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