Tropescilloscope: Rule of Cool

We can accept that something is unrealistic, as long as it's very cool. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Anguished Declaration of Love Everyone Has Standards Handicapped Badass Adult Fear Never Trust a Trailer Adorkable Domestic Abuse Film Series Evil Is Hammy Not So Above It All Armor-Piercing Question Taking the Bullet Boom, Headshot! Bald of Evil Alas, Poor Villain Documentary Hypocrite Rich Bitch Evil vs. Evil Wounded Gazelle Gambit Better to Die than Be Killed "Awesome McCool" Name Historical Villain Upgrade Novelization Rewatch Bonus Adaptation Expansion Five-Man Band Horror Films Suddenly SHOUTING! The Brute Insane Troll Logic Deus ex Machina What Happened to the Mouse? Authority Equals Asskicking Artistic License – Law Shown Their Work Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality It's All About Me Getting Crap Past the Radar Naked People Are Funny Covers Always Lie Jitter Cam Pet the Dog Redemption Equals Death Mexican Standoff Properly Paranoid Rule of Three Dirty Old Man Car Fu Funny Foreigner Damsel in Distress timeperiod Evil Laugh Adults Are Useless Fiery Redhead Adaptational Heroism Retcon Blood Knight Interrupted Suicide Sports Stories Totally Radical Aside Glance Coming-of-Age Story Lighter and Softer Retirony Dirty Cop Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Chiaroscuro Facial Horror Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Pre-Mortem One-Liner No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Not Even Bothering with the Accent Leave the Camera Running Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Cool Car N-Word Privileges The Stoner Self-Deprecation Serious Business Punny Name Mama Bear Vomit Indiscretion Shot Guns Akimbo You Killed My Father Curse Cut Short Gender Flip Drowning My Sorrows Catch-Phrase Immune to Bullets Funny Background Event Neck Lift Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Unreliable Narrator Title Drop All Men Are Perverts Cruel and Unusual Death Due to the Dead Big Brother Instinct Malevolent Masked Men My Greatest Failure Chase Scene The Ghost Curb-Stomp Battle Continuity Nod Took a Level in Jerkass Babies Ever After Break the Cutie Age Lift Evil Sounds Deep She Cleans Up Nicely Pretty Little Headshots Heroes Want Redheads Vomit Discretion Shot Small Name, Big Ego Film Noir Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Anachronic Order Stylistic Suck Silent Movie Parental Substitute Central Theme Hero of Another Story Dwindling Party Gilligan Cut Kubrick Stare Visual Pun Here We Go Again! Sequel Hook Morality Pet Pragmatic Adaptation Plucky Comic Relief Epic Fail Despair Event Horizon Madness Mantra Big Eater Composite Character In the Back Earn Your Happy Ending Storming the Castle Hero Antagonist Bittersweet Ending Imagine Spot All There in the Script Would Hurt a Child Downer Ending Shut Up, Hannibal! Those Two Guys Comically Missing the Point Extreme Doormat Product Placement Disney Villain Death Ugly Guy, Hot Wife For the Evulz Make It Look Like an Accident The Stoic Redshirt Army Improbable Aiming Skills Face Death with Dignity Important Haircut Take That! Face–Heel Turn Parental Neglect The Reveal Credits Gag Hidden Depths Hooker with a Heart of Gold Sole Survivor Mr. Exposition The Place World of Ham Crazy Jealous Guy The Dragon After the End Rule of Cool The Quiet One Bait-and-Switch Stuff Blowing Up Riddle for the Ages Bloodless Carnage Motor Mouth Knife Nut Biopic Science Fiction Films Children Are Innocent Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Remake Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Show Within a Show Dark Action Girl Dark and Troubled Past Poor Communication Kills Big Damn Heroes Blood from the Mouth Final Girl Parental Abandonment No Name Given 20 Minutes into the Future Really Gets Around Demonic Possession Deconstruction Fun with Acronyms Crucified Hero Shot Twist Ending The Casanova From Nobody to Nightmare Destination Defenestration The '90s Narrator Ambiguous Ending I'm a Humanitarian Video Credits The Vamp Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dying Moment of Awesome Needs Wiki Magic Love Adaptational Villainy Villain Opening Scene Offscreen Teleportation Almost Kiss Dissonant Serenity Fantasy Films Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Offscreen Moment of Awesome Blackmail "Shaggy Dog" Story Psycho for Hire Gone Horribly Right The Stinger The Chessmaster Faking the Dead Stealth Hi/Bye The Musical Not What It Looks Like Sassy Black Woman Did Not Get the Girl Evil Plan Smug Snake Pyrrhic Victory Killed Mid-Sentence Celebrity Paradox A.I. Is a Crapshoot Vampire Fiction Fat Bastard Left the Background Music On Spiritual Successor Meaningful Background Event Retired Badass Shirtless Scene Put on a Bus Naïve Newcomer From Bad to Worse The Great Depression Affectionate Parody Fire-Forged Friends The Film of the Book Match Cut Drill Sergeant Nasty Reasonable Authority Figure Bland-Name Product Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Closed Circle Advertised Extra Genre Throwback Eye Scream Ship Tease Villain Song Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Only Sane Man Based on a True Story Defiant to the End Animated Credits Opening Award-Bait Song Not So Stoic Bar Brawl Chewing the Scenery Rule of Symbolism Berserk Button Evil Is Petty Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Abhorrent Admirer How We Got Here Cool Old Guy One-Word Title Playing Gertrude Unusually Uninteresting Sight Historical In-Joke Reality Ensues As You Know This Is Gonna Suck And the Adventure Continues Humiliation Conga Adapted Out Arc Words Bad Boss Improbable Weapon User Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Guile Hero Artistic License – Geography Setting Update All Girls Want Bad Boys Death by Irony Dramatic Irony The Mole Suspiciously Specific Denial Big Bad The Sociopath Kids Are Cruel Didn't Think This Through As the Good Book Says... Adaptation Distillation No-Sell Recycled IN SPACE! Driven to Suicide Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Throwing Your Sword Always Works Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Karma Houdini The Alcoholic Only in It for the Money Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Cat Fight Mind Screw It's Personal Call-Back Beauty Is Never Tarnished Wham Shot Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Dramedy Jerkass Heel Realization Shower Scene Dumb Blonde Villainous Breakdown The Big Guy Call-Forward '80s Hair Unwitting Instigator of Doom Adaptational Attractiveness Creepy Child As Himself The Atoner Alpha Bitch Politically Incorrect Villain Villain Protagonist Antagonist Title Off-into-the-Distance Ending My Beloved Smother Pay Evil unto Evil All There in the Manual Animal Title Index Plot Hole Vitriolic Best Buds The Load The Hero Dies Star-Crossed Lovers Eureka Moment French Films An Axe to Grind What You Are in the Dark Cool Old Lady Double Entendre Depraved Bisexual Race Lift The End... Or Is It? Large Ham Running Gag Evil-Detecting Dog Animal Motifs Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Rasputinian Death Even Evil Has Loved Ones Canadian Movies The Cavalry Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Shoot the Shaggy Dog Wrong Genre Savvy Eagleland Failed a Spot Check Dull Surprise MacGuffin Woman in White Your Head A-Splode Light Is Not Good Anti-Hero Dark Is Not Evil Nothing Is Scarier Have a Gay Old Time Big-Bad Ensemble Wretched Hive And Starring Suspiciously Similar Substitute Zombie Stories Daylight Horror Dramatic Gun Cock Betty and Veronica Kick the Dog Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds I Need a Freaking Drink Silence Is Golden Fake Shemp Worthy Opponent Adaptational Badass Intrepid Reporter Line-of-Sight Name Soundtrack Dissonance Awesome, but Impractical Cat Scare Epic Movie Only Known by Their Nickname Dual Wielding Character Development Undying Loyalty Eldritch Abomination Artistic License – Physics Not So Different Half the Man He Used to Be Bi the Way Early-Bird Cameo What the Hell, Hero? Drives Like Crazy Diabolus ex Machina Slashed Throat Index of Film Westerns Say My Name Heel–Face Turn Good Is Not Nice Determinator Sexy Discretion Shot Author Appeal Mr. Fanservice Moment Killer Same Language Dub The '50s Toplessness from the Back Freeze-Frame Bonus The Smurfette Principle Up to Eleven Too Dumb to Live Tranquil Fury Ominous Latin Chanting "The Reason You Suck" Speech Henpecked Husband Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Knight Templar Death by Adaptation Sadistic Choice Monumental Damage Amoral Attorney Eiffel Tower Effect No Ending Lampshade Hanging Gratuitous English Dutch Angle Fish out of Water Bond One-Liner Your Cheating Heart Hong Kong Films Mistaken for Gay Vacation Films Works Set in World War II The Un-Reveal Disney Death The Oner Action Girl Market-Based Title Corpsing Very Loosely Based on a True Story Genre Shift Wicked Cultured Badass in a Nice Suit Training Montage Dark Reprise Gorn Pragmatic Villainy Book-Ends It Can Think Fantastic Racism Crapsack World Belligerent Sexual Tension Black Best Friend Kill 'em All Beard of Evil Dogged Nice Guy Overprotective Dad Spanner in the Works Non-Indicative Name Tap on the Head Deal with the Devil The Faceless Love at First Sight Skewed Priorities Woman Scorned Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Green-Eyed Monster Police are Useless Overly Long Gag Meaningful Name Bare Your Midriff Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Starscream Author Avatar No Antagonist Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Actor Allusion Brick Joke Roger Ebert: Great Movies List She's Got Legs Fanservice Country Matters Not Using the "Z" Word Ms. Fanservice Dressing as the Enemy Foregone Conclusion Mad Scientist Grey and Gray Morality Music Stories Break the Haughty Shipper on Deck Hollywood Darkness Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Anyone Can Die The '80s Flipping the Bird The Lost Lenore Canon Foreigner The Lancer Broken Aesop Rape as Drama Meaningful Echo Asshole Victim Disappeared Dad Catapult Nightmare Red Eyes, Take Warning Stealth Pun Beware the Nice Ones Badass Bookworm Black Comedy Rape The Dog Bites Back Ghost Fiction Heterosexual Life-Partners Stepford Smiler Ass Shove Disproportionate Retribution Disguised in Drag Obfuscating Stupidity Scary Black Man The Mafia Spell My Name with an "S" The Chick Apocalypse How Bavarian Fire Drill Fourth Date Marriage Adaptation Dye-Job B-Movie Oh, Crap! Meet Cute Paper-Thin Disguise May–December Romance Mystery and Detective Films Arch-Enemy Cloudcuckoolander Leitmotif "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Never Found the Body Slasher Smile Psychopathic Manchild Foreshadowing Flashback Those Two Bad Guys Historical Hero Upgrade Word of God Stalker with a Crush BFG I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Ambiguously Gay Badass Longcoat Heroic BSoD Names to Run Away from Really Fast Improvised Weapon Auto Erotica The Power of Love Artistic License – Gun Safety Only One Name Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The '70s Greater-Scope Villain Conspicuous CG Alliterative Name Affably Evil Combat Pragmatist Those Wacky Nazis Adaptation Name Change Fate Worse than Death Real Life Freudian Excuse Scenery Porn Blatant Lies Framing Device Horror Comedy Insistent Terminology Brother–Sister Incest Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Peek-a-Boo Corpse Hoist by His Own Petard Martial Arts Movie Cold-Blooded Torture Pimped-Out Dress Reality Has No Subtitles Heroic Sacrifice Femme Fatale Faux Affably Evil Exact Words Ambiguous Disorder Unusual Euphemism Christmas Movies Index Genre Savvy Hollywood Law Bond Villain Stupidity Instant Death Bullet Sequel Escalation Cluster F-Bomb Bloody Hilarious Accidental Murder Manchild Calling the Old Man Out Dirty Coward Room Full of Crazy Does Not Like Shoes Never My Fault Hell Is That Noise Action Prologue Random Events Plot You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Badass Normal Death by Sex Chekhov's Gun Hypocritical Humor Artistic License – Biology Jerkass Has a Point Token Minority Fainting Race Against the Clock You Have Failed Me Captain Ersatz Punch-Clock Villain Get Out! Shout-Out Soft Glass Mooks Neck Snap Manic Pixie Dream Girl Only a Flesh Wound Laser-Guided Karma All for Nothing The X of Y Red Right Hand British Films Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Brutal Honesty Hate Sink The '60s Creative Closing Credits No OSHA Compliance Brainless Beauty Implacable Man Big "NO!" Cool Shades Roaring Rampage of Revenge Black and Gray Morality Whole Plot Reference Camp Gay Darker and Edgier Black Dude Dies First Sinister Minister Bottomless Magazines Cowboy Cop The Alleged Car Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Determinator aka: The Determinator The Bad Guy Wins Bunny-Ears Lawyer Obstructive Bureaucrat Hope Spot Outrun the Fireball Nice Hat Big Applesauce Posthumous Character Decoy Protagonist Big Fancy House Grievous Bottley Harm Once More, with Clarity! Loads and Loads of Characters Back from the Dead Distracted by the Sexy I Did What I Had to Do Take a Third Option Historical-Domain Character Re-Cut More Dakka Rule of Funny Beta Couple folderlabel He Knows Too Much Fatal Flaw Sealed Evil in a Can In Medias Res Daddy's Girl Expository Hairstyle Change Friend to All Children Sanity Slippage Gold Digger No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Romantic Comedy Ax-Crazy Ungrateful Bastard Deadpan Snarker Broken Pedestal Butt-Monkey Real Life Writes the Plot Eyepatch of Power Red Herring Karmic Death The Voiceless Mugging the Monster Evil Brit Men Are the Expendable Gender Thriller Unresolved Sexual Tension Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Russian Films Aluminum Christmas Trees Jump Scare Foil Fan Disservice La Résistance Italian Films Well-Intentioned Extremist Bound and Gagged Humans Are Bastards Would Hit a Girl Japanese Films And I Must Scream Artistic License – History Our Zombies Are Different Fingore Together in Death Military and Warfare Films Enemy Mine Noodle Incident Revenge Manly Tears Death Seeker Villain with Good Publicity Tagline Sacrificial Lion The Hero Casting Gag Attempted Rape Major Injury Underreaction True Companions Dropped a Bridge on Him Amusing Injuries Kill It with Fire Anachronism Stew Cain and Abel Bad "Bad Acting" Mundane Made Awesome Actually Pretty Funny Television Movie Index Black Comedy The Ace Sir Swears-a-Lot Refuge in Audacity He Who Fights Monsters Creator Cameo Mood Whiplash Mercy Kill Arranged Marriage Straight Gay Honor Before Reason Red Oni, Blue Oni A Date with Rosie Palms Artistic License – Military Cassandra Truth Insult Backfire Be Careful What You Wish For Bolivian Army Ending Took a Level in Badass It Will Never Catch On Cool Guns Our Vampires Are Different Card-Carrying Villain War Is Hell Groin Attack Super Strength Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor All Just a Dream NO INDOOR VOICE Bilingual Bonus Male Gaze Serial Killer The Bully Chekhov's Gunman Body Horror Time Skip Bring My Brown Pants Chekhov's Skill Frame-Up The Cameo Romantic False Lead Slasher Movie Yandere Film Noir Index Nice Guy Drugs Are Bad Spared by the Adaptation An Aesop Deliberate Values Dissonance I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Sci-Fi Horror Ripped from the Headlines Every Car Is a Pinto Developing Doomed Characters Trailers Always Spoil You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Department of Redundancy Department Bloodier and Gorier Superhero Precision F-Strike Reality Is Unrealistic Maybe Ever After Extremely Short Timespan The Dreaded Even Evil Has Standards Informed Ability Empathic Environment Costume Porn Action Genre Victoria's Secret Compartment Dies Wide Open Crazy-Prepared The Ditz Mythology Gag Stock Footage German Films "Well Done, Son!" Guy Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Translation Convention Fanservice Extra Let's Get Dangerous! Easily Forgiven Police Brutality Parental Incest Four-Temperament Ensemble Becoming the Mask Captain Obvious Annoying Younger Sibling Corrupt Corporate Executive Man on Fire O.O.C. Is Serious Business Action Survivor Accidental Misnaming Does This Remind You of Anything? Last-Name Basis Lock and Load Montage Protagonist Title Ascended Extra Made of Iron Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Rousing Speech Bury Your Gays Bullying a Dragon Logo Joke Spiteful Spit As Long as It Sounds Foreign Psychological Thriller Public Domain Feature Films Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Breaking the Fourth Wall Laughing Mad There Is No Kill Like Overkill Mighty Whitey Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Male Frontal Nudity Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Older Than They Look Wham Line In Name Only Gory Discretion Shot A Father to His Men Happily Married Pretty in Mink Contrived Coincidence Establishing Character Moment Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Smart Guy Scare Chord Irony Ironic Echo Love Triangle Australian Movies Abusive Parents Batman Gambit Reckless Gun Usage Anti-Villain Tempting Fate Kick the Son of a Bitch Not Quite Dead Famous Last Words Double-Meaning Title Jerk Jock My God, What Have I Done? Smoking Is Cool One-Man Army One Steve Limit Bowdlerise Fatal Family Photo Made of Explodium Shell-Shocked Veteran Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Missing Mom Manipulative Bastard Exactly What It Says on the Tin Agony of the Feet Air-Vent Passageway Idiot Ball For Want of a Nail Darkest Hour A God Am I Married to the Job Big Bad Duumvirate Hair-Trigger Temper Evil Counterpart Intergenerational Friendship Gainax Ending Defrosting Ice Queen Loophole Abuse Papa Wolf Jerk with a Heart of Gold No Celebrities Were Harmed Taking You with Me Slap-Slap-Kiss Truth in Television Demoted to Extra I Have Your Wife Scenery Gorn Danny Peary Cult Movies List Off with His Head! Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Death of a Child Badass Grandpa Deliberately Monochrome Death Glare Leaning on the Fourth Wall Villain Ball Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Homage A Minor Kidroduction Camera Abuse Early Installment Weirdness Red Shirt Expy Obviously Evil Broken Bird Badass Boast Rated M for Manly An Arm and a Leg