Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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