Tropescilloscope: Funny Foreigner

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

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