History ReasonableAuthorityFigure / WesternAnimation

*** "Lesson Zero" has Twilight Sparkle having a monumental FreakOut because she hadn't written her weekly [[AnAesop aesop]] report to Celestia. The princess shows up after Twilight's attempts to rectify the situation have wreaked chaos upon Ponyville, and is implied to given Twilight a well-earned, offscreen lecture before starting to reassure her. When her friends burst in begging Celestia to forgive Twilight, citing ''their'' not taking her feelings seriously as the cause of the problems, she takes the chance to drive the lesson home ''and'' lighten Twilight's (perceived) workload by having the others join in the reporting ''only'' when there's something to report.

** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseCamilaNoceda Camila Noceda]], Luz's mother, genuinely cares for Luz, and loves her creativity, but sent her to Reality Check summer camp because she didn't want Luz to get bullied in school like she was. She takes [[spoiler:Vee]] in and treats her as her own after learning that she has nowhere else to go, and after the events of "King's Tide", [[spoiler:she takes in the Hexsquad as well. After learning that Luz plans to stay in the Human Realm for good, she immediately goes out to find her, and decides to go with her and her friends to the Demon Realm to ensure they return to their families safely.]]

*** Katara has become this, the prime example being that unlike the other White Lotus members, who would stop Korra from going to Republic City, she gives her her blessing to go there, remembering how she went on her journey in the original series. That, and she decides to let her son Tenzin train Korra in Airbending.

** Princess Celestia, who in addition to being a kind, gentle pony (willing to forgive her formerly insanely evil sister after Luna tearfully apologized), is also a ruler that isn't as stuffy and proper as one would think, as she once pulled a light-hearted prank on the Cakes to get them to loosen up during a visit from her. Two episodes in particular highlight this trait for the Princess:

** Rarity is this for Sweetie Belle in "Ponyville Confidential." Rarity confronts Sweetie Belle upon learning that her little sister is one-third of the new local gossip columnist. Despite her anger (since a recent story had been excerpts from Rarity's diary), Rarity scolds her, uses her own [[HypocrisyNod going through Sweetie Belle's stuff for proof]] to drive home the point about personal privacy, and finish it up by questioning whether Sweetie Belle wants writing hurtful gossip to be her destiny-declaring Cutie Mark. Everypony else was either so angry they sent the fillies away rather than risk [[MomentOfWeakness an out of line outburst]] or just shunned them outright.

** Twilight herself is this for Spike, being the main adult figure in his life. She pulls him back when he starts to go out of line.

** Camila Noceda, Luz's mother, genuinely cares for Luz, and loves her creativity, but sent her to Reality Check summer camp because she didn't want Luz to get bullied in school like she was. She takes [[spoiler:Vee]] in and treats her as her own after learning that she has nowhere else to go, and after the events of "King's Tide", [[spoiler:she takes in the Hexsquad as well. After learning that Luz plans to stay in the Human Realm for good, she immediately goes out to find her, and decides to go with her and her friends to the Demon Realm to ensure they return to their families safely.]]

** Hordak is a rare example of a ''villain'' being this, and a lowkey BenevolentBoss, to boot. He rewards competency and determination, and punishes those who refuse to admit to their mistakes, but not in the usual, lethal YouHaveFailedMe sense. Even when Catra's attempt at attacking the Rebellion at the end of Season 1 fails, he still promotes her, because her track record up until then is incredible, and she ''did'' come way closer than any of her predecessors did. He also doesn't get angry when [[spoiler:Entrapta]] talks back to him, since her argument was a genuinely fair point.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Mr. Krabs sometimes fills this role toward [=SpongeBob=] when he's not being greedy.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** The Earth King, he even had an EvilChancellor, Long Feng, who tried to discredit Aang and co. (among other unpleasantness). He listens to Aang and co. even though they fight their way into his throne room, and is eminently reasonable and rational when deciding their case. He eventually agrees to help plan an invasion of the Fire Nation and arrest Long Feng. It's averted in ''[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderThePromise the Promise]]'' comics: the Earth King refuses to [[spoiler:have an audience with Zuko after the latter withdraws his support of the Harmony Restoration Movement, instead choosing to go to war with the Fire Nation over the colonies.]]
%%** Chief Hakoda probably qualifies also.
%%** General Iroh could qualify as well [[spoiler: especially after he lost his son and had no more lust for conquest. He spent the remainder of his life trying to be the voice of reason for Zuko and aimed to influence his nephew from the path of darkness Iroh's evil brother and niece were on.]]
%%** Monk Gyatso is another canidate as he always looked out for Aang's well-being as a boy while the other elder monks, fearful of a coming war, saw Aang as a small Avatar and wanted to force him to train rather then let Aang mature to be able to handle the responsibility.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** Katara has become this, the prime example being that unlike the other White Lotus members, who would stop Korra from going to Republic City, she gives her her blessing to go there, remembering how she went on her journey in the original series. That, and she decides to let her son Tenzin train Korra in Airbending.
** Lin Beifong may look like a hardhearted lady who continually sticks to the law, but once you get to know her, she's a good ally and will listen well if you have a crime to tell her about.
** Fire Lord Izumi firmly establishes herself as one. She readily agrees to lend resources to defend and retaliate against Kuvira, but she is under no illusions about the Fire Nation's reputation and the political fallout of being party to a preemptive strike.