then hits upon enacting for Thoth the first volume of a manga Iruma knows from the human world called ''First Love's Memories''. With some help from two allies, Iruma is able to preform this and moves Thoth's heart beyond the ancient one's expectations and presents him with the Seed. Iruma moves him so much, when Iruma lets slip there is more to the story, Thoth tries to take back the Seed to hear more of ''First Love's Memories''.

* According to George Polya, himself a brilliant mathematician, if during the course of a lecture he stated an unsolved problem, by the end of the lecture [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann(John von Neumann]] would come to him with a solution.

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "Flesh and Stone"]]

** Naruto learned nature transformation and soon after figured how to add his nature transformation to a rasengan, something that Kakashi and Minato had tried to do for years and that Kakashi gave up on. He also accomplished this by using clones.
** By WordOfGod, his son Boruto developed the vanishing rasengan [[AchievementsInIgnorance by accidentally adding his nature transformation to an otherwise ordinary rasengan]].

* A core part of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''. [[CatchPhrase Hey, Ferb! I know what we're going to do today!]] Something that [[CartoonlandTime should take a crew of engineers months!]]

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanTomKing'', during his attack on Arkham Asylum, Bane kidnaps the Riddler and gives him five minutes hack a security door. Riddler notes that it's of [[ComicBook/NewGods New Genesis]] design, the creation of beings vastly more advanced and intelligent then us, impossible for a human to break...[[BadassBoast and he'll only need two]].

-->'''Baljeet''': Come on, you can make a Roller Coaster in a day but take 12 minutes to inflate a wheel.

* ''Webcomic/DriveDaveKellet'': The nameless maker was told to build a device which could isolate and contain a single quark-- which the [[ViewersAreGeniuses quantum physicists in the audience]] will note [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_confinement is impossible.]] With inadequate materials. Within a week. While fasting. He could have spent an extra day making it really impressive, but he wanted a sandwich, so he finished in an hour.

** Which is what makes the [[spoiler: fall of Thessia in ''Mass Effect 3'']] even more of a gut punch. Before, even being ''[[TheDeterminator killed]]'' couldn't stop Shepard. This mission is the absolute nadir of Shep's career, because [[spoiler: Thane's killer got away with the Catalyst data, the asari homeworld and cradle of the oldest civilisation in the current cycle is forsaken to the Reapers, but most of all, ''Shepard couldn't save the day'']]. It's the only legitimate defeat that Shepard suffers in the entire trilogy. Needless to say, this was a sobering moment for the Normandy.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'': Sora destroys 1000 heartless in hardly any time at all. The awesomeness of this is dampened as all of said heartless had an attached ReactionCommand which allowed the player to kill many at once.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Like the above example, Jiraiya trained with Fukusaku to use Sage Mode, something he couldn't really master perfectly, even in his 50s. Naruto too undergoes the same training, with a problem though: Kyuubi won't let Fukusaku sync with him to accumulate nature energy. Naruto is forced to master the thing in around a month and use clones to gather energy for him. Justified, as Naruto accumulates the collective experience of his clones (so he can train more in the same amount of time), and has a greater chakra reserves than Jiraiya.

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** ''Literature/GoingPostal'': At the climax of the book, Postmaster Moist von Lipwig has challenged the clacks system, which is a form of sending messages over long distances with flashing lights (used as a stand-in for the internet in Discworld), to a race. Whoever can deliver their copy of a message to its destination on the other side of the Disc first, wins. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], as instead of even trying to deliver the message, Moist sends his own clacks message, claiming to be the spirits of people who died as a result of the antagonist's actions, thus enabling an investigation into the antagonist's shady dealings, simultaneously setting back the clacks development long enough for the postal system to regain its footing.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Kaguya's spellcards are all [[DiscussedTrope themed around]] this trope. In-game, that means you have to defeat her (fairly difficult) spellcards. Of course, if [[TimeMaster Kaguya]] is involved, "instant" and "eternity" might as well mean nothing...

** The last (so far) non-canon movie, ''[[Anime/DragonBallThePathToPower The Path to Power]]'', takes it UpToEleven with Goku perfectly recreating the large blast Roshi used against the Red Ribbon Army's navy, led by General Blue.

* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfBarryWeenBoyGenius'': People from a parallel universe enlist Barry -- ChildProdigy and BadassBookworm turned UpToEleven -- to retrieve a MacGuffin from a TempleOfDoom that no one has ever survived. They acknowledge it's a desperate task, and they just hope that in the time he can spend in their dimension (two days) Barry will find some clue they can build upon. When they finish explaining, they realize with horror that Barry has already left for the temple -- and he gets back one minute later, MacGuffin in hand.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': Pretty much everything [[TheAce Commander Shepard]] does. Suicide mission to Ilos, which features TheDragon, the BigBad, a NighInvulnerable dreadnaught backed up by an entire fleet of geth? Done. What's next? Oh, another suicide mission that takes the previous accomplishment UpToEleven? Done, possibly without ''losing a single person''. As Shepard can say, "They say it's a suicide mission. I intend to prove them wrong." And s/he does. And makes it look easy.

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanTomKing'', during his attack on Arkham Asylum, Bane kidnaps the Riddler and gives him five minutes hack a security door. Riddler notes that it's of [[ComicBook/TheNewGods New Genesis]] design, the creation of beings vastly more advanced and intelligent then us, impossible for a human to break...[[BadassBoast and he'll only need two]]/

* ''Manga/HistorysStrongestDiscipleKenpachi'': Initially PlayedForLaughs when Kenpachi's rival Takeda seeks training from the [[ICouldaBeenAContender retired boxer James Shiba]], who immediately sends him on a SnipeHunt for a "two-headed" pachinko ball. ''No sooner has he closed the door'' does Takeda find one, forcing him to come up with a more elaborate SnipeHunt (which Takeda also completes, albeit with endurance as well as luck).

* ''Manga/HistorysStrongestDiscipleKenichi'': Initially PlayedForLaughs when Kenichi's rival Takeda seeks training from the [[ICouldaBeenAContender retired boxer James Shiba]], who immediately sends him on a SnipeHunt for a "two-headed" pachinko ball. ''No sooner has he closed the door'' does Takeda find one, forcing him to come up with a more elaborate SnipeHunt (which Takeda also completes, albeit with endurance as well as luck).

* ''Webcomic/{{Drive}}'': The nameless maker was told to build a device which could isolate and contain a single quark-- which the [[ViewersAreGeniuses quantum physicists in the audience]] will note [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_confinement is impossible.]] With inadequate materials. Within a week. While fasting. He could have spent an extra day making it really impressive, but he wanted a sandwich, so he finished in an hour.

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** The last (so far) non-canon movie, ''[[Anime/DragonBallThePathToPower The Path To Power]]'', takes it UpToEleven with Goku perfectly recreating the large blast Roshi used against the Red Ribbon Army's navy, led by General Blue.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* An UrbanLegend has it that, for his final exam, a physics professor puts a chair on top of a desk and announces to his class, "Prove that this chair does not exist. You have one hour." While the other students are scribbling furiously in their bluebooks, one student takes a thoughtful moment, writes (very) briefly in his, hands it in and leaves. The professor opens up the bluebook and reads, "What chair?" (The student gets an A.)

* Projects like [[https://foldingathome.org/ Folding@home]] or [[https://fold.it/ Foldit]] using the brute force of millions of CPUs and GPUs, respectively gamers´ intuition, for various scientific goals that are based on this trope. [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aids-protein-decoded-gamers_n_970113?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jcy53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALtny60jGAIQwVYIC76FwWjWtWP53tmXoSEbyXwbeRoV1id61_nLF261uy_ukaPe-V_QDFdzjP-MeXuDwf87tVNU4psH8FPzEDAU2Hj57y9715Z-WPUuFqw8rtJ5TW03ehcSdU-Bvex7TvdIWFBwWLr69RcU5qJ8GtHn8YokNSdv One example for all.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Drive}}'': The nameless maker was told to build a device which could isolate and contain a single quark-- which the [[ViewersAreGeniuses quantum physicists in the audience]] will note [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_confinement is impossible]]. With inadequate materials. Within a week. While fasting. He could have spent an extra day making it really impressive, but he wanted a sandwich, so he finished in an hour.
* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': According to [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1366#comic this strip]], if sex didn't exist, we'd [[RageAgainstTheHeavens conquer heaven]] in two months.