Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

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

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