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