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