Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

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

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