Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

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

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