Tropescilloscope: Funny Foreigner

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

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