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* Because of {{Spider-Man}}'s status as one the first {{Chew Toy}}s of the MarvelUniverse, occasionally writers will throw him a bone here and there. Such as Creator/StanLee giving him a motorcycle, introducing him to Mary Jane, and generally making his life better after Stan's fellow plotter Creator/SteveDitko quit Marvel.

* After watching over and over again as Kid-Loki tries to remember [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor his brother]]--and after that have the memories but no one else does, and watch everyone call Tanarus his brother to his face while Loki's clearly getting angrier and more distraught, Loki manages to recover Mjolnir and gain his first ally in the search for his brother. Who is this ally? '''[[spoiler: The ComicBook/SilverSurfer.]]'''

* DonaldDuck did get the upper hand on [[JerkAss Gladstone]] [[BornLucky Gander]] about 10% of the time in [[CarlBarks classic Disney Duckverse comics]].

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* At the end of ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and The Cauldron'', the eponymous (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, [[ReformedButRejected albeit unjustly]]).

* At the end of ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and The Cauldron'', the eponymous (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).

** Is there any trope about such karmic reparations? An overlooked detail is the fact that they decided to go back to sea due to that very beating...

* Because of {{Spider-Man}}'s status as one the first {{Chew Toy}}s of the MarvelUniverse, occasionally writers will throw him a bone here and there. Such as Creator/StanLee giving him a motorcycle, introducing him to Mary Jane, and generally making his life better after Stan's fellow plotter SteveDitko quit Marvel.

* Because of {{Spider-Man}}'s status as one the first {{Chew Toy}}s of the MarvelUniverse, occasionally writers will throw him a bone here and there. Such as StanLee giving him a motorcycle, introducing him to Mary Jane, and generally making his life better after Stan's fellow plotter SteveDitko quit Marvel.

* After watching over and over again as [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} Kid-Loki]] tries to remember [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor his brother]]--and after that have the memories but no one else does, and watch everyone call Tanarus his brother to his face while Loki's clearly getting angrier and more distraught, Loki manages to recover Mjolnir and gain his first ally in the search for his brother. Who is this ally? '''[[spoiler: The ComicBook/SilverSurfer.]]'''

* After watching over and over again as [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} Kid-Loki]] tries to remember [[TheMightyThor his brother]]--and after that have the memories but no one else does, and watch everyone call Tanarus his brother to his face while Loki's clearly getting angrier and more distraught, Loki manages to recover Mjolnir and gain his first ally in the search for his brother. Who is this ally? '''[[spoiler: The ComicBook/SilverSurfer.]]'''

* A ''{{Blondie}}'' comic showed '''everything''' going right for Dagwood, like the inversion of a HumiliationConga: Mr. Dithers praised him and gave him a raise for some particularly skilled work, Blondie prepared his favorite meal and then smilingly waved him off to poker night, where he can't seem to get a bad hand.... The final panel shows Blondie, sitting up in bed, smiling out at the reader (and looking '''hot''' in her nightie) and saying something to the effect that "[[BreakingTheFourthWall after X years in this comic strip]], he deserves a day like this!"
* In ''{{Garfield}}'', Jon is finally now dating Liz the veterinarian, after crushing on her without success for, what? Thirty years?

* In ''{{Peanuts}}'', Charlie Brown had some success in the '90s after decades of constant failure; he managed to hit a home run and win the game for his team not once but twice; he [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1995/04/11 defeated]] a bully named Joe Agate in marbles; and he might even [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1999/10/24 kicked the ball for once.]]
** In ''You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown'', Charlie Brown winds up winning a motocross race despite every force in the universe seemingly indicating that he wouldn't. Goes into ShaggyDogStory territory when the intended prize--Pro Bowl tickets--is replaced by five free haircuts. His hair is not very plentiful and his father is a barber.

* After watching over and over again as [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Kid-Loki]] tries to remember [[TheMightyThor his brother]]--and after that have the memories but no one else does, and watch everyone call Tanarus his brother to his face while Loki's clearly getting angrier and more distraught, Loki manages to recover Mjolnir and gain his first ally in the search for his brother. Who is this ally? '''[[spoiler: The ComicBook/SilverSurfer.]]'''

** DonRosa loved doing this to Donald. ''The Duck Who Never Was'' did it as a sixtieth birthday present to the character via ItsAWonderfulPlot, while ''The Magnificent Seven (Minus Four) Caballeros'' sees Donald's foreign friends from ''Disney/TheThreeCaballeros'' make a return and take him on an adventure to cure his depression.

** DonRosa loved doing this to Donald. ''The Duck Who Never Was'' did it as a sixtieth birthday present to the character via ItsAWonderfulPlot, while ''The Magnificent Seven (Minus Four) Caballeros'' sees Donald's foreign friends from ''TheThreeCaballeros'' make a return and take him on an adventure to cure his depression.

* Because of {{Spider-Man}}'s status as one the first ChewToys of the MarvelUniverse, occasionally writers will throw him a bone here and there. Such as StanLee giving him a motorcycle, introducing him to Mary Jane, and generally making his life better after Stan's fellow plotter SteveDitko quit Marvel.

* At the end of ''{{Asterix}} and The Cauldron'', the eponymous (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 are also a few occasions in which [[DreadfulMusician Cacofonix]] saves the day with his dreadful music, and the villagers reward him by letting him participate in the victory feast (as opposed to tying him up to prevent him from singing as per the usual RunningGag) - most notably ''Asterix and the Normans'', where he actually gets to perform for the village with the OneShotCharacter whose life he saved (although he still isn't allowed to sing - he's a good player, but has a horrible voice). Also, when he's been having a run of especially bad luck to the point where the other characters picking on him further would make them unlikeable, they tend to let him sing as an AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther moment - his usual nemesis [[CausticCritic Fulliautomatix]] asks him to sing for him to cheer him up in ''The Secret Weapon'' after the village women run him out of town, and in ''The Falling Sky'', where he has had the worst luck he's ever had and ended up losing all of his possessions due to EthnicScrappy [[BizarroEpisode aliens immolating his house and then erasing everyone's memory of it]], he's even allowed to ''sing'' at the banquet, even though everyone else is obviously in intense pain.

** There are also a few occasions in which [[DreadfulMusician Cacofonix]] saves the day with his dreadful music, and the villagers reward him by letting him participate in the victory feast (as opposed to tying him up to prevent him from playing as per the usual RunningGag). They also tend to be nicer to him when they feel sorry for him - Fulliautomatix attempts to get him to sing to make him feel better in ''The Secret Weapon'', and in ''The Falling Sky'', where he has especially bad luck and ends up losing all of his possessions due to EthnicScrappy [[JumpTheShark aliens immolating his house and then erasing everyone's memory of it]], he's even allowed to ''sing'' at the banquet, even though everyone else is obviously in intense pain.

** There are also a few occasions in which [[DreadfulMusician Cacofonix]] saves the day with his dreadful music, and the villagers reward him by letting him participate in the victory feast (as opposed to tying him up to prevent him from playing as per the usual RunningGag). They also tend to be nicer to him when they feel sorry for him - Fulliautomatix attempts to get him to sing to make him feel better in ''TheSecretWeapon'', and in ''The Falling Sky'', where he has especially bad luck and ends up losing all of his possessions due to EthnicScrappy [[JumpTheShark aliens immolating his house and then erasing everyone's memory of it]], he's even allowed to ''sing'' at the banquet, even though everyone else is obviously in intense pain.

** There are also a few occasions in which [[DreadfulMusician Cacofonix]] saves the day with his dreadful music, and the villagers reward him by letting him participate in the victory feast (as opposed to tying him up to prevent him from playing as per the usual RunningGag).

* After watching over and over again as [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Kid-Loki]] tries to remember [[TheMightyThor his brother]]--and after that have the memories but no one else does, and watch everyone call Tanarus his brother to his face while Loki's clearly getting angrier and more distraught, Loki manages to recover Mjolnir and gain his first ally in the search for his brother. Who is this ally? '''[[spoiler: The SilverSurfer.]]'''

* 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.