When cool things are combined, the combination is cooler than the sum of its parts. This combination is usually physically impossible or contradictory, like the title of this page. Fortunately, if done right, nobody cares (Rule of Cool!)
This doesn't always work. If the cool things somehow cancel each other out, if it's just so overwhelming the Willing Suspension of Disbelief snaps like a brittle twig, you may get left with a piece of camp that is at best funny and at worst disgusting… often falling into the realm of Cool, but Stupid. Just remember Strong Bad's words of wisdom: "Too much of a good thing is an awesome thing. But too much of an awesome thing is… umm… really, really dumb and bad."
See also Awesomeness Is Volatile, Cool vs. Awesome, Heinz Hybrid, Hybrid Overkill Avoidance (avoiding this trope), Impossibly Cool Weapon, Mix-and-Match Critter, Monster Mash, Fantasy Kitchen Sink, & Rule of Cool. May also overlap with Twofer Token Minority.
Subtropes:
- Cyber Ninja
- Dracolich
- Ghost Pirate
- Nazi Zombies
- Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly
- Non-Human Undead
- Planimal
- Robot Athlete
- Robot Clown
- Samurai Cowboy
- Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats
- Winged Unicorn
The title that narrowly lost out for this trope: Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot Skeleton Creeper Cowboy Hobos With Chain-Katanas And Several Revolvers And The Power of Friendship Fighting Vampire Nazis With Dark Magic Riding Cyborg Dinosaurs With Head Mounted Lasers Attacked by Angry Guard Dogs with Bees in Their Mouths That Shoot Bees at You When They Bark, Spiders and Snakes On A Submarine Jet With Clowns Riding on Alien Elephants, Lions, Tigers, Desert Polar and Brown Bears, Wolves, Monkeys, Foxes and Anacondas Crashing Into An Ancient Zeppelin with Cuteness, Neko Miko Reimu, Rainbows, Kittens, Puppies, Cuddly Teddy Bears, Pandas, Penguins, Bunnies, Mice, My Little Ponies, Winged Unicorns and Pigs In SPACE With Chuck Norris And Samuel L. Jackson With Lesbian Time Travelling Bikini Werewolf Cat Girls Dual Wielding Cokes Part 2: This Time, It's Personal...THE MOVIE! The Game. REBELLION. THE FINAL FRIDAY. Adventure Time with Bart Simpson, Pikachu, Spongebob Squarepants and Scooby-Doo and Benito Mussolini, and the Blue Meanie and Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie. Featuring Pink Gold Baby Tanooki Metal Cat Dante from the Devil May Cry Series.
& Knuckles!(maybe his Ugandan cousin)
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Examples:
- Advertising
- Anime
- Asian Animation
- Board Games
- Card Games
- Comic Books
- Fan Works
- Film
- Food And Drink
- Literature
- Live-Action TV
- Music
- Mythology
- New Media
- Newspaper Comics
- Professional Wrestling
- Tabletop Games
- Theatre
- Toys
- Video Games
- Web Animation
- Web Comics
- Web Original
- Western Animation
- Other
- Real Life
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