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