Tropescilloscope: Canon Foreigner

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

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