Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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