Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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