History Main / CanonForeigner

* There is no mention of a demon in the scene ''Art/DanteVirgilInHell'' is baed on, but lo and behold, there's one flying over the scene smiling. It helps make the setting clear to anyone that doesn't know this is based on the ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]''.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''

* While several Wrestling/{{TNA}} contracted wrestlers had matches in Wrestling/{{AAA}}, the luchador known as Border Patrol specifically represented TNA yet had never worked for it. TNA also has a long running gimmick called "Suicide", to which AAA gave a counterpart in Australian Suicide, [[TheArtifact who kept the name]] even after Suicide was renamed Manik.[[/folder]]

* ''Radio/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' introduced Jimmy Olsen, Inspector Henderson, Kryptonite and the names "Daily Planet" and "Perry White."

* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'': Nathaniel Ward of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's projects is an unusual case. Originally created as a RPG character, the hosts of the [[http://www.cthulhulives.org/radio/DART/index.html Dark Adventure Radio Theatre]] series later spoke of him as the hero of a separate program within the audio adaptations' own miniature universe. Eventually, Ward featured in the HPLHS's film adaptation of ''Film/TheWhispererInDarkness'', [[http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/storeDetailPages/codex.html a monograph]], and three of the Society's other radio dramas to date (''The Dreams in the Witch House'', ''Imprisoned with the Pharaohs'', and ''Dagon: War of Worlds''). He's implied to have an epic life beyond even the aforementioned titles.

* ''RolePlay/PokemonDigimonMonWars'': While set in the Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime, characters from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' and the games themselves may appear, even though they had yet to show up in the anime. Same could be said on the Franchise/{{Digimon}} with characters outside ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''.

* Most of the characters in ''[[Podcast/{{Wolverine}} Wolverine: The Long Night]]'' that aren't Logan, including the BigBad, [[spoiler: a young mutant named Hudson Langrock]]. The second season adds a few canon characters like Comicbook/{{Gambit}}, Mastermind and [[spoiler: Master Mold]], but also features a new character named Marcus as Logan's sidekick.

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->'''Rokk:''' Kal-El, I have to tell you - we've heard of Lois Lane, Lana Lang, even Jimmy Olsen, but we've never heard a thing about any "Chloe Sullivan".
->'''Clark Kent:''' ...Then you don't know me as well as you think.

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* Hotblack Desiato and Disaster Area in ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'' and subsequently the TV version of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' were created to replace the sequence with the Haggunenons in the radio series, which was mostly written by John Lloyd, and therefore Creator/DouglasAdams didn't feel was "his".

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* Several characters in ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'' (which was Shakespeare's adaptation of the Thomas Lodge novel ''Rosalynde''), most importantly [[TheJester Touchstone]] and Jacques (of "All the world's a stage" fame). The rest of the Canon Foreigners in the story are all related to them in some way: Jacques, being a [[TheCynic cynical]] [[ThePhilosopher philosopher]], gets a scene where he [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism plays off]] the idealistic, music-loving "Amiens", while Touchstone's subplot necessitates the inclusion of his love interest, "Audrey, a country wench", a country priest named "Oliver Mar-Text", and "William", Audrey's ex-boyfriend.

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->'''Rokk:''' Kal-El, I have to tell you - we've heard of Lois Lane, Lana Lang, even Jimmy Olsen, but we've never heard a thing about any "Chloe Sullivan".\\

'''Clark Kent:''' ...Then you don't know me as well as you think.

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* ''It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman'' is a musical about the title character's battle against Dr. Abner Sedgwick, an embittered man who never won the Nobel prize despite coming close several times. His assistant, Jim Morgan, is a RomanticFalseLead for Lois Lane, who also contends with the [[AbhorrentAdmirer unwanted affections]] of her co-worker Max Mencken, a chauvinistic former song-and-dance man who hates Superman. Meanwhile, Max's secretary, Sydney Carlton, hides her affections for her boss by making advances on Clark Kent. The only established character to appear apart from Superman and Lois is Perry White, who has no more than a few lines.

* ''It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman'' is a musical about the title character's battle against Dr. Abner Sedgwick, an embittered man who never won the Nobel prize despite coming close several times. His assistant, Jim Morgan, is a RomanticFalseLead for Lois Lane, who also contends with the unwanted affections of her co-worker Max Mencken, a chauvinistic former song-and-dance man who hates Superman. Meanwhile, Max's secretary, Sydney Carlton, hides her affections for her boss by making advances on Clark Kent. The only established character to appear apart from Superman and Lois is Perry White, who has no more than a few lines.

* ''It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman'' is a musical about the title character's battle against Dr. Abner Sedgwick, an embittered man who never won the Nobel prize despite coming close several times. His assistant, Jim Morgan, is a FalseRomanticLead for Lois Lane, who also contends with the unwanted affections of her co-worker Max Mencken, a chauvinistic former song-and-dance man who hates Superman. Meanwhile, Max's secretary, Sydney Carlton, hides her affections for her boss by making advances on Clark Kent. The only established character to appear apart from Superman and Lois is Perry White, who has no more than a few lines.

* Nathaniel Ward of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's projects is an unusual case. Originally created as a ''Call of Cthulhu'' RPG character, the hosts of the [[http://www.cthulhulives.org/radio/DART/index.html Dark Adventure Radio Theatre]] series later spoke of him as the hero of a separate program within the audio adaptations' own miniature universe. Eventually, Ward featured in the HPLHS's film adaptation of ''Film/TheWhispererInDarkness'', [[http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/storeDetailPages/codex.html a monograph]], and three of the Society's other radio dramas to date (''The Dreams in the Witch House'', ''Imprisoned with the Pharaohs'', and ''Dagon: War of Worlds''). He's implied to have an epic life beyond even the aforementioned titles.

* Whenever ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' comes out with an expanded version or spinoff based around Boddy Mansion (as opposed to say, ''Franchise/StarWars'' or ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'') it seems traditional to add a bottle of poison as a weapon, as well as the appearances of Madam Rose, Sgt. Grey, M. Brunette, and Miss Peach as extra characters.
* The mage/planeswalker Jodah in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' was created by Jeff Grub for the novelizations of the plot of ''The Dark'' and the ''Ice Age'' cycle of books, created in 1999 (where the sets were created in 1994-5). He'd prove popular enough to get an Avenger card in ''Planar Chaos''.
* The ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' RPG game ''The NERV White Paper'' introduced Maria Vincennes, a female EVA pilot from America.

** ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon VideoGame/MemoriaFreese''

** ''LightNovel/DanMachi: VideoGame/MemoriaFreese''

* Found in '''spades''' in ''Roleplay/TropersTheSeries''

Compare OriginalGeneration characters, who are Canon Foreigners to several canons at once in a {{Crossover}} plot, or CanonCharacterAllAlong, when a supposedly new character is later revealed to be a well-established character within a canon. Contrast AdaptedOut, where a character in the source material is omitted in the adaptation.

Compare OriginalGeneration characters, who are Canon Foreigners to several canons at once in a {{Crossover}} plot, or CanonCharacterAllAlong, when a supposedly new character is later revealed to be a well-established character within a canon.

Contrast AdaptedOut, where a character in the source material is omitted in the adaptation.

See GodCreatedCanonForeigner when this character comes from the original creator.

See ToylineExclusiveCharacter for toy-related examples of this trope.

For FanFiction canon foreigners, see OriginalCharacter.

** ''Ride/HagridsMagicalCreaturesMotorbikeAdventure'' has the Blast-Ended Skrewts, which never appeared in the ''Harry Potter'' movies.