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Kamina, resident badass draws his trusty katana, and it keeps coming out of the sheath for ten feet, for no reason other than it looks cool while battling someone wielding a meat cleaver. The length of Kamina's sword seems directly proportional to the length of the speech he is making while drawing it. This notion was the central focus of Underworld (2003). This is a world where vampires are at constant war with werewolves. In the same vein, DOUBLE K, the buddy cop version of the anime, combines how Rule Of Cool driven both types of shows are. Isaac Asimov's David Starr, Space Ranger: Sanito tables are made out of force fields. Why? Because they're easy to clean. However, the initial force fields worked too well, and they had to be made to purposely glitter so people would see that their plates and cutlery actually rested on something tangible.

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. Speed is dangerous, but sometimes the flouting of this danger appeals to bikers and makes us willing to take the risk, drop a gear, and twist the wrist! 3. The Sound Of A Motorcycle Is Cool Played with in Metal Fighter Miku. Early in the series, the team's mentor asks the girls to explain the purpose of the robot-like metal suits used in their wrestling league. After one team member gives a detailed explanation of the various computer systems and sensors built into the outfits, he dismisses it all with a simple "Because it looks cool!" In the end, it is revealed that his overarching goal has been to convince everyone to do away with all the pseudo-futuristic glitz and return the sport to the muscle-and-technique competition that wrestling is supposed to be.Six String Samurai. After the Russians nuke everything, Elvis becomes King of the remains of Lost Vegas. A samurai Buddy Holly battles Slash to claim his throne. "Only one man can kill so many Russians. Bring his guitar to me!" This is the canonical explanation for the name of The Avengers. What are they avenging? Nothing; the Wasp off-handedly suggested the name, and Ant-Man decided that it sounded cool. Wanted as well as the director's previous films, Night Watch and Day Watch, where things exist for no other reason than because they're cool. Example: Let's drive a car across a building. Why? Why not? You get the feeling that when they were thinking of the concept for this movie, someone said, "What would happen if you took all the cool stunts from The Matrix, and turned them up a notch?"

Even more painfully, the SEC used to cost buttons on the second-hand market, but a growing recognition of just how special these large coupes are has pushed prices up. The 560 AMG model, meanwhile, commands serious money – if you can find one. 3. Honda NSX Cowboy Bebop can be very confusing if taken on surface value, with only five episodes needed to tell the full narrative. Despite this fact, the entire twenty-six episodes remains a standard of great anime for it's smoothness, filmic style, well choreographed action sequences. This is only one element that enabled the show to succeed.Primeval: It's implausible and silly half the time, but it's about crazy scientists fighting time-traveling DINOSAURS. The development team does their research, but they don't apply it at all and instead take Artistic License – Biology in heedless abandon. One episode even featured a raptor chase through a shopping mall. On motorbikes. funny examples how Rule Of Cool can mingle with something and get rabies. "...should be pretty cool. Right?" Freeza impaled Krillin in the chest with one of his horns on his head and then started to shift his head up and down, further injuring Krillin and causing more blood to leak out of him, used a paintball style Beam Spam on Piccolo, threw a mountain at Goku using his mind and imprisoned Goku in an golden sphere of energy and then toyed around with like a soccer ball and made Krillin implode from the inside out without touching him. The feats of strength Arnold Schwarzenegger's characters tended to display, outside of fight scenes, cross this trope over with Cutscene Power to the Max. Examples include his casually lugging around trees in Commando and his ripping a bolted-down bed out of the floor, one-handed in The Running Man. About the only time that kind of Strong as They Need to Be factor makes a difference in the actual plot is his freeing himself from the Mind-Wipe Chair in Total Recall (1990).

Despite eschewing Space Opera tropes, it's hard to deny that the film is built around the idea of three-meter-tall blue quasi-Algonquian catpeople fighting mecha from space, and it plays fast and loose with the laws of physics and probability to make that happen. The 1970s Aston Martin Lagonda looks like something out of a science fiction film. It was designed by a man named William Towns and although seeing a Lagonda on the road is a rare sight indeed, the striking wedge-shaped design is instantly recognisable. The year 1969 was a big one: not only did NASA and Seiko respectively take Omega’s Speedmaster to the Moon and quartz technology to the market, but the self-winding chronograph was finally realised – twice. Arguably, the post was pipped by Zenith and its immortal El Primero, but Heuer (along with Breitling and Büren) was the first to industrialise its own “world-first” automatic stopwatch, the Calibre 11 sooner.Rolex’s response was the Sea-Dweller Submariner model – upped from 300 to 610m water resistance (nowadays water-tight to a scary 1,200m) and fitted with a helium escape valve for drawn-out ‘saturation’ dives. What’s all-important to Rolex aficionados, though? That scarlet-red dial text, as per the original – catnip to collectors, with a just-enough whiff of danger. A specific example in soul society of bending the rule that meant they couldn't 'fly' in the first place - the Dynamic Entry into the cells where Rukia is held is assisted by a giant winged device that is ONLY useful in the Seireitei. A giant wing comes from nowhere while Ichigo radiates his badass aura, to the surprise of two captains, before discarding it and landing next to Rukia. Science Ninja Team Gatchaman: A huge sea/air/spaceplane turning into a giant bird of flame. To take down giant mecha. Hinotori or Firey Phoenix or Firebird mode, it is awesome. And then there was the episode with the Icebird.

As with the above list, these blasts from the past are selected on a wholly subjective basis, and have been chosen with significant personal preference and prejudice. You will find no Porsches, Ferraris or Lamborghinis in this rundown because of this, and also because enough online lists of cool cars already exist detailing some of the more iconic cars from these manufacturers. 1. Renault Avantime

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Off-road bikes generally have a slow, thumping beat that appeals to many riders who prefer off-road riding activities. The car's model name can also be crucial to its image. Something like a Shelby Cobra conjures up connotations of a deadly animal, although the exception to this would be Ferrari - who seem to get by just fine with mere numbers. A superb high-speed grand tourer with hugely absorbent and comfortable hydro-pneumatic suspension, the SM was unlike anything that had come before, and its style has never been repeated. 9. Alpine GTA Even if your personal preference is a touring bike, these bikes have their own distinctive deep-throated sound that portrays their raw power, waiting to be unleashed, and the yearning to go off on an adventure creeps into our minds. A Silurian lady fighting crime in Victorian England with her human maid/lesbian lover? WITH A KATANA?? Admit it, you want to watch that episode now.