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StockPhrase. 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 "[[RuleNumberOne 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!"

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StockPhrase. When someone's describing a game unfamiliar to the audience - especially audience--especially if it's a particularly dangerous game - they game--they will say this. Usually preceded by "[[RuleNumberOne 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!"
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* In ''Film/RealSteel'' the boxing match between Midas and the protagonists' robot Noisy Boy takes a bad turn when the former starts using illegal moves to win.
-->'''Max:''' That's illegal!
-->'''Charlie:''' This is the Underworld, kid, there are no rules!
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* ''Film/TheHorseSoldiers'': 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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-->'''Mick Jagger:''' Rule Number One: There are no rules! (''Crowd cheers'') Rule Number Two: No outside food.

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-->'''Mick Jagger:''' -->'''Music/MickJagger:''' Rule Number One: There are no rules! (''Crowd cheers'') rules!
-->(''everybody cheers'')
-->'''Mick:'''
Rule Number Two: No outside food.food.
-->(''everybody groans'')
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Compare {{Calvinball}} when ''all'' the "rules" for a game are made up at players' whim. Contrast ScrewTheRulesTheyreNotReal, when a competitor ignores rules they aren't forced to follow:

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Standard battle cry for NoRulesRacing. Compare {{Calvinball}} {{Calvinball}}, when ''all'' the "rules" for a game are made up at players' whim. Contrast ScrewTheRulesTheyreNotReal, when a competitor ignores rules they aren't forced to follow:
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* The trailer for ''Film/{{Leatherheads}}'': "In the early days of Football, the rules were simple. There were no rules." Or something like that.

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* The From the trailer for ''Film/{{Leatherheads}}'': "In the early days "For a special breed of Football, men called Leatherheads, the rules were simple. There simple: there were no rules." Or something like that."

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* The trailer for ''Film/{{Leatherheads}}'': "In the early days of Football, the rules were simple. There were no rules." Or something like that.

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* The trailer for ''Film/{{Leatherheads}}'': "In In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' when Pinocchio, Lampwick and the early days of Football, the other naughty kids arrive at [[PleasureIsland Terra Magica]], they're outraged upon being shown small chalkboards with various rules were simple. There were no rules." Or something like that.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: [[LargeHam THERE ARE NO RUUULES]]!" and gives them maces to literally break them.


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* The trailer for ''Film/{{Leatherheads}}'': "In the early days of Football, the rules were simple. There were no rules." Or something like that.
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* In Creator/RoaldDahl's autobiography ''Going Solo'', he writes that when he was in Africa before the outbreak of the Second World War, his young native servant Mdisho suggested killing the Germans before the war started.
--> '''Roald Dahl:''' With us, nobody is allowed to kill anybody until the whistle blows, and the game is officially started.
--> '''Mdisho''': But that is ridiculous! In a war there are no rules! Winning is all that counts!
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* Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} organizes its rules into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars five pillars]], the fifth of which is to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules ignore all rules]]: "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it."

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* Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} Website/{{Wikipedia}} organizes its rules into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars five pillars]], the fifth of which is to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules ignore all rules]]: "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it."
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* This is given an existential exploration in the franchise ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', where "Nothing is true, everything is permitted".
-->'''Altaïr:''' Our creed doesn't command us to be free, it commands us to be wise.


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* You ever wonder why professional wrestling is so popular in the South? It used to be real, and it used to be vicious. There weren't really any rules beyond "no killing". People grew their thumbnails extra long for more effective eye-gouging. People frequently lost eyes and ears during matches.
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* An ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' promo involving a superhero vs. supervillain Fight Club has the Series/{{Arrow}} taking Series/TheFlash in an elevator to a MissingFloor in the Palmer Tech building.

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* An ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' promo involving a superhero vs. supervillain Fight Club has the Series/{{Arrow}} taking Series/TheFlash Series/TheFlash2014 in an elevator to a MissingFloor in the Palmer Tech building.

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