Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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