History PlayingWith / EasilyForgiven

** Bob destroys Alice's important book. She's then filled with rage and declares that she'll never forgive him.

** Bob destroys Alice's important book. She's then fuled with rage and declares that she'll never forgive him.

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice's excessive willingness to forgive is her FatalFlaw.

** Alternately Alice forgives Bob completely without any reservations... but all Bob did was PokeThePoodle.

** Bob is forced by the villains to destroy the important book. Alice is disgusted that her friend didn't confide in her.
** Alternatively, Alice tells Bob that in order to be redeemed, he must make it up to the people that he has wronged.
** Bob is forced by the villains to destroy the important book. Alice didn't take action before forgiving Bob, but it's because she didn't give a crap about the book in the first place.
** Alice forgives Bob... but Bob can't forgive himself.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...But then Alice realizes that her friend had no other choice.

** Bob was forced '''at gunpoint''' to destroy the important book. Alice would rather suffer than lose her friend.
** Bob was {{Brainwashed}} or reduced to a [[PeoplePuppets person puppet]]. Alice sees no point in blaming her friend for behavior that wasn't really his fault.

** Alice is a KindheartedSimpleton who lacks knowledge about the concept of revenge, so forgiving is the only thing that she can get to everyone.

* '''Straight''': Bob is forced by the villains to destroy the important book. Joe is a good Samaritan and forgives Bob, not seeing him as a bad person.

** Bob assassinates the President of the United States on live television. Joe buys him ice cream.
** Bob was an EvilOverlord who tried to take over the world and caused deaths of numerous people, including Joe's friends and family. After he apologises, however, Joe forgives him immediately and they become friends.

** Joe is still quite resentful towards Bob after the bad things he has done, but [[ForgivenButNotForgotten grudgingly decides to give him the benefit of the doubt]]. At least for now.
** Alternately Bob forgives Joe completely without any reservations... but all Joe did was PokeThePoodle.

** Bob was forced '''at gunpoint''' to destroy the important book. Joe would rather suffer than lose his friend.
** Bob was {{Brainwashed}} or reduced to a [[PeoplePuppets person puppet]]. Joe sees no point in blaming his friend for behavior which wasn't really his fault.
** Joe is an AllLovingHero.
** Joe is just [[StupidGood very naive]].
** Bob is a chronic {{Jerkass}} to his colleagues, but Joe, his boss, looks the other way because Bob has a [[TheTeamBenefactor crucial skill set nobody else in the firm has]].
** Joe does not want to risk Bob [[FaceHeelTurn switching sides entirely.]]
** Joe doesn't want to risk another fight, so of course forgiving him was the best option.
** Joe forgave Bob simply because he ''wanted'' to forgive him. Forgiveness after all is completely personal, not a law, and whatever Bob did wasn't enough to shake that personal desire.
** Bob and Joe are in imminent mortal danger that forces them to work together to survive. Joe might not want to forgive Bob, but he cannot afford to let personal feelings get in the way.
** Joe was a ButtMonkey who went through a HumiliationConga prior to Joe destroying the book. After everything he went through, he's willing to let Joe's deed slide because it's the least of his concerns.

** Bob is forced by the villains to destroy the important book. Joe is disgusted that his friend didn't confide in him.
** Alternatively, Joe tells Bob that in order to be redeemed, he must make it up to the people that he has wronged.
** Bob is forced by the villains to destroy the important book. Joe didn't take action before forgiving Bob, but it's because he didn't give a crap about the book in the first place.
** Joe forgives Bob... but Bob can't forgive himself.
** Joe ''says'' he's forgiven Bob, but he actually hasn't and still holds a grudge against him even if he's trying to move on.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** ...But then Joe realizes that his friend had no other choice.
** Alice cared about the book, but being a good Samaritan, she forgives both Joe and Bob.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Joe has BlueAndOrangeMorality; destroying the important book is easily fixed in his eyes. But then Bob steps on a butterfly and Joe [[DisproportionateRetribution tries to kill him]]. When the fight comes to a draw, they both forgive each other and are best friends again.
* '''Averted''': Joe doesn't let Bob off so easily. Bob has to spend the rest of the episode (or even more than one episode) trying to make amends with Joe.

** Joe can't just dump Bob in ''The Bob & Joe Show''!
** The show is about how revenge is bad, and that redemption is that only thing stopping people from enacting ThenLetMeBeEvil.

* '''Invoked''': Bob knows how forgiving Joe is, so he uses this to get away with a number of schemes.

** Joe makes it clear from the beginning that he isn't a forgiving person, as Bob learns the hard way.
** Wether or not Joe forgives him, Bob turns him down anyway. Either from thinking he doesn't deserve it, or not caring about it at all.

* '''Discussed''': "Joe is awfully forgiving to Bob even after the atrocities Bob did".
* '''Conversed''': "Ugh! The writer must have a low moral sense in having Joe being forgiven for all of his crap."

** Through a first person narrative we find that Joe was not forgiven for an offense, thus leading for him to forgive others.
** Bob notices how easily Joe forgives people, so he comes up with a FreudianExcuse and makes a speech about how tragic his life is. It makes Joe let his guard down, thus allowing Bob to successfully betray him.
** Joe's teammates [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out]] [[PunishedForSympathy on how easy he forgives Bob.]] Stating that he's being a {{naive|Newcomer}} WideEyedIdealist, and warns him that [[TheFarmerAndTheViper Bob would take advantage]] [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished over him and kill him.]]
** The above gets to a point where [[GrumpyBear Shane]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere promptly leaves Joe's group]] before, from that point forward, going on to [[KillHimAlready cutting the drivel and killing villains]] or getting rid of anyone [[TheMillstone who would substantially hinder him]].
** Bob, despite getting forgiveness, and being told by Joe he was put in a difficult position, still feels guilty about what he did, and moans about not deserving it.
** Bob is completely unrepentant and shoves the forgiveness back in Joe's face, telling him he still continues his evil acts and making Joe's forgiveness entirely meaningless.

** Joe understands the weirdness of how easily he forgives people, but still will not let up because of his principles.
** Joe was aware of the betrayal and counters it, pointing out how miserable Bob really is by making another speech with his real FreudianExcuse. Bob is shocked by Joe being the only one who understands him, even to the point of becoming TheAtoner.
** Joe is aware of it and explains to his teammates on [[FreudianExcuse why he's so easily forgiving to other people]], stating that he was once bad once. Until a priest forgives him of his misdeeds and tells him to GoAndSinNoMore. Moved by the priest's actions, Joe had a HeelFaceTurn, and moved his teammates.
* '''Played For Drama''': Their excessive willingness to forgive is a FatalFlaw.

* Joe was a ButtMonkey who went through a HumiliationConga prior to Joe destroying the book. After everything he went through, he's willing to let Joe's deed slide because it's the least of concerns.

** Bob assassinates the President of the United States. Joe buys him ice cream.

** Bob assassinates the President of the United States. Joe buys him ice cream after pardoning him.

** Bob remotely detonates a hydrogen bomb in Venice. Joe buys him ice cream.

* '''Defied''': Joe makes it clear from the beginning that he isn't a forgiving person, as Bob learns the hard way.

* '''Defied''': Joe makes it clear from the beginning that he isn't a forgiving person, as Bob learns the hard way.
** Wether or not Joe forgives him, Bob turns him down anyway. Either from thinking he doesn't deserve it, or not caring about it at all.

* Bob remotely detonates a hydrogen bomb in Venice. Joe buys him ice cream.
* Bob was an EvilOverlord who tried to take over the world and caused deaths of numerous people, including Joe's friends and family. After he apologises, however, Joe forgives him immediately and they become friends.

* Bob, Joe, and Alice get together for lunch. Bob [[FlippingTheTable flips the table]] (intentionally) and then immediately asks forgiveness, which is given.
* Bob is committing new atrocities every day, but each time he gets forgiven by everyone.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob remotely detonates a hydrogen bomb in Venice. Joe buys him ice cream.

* '''Parodied''': Bob, Joe, and Alice get together for lunch. Bob [[FlippingTheTable flips the table]] (intentionally) and then immediately asks forgiveness, which is given.