Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

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

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