Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

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

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