Tropescilloscope: Mighty Whitey

Outsider, usually from a more advanced nation, becomes a better tribesman than any of the natives. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Belligerent Sexual Tension Nothing Is Scarier Ironic Echo One-Man Army Blood Knight Gorn The '60s Tap on the Head Parental Abandonment Artistic License – History Betty and Veronica Get Out! The Smurfette Principle Your Cheating Heart Central Theme Title Drop Diabolus ex Machina Annoying Younger Sibling Refuge in Audacity Bar Brawl Oh, Crap! Mugging the Monster Cain and Abel Romantic False Lead Pre-Mortem One-Liner Line-of-Sight Name Anachronism Stew Bi the Way Retired Badass The Hero Dies Catapult Nightmare Brick Joke Implacable Man Henpecked Husband Sole Survivor Arranged Marriage Sexy Discretion Shot BFG Match Cut An Aesop Let's Get Dangerous! Big Eater Off-into-the-Distance Ending Setting Update My Beloved Smother Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Historical In-Joke Storming the Castle Heel Realization Race Against the Clock Heroes Want Redheads Fatal Flaw "Shaggy Dog" Story Attempted Rape Here We Go Again! Establishing Character Moment Cool Shades Calling the Old Man Out Scenery Porn Public Domain Feature Films Femme Fatale Off with His Head! Fanservice Extra Offscreen Teleportation Gainax Ending Fan Disservice Villain Opening Scene Gender Flip Love at First Sight Pretty Little Headshots Training Montage Reality Ensues Fainting Dirty Old Man Dramatic Gun Cock Artistic License – Geography Happily Married Really Gets Around The Alleged Car The Dreaded Vacation Films Heterosexual Life-Partners Gilligan Cut It Can Think Fun with Acronyms Tranquil Fury The X of Y Intergenerational Friendship Alas, Poor Villain This Is Gonna Suck Malevolent Masked Men Shirtless Scene Loads and Loads of Characters Roaring Rampage of Revenge Fingore Exact Words Covers Always Lie Bowdlerise Accidental Misnaming Recycled IN SPACE! 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Captain Obvious Room Full of Crazy The Musical Together in Death Sanity Slippage Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Heroic Sacrifice Demoted to Extra Adaptational Villainy Police are Useless And I Must Scream Adorkable The Load Say My Name A Father to His Men Sealed Evil in a Can Smug Snake I Have Your Wife Parental Substitute My God, What Have I Done? Made of Iron Black Best Friend Manic Pixie Dream Girl Crazy Jealous Guy Toplessness from the Back Love Triangle Damsel in Distress Early Installment Weirdness Karma Houdini Worthy Opponent Irony Pyrrhic Victory Have a Gay Old Time Country Matters Failed a Spot Check Air-Vent Passageway Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Men Are the Expendable Gender Posthumous Character Protagonist Title Car Fu Drugs Are Bad Creepy Child Historical Villain Upgrade Made of Explodium Ominous Latin Chanting Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Punch-Clock Villain Bring My Brown Pants Unwitting Instigator of Doom Novelization Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Plucky Comic Relief Took a Level in Badass Shown Their Work Sassy Black Woman Apocalypse How Super Strength Light Is Not Good Big Brother Instinct Police Brutality Blackmail No Name Given "Well Done, Son!" Guy Took a Level in Jerkass For Want of a Nail The Cameo Logo Joke As the Good Book Says... 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Hoist by His Own Petard Butt-Monkey Genre Shift The Un-Reveal Anguished Declaration of Love Soft Glass Stock Footage Brother–Sister Incest Psychological Thriller Large Ham Auto Erotica Improvised Weapon Broken Bird All Men Are Perverts Crapsack World Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Male Frontal Nudity Well-Intentioned Extremist Rousing Speech Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Hollywood Darkness Gold Digger Rule of Cool Dirty Coward Meet Cute Darkest Hour The Dragon More Dakka Catch-Phrase Early-Bird Cameo Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bloodless Carnage Bad "Bad Acting" Slap-Slap-Kiss Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Ms. Fanservice Hooker with a Heart of Gold No Ending Token Minority Broken Pedestal Cat Fight Deal with the Devil Tagline The Hero Leitmotif Parental Incest Humans Are Bastards Film Series Bunny-Ears Lawyer Advertised Extra Costume Porn Chiaroscuro I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Russian Films Depraved Bisexual What the Hell, Hero? Epic Fail Badass Longcoat Reasonable Authority Figure Camera Abuse He Who Fights Monsters Paper-Thin Disguise Ambiguous Ending I'm a Humanitarian Sports Stories Comically Missing the Point Wham Shot Pragmatic Adaptation An Axe to Grind Suspiciously Specific Denial As Long as It Sounds Foreign Obfuscating Stupidity Slasher Smile Vomit Indiscretion Shot Peek-a-Boo Corpse Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Mind Screw Grey and Gray Morality Race Lift Visual Pun Zombie Stories Evil Is Hammy Double Entendre La Résistance Time Skip Totally Radical Ascended Extra The Great Depression Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome N-Word Privileges Japanese Films Adults Are Useless Be Careful What You Wish For Anti-Hero Very Loosely Based on a True Story Evil Is Petty Interrupted Suicide Fat Bastard Mooks Major Injury Underreaction Reality Is Unrealistic Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? A.I. Is a Crapshoot Revenge The '50s Villain Protagonist Ripped from the Headlines It Will Never Catch On Award-Bait Song Homage Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Only One Name Groin Attack The Atoner Evil-Detecting Dog Actor Allusion Ship Tease Badass Boast Closed Circle Red Shirt Motor Mouth Blatant Lies Your Head A-Splode Ghost Fiction Daylight Horror Dissonant Serenity Spared by the Adaptation Broken Aesop You Killed My Father Suddenly SHOUTING! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Black Dude Dies First Last-Name Basis Combat Pragmatist Mythology Gag Friend to All Children Asshole Victim Dying Moment of Awesome Woman Scorned Dumb Blonde Fourth Date Marriage Eldritch Abomination Spanner in the Works Death by Sex Whole Plot Reference Unusual Euphemism All Just a Dream Sir Swears-a-Lot The Lost Lenore Death by Irony Immune to Bullets Big Applesauce The Bully Ax-Crazy Downer Ending Chekhov's Gunman Mexican Standoff Five-Man Band Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Once More, with Clarity! Animal Motifs Same Language Dub She Cleans Up Nicely Amusing Injuries Meaningful Name Chekhov's Skill Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Aside Glance Guile Hero Vampire Fiction The Faceless Credits Gag Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mood Whiplash Crucified Hero Shot Bavarian Fire Drill Babies Ever After Film Noir Index Important Haircut Hollywood Law Adaptational Badass Wham Line Insistent Terminology Easily Forgiven Psychopathic Manchild Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Animal Title Index After the End Take a Third Option Maybe Ever After Genre Throwback Funny Foreigner Insane Troll Logic Evil Brit The Reveal Animated Credits Opening Dark Action Girl Author Appeal Cloudcuckoolander Badass Normal There Is No Kill Like Overkill Due to the Dead Action Genre Good Is Not Nice Double-Meaning Title Abusive Parents And the Adventure Continues Dies Wide Open Jerkass Has a Point Not Using the "Z" Word The End... Or Is It? Artistic License – Law Dark and Troubled Past Green-Eyed Monster Enemy Mine Shower Scene Hero of Another Story Poor Communication Kills Wretched Hive Manchild Death by Adaptation Villain Song Riddle for the Ages Trailers Always Spoil Evil Laugh Improbable Aiming Skills Older Than They Look "Awesome McCool" Name Shut Up, Hannibal! Casting Gag Empathic Environment Death Seeker Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Decoy Protagonist The Mole 20 Minutes into the Future Meaningful Echo Deliberately Monochrome Extremely Short Timespan Big Damn Heroes Would Hurt a Child Armor-Piercing Question Villain with Good Publicity Age Lift Music Stories Cruel and Unusual Death Flipping the Bird Documentary Actually Pretty Funny Pretty in Mink Chekhov's Gun Mundane Made Awesome Bullying a Dragon Moment Killer May–December Romance Bolivian Army Ending The Mafia Obviously Evil Lighter and Softer The Film of the Book Cool Guns Break the Cutie Even Evil Has Standards Bond Villain Stupidity Cool Old Lady Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality One-Word Title Funny Background Event Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Straight Gay Does This Remind You of Anything? Developing Doomed Characters Not So Stoic Heel–Face Turn Not So Above It All She's Got Legs Affably Evil Pay Evil unto Evil Author Avatar The Quiet One The Stoic Big "NO!" You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Offscreen Moment of Awesome Hate Sink He Knows Too Much Meaningful Background Event Becoming the Mask Canon Foreigner Determinator aka: The Determinator O.O.C. Is Serious Business Facial Horror The Big Guy Deliberate Values Dissonance Antagonist Title Historical Hero Upgrade Deconstruction Hope Spot Eagleland Skewed Priorities Kick the Son of a Bitch Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Tempting Fate Up to Eleven Bald of Evil Villainous Breakdown Eye Scream The Ghost Gory Discretion Shot Flashback Abhorrent Admirer Crazy-Prepared Rule of Funny Adaptational Attractiveness Stealth Pun No Celebrities Were Harmed Spiritual Successor Fish out of Water Italian Films Death of a Child Manly Tears Take That! Idiot Ball Adaptation Distillation Beauty Is Never Tarnished Epic Movie Madness Mantra Knife Nut Translation Convention Only a Flesh Wound Eureka Moment Hong Kong Films Silence Is Golden Only Known by Their Nickname The Voiceless Artistic License – Biology The Place Intrepid Reporter Wounded Gazelle Gambit Adaptation Expansion Romantic Comedy Darker and Edgier Lampshade Hanging Pimped-Out Dress Canadian Movies Dwindling Party "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Suspiciously Similar Substitute Destination Defenestration Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Determinator Mr. Fanservice Scenery Gorn Better to Die than Be Killed Jerk Jock No-Sell Monumental Damage British Films Never Trust a Trailer Fantastic Racism Television Movie Index The '80s Kill 'em All Stylistic Suck Rewatch Bonus Half the Man He Used to Be Those Wacky Nazis Hypocritical Humor Pet the Dog The Lancer You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Punny Name Unusually Uninteresting Sight timeperiod Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Cold-Blooded Torture Horror Comedy Parental Neglect The '90s Greater-Scope Villain Continuity Nod Self-Deprecation Rated M for Manly Too Dumb to Live Danny Peary Cult Movies List Our Zombies Are Different Fantasy Films Foil Call-Back It's Personal The Casanova Stuff Blowing Up Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Freudian Excuse Sadistic Choice Stepford Smiler In Name Only Fate Worse than Death Redshirt Army Smoking Is Cool Deus ex Machina Twist Ending All There in the Script The Sociopath Hidden Depths Gratuitous English Heroic BSoD Nice Hat And Starring Children Are Innocent Action Girl Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Adaptation Name Change Superhero Overprotective Dad Real Life Writes the Plot All Girls Want Bad Boys Names to Run Away from Really Fast An Arm and a Leg Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Put on a Bus Dressing as the Enemy Sacrificial Lion Chewing the Scenery Leave the Camera Running B-Movie The Remake Bare Your Midriff Grievous Bottley Harm What Happened to the Mouse? Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dramatic Irony Call-Forward Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Naked People Are Funny Brainless Beauty Random Events Plot Dull Surprise Cat Scare Drill Sergeant Nasty Disguised in Drag Mighty Whitey Stalker with a Crush Precision F-Strike Disappeared Dad Not Even Bothering with the Accent Lock and Load Montage Based on a True Story Those Two Bad Guys Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Honor Before Reason Reality Has No Subtitles Contrived Coincidence Show Within a Show Unresolved Sexual Tension Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Undying Loyalty folderlabel Freeze-Frame Bonus Foregone Conclusion Anti-Villain Australian Movies Rule of Three Non-Indicative Name Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Humiliation Conga Jitter Cam Amoral Attorney Reckless Gun Usage Pragmatic Villainy Nice Guy Dirty Cop Retirony Creator Cameo Authority Equals Asskicking Defiant to the End Mad Scientist The Starscream Artistic License – Physics Rape as Drama Leaning on the Fourth Wall Yandere Noodle Incident Evil vs. Evil Bloody Hilarious Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Hypocrite Coming-of-Age Story Bilingual Bonus All for Nothing Handicapped Badass Those Two Guys Jerkass Awesome, but Impractical Book-Ends In Medias Res French Films In the Back Married to the Job Hero Antagonist Dogged Nice Guy Real Life No Antagonist Rich Bitch Karmic Death No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Thriller Big Fancy House Cool Car Never Found the Body Plot Hole Mistaken for Gay