- Big Bad
- Big Good
- Cincinnatus
- The Commissioner Gordon
- Corrupt Bureaucrat
- Corrupt Politician
- Evil Overlord
- Emperor Scientist
- The Generalissimo
- Head-in-The-Sand Management
- The Hero
- Iron Lady
- The Man
- Mister Big
- Obstructive Bureaucrat
- Permanent Elected Official
- Reasonable Authority Figure
- Reluctant Ruler
- Shadow Dictator
- Tyrant Takes the Helm
- Unfit for Greatness
- Vast Bureaucracy
Category:Authority Tropes
For I too am a person subject to authority, with soldiers subject to me. And I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come here,' and he comes; and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it.
—Luke, The Bible
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Tropes about the different effects and displays of authority and obedience.
Tropes about authority in general
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- Authority Equals Asskicking
- Authority in Name Only
- Asskicking Equals Authority
- Badass in Charge
- Bavarian Fire Drill
- Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough
- The Chains of Commanding
- Challenging the Chief
- Color-Coded Patrician
- Cool People Rebel Against Authority
- Corporal Punishment
- Ermine Cape Effect
- Fisher King
- Forgot I Could Change the Rules
- Grade School CEO
- Humans Are Leaders
- In Its Hour of Need
- King on His Deathbed
- Large and In Charge
- The Leader
- Leader Forms the Head
- Physical Fitness Punishment
- Please Spare Him, My Liege
- Reclining Reigner
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them
- Sham Ceremony
- Staff of Authority
- Still the Leader
- Supporting Leader
- Sword of Damocles
- Teenage Wasteland
- Under New Management
- Young and in Charge
- You Rebel Scum
Leader Characters of
* Landlord
- Non-character tropes=
- Awesome Moment of Crowning
- Offered the Crown
- Royally Screwed-Up
- Non character tropes
- Field Promotion
- The Mutiny
- You Are in Command Now
- Time to Step Up Commander
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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- Badass in Charge (22 P)
S
- Schoolteachers (21 P)
Pages in category "Authority Tropes"
The following 164 pages are in this category, out of 164 total.
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- The Caligula
- Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough
- The Captain
- The Chains of Commanding
- Challenging the Chief
- A Child Shall Lead Them
- Cincinnatus
- Colonel Badass
- Color-Coded Patrician
- Commanding Coolness
- The Commissioner Gordon
- Cool People Rebel Against Authority
- Cool Teacher
- Corporal Punishment
- Corrupt Bureaucrat
- Corrupt Corporate Executive
- Corrupt Politician
- Court Mage
- The Creon
- Cult of Personality