History Main / RuleOfCool

* The video for Music/{{Muse}}'s ''Music/KnightsOfCydonia'' features cowboys, androids, birds of prey, seduction, kung fu, rayguns, dirtbikes, execution, Soviet imagery, holographic band members, a unicorn and a [[EarthAllAlong half-submerged Statue Of Liberty]], and is apparently set in a goldrush town named after the Martian region of Cydonîa. It doesn't make a great deal of sense, But it is still awesome!

* This is the basis of the Lemon Demon song, "The Music/UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny" (which inspired a [[http://www.ultimateshowdown.org/ well-known Flash video]]), in which Neil Cicierega describes a battle royale started by Franchise/Godzilla and Franchise/Batman. As the fight went on, more pop culture icons join in, including Shaquille O'Neal, Abraham Lincoln, [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]], Creator/JackieChan, Franchise/IndianaJones, the Franchise/PowerRangers, ChuckNorris, [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], Comicbook/{{Superman}}, BenitoMussolini, and countless others:

** Also gilgamesh, archer, and shirou can use swords and other bladed weapons as projectiles, raining a vast amount of swords down upon their enemies. Tell me that isn't cool!!! I dare you!!!!!

* ''HighschoolOfTheDead'' What? Anime school girls with big knockers? Been there, done that.Anime school girls with big knockers...fighting hordes of zombies?SIGN ME UP!

** EldritchAbomination [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] [[WhoYouGonnaCall serving the descendants of Abraham van Helsing]] [[CoolVsAwesome versus]] [[StupidJetpackHitler a souped up exiled battalion of]] Ghostapo Nazi vampires who [[WarForFunAndProfit wage war for fun]] led by an AxCrazy [[ThoseWackyNazis SS]]-[[ChaoticEvil Major]] versus a secret [[AnimeCatholicism catholic]] [[DoomTroopers organisation]] and their [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity crazy]] [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholic]] [[ChurchMilitant paladin]].

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}]]'': Sasuke can start a fire with his eyes. Instead of just setting fire to the Juubi, he throws it, combining it with Naruto's RassenShiriken, creating "shakutonkourinshuippukokuyari zero shiki" (a.k.a. throwing star shaped like a windmill and arrow blacker then liquer) to set fire to the Juubi.

* ''NARUTO[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Naruto]]Naruto'' Sasuke can start a fire with his eyes. Instead of just setting fire to the Juubi, he throws it, combining it with Naruto's RassenShiriken, creating "shakutonkourinshuippukokuyari zero shiki" (a.k.a. throwing star shaped like a windmill and arrow blacker then liquer) to set fire to the Juubi.

* ''[[DinoRiders Dino-Riders'']]: {{time travel}}ing humans and alien monsters, some with [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks sharks]] for heads fighting each other while riding on dinosaurs outfitted with space age armour missile launchers and laser cannons. ''Dinosaurs equipped with [[{{BFG}} thumping great guns]] and laser cannons battling each other!'' How did that not catch on? These days, they're mostly remembered through pictures shared as "most-awesome-thing-ever" {{meme|ticMutation}}s.

* ''[[Manga/Naruto]]'' Sasuke can start a fire with his eyes. Instead of just setting fire to the Juubi, he throws it, combining it with Naruto's RassenShiriken, creating "shakutonkourinshuippukokuyari zero shiki" (a.k.a. throwing star shaped like a windmill and arrow blacker then liquer) to set fire to the Juubi.

* ''Manga/Naruto'' Sasuke can start a fire with his eyes. Instead of just setting fire to the Juubi, he throws it, combining it with Naruto's RassenShiriken, creating "shakutonkourinshuippukokuyari zero shiki" (a.k.a. throwing star shaped like a windmill and arrow blacker then liquer) to set fire to the Juubi.

* ''Manga/Naruto'' Sasuke can start a fire with his eyes. Instead of just setting fire to the Juubi, he throws it, combining it with Naruto's RassenShiriken, creating "shakutonkourinshuippukokuyari zero shiki" (a.k.a. throwing star shaped like a windmill and arrow blacker then liquer).

* The ''{{Rambo}}'' cartoon, go with it, seems to be loaded with this kind of thing [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JWZoe1UeUgc 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''.

* Jack Rakan of ''MahouSenseiNegima'' appears to have based his entire fighting style on this. His moves include summoning a building-sized sword, [[http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/71/mahou_sensei_negima/chapter.67554/page.13/ surfing on a sword]], and ''shattering a magical pocket dimension just by being awesome.'' It's repeatedly lampshaded by other characters.

* All of ''{{Bayonetta}}''. Every second, every element. Right down to the hair suit.

[[caption-width-right:300:Is that TheGrimReaper? On a mountain? Playing an [[ThePowerOfRock electric guitar]]? Who cares if this doesn't make any sense, it's ''awesome''. [[spoiler:This scene is in the book exactly as pictured]]]]

** ''Anime/MazingerZ'': Thus, we got a MadeOfIndestructium eighteen-meter-tall humanoid war machine [[spoiler:and EldritchAbomination]] created by a MadScientist, piloted from within, powered with AppliedPhlebotinum, equiped with [[RocketPunch punches can be thrown at the enemy]], [[EyeBeams optical weaponry]], [[BreathWeapon corrosive gusts of wind]] and [[ChestBlaster heat blasts]] capable to melt at seconds a monster made of metal, capable to [[IfItSwimsItFlies fly, swim]] and to withstand a nuclear blast and be dunked in magma for a short while, and [[MonsterOfTheWeek constantly fights]] robotical gladiators capable to [[ShockAndAwe shot lightning bolts]] and make 3-D mirages in thin air without a screen, flying medieval knights, whales loaded with nukes, three-headed dragons, giant crabs capable to set off earthquakes, TransformingMecha capable turning into giant landmines, {{Ninja}}s, archerians, snipers and humanoids capable fly at Match 6 speed. And that is without getting into some of the first {{ActionGirl}}s in anime, the HomeBase equipped with a BeehiveBarrier, the zombie cyborg {{Mook}}s, the [[AbusivePrecursors ancient civilizations]] capable to [[LostTechnology build superweapons]], one of the CoDragons that is a half-tiger cyborg, or the SuperVillainLair that in reality is a humongous HumongousMecha disguised like an IslandBase.

* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' uses this mixed with RuleOfFunny to make its [[FantasyKitchenSink bizarre and frequently absurd mythology]] work. Probably reaches its peak during the "Holiday Wars" arc. Bun-Bun, a [[KillerRabbit murderous]] [[TalkingAnimal talking rabbit]] with the stolen powers of Halloween and the Easter Bunny, leads an army of ghouls in battle against a mutated, alien Santa and his own army of black ops elves. Santa and Bun-Bun have their [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny final showdown]] where they fight each other at SuperSpeed using the same ability that lets them deliver presents/hide eggs all over the world in a single day. Eventually [[spoiler:Bun-Bun performs a CoupDeGrace on Santa using a Nerf gun]]. [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/031221 Seriously]].
** Then [[spoiler:he manage to steal the [[MacGuffin Deus Ex Oveum]] before he can use it as a last resort because... well he is the Easter Bunny, he hide eggs deal with it.]]

** King Radical comes from Radical Land, which is even more like this; apparently, ''everything'' there is based on the RuleOfCool. Given the general nature of the comic, it makes perfect sense when he reveals (in "A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court") that [[spoiler: the world of the comic is halfway between Radical Land and a boring universe like ours, influenced by the energies of both, which is why it looks like the world we know with the addition of the occasional ninja doctor or vengeful astronaut ghost or an ogre running a supermarket.]]

* I'm disappointed in how far this article got before ''MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. Raiden, previously TheScrappy from ''MetalGearSolid2'', has an electrical sword capable of draining the electrolytes right out of a guy. Running into battle, swatting bullets aside, each footstep making a little plume of electricity. And the bosses are completely ridiculous, and get increasingly wilder. If Raiden wasn't ''always'' a badass, he is now.

* 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.

* The climactic fight scene in [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie version]] of ''VForVendetta''. It's a ridiculously overblown ''[[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]'' ripoff, especially given that in the comic [[spoiler:V just lets Finch shoot him]], but still completely awesome.

* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' 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 [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=48&issue=11 this.]]
*** Apparently, [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=27&issue=13 KING RADICAL]] epitomizes the RuleOfCool. So...radical....
*** It gets even better in the most recent issue with [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=23&issue=14 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 [[strike:pterodactyls]] [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying 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''.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=66&issue=15 Ent. With. Helicopter. Head.]]