Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

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

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