Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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