Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

Authority figure who helps the heroes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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