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Rule Of Cool	label	Rule Of Cool
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Rule Of Cool	comment	This trope brought to you by Death playing an electric guitar on the peak of a mountain with a shard of his own scythe. The limit of the willing suspension of disbelief for a given element is directly proportional to its degree of coolness. Stated another way, all but the most pedantic of viewers will forgive liberties with reality as long as the result is wicked sweet or awesome. This applies to the audience in general; there will naturally be a different threshold for each individual. The Rule Of Cool is another principle that seeks to dispel arguments among fans over implausibility in fiction. It has been cited by animation director Steve Loter (of Kim Possible, Clerks The Animated Series, Tarzan, and American Dragon Jake Long) in response to questions from fans attempting to justify temporary breaches in logical consistency. It is a complement to Bellisario's Maxim and the MST 3 K Mantra. Of scientific laws that this trope circumvents, the third law of motion is probably the most frequently revoked, with the square-cube law probably a close second. Note that you only get to invoke the Rule of Cool if the end product is, in fact, cool. (If the coolness itself causes the result, then it's Pure Awesomeness.) Note also that different opinions on what is "cool" create the most arguments over this. That being said, the Rule of Cool is very subjective. Failure to properly use this trope can cause collision damage with walls. You will need to refer to The Utterly And Completely Definitive Guide To Cool. See also: Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot. Compare Rule Of Funny, Rule Of Fun, Rule Of Scary, Rule Of Drama, Rule Of Romantic. Contrast Viewers Are Morons. A Sub Trope of Artistic License.
Rule Of Cool	fetched	2010-09-03T13:50:44Z
Rule Of Cool	hasLicense	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Rule Of Cool	parsed	2010-09-03T13:50:45Z
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Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	WallBanger
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	SoulMusic
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	American Dragon Jake Long
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Artistic License
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Clerks The Animated Series
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Flame War
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Kim Possible
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Law Of Inverse Recoil
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	MST 3 K Mantra
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Mohs Scale Of Science Fiction Hardness
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Bellisario's Maxim
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Pure Awesomeness
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Rule Of Cool
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Rule Of Drama
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Rule Of Fun
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Rule Of Funny
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Rule Of Romantic
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Rule Of Scary
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Square Cube Law
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Sub Trope
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	The Grim Reaper
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	The Power Of Rock
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	The Utterly And Completely Definitive Guide To Cool
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Viewers Are Morons
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Willing Suspension Of Disbelief
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	Your Mileage May Vary
Rule Of Cool	seeAlso	What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?

A list of feature instances declared on this page follows.

RuleOfCool/int_10da2b77	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_10da2b77	comment	Nothing in Doctor Who makes any sense at all. Not a single goddamn thing. Not the really SevenNineHundredYearsOld regenerating Human Alien who travels around time and space in a police box, not the Technobabble he delivers at a hundred kilometres an hour to justify the latest Reverse Polarity, not the perpetually vague or contradicting continuity, not the Omnicidal Maniac motorised pepper pots armed with a whisk and a toilet plunger, and definitely not the screwdriver that gets New Powers As The Plot Demands. There is also, however, not a single person that cares. The 2008 Christmas special features a GIGANTIC STEAMPUNK CYBERMECHA. Sure, it was completely ridiculous, but... gigantic steampunk cybermecha! Or how about this one: in the climax of "Tooth and Claw", the Tenth Doctor uses a telescope and diamond to fire a beam capable of lifting a werewolf, easily weighing 3-400 lbs, into the air, using only moonlight. Victory of the Daleks. Spitfires In SPACE!
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RuleOfCool/int_1181847e	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_1181847e	comment	In Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, the fight sequences (long enough that you can consider the other scenes "non-fight sequences") consist entirely of "cool", and little to no realism. Just a few examples: During one of several motorcycle fights, Bad Guy #2 leans over, digs his piston-powered gauntlet into the pavement, then swings around on it, with his bike clamped between his legs, to throw the whole bike at the hero with beyond-lethal velocity. The hero is thrown several hundred feet into the air by his friends (one of which is a GHOST) in order to slice a dragon god in half with his sword. Part of the final fight has the hero and the Big Bad swordfighting while jumping and balancing on slabs of a falling building, to a soundtrack of hammering electric guitar with a chanting Latin chorus. Nomura has actually gone on record saying he told the team to ignore the laws of physics and just do what looked coolest. Advent Children is basically what happens if you take a Final Fantasy game and make every attack a Limit Break. Alternatively, it's an answer to the question, "Just what would it really look like to have level 99 characters who can kill just about anything?" In a game, much of that is covered by numbers increasing, but the movie shows that kind of personal power in practice.
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RuleOfCool/int_120ef1da	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_120ef1da	comment	Inglourious Basterds, definitely. It's not tactically smart to try guerrilla warfare when you don't have the home advantage, but is it Bad Ass? Hell yes, especially when you put Eli Roth in a wifebeater and give him a baseball bat. Throw in Til Schweiger with an engraved knife and One Bitchface to Rule Them All, and the badass factor just doubles.
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RuleOfCool/int_131a0717	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_131a0717	comment	From Metal Gear Solid 4, it's also worth of notice the final confront, the Climax Boss battle of the game. It's a Fistfight. Between two guys biologically clearly over fifty. Both still perfectly capable of kicking your ass. On the top of a submarine. Why? Because it's cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_13fce202	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_13fce202	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion, of course. Erecting a sprawling civilian metropolis directly atop a military base that is certain to be attacked by aliens wielding doomsday weapons is just Saddamesque enough to be cool. You missed out the best part. The bit where the skyskrapers slide down underground to hang from the roof of the geofront whenever one of the aforementioned aliens turn up. This ends poorly (obviously, it's Evangelion) but seeing them rise back above ground after a fight with * that music* comes pretty close to CMOA. And, as it turns out, the entire reason Hideki Anno decided to go with the name isn't because of religious symbolism, but because he though the words sounded cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_162b4a8c	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_162b4a8c	comment	Iorek Byrnison and the Panserbjorne. No, everything's not worse with bears.
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RuleOfCool/int_195986f3	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_195986f3	comment	Bleach. The series runs on it. Why does anything happen at all? Because it's just so damn cool. Of particular note is the beginning of the Arrancar arc, where Shinigami powers suddenly, without in-universe justification, include flight (at least while fighting). It did have a justification from the beginning since soul reapers can walk on spirit particles. but it still counts because its damn cool
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RuleOfCool/int_19f607f3	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_19f607f3	comment	Black Lagoon — where do we start? A cast consisting entirely of badasses, rounded out by a anti-heroine who is able to backflip seven feet into the air, shoot three people dead mid-jump and has the vision range of a chameleon? A torpedo boat performing a joust against a gunship — and winning by using a boat-wreck as a ramp and torpedoing it mid-air? A one-eyed seventy year old nun who runs a gun-smuggling 'church of violence' and whose weapon of choice is a golden desert eagle she fires one handed? An invincible terminator maid with a shotgun umbrella?
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RuleOfCool/int_1b3d0689	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_1b3d0689	comment	The upcoming Contra game for Wiiware attempts to one-up this by having the character ride down the flaming remains of a space station during reentry, and jump from one to the other. While fighting a boss.
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RuleOfCool/int_1c0300ec	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_1c0300ec	comment	The Bourne Trilogy. What else is to be said?
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RuleOfCool/int_1c40413a	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_1c40413a	comment	The video for Shine On Me by Chris Dane Owens. It's every fantasy movie imaginable fed through a wood chipper, spliced with shots of a Legolas lookalike strumming a guitar. And it's epic.
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RuleOfCool/int_1c487c6d	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_1c487c6d	comment	The Gungrave series is built on this. For example, in the original Gungrave video game, if a boss comes close to dying, using a demolition shot as the killing blow causes Grave to activate the "Graveyard Special" (insane Finishing Move), where his coffin launches a super-charged attack (which usually combines two or more his normal demolition shots). While this is not required to kill any boss, the demolition shot is so over the top that it just looks plain awesome. Not to mention your player character is the reanimated corpse of a hitman with Guns Akimbo and a large coffin on his back that shoots rockets and can semi-morph into a machine gun.
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RuleOfCool/int_1e7e30b6	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_1e7e30b6	comment	This comic brought to you by a man on a shark fighting a Werepire
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RuleOfCool/int_1f5b8e63	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_1f5b8e63	comment	Absolutely everything in God Hand. Just to give you an idea, a Meme about the game goes from "These levels look bland" to "HOLY SHIT THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME I'M THE MOTHERFUCKING FIST OF THE NORTH STAR JESUS CHRIST" in three panels. And it doesn't even mention the Luchadore Gorilla.
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RuleOfCool/int_1feedc13	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_1feedc13	comment	Implausible Fencing Powers
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RuleOfCool/int_2279a3a4	comment	There is a part on Shadow The Hedgehog's intro cutscene showing Shadow doing Chaos Control quickly, then punching an alien. Rinse and repeat for 10 to 20 seconds. That part of the cutscene does look pretty cool, and has no effect on any aspect the game at all, so the use of chaos control here is justified by this rule (Normally, you need a Chaos Emerald and charge up the chaos control to do it, you cannot do it instantly). On Shadow's intro on Sonic The Hedgehog 2006, Shadow is shown running through snow while avoiding many robots shooting him. He then runs through the robots. The robots blow up, and then he bounces on a single robot to get past a big door. That's a full use of this rule. However, the Chaos Control he proceed the use is unjustified because it doesn't look as coool as it should... especially after what he just did. The first level of Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic escapes wrongful capture from a G.U.N. (Military organisation similar to NATO) Helicopter, and surfs down the hilly city streets on a chunk of the wing. Then at the end of the level, G.U.N. chases him with a truck-truck-truck, a 4 story tall semi so wide it barley scraped along the sides of the buildings and sends everything in the street flying on impact. [1]
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RuleOfCool/int_254575fb	comment	Arguably The Forbidden Kingdom, considering that it had the working title of The J & J Project (the whole point of which was to make the Jet Li vs. Jackie Chan dream fight finally happen on camera).
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RuleOfCool/int_25613d85	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_25613d85	comment	Everything that happens in the film Shoot Em Up. For example, Clive Owen having sex with Monica Bellucci while shooting people. The awesomeness cannot be described on paper. There is a shootout while skydiving. This isn't a movie, it's a religious experience.
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RuleOfCool/int_28895b2b	comment	Why do all of Ramona's evil exes meet some requirement of video game boss style, explode into coins when defeated, and that everyone naturally is just that good at martial arts? So that when Scott Pilgrim wins the girl its really cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_299485d6	comment	Black Jack. Tezuka certainly does not fail biology, that sure didn't stop him from making up crazy new stuff for the titular hero to deal with. Like extracting a parasite from his intestines while under attack by dingoes.
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RuleOfCool/int_29e810bd	comment	Solid Snake of Metal Gear Solid fame is at times a quiet and profound kind of cool, and at other times an artistically lethal example of the beauty of perfect motion. The cutscenes from Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes almost invariably function on splicing this trope directly with another trope (or several others) for multiplicative results. One Boss Battle and the cutscene following it actually manage to include more than ten tropes that are easily identifiable offhand, wherein Snake takes on Revolver Ocelot in a running firefight to save a tortured hostage tied to a pillar in the middle of the square room, forcing the player to carefully avoid shooting him throughout the fight. Moreover, the entire center square of the room is criss-crossed with tension wires tied to blinking Semtex bombs, meaning the player has to be extra careful not to so much as touch one while still trying to dodge Ocelot's impossible ricocheting shots which can hit you even if you're safely behind cover, or the game will immediately end in failure. And if all that wasn't enough, winning the fight cues the sudden appearance of a stealth ninja cyborg character who announces his entrance by cutting off Ocelot's right hand in mid-aim, then surgically severing the trigger wires in such a way that no one is killed when the bombs all explode. The ninja then attacks Snake, immediately deflecting several bullets with his sword. Snake employs a combination of gunfire, martial arts, and desperate gymnastics to bring about a split-second stalemate with the ninja's sword at his throat and his SOCOM pistol at the ninja's head, point-blank. Now, the ten separate tropes linked here are all present and actively played during this scene, but would you believe there are actually even more in there? This entire game gets a double award for usage of the Rule Of Cool, since not only the events within the narrative clearly qualify, but the writers and directors score likewise for the pure and utter improbability of all of these elements ever playing together so well, and the greatest part (as well as the part which makes it a fit addition to this section) of all? It seriously works. See for yourself here. And here. And here. And, probably most impressively, here.
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RuleOfCool/int_2a26eafb	comment	Gun Kata
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RuleOfCool/int_2cfdc852	comment	The last book of the X Wing Series, Starfighters of Adumar, gives us the ultimate in awesomely implausible personal weapons, the blastsword. It exists pretty much solely because it's cooler than dueling with normal swords.
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RuleOfCool/int_2d3ee1d9	comment	While Naruto isn't exactly a prime example of Rule of Cool, the Narutimate (or Naruto: Ultimate Ninja) series certainly is. Using an Ougi (or Ultimate) triggers a cutscene of your character using his powers with all the almighty coolness you couldn't ever think you would see in a Naruto character. Ougis are absolutely ran by the Rule Of Cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_2db1962	comment	This notion was the central focus of Underworld, a world where vampires are at literal constant war with werewolves. Naturally, all of naturally know overly powerful martial arts and humans are practically invisible throughout the two films
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RuleOfCool/int_2e2ac298	comment	Ragnell in the 10th Fire Emblem is said to be indestructible, but in the ending cutscreen it is shown heavily nicked for no other reason than to look cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_2e531287	comment	Supreme Commander features quite a few units that operate by this trope, including virtually all of the experimentals. The Fatboy, Czar, and Megalith are Military Mashup Machines par excellence, the Galactic Colossus is a textbook example of Awesome But Impractical, the Monkeylord is just kind of the Monkeylord... the list goes on.
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RuleOfCool/int_30e5a9a5	comment	MEGAS. FREAKING. X. L. R. A badass opening theme song, a badass robot that can turn into a car and is piloted with a video game system, the fact that Coop can pull off amazing and special moves because he played video games all his life, an episode where Coop fantasizes about destroying the DMV, awesomely designed villains (some with their own Ominous Latin Chanting music), and some of the most high-octane giant robot fights to rival any Giant Robot Show Japan has made. In fact, it was so awesome, Cartoon Network couldn't take it, and canceled it. It can all be summed up by these two lines, from the episode where Coop enters Megas into a car show: Large amounts of homages were awesome too.
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RuleOfCool/int_316e4a73	comment	Postal the movie. From a notoriously bad director, based on a non-politically correct game, starring unknowns and having a ridiculous plot, all of which is redeemed by a constant onslaught of "how in the hell did they get away with this, this is unbelievably cool".
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RuleOfCool/int_317f8aa	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_317f8aa	comment	Bahumut can do that, huh? For example, in Crisis Core, his signature move, Exaflare, involves the giant dragon surrounding the MOON with crystals, blowing half of it up, and turning it into a GIANT LAZER which is pointed towards the planet, thus taking out a good amount of HP.
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RuleOfCool/int_3434b96d	comment	Near the end of the third season of ReBoot, with the system crashing, "User" characters from every game seen prior to the episode suddenly begin appearing in Mainframe. This is explained by the instability of the system releasing "undeleted RAM" — but it seems more like a thinly-veiled excuse for a battle royale between the cast and every User at once. Nobody complained. A better example would be the episode with Enzo's birthday party. During the festivities, Big Bad Megabyte crashes the party, and brings out... a guitar? With a dial turned to 11? Megabyte begins jamming, almost painful because of how loud it is. Then Bob steps up to face him, seeming angry at him for crashing the party. Then he commands his keytool to turn into a guitar and thus begins a rocking guitar duel, between the Hero and the Big Bad! The whole thing ends with Megabyte giving Enzo his guitar, "I've always wanted to do that" and then leaving. Sure, it could've been a trap, or just about anything, but those thoughts never crossed ANYONE'S mind, simply because it was just that freaking AWESOME.
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RuleOfCool/int_343f0a6c	comment	Rocket Knight Adventures lives and breathes this trope. It stars a heavily armored anthropomorphic opossum who flies around with a rocket pack and wields a sword that can generate Razor Wind, it's utterly saturated with Steam Punk Humongous Mecha, Airborne Aircraft Carriers, and Military Mashup Machines, and your enemies do things like deliberately blowing a hole in the side of their own spaceship to try and kill you or following you down through re-entry into the planet's atmosphere. Then there's your first fight with Axel Gear. The first half of the fight is you fleeing from Axel piloting a giant robot, and the second half is you coming across a heretofore-unexplained giant robot and engaging Axel's robot in a giant robot fistfight. No written language on Earth has the punctuation mark necessary to end the previous sentence in a way that does it justice.
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RuleOfCool/int_34e1c632	comment	Some wrestling moves (especially the more elaborate finishers) fall into this category; the most obvious one is TNA wrestler Petey Williams' "Canadian Destroyer", a flip piledriver that would break the laws of physics if the opponent weren't helping — but it looks incredibly awesome, so it doesn't matter too much.
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RuleOfCool/int_35850742	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_35850742	comment	In the commentary for Serenity, Joss Whedon discusses the scene where the good guys come through the opaque and sensor-killing "ion cloud" followed by an army of Reavers to back them up against the Alliance. Because the cloud kept the Alliance from seeing them coming, it was a perfect cavalry-coming-over-the-hill moment: 'I don't know what an "ion cloud" is, we just made that up. But I would have sold all my knowledge of science to get that scene.' (paraphrased)
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RuleOfCool/int_36ce83af	comment	Elite Beat Agents. The game's plot revolves around an organization of men in black and Cool Shades who appear to help people out with their problems while dancing to pop songs. Helping a white blood cell fight off a virus just in time for the Olympics to Ashlee Simpson's La La? No problem. Assisting a coffee-addicted taxi driver in driving a pregnant woman to the hospital to the song Sk8er Boi? That's nothing for the EBA. Helping a diver find treasure while YMCA is blaring in the background? Come on; that's not even trying! And then there's the final level. How do you save a down-on-his-luck baseball player? By helping him win his next game? No! Clearly, the solution is to help him save a small boy from a giant lava-spewing rock monster in an amusement park! With baseball! Needless to say, EBA's predecessor, Osu Tatakae Ouendan, ran on this trope too - if using Japanese-style male cheerleading to encourage a buddy cop pair to fight back against an invading army of battery-like aliens, or an overworked salaryman to protect his city and his daughter in Ultraman fashion, or the entire planet to blast an oncoming meteor with concentrated willpower isn't Rule Of Cool, we don't know what is.
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RuleOfCool/int_36fef5df	comment	An in-story example appears in Toy Story: Almost no-one calls out Buzz Lightyear on his delusion about being a real space hero as opposed to a toy, because he's just that cool. Applies regardless of how many of them may actually believe him, because if they do, it's still because he's so cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_38426a5c	comment	Touhou has Marisa, who mentions that spellcards aren't made to be overwhelmingly powerful, but to have beautiful patterns and just look cool in both Silent Sinner in Blue, and her own Grimoire of Marisa. That isn't to say there aren't spell cards that worry more about pure power rather than style, but as a whole, you could sell tickets to an audience to see a spellcard lightshow if you were so inclined.
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RuleOfCool/int_38f98171	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann can be best described as the Rule Of Cool Incarnate. Everything the characters or mechs do, and even the laws of physics themselves, are subject to Rule Of Cool. The fight scenes especially make absolutely no logical sense whatsoever, but it really doesn't matter because they're so awesome. Simon and Viral once actually kill enemies by the sheer awesome they radiate, for God's sake!!! Throwing galaxies like ninja stars. Just... throwing galaxies like ninja stars. There's a story reason that neatly sums up all the problems, but do you really care? At one point, Kamina, resident Crazy Awesome Bad Ass draws his trusty Katana, and it keeps coming out of the sheath for like ten feet, for no reason other than it looks cool. Not to mention he was fighting against someone with a meat cleaver. The length of Kamina's sword seems directly proportional to the length of the speech he is making while drawing it. In the same vein, Double K, the buddy cop version of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, seems to combine how Rule Of Cool driven both types of shows are. The result is as amazing as you think.
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RuleOfCool/int_3c98a857	comment	It looks like Wanted is built entirely on this concept. Oh Hell yes. And let's not forget the director's previous films, Night Watch and Day Watch, where things exist for no other reason than because they're cool. Example: Let's drive a car across a building. Why? Why not? You get the feeling that when they were thinking of the concept for this movie, someone said "What would happen if you took all the cool stunts from The Matrix, and turned them Up To Eleven?"
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RuleOfCool/int_3f907469	comment	Pretty much why the Grenade Launcher exists in Left 4 Dead 2. As Valve said, they and many people wanted to see more stuff blow up, so they threw in the weapon. Combine the weapon with fire bullets and you got a gun of awesome.
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RuleOfCool/int_417e5ea3	comment	Early seasons of Xena Warrior Princess really had her pushing the limits of being a Badass Normal. She could fight one-on-one with a Physical God or even against entire armies and win, as well as pull off superhuman feats. A specific example: In one scene, she jumps from a cliff and horizontally spins hundreds of feet onto a passing ship. She could do this because she was Just That Cool. Her blood-quickening theme music sung by the Bulgarian Women's Choir always accompanied such feats. Later seasons had plot-devices and Flashbacks explaining various powers.
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RuleOfCool/int_427ec622	comment	Transformers would probably not exist without this, in just about any incarnation. Several commercials for the 2007 movie were constructed basically of the robots appearing onscreen and onlookers standing around saying "cool." Animated takes it to new extremes. For starters, Optimus Prime has a rocket-powered axe. Prowl is an alien ninja robot. Who turns into a motorcycle. Why would giant alien robots have ninjas, you ask? Because it's cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_461d1837	comment	Either that or the Transformers movie, Revenge of the Fallen even more so. Let's be honest, there is no other reason for these films to exist or for anyone to watch them except that Giant Transforming Robots are inherently cool. It could be argued that Michael Bay's entire career rests on this trope.
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RuleOfCool/int_4779793f	comment	Oh Hell yes. And let's not forget the director's previous films, Night Watch and Day Watch, where things exist for no other reason than because they're cool. Example: Let's drive a car across a building. Why? Why not?
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RuleOfCool/int_4b64ad0c	comment	Chuck Norris Facts is all about this. Though fact is, when Chuck Norris goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Jack Bauer.
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RuleOfCool/int_4c8e1a16	comment	One word (or three): GaoGaiGar. What else can you say about a series where a cyborg combines with an alien robot lion, a bullet train, a drill car, and a stealth fighter to form a Humonguous Robot that uses a Hyperspace Mallet capable of turning whatever it strikes into light particles? And of course, the series features a rather famous Memetic Mutation to explain it all: "With courage, 1% becomes 100%!" Said Hyperspace Mallet takes a level in badass. Yes, it is possible to do so. The mallet came with several, by virtue of being a transforming tank. After the specific level in question, it becomes a transforming triad of spaceships.
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RuleOfCool/int_4ca53f4c	comment	For that matter, almost any technology in any of the Metroid games exists either to be unnecessarily cool or to be unnecessarily complicated, and often both.
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RuleOfCool/int_4f198434	comment	Swat Kats... pretty much constantly. How did they manage to build an entire serviceable jet fighter from parts in a salvage yard? One better than the official military's jets? After building a secret hangar? And many of their Special Missiles completely violate logic and physics. Not to mention the times their jet ends up crashing into the water with stalled engines and they manage to get the engines restarted underwater and fly away. But who cares? It's RADICAL. And plays to an awesome electric guitar soundtrack.
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RuleOfCool/int_52c49b35	comment	Snakes on a Plane. Samuel L Jackson (amongst others) is trapped in an aircraft, and he's particularly incensed about the eponymous reptiles with acted-upon Oedipal complexes. Memetic Mutation was drawn to this movie like flies to stink, and the rest is history.
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RuleOfCool/int_5367b867	comment	Um, CRANK anyone? The awesomeness can be quantified by the fact that the protagonist dies at the end of the first movie. As the trailer for the sequel points out, "Anyone else would be so dead by now." Probably the best example comes near the end of the first film. After Chase is disarmed, he makes a gun out of his finger and thumb, points it at a guy, and goes "Bang." And it kills him. It turns out to be his backup, but for a few seconds everyone watching the movie went "Mind bullets...?! Okay, mind bullets, let's go with that." Crank 2 is made of this. It makes less than no sense, but after seeing it, you grow a set of balls bigger than your head, pick a fight with five burly sea toughs and win, and make a full grown lion piss itself. Its that kind of movie.
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RuleOfCool/int_536b4e82	comment	Tried, but failed, in a Mister T animated series. (If it managed to fail at the Rule Of Cool despite having Mister T as the main character, you know it failed big-time). While a few moments (most notably spinning an alligator over his head) managed it, the punctuating thuds of anvils landing got in the way.
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RuleOfCool/int_539c24f6	comment	GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, which features a Powered Armor Car Chase through Paris, an underwater dog fight, and Snake-Eyes. In the "making of" commentary on the DVD, one crew member attributes the mantra (loosely paraphrased) "overdo everything; then make it even bigger" to director Stephen Sommers, and says that they were reminded of this policy daily during the production of the film.
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RuleOfCool/int_53a1b39f	comment	In GURPS the Rule of Cool is neatly quantified for Game Masters wishing to run cinematic campaigns: "The "cinematic" campaign is one where realism doesn't rule because if it did, it would constantly get in the way of the story. In a cinematic campaign, swashbuckling heroes can defeat dozens of foes because the story calls for it. Spacecraft whoosh or roar in the silence of space because fast things whoosh and powerful engines roar. Rightness always overrules mere correctness."
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RuleOfCool/int_53e00066	comment	Karas is the Sentai series that Power Rangers wishes it could be; it runs on Rule Of Cool. How else can you explain the ludicrously overpowered kick-arse hero who can transform into a jet and a car to combat the rise of blood-drinking Conspicuous CG cyborg demons? Four words: Train-Dragon of Death
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RuleOfCool/int_541cabb9	comment	The Karmic Transformers in Okami. Sure, they don't serve any other purpose than making Amaterasu look different, but there's something awesome about seeing a Japanese◊ Spitz◊ beat up enemies and bosses. Oh, and while we're on the rule of cool, how about Waka's flute, which can turn into a glowing sword? Not to mention the fact that it's called 'Pillow Talk'.
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RuleOfCool/int_54429243	comment	The Rambo cartoon, go with it, seems to be loaded with this kind of thing as seen here. Most of the time it's just cringe-worthy how ridiculous it all is, the flawed animation and complete insanity of the idea of basing a cartoon for children on an ultra-violent action hero making it impossible to take seriously. Highlights include Rambo wrestling a panther under water, driving a motorcycle on top of a train and jumping out of a burning aircraft with a rocket launcher and somehow managing to turn around and blow up several missiles headed straight for his ally's helicopter with it.
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RuleOfCool/int_54518510	comment	Scion, also by the same company, uses the same "stunting" rule as Exalted.
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RuleOfCool/int_545d32d9	comment	Oh hey Zombie Land, hey. Why would you go to an amusement park and turn all the lights on, turning your location into a gigantic target? Why would you jump out of the car and let it sink into the river, instead of just hitting the brakes suddenly? Why would you try to con the first signs of life instead of going with them, then why would you leave? Why would you take a motorcycle or a shovel to fight zombies? Why? Why? Because it's awesome.
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RuleOfCool/int_54808518	comment	Monou Fuuma destroys Ebisu Garden Plaza with empty soda cans and the power of his own awesomeness in the X 1999 manga
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RuleOfCool/int_5522a594	comment	Pretty much all of Hot Fuzz. Officer Angel makes filling police forms look intense, action-packed and cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_55294fa7	comment	Prett much how Crazy Taxi works. In real life taxicabs wouldn't be allowed to break every traffic law in existence in an effort to get their customer to their destination as fast as possible. Thanks goodness this isn't real life.
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RuleOfCool/int_558d213b	comment	Samurai Jack refines this trope to a fine art form.
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RuleOfCool/int_57875168	comment	Pretty much any time you become Super Sonic in a Sonic Game. A flying golden hedgehog going well over the speed of sound? Hell yes.
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RuleOfCool/int_57e411e5	comment	Animated takes it to new extremes. For starters, Optimus Prime has a rocket-powered axe.
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RuleOfCool/int_59271050	comment	Seto No Hanayome. If there is any way to explain why anything happens in that show (especially the finale) besides this and Rule Of Funny...
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RuleOfCool/int_594e990c	comment	In The Sponge Bob Squarepants Movie, the climax consists of Sponge Bob, seemingly doomed because of Plankton's Xanatos Gambit, singing about the Goofy Goober using a visor and microphone from nowhere to distract Plankton, and when Plankton finally instructs his minions to attack Sponge Bob, the microphone and visor are gone just as easily as they appeared and Sponge Bob now has a wizard costume with a peanut pattern as well as a Goofy Goober guitar which he uses to play a solo which involves lasers fired from the guitar destroying Plankton's mind-controlling helmets. Despite the blatant, out-of-nowhere Deus Ex Machina, this sequence is still too cool to question.
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RuleOfCool/int_5caa545b	comment	In Mob Ties, there is an entire clan of time traveling yakuza monkeys. 'Nuff said.
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RuleOfCool/int_5cf13caf	comment	The Fonz can channel this trope through his fist, into a jukebox, activating it just to impress chicks, with no effort. The Fonz was pretty much an avatar of this rule.
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RuleOfCool/int_5d6c0623	comment	Appleseed takes to Rule Of Cool to new heights, especially the fight scenes in second CGI movie ("Appleseed Ex Machina"), which opens and closes with combat sequences that would make a Cirque du Soleil-trained Green Beret turn flushed with jealousy and admiration.
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RuleOfCool/int_60905443	comment	Serious Sam and Serious Sam: Second Encounter. Hordes of enemies rushing at you for no reason in locales so vast, grandeur and glorious that the only real explanation is to look cool and make you feel like the coolest player ever. Which you are. Sometimes.
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RuleOfCool/int_647a17	comment	In Cowboy Bebop, Spike Spiegel is basically the epitome of this rule. Altought it not always work for him.
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RuleOfCool/int_649d1ec3	comment	Shadowrun lives off of this trope too. The game has been described thusly: "Say your mission was to get a can of coke from a vending machine. Step four can be 'pull out rocket launcher' and nobody will blink." With the proper min/max techniques, it is possible to acquire an ECM-equipped armored stealth helicopter equipped with a long-range armor-piercing missile launcher with 36-hour operational endurance and a secondary heavy machine gun as a basic starting character. Whether your game master will let you, on the other hand... A certain selection of Adept powers boost your character's unarmed combat ability. If you boost your Magic attribute high enough, it is easily possible to create a character who can punch through an armored battle tank without breaking into a sweat. Misuses of the Restricted Gear quality could fill pages. Want a helicopter with a heavy laser cannon? Go ahead. 5 kilometer range remote-guided armor-piercing missile launcher? Sure. Power-armored troll with an assault cannon? It would take two applications of the quality to get military-grade armor and the assault cannon, but yes.
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RuleOfCool/int_65441bb5	comment	A good deal of the things Dante from Devil May Cry does. If you don't think that Dante's motorbiking up the vertical walls of the Temen-ni-Gru was cool, your definition might be unnecessarily strict. And that's just one of the most famous. In fact, the core basis of the gameplay is beating shit up and making it look goood. Like rocking on a guitar bearing the soul of a lightning succubus for crowd control. Oh yeah, and the bike had flamethrower attachments. Did we mention that Nero's sword revs like a motorbike? That it revs like a goddamned motorbike?! In fact, it's even been theorized that Dante's half-demon background physically forces him to do absolutely everything as awesomely as he possibly can. Rule Of Cool explains how Dante still manages to get business, even though the standard response to a call for help seems to be to kick the front door out, shoot randomly at the street, and blow up your own damn shop, if the bonus clip in Devil May Cry 4 is to be believed.
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RuleOfCool/int_66dee156	comment	Ninja Blade loses to Scribblenauts. Why make a game where you can make God fight Cthulu? Why make a game where you can travel back in time, ride a dinosaur through the time machine, kill robot zombies with said dinosaur? Because you can.
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RuleOfCool/int_67c9abc	comment	Beowulf. He is the Rule Of Cool personified. He can hold his breath for several days, rip off the arms of giants, and generally make a nuisance of himself to anyone that isn't awesome enough to hang out with him. So this is Older Than Print. For a prime example, his introductory speech describes the time he killed the sea monsters. All of them. "Me thus often the evil monsters/ thronging threatened. With thrust of/ My sword, the darling, I dealt them due return!" On that note, mythological gods and heroes in general, from every culture in the world. That's the whole point of most of them. Hercules, Gilgamesh, the entire cast of Romance of the Three Kingdoms...all fuelled by Ruleof Cool. Mythology was probably the original Rule Of Cool. Where else are you going to hear that an Eight Headed Snake was defeated by Sake of all things * Besides Okami. In fact, heroes from most mythological works in general weren't necessarily heroic in the modern sense of the word. A lot of the time, all it took to be considered a "hero" was just to be an unbelievable Bad Ass that ran on the Rule Of Cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_67d547aa	comment	Sokka has a space sword. A sword made from meterorite.
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RuleOfCool/int_682cfc6	comment	In the Lord of the Rings films, due to Tolkien's terminology ("wings of shadow") describing the Balrog, nobody on the production team was quite sure whether the wings were literal or metaphorical. Peter Jackson later admitted they added the wings just because it looked cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_690ee92a	comment	Soul Eater's character designs and animation make for superbly awesome coolness that definitely fall under the Rule Of Cool, not to mention being chock-full of martial arts, scythe-spinning and slicing through things at just about every given opportunity.
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RuleOfCool/int_6cd53429	comment	Fist of the North Star, if examined with a critical eye, would collapse under the weight of its Fridge Logic... if not for how it essentially created the Rule Of Cool-based Shonen series. It's hard to complain about the implausibility of the premise when you're trying to retrieve your jaw following the fight scenes.
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RuleOfCool/int_6f958354	comment	A lot of Beatmania's background videos could count as this. Especially GOLDEN CROSS, which makes the Shoji board game crazy awesome.
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RuleOfCool/int_7199248e	comment	Codename Kids Next Door is made of this trope. The stuff that happens on a typical episode would be laughable anywhere else, but the fans overlook that little detail because it has 10-year-old badasses with homemade weapons and vehichles. Yes.
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RuleOfCool/int_71b4c455	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean Period. You got your pirates, your undead, your curses, your sea monsters, your totally impossible swordfights and Captain Jack Sparrow.
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RuleOfCool/int_73f79f2f	comment	Also, in the Wii version, why else is Mike Tyson replaced the final challenger by Donkey Kong?
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RuleOfCool/int_774d3fdc	comment	Disgaea .There is an entirely logical explanation as to why your Pettanko brawler can punch her enemies into the sun: it's because it is ridiculously awesome looking. Not just that, you can also launch the entire battle map into the sun.
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RuleOfCool/int_77b640e6	comment	Saint Seiya uses this in liberal doses so that the fans don't complain about the gratuitous use of Fridge Logic...because it's hard to question the plot when bishonen with eighties multicolour hair are beating the ever-loving stuffing out of each other for every reason under the sun, and with every attack under the sun too (from Mind Rape to Something About A Rose, literally) whilst running up stairs and visiting Hades in time for tea. It's so much fun you just HAVE to go along with it!
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RuleOfCool/int_789663d0	comment	The video for Muse's Knights of Cydonia features cowboys, androids, birds of prey, seduction, kung fu, rayguns, dirtbikes, execution, Soviet imagery, holographic band members, a unicorn and a half-submerged Statue Of Liberty, and is apparently set in a goldrush town named after the Martian region of CydonÃ®a. It doesn't make a great deal of sense, But it is still awesome! Rule of Cool is really the reason for Muse's existence. It ain't high art, but who cares if you have songs about "superstars sucked into the supermassive", with huge riffs and piano's that would make an appropriate soundtrack to Dante's Inferno. Oh, and the live shows are truly awesomely epic. The Power Of Rock, indeed.
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RuleOfCool/int_791c49d0	comment	In the second Austin Powers movie, Basil Exposition turns to the camera and tells the (young, irritable members of the) audience not to get upset about any contradictions in the Time Travel plot of the story.
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RuleOfCool/int_7c4aa9b0	comment	Chie's ultimate Persona in Persona 4 looks like a samurai Darth Vader with Darth Maul's lightsaber. Persona 4 gives you Kintoki-Douji. It carries a Tomahawk MISSILE. Alas, it is a magic-oriented Persona, so it doesn't throw it. For shame.
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RuleOfCool/int_7cea9d7a	comment	Dead Fantasy. The characters of Dead or Alive and Final Fantasy beat the crap out of each other with no regards for little things like the laws of physics. True of anything Monty Oum comes out with, really.
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RuleOfCool/int_7cee2560	comment	Then Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 went Beyond The Impossible by making you fight the goddamn Statue of Liberty itself. And two-headed robot spider women, can't forget those. Though you might wish you could
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RuleOfCool/int_7d33d32e	comment	In one of the books of the Star Trek Deep Space Nine relaunch novels, an interstellar portal (which, mind you, could have led to anywhere in the galaxy) just happens to lead to a Malon garbage scow that had been taken over by a Hirogen hunter. Why? So that Taran'atar, their local Jem'Hadar character, could fight with him, of course!
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RuleOfCool/int_7ebfc065	comment	Once Upon a Time in Mexico. The guitar case that's really a flame thrower! Johnny Depp with his eyes gouged out, blood flowing down his face, shooting bad guys! Back in Desperado there was a guitar case hiding a HEAVY MASHINE GUN and another with a RAWKET LAWNCHAIR.
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RuleOfCool/int_80d7129d	comment	Super Smash Bros in its entirety is fueled by nothing but Rule Of Cool and Rule Of Fun. There is no other way to justify scenes such as a crossdressing ninja punching a hole through a fighter jet to fight its anthropomorphic fox pilot or a giant penguin bitchslaping a turtle-dragon. Don't forget, following the crossdressing ninja punching a hole through a fighter jet to fight its anthropomorphic fox pilot, both fighters are stopped by being offered tea by a princess. All of the storymode in Brawl is built on 'that would look so cool'. Also don't forget that the princess and the fighters to whom she is offering tea are on top of a moving airship that is currently engaged in combat. All these are in a game with surprisingly little Cutscene Power To The Max. A normal situation in multiplayer involves a giant gorilla with a tie headbutting Solid Snake into the surface of a moving craft then launching him offscreen with a haymaker. Then, Snake grabs the Smash Ball and his player goes through an Unexpected Gameplay Change and starts firing grenades from the foreground, causing a Total Party Kill. IN SPACE!
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RuleOfCool/int_81a465f2	comment	In the same vein, Double K, the buddy cop version of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, seems to combine how Rule Of Cool driven both types of shows are. The result is as amazing as you think.
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RuleOfCool/int_81e576df	comment	Hybrid Heaven. It's your typical "aliens plotting to take over the world and only you can stop them" plot, but you beat the aliens by performing wrestling moves on them.
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RuleOfCool/int_829e8c69	comment	Burst Angel provides great examples for this... particularly, its main character Jo, an awesome fighter, even if not sociable at all, who can pilot a mecha as if it was her own body, do incredible stunts with weapons, and save her damsel in distress.
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RuleOfCool/int_85732632	comment	The Adventures of Doctor McNinja positively thrives on this. The inclusion of raptor-riding banditos alone pretty much proves the point here, but if that doesn't convince you, there's also Dracula, who happens to have a moon base. With a moon laser. Where he hangs out with Paul McCartney, the real Micheal Jackson, and Tupac. Eventually, you get to this. Apparently, KING RADICAL epitomizes the Rule Of Cool. So...radical.... It gets even better in the most recent issue with this strip and the one directly following it. No other webcomic features a ninja MD flying a private jet into a thunderstorm where he will be attacked by missile volleys and pterodactyls birdosauruses, which he will subsequently defeat in a single minute so that he may continue on to the apocalyptic Aztec tennis temple to save the world's greatest tennis champion who must play a game of tennis against the avatar of the Aztec god of destruction in order to save the world from imminent doom. The only reason any of the above makes any sense, at all, is because it is so goddamn cool. Ent. With. Helicopter. Head.
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RuleOfCool/int_858bf63	comment	Clone Wars uses this even more. For example, you once see the same weapon on the Millennium Falcon being carried around by a single ARC trooper, and instead of using four arms, Grievous regularly juggles three lightsabers around between his hands and prehensile feet, making for some of the best fights in Star Wars history. Mace Windu. That is all.
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RuleOfCool/int_87661c79	comment	Six String Samurai. After the Russians nuke everything, Elvis becomes King of the remains of Lost Vegas. A samurai Buddy Holly battles Slash to claim his throne. "Only one man can kill so many Russians. Bring his guitar to me!"
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RuleOfCool/int_8907da50	comment	Dinosaur King. The plot involves cards that become dinosaurs (or dinosaurs that are cards) and an evil gang who wants to use them for world domination. Makes no sense? Watch one of the dinosaur fight scenes. All your complaints will be blown away by the sheer awesomeness of dinosaurs attacking each other with elemental powers. Thunder Bazooka... Just... Thunder Bazooka...
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RuleOfCool/int_8c187470	comment	The opening sequence of the first Kingdom Hearts counts. Yes, it's a tutorial level, but does it really matter when Sora is navigating a black void, walking on stained-glass floors of Disney characters, and it all culminates in a battle against a giant Heartless with a hole in its chest in the shape of a heart symbol?
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RuleOfCool/int_8c66045f	comment	Even the producers of 24 have pointed out that the workings of both the terrorists and the government in the show are hardly realistic. Like anybody cares.
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RuleOfCool/int_8cb78c89	comment	Painkiller predominantly operates on Rule of Cool. Why is one of the bosses an impossibly enormous zombie/Frankenstein's Monster? Why do your weapons include a divine weed whacker with a laser grapple, a shotgun that can fire freezing blasts, a combined rotary cannon and rocket launcher, and a strange weapon that fires shurikens and arcs of electricity? Why can your character turn into a demon, becoming invincible, killing nearly everything in one hit with blasts of inexplicable force, and slowing down time? Because it's cool. This is even more true of the Gaiden Game Painkiller: Overdose. Why is your character a wisecracking angel/demon hybrid who makes pop-culture references his backstory couldn't possibly let him know? Why are your first three weapons a disembodied demon head with dangling spine, a redesign of the aforementioned shotgun as a weapon that fires bone shards and petrifying sludge, and a redesign of the aforementioned weed whacker as a magical puzzle cube? Why is one of your stated opponents at the start of the game the Jerkass angel that ordered Daniel around in the original game? Because it's cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_8e8c57d4	comment	Shinobi III, Return of the Ninja Master runs on this trope. Ninjas on surfboads? Check. Ninjas on kites? Check. Climbing your way to the top of a cliff on falling rocks while fighting flying ninjas? Hell yes, check.
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RuleOfCool/int_8f466048	comment	Fallout 3 can allow your to launch mini-nukes from a handheld launcher capable of hurling a multitude of different kinds projectiles. It gets even better with the experimental MIRV nuke launcher. You don't NEED to fire eight mini-nukes at once, but it looks incredible. Just about ALL of Fallout 3 runs on Rule Of Cool, really. That and the intentional Zeerust are the only things that can explain the giant scorpions, the radiation hanging around after 200 years and keeping things a wasteland, and the fact that that many buildings are still there after being nuked then left to rot for over 200 years. And the cars that explode in mushroom clouds. Hey, don't forget Liberty Prime. A giant, bipedal robot with Gort's laser eyes and a backpack of miniature nuclear missiles, which it throws like footballs. Which is voiced by Peter 'Optimus Prime' Cullen. Is it possible to blow someone's head apart by launching a teddy bear at them? Probably not. When you get the Rock-it Launcher and manage to do just that, will you care about the previous question? No.
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RuleOfCool/int_90be6d62	comment	Speed Racer: every glorious second of it. And then some.
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RuleOfCool/int_91aefa4e	comment	The creators of The Batman, the Continuity Reboot to Batman The Animated Series, were looking for a way to set their series apart from the rest. So, they made a spin-off movie entitled, The Batman... versus Dracula. Batman. Versus. Dracula. The epic bat-imagery crossover lets it actually make a twisted kind of sense, despite being a complete derailment of the Batman franchise. And the movie lives up to the concept. Yes, Batman finds a cure for vampirism at the end, and all the citizens of Gotham who were vamps go back to normal. The Penguin becomes The Renfield. Oh, and as if it wasn't cool enough already, the Joker gets turned into a vampire for a while. Vampire Joker. VAMPIRE. JOKER. This isn't Rule Of Cool, this is Rule Of PURE AWESOME. Nah, he's a nightmarish Bad Ass Monster Clown. Which is even better. Actually, they were basically copying the idea of an Elseworlds comic called Batman & Dracula: Red Rain. It's still an awesome movie, though, and reached a larger audience than Red Rain for sure.
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RuleOfCool/int_9490794a	comment	The Back to the Future films rely heavily on this as well as the Rule Of Funny. One particular example, pointed out by Bob Gale on a DVD Commentary, occurs in the third film. Doc and Marty try to get the DeLorean up to eighty-eight miles per hour by pulling it with horses. Gale pointed out that the Doc would know horses don't run that fast and the Doc even points that out in the scene. However, the filmmakers had to do that shot with the DeLorean being ridden across Monument Valley like a covered wagon because it would look cool. Even the fact that the time machine itself is a DeLorean is already Rule Of Cool in itself. What self-respecting geek hasn't fantasized about having a time-traveling DeLorean? Which is specifically invoked as one of the reasons Doc chose the DeLorean. He starts to give a practical reason, but gets interrupted and doesn't revisit it.
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RuleOfCool/int_94ca53d9	comment	Ace Attorney: Court proceedings aren't anything like that in real life, but after you've played a bit, you'll wish they were.
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RuleOfCool/int_95a9d84e	comment	Unless you're arguing about Code Geass R2. Then you're just asking for pain. Especially if you say it's the best thing ever.
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RuleOfCool/int_97d2f25b	comment	Batman The Brave And The Bold lives on Rule of Cool. As well it should, being inspired by the glorious lunacy of Silver Age DC Comics.
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RuleOfCool/int_98f37f1f	comment	Advent Children is basically what happens if you take a Final Fantasy game and make every attack a Limit Break. Alternatively, it's an answer to the question, "Just what would it really look like to have level 99 characters who can kill just about anything?" In a game, much of that is covered by numbers increasing, but the movie shows that kind of personal power in practice.
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RuleOfCool/int_9aae7e22	comment	BioShock. No, they didn't have automated turrets or flying unmanned machinegun robots in the 60s, and the technology to build an entire city on the bottom of the ocean wasn't even feasible in the late 1940s. But that's terribly irrelevant when one considers that you also have a Magical Hand That Shoots Bees and can set people on fire by snapping your fingers.
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RuleOfCool/int_9c0d980a	comment	Invoked by the protagonist of Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger in-comic here. Plotya Foreshadow: But why did you fire a salvo of photon torpedoes to detonate it? A remote self-destruct command would have done the job... Quentyn Quinn: Well yeah, but this way looked cooler.
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RuleOfCool/int_9c2b4121	comment	Although the concept of 'cool' was merely used to market the toys and rarely had a bearing on the story, other than giving it an alien atmosphere, Bionicle definitely qualifies, with such things as giant-sized, biomechanical tigers that can extend their neck and have caterpillar tracks instead of back legs; robotic heroes surfing on lava or riding on rock slides with buzz saws attached to their feet; humongous insects with powerful blasters implanted onto their bodies; desert bandits riding on dinosaurs; and all kinds of warriors/villains/monsters you can build out of Lego sets with the most bizarre powers you can imagine. Even such mundane things as transportation were cool when the setting called for it. Nowadays, the story tends to focus less on these aspects and more on the actual plot — that is why the introduction of cybernetic dinosaurs with laser targeting-systems was so welcomed.
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RuleOfCool/int_9cbdce58	comment	300. If you're bothered by the fact that Xerxes' army did not, in fact, include cave trolls, ninjas and rhinos, and that Spartans wore armor and had backup, you should recite the MST 3 K Mantra. Either way, the badassery of the movie can be overwhelming to untermenschen.
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RuleOfCool/int_9f8186df	comment	The Eberron campaign setting in Dungeons And Dragons. For one thing, there's a magic train that exists for the sole purpose of players fighting on its roof. Then there's the Lost World continent, the modular magic-powered robots known as the Warforged (who are a PC race!), the dinosaur-riding halflings...
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RuleOfCool/int_a171997b	comment	The makers of Deadly Creatures even said the game was built upon this. "In real life, tarantulas don't go web swinging from area to area. But wouldn't it be cool?" Also, most of the scorpion's finishing moves.
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RuleOfCool/int_a2573b80	comment	Parodied in the Onion News Network video Supreme Court: Death Penalty Is 'Totally Badass'. See also this article from The Onion, in which the Rule Of Cool is applied to federal government.
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RuleOfCool/int_a3698e6	comment	In Jurassic Park, why does the T. Rex show up in the nick of time to save Grant, Ellie and the kids from becoming Raptor chow? Because the T. Rex is awesome and the animators wanted to show it off some more.
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RuleOfCool/int_a389a046	comment	The Italian Job (original of course). Minis that would normally collapse with that much gold? Jumping across gaps in said cars? Driving on the roof of a building and then off again? Oh, and let's not forget only blowing the bloody doors off!
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RuleOfCool/int_a431e92f	comment	ALL of Ratchet's guns are powered by this except the most basic ones (sometimes not even them). Let's consider a few: The RYNO: a Macross Missile Massacre gun so large Ratchet can barely even lift it. The later versions get even more excessive. The Morph-O-Ray and related weapons: stated in the fourth game, Gladiator Deadlocked, to be based on "Heisenberg uncertainty particles". In Up Your Arsenal, it can turn your opponents into phoenix ducks from hell. With an infinite ammo supply. The Glove of Doom and related weapons: At first, it simply summons kamikaze walking robots. Then, things go insane, with a "gold" version that throws robots the same size as Ratchet (with an ammo capacity of 40 robots, released in groups of four), and the higher levels of the Agents of Doom, which produce flying drones with rocket launchers... Even the basic rapid-fire weapon in Up Your Arsenal develops Rule Of Cool powers after a while - not only does each shot ricochet an ungodly number of times, they also discharge red lightning when they hit. RYNOCIRATOR. Disintegration grenade, for all intents and purposes... And the most expensive weapon to get your hands on and keep ammo for... But hey, who cares when you can disintegrate 99% of everything in one shot?
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RuleOfCool/int_a4745cea	comment	The famous lobby scene in The Matrix. There was no reason for them to be there, except for an awesome shootout. Also when Neo kicks Agent Smith, and then instead of taking his foot down, he moves it in air and then put it down. Totally Frigging Cool.
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RuleOfCool/int_a6676d88	comment	Crimson Skies. All of both the PC and Xbox versions. Everything is powered by the Rule Of Cool. The PC version: received this line in a review. The Xbox version: not only are the vehicles ridiculously impractical, but you spend your time fighting rogue Nazis equipped with zeppelins designed to eat other zeppelins, Humongous Mecha Spider Tanks, planes with lightning guns, and a base located inside an ancient Inca ruin packed with magma and Death Traps (it may have been built by dwarves instead). In the final mission, they turn up with two zep-eaters attached to either side of a giant weather control weapon. Oh, and your basic starter plane comes equipped with magnetic homing missiles. This is supposedly set sometime during the 1930s.
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RuleOfCool/int_a949751a	comment	The entirety of Doomsday (along with Refuge In Audacity), a film so bad it's *** ING AWESOME. A detachable bionic eye/camera? Rule of Cool. Foam grenades? Rule of Cool. Glasgow!? Rule of Cool. The entire thing is an exercise in attaching balls to walls. And that's to say nothing of the medieval combat and Bentley Continental GT. Supposedly the director had a dream about an awesome showdown between a medieval knight and a modern soldier, and decided to write a movie around it. Don't forget the Scottish cannibal ninja stripper punks! "This is the best worst movie ever!"
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RuleOfCool/int_acaae08f	comment	Majora's Mask featured a moon falling to the planet over the course of three days. If it isn't stopped it'll destroy just about everything, even at a speed of five mph, once you beat the game it becomes a rainbow, apparently. Neither of these conclusions are great for the tides and oceans. Looks pretty good though.
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RuleOfCool/int_ad8056af	comment	Metal Wolf Chaos was probably created with this rule specifically in mind. It's the only logical explanation for why you're playing as the President of the United States battling a coup by the Vice President in a heavily-armed mech.
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RuleOfCool/int_af3bb51	comment	The legendary Doom comic features the ultimate gut-tearing, demon-shooting, semi-witty-quipping soldier. His cause is just, his faith is strong, and his gun is very, very large.
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RuleOfCool/int_af41b37	comment	FLCL packs as much of this into six episodes as most anime manage in 26. And that goes double for episode 5.
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RuleOfCool/int_afa183d	comment	The creators of Rome admitted they ignored the date the real Atia died simply because they loved the character and wanted to keep her on. Most fans agreed.
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RuleOfCool/int_afb0c85	comment	The movie Tron. This movie has become a cult movie, heavily enjoyed by geeks and people into computers, even though it's obvious to any such person, or for that matter, anyone above the age of seven, that computer programs are not glowing people running around inside a computer. It's just so much fun that this doesn't matter.
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RuleOfCool/int_afcc23c	comment	Obligatory xkcd example. Also this one.
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RuleOfCool/int_b01c1c45	comment	Mischief Makers is a game that takes the Rule Of Cool Beyond The Impossible. Sequences in the game include outrunning a tidal wave on a tricycle, riding giant bees, and a stage literally called Missile Surf.
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RuleOfCool/int_b04ef8be	comment	You could fill a hundred encyclopedias with all the technical and narrative inaccuracies in Star Trek; two dimensional space, clear contradictions in the standard operating procedures of Starfleet, glaringly inefficient ship designs, questionable character development, unrealistic scale of space, unrealistic equipment, convoluted timeline of events, the list is infinite. But....when Trek fires on all cylinders warp nacelles, NOBODY gives a damn. This is not completely true, as the Star Trek writers sometimes write in extra, unnecessary Technobabble explanations for unrealistic technology, most likely due to fan complaints. One example is that the Star Trek transporter technology, which violates Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, has "Heisenberg Compensators", mentioned in Star Trek: TNG episodes "Realm of Fear" and "Ship in a Bottle", and in Star Trek: DS9 episode "Past Tense, Part I".
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RuleOfCool/int_b5af7cb	comment	In an episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the Major one-handedly fires a enormous .50-caliber sniper rifle and reloads the bolt-action by using her knee and the force of the recoil. Why one-handed? Because she's missing her other arm. Even considering the fact that she is a full-on cyborg, the scene borders on absurd. But is it jaw-droppingly awesome? Yes, oh yes, oh yes.... Of course, you have to wonder if it didn't contribute to the fact she needed a new body the next day.
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RuleOfCool/int_b5e155c8	comment	Tom Sawyer in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn decides that freeing Jim from the plantation simply getting the key and letting him out of his cell isn't romantic enough and wants to make an elaborate plan with Rope Ladders, a journal made of leaves, and food poisoned with sleep medicine, just like in the books. In a subversion, the "cool" swashbuckling achieves nothing except get him shot.
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RuleOfCool/int_b67f167a	comment	Prototype's combat is the definition of the Rule Of Cool. Sure, you can punch your enemies to death, but why do that when you can achieve the same result by shoryukening them, punching them thrice in midair, then slamming them into the ground like a rail spike?
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RuleOfCool/int_b6d6f014	comment	Nextwave. If you need to ask why, read the entry.
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RuleOfCool/int_b747d22c	comment	On Shadow's intro on Sonic The Hedgehog 2006, Shadow is shown running through snow while avoiding many robots shooting him. He then runs through the robots. The robots blow up, and then he bounces on a single robot to get past a big door. That's a full use of this rule. However, the Chaos Control he proceed the use is unjustified because it doesn't look as coool as it should... especially after what he just did.
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RuleOfCool/int_bafaa363	comment	The official roleplay rules for Furcadia involve something called the Rule of COOL, but that has nothing to do with this trope, although our Rule Of Cool probably gets invoked by the players often enough.
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RuleOfCool/int_bcb57a93	comment	Spirit of the Century, besides having PCs able to pull off basically anything they've ever seen in a movie (that doesn't involve post 1920s technology, at any rate, and even then it's possible for the Man Of Science), fight gorillas on top of a zeppelin, ride dinosaurs, etc., actually asks the GM to stop and think, before declaring any rule, "What happens if the P Cs succeed, and what happens if they fail?" and is expected to come up with a sufficiently interesting answer for both, just to guarantee every roll will have cool enough results either way to be worthwhile. The game also encourages things like taking gangsters and making the zombie gangsters, or making their leader a talking gorilla, etc.
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RuleOfCool/int_be19310a	comment	The Myth Busters always follow up a "busted" myth with an over-the-top experiment under improbable circumstances, just to see how cool it looks like when it explodes. After all, "we've replicated the circumstances of the myth, now let's replicate the results", and "if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing". While testing to see if small amounts of dynamite can clean the inside of cement trucks of solidified cement, they ended up filling one up with FBI provided high explosives and blowing it up to smithereens. Why would this be considered important information in the busting the of this myth? The correct answer is: Who even cares? They recently topped themselves by creating an even bigger explosion. For comparison, the cement truck vaporization took 800 pounds of explosives. This explosion used 5000 pounds of explosives. It's actually kinda justified, as they were trying to determine if the pressure caused by a massive explosion could create a diamond. It didn't create a diamond, but it was so enormous that it left a crater. And while the explosions weren't nearly as impressive, it still boggles the mind that they made a cannon entirely out of duct tape. Again, a cannon made of duct tape. And the damned thing worked.
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RuleOfCool/int_c2f5e2e8	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_c2f5e2e8	comment	' 'Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!. Why else would a four-foot-tall, 107 lb, 17-year-old kid from The Bronx be travelling around the world, fighting circus freaks, competing for the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship? Because it's cool.'' Also, in the Wii version, why else is Mike Tyson replaced the final challenger by Donkey Kong?
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RuleOfCool/int_c729ff36	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_c729ff36	comment	Needless to say, EBA's predecessor, Osu Tatakae Ouendan, ran on this trope too - if using Japanese-style male cheerleading to encourage a buddy cop pair to fight back against an invading army of battery-like aliens, or an overworked salaryman to protect his city and his daughter in Ultraman fashion, or the entire planet to blast an oncoming meteor with concentrated willpower isn't Rule Of Cool, we don't know what is.
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RuleOfCool/int_ca2b8dad	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_ca2b8dad	comment	This is an explicit rule of design in Magic: The Gathering. Pretty much anything can see print if it's cool enough.
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RuleOfCool/int_cc7ad21d	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_cc7ad21d	comment	God of War. You play as a large Spartan wearing little but a tunic, wielding blades attached to chains that are sheared into his arms, and you kill monsters 10 times bigger than you in brutal over the top ways. Also, you get to kill a god. Several times. Hell, half the stuff Kratos does would seem appalling if they weren't so damn awesome.
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RuleOfCool/int_cd08ef87	type	Rule Of Cool
RuleOfCool/int_cd08ef87	comment	Dino Riders is about people from the future riding into battle on dinos