Tropescilloscope: Funny Foreigner

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

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