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