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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

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

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