Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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