Tropescilloscope: Funny Foreigner

A character hailing from another continent, planet, or galaxy, is a source of comedy. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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