Tropescilloscope: Funny Foreigner

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

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