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