History Main / ReasonableAuthorityFigure

See also InItsHourOfNeed.

* There are a few officials in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' who fit this trope, such as Literature/CiaphasCain, [[Literature/GauntsGhosts Ibram Gaunt]], and a handful of their fellow officers. Warmaster Horus was one, at least [[FaceHeelTurn before the heresy.]] Unfortunately, they are very much in the minority. To be fair, this is not entirely unjustified in a setting where having an open mind is practically an invitation to [[EldritchAbomination Chaos]].
** Post-[[WhamEpisode Cicatrix Maledictum]], the role has been definitively claimed by Roboute Guilliman, who's even somewhat willing to cooperate with aliens, in stark contrast to the AbsoluteXenophobe Imperium.

* ''Franchise{{Transformers}}'':

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersTillAllAreOne'': Windblade forces Starscream to make a Council of Worlds with all of the planets they get together with in an effort to curb the absolute power he'd claimed for himself. Obsidian, the delegate from Carcer, immediately starts trying to overhaul all the corruption in the system starting with appointing an honest third party security company to administer over the current [[PoliceBrutality police force]]. Of all the delegates it's Obsidian whom Starscream sees as his biggest threat.
** Over in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', this job falls to ''Megatron'', of all people. That said, when the other high-ranking crew on the Lost Light are Rodimus, a HotBlooded GloryHound {{Manchild}} who pretends to be dead to get out of difficult conversations, and Ultra Magnus, a ByTheBookCop to such an extent that he once threw someone in the brig for typographical errors on a sign.

* When the ComicBook/XMen were based out of Utopia (an artificial island off the coast of San Francisco) the mayor of San Francisco practically went beyond "reasonable" and into "pushover" territory. She basically deputized them and declared the city a safe haven for mutants.
** Speaking of the X-Men, there was [=FBI=] Agent Fred Duncan. During the early stories, before mutant hysteria started running rampant, he was their official government contact. Once the government shifted to an anti-mutant viewpoint and they started ignoring him when he said mutants should be judged individually and the X-Men were trustworthy, he resigned, though not before shredding his files on them as a "security precaution." He's appeared a handful of times since then, always supporting the X-Men.