History Main / ForHappiness

* [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]] from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' loves [[InLoveWithLove romance]] and [[FunPersonified having fun]], and she wants [[TheMatchmaker these]] [[BlitheSpirit things]] for the people around her as well.

** In the ''TabletopGame/ScarredLands'' setting , the titan Gulaben held the powers of granting happiness. The mortal peoples believed her to be For Happiness, and her popularity made her a threat to the Gods' reign over the world. Claiming that her power was merely a sinister kind of GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul, the Gods captured her and destroyed all memories of her so that no one would try to set her free. The official truth is that she was a fickle and cruel titan, who might kill you even as she induces pleasure beyond imagination. The gods simply [[IDidWhatIHadToDo did what they had to do]]. And since we no longer remember the real truth about Gulaben, we'll just have to take their word for it.

** Aang told Iroh how he'd been told to [[spoiler:let go of his love for Katara in order to use his full power]], and had refused to do so. Iroh immediately tells him he did the right thing, and that "Power and perfection are overrated".
** Aang himself has something of this, as even though he does understand it is his destiny to beat the [[BigBad Fire Lord]] and restore balance to the world, he frequently puts that mission on hold in order to let himself and others have fun.
* Finn from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' wants to solve everyone's problems. In another show, the way this was set up would lead to him realizing he can't, and making most people happy, or [[SweetAndSourGrapes giving up but finding that making himself happy makes everyone else happier]]. But this is '' Adventure Time'', after all. So [[{{Determinator}} he does it]]. He does eventually learn that he can't make everybody ''like'' him for or by doing so though.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Pinkie Pie's talent is making ponies happy, often via parties. Her song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNrXMOSkBas "Smile Smile Smile"]] (from the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed A Friend In Deed]]") could be the anthem of this trope.

** [[BigGood Princess Celestia]] seems this way, acting like a light-hearted pony who doesn't take herself too seriously and enjoys a good laugh at her own expense. Over time, we've seen her get more serious until it's apparent that keeping everyone ''safe'' is her main concern, and spreading cheer is what she does in her rare moments of down-time.

* Mabel Pines from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' loves [[InLoveWithLove romance]] and [[FunPersonified having fun]], and she wants [[TheMatchmaker these]] [[BlitheSpirit things]] for the people around her as well.

** Love Momozono from ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure''. She's born with her MultiEthnicName from her parents (but mainly her grandpa) so she's able to spread love and happiness to everyone, and she took that thing ''at heart''. She's extremely friendly, her catchphrase is "Get your happiness!", attempts to make her friend happy going south (at first) is enough to make her bawl, and if able, she's also reaching out for some of her ''enemies'' to reach their own happiness. It works on [[spoiler:Eas, culminating her HeelFaceTurn into Setsuna/Cure Passion]], and she even attempts that on the BigBad Moebius to reach his happiness, [[spoiler:which backfires when Moebius declared that his happiness is the destruction of the Pretty Cure, even at cost of his destruction. The Cures survive the attempt, though.]]

** Love Momozono from ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure''. She's born with her MultiEthnicName from her parents (but mainly her grandpa) so she's able to spread love and happiness to everyone, and she took that thing ''at heart''. She's extremely friendly, her CatchPhrase is "Get your happiness!", attempts to make her friend happy going south (at first) is enough to make her bawl, and if able, she's also reaching out for some of her ''enemies'' to reach their own happiness. It works on [[spoiler:Eas, culminating her HeelFaceTurn into Setsuna/Cure Passion]], and she even attempts that on the BigBad Moebius to reach his happiness, [[spoiler:which backfires when Moebius declared that his happiness is the destruction of the Pretty Cure, even at cost of his destruction. The Cures survive the attempt, though.]]

-->''Hey, I don't know why''

''Or better yet, let them eat cotton candy!''''

** The Tau are a subversion; yes, the majority do believe in ForTheGreaterGood, but they're ''still'' stuck in a CrapsackWorld and it has turned them into space communists.

* Elmer from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' has this as his raison d'etre: he just wants everyone (particularly his more melancholy immortal brethren) to smile.

* Rentaro from ''LightNovel/BlackBullet'' falls into this. [[spoiler: This is a deconstructed trope, as he wants everyone he loves and cares about to be happy, at the expense of ''his own happiness''. The reason he withholds the crucial information about the sad eventual fate of cursed children becoming Gastrea monsters to Enju Aihara, a cursed child and Initiator who happens to have 500 days to live as a human (or the fact that Enju is slowly ''dying''), is because he wants Enju to live a happy life in her remaining time as a human. It bites him in the ass during volumes 5 and 6 where he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit. Rentaro told Kisara that he is willing to sacrifice his own happiness and freedom [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy for the sake of Kisara being happy]]. Needless to say, Kisara broke down in tears simply because Rentaro isn't happy.]]

* The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breslov_(Hasidic_group) Breslover] Jewish sect believes in this. One of their tenets is that "it is a great religious commandment to always be happy".