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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
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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
- Badass Bureaucrat
- 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
- 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
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The Caligula
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Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough
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Challenging the Chief
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Cincinnatus
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Colonel Badass
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Color-Coded Patrician
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Commanding Coolness
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Cool People Rebel Against Authority
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Cool Teacher
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Corporal Punishment
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Corrupt Bureaucrat
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
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Corrupt Politician
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Court Mage
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Cult of Personality
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Teenage Wasteland
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The Brigadier
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The Captain
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The Chains of Commanding
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The Commissioner Gordon
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The Creon
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The Dragon
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The Emperor
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The Generalissimo
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The Good Chancellor
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The Good King
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The Last DJ
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The Leader
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The Man
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The Necrocracy
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The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask
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Time to Step Up Commander
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Tyrant Takes the Helm