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