Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

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

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