Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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