Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

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

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