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* [[NoSenseOfDirection Ryoga]], the resident [[TheWoobie woobie]] of RanmaOneHalf was given one of these when his virtually perfectly suited and accepting girlfriend Akari showed up near the end of the series.

** Also, the episode where Bill temporarily adopts a soldier's dog, Buddy. Most of the episode revolves around Hank realizing (to his dismay) that the animal that he adopted is a [[spoiler:cat]], but Bill and Buddy spend the entire episode happy. And then, adt the end of the episode, he gets a salute from the entire crew of the aircraft carrier that Buddy's owner works on as he returns Buddy, and gets a ride home on a fighter jet.

It can be very irritating to fans of the female character; who is considered a [[StandardHeroReward reward]] and objectified in particularly bad versions of this; by this trope's very metaphor, a "[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean bone]]."

** There's also ''LuigisMansion'', where Luigi finally takes a starring role, and saves ''Mario'', despite being scared out of his wits.
** In ''MarioAndLuigi: Bowser's Inside Story'', [[spoiler: Bowser saves the Mushroom Kingdom from the Dark Star and Fawful, only to end up getting beat up by the Mario Brothers once again after challenging them. After the credits, while he's recovering from the injuries, he gets a present from Peach and the Mario Bros. It's a Mario 64-like cake with his face.]]

* ''[[OceansEleven Ocean's Thirteen]]'' does this to The "VUP" ([[TheChewToy Very Unimportant Person]]), the (real) hotel reviewer who is unwittingly tortured by the BandOfThieves from the moment he arrives to the moment he gets unceremoniously thrown out. While waiting for a plane ticket he wins [[KarmicJackpot $11 million dollars]], which was set up at the beginning of the film ("Would you go through all that for $10 million?" "''No.'' I'd do it for $11 mil.")
** It should be pointed out that rather than merely getting lucky, Rusty actually rigged the game for him, to make up for his earlier mistreatment.

''Come on, Saints, go get flag number two!''\\

* There is one, just one panel in Volume 5 of ''{{Empowered}}'' where Emp, after being kidnapped along with a bunch of the Superhomies' celebrity doubles, donning her SuperSuit (which she'd wrapped around her waist) and telling off the double who insulted her earlier, actually ''smiles'' in anticipation, because the mooks have no idea what's coming.

* At the end of ''{{Asterix}} and The Cauldron'', the titular (money filled) cauldron falls off a cliff onto the pirates' ship. The panel even has a caption reading "And for once, the pirates are happy!" (though Asterix and Obelix DID kick their asses as usual earlier in the book, albeit unjustly).

* There was a brief scene in ''Gotham Knights'' where for once, {{Batman}} accepted the Spoiler, even telling her that he doesn't mind the company.

** [[spoiler: It could be said that he was thrown a real life bone in his appearance in ''TransformersAnimated'' where instead of being a clumsy bumbler, {{AdapatationalBadAss he was shown to clever, psychotic, and just plain dangerous}}, although a ShoutOut to his former incarnation could be where he had the misfortune of being framed for being a Decepticon spy]].

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** To make it even more BadAss, Neville tells Voldemort [[BadassBoast ''"I'll join you when Hell freezes over!"'']] in front of everyone of importance in the Wizarding World, his friends, Hogwarts instructors and everyone in general. That was also a unified/''combined'' CrowningMomentOfAwesome, CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming and ThrowTheDogABone for the entire [[CoolTeacher teaching staff at Hogwarts]]; in watching Neville and his stand against Voldemort, they got to see that everything they were all about - ''their entire careers'' - actually meant something.

* On ''PhineasAndFerb,'' [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan cute, ridiculously nice Jeremy]] embodies this trope for [[ButtMonkey Candace]]; many episodes have Candace accidentally putting herself through all sorts of grief trying to bust her brothers, only for Jeremy to show up in the last sixty seconds and somehow manage to make her day brighter.