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