Line #126 EasilyForgiven/AnimeAndManga


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7	Exploring the concept of people being EasilyForgiven for their mistakes and crimes in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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9	* In ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'', both Kusuri and Hahari are forgiven by the others for trapping the other girls in an AndIMustScream situation and trying to have Rentarou ''killed'', respectively. While it makes sense that they'd forgive Kusuri -- she mistakenly thought that they'd realise the big flask was for Rentarou instead of all of them, and she's horrified at the results of the mix-up -- Hahari is welcomed to the harem with open arms, despite having done much worse.
10	* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
11	** Gabi Braun is directly responsible for [[spoiler:killing Sasha, attempting to kill Kaya, and bragging about her murder of Sasha to Nicolo, who had feelings for her. Despite her heinous actions, Mr. Braus chooses not to avenge Sasha. Kaya and Nicolo both tried to kill Gabi separate times but both ended up letting go of their vendetta as well...even though Gabi has [[KarmaHoudini not yet faced real consequences for her actions]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone despite finally figuring out Eldians are not actual devils]].]]
12	** [[spoiler: After Annie is finally reintroduced into the story and accidentally encounters Connie and Armin, they just forget about the countless Survey Corps members she killed during the 57th expedition. Though, it's {{justified\|Trope}}, since at that same time, Eren was going about his plan to wipe out everyone beyond Paradis Island, and thus they recruit her in their plan to stop him]].
13	*** [[spoiler:Averted where Jean is concerned though, as he's absolutely pissed when he learns that Annie and Reiner were directly responsible for Marco's death.]]
14	* In the last episodes of ''Manga/BlackCat'', surviving members of Chronos and the Apostles team up in spite of spending most of the series trying to kill each other. They are joined by several Sweepers (bounty hunters) who had been manipulated by or defected from Chronos and had just been battling against the apostles. For that matter, some members of the Apostles had previously defected from that group or tried to kill other members of that group. Even the orphan children had been abandoned by their one member to gain power. Yet all these people work together in the final battle.
15	* In ''Anime/{{Bleach}}'', It's revealed that the entire reason the Soul Society arc happened is that Kisuke implanted the Hogyoku in Rukia's body for safekeeping, leading Aizen to try to get her killed so he can get it. Despite Ichigo's defining characteristic being his protectiveness towards his friends, he's not shown to be the slightest bit upset that Kisuke endangered Rukia's life, and is instead just mad that Kisuke thought he'd run away from the fight if he knew the whole truth. Neither Rukia nor any of the other characters have called him out on it since.
16	* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
17	** The second princess of England is easily forgiven despite committing [[spoiler:treason in an attempted ''coup de tat'', because her actions were those of a WellIntentionedExtremist looking out for her homeland]].
18	** Last Order is pretty forgiving of Accelerator considering what he's done (especially considering that she remembers everything as though it happened to her, thanks to the HiveMind). She's about the only one though; the rest of the Sisters are noted to have extremely mixed feelings toward Accelerator, and Misaka herself still hates him with a passion.
19	* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
20	** Villetta is easily forgiven by Ohgi for shooting and incapacitating him during the Black Rebellion and, of course, the whole racist Britannian agent thing.
21	** Ohgi himself is easily forgiven for betraying Lelouch and siding with Schneizel by various people who were on Lelouch's side. They even actually attend his and Villetta's wedding.
22	** Even more egregious is Cornelia. You'd expect the perpetrator of at least one racist mass murder (that we see onscreen) to receive some form of punishment, but no she's completely let off by the end of R2. The ''Re;surrection'' movie even has Black Knights taking orders from her, even though she was responsible for oppressing them and killing many of their fellow countrymen.
23	* This is the ultimate fate of ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'''s TerribleTrio, the Conquest Club. Though their victims uniformly end up better off thanks to the MacGuffin, they've spent the series ''at best'' bullying the rest of the school, and at worst beating the crap out of them. Their leader, Kinshiro, is either a total KarmaHoudini or gets a well-deserved HumiliationConga, depending on who you ask.
24	* ''Anime/Danganronpa3'': [[spoiler: The members of the 77th class who were murdered during their time in the Neo World Program have no problem acting buddy-buddy with their killers. Even Nagito, who was unanimously hated and feared for most of the killing game, was welcomed into the group with open arms once he woke up from his coma, even though his final actions were trying to get the remaining members of the class killed.]]
25	* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', [[spoiler:L Lawliet]] arranges things so that [[spoiler:Light and Misa]] are put through a mock execution, making [[spoiler:Light]] believe his own father is going to shoot him in the head. [[spoiler:''Light'']] forgives them on the very same page.
26	* ''Manga/{{Debusen}}'': Despite everything [[spoiler: Keiko]] did, Mitsuko's spirit happily forgives [[spoiler: her]] for not only killing Mitsuko, but [[spoiler: kidnapping members of Tiger Class in order to lure Mitsuru to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Sea of Trees]]]].
27	* Played for comedy in ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer''. Sado/Satan and his underlings are responsible for mass murder on an extraordinary scale, waging a campaign of genocide that nearly wiped out all human life on Ente Isla. During the series itself many of the heroes of Ente Isla who come to Japan eventually accept that Sadou/Satan has changed and is a genuine NiceGuy. Even Urushihara/Lucifer gets to live with them after his HeelFaceTurn despite the fact that he tried to kill Sadao/Satan and actually did kill Emi's entire village.
28	* ''Manga/DomesticGirlfriend'': [[spoiler: Alex attempts to rape Rui, and is almost immediately forgiven for it. It probably helps that he was both drunk at the time and ''horrified'' by what he tried to do afterwards]].
29	* ''Manga/DontMeddleWithMyDaughter'': Despite all the pain and suffering Zenovia causes Athena and her family, their long-awaited showdown ends with Athena simply calling a truce after a brief power struggle.
30	* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
31	** This defines Goku's relationship with almost all of his friends (including Bulma to some extent, considering she shot him with her pistol on their first meeting in the original ''Manga/DragonBall''). Most of them started as TheRival. Piccolo was an outright villain who tries to kill him and take over the world and Vegeta tried to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the Earth]] and oversaw the murder of his friends in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', but once they stop actively fighting people, he's perfectly fine with them hanging around. He's even somewhat forgiving towards Kid Buu, the pure, unrepentant {{omnicidal\|Maniac}} EldritchAbomination who destroyed his planet, wishing that he will be reborn as a good person so they can fight again before killing him. The only villains he isn't forgiving towards are King Piccolo and his children, Cell, Super Buu, and Zamasu/Goku Black from ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''. Frieza is a mixed bag since he doesn't forgive Frieza at all, [[CruelMercy but tries to let him live as a punishment]].
32	** This is true of most of the characters. Despite Vegeta being a murderous SpacePirate, only Tien holds a grudge, which he eventually gets over. Fat Buu killed millions if not billions of people, but he's welcomed into the core group fairly easily, although most of that is because this version of Buu isn't really evil, [[ObliviouslyEvil just misguided]] and because even global-level death is [[DeathIsCheap fairly cheap in this world]].
33	** Averted on a cosmic level. Vegeta may have been forgiven by the cast, but after everything he'd done in the past, as well as his actions as Majin Vegeta, when he's about to perform a HeroicSacrifice to stop Buu, Piccolo warns him that someone like him can only end up in Hell when he dies.
34	* Played with in both manga and anime of ''Manga/ElfenLied''. [[spoiler:Kouta does '''not''' forgive Lucy for killing his little sister Kanae and their father. However, even though he never does forgive her, in the anime he openly declares that he will always love her; in the manga, while he is much more bitter and hateful, he offers her a LastSecondChance to live peacefully with him and the rest of the cast, then takes a bullet fully intended for her because he ''refused'' to let another family member of his die ever again.]]
35	* Any protagonist in ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' who meets AntiVillain Dominic quickly sees him as [[FriendlyEnemy a really nice guy]] even when knowing his ties to the world's corrupt military. Upon first meeting him in a particular scene in Episode 45, the Gekkostate crew are at first wary of him joining forces with them against [[BigBad a common enemy]], but decide to trust him implicitly when he states his reasons for doing so are [[LoveMartyr to protect the girl he loves]], which immediately makes him openly comparable to main protagonist Renton.
36	* Subverted in ''Manga/FailedPrincesses'', in which Nanaki Fujishiro repeatedly picks on her classmate, the plain-looking Kanade Kurokawa, for being unattractive. [[BreakTheHaughty Everything changes when Fujishiro's boyfriend, after being caught cheating on her, reveals that Fujishiro had always been his "backup girl," and he'd only dated her because of her looks]]. When Kurokawa happens upon Fujishiro in tears over the incident, she says it's only natural to feel upset about what "[[JerkAss that]] [[PrecisionFStrike asshole]]" did to her, and gives her a handkerchief. In Kurokawa's first POV chapter, it's shown that she still hates Fujishiro and initially wants nothing to do with her, so it takes them several chapters to become friends.
37	* Most of the villains in ''Manga/FairyTail''. Trying to exterminate an entire village just for daring to oppose your plan to revive an ancient demon that ravaged the Earth is just a misunderstanding. Trying to revive an even greater evil to turn the world upside-down, enslaving and killing countless innocents to do so is fine, so long as you lost your memory of the deed and helped the heroes out against a smaller threat. Betraying your guild, turning your former comrades against each other, and then tried to kill them all along with the town they resided in only happened because you didn't really mean it even though you tried and almost succeeded. [[LampshadeHanging One of them asks]] why they have been forgiven so easily. The answer given is that ''[[SubvertedTrope they haven't]]'', but not giving aid and acceptance to someone in need of it and offering them a shot at making things better would ultimately make ''Fairy Tail'' no better in the end.
38	** Flare Corona threatens to kill a child spectator if Lucy fights back during their match and then attempts to torture her, but the protagonists hand-wave her actions later after an apology and give her the excuse of having fallen in with the wrong crowd.
39	** Ultear murders or otherwise ruins the lives of many people, including Jellal, but once she [[HeelFaceTurn turns]] at the end of the Tenrou Island Arc, she is labeled as one of the good guys without anybody mentioning her past. [[spoiler:Though later in the story, she feels crippling guilt over realizing she murdered someone ForTheEvulz rather than her greater plan, and gets karma in the form of aging herself into an old woman while rewinding a critical moment where everyone got killed.]]
40	* Kenshiro from ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is infamous for taking it easy on some real scumbags as long as they show the slightest shred of decency. Of course, taking it easy in [[PayEvilUntoEvil his]] case means treating them to a death that isn't as horrible as those of the gleefully dickish {{Mooks}} he usually deals with.
41	* [[spoiler:Akito]] from ''Manga/FruitsBasket.'' [[spoiler:Her]] offenses include half-blinding Hattori and guilt-tripping his girlfriend for it, throwing Rin out of a two-story window, locking Yuki in a dark room to torture him, smacking Kisa until her cheek bled, [[MindRape psychologically damaging anyone that pisses her off]], and [[spoiler:attempting to murder Kyo and Tohru]]. There's only so much a FreudianExcuse can justify. Though it is worth noting that the only explicit forgiveness comes from Tohru and ostensibly Shigure. Rin refuses to forgive [[spoiler:Akito]] and everyone else just seems to want to go on with their lives.
42	* One strong theme in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is how to deal with sins, forgiveness, and cycle of hatred.
43	** Subverted with the Ishvalan people after nearly getting wiped out in a genocide. Scar's master says that they should not forgive the Amestrians, because good people ''should'' be outraged at injustice, but they do need to ''endure'' it and not continue the cycle of hatred. The result is a rare middle ground between forgiveness and vengeance.
44	** Subverted ''again'' when Izumi forgives Edward and Alphonse for disobeying her repeated warnings to not attempt human transmutation...but still expels them as her students. They now consider each other peers rather than master and student, though, especially since Izumi once made the same mistake. In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the 2003 anime version]], though, the two are forced to repeat the month-long island training, although they have a much easier time.
45	** Hilariously played straight with Paninya in Rush Valley. Paninya stole Edward's silver watch, the proof that he's a state alchemist, which sparked off a chase sequence that caused a lot of damage. When they capture her, a furious Edward wants to have her arrested, while Winry berates him for being so horrible for not forgiving a 'minor' slight...mostly because she wants Paninya to introduce her to the man who made her incredibly well-designed automail legs. (Edward does forgive her after a punch or two). She does, however, give Paninya a WhatTheHellHero speech after hearing that she steals to repay the man who made her legs, telling her that he wouldn't want it.
46	** Winry [[spoiler:doesn't forgives Scar for killing her parents and she stays mad at him. However, she's wise enough not to pursue revenge, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt especially when there are bigger problems on the horizon]].]]
47	* In ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'', Louise essentially kidnaps Saito from his old life by force, enslaves him, forces him to do her chores, beats him whenever she gets upset, and denies him food as punishment when she's unsatisfied with his work. But despite all this, Saito still ends up falling in love with her.
48	* [[{{Yandere}} Yuno Gasai]] of ''Manga/FutureDiary'' [[spoiler:kidnaps the main character and, in order to keep him safe until Yuno's stated "Happy End", keeps him tied up and drugged for a week. Later when his friends arrive to rescue him she tries to kill them]]. Yuki rightfully dumps her in disgust. Two chapters later, Yuki decides to trust her again due to the situation with Seventh. To her credit, she does become much tamer after that incident...[[spoiler:because Yuki decides to [[WellIntentionedExtremist step up his game]].]]
49	** Yukiteru's father Kurou is just as guilty; having been in massive debt, unknowingly selling out his son's life to the CorruptCorporateExecutive to forgive it, saving his own life over his to escape a collapsing building, and [[spoiler:accidentally murdering his ex-wife under stress]]. After being assured he genuinely wanted to make amends and turn himself in, Yuki decides to drop his anger with those issues. [[spoiler:And then Kurou is killed by Eleventh's hitmen, snapping the final threads of pure sanity Yuki had left.]]
50	* One of the central themes in ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' is that forgiving someone doesn't necessarily mean writing off sins, but that it necessitates a deep understanding of the person who wronged you and their actions. Still, it's difficult to believe that Albert would be so okay with the Count for [[spoiler:befriending him to use him for the sake of his twisted revenge, lying to him all along, betraying him, breaking apart his family, killing his best friend, and attempting repeatedly to kill him in a brutal way in front of one of his parents]]. Sure enough, Albert gets to understand that Edmond Dantes is truly a caring man who's been deeply wronged by [[spoiler:Fernand and is trying to kill off his human feelings]], but it goes overboard when he decides to [[spoiler:save Dantes from himself]].
51	* Weed from ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'' had been criticized by several dogs and even some of his packmates for showing mercy and forgiveness on an enemy. Subverted harshly when Jerome [[spoiler:kills Thunder and Lector]], making Weed banish him from the pack.
52	* Andrei Smirnov in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' committed [[spoiler:patricide on his own father and his adopted daughter Soma Peiries hunts him down with extreme vengeance]]. But thanks to a certain DeusExMachina device... he is forgiven. Thankfully, said DeusExMachina comes with him ''finally'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realising how much]] [[HeelRealization of an ass he was]] [[CharacterDevelopment and getting rid of what makes him annoying]]. In TheMovie, [[spoiler:Andrei willingly takes what's left of karma on himself, performing a HeroicSacrifice]].
53	* Of all people, Goldie Musou, the main antagonist of ''Manga/GunsmithCats'', gets Easily Forgiven by the protagonists after temporarily [[LaserGuidedAmnesia losing her memory]], and [[spoiler:entering to a relationship with Misty Brown. The same Misty Brown she once kidnapped and was implied to have raped]].
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55	%%%%%* The finale of ''Anime/InfiniteRyvius'' shows everyone from the ship being invited back to crew it, all on excellent terms after apparently having escaped both legal consequences and personal grievances for their widely publicized behavior in earlier episodes. For the record, they include gangs, rebels, dictators, torturers, rapists, murderers, and utter lunatics (one of whom led her own ''secret death cult''.) Kids from the ship aside, there's also [[spoiler:the evil conspiracy that purposely caused the whole incident, hounded them nearly to death, and blew up an inhabited world]].
56	%%%%** It's not easy. The kids were ''not'' happy at the prospect of returning that ship; Main character Kouji actually ''punched out'' the government official who brought the proposal to him. Why'd they go back? Well, there were a variety of reasons unique to each character; some were there for a career opportunity, some felt the ship's new mission was worth going back, some had unfinished business, and a few were seeking [[TheAtoner atonement]]. But what all of them had in common was a desire to prove they were strong enough to put aside all that ugliness; keeping with one of the major themes of the anime.
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58	* At the end of ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'', even after all she did, [[spoiler: Chaos is welcomed by Tomoki and everyone else with open arms with no resentment over all the destruction she caused and the fact that she almost ended the world.]]
59	* Played with in ''Literature/TheHeroicLegendOfArslan''. Arslan forgives Jaswant and Rajendra after they both betray him several times and spare their lives. However, Arslan makes sure to consult Narsus and the others for contingency plans should there be another betrayal. Arslan's mercy towards Jaswant softens the latter towards Arslan, leading him to help out Arslan's group and eventually [[spoiler: join Arslan's group]]. For Rajendra, his latest betrayal caused a non-aggression treaty to be signed.
60	* Addressed and justified in ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD''. Raynare killed Issei, nearly killed Issei a second time, colluded with rogue exorcists, stole a Sacred Gear and killed its rightful owner in the process, and generally made life hell for the protagonists early on. She's not forgiven for these actions and ends up very dead for her troubles. However, it's later brought up that while she had gone rogue, she was still Azazel's subordinate and he's responsible for her actions, which he doesn't attempt to deny. However, this objection is overruled by the big shots in the room - Azazel and his Fallen Angels would bring so much to the alliance they're discussing that letting him off the hook is [[{{Realpolitik}} considered prudent]].
61	* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Kouga started out by slaughtering multiple villages, including Rin's (even including [[DeathIsCheap Rin]]). He then kidnaps Kagome to force her to become his bride so he can use her shard-detection powers to make himself and his tribe the strongest demons in the area. By the time Inuyasha rescues Kagome, she's willing to protect Kouga against Inuyasha's wrath. Since Kouga falls for her, he becomes TheRival to Inuyasha and their disputes are treated like playground scraps. The issue of Kouga and his tribe destroying villages and eating humans isn't raised again by Inuyasha's group, even when they encounter others of Kouga's kind who continue to eat humans. It's very noticeable that Rin, whom he killed, and Sesshoumaru, her guardian, are never allowed to meet Kouga in the manga (a brief meeting between them in the anime is pure {{filler}} but still ends with Sesshoumaru not considering him worth fussing over).
62	* In ''Literature/InvadersOfTheRokujyouma'', even though Maki and Clan caused no end of trouble, they are rather easily welcomed by the group after their HeelFaceTurn. Considering that most of the group had a rough start with each other, rejecting the two would make them a bunch of hypocrites.
63	* In ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', Liliruca steals Bell's weapons, cheats him out of a fair share of their dungeon loot, and eventually leaves him for dead amid a hoard of monsters, but Bell still comes to her rescue and forgives her for everything, because [[AllLovingHero that’s just the kind of guy he is]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lili herself lambasts him for doing something so foolish]], but in the end, this led to her making a HeelFaceTurn [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe after seeing what he was willing to do for someone like her]].
64	* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'':
65	** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with Iino, as her naive sense of morality is consistently portrayed as being bad for her long-term emotional health. Any negative feelings Iino may hold can easily be canceled out by complimenting her, something Fujiwara demonstrates by buttering her up with praise after she gets caught telling Ishigami about how easily manipulated Iino is. Fujiwara knows that Iino is a sucker for praise and exploits it along with Iino's borderline worship of her to toy with her underclassman and then soften her back up if she takes it too far. During the school festival, she is very nearly picked up by a pair of flirtatious boys until Ishigami intervened. This, combined with the fact that she seems to actually ''enjoy'' being abused, causes her friends to fear that she'll get trapped in an abusive relationship somewhere down the line.
66	** Downplayed in the Class Trip arc:
67	*** Shirogane ''is'' angry, when he learns that [[spoiler:Hayasaka lied about her identity, but he quickly realizes that she exposed herself to him because she needed his help.]]
68	*** [[spoiler:Kaguya is furious when she finds out about Hayasaka having spied on her for the past ten years, but manages to forgive her after a long talk (although Shirogane mentions that he overheard angry voices, the discussion appears to have gotten heated at times). Considering the fact that this was the first time that Kaguya had ever forgiven anyone in her life, it might as well count as her acting as if it never happened in the first place.]]
69	* OnlySaneMan Ryota in ''Manga/{{Kakegurui}}'' starts off the series being publicly humiliated and enslaved by Mary after losing a poker game to her, [[NiceGuy but has no issue letting her into his circle of friends]] some time after [[DefeatMeansFriendship Yumeko wins his freedom]].
70	* In ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'', Mizuki kidnaps Nanami in an attempt to force her into marrying him and is just about to rape her when Tomoe shows up to save her in the nick of time. You'd think Nanami might be a bit upset about this, but in fact she fully forgives him before the end of that very episode. She never brings up the issue up again, and soon they are on good terms, so good that Mizuki eventually ends up moving in with Nanami at the Mikage shrine. Only Tomoe seems to remember that the kidnapping/rape attempt ever happened, and still he only occasionally refers to it in a passing thought. Likewise, Tomoe doesn't seem to take issue with the fact that Nanami basically enslaved him by kissing him against his will back in episode 1, as he soon dedicates himself to being her loyal familiar and quickly falls in love with her as well.
71	* In ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'', Yamai receives no comeuppance after kidnapping Tadano and even manages to join Komi's main group of friends. It's implied that, considering how she is, the alternative would not play out particularly well for anyone involved.
72	* Downplayed in ''Manga/KotouraSan''. Hiyori is forgiven by Kotoura, despite bullying her, and nearly getting Manabe killed. On the other hand, other people like Manabe and Kotoura's grandfather aren't quite so forgiving, but willing to at least accept her for Kotoura's sake.
73	* By the third season, Shibuya Yuuri, the young king in ''Literature/KyoKaraMaoh'', has a policy of unconditional forgiveness, much to the consternation of his fiancé and advisers. To the point that [[spoiler:Saralegui]] only has to apologise to be forgiven for manipulating Yuuri into become a weapon of mass destruction and killing hundreds of people.
74	* Played with in ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016''. Darpa makes a show of how much trouble his town went through [[spoiler:when Link accidentally sent it into the Twilight Realm, but he admits that he egged Link on to pull the Gaurof Sword and that he is happy to see Link again. However, he’s driven into a mental breakdown when he sees Link easily undo the spell, and only moves to action when Link’s life is in danger]].
75	* ''Franchise/LupinIII'''s Fujiko Mine is constantly instantly forgiven by Lupin, no matter how severely she's tried to repeatedly double-cross him and the gang. Jigen and Goemon call him out on this on occasion. On the rare occasion that he can't get out of, she doesn't. She usually stands by his side when there doesn't seem to be any hope. Even on such occasions where the other choice is death.
76	* A large chunk of the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' cast started off as enemies who violently attacked people for their own gains, but once they get [[DefeatMeansFriendship befriended]] ''at most'' they're put under a probationary period and then hired by [[HeroesRUs the TSAB]]. This is mostly a good thing, with Fate and the Wolkenritter being the most valuable allies Nanoha has, but it ends up [[NiceJobBreakingItHero horribly backfiring]] for the TSAB in ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]]'', as their willingness to hire dangerous criminals leads them to [[spoiler:support BigBad Jail Scaglietti]], who has no qualms about exploiting their goodwill and then turning on them when convenient.
77	** Subverted in ''Anime/VividStrike''. [[spoiler: Rinne was so horrified by [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what she had done]] to the girls who had bullied her and [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye kept her from being with her dying grandfather]] that she would have been willing to forgive then and let them give her every injury she gave them if they apologized. Not only did they not apologize, they lied to their families and claimed she had attacked them unprovoked. Realizing this gives Rinne the HeroicSecondWind she needs to fight back against her kidnapper (the older brother of one of the bullies), but she still regrets what she did to them and hates herself.]]
78	* In ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'', when Ascot [[HeelFaceTurn turns to the good side]] he is instantly forgiven for earlier [[spoiler:having killed Presea in the anime]] and in turn instantly forgives the Magic Knights for [[spoiler:killing his summons, whom he thought of as friends]]. The girls treat him as a victim of ManipulativeBastard Zagato after Umi delivers a slap.
79	* ''Manga/Mars1996'' has two JustForFun/{{egregious}} instances. In a CliffHanger, Harumi escalates her bullying of [[ShrinkingViolet Kira]] to an unthinkable level by threatening to smash Kira's fingers with a small barbell. She doesn't follow through, but it's jarring when Harumi becomes's Kira's closest and most supportive female friend not two volumes later. An even worse instance is when Kira's mother, stricken by SoapOperaDisease, takes back the stepfather who [[spoiler:''raped her daughter'']]. Kira's mother may forgive, but Kira certainly ''[[ImprovisedWeapon doesn't]]''.
80	* ''Anime/MonsterRancher'':
81	** Tiger of the Wind steals the [[MineralMacGuffin Magic Stone]] from the heroes when they first meet, then has the pendant stolen from him in turn by Captain Dino. The heroes help tend his wounds, dismissing his admittance that he can't return the Magic Stone, and don't mind when he refuses their offer to join... though he [[ChangedMyMindKid ultimately returns]] since he was [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe impressed by their compassion]].
82	** Hare, [[MirrorCharacter like Tiger]], sets the group up in order to steal their prize money from the tournament where they met. After Tiger tracks him down and makes him clear the matter up with the inn, he offers to join the team, with Tiger the only one who complains about it.
83	* ''Anime/MyHime'':
84	** Shizuru is Easily Forgiven by Natsuki ([[DracoInLeatherPants a good number of the series' fans too]]) for the things she did as a PsychoLesbian- kissing Natsuki while she was asleep and (possibly) raping her, and destroying Yukino and Nao's Childs (resulting in the deaths of Haruka and Mrs. Yuuki, respectively). Haruka and Yukino weren't quite as easily convinced, though.
85	** Mikoto was directly responsible for killing two of Mai's Most Important People- Takumi (by supposedly destroying Akira's Child), and Yuuichi (by destroying Shiho's Child, albeit to protect Mai from her). Mai, however, realizes she was {{brainwashed}} the whole time ([[spoiler:and it was actually Shiho who was responsible for Takumi's death]]), and decides not to hold it against Mikoto[[spoiler:, even telling her up front that she loves her (though [[HideYourLesbians probably not]] in ''that'' way)]].
86	** Everyone forgives everyone at the end, whatever terrible things they'd done. Given how much of a [[DysfunctionJunction clusterfuck]] the Carnival was, though, it's fairly justified.
87	* ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'':
88	** In the ''On the Verge of Doom'' spin-off, Maria, happily forgives Catarina despite all the bullying she's had to endure from the other girl.
89	** Keith, on the other hand, defies this in the same spin-off, since years of abuse and neglect can't be erased by a few kinder-sounding words and attempts to spend time as a family. It takes a ton of effort for Him and Catarina to get anywhere close to reconciling, and even then he's only opened up to the possibility of her atonement being genuine, meaning it will take a lot more time of her showing how sincere she is before he will actually forgive her.
90	** Zigzagged in the main canon with Raphael. After Catarina saves him from his possession, she and all her friends are willing to forgive him for what he did to her and Maria and forget about what happened. Raphael respectfully declines, still feeling horrible over what happened, and instead turns himself in and leaves the Academy under the pretext of having fallen gravely ill and in need of treatment. However, while Marchioness Dieke and her men get arrested and the spirit of the dark mage possessing him was exorcised for good, Raphael is let off the hook on the grounds that he was just as much a victim in the whole affair as Catarina and Maria.
91	* ''Anime/MyOtome'':
92	** Nina Wang. Sure, she was perfectly complacent with [[spoiler:committing ''mass murder'' in an effort to show her (adoptive) father that she ahem [[LoveMakesYouEvil loved him]]]], but somehow Arika still manages to forgive her, saying that she never wanted the two of them to fight in the first place [[spoiler:(and because it was Nagi who forced her to do it)]]. Downplayed in that for the most part only [[AllLovingHero Arika]] and a few others who forgave her. [[ReformedButRejected For the rest of her victims, it wasn't so easy]], [[spoiler:which is why in ''Anime/MyOtomeZwei'', she [[AchillesInHisTent lives in hiding with her adoptive (amnesiac) father on a very remote farm]], and has no contact with her old friends or anyone else...until the [[CallToAdventure plot device related to her amnesiac adoptive father happens]]]].
93	** Arika also has no reservations about fighting alongside the Aswad, who attacked her during the survival exam and [[spoiler:killed her mother]].
94	* In ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', Jean constantly forgives Nadia for her (misdirected) outbursts of anger at him without hesitation. (She eventually changes her ways as a result.)
95	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
96	** The Sand Village ninjas (particularly Gaara and company) start off as murderers conspiring with the current BigBad to try and overthrow and destroy the Hidden Leaf Village. The plan fails, but the third Hokage still ends up dead in no small part thanks to the Sand Village's assistance and at least tacit approval. Later on, the Sand Village as a whole, and Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro specifically, are close allies with the Hidden Leaf Village and friends of the protagonists, mostly just because Orochimaru became a common enemy when he killed the Kazekage. It's implied that Konoha, weakened after the conflict and shorthanded, decided not to hold the Sand Village responsible in order to get a chance to recover.
97	** Naruto is willing to forgive the village at large for treating him as an outcast, largely because of a few people (namely, [[BigBrotherMentor Iruka]], Shikamaru, Chouji, and Kiba) who considered him a nuisance at first but didn't shun him outright and because he believes that more than anything, he must believe in himself. He does once become irritated at how easily the villagers turn from hating him to worshiping him, but as a flashback montage in the Pain invasion shows, the process was more gradual than he thought.
98	** Despite the fact that Kurama wanted to kill him most of his life, killed a lot of people while on the loose and being directly responsible for the death of his parents, Naruto forgives him. Of course during the attack on Konoha he was under Tobi's control for a while, but even after it wore off he still continued to attack Konoha. Naruto doesn't seem to care and calls Kurama his friend.
99	** By that same token, Kurama has spent nearly a century imprisoned inside one human or another because Madara mind controlled him against Hashirama. While he never forgave Mito or Kushina, he readily befriends Naruto only a few days after Naruto stole all his chakra for his own use and Kurama swore his undying hatred of the boy.
100	** In the Shippuden movie ''Blood Prison'', Naruto is seemingly abandoned by the village and thrown into a Kusa prison where he is beaten and tortured. [[spoiler:It turns out that it was a plan by the village to get a MacGuffin from the prison. A plan he wasn't let in on, and none of his friends so much as apologize for the emotional and physical pain he was forced to endure. He easily waves it off without so much as a WhatTheHellHero.]]
101	** Despite the fact that he's committed countless atrocities in his pursuit of immortality, due to his role in siding with the heroes in the Great War, the worst that Orochimaru ends up with is that he's not allowed to leave his laboratory, meaning that he's free to do more horrible experiments. Orochimaru is certainly one of the most amoral villains in the manga, responsible for countless experiments on humans, in which many innocent children were killed so that he could obtain immortality. However, at the end of the manga, he decides to help the Shinobi Alliance [[EvilVersusOblivion for purely selfish reasons]], and after that, he's treated as a friend by Naruto, as seen in ''Manga/NarutoGaiden''.
102	*** Even worse is Kabuto, who actively participated against the protagonists in said war, murdering hundreds of people to fuel his Edo Tensei jutsu which he used to murder many more. Yet for these sins he isn't punished at ''all''.
103	** Despite all the atrocities that the Uchihas have committed, the good guys immediately forgave them all because of their sad story [[spoiler: and because they are "manipulated" by Black Zetsu and Kaguya]]. All of the four major Uchihas completely qualify for this:
104	*** Naruto's willing to forgive [[{{Deuteragonist}} Sasuke]] for all the chaos he's caused since he joined Akatsuki. After being introduced to the concepts of CycleOfRevenge and NotSoDifferentRemark in an earlier arc, Naruto believes that they could have been on opposite sides of the same conflict. At the end of the series [[spoiler:Sasuke is forgiven for literally everything, Kakashi (Hokage at the time) gives him an official pardon, and he even marries Sakura and has a daughter with her. The anime downplays this a bit by specifically showing Sasuke serving a whole year immobilized and blindfolded in jail before he's released, and that the other kages only accepted his pardon because Naruto, savior of the world, pleaded for him.]]
105	*** Despite being stabbed and being insulted by Sasuke, all it takes [[spoiler:Karin]] to forgive him was hearing him interrupt the complaints and say a simple "I'm sorry."
106	*** Itachi {{mind rape}}s Sasuke, Kakashi and Naruto, orders Kisame to kill Kakashi because HeKnowsTooMuch, and also tries to kill Kurenai and does nothing when Kisame decides to cut Naruto's legs off. He later beats Sasuke into a bloody pulp before {{mind rap\|e}}ing him again. Despite all this, he not only forgiven but he is treated as if he was [[CharacterShilling the greatest shinobi ever]].
107	*** [[spoiler:[[BigBad Obito Uchiha]]]]. Despite causing the ''most destructive War in ninja history'', indirectly killing Minato and Kushina, killing the seven Jinchuuriki around the world, making the Bloody Mist worst... Naruto forgives him. Of course this was only ''after'' he [[spoiler:became TheAtoner, saved Naruto's life, and set up the events to give him a NextTierPowerUp, and then [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed himself]] to save Naruto and Kakashi from being killed. Naruto also says that Obito will have to take punishment for his actions after the war, but Naruto calling him 'The Greatest' after his death was probably [[CharacterShilling stretching it a little]]]].
108	*** While Madara isn't forgiven by Team 7, he is by Hashirama as he lays dying, he and Hashirama have a talk like they are old friends in spite of the fact that he did nothing to deserve such treatment and previously he not only attacked Hashirama but attempted to destroy Konoha just because [[EvilIsPetty he wasn't declared Hokage]] [[ItsAllAboutMe by the village]].
109	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
110	** All of the Straw Hats are quick to accept Robin when she asks to join the crew (barring Zoro who takes about an arc and a half to warm up to her), even though she had been the right hand woman of a man who tried to overthrow the father of one of their friends mere days earlier. [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter Luffy]] and [[ChivalrousPervert Sanji]] are immediately fine with it, Chopper and Usopp are more hesitant but are won over when she amuses them with her powers, and Nami tries to be hostile but folds the second Robin offers her some treasure she stole from Crocodile. Even Vivi (the afformentioned friend) is shown to be perfectly fine with it when she finds out, though this is mostly because she trusts Luffy's judgement on the matter even if she doesn't have the full context of what happened.
111	** Subverted after a series of events that lead to Usopp leaving the crew and challenging Luffy for the ownership of their broken ship, the ''Going Merry''. Usopp is planning to come back and act casual about it. Luffy learns about this and rushes off to find him, but he's stopped by Zoro. Zoro tells Luffy and the rest of the crew that they ''shouldn't'' easily forgive Usopp, because they can't trust someone who left the crew so easily, nor can the captain let himself be walked over. If he comes back on his knees, fine; but letting him back in full of pride is unacceptable. Later, the crew begins to depart without Usopp in order to escape from some marines. Usopp runs to the shore and begins shouting out his rehearsed excuses, but most of the Straw Hats ignore him. As the ship gets further away, Usopp panics and finally blurts out an apology and begs to be let back in. Satisfied, Luffy uses his rubber powers to bring him aboard the ship.
112	** Double Subverted during the Impel Down arc when Luffy comes across Crocodile. Crocodile offers to help in exchange for being let out of his cell, but Luffy turns him down cold because of all the things he did in Alabasta. [[spoiler:Luffy is convinced to let him out anyway, though, because Ivankov assures him that he knows something about Crocodile to keep him in line.]]
113	** Played straight with Bon Clay (a.k.a. Mr. 2) at the end of the Alabasta arc. Affable as he was, Mr. 2 did directly take part in framing the king to incite the rebels to full-blown warfare, but after a HeroicSacrifice to distract the Marines away from the escaping Straw Hats, he's considered a friend of the crew ever since. Luffy only briefly complains about Mr. 2 being with Baroque Works when Mr. 2 contacts him again.
114	** Luffy is also relatively friendly toward Buggy and Mr. 3, despite the former trying to kill him (almost succeeding in Loguetown) and Nami and the latter almost turning Vivi, Nami, and Zoro into wax figures.
115	** Played straight with Boa Hancock. Despite how she turns several of her people to stone just for speaking up on Luffy's behalf and her sisters trying to smash those people just to hurt Luffy, after he defeats her sisters and she agrees to restore her petrified victims[[note]]But not before trying to force Luffy to make a SadisticChoice.[[/note]] Luffy seems to forgive her within seconds.
116	** Played with in regards to Nami and Jimbei after Jimbei apologizes for indirectly allowing Arlong to terrorize her hometown. Jimbei was even willing to accept any punishment as necessary but Nami explains that Arlong was the one who she will ''not'' easily forgive and she harbours no hate towards Jimbei or any other fishmen.
117	** Played straight with Rebecca when she attempts to kill Luffy. He shrugs it off because 1) she didn't do it out of malice, 2) he easily beat her, and 3) she brought him lunch using all her money.
118	** Subverted with Kyros. He was hated by the citizens of Dressrosa because of his past as a criminal, but even after becoming the Hero of the Corrida Colosseum years later didn't clear up his reputation. It took him several years of service in the military and numerous heroic deeds that allowed him to become accepted by the public. In fact, the citizens are in the know that Princess Scarlett faked her death in order to marry Kyros without causing political issues, and they all kept the OpenSecret secret, so that Kyros and Scarlett could live in peace, something that they later repeat with Kyros and his daughter Rebecca.
119	*** By contrast, it's played more straight with King Riku forgiving Kyros for his deeds, since he offered him several opportunities for Kyros to redeem himself and the king acknowledged all of Kyros's efforts.
120	** {{Deconstructed\|Trope}} through Big Mom. As a child, her caretaker Mother Caramel would constantly forgive Big Mom every time she accidentally caused trouble with her monstrous strength or with her eating habits instead of properly disciplining her. This would eventually give Big Mom a warped sense of right and wrong.
121	** When Caribou (who had previously attempted to torture and kill the Straw Hats, but hilariously failed) tells Luffy [[BlatantLies he's turned over a new leaf and wants to join his pirate alliance as his underling]], Luffy instantly believes him without hesitation. Caribou is so shocked that Luffy believed him so easily that he wonders if he's being led into a trap and becomes too scared to try to backstab Luffy in the process.
122	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
123	** Red easily forgives his former enemies in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', though admittedly, most situations fall into the EnemyMine category. The guy who tried to electrocute him to death (twice) gets greeted with "Yo, what's up!" For the lady who stole his Eevee and tortured it, they took a bath together. For the alien Pokemon that nearly killed him and his Pokemon, it was all a misunderstanding.
124	** In ''Anime/PokemonGenesectAndTheLegendAwakened'', the Genesect Army destroys a city and threatens its power supply and inhabitants. [[spoiler:By the end, no one holds a grudge against them. Not even Red, who if anything is ''even guiltier than the other four'' as he routinely took control of them and made them do the bad things they did]].
125	** Rampaging legendary Pokémon in general tend to be forgiven and befriended by the end of their respective movies or anime arcs, despite causing widespread destruction. Usually, it's waved away as them being territorial, acting according to their nature, or reacting to mistreatment, despite the fact that most of them are literal living gods and shown to be smart enough to understand what they're doing. The legendary birds in ''Anime/Pokemon2000'', for instance, are among the most feral legendaries shown thus far, attacking everything on sight after being roused. Even so, Zapdos has enough intelligence to communicate with Ash's Pikachu, stopping mid-rampage to explain what he's doing and why.
126	** Faba is readily forgiven for his actions in the Nebby arc and his role in Lillie's DarkAndTroubledPast apart from being demoted. However, he is still TheFriendNobodyLikes.
127	* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
128	** ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' sees its BigBad George Kurai get a heartfelt forgiveness hug by [[AllLovingHero Hana Nono]], despite being a CorruptCorporateExecutive who openly abuse and [[SleepingWithTheBoss cheat]] on his employers, has a knack for ColdBloodedTorture, and is trying to perma-freeze time [[KnightTemplar under the misguided belief that he is saving humanity from its own despair]].
129	** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'' arguably handles this the worst out of the entire franchise. [[MadScientist Aiwarn]] and [[GodIsEvil Ophiuchus]] are both villains who get nothing more than a slap on the wrist simply because they were able to comprehend the beauty behind mortal imagination power, despite the fact that both of them are guilty of ''genocide'' with Ophiuchus even trying to extend it to pure [[OmnicidalManiac omnicide]] [[LackOfEmpathy while showing constant apathetic traits]] throughout the entire season's run. It's telling that every other villain afterwards is either an AntiVillain who gets better handled redemptions or pure evil monsters who suffers from a FateWorseThanDeath- [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure the next season]] even has it so that, for the first time in the history of the series, ''none'' of the villains reform and they are all killed off by the end of the season. The season even explores this concept in Daruizen’s final episode, with Cure Grace realizing that he will never change and refusing to forgive him for his crimes.
130	* Done in ''Manga/ProjectARMS'' with pretty much all of Ryo's allies, since virtually all of them met via being sent by the Egrigori to kill him (or were trying to kill him to rebel against the Egrigori...or just trying to kill him). Hayato even comments on it after a group of Egrigori mutants kidnap them and try to kill them, only to be perfectly friendly after the battle is over. One of the mutants points out that all of them are on the Egrigori's hit-list, so they'd best put aside differences if they want to survive. It helps that most of those easily forgiven were also tricked, or horribly brainwashed since childhood and quite happy to give up their dangerous lives.
131	* Rokudo Mukuro from ''Manga/Reborn2004''. He manipulated Lancia into killing all of his friends, beat up Tsuna's friends and used them as hostages, beat Tsuna up quite a bit during their fight, revealed his plan was to [[GrandTheftMe possess Tsuna's body]] so he could destroy the Mafia and turn the world into a sea of blood, and [[CombatPragmatist generally fought dirty]]. He is shown to be entirely unapologetic about the whole thing the next time he meets Tsuna, even stating that he plans to take over Tsuna at the next opportunity. However, when he [[spoiler:became Tsuna's guardian]] and showed Tsuna the vision of his body in prison, Tsuna quickly develops sympathy for him, and it becomes obvious that Tsuna has already forgiven him for the whole ordeal (much to Reborn's chagrin). Tsuna even goes so far as to excuse his unapologetic proclamation as him just being [[AloofAlly stubborn and shy]].
132	* ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventurerInAnotherWorld'': Due to Red coming to the [[EntertaininglyWrong erroneous conclusion]] that Rosie stole his Bansou Plate because he wanted to transform too, he doesn't hold any hard feelings against Rosie despite the latter's attempt to indirectly murder him. Even after he admits this to Teltina that he wanted to kill Red, she ultimately forgives Rosie.
133	* ''Manga/RentAGirlfriend'': Although Chizuru isn't happy with Kazuya stalking her on Christmas Eve, causing her to spill her secret of being an actress, and making her friend Umi look bad, the worst she does is give Kazuya a mild scolding and refuse to let him take the same train home.
134	* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Utena has no hard feelings about [[spoiler:being literally stabbed in the back by the woman she's trying to protect.]] Her reaction is justified by the events that follow; [[spoiler:after Anthy betrays Utena, she offers herself as a target for a "million swords that shine with people's hatred."]] One sword hurts, but how does it compare to one million swords?
135	* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': In their respective first appearances, Kurumu, Mizore, Ruby, and Yukari each caused all manner of trouble for Tsukune and Moka, with the latter three actually trying to kill them outright. By the end of all of their introductions, Tsukune has not only forgiven them for everything but become close friends with them.
136	* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': The Juppongatana are a band of deadly killers who followed Shishio in his attempt to overthrow the government and rule in a very SocialDarwinist manner. Then, after they are defeated, they all get very generous deals from the government with the [[HandWave explanation]] that they have talents that are very useful. Admittedly, Henya and Soujiro (who was never captured) were able to do things that probably no one else on earth could, but the rest aren't unique. It is averted with Anji, who despite being probably the most sympathetic of the lot got sentenced to life imprisonment. It's worth noting that while Shishio was a nut, the series gives some credence to his accusation that the government was totally cynical and amoral, and the pardons could be considered supporting evidence.
137	* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
138	** In [[Anime/SailorMoon the anime]] Sailor Moon forgives Ail and En, the Akayashi Sisters, the Black Moon brothers, Professor Tomoe, the Amazon Trio, the Amazoness Quartet, Nehelenia, and Galaxia. Although it's not shown that any of these people (save Galaxia and Nehelenia) killed anyone, they all were trying to kill the senshi and destroy the world. In most of these examples, the characters in question were being either heavily manipulated by the villain, literally fighting for their own survival the only way they knew (Ail and An) or in Tomoe and Galaxia's case, possessed and not in control of their own actions. Nehelenia is the only one that comes off as really questionable, as she was really motivated by her own vanity in ''[=SuperS=]'' and in ''Stars'' by envy and revenge. She gets a second chance anyway, as the Senshi recognize she's lonely... however, the reason she's lonely is that ''she killed everyone in her kingdom to stay young forever.''
139	** In the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] it's only the Four Kings of Heaven, the Quartet, and Galaxia. The Four Kings were heavily implied to be brainwashed and still died, though they maintained a small presence with Endymion in the rest of the series. The Quartet were previously good, but Nehelenia found their hiding place and corrupted them. Galaxia was stone-cold evil though and killed everyone Sailor Moon loved just to screw with her. Sailor Moon still forgave her, though her motivation was to try and find a way to end the cycle of killing that had allowed Galaxia to get so far in the first place. Galaxia still dies though. Several of the characters that were forgiven in the anime were also ''significantly'' less sympathetic in the manga, where they were murderers and were killed off by the Sailor Senshi.
140	* In ''Manga/ShamanKing'', once Lee Pyron is given a major ass beating by his master and calms down he forgives Jun for keeping him as a mindless zombie for 10 years. He chooses to stay with the Tao family to hone his martial arts skills.
141	** This is [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Hao Asakura. Despite what the original manga ending implies [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShamanKingFlowers'' makes it very clear the past Shaman Kings and the main cast absolutely HATE that he is the new Shaman King.]]
142	* Subverted in ''Shin Manga/GetterRobo vs. Neo Getter Robo'', after the Neo Getter Team comes out on top and defeats Emperor Gore with Shin Getter's full power, Ryouma muses if this meant that Getter Energy forgave them for abandoning it. Hayato suggests it hasn't and is only giving humanity a second chance.
143	* ''Manga/ASilentVoice's'' main character Shoya Ishida has been DrivenToSuicide over the amount of shame and guilt he feels for his horrible bullying of a deaf girl in his class years before. He decides to meet the girl again, expecting and almost ''hoping'' she'll lie down some kind of abuse on him for his actions, in an attempt to suffer for his actions just a bit more, planning to commit suicide afterwards. When he does meet her again, she ''forgives'' him and even wants to be his friend. The problem is the girl's mother, sister, and Ishida himself aren't so forgiving of his actions.
144	* In ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'', this is zig-zagged when it comes to Nelli. Desperate to get into Yuusari to deliver her dead brother's last letter, she steals Lag's crossing pass to Yuusari (which he needs to take the Letter Bee exam) and slashes his arm with a knife when he tries to get it back. Lag even goes so far as to save Nelli from the monster guarding the Bifrost crossing when Nelli's illegal attempt to cross with someone else's pass gets her in trouble. Niche, however, refuses to forgive Nelli for what she did to Lag and even threatens to kill her, causing Lag to rebuke her for threatening a human with harm.
145	* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', Kaneki is surprisingly prone to forgiving people over serious offenses. Nishiki tries to kill him twice and brutally beats his best friend to taunt him. The next time they meet, Kaneki fights off a gang to save Nishiki's life. After Kaneki helps save Nishiki's [[MoralityPet girlfriend]], the two end up becoming good friends. Tsukiyama repeatedly tries to eat Kaneki and stalks him obsessively. Kaneki, though less willing to trust than he used to be, still allows Tsukiyama to join his group. He treats him with mild annoyance at worst and often is quite kind to him in spite of realizing Tsukiyama's [[MonstrousCannibalism true intentions]]. As with Nishiki, this kindness pays off and leads to Tsukiyama BecomingTheMask. Even though she tried to torture and eat him, Kaneki states that he holds no ill will towards [[FemmeFatale Rize]].
146	* The girls in ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' remain on remarkably good terms with the aliens throughout the entire duration of the series, despite the aliens' repeated attempts to kill them all and purge the planet of humanity. This is especially the case for Pudding, who constantly seeks to befriend Tart despite all the prior murder attempts.
147	* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'': The other characters totally overlook the fact that Yami probably killed dozens of others before coming to Earth.
148	* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Leon doesn't hold a grudge against Clarice's followers for attacking him.
149	* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'':
150	** Lum never really holds any grudges against Ran despite Ran's constant schemes to get revenge on Lum for the various misdeeds she committed towards Ran when they were kids, which have included attempting to use her KissOfDeath powers on Lum's beloved Ataru.
151	** In a two-part {{filler}} arc in the 1981 anime, when Lum accidentally crashes her ship on Mendo's estate and gets amnesia, Mendo tries to use this to manipulate her into believing she's his girlfriend, and warns Ataru to stay away, or he'll have him ''killed''. When Ataru does get his act together and go to Lum's rescue, he finds out ''Mendo wasn't bluffing'', with Mendo deploying his private army, complete with rifles, dogs, ''tanks'' and '''attack helicopters''', for the explicit purpose of killing Ataru. Yet, at the episode's end, Ataru, Lum and Mendo are shown palling around as if nothing happened, which a disbelieving in-universe audience lampshades.
152	** In another {{filler}} episode, Ataru displays no resentment towards his friends for [[{{gaslighting}} nearly driving him mad]] by faking their deaths in an elaborate scheme to cure him of being a LoveableSexManiac.
153	** In the final arc, Rupa has been dealing with Carla's {{yandere}} antics for over a decade, antics tht include years of consistently trying to shoot him, bludgeon him, and blow him up. He even calls her out that he doesn't like her ''because'' she has been attacking him for all these years. On the fifth day of the ten-day tag game that will decide the fate of Ataru and Lum's relationship, Rupa '''proposes''' to Carla and proclaims he's always truly loved her, sweeping her years of viciously violent attacks under the rug in a crowning example of DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale.
154	* ''Manga/VampireKnight'': Kaname, who can manipulate and kill whoever he wants, good or bad, as long as it's "for Yuuki" nearly everyone in the story will give him a free pass. It's even more ironic when people like Shizuka and [[spoiler:Sara]] were labeled villains for doing far fewer crimes than that of Kaname's record. Even [[spoiler:Rido]] lived with his unrequited love for a whole ''3, 000 years before going mad'', vs Kaname who couldn't help but treat Zero like dirt from very early on.
155	** [[spoiler:He does admit to having committed many sins in the end, however, ultimately [[DeathEqualsRedemption giving his life in his way of repaying them.]]]]
156	** Yuuki herself counts. She's unable to give her heart fully to either Kaname or Zero and keeps two-timing them both, intentionally or not, but none of them ever reprimands her for it but continues to adore her.
157	* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' graphic novel ''A Shadow in [=RiverClan=]'', not long after his Clanmates cheered Stonefur's death and would have supported Stormfur and Feathertail's deaths as well simply for being half-Clan, Stormfur settles back into [=RiverClan=] without too much worry. Feathertail doesn't find it as easy to forgive their Clanmates and doesn't understand how her brother has done so.
158	* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
159	** Ryuji Otogi / Duke Devlin has most of his actions swept aside by Yugi and the others despite humiliating Jonouchi / Joey by turning him into a dog and also threatens to expose Yugi as a cheater. [[Manga/YuGiOh The manga]] however gave him a FreudianExcuse and also began viewing Yugi as WorthyOpponent and perform a HeelFaceTurn when he realised he doesn't hate the Mutou family as much as his father, even trying to lend a helping hand to Yugi and his other friends.
160	** To a lesser extent, Jonouchi and Honda. It's implied they bullied Yugi for years and Jonouchi goes as far as to steal part of Yugi's Puzzle in the first chapter. They become friends by the end of the chapter and Yugi forgives them, as does Anzu, despite her being the one to protect Yugi from their bullying. Often overlooked by the viewers too, due to most of it occurring offscreen.
161	** [[Characters/YuGiOhSetoKaiba Seto Kaiba]] repeatedly tried to kill the protagonists in the early manga, including Honda / Tristan's year old nephew who just happened to be with them at the time. One of the ways was locking them in a house with a child mass murderer. They do hold a bit of a grudge for a while but still forgive him far too quickly.
162	*** Same goes for his little brother Mokuba. Because it happened before the second anime begins, it seems nobody even remembers Mokuba is an attempted murderer and serial cheater (which, in the Yu-Gi-Oh world, is practically worse). He's just Seto's MoralityPet. After Kaiba's initial defeat following his attempt to steal Sugoroku's Blue-Eyes White Dragon, has no compunctions about using violence and trickery to force Yugi into playing rigged games that have the threat of death should Yugi lose. As with Kaiba, Mokuba's actions are later excused by the other characters simply because of an abusive childhood and love for his big brother. He is more easily excused as he is portrayed as younger than the other characters.
163	*** Both Kaiba brother's Easy Forgiveness rests on a ''foundation'' of Mokuba's Easily Forgiving Seto for emotionally mistreating him and, shortly before Mind Crush II, ''torturing'' him with the Mind Crush I simulator he'd built to use on Yugi after beating him. Yugi and Yami take pity on them both for their evil adoptive father and screwed-up relationship that ''used'' to be all BigBrotherInstinct and fix Seto. Violently. From then on, Yami is focused on continuing to fix Seto during most of their interactions.
164	** Pegasus and Marik, in a case of DefeatMeansFriendship. Marik at least had the excuse that he believed the Pharaoh was responsible for [[YouKilledMyFather killing his father]] and enslaving his family, and once he realizes his error (and sees his SuperPoweredEvilSide) he helps Yugi win his duel against said Evil Side and resolves to atone for his actions.
165	*** Pegasus was a mixed bag. Though Yugi was quick to forgive him, Joey, Tea, and Tristan weren't so trusting of him, specifically during the Waking the Dragons arc when he mailed them a videotape, reminding them of how he used that to kidnap Solomon Muto in the first place. Note that this only really applies to the anime, in the manga Pegasus is killed almost immediately after losing to Yami and he's never given such treatment.
166	** Dartz, a FillerVillain, [[spoiler:a 10,000 year old king of Atlantis]], a CorruptCorporateExecutive and leader of his [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters destroy-the-world-because-humanity-ruined-it]] cult. His goal involves taking millions of souls of both humans and Duel Monster, literally killing off two worlds, he treats his henchmen poorly and will throw them away if they're useless when he's not taking advantage of their DarkAndTroubledPast. He later reveals [[spoiler:he's behind the events as to why his henchmen are so screwed up, all so they would join him]]. He's worse than the rest of the antagonists, yet he is just let off the hook and ascend to heaven. Although it is pretty heavily implied he was being possessed by the Eldritch Abomination he was trying to release.
167	** From ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', we had Aki. Though she does seem to genuinely repent, the rest of the world seems awfully quick to just forget about the stuff she was up to in the first season. Multiple counts of aggravated assault in front of thousands of spectators on live television would probably get most people in prison, but [[TimeSkip just six months later,]] she's not only in a school that she set fire to a few years ago before dropping out, but they consider her their model pupil.
168	** From ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'', we had Vector. Despite betraying Yuma and the Barians repeatedly, Yuma still trusted him to the point of trying to rescue him from being absorbed by Don Thousand. Even [[BigBad Thousand himself]] chided Yuma for "trying to help his worst enemy". The Lampshading was taken a step further in the English dub.
169	---> '''Nash:''' You know as well as I do he'll just betray us again!\
170	'''Yuma:''' Maybe he will, but that's a risk I'm willing to take. No matter what he's done, everyone deserves a second chance!\
171	'''Nash:''' Yes, but this will be Vector's thirtieth chance!
172	** Turns out Nash was NotSoAboveItAll after all. During his duel with Yuma, Nash declared that he would not be detaching the Overlay Units of [=CXyz=] Barian Hope because they represent his fallen comrades, choosing instead to pay 400 LP to activate their effects. Even Vector. In fact, when Nash uses Vector's number ability, he imagines Vector's spirit standing by him. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Is Yuma rubbing off on Nash]], is he just [[ItsThePrincipleOfTheThing acting on principle]], or did he see Vector's HeroicSacrifice as a sign that Vector finally changed for the better?
173	** From ''Anime/YuGiOhARCV'', we have [[RegretfulTraitor Dennis]]. He was TheMole who betrayed the Lancers, but Yusho offered him a chance to abandon the side of evil and join his friends. Dennis fully acknowledges that [[AllLovingHero Yuya]] and the others would forgive him, but he doesn't see himself worthy of their forgiveness. Not wanting to be evil, but believing himself unworthy to be a hero, he instead chooses to [[DrivenToSuicide card himself.]]
174	** Also in ''ARC-V'', we have what could be the most extreme example in the franchise -- Yuri. He never even showed any regret for any of his past actions or promised to atone nor did he realize his FreudianExcuse, yet Yuto and Yugo seem on better terms with him after Z-ARC is defeated. Yuri encourages Yuya to summon the dragons when the latter is afraid of becoming Z-ARC again, when it was Yuri's actions that unleashed him in the first place.
175	* ''Manga/YuunaAndTheHauntedHotSprings'':
176	** Koyuzu is always causing ecchi situations, yet no matter how bad they may be, the only punishment she ever reviews is a light scolding.
177	** Upon learning that Renge was the one who set an evil spirit loose in the academy and that she's been hiding who she truly is as a character from all the students, Kokono's response to forgive her on the spot.
178	** Downplayed with Karura. While Kogarashi and the other girls are sometimes troubled by her presence, they don't seem to fully hate her and don't make the effort to stop her from coming to the inn even though she kidnapped Kogarashi and tried to force him to marry her.

Context EasilyForgiven / AnimeAndManga