Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

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

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