Tropescilloscope: Reasonable Authority Figure

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

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