History Main / RuleOfCool

** Sokka has a ''space sword.'' A '''sword''' made from '''meterorite.''' Suddenly being the TeamNormal became a much cooler position.

** An 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. She's taken out several speedboats chasing the Lagoon by jumping from each to each and shooting everyone on board, or making them shoot each other... all whilst listening to something that sounds like exercise music on an UsefulNotes/{{MP3}} player.

* SimpleYetAwesome

* ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' with its [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Lantern Superheroes]], ComicBook/{{Superman}} suddenly being the general of a 1000+ Kryptonian army, and so on. [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] influences have crept into UsefulNotes/{{the Modern Age|of Comic Books}}.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Lex Luthor, especially in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}}. He once ''[[CureForCancer cured cancer]]'' just to trick Superman into believing that he'd reformed. Plus, he's a normal human who is the greatest enemy of one of the most powerful superheroes ever created.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', being a Franchise/{{Superman}} show that ran for ten years, and with one of the producers a fan of UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} madness, sure has its moments.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' was inspired by the glorious lunacy of [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Creator/DCComics so ''of course'' it focuses on coolness above all else.

* Music/{{Rush}}'s "Music/TwentyOneTwelve" is 20 minutes long and the vocals account for less than 10 of them. Does most of the rest of the song have anything to do with the story it tells? For the most part, no, but that's not going to stop it from being awesome.

* SchizoTech

* RecursiveAmmo

* SavedByTheAwesome

* OverlyCoolPlaySpace

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot

* MoreDakka

* MegaMawManeuver

* MarkedChange

* HumongousMecha

* HumanPincushion

* ElectricSlide

* DramaticHighPerching

* CraterPower

* BlingBlingBang

* BladeRun

* {{BFG}}
* {{BFS}}

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy

* BeamOWar

* AGodIsYou

* AnimalBattleAura

* AudibleSharpness

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

** Invoked in the preceding series, ''anime/BravePoliceJDecker'', as the reason the Build Tiger combined robot form has a tiger head on the chest.

* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'':

* The anime adaptation of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has this to thank for at least one difference from the original visual novel. In the game's Fate storyline (which the anime is primarily based on), one of the main villains of the series, Gilgamesh, approaches Saber and Shiro. After severely wounding Shiro, Saber launches a series of attacks at Gilgamesh, which he shrugs off with his armor, thereby averting ArmorIsUseless. In the anime, this is replaced by Gilgamesh summoning swords from his Noble Phantasm, the Gate of Babylon, so that they block the path of Saber's swings, a method much more visually appealing than just having him stand there and take it.

* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' basically runs on this trope, since a lot of it's plot elements don't make much sense but were really awesome on the other side. The [[Manga/PhantomBlood first part]] alone is about a man using a mysterious martial art [[ThePowerOfTheSun that draws its power from the sun]] to fight [[CainAndAbel his evil adoptive brother]] [[EvilMask who used a stone mask]] that, [[ThePowerOfBlood when drenched in blood]], grows thorns and actives acunputure points in the brain of its wearer, [[TranshumanTreachery turning him]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent into a vampire]]. And that's ''the most normal part'' of the eight.

* ''WesternAnimation/DinoRiders'': {{time travel}}ing humans and alien monsters, some with [[ThreateningShark 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. Thankfully it was continued by Imaginext Dinosaurs.

[[folder:Webcomics]]

** Several commercials for the [[Film/{{Transformers}} 2007 movie]] were constructed of the robots appearing onscreen and onlookers standing around saying "cool."