Tropescilloscope: Funny Foreigner

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

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