Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

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

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