Tropescilloscope: Funny Foreigner

A character hailing from another continent, planet, or galaxy, is a source of comedy. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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