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* TurnTheOtherCheek/AnimeAndManga
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* In ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'', when [[AxCrazy Ikuno]] beats [[TheWoobie Kitano]] within an inch of his life because of a promise she made to a boy, he kept rising until the boy told her to stop out of grief. Upon being told by Ikuno that It's All My Fault that she beats him, he promptly collapses. Why? Because he thinks he made her so angry that he deserved every punch and kicks Ikuno threw at him. He collapses in relief because that meant their friendship would now not be in trouble as he didn't do anything wrong.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': After being brutally bullied by Loly and Menoly for stealing Aizen's attention, Orihime doesn't hesitate to heal Loly and Menoly when they're savaged by Grimmjow. This act [[EvilCannotComprehendGood freaks out]] Loly and leaves her thinking Orihime is a monster. She still tries to attack Orihime later, and forces the much more confused Menoly to help, and is again protected by Orihime. In the end, all Loly can do is repay Orihime by trying to protect her from Yammy.
* The [[OvertookTheManga anime adaptation]] of ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' has [[AntiAntiChrist Rin]] do this in regards to a CrusadingWidow who lost his family to Satan, letting him stab him and offering to let him hurt him as much as he needs in exchange for only keeping innocents out of it. Said guy ends up backing off, though he leaves a warning about how there is "another guy" who won't be driven back by such words.
* Done by both Momoka and Ange towards Riza in ''Anime/CrossAnge'', the latter who aiding Julio in making Ange's life hell while she acted as TheMole (and evidently for the dragon invasion in episode 11). Also both Ange and the dragons. Thankfully averted when it comes to the Mana community, since Ange saw that they didn't have regrets on what they have done or try to improve... she just gave them a middle finger (and by that, she means [[BoomHeadshot a bullet to the head]] to one of them).
* Goku from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' does this repeatedly, to astoundingly successful results, as [[RousseauWasRight most of the villains who he turns his cheek to]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship wind up befriending him and becoming]] [[HeelFaceTurn powerful allies and fellow heroes.]] However, this tendency does get subverted in the case of Frieza; after Frieza has been dismembered by his own attack, Goku not merely spares him, but actually ''gives him energy'' to escape the impending planetary destruction (that Frieza caused), which would kill Goku but let Frieza survive because he can breathe in space. All Frieza had to do was simply fly into space and let Goku suffocate, but his ego is such that he tries to attack the demonstrably stronger Goku from behind, showing that even a particularly AllLovingHero can run afoul of TheFarmerAndTheViper. Unfortunately for Freeza, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome since Goku's still far stronger, Freeza only barely escapes with his life and in future encounters, Goku's warier of him.]]
* Played with by Yukiteru Amano in ''Manga/FutureDiary'', who does not forgive out of kindness, but rather because of his desperate need for affection. The most notable instance is when [[spoiler:his dad tries to kill him [[ItMakesSenseInContext by breaking his cell phone]] (though he wasn't aware of the effect and was trying to pay off a debt), takes Yuki's parachute to escape from a burning building, and ''kills Yuki's mom'' within the course of one episode. After said dad offers to turn himself in, Yuki's willing to forgive him for all of this.]] However, [[spoiler:SlippingAMickey and keeping him tied to a chair for a week didn't go over so well with him]], but even then, he ''still'' forgives [[spoiler:[[{{Yandere}} Yuno]]]] for it later.
* Happens in [[spoiler:the ending of]] ''Anime/{{Gungrave}}''. Brandon and Harry start out as best friends since childhood. [[spoiler:Later, Harry is consumed by his ambitions and murders Brandon, prompting his change to a necrolyzer named Beyond the Grave. Soon, Harry has all his loved ones killed one by one except Mika, who manages to escape from him. Brandon is then woken up by Mika to seek revenge on Harry. However, in the end, Brandon chooses to forgive Harry because they've always been friends, and this resolves their conflict and fixes the broken bond.]]
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'':
*** George Joestar I was robbed by a thief, Dario Brando, while unconscious, only to mistake the man for his savior. Eventually, the police discover that Dario tried to pawn his wedding ring and arrest the thief, only for George to lie and claim that the ring was a gift, all in the hopes that Dario will turn a new leaf. Sadly, Dario didn't change his ways at all.
*** This is how Jonathan Joestar befriended Robert E.O. Speedwagon. Originally the leader of a vicious gang, Speedwagon led an attack alongside a couple of his men on Jonathan after the latter appeared on Ogre Street, but were soundly defeated by him. When the rest of Speedwagon's gang show up to attack Jonathan themselves, Speedwagon orders them to back off after realizing that while Jonathan ''could'' have killed him and his men, he didn't due to being an AllLovingHero. This earned the Joestar family Speedwagon's UndyingLoyalty that would help the descendants in the years to come.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'': Joseph Joestar covers for Smokey Brown who was about to be beaten by the police for stealing his wallet. Fortunately, this act of forgiveness resulted in Smokey becoming his friend for real.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': When Giorno meets the gang for the first time, they try pulling a prank by having him drink urine. He performs SubtleSuperpowering to evade drinking it, impressing them enough to gain their trust without any grudges.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': After his father's YouShouldHaveDiedInstead comment towards him, Johnny regains his love for his father again upon seeing him cheering Johnny on for the last stretches of the race.
* Albert of ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' tried this before he met William, and his failure drew him to the mastermind. He helps a man who repeatedly stole by forgiving him, paying his debts, and giving him the things he attempted to steal, only for the man to [[spoiler:sell the goods to buy a gun, rob a bank, and kill people before dying by police]].
* Keitaro in ''Manga/LoveHina'' seems to do this a lot to all the girls (except Shinobu). In fact it might be fairly common in UnwantedHarem shows.
* Dr. Tenma in ''Manga/{{Monster}}'' seems to hold this attitude in general, and [[spoiler:he eventually saves the life of the main villain, knowing full well what he's done]].
* Much of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'''s plot ends up like this. [[spoiler:A Konohan ninja kills Nagato's parents, who wreaks his revenge on Konoha, and is then hunted down by Naruto... who ends up understanding the whole mess and decides not to kill him back, preventing a CycleOfRevenge.]] He commits suicide anyway by [[spoiler:bringing everyone he killed back to life]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Shanks, Luffy's idol, is introduced hanging out in a bar. A mountain bandit and crew came in and started making a mess of the place, but Shanks and his men don't fight them. They just let them get bored and leave. Later, when Luffy was enraged at this perceived cowardice, confronts the bandits and is beaten, Shanks and crew show up. It doesn't end well for the bandits. Oh, and for measure on strength, the lead bandit has a bounty of 8,000,000 berries, the first serious villain Luffy faces is at 15,000,000 berries, and Shanks has a bounty of [[spoiler:''over 4 billion berries'']].
--->'''Shanks:''' Listen up. You can pour drinks on me, throw food at me, you can even spit on me. I'll just laugh that stuff off. But ''good reason or not, nobody hurts a friend of mine.''
** Luffy's first "fight" against Bellamy. Luffy even tells Zoro "no matter what happens, don't fight back". Bellamy's pirates cover them in food, glass shards and bruises, but Luffy never so much as raises his voice. The second fight, taking place after Bellamy attacks and robs people Luffy had befriended, [[CurbStompBattle is another matter]]. Shanks would be so proud!
%%* Yomiko Readman does this for Nancy in ''Anime/ReadOrDie''.
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': [[SuccubiAndIncubi Kurumu]], [[StalkerWithACrush Mizore]], and Yukari ''all'' tried to kill Tsukune and/or Moka at their first meeting, but Tsukune elected to forgive and befriend them.
* {{Inverted}} and done half-literally in an episode of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo''. Ayeka slaps Ryoko across the right cheek, Ryoko in turn slaps Ayeka across both cheeks.
* Yugi Mutou from ''Anime/YuGiOh'', who not only forgives Joey and Tristan for bullying him, but stands up to a bigger bully ''in their defense'', causing them to experience a HeelRealization and become devoted friends of his.
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* In ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'', when [[AxCrazy Ikuno]] beats [[TheWoobie Kitano]] within an inch of his life because of a promise she made to a boy, he kept rising until the boy told her to stop out of grief. Upon being told by Ikuno that It's All My Fault that she beats him, he promptly collapses. Why? Because he thinks he made her so angry that he deserved every punch and kicks Ikuno threw at him. He collapses in relief because that meant their friendship would now not be in trouble as he didn't do anything wrong.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': After being brutally bullied by Loly and Menoly for stealing Aizen's attention, Orihime doesn't hesitate to heal Loly and Menoly when they're savaged by Grimmjow. This act [[EvilCannotComprehendGood freaks out]] Loly and leaves her thinking Orihime is a monster. She still tries to attack Orihime later, and forces the much more confused Menoly to help, and is again protected by Orihime. In the end, all Loly can do is repay Orihime by trying to protect her from Yammy.
* The [[OvertookTheManga anime adaptation]] of ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' has [[AntiAntiChrist Rin]] do this in regards to a CrusadingWidow who lost his family to Satan, letting him stab him and offering to let him hurt him as much as he needs in exchange for only keeping innocents out of it. Said guy ends up backing off, though he leaves a warning about how there is "another guy" who won't be driven back by such words.
* Done by both Momoka and Ange towards Riza in ''Anime/CrossAnge'', the latter who aiding Julio in making Ange's life hell while she acted as TheMole (and evidently for the dragon invasion in episode 11). Also both Ange and the dragons. Thankfully averted when it comes to the Mana community, since Ange saw that they didn't have regrets on what they have done or try to improve... she just gave them a middle finger (and by that, she means [[BoomHeadshot a bullet to the head]] to one of them).
* Goku from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' does this repeatedly, to astoundingly successful results, as [[RousseauWasRight most of the villains who he turns his cheek to]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship wind up befriending him and becoming]] [[HeelFaceTurn powerful allies and fellow heroes.]] However, this tendency does get subverted in the case of Frieza; after Frieza has been dismembered by his own attack, Goku not merely spares him, but actually ''gives him energy'' to escape the impending planetary destruction (that Frieza caused), which would kill Goku but let Frieza survive because he can breathe in space. All Frieza had to do was simply fly into space and let Goku suffocate, but his ego is such that he tries to attack the demonstrably stronger Goku from behind, showing that even a particularly AllLovingHero can run afoul of TheFarmerAndTheViper. Unfortunately for Freeza, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome since Goku's still far stronger, Freeza only barely escapes with his life and in future encounters, Goku's warier of him.]]
* Played with by Yukiteru Amano in ''Manga/FutureDiary'', who does not forgive out of kindness, but rather because of his desperate need for affection. The most notable instance is when [[spoiler:his dad tries to kill him [[ItMakesSenseInContext by breaking his cell phone]] (though he wasn't aware of the effect and was trying to pay off a debt), takes Yuki's parachute to escape from a burning building, and ''kills Yuki's mom'' within the course of one episode. After said dad offers to turn himself in, Yuki's willing to forgive him for all of this.]] However, [[spoiler:SlippingAMickey and keeping him tied to a chair for a week didn't go over so well with him]], but even then, he ''still'' forgives [[spoiler:[[{{Yandere}} Yuno]]]] for it later.
* Happens in [[spoiler:the ending of]] ''Anime/{{Gungrave}}''. Brandon and Harry start out as best friends since childhood. [[spoiler:Later, Harry is consumed by his ambitions and murders Brandon, prompting his change to a necrolyzer named Beyond the Grave. Soon, Harry has all his loved ones killed one by one except Mika, who manages to escape from him. Brandon is then woken up by Mika to seek revenge on Harry. However, in the end, Brandon chooses to forgive Harry because they've always been friends, and this resolves their conflict and fixes the broken bond.]]
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'':
*** George Joestar I was robbed by a thief, Dario Brando, while unconscious, only to mistake the man for his savior. Eventually, the police discover that Dario tried to pawn his wedding ring and arrest the thief, only for George to lie and claim that the ring was a gift, all in the hopes that Dario will turn a new leaf. Sadly, Dario didn't change his ways at all.
*** This is how Jonathan Joestar befriended Robert E.O. Speedwagon. Originally the leader of a vicious gang, Speedwagon led an attack alongside a couple of his men on Jonathan after the latter appeared on Ogre Street, but were soundly defeated by him. When the rest of Speedwagon's gang show up to attack Jonathan themselves, Speedwagon orders them to back off after realizing that while Jonathan ''could'' have killed him and his men, he didn't due to being an AllLovingHero. This earned the Joestar family Speedwagon's UndyingLoyalty that would help the descendants in the years to come.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'': Joseph Joestar covers for Smokey Brown who was about to be beaten by the police for stealing his wallet. Fortunately, this act of forgiveness resulted in Smokey becoming his friend for real.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': When Giorno meets the gang for the first time, they try pulling a prank by having him drink urine. He performs SubtleSuperpowering to evade drinking it, impressing them enough to gain their trust without any grudges.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': After his father's YouShouldHaveDiedInstead comment towards him, Johnny regains his love for his father again upon seeing him cheering Johnny on for the last stretches of the race.
* Albert of ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' tried this before he met William, and his failure drew him to the mastermind. He helps a man who repeatedly stole by forgiving him, paying his debts, and giving him the things he attempted to steal, only for the man to [[spoiler:sell the goods to buy a gun, rob a bank, and kill people before dying by police]].
* Keitaro in ''Manga/LoveHina'' seems to do this a lot to all the girls (except Shinobu). In fact it might be fairly common in UnwantedHarem shows.
* Dr. Tenma in ''Manga/{{Monster}}'' seems to hold this attitude in general, and [[spoiler:he eventually saves the life of the main villain, knowing full well what he's done]].
* Much of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'''s plot ends up like this. [[spoiler:A Konohan ninja kills Nagato's parents, who wreaks his revenge on Konoha, and is then hunted down by Naruto... who ends up understanding the whole mess and decides not to kill him back, preventing a CycleOfRevenge.]] He commits suicide anyway by [[spoiler:bringing everyone he killed back to life]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Shanks, Luffy's idol, is introduced hanging out in a bar. A mountain bandit and crew came in and started making a mess of the place, but Shanks and his men don't fight them. They just let them get bored and leave. Later, when Luffy was enraged at this perceived cowardice, confronts the bandits and is beaten, Shanks and crew show up. It doesn't end well for the bandits. Oh, and for measure on strength, the lead bandit has a bounty of 8,000,000 berries, the first serious villain Luffy faces is at 15,000,000 berries, and Shanks has a bounty of [[spoiler:''over 4 billion berries'']].
--->'''Shanks:''' Listen up. You can pour drinks on me, throw food at me, you can even spit on me. I'll just laugh that stuff off. But ''good reason or not, nobody hurts a friend of mine.''
** Luffy's first "fight" against Bellamy. Luffy even tells Zoro "no matter what happens, don't fight back". Bellamy's pirates cover them in food, glass shards and bruises, but Luffy never so much as raises his voice. The second fight, taking place after Bellamy attacks and robs people Luffy had befriended, [[CurbStompBattle is another matter]]. Shanks would be so proud!
%%* Yomiko Readman does this for Nancy in ''Anime/ReadOrDie''.
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': [[SuccubiAndIncubi Kurumu]], [[StalkerWithACrush Mizore]], and Yukari ''all'' tried to kill Tsukune and/or Moka at their first meeting, but Tsukune elected to forgive and befriend them.
* {{Inverted}} and done half-literally in an episode of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo''. Ayeka slaps Ryoko across the right cheek, Ryoko in turn slaps Ayeka across both cheeks.
* Yugi Mutou from ''Anime/YuGiOh'', who not only forgives Joey and Tristan for bullying him, but stands up to a bigger bully ''in their defense'', causing them to experience a HeelRealization and become devoted friends of his.
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* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': Averted. At the end, after C's defeat, Ann doesn't forgive the rest of The Consortium's staff for their involvement in kidnapping her brother and holding Ayane captive just to force her co-operation when they were forced into a GodzillaThreshold.
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* During the final episode of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonThree,'' [[spoiler: David becomes furious at what he perceives to be Javi's attempts to take his family away from him, since Javi's spent the last few years traveling and bonding with David's wife Kate and children Mariana and Gabe after they were all separated from David during the initial outbreak (resulting in Javi potentially becoming romantic with Kate if the player so chooses) and he begins to viciously beat his brother as Kate and Gabe scream at him to stop. You're given a choice: to fight back or to tell him you love him. If you pick the latter, David is visibly surprised before quickly becoming even more enraged, and you're given the same choice after each blow. Every refusal to defend yourself is met with escalating aggression, culminating in David sitting on Javi's chest, trying to crush his windpipe, Javi insisting with what breath he can muster that he loves his brother. Thankfully, Clementine intervenes and shoots David in the shoulder to break it up.]]
* Over the course of his life, Gulcasa has been betrayed by the people most important to him [[VideoGame/BlazeUnion over]] [[VideoGame/YggdraUnion and over]] [[VideoGame/YggdraUnison and over]]. It never stops him from continuing to trust [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter even people who clearly don't deserve it]], and no matter how he's been betrayed, he hates fighting his former friends and refuses to kill them. In ''VideoGame/YggdraUnison'', one of the few games where he and Nessiah actually come face to face after the latter breaks ties with the Imperial Army, they still banter and tease each other amiably, and you even have the option of [[WelcomeBackTraitor bringing Nessiah back into the fold]] (although that last bit strays into [[ShipTease another trope]] just a little).
* Over the course of his life, Gulcasa has been betrayed by the people most important to him [[VideoGame/BlazeUnion over]] [[VideoGame/YggdraUnion and over]] [[VideoGame/YggdraUnison and over]]. It never stops him from continuing to trust [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter even people who clearly don't deserve it]], and no matter how he's been betrayed, he hates fighting his former friends and refuses to kill them. In ''VideoGame/YggdraUnison'', one of the few games where he and Nessiah actually come face to face after the latter breaks ties with the Imperial Army, they still banter and tease each other amiably, and you even have the option of [[WelcomeBackTraitor bringing Nessiah back into the fold]] (although that last bit strays into [[ShipTease another trope]] just a little).
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* During the final episode of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonThree,'' [[spoiler: David ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonThree'', [[spoiler:David becomes furious at what he perceives to be Javi's attempts to take his family away from him, since Javi's spent the last few years traveling and bonding with David's wife Kate and children Mariana and Gabe after they were all separated from David during the initial outbreak (resulting in Javi potentially becoming romantic with Kate if the player so chooses) and he begins to viciously beat his brother as Kate and Gabe scream at him to stop. You're given a choice: to fight back or to tell him you love him. If you pick the latter, David is visibly surprised before quickly becoming even more enraged, and you're given the same choice after each blow. Every refusal to defend yourself is met with escalating aggression, culminating in David sitting on Javi's chest, trying to crush his windpipe, Javi insisting with what breath he can muster that he loves his brother. Thankfully, Clementine intervenes and shoots David in the shoulder to break it up.]]
* ''VideoGame/DeptHeaven'': Over the course of his life, Gulcasa has been betrayed by the people most important to him [[VideoGame/BlazeUnion over]] [[VideoGame/YggdraUnion and over]] [[VideoGame/YggdraUnison and over]]. It never stops him from continuing to trust [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter even people who clearly don't deserve it]], and no matter how he's been betrayed, he hates fighting his former friends and refuses to kill them. In ''VideoGame/YggdraUnison'', one of the few games where he and Nessiah actually come face to face after the latter breaks ties with the Imperial Army, they still banter and tease each other amiably, and you even have the option of [[WelcomeBackTraitor bringing Nessiah back into the fold]] (although that last bit strays into [[ShipTease another trope]] just a little).
* ''VideoGame/DeptHeaven'': Over the course of his life, Gulcasa has been betrayed by the people most important to him [[VideoGame/BlazeUnion over]] [[VideoGame/YggdraUnion and over]] [[VideoGame/YggdraUnison and over]]. It never stops him from continuing to trust [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter even people who clearly don't deserve it]], and no matter how he's been betrayed, he hates fighting his former friends and refuses to kill them. In ''VideoGame/YggdraUnison'', one of the few games where he and Nessiah actually come face to face after the latter breaks ties with the Imperial Army, they still banter and tease each other amiably, and you even have the option of [[WelcomeBackTraitor bringing Nessiah back into the fold]] (although that last bit strays into [[ShipTease another trope]] just a little).
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* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Ryuji's former teammates blame him for getting the track team shut down by punching Kamoshida in a fit of anger, and so end up giving him a lot of abuse when they cross paths. Despite this, when Ryuji finds them confronting their teammate Nakaoka over having, among other things, disclosed the truth about Ryuji's home life to Kamohsida (who proceeded to spread rumors about it), Ryuji intervenes to protect Nakaoka.
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* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Persona2'': Maya's not one to hold a grudge. At the end of ''Innocent Sin'', Nyaralathotep mocks her for trying to hate him by noting that forgiveness is her whole schtick.
** ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Ryuji's former teammates blame him for getting the track team shut down by punching Kamoshida in a fit of anger, and so end up giving him a lot of abuse when they cross paths. Despite this, when Ryuji finds them confronting their teammate Nakaoka over having, among other things, disclosed the truth about Ryuji's home life to Kamohsida (who proceeded to spread rumors about it), Ryuji intervenes to protect Nakaoka.
** ''VideoGame/Persona2'': Maya's not one to hold a grudge. At the end of ''Innocent Sin'', Nyaralathotep mocks her for trying to hate him by noting that forgiveness is her whole schtick.
** ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Ryuji's former teammates blame him for getting the track team shut down by punching Kamoshida in a fit of anger, and so end up giving him a lot of abuse when they cross paths. Despite this, when Ryuji finds them confronting their teammate Nakaoka over having, among other things, disclosed the truth about Ryuji's home life to Kamohsida (who proceeded to spread rumors about it), Ryuji intervenes to protect Nakaoka.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Despite being treated poorly by the townsfolk during her initial arrival, Anne, instead of taking pleasure from taking stuff with the tax collectors, not only feels sorry for them, but she secretly gives back to them at least one object for each one of them. Needless to say, they are touched by her kindness.
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* You would think ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Smurf The Other Cheek" is about this trope in action just by the title alone...until [[LiteralAssKicking you realize what "smurfing the other cheek" really means when you watch the episode]]!
* WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse, AllLovingHero that he is, has forgiven everyone who's hurt him or tried to hurt him at any stage, to the point where he's willing to wish someone a pleasant day after they had just spent the past scene trying to kill him and his guardians. [[spoiler:By the end of the season, his willingness to forgive and accept that same character's flaws led her to a HeelFaceTurn. Subverted and deconstructed in the follow-up ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' which forces Steven to look at how many traumatic incidents he's suffered through. The difference is made between forgiving someone and forgiving someone for hurting ''you'', and Steven has a lot of pent-up resentment towards others for how much he's been hurt. When it all becomes too much for him to handle and his shapeshifting powers turn him into a giant monster, nearly all of the reformed antagonists are forced to recognize how much they hurt Steven and didn't actually do anything to make it up to him specifically, even if they atoned for their overall actions.]]
* WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse, AllLovingHero that he is, has forgiven everyone who's hurt him or tried to hurt him at any stage, to the point where he's willing to wish someone a pleasant day after they had just spent the past scene trying to kill him and his guardians. [[spoiler:By the end of the season, his willingness to forgive and accept that same character's flaws led her to a HeelFaceTurn. Subverted and deconstructed in the follow-up ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' which forces Steven to look at how many traumatic incidents he's suffered through. The difference is made between forgiving someone and forgiving someone for hurting ''you'', and Steven has a lot of pent-up resentment towards others for how much he's been hurt. When it all becomes too much for him to handle and his shapeshifting powers turn him into a giant monster, nearly all of the reformed antagonists are forced to recognize how much they hurt Steven and didn't actually do anything to make it up to him specifically, even if they atoned for their overall actions.]]
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* You would think ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "Smurf The Other Cheek" is about this trope in action just by the title alone...until [[LiteralAssKicking you realize what "smurfing the other cheek" really means when you watch the episode]]!
*WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse, ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', AllLovingHero that he is, has forgiven everyone who's hurt him or tried to hurt him at any stage, to the point where he's willing to wish someone a pleasant day after they had just spent the past scene trying to kill him and his guardians. [[spoiler:By the end of the season, his willingness to forgive and accept that same character's flaws led her to a HeelFaceTurn. Subverted and deconstructed in the follow-up ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' which forces Steven to look at how many traumatic incidents he's suffered through. The difference is made between forgiving someone and forgiving someone for hurting ''you'', and Steven has a lot of pent-up resentment towards others for how much he's been hurt. When it all becomes too much for him to handle and his shapeshifting powers turn him into a giant monster, nearly all of the reformed antagonists are forced to recognize how much they hurt Steven and didn't actually do anything to make it up to him specifically, even if they atoned for their overall actions.]]
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