Tropescilloscope: Funny Foreigner

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

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