Tropescilloscope: Rule of Cool

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

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