Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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