Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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