Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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