Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

A new character in a franchise created outside of the original Canon. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Race Against the Clock Love Triangle Loophole Abuse Intergenerational Friendship As Himself Apocalypse How Black Comedy Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Posthumous Character Funny Foreigner Taking You with Me Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Only in It for the Money Agony of the Feet Adults Are Useless "Awesome McCool" Name Big-Bad Ensemble Actor Allusion Fun with Acronyms Gainax Ending Biopic Accidental Misnaming Adaptation Distillation Cat Scare Destination Defenestration Let's Get Dangerous! Shown Their Work Rousing Speech Rule of Three Serial Killer Historical-Domain Character Smug Snake BFG German Films Offscreen Moment of Awesome Asshole Victim Drives Like Crazy Villain Opening Scene Those Two Guys Domestic Abuse Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Plucky Comic Relief Mighty Whitey Overly Long Gag Unresolved Sexual Tension Storming the Castle Italian Films Groin Attack Science Fiction Films Exact Words Greater-Scope Villain Sassy Black Woman Better to Die than Be Killed Slashed Throat Broken Pedestal Rewatch Bonus Chewing the Scenery Straight Gay Hero of Another Story Television Movie Index Continuity Nod One-Word Title Ms. Fanservice Villainous Breakdown Re-Cut I Want My Beloved to Be Happy It's Personal Everyone Has Standards Sequel Escalation Dramatic Gun Cock Decoy Protagonist Super Strength Protagonist Title Fiery Redhead The Chessmaster Well-Intentioned Extremist Improbable Weapon User Pretty Little Headshots Depraved Bisexual MacGuffin Badass Boast Evil Is Petty Unusual Euphemism Cain and Abel In Name Only Made of Iron Took a Level in Jerkass The Ghost Comically Missing the Point Silent Movie Fantasy Films Ambiguously Gay Auto Erotica Author Avatar Dogged Nice Guy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Wham Line Only a Flesh Wound Abhorrent Admirer Betty and Veronica Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Punny Name Shipper on Deck Trailers Always Spoil Aluminum Christmas Trees Framing Device Evil-Detecting Dog "The Reason You Suck" Speech "Well Done, Son!" Guy Sadistic Choice timeperiod Actually Pretty Funny Extreme Doormat Bi the Way Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Punch-Clock Villain Closed Circle Soundtrack Dissonance He Who Fights Monsters Very Loosely Based on a True Story Establishing Character Moment Gratuitous English Dwindling Party Slasher Movie Grievous Bottley Harm Fire-Forged Friends The Vamp Dirty Cop Hope Spot Villain Protagonist Action Prologue The X of Y Broken Aesop You Have Failed Me My Beloved Smother Genre Throwback The Atoner The Film of the Book Nice Hat Beauty Is Never Tarnished Foregone Conclusion Crapsack World Alpha Bitch Those Two Bad Guys Cool Guns Drowning My Sorrows Disguised in Drag Butt-Monkey Hollywood Law The Alcoholic Demoted to Extra Bad "Bad Acting" Parental Abandonment Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Shower Scene Horror Films Frame-Up Brutal Honesty Never My Fault Recycled IN SPACE! Wicked Cultured The Dreaded Vitriolic Best Buds Spell My Name with an "S" This Is Gonna Suck Femme Fatale Martial Arts Movie Lampshade Hanging Gorn Getting Crap Past the Radar Call-Back Action Girl Reality Ensues Blackmail Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Neck Snap Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Bloody Hilarious Animated Credits Opening Anachronic Order Bunny-Ears Lawyer Gold Digger The Dragon Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Zombie Stories Precision F-Strike An Axe to Grind Rape as Drama Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Male Gaze Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Scary Black Man Tap on the Head Madness Mantra Drill Sergeant Nasty Anachronism Stew Our Zombies Are Different From Nobody to Nightmare The Load Married to the Job Didn't Think This Through B-Movie Dirty Coward Rich Bitch Crucified Hero Shot Shirtless Scene Deliberate Values Dissonance The '90s Instant Death Bullet Token Minority Poor Communication Kills Country Matters Batman Gambit Tempting Fate Faux Affably Evil Moment Killer All Men Are Perverts Black Comedy Rape Line-of-Sight Name Dutch Angle The Hero Dies Ghost Fiction Parental Incest Fourth Date Marriage Mugging the Monster Fainting Shoot the Shaggy Dog Sealed Evil in a Can Dumb Blonde Chekhov's Gun Anti-Hero Oh, Crap! Artistic License – Physics Suspiciously Specific Denial Woman Scorned Unreliable Narrator No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Ascended Extra Bait-and-Switch Adult Fear Dressing as the Enemy Missing Mom Antagonist Title Canadian Movies Beware the Nice Ones Malevolent Masked Men Jerkass Has a Point Badass Normal Kill It with Fire You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Psychological Thriller You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Reveal Non-Indicative Name Darkest Hour Film Noir Index No OSHA Compliance The Dog Bites Back Make It Look Like an Accident Major Injury Underreaction Suspiciously Similar Substitute Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Cool Old Guy Ripped from the Headlines Improvised Weapon Eagleland Five-Man Band Those Wacky Nazis Papa Wolf Mood Whiplash Daddy's Girl It's All About Me Empathic Environment Meaningful Background Event Badass Bookworm Vomit Discretion Shot Slasher Smile Affably Evil Broken Bird The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Casting Gag Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Names to Run Away from Really Fast Freeze-Frame Bonus Made of Explodium Back from the Dead Running Gag Taking the Bullet "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Cat Fight Would Hurt a Child Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The '70s Ship Tease Laughing Mad Hong Kong Films Historical In-Joke Coming-of-Age Story Rule of Cool Alas, Poor Villain Deal with the Devil Christmas Movies Index Spared by the Adaptation The Ace Deliberately Monochrome Drugs Are Bad Calling the Old Man Out Large Ham She Cleans Up Nicely The Power of Love Overprotective Dad Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Bully Spanner in the Works Break the Cutie Reality Is Unrealistic Famous Last Words Not Quite Dead The Starscream N-Word Privileges Honor Before Reason Heroic BSoD Man on Fire Air-Vent Passageway Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Corrupt Corporate Executive Central Theme Pragmatic Adaptation Manchild Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Silence Is Golden Big Brother Instinct Public Domain Feature Films Does Not Like Shoes Arranged Marriage Dramedy Once More, with Clarity! Big Damn Heroes Bottomless Magazines Hoist by His Own Petard Show Within a Show Mama Bear Training Montage Pet the Dog Hell Is That Noise Stealth Hi/Bye Heterosexual Life-Partners Dull Surprise Pyrrhic Victory Evil Counterpart Wrong Genre Savvy Japanese Films Improbable Aiming Skills Nothing Is Scarier Artistic License – Military Bland-Name Product Anti-Villain Market-Based Title Never Found the Body Aside Glance Kubrick Stare Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Face Death with Dignity Dark and Troubled Past Corpsing Police Brutality Hero Antagonist Up to Eleven Daylight Horror The Place Double Entendre Abusive Parents Laser-Guided Karma The Smart Guy Stepford Smiler Bond One-Liner Demonic Possession Freudian Excuse Last-Name Basis Happily Married Big Fancy House The '80s Chiaroscuro Truth in Television Dark Is Not Evil Peek-a-Boo Corpse Damsel in Distress You Killed My Father Every Car Is a Pinto Adaptational Villainy There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Voiceless Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Psycho for Hire Retirony Breaking the Fourth Wall Did Not Get the Girl It Will Never Catch On Yandere Hooker with a Heart of Gold Award-Bait Song Stock Footage Random Events Plot Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Throwing Your Sword Always Works Foil Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Reality Has No Subtitles Naïve Newcomer Refuge in Audacity May–December Romance Cruel and Unusual Death Retired Badass An Aesop Wham Shot Driven to Suicide Card-Carrying Villain Hypocritical Humor The Bad Guy Wins Deadpan Snarker Dark Reprise Documentary Amusing Injuries Armor-Piercing Question Exactly What It Says on the Tin Death by Irony Extremely Short Timespan Eldritch Abomination Department of Redundancy Department Brother–Sister Incest Mythology Gag I'm a Humanitarian As Long as It Sounds Foreign Mr. Exposition Chase Scene Crazy Jealous Guy Historical Villain Upgrade Ironic Echo The Musical Needs Wiki Magic Love Action Genre All Just a Dream Karmic Death Bullying a Dragon Meaningful Name French Films Heel–Face Turn Horror Comedy Evil Is Hammy Does This Remind You of Anything? And the Adventure Continues Important Haircut Pay Evil unto Evil No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Friend to All Children The Cameo An Arm and a Leg Fish out of Water Pragmatic Villainy Ass Shove Cassandra Truth How We Got Here Riddle for the Ages Black Dude Dies First Properly Paranoid Imagine Spot Stealth Pun Mistaken for Gay Foreshadowing The Remake Have a Gay Old Time The Quiet One Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Stoner Bilingual Bonus Boom, Headshot! Fatal Flaw Men Are the Expendable Gender Chekhov's Skill Maybe Ever After Pimped-Out Dress Insistent Terminology World of Ham Anguished Declaration of Love Amoral Attorney Noodle Incident Monumental Damage Fake Shemp Expy Together in Death Lock and Load Montage Toplessness from the Back Police are Useless Novelization Almost Kiss Distracted by the Sexy Sacrificial Lion He Knows Too Much Villain with Good Publicity Fatal Family Photo Military and Warfare Films No Celebrities Were Harmed Jitter Cam Curse Cut Short Be Careful What You Wish For Obfuscating Stupidity Funny Background Event Rated M for Manly Awesome, but Impractical Big "NO!" Not Using the "Z" Word Star-Crossed Lovers Eureka Moment Children Are Innocent Dying Moment of Awesome Mooks Arc Words Genre Shift Crazy-Prepared Defrosting Ice Queen Title Drop Adaptational Attractiveness Big Applesauce Implacable Man Slap-Slap-Kiss Composite Character Redemption Equals Death Sanity Slippage Animal Title Index More Dakka Badass in a Nice Suit Psychopathic Manchild Hypocrite Offscreen Teleportation Advertised Extra Heroic Sacrifice Disappeared Dad Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Vomit Indiscretion Shot Call-Forward My God, What Have I Done? Dies Wide Open Deus ex Machina Death Glare Canon Foreigner The Ditz Curb-Stomp Battle Roaring Rampage of Revenge Not What It Looks Like Affectionate Parody Badass Grandpa Love at First Sight Adorkable Death of a Child Sinister Minister Captain Obvious Based on a True Story Playing Gertrude Authority Equals Asskicking Danny Peary Cult Movies List British Films Room Full of Crazy Real Life Writes the Plot For the Evulz Catapult Nightmare Undying Loyalty Our Vampires Are Different Due to the Dead Retcon Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Adaptation Name Change All Girls Want Bad Boys Downer Ending Contrived Coincidence Guile Hero Shout-Out Bound and Gagged Easily Forgiven Death by Adaptation Reckless Gun Usage Red Herring Pre-Mortem One-Liner Only Sane Man Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Unusually Uninteresting Sight Film Series Leaning on the Fourth Wall Anyone Can Die Darker and Edgier Double-Meaning Title Diabolus ex Machina Age Lift Enemy Mine I Did What I Had to Do Parental Substitute Music Stories Artistic License – Geography Off with His Head! Handicapped Badass Artistic License – History Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Annoying Younger Sibling Adaptational Badass The Stinger As You Know Redshirt Army Flipping the Bird Heroes Want Redheads NO INDOOR VOICE Pretty in Mink Skewed Priorities What Happened to the Mouse? Fan Disservice Faking the Dead Fingore Mind Screw Fate Worse than Death One-Man Army Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Evil Sounds Deep Romantic False Lead Your Head A-Splode Bar Brawl The Hero Scare Chord Henpecked Husband Determinator aka: The Determinator The Great Depression Big Bad Duumvirate Flashback Translation Convention Action Survivor Heel Realization Mundane Made Awesome Adaptational Heroism Hidden Depths Scenery Porn Eiffel Tower Effect No Ending Unwitting Instigator of Doom Lighter and Softer Serious Business Morality Pet Fanservice Film Noir Revenge Bad Boss Index of Film Westerns Bowdlerise The Lost Lenore Catch-Phrase Scenery Gorn Ungrateful Bastard Ambiguous Disorder The Lancer Neck Lift Face–Heel Turn The Faceless Villain Ball Death by Sex Hate Sink Black Best Friend Gender Flip Small Name, Big Ego Mercy Kill Took a Level in Badass La Résistance Half the Man He Used to Be Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas In the Back Informed Ability Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Eyepatch of Power Suddenly SHOUTING! Bolivian Army Ending Rasputinian Death Manic Pixie Dream Girl Shut Up, Hannibal! Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Sports Stories The Alleged Car Visual Pun Woman in White Meaningful Echo Beta Couple A Minor Kidroduction Cool Shades Self-Deprecation Stalker with a Crush Bittersweet Ending Badass Longcoat Killed Mid-Sentence Superhero Failed a Spot Check Whole Plot Reference Dual Wielding "Shaggy Dog" Story Blood from the Mouth The Oner Jerkass Only Known by Their Nickname Soft Glass Idiot Ball Stuff Blowing Up Manipulative Bastard Jerk with a Heart of Gold folderlabel Not So Above It All Bury Your Gays Black and Gray Morality Kick the Dog Humans Are Bastards Obstructive Bureaucrat The Un-Reveal Disney Villain Death Artistic License – Law The Stoic Genre Savvy Costume Porn Mad Scientist Interrupted Suicide The '60s Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Spiteful Spit Bond Villain Stupidity Dissonant Serenity Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Plot Hole Video Credits Would Hit a Girl Combat Pragmatist Gone Horribly Right In Medias Res Guns Akimbo Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Politically Incorrect Villain Early-Bird Cameo Red Oni, Blue Oni Leave the Camera Running The Mole Dark Action Girl For Want of a Nail As the Good Book Says... The Smurfette Principle Worthy Opponent Big Eater Karma Houdini Belligerent Sexual Tension Gory Discretion Shot Animal Motifs Sole Survivor Kids Are Cruel Australian Movies Eye Scream Bloodless Carnage A God Am I Wretched Hive Determinator Naked People Are Funny Big Bad Adaptation Expansion Captain Ersatz Covers Always Lie Vampire Fiction Ambiguous Ending Time Skip Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Defiant to the End Adaptation Dye-Job Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Cloudcuckoolander Cool Car Fanservice Extra Red Eyes, Take Warning Epic Fail Becoming the Mask Same Language Dub Left the Background Music On I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Accidental Murder The End... Or Is It? Brainless Beauty Evil vs. Evil The Mafia Villain Song Unspoken Plan Guarantee Jump Scare Developing Doomed Characters Facial Horror Never Trust a Trailer Screw the Money, I Have Rules! It Can Think Put on a Bus Fantastic Racism The Casanova Four-Temperament Ensemble War Is Hell Break the Haughty Creative Closing Credits Bald of Evil Race Lift Parental Neglect Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Green-Eyed Monster Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Camp Gay Stylistic Suck True Companions No Antagonist Artistic License – Gun Safety Cluster F-Bomb Intrepid Reporter '80s Hair Dirty Old Man Not Even Bothering with the Accent Not So Different Paper-Thin Disguise Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Here We Go Again! Ominous Latin Chanting Humiliation Conga Loads and Loads of Characters Hair-Trigger Temper Word of God Disproportionate Retribution From Bad to Worse Creator Cameo Light Is Not Good Bare Your Midriff And I Must Scream Tagline Sequel Hook Reasonable Authority Figure Sci-Fi Horror Blatant Lies Irony Cold-Blooded Torture Obviously Evil Fat Bastard Bloodier and Gorier Evil Brit All for Nothing Your Cheating Heart Camera Abuse Setting Update Match Cut Red Shirt Attempted Rape Even Evil Has Loved Ones Red Right Hand Bavarian Fire Drill Despair Event Horizon Thriller Meet Cute Dropped a Bridge on Him A Father to His Men Knife Nut Mr. Fanservice Evil Laugh Chekhov's Gunman Immune to Bullets Disney Death Gilligan Cut Ax-Crazy Smoking Is Cool Take That! Expository Hairstyle Change Vacation Films Victoria's Secret Compartment After the End Real Life Narrator And Starring The Brute Arch-Enemy Homage Russian Films Early Installment Weirdness Historical Hero Upgrade She's Got Legs Creepy Child What You Are in the Dark My Greatest Failure Product Placement Conspicuous CG Shell-Shocked Veteran Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Manly Tears Beard of Evil Rule of Funny O.O.C. Is Serious Business All There in the Manual Good Is Not Nice Cowboy Cop Adapted Out Epic Movie Rule of Symbolism Nice Guy Logo Joke Spiritual Successor Tranquil Fury Take a Third Option Author Appeal Twist Ending I Have Your Wife Motor Mouth Final Girl Berserk Button Insult Backfire Works Set in World War II Body Horror Character Development Death Seeker Sexy Discretion Shot Even Evil Has Standards Deconstruction No-Sell Knight Templar A.I. Is a Crapshoot Cool Old Lady The Cavalry Leitmotif Insane Troll Logic Brick Joke Blood Knight Not So Stoic Kill 'em All I Need a Freaking Drink Male Frontal Nudity The '50s One Steve Limit Mexican Standoff What the Hell, Hero? Mystery and Detective Films Only One Name Older Than They Look Grey and Gray Morality Really Gets Around Dramatic Irony Celebrity Paradox The Big Guy Outrun the Fireball Get Out! Sir Swears-a-Lot Babies Ever After Evil Plan Kick the Son of a Bitch Book-Ends Alliterative Name Romantic Comedy The Sociopath Credits Gag Bring My Brown Pants Artistic License – Biology 20 Minutes into the Future Totally Radical Earn Your Happy Ending Jerk Jock Car Fu Off-into-the-Distance Ending A Date with Rosie Palms No Name Given The Chick Too Dumb to Live All There in the Script Say My Name Hollywood Darkness Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday