Cool Factor, The: A Guide to Achieving Effortless Style, with Secrets from the Women Who Have It

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The Power Rangers franchise got its success by being practically fueled by this trope, the premise alone involving a small group of teens doing martial arts and making awesome if slightly goofy team poses while wearing motorcycle helmets and fighting giant monsters by piloting transforming giant robots might seem very silly, but if you tell it to any Power Ranger fan, you'll likely get the response "Who cares? it's freaking awesome!" Outside of motoring enthusiasts few are likely to know what an Avantime is, while inside an Avantime you will find captain’s chairs and a ‘global open’ button that opens all four windows and the panoramic sunroof at the same time, making this pillarless coupe-cum-people-carrier an open-air luxury cruiser 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?" This song from the film Sivaji: The Boss. As this blog post puts it, "the waycool approach is to ride up, while napping, on a motorcycle that you drive with your feet, dismount by means of wheelie on the front tire, and shoot the bad guys with a machinegun hidden in your guitar. Then the stunningly attractive Bollywood actress will sing and dance with you."

The aspect of motorcycles that first catches the attention of many people is their unmistakable sound. From the scream of a high revving superbike to the thumping power of a touring bike, each bike has a sound that makes you turn your head to look when you hear it. Why is the planet Crait in The Last Jedi a red mineral planet covered with a layer of white salt? Because the visual of geysers of red earth exploding from beneath the white surface looks FREAKIN' AWESOME!

A one-eyed seventy year old nun who runs a gun-smuggling 'church of violence' and whose weapon of choice is a golden Desert Eagle she fires one handed? It's also the only justification for some of the tactics depicted. Even if the hero knows nothing of his own world's history, common sense should tell him that having lightly armed cavalry charge armour and machine guns is suicide but it's such cool, heroic suicide that he does it anyway.

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. Mazinger: Go Nagai explicitly said that this is the reason Mazinger Z (and as a result the Super Robot Genre) is what it is. He DID his research about science and technology, but ultimately he did what he thought seemed cooler. Of course, you’ll have your own ideas of what constitutes a cool watch – so do please let us know. Sure, maybe we’ll disagree. But, you know, that’s cool. Tudor Heritage Chrono UFO Robo Grendizer: The main character is an alien prince that pilots the mechanical embodiment of his planet's god of war, that is armed with a double-edged scythe that emerges out of its shoulders, and it can be combined with devices allow it bury underground, swim or fly in space. When the main character wants to ride Grendizer, he leaps since a tall hatch and shouts loudly his name, transform his clothes into his Latex Space Suit as airborne. Transformers: There is no other reason for these films to exist or for anyone to watch them except that Giant Transforming Robots are inherently cool. It could be argued that Michael Bay's career rests on taking a premise and making it cool.

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Joss Whedon has specifically cited this as the reason why, in " Chosen", all of the Ubervamps suddenly start dying easier than regular vampires seem to, even when being fought by normal humans. The fact that the main character's special technique is called " Shining Finger" is also helped by this rule.