Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

A new character in a franchise created outside of the original Canon. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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