Here are tropes dealing with forgiving others or sparing others of their wrongdoing. Forgive us if this list isn't long.

Compare IndexOfApologies. Contrast RevengeTropes.
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!!Tropes:
* CruelMercy: Forgiving someone to make them suffer a FateWorseThanDeath.
* CutenessEqualsForgiveness: A character is forgiven for an otherwise serious offense just because they're cute.
* EasilyForgiven: The character is forgiven for their heinous crimes rather too easily.
* FlippantForgiveness: Forgiving others in a sarcastic and condescending manner.
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: When a character forgives another for their wrongdoing, but doesn't forget them.
* {{Forgiveness}}: What the index is all about, and can be a central theme of a story.
* ForgivenessRequiresDeath: In order to be forgiven for a crime, the character must be killed.
* ForgivingTheAccidentalPervert: Forgiving an AccidentalPervert rather than undergoing UnprovokedPervertPayback.
* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: The heroes cut the defeated bad guy a break and forgo his punishment.
* GoAndSinNoMore: Forgiving others and telling them to [[TheAtoner atone for their crimes.]]
* HolidayPardon: A holiday factors in someone's forgiveness.
* HonorThyAbuser: When a victim learns to forgive (and respect) their abusers.
* LoveForgivesAllButLust: A character forgives their love interest for anything except for cheating.
* MyFistForgivesYou: Forgiving a character by attacking them.
* NoAnimosityInTheAfterlife: Being dead makes people more forgiving.
* NoMercyForMurderers: Regardless of their (often sympathetic) reasons, a murderer is still punished by the law.
* NoSympathyForGrudgeholders: A character gets called out for choosing not to forgive someone.
* PunishedForSympathy: A character getting called out for forgiving another for their heinous deeds.
* RejectedApology: Refusing to forgive someone who apologized to them.
* RestrainedRevenge: Someone takes a lesser revenge on someone else in lieu of forgiving them entirely.
* SparedButNotForgiven: When forgiveness is clearly denied, but retribution of any form is not taken by the offended and is overtly refused.
* SparingTheFinalMook: A heroic character faces a last mook (or a very small number compared to the original group) who is hopelessly outmatched, and chooses to spare them.
* SuccessAsRevenge: Giving up on revenge for your own benefit.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: When a character tells the wrongdoer in no terms that their actions are impossible to forgive.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: Repaying evil acts with forgiveness.
* WelcomeBackTraitor: A party member changes sides only to come back and is received in open arms.
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