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

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Fist of the North Star, if examined with a critical eye, would collapse under the weight of its Fridge Logic... if not for how it essentially created the Rule Of Cool-based Shōnen series. It's hard to complain about the implausibility of the premise when you're trying to retrieve your jaw following the fight scenes. 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. Mobile Fighter G Gundam relies on this to set itself apart from the rest of the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise. Series director Imagawa said that by the second episode, he'd decided not to worry about whether or not anything made sense, just so long as it looked cool. If you’ve ever seen an SM – which was developed at a time when Citroen owned Maserati, and thus had a V6 engine from the Italian marque – on the road, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was merely visiting Earth on its way to a distant planet, such are the spaceship qualities its design manifests.

Roger Ebert says in his review of the Iron Man movie that military weapons tend not to look nearly as cool as Iron Man, but also that "It wouldn't be nearly as much fun to see a fight scene between two refrigerators crossed with the leftovers from a boiler room." 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?" The Next Doctor" features a GIGANTIC STEAMPUNK CYBERMECHA. Sure, it was ridiculous, but... gigantic steampunk cybermecha!

7. Jaguar I-Pace

Coulson has Fitz make him a device that projects an energy shield for the sole reason that they both agreed it would be cool for the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. to have a shield. For bonus points, it's in the shape of Captain America's shield, though with the S.H.I.E.L.D. symbol rather than his star. 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. Ninja Slayer: Everything and everyone is so over the top that it has to be seen to be believed. Just think "American '80s and '90s ninja movies" meets Gurren Lagann, and then taken to the next level. The NSX would be cool even without Senna’s involvement, though, being a truly usable supercar decades before the Audi R8, and a car whose chassis was the benchmark against which the McLaren F1 was set. Oh, and before we even begin to talk about the looks, did we mention that the naturally aspirated V6 engine redlines at 8,300rm? 4. Lotus Esprit

Zombieland. Why would you go to an amusement park and turn all the lights on, turning your location into a gigantic target? Why would you jump out of the car and let it sink into the river, instead of hitting the brakes suddenly? Why would you try to con the first signs of life instead of going with them, then why would you leave? Why would you take a motorcycle or a shovel to fight zombies? Why? Why? Because it's awesome. During one of the motorcycle fights, Loz leans over, digs his piston-powered gauntlet into the pavement, then swings around on it, with his bike clamped between his legs, to throw the whole bike at the hero with beyond-lethal velocity. Few cars were as ahead of their time as the Cord 810 of 1936. The first car to feature hidden headlights (which were actually aircraft landing lights), as well as innovations like intermittent windscreen wipers and radio as standard. The Cord 810 was also pioneering for being front-wheel drive, while also featuring sleek horizontal air inlets rather than a conventional radiator grille. In Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, the fight sequences (long enough that you can consider the other scenes "non-fight sequences") consist entirely of "cool", and little to no realism. Just a few examples: The entire Alpha and Omega, especially the wolf characters. Unlike most people who believe this is a mistake. A majority of the wolves have Anime Hair and a few have eye colors discommon to actual wolves. This also includes wolf society portrayed on this movie.The Forever War is a hard sci-fi but author Joe Haldeman has no problem in creating a make-believe "stasis field" that makes it impossible for anything to move faster than 26m/s so he can have swordfighting IN SPACE!! remind us of the pictures clever children sometimes draw "out of their own head," where you will see a modern villa on the right, two knights in helmets fighting in the foreground, and a tiger grinning in a jungle on the left, the several objects being brought together because the artist thinks each pretty, and perhaps still more because he remembers seeing them in other pictures. There are now myriad iterations, blessed with all manner of GPS and Bluetooth wizardry, but as always it’s the purest version that remains most faithful and, yes, the coolest. It was both massively ahead of its time and very much of its time. Production models first started arriving in 1978 and they were awash with futuristic electronics, such as touch-sensitive buttons on the dashboard. Unfortunately, some of this technology was known to have reliability troubles – which is very much period correct for some British cars. These cars are painfully cool, hailing from a time when Mercedes build quality was the epitome of high-end automobile manufacturing.