As in old Ealing comedies, small-timers take on big, bad authority figures.
The kind of "headship" in marriage, for instance, that Paul goes on to propositionally describe in Ephesians 5 is not regarded as a "bad authority thing" but rather a description of a husband's gifting in an already mutually submitted marriage (verse 21 comes before verse 22).
"I know well that during their passage though my country they are victims of uncountable abuses and humiliations committed by bad authorities".
No less so is Paula Rego, a painter I'd hardly heard of until a few years ago because she was scarcely known in the US - but how strongly put together, how viscerally and deeply felt, are her renderings of bad parental authority and of the psychic nightmares that lie just be low the supposedly sweet surface of childhood!
Bad guy authority figures in the other Marvel universe have included Danny Huston/Brian Cox's nefarious William Stryker, creator of the evil Weapon X programme, and Days of Future Past's Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), whose dodgy experiments with robots pretty much end up bringing about the end of the world.
He was the mastermind of the robbery gone bad, the authorities said, but was not present at the stabbing.
One person was killed and another was seriously wounded in Nassau County on Wednesday after being shot by a gunman who was angered over a business deal gone bad, the authorities said.
But, while "Power" is comparatively solemn about its protagonist's tormented double life, a grim fantasy of bad-boy authority, "Empire" is as loosey-goosey as summer stock: for all his threats, Lucious feels about as menacing as Christopher Walken's Captain Hook.
But coming a little over a week after Sandy wiped out power to millions of customers across the north-east, concern has turned to those still cut off and how they intend to keep warm In advance of the fresh wave of bad weather, authorities in New York City took precautions including the closing of all parks and beaches, while urging the partial evacuation of coastal areas.
Telling us, "academy good, local authority bad" was just one of Gove's porkies.
Times are now very bad, and the authority's executive director, Elliot G. Sander, might suddenly seem a very lonely man.
