Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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