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There Are No Rules
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Stock Phrase. When someone's describing a game unfamiliar to the audience - especially if it's a particularly dangerous game - they will say this. Usually preceded by "There's only one rule..." Occasionally, they will list two or three rules of the game which are easy for the audience to remember, and round it off by saying that "Apart from that, there are no rules!" This is almost a Dead Horse Trope; if it crops up in media nowadays it'll at least have a lampshade hung on it. Although there are a few stray instances of it being played straight, even today. When there's only a rule number 2, this is a Parodied Trope. Standard battle cry for "No Rules" Racing. Compare Calvinball, when all the "rules" for a game are made up at players' whim. Contrast Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!, when a competitor ignores rules they aren't forced to follow: |
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Fight Club: Members Only - "Fight Club has only ONE rule: there are no rules!" (This is a Bollywood film with no relation to the more famous David Fincher movie.) | |
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In the Dragon Age series, the rules of the Orlesian "game" (i.e. the cutthroat competition for power and prestige between Orlesian nobles) have been summed up as "Anything goes" in the Encyclopedia Exposita. | |
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Dark Angel episode "Fuhgeddaboudit" | |
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From The Simpsons episode "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation," in which Homer goes to a Rock 'N' Roll fantasy camp: | |
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The Horse Soldiers: When Marlowe and Kendall decide to settle their difference by duking it out, Kendall asks what the rules are. Marlowe replies "Just make them up as you go along" and—before he has finished speaking—Kendall punches him the the face. | |
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Parodied in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Logan has challenged Butch to a fight for leadership of the Hole in the Wall gang. | |
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Tales of the Bounty Hunters: In "The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett", Han Solo is placed in a Forced Prize Fight as a punishment for cheating at cards on a planet with very strict sportsmanship laws. The referee forbids eye gouges, blows to the throat and groin, and intentional killing. "There... are... no... other... rules." | |
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In Real Steel the boxing match between Midas and the protagonists' robot Noisy Boy takes a bad turn when the former starts using illegal moves to win. | |
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Smogon, one of the main communities for competitive Pokémon battling, has several formats with differing rules and permitted Mons. One of the formats is called "Anything Goes", and as the name implies, this format has no restrictions... except that it keeps the anti-trolling Endless Battle Clause, "Players cannot intentionally prevent their opponent's Pokémon from fainting from PP depletion and Struggle recoil." | |
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Subverted in Community. During a Duel to the Death in the Sun Chamber, the announcer gets a little bit over the top. | |
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The GM's rules for Paranoia (spoilered for your protection, citizen) amount to "Rules are for players; if it sounds fun, do it" and "Kill the bastards." If your security clearance is violet or below, please report to your nearest Happy Fun Time Reeducation/Soylent Manufacturing Center. | |
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Mune Shinri: There are essentially five "boundaries" not rules, and don't you dare call them rules. They basically boil down to not bossing others around and not being bossed around (since rape, theft, or murder are means of doing stuff to people they don't want, these count). | |
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Subverted in Corner Gas when Lacey describes her new bulletin boards. This phrase is met with complaints that if it has that rule then there are rules and it's decided that the new bulletin board is too confusing. | |
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Rat Race: Donald Sinclair gives this answer when one of the contestants asks what the rules of the race are. They're allowed to cheat as much as they want to sabotage each other's progress, but they did have to sign waivers to absolve the casino of any responsibility. | |
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In World of Warcraft, Dr. Dealwell explains the rules of the Thuderdome to the player: The rules are simple: Two men enter, one—wait. Sometimes there's women. Two people enter, one—Wait, no, sometimes it's more than two...and that means more than two come out— Alright, only rule is stay in the dome! There are no other rules! | |
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Happens in an episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers where the Monster of the Week makes Tommy and Jason hate each other. They almost end up in a fight arranged by Bulk, who says "The only rule is - there are no rules!" | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Mongul does this when explaining the rules of his race in "Death Race to Oblivion!": He later breaks his word to demand that Batman turn off the Batmobile's jet mode. Batman calls him out on it, too. |
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Higurashi: When They Cry: The Hinamizawa Games Club's official mantra is "Always aim to win; do whatever it takes to win." As long as the cheating doesn't get too blatant, anything goes. The club members employ psychological warfare on each other, involve people from outside the game, rig things to their advantage... not doing any of this is considered to be "not taking the game seriously". | |
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In Ultra Fast Pony, at the Running Of The Leaves, it's outright stated that there's no rule against cheating. | |
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In the 2000 AD adaptation of The Stainless Steel Rat, "Slippery Jim" diGriz lands on a Feudal Future planet and finds the nobility jousting with flying motorbikes. He finds this rather dull and quickly adds his own unique spin. | |
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Said word-for-word in the Matthew Hawkwood novel Rapscallion, just before Hawkwood's duel with the Marmeluke: | |
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | |
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A downplayed version in Iron Fist (2017) when Colleen Wing takes up cage fighting. | |
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Zoids: New Century: The Backdraft Group's Battle Mode 0999 is this trope. And they milk it for everything it's worth. | |
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In Grease (1978), Leo says "The rules are... there ain't no rules!" | |
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The live-action Popeye with Robin Williams has an organized fight, where the gamesmaster announces, "Now, you all know the rules: there are no rules." | |
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Parodied on an episode of The Drew Carey Show when Drew and his friends were going to have some kind of competition: | |
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Parodied in Malcolm in the Middle when Francis moved in with Richie for a while. | |
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Captain Jack Sparrow in the first film gives an entire speech to Will on how there are no rules when it comes to duels aside from any physical barriers. | |
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In Regular Show, Mordecai exploits a literal lack of rules, including no rule against having rules. | |
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Played with in Preacher. A mook that Jesse Custer kicked the shit out of earlier is looking for a rematch. When they finally meet up, he tells Jesse that this time, it'll be a fair fight. His boss, who has seen Jesse fight and knows how tough he is, offers some advice. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents!: | |
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Each JauntTrooper game assigns you a mission (eg. assassination or MacGuffin retrieval) to accomplish in a Wide-Open Sandbox. The manual states: | |
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This is LEGO Dimensions' tagline, which describes the game perfectly. | |
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Celebrity Deathmatch subverts the Trope most of the time. A few episodes claim that it applies, but other episodes say they have a few rules. (For example, in one episode, the "number one rule of Deathmatch" is, "Don't piss off Mills". And indeed, in most cases, whatever Mills Lane says goes.) | |
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Variant from X-Men, at the cage match: | |
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/b/ does have rules, they're just more like guidelines. Rules 1 and 2 are borrowed from Fight Club and Rules 30 through 40 mostly deal with porn. | |
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An Arrowverse promo involving a superhero vs. supervillain Fight Club has the Arrow taking The Flash (2014) in an elevator to a Missing Floor in the Palmer Tech building. In Fight Club 2.0 they've ungraded the arena into a Deadly Training Area for Supergirl. At the end of the promo the rule becomes, "Never ask for more Fight Club." Enter Killer Gorilla. |
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This is Summer's summary of the underground "Skate Club" in Harley Quinn v2 #10: | |
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Out Cold: | |
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The Locked Tomb: Gideon the Ninth: The necromancers and cavaliers summoned to Canaan House by the God-Emperor are told that the one rule in their challenge to ascend to Lyctorhood is "never open a locked door unless you have permission". A few murders in, it's clarified that that's the only rule — all other laws are suspended for the challengers by divine fiat. | |
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In Dragon Half, the Brutal Killer Martial Arts Tournament is like this. Any weapon or tactic is allowed. The winner must either kill his opponent or put the King's seal on his forehead. | |
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The Hunger Games: Katniss is surprised when a rule change is announced mid-game, thinking to herself that there aren't really any rules in practice - although cannibalism is frowned upon. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer series finale: | |
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From the trailer for Leatherheads: "For a special breed of men called Leatherheads, the rules were simple: there were no rules." | |
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In The Adventures of Pinocchio when Pinocchio, Lampwick and the other naughty kids arrive at Terra Magica, they're outraged upon being shown small chalkboards with various rules on them ("No noise", "Brush your teeth", "Go to bed on time", "No lying" etc) before the fat clown tells them "I forgot the biggest rule of them all: THERE ARE NO RUUULES!" and gives them maces to literally break them. | |
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In Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome: And Max still manages to break the rules. |
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In Jon Sable, Freelance #10, Sable goes looking for trouble and finds three thugs standing by a Trashcan Bonfire with baseball bats. Jon challenges the biggest one to a fight and picks up one of the bats. He then says "Okay, let's get the rules straight". when another of the thugs responds "There ain't no rules!", Sable invokes the Plank Gag by turning quickly with bat over his shoulder and whacking the big guy in the head. He then follows it up by using the bat to launch a Groin Attack on the second thug. | |
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| There Are No Rules / int_f6c05e8e | type |
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Subverted in Friends in describing the Ultimate Fighting Champion tournament. At first Ross claims (in a very dramatic voice) "The only rule is 'there are no rules!'" When confronted with the absurdity of this, he admits that there are two rules: no eye gouging or fish-hooking (pulling out your opponent's cheek with a crooked finger). | |
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This is given an existential exploration in the franchise Assassin's Creed, where "Nothing is true, everything is permitted". | |
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Played with in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, when Hades sets up a tournament to get Cloud and Hercules to fight each other so that Hercules will be weakened enough for him to take him to the underworld. When Sora steps in to fight him to save Hercules: | |
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| There Are No Rules / int_fd8221d2 | type |
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Wikipedia organizes its rules into five pillars, the fifth of which is to ignore all rules: "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." | |
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Comes up in a Judge Dredd story where Dredd has Mean Machine challenge a Scottish mutant clan leader to a headbutting duel: | |
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Cobra Kai: Tory's response to Sam's complaints about her fighting style during the school brawl ("this isn't a tournament! There are no rules!") | |
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