History ReasonableAuthorityFigure / Webcomics

* ''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'': Veronica Carter, Chase's adoptive mom. She's the chief of police and somehow has managed to keep herself from becoming a sinner in her quest to improve the world.

** The Mayor eventually accepts that the artificial intelligences she'd been dismissing really are sapient, because [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2400/fv02386.htm mounting evidence caused her to rethink the issue]]. [[spoiler:Later, she resigns, because she feels her trouble with seeing AI as genuinely sapient means she ''can't'' be a Reasonable Authority Figure.]]

* Baron Wulfenbach of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' runs a ruthless dictatorship. He allows his subjects to parody or even mock him in the press, and generally he only uses lethal force when the need for it becomes blatantly obvious - even a full-fledged French Revolution-style ''uprising'' is put down with StunGuns. A very reasonable dictator.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'':
** Mikkel ''tries'' to be this, slowly shaping up to be RareMaleExample of TeamMom, but [[LeeroyJenkins Sigrun]] just keeps on overruling him.
** While Sigrun seems like an inversion in the beginning (Absolutely Unreasonable Authority Figure), she proves surprisingly fitting to this trope after the team crosses [[PointOfNoReturn Oresund Bridge]].

** His replacement, Arthur, is likewise quite reasonable, despite being initially antagonistic. While he's positioned as an opposing force initially, it turns out to be due to working from incomplete information - and once he and Tedd get the full story, he immediately agrees that Tedd was correct (to an extent -- while Tedd is fundamentally opposed to keeping magic secret, Arthur has merely acknowledged it's not possible to do so) and offers support and funding.

** He has two rules: The (''[[SealedEvilInACan apocalyptic]]'') devices of the [[BigBad Other]] must immediately be turned over to him for study, and nations/city-states are not allowed to go to war with each other (in fact, the motto for his ''[[http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Pax_Transylvania Pax Transylvania]]'' is "Don't make me come over there"). Also, aside from keeping crack troops to uphold the peace; he builds and maintains roads, schools, and hospitals; provides support to cities, and even has firefighting and emergency communication forces. On top of ''that'', his tax policies are ''so'' reasonable that the only time they're mentioned is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090225#.VWvGY-cUpug when Gil defends the Wulfenreich]] - people have so little problem with being taxed they simply '''don't consider it worth mentioning.'''

* In ''Webcomic/{{Cheer}}'', Mr. Madison is considered nice and well-liked by his students. He's the one the girls go to for help when they find that the class president was chained up in the Student Council room, and when we see him teaching, he tries to make obscure math formulas interesting before admitting that the students can forget them after the test.
* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' has '''Palpatine''' as one of these. Instead of him corrupting Anakin (like in the films), [[spoiler: it's the other way around.]]
-->'''Jar Jar''': Dis meaning war, wesa needs to have a stronger leader! Mesa suggests Chancellor Palpatine gets emergency powers!\\
'''Palpatine''': What?!
-->'''Palpatine''': In the wrong hands, such a thing[[note]]The Peace Moon (aka The Death Star)[[/note]] could be... disastrous.\\
'''Anakin''': But in the right hands?\\
'''Palpatine''': There ''are'' no right hands!
** However it does remain somewhat ambiguous just how much is truly Anakin's influence. [[spoiler: Palpatine ''does'' very promptly put a RestrainingBolt on Anakin once he's forced to don the armor, so at least everything from the end of Episode III on may indeed be Palpatine's doing.]] Of course, it turns out [[spoiler: he actually put it on '''Padme''' after Anakin died. And then it turns out that Anakin's vengeful ghost has been haunting him and driving him to madness.]]
* Lero-Ro, a Ranker from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod''.
* ''Webcomic/{{Godslave}}'' has Sobek, who takes one good look at Anpu and decides (correctly) that the fennec-shaped god has no qualifications to take care of Edith by himself. He then sets up an account for her to solve her money problems while she's PlotCoupon-hunting, and tells her to come to him for aid anytime. The problem is, of course, that he's supposed to be working for Heru, Anpu's enemy.
* ''Webcomic/{{Sparklecare}}'': Most of the nurses seem to be genuinely caring, especially Nurse Kills, who defends and tries to comfort Barry.

* ''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'': Veronica Carter, Chase’s adoptive mom. She’s the chief of police and somehow has managed to keep herself from becoming a sinner in her quest to improve the world.
* ''Webcomic/LegostarGalactica'': President Carl Weyland is easily the best President in the strip's run, being neither a CorruptPolitician, a [[PresidentEvil literal Sith Lord]], nor a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything fascistic reality TV personality]]. He's introduced as just another run-of-the-mill BeleagueredBureaucrat before [[UnexpectedSuccessor unexpectedly finding himself in the top job]] when [[BigBad President Darth Creepius]] is defeated. He sets about doling out {{Unishment}}s to those who rebelled against Creepius, striking a balance between the fact that it was technically treason and the fact that taking out Creepius was undeniably a good thing. He later provides Captain Smith with as much assistance as [[ObstructiveBureaucrat the Senate]] will allow him to during the King in Yellow crisis.

** Mikkel ''tries'' to be this in , slowly shaping up to be RareMaleExample of TeamMom, but [[LeeroyJenkins Sigrun]] just keeps on overruling him.

** His replacement, Arthur, is likewise quite reasonable, despite being initially antagonistic. While he's positioned as an opposing force initially, it turns out to be due to working from incomplete information - and once he and Tedd get the full story, he immediately agrees that Tedd was correct (to an extent -- while Tedd is fundementally opposed to keeping magic secret, Arthur has merely acknowledged it's not possible to do so) and offers support and funding.

** He has two rules: The (''[[SealedEvilInACan apocalyptic]]'') devices of the [[BigBad Other]] must immediately be turned over to him for study, and nations/city-states are not allowed to go to war with each other (in fact, the motto for his ''[[http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Pax_Transylvania Pax Transylvania]]'' is "Don't make me come over there"). Also, aside of keeping crack troops to uphold the peace; he builds and maintain roads, schools, and hospitals; provides support to cities and even has firefighting and emergency communication forces. On top of ''that'', his tax policies are ''so'' reasonable that the only time they're mentioned is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090225#.VWvGY-cUpug when Gil defends the Wulfenreich]] - people have so little problem with being taxed they simply '''don't consider it worth mentioning.'''

** Klaus managed to keep power in most of Europe (mainly excluding England and the city state of Paris) in a ''world ruled by {{mad scientist}}s''. He accepts aid from AxCrazy ex-pirate queen Bangladesh Dupree and former servants of his enemies -- having them under his control is more effective and helps keep the peace, so he not only assimilated armies as casually as UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, but made it a standard procedure. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071207 He made sure it's well-known]] that he also offers surrendering soldiers the opportunity to join his army or take generous severance packages. He also keeps a reasonable base of young [[MadScientist sparks]] and royals loyal to him (or at least completely awed and understanding it's the best place they could find), many becoming good friends with his heir, so that war won't break out once he's gone. It still did the moment he landed in a hospital, but at least with a few clear-cut factions and even possibility to salvage his empire, instead of the open-for-all war he stopped.

** General Tarquin, despite being, you know, a LawfulEvil [[TheManBehindTheMan man behind the man]] who by genre conventions should be holding at least one of them hostage and assuming they're trying to manipulate him. He recognizes that the heroic party is probably fighting a global scale threat that is as much a danger to him as to anybody else, and aids them unconditionally regardless of the philosophical differences... Until the trope is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when he double-cross the protagonists later on because it turns out Tarquin only sees the main plot as a "side quest" and believes the party's ''real'' quest is an epic about Elan [[spoiler: aka his son]] bringing him down in spectacular, myth-making fashion. As soon as it's made clear that ''he'' is the side quest, not the other way around, the facade shatters entirely.

* A ''Webcomic/{{PvP}}'' arc had Brent being stalked and bullied by a bike cop after he got on the latter's wrong side. When Brent and Francis go complain to the cop's supervisor, we see that he's a nice, down-to-earth and reasonable person, who promises to look into the matter. Problem solved, right? Well...not quite. Unfortunately for Brent, Francis finds the fact that said supervisor is a midget very (and offensively) amusing...
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has Thurl, whom even Tagon recognize as [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-03-28 the prime source of advice]]. Elf was promoted after leading a rescue mission, after which she designed a communication device that impressed the local MadScientist without being taught such things (or much of anything), but [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-04-15 when wondering why Thurl is so effective]]:

* ''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'': Veronica Carter, Chase’s adoptive mom. She’s the chief of police, and somehow has managed to keep herself from becoming a sinner in her quest to improve the world.

** His replacement, Arthur, is likewise quite reasonable, despite being initially antagonistic. While he's positioned as an opposing force initially, it turns out to be due to working from incomplete information - and once he and Tedd get the full story, he immediately agrees that Tedd was correct (to an extent -- while Tedd is opposed to keeping magic secret in principle, Arthur has merely acknowledged it's not possible to do so) and offers support and funding.

** His replacement, Arthur, is likewise quite reasonable, despite being initially antagonistic. While he's positioned as an opposing force initially, it turns out to be due to working from incomplete information - and once he and Tedd get the full story, he immediately agrees that Tedd was correct and offers support and funding.

* ''Webcomic/LegostarGalactica'': President Carl Weyland is easily the best President in the strip's run, being neither a CorruptPolitician, a [[President Evil literal Sith Lord]], nor a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything fascistic reality TV personality]]. He's introduced as just another run-of-the-mill BeleagueredBureaucrat before [[UnexpectedSuccessor unexpectedly finding himself in the top job]] when [[BigBad President Darth Creepius]] is defeated. He sets about doling out {{Unishment}}s to those who rebelled against Creepius, striking a balance between the fact that it was technically treason and the fact that taking out Creepius was undeniably a good thing. He later provides Captain Smith with as much assistance as [[ObstructiveBureaucrat the Senate]] will allow him to during the King in Yellow crisis.

* ''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'': Veronica Carter, Chase’s adoptive mom. She’s the chief of police, and somehow has managed to keep herself from becoming a sinner in her quest to improve the world.

* Mr. Verres of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' is far more reasonable than one would expect from the head of an organization that essentially acts as TheMenInBlack. He has a reputation for resolving situations in a manner that tends to favor the well-being of those involved over preserving secrets, and he has earned so much respect from those serving under him, that they still often secretly report to him even when he is no longer their boss. Most dangerous plotlines occur when he is impossible to reach.

* ''Webcomic/SpaceBoy'': Dr. Kim. He stops Oliver from telling Amy the truth about himself, but it's in the interest of her own safety.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sparklecare}}'': Most of the nurses seem to be genuinely caring, especially Nurse Kills, who defends and tries to comfort Barry.

* A ''PvP'' arc had Brent being stalked and bullied by a bike cop after he got on the latter's wrong side. When Brent and Francis go complain to the cop's supervisor, we see that he's a nice, down-to-earth and reasonable person, who promises to look into the matter. Problem solved, right? Well...not quite. Unfortunately for Brent, Francis finds the fact that said supervisor is a midget very (and offensively) amusing...