Tropescilloscope: Mighty Whitey

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

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Fatal Flaw Fat Bastard Fire-Forged Friends Missing Mom Reasonable Authority Figure Unusually Uninteresting Sight Death by Sex The Mafia Chase Scene Blood Knight Mood Whiplash In Medias Res Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Superhero Beta Couple Death of a Child Madness Mantra Took a Level in Jerkass Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Celebrity Paradox Hypocritical Humor Dark and Troubled Past Knight Templar Word of God Parental Abandonment Heroic BSoD You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Index of Film Westerns B-Movie Almost Kiss Belligerent Sexual Tension Skewed Priorities Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Australian Movies Crazy-Prepared Improbable Aiming Skills Rewatch Bonus Cat Scare My God, What Have I Done? Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome An Arm and a Leg Nice Guy Rule of Three Malevolent Masked Men Anti-Villain Reality Is Unrealistic Brick Joke The Hero Beard of Evil Translation Convention Offscreen Moment of Awesome Comically Missing the Point I Have Your Wife Dumb Blonde Early Installment Weirdness Documentary Whole Plot Reference Victoria's Secret Compartment Playing Gertrude Creator Cameo Truth in Television Shipper on Deck Decoy Protagonist Mythology Gag Bad "Bad Acting" Spared by the Adaptation Anyone Can Die Downer Ending Trailers Always Spoil Action Survivor Five-Man Band She Cleans Up Nicely Pretty in Mink The Bully What You Are in the Dark Horror Comedy Overly Long Gag What the Hell, Hero? Suspiciously Specific Denial Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Say My Name Recycled IN SPACE! Empathic Environment Non-Indicative Name Gilligan Cut Dressing as the Enemy Made of Explodium Papa Wolf Manic Pixie Dream Girl Villain Song Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Evil-Detecting Dog Defrosting Ice Queen N-Word Privileges Gainax Ending Real Life Writes the Plot Reality Ensues Canon Foreigner Suddenly SHOUTING! Wham Shot Animated Credits Opening Leaning on the Fourth Wall Same Language Dub No Ending Badass Boast Dark Action Girl folderlabel '80s Hair Manipulative Bastard The '60s Air-Vent Passageway Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Deconstruction Red Oni, Blue Oni Eiffel Tower Effect Fan Disservice Anguished Declaration of Love Match Cut World of Ham Affably Evil The Ghost Meet Cute Attempted Rape Big Brother Instinct The Stoner Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Based on a True Story The Reveal Unusual Euphemism Only One Name Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Evil vs. Evil Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Deadpan Snarker Actually Pretty Funny Adaptational Villainy Would Hurt a Child Too Dumb to Live Only Sane Man In the Back Paper-Thin Disguise The '80s Mystery and Detective Films Novelization Black Comedy Rape Mooks Hoist by His Own Petard Contrived Coincidence Immune to Bullets Police Brutality Intergenerational Friendship Arch-Enemy The Dragon Affectionate Parody Only a Flesh Wound The Stoic Artistic License – Biology Lock and Load Montage Double Entendre Tempting Fate I Need a Freaking Drink Not What It Looks Like timeperiod German Films Covers Always Lie Call-Back Those Two Guys Small Name, Big Ego Jerk Jock Abusive Parents Every Car Is a Pinto Moment Killer Shell-Shocked Veteran Big Fancy House Adorkable Death Seeker Scare Chord Ship Tease It Will Never Catch On Jitter Cam Evil Plan Neck Snap The Chick Insult Backfire Arranged Marriage Those Two Bad Guys Ambiguous Ending Revenge Kick the Dog Neck Lift NO INDOOR VOICE Creative Closing Credits Precision F-Strike Sexy Discretion Shot Historical In-Joke Training Montage Big Damn Heroes Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Half the Man He Used to Be Vacation Films Karma Houdini The Big Guy Up to Eleven Easily Forgiven Deliberately Monochrome Ominous Latin Chanting Irony Adaptation Distillation Wicked Cultured All There in the Script Faking the Dead Black Best Friend A Date with Rosie Palms Closed Circle Captain Ersatz Catapult Nightmare Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Evil Is Petty Fatal Family Photo Evil Counterpart Riddle for the Ages Hooker with a Heart of Gold Kill 'em All Unwitting Instigator of Doom Biopic Does Not Like Shoes Chiaroscuro Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Redshirt Army O.O.C. Is Serious Business Ax-Crazy Country Matters Well-Intentioned Extremist Hell Is That Noise Distracted by the Sexy How We Got Here Face Death with Dignity Foreshadowing Spiritual Successor Refuge in Audacity An Axe to Grind Implacable Man The Quiet One There Is No Kill Like Overkill Film Noir Index Pragmatic Villainy Mind Screw Impaled with Extreme Prejudice You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Accidental Misnaming You Have Failed Me A God Am I This Is Gonna Suck Catch-Phrase Ungrateful Bastard As Himself Bloodless Carnage Big Eater Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Bavarian Fire Drill Plot Hole Not So Stoic True Companions Hypocrite Punny Name Adaptational Attractiveness Dramatic Irony Dark Is Not Evil Mistaken for Gay Cowboy Cop Bond Villain Stupidity Four-Temperament Ensemble As Long as It Sounds Foreign Mad Scientist Camp Gay Taking the Bullet An Aesop Sole Survivor Disproportionate Retribution Butt-Monkey Flipping the Bird Chekhov's Gunman Determinator aka: The Determinator Important Haircut Darkest Hour Daddy's Girl Lampshade Hanging Adults Are Useless Rule of Cool Foil She's Got Legs Broken Bird Posthumous Character Russian Films Parental Substitute My Beloved Smother Stylistic Suck May–December Romance Despair Event Horizon Genre Savvy Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Babies Ever After Blatant Lies Big Bad Politically Incorrect Villain The End... Or Is It? Knife Nut Tagline I'm a Humanitarian Wounded Gazelle Gambit Homage Failed a Spot Check Time Skip The Lost Lenore Bullying a Dragon Wham Line Continuity Nod Race Lift Love Triangle Insistent Terminology All for Nothing Pimped-Out Dress Depraved Bisexual Adaptation Name Change What Happened to the Mouse? Death by Irony Black Comedy Corpsing Chewing the Scenery Made of Iron Funny Foreigner Red Herring The Starscream Obstructive Bureaucrat I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Adaptational Heroism Did Not Get the Girl Cassandra Truth Shirtless Scene Meaningful Echo Psychopathic Manchild Manly Tears Naked People Are Funny Left the Background Music On In Name Only A.I. Is a Crapshoot Film Series Famous Last Words Works Set in World War II Grievous Bottley Harm Visual Pun Stealth Hi/Bye Ghost Fiction Crucified Hero Shot For Want of a Nail Mexican Standoff The Brute Aluminum Christmas Trees Amoral Attorney Curb-Stomp Battle Determinator Shower Scene Artistic License – Geography Beware the Nice Ones Good Is Not Nice Jump Scare Ascended Extra Toplessness from the Back Alpha Bitch Groin Attack A Minor Kidroduction Karmic Death Enemy Mine Historical-Domain Character Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Book-Ends Broken Pedestal Only Known by Their Nickname Award-Bait Song Loophole Abuse "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Retirony Fantastic Racism Unreliable Narrator Bittersweet Ending War Is Hell Driven to Suicide Bait-and-Switch Worthy Opponent Pragmatic Adaptation Romantic Comedy The Smurfette Principle Bring My Brown Pants Children Are Innocent Credits Gag Parental Neglect Reckless Gun Usage Bottomless Magazines Brother–Sister Incest Shout-Out Yandere One-Man Army Plucky Comic Relief Older Than They Look The Great Depression Ass Shove Gone Horribly Right Action Girl Evil Brit Intrepid Reporter Dying Moment of Awesome Badass Normal Line-of-Sight Name Coming-of-Age Story Spiteful Spit Back from the Dead Freeze-Frame Bonus Overprotective Dad Twist Ending Early-Bird Cameo Married to the Job Auto Erotica Frame-Up Badass in a Nice Suit Sequel Hook Oh, Crap! Black and Gray Morality Bloodier and Gorier Shut Up, Hannibal! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Cool Shades Ambiguous Disorder La Résistance Kids Are Cruel Everyone Has Standards Gender Flip Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Calling the Old Man Out Insane Troll Logic Adapted Out Male Gaze Improbable Weapon User Nice Hat Grey and Gray Morality Pretty Little Headshots From Nobody to Nightmare From Bad to Worse Damsel in Distress Gorn Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Guile Hero Fake Shemp Even Evil Has Standards Television Movie Index Rule of Symbolism Humiliation Conga Mercy Kill Henpecked Husband The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Dreaded Redemption Equals Death Character Development Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Ditz No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Sinister Minister Mr. Fanservice Fantasy Films Defiant to the End Imagine Spot Establishing Character Moment All Just a Dream No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Blackmail Light Is Not Good Asshole Victim Car Fu Off with His Head! Kill It with Fire Logo Joke Eldritch Abomination Meaningful Name I Want My Beloved to Be Happy One Steve Limit Fanservice Throwing Your Sword Always Works Soft Glass Running Gag Heterosexual Life-Partners Heroic Sacrifice Eureka Moment Eyepatch of Power "Well Done, Son!" Guy Idiot Ball Martial Arts Movie Woman Scorned All Men Are Perverts Does This Remind You of Anything? Heel–Face Turn Fainting Honor Before Reason Deus ex Machina Sanity Slippage Age Lift Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Bland-Name Product Monumental Damage Antagonist Title Our Zombies Are Different Evil Sounds Deep Hope Spot The Film of the Book Here We Go Again! Only in It for the Money Demoted to Extra Breaking the Fourth Wall Straight Gay Bare Your Midriff Smug Snake Film Noir Reality Has No Subtitles Stuff Blowing Up The Alleged Car Epic Movie Took a Level in Badass Darker and Edgier Bolivian Army Ending Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Narrator Better to Die than Be Killed Bi the Way Vomit Discretion Shot Green-Eyed Monster Broken Aesop Mighty Whitey Be Careful What You Wish For The Place Tranquil Fury Shown Their Work Laser-Guided Karma Cold-Blooded Torture Fate Worse than Death Artistic License – Physics Villain Protagonist Red Right Hand Not So Different The Load No-Sell Genre Shift Killed Mid-Sentence The Atoner The Ace Setting Update Danny Peary Cult Movies List Alliterative Name Stalker with a Crush Break the Haughty Body Horror Dwindling Party Unresolved Sexual Tension The Casanova The Stinger Friend to All Children "Shaggy Dog" Story One-Word Title It Can Think Fiery Redhead Star-Crossed Lovers Artistic License – Gun Safety Retcon Bury Your Gays Cool Car Improvised Weapon Drugs Are Bad Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Cloudcuckoolander Evil Laugh Dirty Cop Take a Third Option Bad Boss Exactly What It Says on the Tin Re-Cut Boom, Headshot! And I Must Scream Major Injury Underreaction The Mole Advertised Extra Alas, Poor Villain Exact Words It's All About Me Crazy Jealous Guy The Faceless Gratuitous English Room Full of Crazy Actor Allusion Never My Fault Your Head A-Splode Fingore Earn Your Happy Ending Gory Discretion Shot Have a Gay Old Time Unspoken Plan Guarantee And the Adventure Continues Zombie Stories Deliberate Values Dissonance Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Face–Heel Turn Death Glare Leitmotif Anti-Hero