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Rule of cool is an invisible rule what this show (and most action movies, eastern animation and combat orientated games) runs on. It allows stuff that are cool to function better than their practical counterparts.

For instance, in real life, a gunblade is a worse gun that a normal one and a worse blade than a normal one, and 9 times out of 10 you are better off keeping one of each rather than both combined. It’s a master of none basically.

In the RWBY universe however, rule of cool allows the gunblade to be as good of a gun as a normal one and as good of a blade as a normal one. It becomes good at everything and you would rather keep them together rather than separately.

Rule of cool is also responsible for wall jumping, extended wall running, wielding huge swords like they weight a toothpick, ricochet shots, improbable precise shots, the possessed boomerang effect, catching swords and arrows with your bare hands, riding vehicles up walls, and so on and so forth.

If something has ever remotely made made half your brain try to say “that’s not possible” but got drowned out by the other half going  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME”, it belongs in rule of cool.