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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Even Evil Has Standards Novelization Aside Glance As Long as It Sounds Foreign Actor Allusion Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Brutal Honesty Adaptation Distillation Breaking the Fourth Wall Superhero Adaptation Dye-Job Tranquil Fury Artistic License – Gun Safety Freudian Excuse All There in the Script Time Skip Bond Villain Stupidity Boom, Headshot! The Dragon Extreme Doormat Same Language Dub A Father to His Men Crazy Jealous Guy Reality Ensues Eyepatch of Power Throwing Your Sword Always Works Armor-Piercing Question Mad Scientist Reckless Gun Usage As the Good Book Says... Not So Different What Happened to the Mouse? Getting Crap Past the Radar The End... Or Is It? Darker and Edgier Awesome, but Impractical Cool Old Guy Mooks Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Grey and Gray Morality Police Brutality Really Gets Around You Have Failed Me Mood Whiplash Unresolved Sexual Tension No Celebrities Were Harmed Broken Aesop It Can Think Arch-Enemy Epic Movie Retirony Wicked Cultured Bloodier and Gorier Fainting Video Credits Martial Arts Movie Offscreen Moment of Awesome Title Drop Expository Hairstyle Change Playing Gertrude Insistent Terminology Slasher Movie German Films Never Found the Body Horror Comedy Dressing as the Enemy An Aesop '80s Hair Mama Bear Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Took a Level in Badass Kids Are Cruel It's All About Me Chewing the Scenery For the Evulz Easily Forgiven Not Using the "Z" Word Missing Mom He Knows Too Much Reality Is Unrealistic Fatal Family Photo Poor Communication Kills Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Blood Knight Domestic Abuse Mighty Whitey Real Life Writes the Plot Big "NO!" I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Five-Man Band Based on a True Story Aluminum Christmas Trees Extremely Short Timespan Beauty Is Never Tarnished Shown Their Work Drill Sergeant Nasty Alliterative Name Double Entendre Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Tagline You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Show Within a Show Did Not Get the Girl Spared by the Adaptation Beware the Nice Ones War Is Hell You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Hair-Trigger Temper Broken Pedestal My Beloved Smother Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Mr. Fanservice Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Face Death with Dignity Exact Words Crucified Hero Shot Honor Before Reason Villain with Good Publicity Break the Cutie The Faceless "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Silent Movie Ascended Extra Leave the Camera Running As You Know Stalker with a Crush Guile Hero Bolivian Army Ending Stealth Pun Imagine Spot Cool Car Police are Useless Room Full of Crazy Almost Kiss Auto Erotica Beard of Evil Deadpan Snarker Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Wham Shot Lampshade Hanging Leitmotif My God, What Have I Done? Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Morality Pet Naïve Newcomer Suddenly SHOUTING! Roaring Rampage of Revenge Manly Tears Fiery Redhead La Résistance Take That! Grievous Bottley Harm Adaptational Villainy Bilingual Bonus Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Diabolus ex Machina Unreliable Narrator Heroic Sacrifice Dark Is Not Evil The Stoic Green-Eyed Monster Rousing Speech MacGuffin Eldritch Abomination Never Trust a Trailer Rule of Cool Scary Black Man Closed Circle Anachronic Order Fat Bastard Does Not Like Shoes Pyrrhic Victory Punch-Clock Villain Revenge Dramatic Irony Big Brother Instinct Spiteful Spit Rich Bitch Ambiguous Disorder Romantic Comedy Improbable Aiming Skills In Name Only Ghost Fiction Everyone Has Standards Arc Words Disney Death Mugging the Monster Nothing Is Scarier Hidden Depths Evil Laugh Reality Has No Subtitles I Did What I Had to Do Get Out! Aww, Look! 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Dirty Cop The Atoner Cowboy Cop Victoria's Secret Compartment Deliberately Monochrome Broken Bird Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Oh, Crap! Abhorrent Admirer Obfuscating Stupidity Abusive Parents Animal Motifs Calling the Old Man Out Sci-Fi Horror Up to Eleven Science Fiction Films The Alcoholic Kubrick Stare Hypocrite Villain Opening Scene Earn Your Happy Ending Disproportionate Retribution Artistic License – Military Cool Shades The Casanova Gone Horribly Right Dark Action Girl Dirty Old Man Bavarian Fire Drill Anguished Declaration of Love Never My Fault BFG Ass Shove Canon Foreigner Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bittersweet Ending Love Triangle Unwitting Instigator of Doom Parental Incest Babies Ever After Despair Event Horizon Alas, Poor Villain Action Survivor Adorkable I'm a Humanitarian Kill 'em All Accidental Murder Heel Realization Serious Business Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Death of a Child Psycho for Hire Zombie Stories Wounded Gazelle Gambit Refuge in Audacity The X of Y In the Back Friend to All Children Femme Fatale Dramatic Gun Cock Japanese Films Black and Gray Morality Determinator All for Nothing Pragmatic Villainy Here We Go Again! 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