Tropescilloscope: Funny Foreigner

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

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