Tropescilloscope: Funny Foreigner

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

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