Exploring the concept of people being Easily Forgiven for their mistakes and crimes in Fan Works.
- Ace Combat: The Equestrian War:
- Fluttershy holds no grudges against Firefly when she initially berates the timid pegasus for not fighting the griffins. When Firefly apologizes for her behavior, Fluttershy gives her a hug; she is Fluttershy, after all.
- By the end of the story, Rainbow Dash has no problem in forgiving Gilda for laying a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on her and breaking Medley's wings in chapter 11, stating that:Rainbow Dash: There is another face of pride; it's called forgiving.
- Amazing Fantasy: Izuku is amazingly willing to forgive Bakugou for years upon years of bullying because he sees Bakugou as an inspiration: someone who is strong, intelligent, and confident with an unyielding drive to succeed. He doesn't even blame Bakugou for actively trying to make him miserable, calling him a product of the society they live in. Even when Bakugou makes it clear that he plans on beating the crap out of Izuku, the latter continues to rationalize it and harps on Peter for faceplanting Bakugou.
- In Avengers: Infinite Wars, when Wanda Maximoff first meets Jennifer Walters (the cousin of Bruce Banner/the Hulk), she attempts to apologise for causing the Hulk's rampage during the Avengers' first campaign against Ultron, but Jen assures Wanda that as far as she's concerned Ultron manipulated both Maximoff siblings and she's satisfied that they've more than made up for that initial mistake.
- Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship plays around with this trope.
- Downplayed: Sunset forgives Timmy for sneaking out on her...but still forces him to do chores for her and her friends to make up for it.
- Downplayed with the Dazzlings. When Wanda threatens to kick them out for using Timmy, Sonata puts on a convincing crying act. Wanda gives them another chance... but forces them to do chores to make up for using them.
- Averted when Sunset and Timmy become furious at each other for their mutual transgressions. Both are only able to gradually understand each other after cooling off and considering their actions.
- Brutally defied with the Dazzlings, who try putting on a show of redemption and forgiveness, only for nobody to seriously buy it due to their self-serving entitlement. This culminates in them being brutally beaten, tied up and gagged, with Twilight planning to dump them into Tartarus.
- Played straighter with Moondancer, who is forgiven by the Rainbooms. Justifed since they admit she had legitimate reasons to be angry with them, and since she was willing to put her life on the line to save Timmy.
- This trope is briefly discussed by Gray Ghost in Manehattan's Lone Guardian. After quickly forgiving an ex-scientist who was partially responsible for her cat-centric mental disorder, she cites her criteria for the action: whether or not the pony genuinely wants to change, any remorse they may or may not feel, whether or not they want to choose a better way of life, stopping the wrong action entirely, and improving themselves if they regress. Talking to her children and hearing the other party's thoughts and experiences on the topic helps her solidify her decision.
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: After Sam genuinely apologizes to both Danny and Kara, they both forgive her no problem. Danny admits that he never hated Sam and he was afraid that he lost his best friend forever. Kara forgives her because she saw that Sam regretted what she did and also because she doesn't like holding grudges. It's played more realistically as Sam is aware that she still has to earn their trust back, despite being forgiven.
- Life Ore Death: Invoked after an attempt to assassinate Ferris by the Forever People is stopped, because Ferris felt how powerful Infinity Man was and has been convinced that they were genuinely misguided, so she tells her teammates to talk it out instead of holding a grudge.
- Origins: Samantha Shepard receives near-instant forgiveness for her actions while undergoing a Heroic BSoD (killing millions of civilians). Justified In-Universe due to the belief that she is one of the few who could lead the galaxy to victory, despite the fact that people notice this dissonance and comment on it. This even comes up in Jackie's subplots—Shepard's crimes are likely far worse but it's Jackie who everyone is suspicious of. The cast is also troubled by Sarah post-Heel–Face Turn because they wonder if they're engaging in this trope. Then somebody else points out who they're fighting against.
- In The Shattering of Oz, Glinda immediately forgives Elphaba for faking her death once her old friend explains the reasons for the deception, although she immediately starts hitting the Scarecrow once he confirms that he is Fiyero as he could have told her more before everything went wrong.
- Discussed in the Harry Potter/ Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover "Strange Magic
" concerning Snape; while Dumbledore accepts Snape's remorse over Lily's death as a sign that he deserves to be forgiven, Harry counters that for someone to be forgiven they have to genuinely want it, and Snape's continued unpleasant attitude makes it clear that he never fully accepted who Lily was. - Temporal Anomaly:
- Despite learning the fact One was willing to let Zero kill them all without doing a thing to stop her, Two, Three, and Five reassure her that they still love her, understanding it was due to a combination of preventing The End of the World as We Know It and due to them themselves becoming increasingly immoral and insane thanks to the Flower's influence. Four takes a while to get there.
- Four is on the receiving end from Two, even after the former gives a tear-inducing rant towards the latter when she inadvertently convinces Sougo to go and fight the Flower by himself.Two: It's okay. We're all having a bit of a bad time right now.
- The Unexpected Rookie: While the Autobots are staying in Radiator Springs, Wheeljack experiments with some of Filmore's fuel to see if he can convert it to Energon. Predictably, this being Wheeljack, his experiment blows up in his face and sets Filmore's house on fire. To his credit, Wheeljack is horrified at his actions, but Filmore (being Filmore) isn't upset at all.
- Zig-Zagged in Wizard Runemaster and its sequel, particularly in regard to the Orcish Horde. Sylvanas is allied with the orcs but still feels a hint of rage every time one mentions "honor" as she remembers the Old Horde decimating her homeland and butchering her brother. Likewise, even draenei willing to work with the orcs remember the "Path of Glory": a road the orcs paved with the bones of hundreds of thousands of draenei they slaughtered.
- Justified in The Vain Rose's Garden when the goddesses forgive Sara, the adult film star hired by Aoshima, for her part in his plot in blackmailing Belldandy due to her being an Unwitting Pawn who thought her client was simply some weirdo who wanted to pretend he was having sex with an anime character, not realizing he was using her as a body double for an actual person.
- Subverted in Blackbird. After Laurel is freed from her forced membership in the League of Assassins, it's clear she hasn't forgiven any of the people who have wronged her (specifically her parents and her sister) so much as that her training and self-hatred are preventing her from mustering up the energy to get angry at them. If she has forgiven anyone, it's Oliver, and even then that's because he's probably the only one who has genuinely earned it, since he may have cheated on her with her sister but he then came back and risked death to rescue her. The fact that he followed up the rescue with a genuine apology for his actions helped, even though it was probably unnecessary at that point since his later actions spoke for themselves.
- Played with in The Cutting Edge; as far as most are concerned, Laurel appears to have quickly forgiven those who wronged her (Sara, Samantha, and Oliver- even before he comes home), but in truth, she's just had a few years to process it. She does muse at one point that she's going to need to come up with a better explanation for it all eventually.
- In the The Legend of Korra fic Repairs, Retrofits and Upgrades, Kuvira is given a considerable amount of liberty considering her crimes, mainly so she can be used by Raiko to aid in the control of spirit energy weapons and be used as bait for her loyalists.
- In the ambiguously canon additional ending of Angel of the Bat the both Catholic and bisexual Cassandra Cain asks her girlfriend Sadie to marry her. When Sadie asks if it means she's abandoning her religion, Cassie says even ostracization can't break her faith in God, and even if she faces religious exile, she will forgive her detractors in a heartbeat.
- During Code Geass: Cornelia of the Defection, Lelouch gets chewed out by both Euphie and Cornelia about him killing Clovis, but both wind up forgiving him for it afterwards, though in the latter's case, she admits that this is partially because he is Marianne's son.
- In Lady Luck's Favor, even though Johnny 13 deliberately put Jazz in danger and manipulated her in order to swap her body with Kitty's, Jazz decides to forgive him because her life wasn't actually in danger and Johnny was just trying to save his girlfriend. Averted with Danny, however, who threatens to drag Johnny back to the Ghost Zone if the ghost puts anyone in danger or comes anywhere near Danny's family.
- In Constant Temptation, L forgives Light a.k.a. Kira, the guy who's killed hundreds of people (by the first episode). And Kira is not just forgiven by L but also the very Police Taskforce assigned to catching him (because he is now dating L and has Daddy Issues. There's also an Enemy Mine excuse).
- In A Cure for Love even after everything Light has done, L is still in love with him and fights to save him.
- Death Note Abridged (Team Dattebayo):Souichiro: Light! For being Kira, and squandering our family's reputation, You Are Grounded!, mister!
- In Depravare, when Kira and Righteous (Light and L) learn about their past lives it doesn't put a strain on their friendship at all and they even joke about having caused each other's deaths.
- In A Gun to Love's Head, L and Light forgive each other because they didn't want to have to kill their friend. Also after Mello's stunt of pulling a gun on and sexually harassing L and Light (to which Matt and Near were accessories)—Mello is grounded and forced to go a week without chocolate, Near is forced to socialize, and Matt gets away with it as usual.
- In Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami- Dark's punishment for trying to destroy the world is being grounded.
- Accursed Ones: Amell's favorite mantra is "We are more than our mistakes, and he offers everyone the benefit of the doubt, along with second and third chances. It's even implied that he forgave Quentin for his betrayal, ordering none of his companions or soldiers to bother with going after him.Oghren: You drag that fucker back her, the kid's gonna give him a hug and make him a Warden.
- In All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird, this is invoked in one of Varric's editor's notes when he talks about the reunion between the quarreling Inquisitors. He observes that the reader may consider them to have forgiven each other too easily, but he points out that in their argument, they were both right and wrong, and they were willing to admit it.
- In the side story Agents Acquired, he invokes it again, this time about himself. He acknowledges that the author is quite annoyed with him for insisting on adding another story to the series, but the reader shouldn't worry about it because she always forgives him. The author admits he's right.
- To a point in Left Behind; Belima, the last of the Xarai, is left locked in a cell when she tries to attack Pilot because she’s hungry, but after a few days she is released again as the others are satisfied that she now understands what she did was wrong.
- In Final Fantasy VII fic The Fifth Act, Cloud doesn't hold a grudge against Angeal for kidnapping him and selling him out to be experimented on. At the same time, no one holds it against Cloud for attempting a Murder-Suicide with Sephiroth. They all learned to forgive and forget so they can start over and move on from the horrible mess.
- In The Gargoyles Saga, Demona gives up trying to destroy humanity and becomes one of the good guys all because Angela waves a finger in her face. Less than two months after attempting mass genocide of the human race, Demona is eating Christmas dinner with the heroes.
- In Erika the Radical, Karen Nakahashi and her band of rebellious students had organised what basically mutiny against the Kuromorimine school. The list of heinous acts committed, but are not limited to: forging signatures to official documents (tank repairs and acquisition), Blackmailing the Headmistress of the Nishizumi School, the commandeering of the Kuromorimine heavy tank fleet, resisting arrest by assaulting members of the Absurdly Powerful Student Council, blatantly breaking Sensha-do rules, disrupting everyday school events and publicly broadcasting Erika's drunken escapades from the school's media room. What punishment does she receive from all this once defeated and caught? A literal slap on the wrist and verbal warning from Shiho herself not to disrespect her again.
- Downplayed later when it's revealed in Season 2 that she was officially sentenced to perform hours of public service for her misdemeanours.
- The sailors who had stripped the Moral Disciplinary girls of their dignity during the coup however were not so easily forgiven and were targeted for expulsion, had they not preemptively arranged for a student transfer beforehand.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
- Not to his face, but Lauren Griffin doesn't seem to hold any dislike or ill will towards Rodan, despite the destruction which he caused at Isla de Mara and him massacring Monarch's Gold Squadron (people Griffin likely knew) before he'd fallen under King Ghidorah's control in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).
- Outright averted with San once Monarch and the Russells become aware of Monster X's true nature. None of them have forgotten Ghidorah's evil actions during King of the Monsters (in fact, the Russells hold some Misplaced Retribution feelings toward San), and it takes time before they start lowering their reservations towards San.
- By the time of the Final Battle, Dr. Stanton seems to be on good terms with Tejada, despite her past participation in Jonah's literal massacres of Stanton's Monarch colleagues during the movie.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed
- In Gold Poisons, the trope is zigzagged with Mo Xiulan. While she still goes to prison for nearly killing Lan Xichen, he forgives her easily given both the fact that she was acting under duress and because he is a very forgiving person by nature.
- In A Matter Of Age, Jin Guangyao faces zero consequences for his murder of the Jin captain in the long run, as Nie Mingjue is willing to forgive him as long as he makes an effort to not kill anyone again.
- In Second Chances, Jin Zixuan mentioned that while he was previously rather bitter that Wei Ying's ghost general killed him, especially, after hearing how his death affected his mother, he realized that Wei Ying was genuinely shocked and horrified when Wen Ning killed him. Besides, he wasn't in complete control, so he finally forgives him.
- In Skin A Cat, despite being said to be a jealous person, Cangse Sanren forgives Wei Changze for sleeping with Jiang Fengmian after he and Cangse Sanren marry. Wei Changze is very apologetic, Cangse Sanren realizes it was a one-time thing, and she's eager to become a mother.
- A common plot thread in HP fanfics is Dumbledore preaching the necessity of easy forgiveness, sometimes even of foes that not only haven't sought forgiveness at all but are still actively trying to kill the protagonists.
- In Blood Matters Orion Malfoy (formerly Harry Potter) is so happy to have a non-abusive family that he's willing to give the people who have been trying to murder him since he was one year old and killed his friend last summer a fresh start.
- Subverted in The Darkness Series. When Ron and Hermione finally realize they were jerks and try to apologize Harry pretends to accept but he isn't going to forgive them this time. He will pretend to go back to being their friend because it's easy but he swears they will never be friends again. Double Subversion later on as Harry comes to warm up to Hermione again and so begins trying to "save" her by making her turn dark too. Also Harry easily forgives Voldemort after turning to The Dark Side and seeing more of Voldemort's memories through their link he comes to see where he's coming from.
- Inverted in Harry Potter & the Azkaban Parody where everyone demands that Harry forgive them for wrongfully sending him to Azkaban Prison for "one year, three months, two weeks, four days, seven hours, thirteen minutes, and twenty-six seconds," killing his owl right in front of him, stealing from him, and destroying his property without actually asking him for their forgiveness. And instead of taking him to a doctor or allowing him to recover from the effects of starvation and the Dementors they immediately force him back into school "where you will be constantly bombarded with all the people you don't want to see until we break you down and force you to forgive us." Needless to say, Harry is less than impressed.
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Subverted. Snape feels that Harry is too quick to forgive him for his part in Lily Potter's death.
- Averted in Hitting the Tomes where Harry never quite forgives Ron and Hermione for basically abandoning him during the summer after 4th year, especially because all of their apologies are prefaced with "But Dumbledore said". To him, that just means they value Dumbledore's word more than their friendship with him.
- Played for Black Comedy in the Slash Fic Yew and Holly when Hermione and the Weasleys find that in order to get Harry to attend their party they also have to invite Voldemort over for the Christmas hols.
- An Invoked Trope in Hellsing Ultimate Abridged:Alucard: Sorry about that whole shooting you thing. But, I know if you look deep into your heart... which is currently all over that tree...
- Let's just say in Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità, Italy forgave the homophobe and the bully a little too easily. Same with Austria despite having been abused by him for hundreds of years.
- In the otherwise-great Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Mein Schutzengel Il Mio Protettore, one week after Gilbert leaves for his job Elizaveta has an affair with Roderich. Then she discovers that she is pregnant, meaning that the child could belong to either one, and she neglects to tell Gilbert about any of this until shortly before the baby is due. When Gilbert does find out, he isn't mad at her, he immediately accepts the child as his own (even blaming himself for leaving her alone), and she never has to take any kind of responsibility for any of this.
- Averted with Hiccup for the most of Persephone. He still resents Berk and his father for the way he was treated before starting the dragon training and openly accuses Valka of abandoning him only because she cares more about the dragons than everything else
- In A Thing of Vikings, after Hiccup and Astrid are told how Wulfhild was coerced into making wedding vows to Hiccup after he married Astrid when they all assumed she was just Hiccup's concubine, Hiccup and Astrid forgive Wulfhild, although it's implied that it was a good thing Wulfhild was out of the room when they were told, as Astrid apparently nearly attacked Wulfhild's brother Magnus.
- The Oops Cycle: Saminga, the Demon Prince of Death, was a member of Lucifer's rebellion against God and spent the millennia since as the patron of undead and necromancy, causing a great deal of evil and suffering in the world. After his Heel–Face Turn, his sheer usefulness and thorough and quick undoing of his prior work make him almost universally welcomed by even the most skeptical archangels. The worst he gets is Eli and him butting heads over whether the best works are the ones completed or left unfinished.
- It's not the Raptor DNA: Played with. Owen, Claire, and a few others are willing to forgive Elise, but those who were more directly affected by her rampage treat her like a monster. The most prominently showcased are Debra, the petting zoo director who raised the Apatosaurus herd that Elise butchered, and Commander Blake, who was best friends with many of the ACU troopers Elise killed. It takes dozens of chapters (and a few apologies from both sides) before bridges begin to mend and Blake doesn't live long enough to be truly forgiving.
- In Reconnected, Sora is willing to forgive Lightning and trust her to help defeat Hades, despite the fact that Lightning was just seconds away from murdering him, in part because Lightning had been tricked by Hades into doing so. Lightning even lampshades it:Lightning: Are you kidding me?! I tried to kill you not even five minutes ago and you already forgive me enough to go on this mission with you?! Are you always this trusting?
- it's about the bones: Mercymorn tries to assassinate Harrow, and God only stops her at the last second. He then proceeds to do absolutely nothing to punish her other than politely ask her to stay away. Harrow isn't exactly happy about this.God walks to her and takes her in his arms. With another shuddering, choked wail, Mercymorn the First presses her face to his chest. He sighs, and kisses her hair, and forgives her. The Emperor of Compassion Undying.
If he can forgive you your existence, he can forgive anything.
- Entering The Love Hina World: Averted and explored several times:
- After her sister Tsuruko drills many hard truths into her, Motoko apologizes for all the times she unjustly assaulted Keitaro and Anthony. Both initially assume that she's been ordered to apologize. After learning that she's sincere, both men declare that her actions have been Forgiven, but Not Forgotten; they might forgive her, but that doesn't mean they trust her, or have forgotten how she easily resorted to violence against them and others. Faye, meanwhile, simply rejects her apology outright, finding her behavior to have been completely unforgivable.
- Su assumes everyone will forgive her after she apologizes since she honestly wasn't aware that Naru's plans for the Inn would actually be bad for everyone. Nobody agrees with her.
- For His Own Sake: In the final chapter, Naru expects this to apply to her once she decides that Keitaro should take her back. Throughout the entire fic, she has been furious over Keitaro breaking up with her, not because she actually loves him or wants anything to do with him, but because he hurt her ego by calling her out on her years of abuse and being a self-centered, Spoiled Brat. She only wants to get back together because she's systematically burned all her other bridges, and is deeply shocked — and deeply offended — when Keitaro makes clear that they are never getting back together.
- The Boy Who Cried Idiot: In the third alternate ending, Lincoln makes up with Martin enough to hug him despite him having caused all the trouble and also despite the fact that he beat up everyone else who wronged him.
- Power Chord: High School Musical: Downplayed. Mazzy is quite quick to forgive Sully, even though he cheated on her. It is made clear, though, that it wasn't easy for her, and Sulley does feel genuinely awful about it. Luna also isn't very quick to forgive him for that, but she mostly keeps it to herself.
- What is a Person Worth?: Defied; Lincoln is not going to forgive his family easily, even though he gives them a chance to redeem themselves. Played straight with Lincoln forgiving Ronnie Anne for her bullying and falling for Chandler's plot of revenge. While it took a long time, the family worked hard to earn Lincoln's forgiveness.
- In A Prize for Three Empires, Carol Danvers finds galling that everything Rogue has to do to be forgiven by her friends the X-Men is to knock on the Mansion's door and say she is sorry.She wanted to leave this crazy planet alone. She wanted to be rid of X-Men, Avengers, super-heroes who betrayed your trust, super-villains who broke your body and raped your soul and then had it all forgiven as if it was just a little mistake.
- The Other Side (memoriaeterna) begins with essentially the other half of the universe being killed in the Snap (Avengers: Infinity War), with the result that Wanda triggers the Westview Hex (WandaVision) a few days after the Snap rather than a few days after it was undone. As a result, characters observe that the Westview residents actually found it easier to be under Wanda's influence than they did in canon, as dealing with another person's grief let them get away from their own for a time whereas canon saw Wanda unwittingly forcing her own pain on others when they should have been enjoying the reunion.
- A Series of Fortunate Events: Averted. Saki Yoshida, while grocery shopping with her daughter Hana ran into her mother, who threw her out of the house when her father lied to her mother about Saki seducing him when he was molesting Saki and forcing her to sleep with him. To Saki's shock, her mother grabbed and hugged her while crying; shock, especially since the last time they talked, her mother threw her out; she asked her mother why she was talking to her. Saki's mother begged her to forgive her, revealing that her father told her everything; shocked, Saki asked why her father would tell her the truth; Saki's mother revealed that her father came home drunk and accidentally revealed that he forced himself on Saki. While Saki was not angry or resentful towards her mother, she was not interested in forgiving her either because of her actions, with the love and trust Saki had in her mother gone. When Saki's mother asks if they can talk and notices Saki's daughter and uneasily asks if her daughter's father is Saki's father, Saki coldly tells her mother that her father is not the father of her daughter and that she has to go. Saki's mother said please, if I had known the truth earlier, I would've never kicked you out, only for Saki to say while holding back tears, you left me when I needed you most, I always came to you when I was sad, and I trusted you. I'm glad you know the truth, but I can't not in front of my Hana; she then bought groceries and left with her daughter.
- BURN THE WITCH:
- Lila assumes that Rose is a naive goody-two-shoes whom she can easily trick into forgiving her by shedding a few Crocodile Tears. To her shock, Rose does not instantly forgive her.
- Downplayed with Adrien. When the rest of the class learns that he knew about Lila's true nature but refused to warn them, they're furious and leave it to Rose to decide how they handle it. Rose opts not to forgive him immediately but encourages him to work for their forgiveness by showing that he's learned from this and changed.
- The Cosmos largely averts this trope, while also discussing it several times:
- While Adrien grows a spine and starts standing up to Lila, this only happens after Marinette calls him out and makes clear that his sheltered upbringing does not excuse how he deliberately turned a blind eye towards Lila's toxic influence. She also makes clear that it is not her job or responsibility to 'fix him' through her love or even friendship; Adrien works hard to improve himself and gradually earn back her trust, and is not rewarded with a Relationship Upgrade.
- Once it becomes clear that Nino and Alya have come to regret their betrayal, Marinette does not completely forgive them, but takes their change of heart into consideration while determining the extent of their punishment. The rest of the Cosmos specifically comment that they think she's being too lenient on them due to their former friendship.
- Sabine is The Perfectionist who psychologically abused her daughter by refusing to recognize any of Marinette's accomplishments as noteworthy, claiming that perfect grades and any other achievements are just "as it should be" and complaining when she scored "only 99%" on a test. While she has come to realize the damage she's done and is trying to be better, and Marinette doesn't hold it against her, all of Marinette's friends do, with Kagami declaring that she's being far too lenient with her mother.
- After Lila's true nature is fully exposed, Kim loudly apologizes to Marinette...and when she doesn't respond, starts shouting apologies to everyone around him. Juleka finally calls this out as purely performative, noting that he's not actually promising to change his behavior or not to do it again, but just looking for reassurance that he won't be punished or have to deal with the consequences of his actions. This effectively shuts him up.
- In Hop to It, Marinette spends weeks treating Jack coldly out of misguided jealousy because of her friendship with Adrien, and when she's asked to help Jack with a new outfit, she goes so far as to set her up with a replica of Chloé's favourite outfit. When she and Alya find out in the nick of time that Jack already has a boyfriend back in the US, they both scramble to get her out of Chloé's sight, including spraying her with water to distract her, and once they're back at the bakery, Marinette comes clean about her actions.Marinette: Alya told me about Diego. If I had known... No, this serves me right. I should have never done what I did in the first place. There were times when I was thinking of scrapping the whole thing because you seemed so nice, but then you’d bring up Adrien and I’d get jealous all over again and... I’m sorry. Please, please, please let me make it up to you. Please give me a chance! I’ll design you a new outfit. I’ll take you shopping. Whatever you want! But if you hate me and never want to talk to me again, I totally understand.
Jack was speechless. This was the most Marinette had ever spoken to her, and it was all in English.
Marinette’s eyes fluttered up for a moment, probably wondering what was taking Jack so long to say something. There was a part of Jack that was furious, of course. She had half a mind to yell at Marinette for making assumptions, but there was a much larger part of her that was relieved. She hadn’t done anything wrong — Marinette and Alya’s hatred of her had all just been a big misunderstanding. A bit of her bad luck, as it were. Nothing more.
Jack: (reaches out and puts a hand on Marinette’s shoulder) No hard feelings.
Marinette: Really? After everything?
Jack: Chloé is going to come after you hard after what you just did. I think that’s punishment enough. - The Karma of Lies plays with and deconstructs this in various ways:
- Adrien expects this to happen once his classmates finally learn the truth about Lila. Never mind that she's been scamming them with fake charity drives and turning them against Marinette with her lies; she'll just apologize and explain how lonely she was, and then everyone will be friends~! This stems from his extremely self-centered worldview, and belief that real life is just like what he's seen in his favorite TV series.
- Adrien also expects to be forgiven for skipping the Final Battle with Hawkmoth, since he didn't know it was going to be the final fight with him. He did, however, know that Ladybug had warned him that she'd need his help later that day, asking him to come running at a certain signal...and decided to throw a party at his place while waiting.
- Adrien also tries to argue that Hawkmoth should not be seriously punished for his reign of terror, claiming that because Ladybug's Miraculous Cure fixed everything his akumas destroyed and brought his victims Back from the Dead, he shouldn't be charged with anyone's murder or any other crimes. Again, this is averted, with people angrily calling him out and making clear that the consequences of Hawkmoth's cruelty weren't just magically wiped away.
- Worth noting: while Adrien preaches the importance of 'taking the high road' and forgiving all transgressions, his belief in this falls apart once he's the one who's been hurt. After falling for one of Lila's scams himself despite his belief that she couldn't touch him, Adrien becomes increasingly obsessed with getting back what's his...along with a heaping helping of Revenge.
- Chloé initially thinks that Ladybug has forgiven her when she comes to her with a request; however, Ladybug makes clear that this is Teeth-Clenched Teamwork on her end, and that Chloé will not be getting the Bee or any Miraculous after how she betrayed her. This spurs a Heel Realization that leads Chloé to start trying to change for the better; her recognition that she's not owed forgiveness gradually convinces Marinette to give her another chance while still keeping her at arm's length. Eventually, Ladybug completely forgives Chloé because she genuinely wants to make amends to become a better person, gives Chloé a second chance to be a superhero, and even becomes friends with her.
- Alya and most of Marinette's classmates figure that Marinette will accept them back with open arms after they learn that she's actually Ladybug, only for her to cut them off, having realized that they were All Take and No Give. The only one she's willing to give any leeway is Juleka, as like Chloé, she's the only one who recognizes how badly she hurt her by going along with the crowd and admits that she's not entitled to being forgiven.
- Of Patience and Pettiness defies this as well - or rather, takes the approach that those seeking forgiveness have to acknowledge what they did wrong first. When Lila's true nature is quickly exposed by Jagged Stone, the majority of Ms. Bustier's class act as though she was solely responsible for how they acted. Only a handful of them recognize their own mistakes and try making amends; the rest expect things to revert back to normal with no real effort on their part, much to Marinette's dismay.
- Scarlet Lady:
- Played With during "Syren"; Chat Noir takes Marigold to meet Master Fu, who scolds him for exposing his existence as the Guardian. Marigold is horrified and starts scolding him as well for betraying Fu's trust, but is touched when Chat explains that he only did so because he trusts her, unlike Scarlet Lady. Master Fu, by contrast, simply Face Palms; while he accepts her as another apprentice, he also punishes Adrien for his thoughtlessness.
- Despite how he had no earthly idea that akumas existed before getting attacked during his visit to Paris, Prince Ali forgives Rose for everything she did as Princess Fragrance, focusing instead upon how much they have in common.
- Averted during "Despair Bear"; after Adrien calls her out for all her bullying and breaks off their friendship, Chloé convinces herself that he'll forgive her if she throws a party and acts nice to all of their classmates. Adrien notes to Marinette that Chloé isn't actually apologizing to anyone, and when Chloé goes compliment fishing and asks if he's ready to forget all about their little fight and be friends again, responds with a Blunt "No".
- When Alya scolds Adrien for not wearing any Chat Noir merchandise as part of a "show of solidarity", he reminds her that his father is Gabriel Agreste, causing her to immediately drop the matter and apologize.
- Lampshaded by Alya at the end of "The Mime"; she's utterly astounded by how easily Fred forgives Chris for blatantly sabotaging his career and getting him akumatized.
- Played for Laughs in "Party Crasher"; the guys get into two Group Hugs while reassuring Kim that they don't blame him for getting them into trouble with the girls... while said girls look on, completely unimpressed.
- Telling Lies? No, Mama: After it’s revealed that Lila is indeed a liar with cruel, selfish intentions like Marinette said, the class feels terrible for reducing her claims to petty jealousy and apologize sincerely. While Marinette does express that she was hurt that no one considered her feelings when they pushed her to the back without her permission and easily dismissed her warnings about Lila, she does reconcile with them and admits that she has let her jealousy over Adrien get the better of her on other occasions.
- What Goes Around Comes Around:
- After learning that Marinette is Ladybug, Alya expects to reap the rewards of being her 'BFF' despite having grown estranged from her thanks to Lila's manipulations. She declares that they can move past this 'blip' in their relationship before offering a token apology, and makes clear that she expects Marinette to be making more restitutions toward her for not revealing her Secret Identity sooner.
- Adrien similarly expects Marinette to forgive him for not really doing anything to help against Lila, along with Chat Noir's failure to show up when Shadow Moth attacked her home. Much like Alya, he glosses over his absence with a token apology, caring more about forcing her into a Relationship Upgrade — despite knowing that she's dating Luka.
- Adrien also expects his parents to benefit from this, despite his father being exposed as Hawk Moth and his mother fully supporting his criminal endeavors, including breaking him out of jail. The same logic applies to Lila and Chloé — despite them being arrested as suspected accomplices to Hawk Moth, he believes that everything will be worked out by the time their vacation from school ends.
- During the climax, Adrien weaponizes this, leading Emilie to assume he's forgiven her for all her transgressions by rushing to her side and offering a hand up. When she accepts, he swipes the Black Cat Ring back from her.
- Played With after Catastrophe's defeat. Plagg furiously calls Adrien out and makes clear that he refuses to forgive him for handing him over to Emilie. Adrien accepts this, along with the other consequences of his actions. His willingness to admit his mistakes helps him part on better terms with Marinette, who 'pounds it' with him one last time.
- In With Time, Marinette forgives Chloé for years of bullying and even tentatively becomes friends with her. However, this happens after Chloé comes through for Marinette during one of her lowest moments and while Marinette is struggling with depression and poor self-esteem thanks to a different bullying incident. In addition, their friendship isn't solidified until months later, by which point Chloé has taken serious steps to change and make up for her past behavior.
- Played With in (Not) Everyone Wants To Be A Hero. After the Quirkless Izuku proves to be a Badass Normal by trouncing everyone else at U.A.'s Sports Festival, Principal Nedzu and the rest of the staff want to promote him to the Hero Course... without bothering to ask if he wants to leave Gen Ed. Toshinori is the sole exception, and winds up as the only one to vote against the proposition. His coworkers promptly assume he's a bigot and spend the next two weeks harassing, insulting and belittling him until he finally gives up and changes his vote... at which point they all revert back to treating him like their friend, as if the whole disagreement had never happened. For his part, Toshinori does not forgive them, and finds their swift "reacceptance" of him even more damning: they still think he's a bigot, but don't care so long as they get their way.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Aftermath of the Games: Justified In-Universe and Deconstructed; Everybody forgives Sci-Twi for what she did as Midnight Sparkle, as they're aware of the fact that Cinch blackmailed and bullied her into unleashing magic, and because she was not as cruel as Sunset had been. However, Sci-Twi is still haunted by her actions and fears the chance she could give in to her dark side again. She's also left wondering why Cinch doesn't deserve the same treatment until Sunset explains that, unlike Sci-Twi, the principal refused to take responsibility for her actions and didn't care if people were almost hurt or killed in order to guarantee her legacy.
- All That Shimmers: While Sunset was forgiven by the Humane Five, the rest of the school averts this, unhappy with the years of manipulation and bullying she subjected them to... to say nothing of the demonic Mind Control. On her first day back at school, she immediately gets attacked by Gilda in the bathroom.
- Beneath The Sun's Surface: Justified and deconstructed. After a horribly wounded Celestia is finally rescued and brought to a hospital, Star Yield and Cloud Drop are forgiven for capturing and torturing Celestia for a month before she was rescued, justified because they were being controlled by the Aura Spell. But still deconstructed as Luna really wished Star Yield was acting by his own accord, but since he wasn't no one is punished for the crimes committed against Celestia's life. Star Yield himself is worried that his reputation will be ruined due to nearly killing Celestia under the influence of the Aura.
- Changeling Courtship Rituals: Zig-zagged. Twilight forgives Chrysalis and her friends forgive her as well eventually, including Shining Armor. However, Princess Cadence refuses to even consider it. In the sequel Twilight and Chrysalis forgive Cadence for her actions against them, but still get a restraining order against her.
- A Diplomatic Visit: Downplayed in chapter 19. When Slice n' Dice's parents learn the truth about her, her father Johnny Apple recognizes that he's made some serious errors in judgement and intends to make up for it. Her mother Lazuli, who was the more reluctant to disown her eldest, makes it clear that she hasn't quite forgiven him for forcing her into doing so in the first place.
- Earth and Sky: At the end of the story, Silver Spoon forgives Diamond Tiara for her past actions pretty easily when seeing how upset and broken she's become. Likewise, Apple Bloom forgives her as soon as Silver Spoon vouches for her.
- Equestria: Civil War: Deconstructed. Twilight forgiving Starlight Glimmer and allowing her to live in the Castle of Friendship without any restrictions, in spite of her many crimes that, arguably, were worse than some of the shows' previous villains results in a national controversy. Twilight is accused of being a far too lenient Horrible Judge of Character for immediately forgiving Starlight, while Starlight herself is accused of taking advantage of this trope to avoid any sort of punishment for her crimes. This also extends to other villains that Twilight forgave, such as Trixie (who enslaved the entirety of Ponyville), Discord (who turned all of Equestria into his own personal Cloudcuckooland, in addition to continuing to pester the ponies), and the Changelings (who caused an invasion that, as noted in the story itself, killed and injured numerous poniesnote ). Twilight's decision also caused an increase in crime rates because many criminals think that if one of Equestria's princesses could instantly forgive a terrorist, they would get Easily Forgiven and let off the hook themselves. As such, a checks-and-balances system to monitor reformed villains − known as the Reformed Antagonist Regulation Act (R.A.R.A) − is being put in place with a large number of supporters (including Rarity, Applejack, and even Cadence).
- Equestria's First Human: Subverted. While Connor does save Ponyville from Dragonfire, he does it to prove something to himself and help the few friends he's made. He doesn't forget that the town treated him like the plague and plans to skip town. Only when all of Ponyville decides to apologize and show their appreciation does he forgive them.
- Living the Dream:
- Lance forgives Rainbow Dash even after she tried to rape him and tried to destroy his journal. He even forgave her after she accidentally killed him while she was trying to poison Twilight. The worst part is after Lance forgives her she tries to rape him again.
- Lance was quick to forgive Luna after she tried raping him because she backed off at the last second.
- Cody Benson was let free almost immediately even after he killed 13 royal guards and tried to kill Lance.
- Post Nuptials: Deconstructed. Twilight's friends are wracked with guilt for giving Twilight the cold shoulder when she accused Princess Cadance of being evil before being proven technically right (the evil Cadance was actually an imposter), and only end up feeling even worse when Twilight calmly and insistently forgives them, since it makes them think she is too good to be their friend. Later subverted when Twilight confesses she is still mad at her friends for how they treated her, though getting her feelings off her chest helps her forgive them for real.
- Princess Celestia Hates Tea: Despite Twilight's wild accusations of being a changeling queen that got Celestia attacked by her own staff, getting blasted by the Elements of Harmony, getting her room exploded, and nearly getting her banished to the moon for a thousand years, the old goddess is surprisingly cordial with Twilight in the upcoming mess she caused. And then Twilight Mind Rapes her in an attempt to make her like tea.
- Rainbooms and Royalty: Played straight with Celestia and most of Ponyville forgiving Princess Luna for her actions as Nightmare Moon. Averted with Rainbow Dash, who finds it difficult to overlook that just a few hours ago she tried to take away her mentor, tried to conquer Equestria, brainwashed her friends, tried kill her new friends, and tried to kill her. An encounter and a bonding moment with Luna during the celebratory party that followed Equestria's salvation leads to Rainbow letting go of her anger and forgiving her partially but withholds complete forgiveness until Luna fully proves her redemption.
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks
- Sunset's Steps: Only Pinkie Pie plays this straight, throwing Sunset a party and being her friend. This is otherwise averted, with everyone (even the Rainbooms) giving the Sunset either hostility or the cold shoulder until she proves she wants to make it up to them. Sunset's story arc is about making up with everyone and earning their forgiveness.
- Escape From The Hokage's Hat zigzags with this trope.
- Downplayed - Sakura comes to Hinata, in tears, over Naruto's injuries, and says Sasuke isn't worth Naruto getting hurt so badly. Hinata blames Sakura for what she did to Naruto- begging him to save Sasuke and having "hit him, yelled at him and used him,"- but gives her a hug because "If she cried for Naruto, she couldn't be all bad."
- Subverted - Naruto looks like he'll do this with Sasuke but comments he still can't forgive Sasuke due in part to Sasuke trying to KILL him while Naruto just wanted to incapacitate Sasuke.
- I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again!: A justified case. After the protagonists (with the Hokage's backing) arrange things so documents revealing the Uchiha Clan's attempted coup are released to the public, Itachi is allowed to return to Konoha, where they "commend" him for his "initiative" but punish him still for "subverting the chain of command". He's promptly kicked out of ANBU and demoted to chunin. It's a slap on the wrist, and everyone with half a brain knows it, but it gets the village leadership out of admitting that they ordered a thirteen-year-old boy to slaughter his entire family, so they all go along with it. The epilogue mentions that Itachi was even named Godaime Hokage.
- Downplayed and played straight in The Last Prayer:
- After Kurenai breaks his nose and stabs him (because she was drunk and mad at Asuma), Naruto initially refuses to forgive her and only accepts her apology because he needs something from her. But a couple months later, Naruto acts like the situation never occurred and views her more positively than Ino, whose crime was "being mean to him" after Naruto accidentally raped her.
- Naruto consistently forgives Sasuke for repeatedly trying to murder him despite Sasuke being an Adaptational Jerkass who lacks any of the Pet the Dog moments he had in canon.
- War of the Biju: Played With.
- While Gaara still forgives his father like he did in canon, his Calling the Old Man Out is much harsher, especially when he learns the truth about Yashamaru. His forgiveness is treated more as a Cruel Mercy, a pity offering of comfort for the man when he inevitably returns to the Pure World.
- After he gets his ass kicked by Naruto and makes his Heel–Face Turn, Sasuke learns that Sakura still loves him. However, she reinforces the fact that while she still loves him, she also knows he doesn't deserve it, and informs him that he will not only have to earn her forgiveness but also that of the rest of the Konoha 12 along with the village at large.
- Played With in What You Knead: While Sakura outwardly forgives Sasuke for how he recklessly endangered her life during the Bell Test, Inner Sakura doesn't feel the same way. The incident also effectively shreds the crush she used to have on him.
- HERZ: Gendo has been placed under permanent house arrest as punishment for collaborating with SEELE’s attempted global genocide. If he has faced worse punishments, the story does not tell. Likewise, Shinji and Asuka have forgiven him for everything he did to them, directly or indirectly. Gendo is pretty aware of how lucky he is.
- In All Mixed Up!, Olive, Otto, Oscar, and Oprah are all quick to forgive Mariana Mag for her actions. Oprah in particular even allows her to stay in Toronto and continue her Family Business of running her aquarium rather than turning her in to the proper authorities and having the local papers brand her as a dangerous villain, as the Director realizes that she was completely in the wrong and takes the blame for causing her to have a Face–Heel Turn. To top it off, she permits all cases involving subjects outside of mathematics to be handled by agents accordingly.
- A Dip in the Inkwell: In "Agent Recall", Olive forgives Todd to such an extent that she hires him onto her precinct, in spite of him traumatizing her and attempting to murder her and her co-workers. However, she hires him under one condition — he has to behave himself.
- Hours 'Verse: Akechi ends up on good terms with the Phantom Thieves and Sojiro rather quickly after his Heel–Face Turn, given the similarities between his own circumstances and the Theives', his age, and Shido's corruptive influence on him.
- Defied in Crimson Rising; when the Power Rangers are confronted by secret organisation Sector Nine and ordered to either work for the agency or be considered criminals, the only Rangers to take the initial deal are the Operation Overdrive team (minus Mack), and even then Ronny and Rose swiftly defect to the other Rangers after their first outing with Sector Nine confirms that the organisation is too ruthless for their tastes. However, Will and Dax remain with Sector Nine for quite a few missions, including trying to shoot Crimson Ninja Storm Ranger Hunter Bradley and abducting his girlfriend Tori and the now-reformed Lord Zedd. Even after Will and Dax save Tori’s sister Zoe and bring her to Blue Harbour, once the crisis has passed, although the other Rangers argue for leniency, Will and Dax are forbidden from becoming Rangers again, Dax returning to his film career and Will working for Bio-Labs security.
- In bleeding at the sped of sound, the main character, a cyborg vampire, wants to eat Layton and plans on killing Luke first. After luring him away and announcing her intention to kill him, Layton catches her, but she cries, causing him to forgive her and declare his love for her.
- Parodied in Table Top Adventures. The party fights a group of NPC bandits, and Nora asks if she can keep one of them as her companion. Ren- her heterosexual life partner and the BM- points out that there's no way she can command the bandit's loyalty now that they've killed his fellows. After some pleading from Nora, he allows it anyway."Alright, Nora, he surrenders and becomes your best friend despite your party murdering his friends and comrades."
- In The Racket-Rotter Chronicles, Shark states that he's already forgiven Sinbad for biting him.
- The Mountain and the Wolf: The Wolf complains that this is the case in Westeros (although he doesn't know he's been given a very incomplete picture of the situation): Davos willingly working for the man who chopped his fingers off, Tyrion letting Bronn go unharmed after a murder attempt on Tyrion's life, Daenerys pardoning the Lannister soldiers (in spite, and in fact because, of the Wolf's insistence that they be brutally executed), Bran not naming the man who tossed him out a window, a king's bodyguard murdering his charge then keeping his post (he mentions this to Jaime, the bodyguard in question, without knowing of his role in the story).
- Vengeance (later by the author of Suffer) has Shadow groping his wife Blaze as a way to prepare to rape her multiple times, as well as attempting to kill her and their son Ryan multiple times, just to get his Revenge for being falsely accused and convicted of rape by Blazenote . At the very end, Shadow and Blaze quickly forgive each other and become a happy couple again as if nothing happened.
- In Run For Your Life, Blaze is able to accept her father's plea for forgiveness, after he put her and Shadow through depressing hell for years by order the killing of their first son Ryan and then faking his death.
- In Sibling Rivalry, also by the same author, Shadow is able to forgive his older brother, Mephiles, who tried to murder Shadow when he was a baby, tried to again at the mental hospital, slashed open his chest before kidnapping and imprisoning his pregnant wife Blaze, and kidnapped Shadow's two sons and ripped one of them's back open. This could be Justified, as Mephiles is clinically insane.
- In Run For Your Life
- The Bikini Bottom Horror:
- Gary bears no ill will against the guilty Patrick for killing his owner. As it turns out, it's because Gary knew SpongeBob didn't really die.
- Guilty!Patrick is also forgiven, or at least left alone by the remaining citizens of Bikini Bottom as they rebuild. The only one who doesn't, and thinks he got off too easy is Pearl, because Mr. Krabs is dead and she could've stopped the Tortured One due to being a sperm whale. She also derides Patrick (all of them) for being cowardly by waiting to attack until she was away. Unfortunately, she's the only one who wants revenge for Mr. Krabs, as Sandy points out the greedy man started the whole thing and got what he deserved.
- Basically defied in Eros Turannos, which looks at a world where Anakin Skywalker was raised as Darth Vader since he was four and destroyed most of the Jedi. Even when Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padme are satisfied that Vader genuinely wants to be Anakin again, they both agree that it's better to keep Anakin's past secret as they work with the Rebels to attack Palpatine.
- Zigzagged with Hux in The Things that Don't Destroy Us and its sequel The Ones who Rebuild Us. Most of the Resistance members were understandably wary of him after Leia and the Council decide to let him continue serving their cause after discovering that he is the First Order spy (with limited freedom, of course), and Finn continues to hate him even after a year, and he's proven himself a changed man. But one of the few people to welcome Hux into their cause is a guard named Betton, whose half-sister was killed during the Hosnian cataclysm. Even Hux is incredulous by the man's ready trust in him and initially thought Betton was just trying to lower his guard and assassinate him.
- In A Sword to Pass, When Elair Hayon comes to Ezra to apologize for her earlier behavior towards him; he forgives her right away much to her surprise. She actually rather annoyed by it because she had a whole speech planned. When she asks Ezra why he can forgive her so easily he says that he is a Jedi. Which only serves to frustrate her because that doesn’t explain anything.
- Awakening:
- Downplayed; Spinel's extremely upset at Pink Diamond for abandoning her, attacking and poofing her on sight. After Pink reforms, they discuss why she left her behind, and Spinel is more or less willing to leave her be... though she isn't above using those events to make her squirm, with Pink noting that she's amazed Spinel is willing to share a room with her.
- Completely averted with Sapphire and Bismuth. Upon learning the full truth about the rebellion, they shut Pink/Rose out and make clear they want nothing to do with her.
- Also averted with Rose/Pink Diamond and the other Diamonds. Her 'relationship' with them largely consists of her gritting her teeth and ignoring their wishes, hiding her disgust by being a Consummate Liar, or flat-out screaming at them when she can't take it anymore. Overall, it's clear that their relationships with her are entirely one-sided, and the only reason she feigns any interest in reconciliation is for the sake of her own goals.
- The Strength in Weakness: Zigzagged, given the circumstances. Piper is very forgiving of Cyclonis, mainly due to seeing into Cyclonis's mind and much later realizing that she's the victim of brainwashing, though their mutual feelings for each other certainly helps. Finn quickly decides to trust Cyclonis because he completely trusts in Piper's judgement, and while the rest of the Storm Hawks are initially angry at the reveal (especially Aerrow), they also turn around to the idea of her being an ally pretty quick. it's everyone else that remains skeptical and wary of the woman, and they only decide to give her a pass purely because they hope her desire to end the war on peaceful terms is legitimate, not because they think she had an earnest change of heart.
- In On Trial, Cassandra is sorry for what she did while under the influence of the Moon Stone and Zhan Tiri. Rapunzel, Eugene, Varian, Lance, her father, and the Queen readily forgive her...but the story kicks off because the King doesn't.
- This trope is actually played fairly realistically with most of the fic's characters (those canon to the show, at least). Many of them are angry at what Cassandra did and feel she deserves punishment... but when they learn just how far the king was willing to go to make Cass suffer, virtually everyone was disgusted/horrified and agreed that Cass has been punished enough. This plus Cass' genuine remorse over what happened allow for the people she once betrayed to bury the hatchet.
- In A Cracked Ruby, even after all the teasing and bullying James put Percy through, Percy is quick to not only forgive James but to talk the Fat Controller out of banishing James from Sodor.
- A key point of Touhou Ibunshu is Forgiveness and The Power of Love, with not forgiving people being treated as a terrible sin that corrupts the soul and loving the perpetrator treated as a better fix than any punishment. Actions that are Easily Forgiven range from assault to attempted murder to successful murder to schemes that would wipe out all life in Gensokyo, with no one questioning the trend. Admittedly, the perpetrator has to show they're trying to make amends before they're forgiven (Mokou, who remains unrepentant, is never forgiven by anybody), with Yukari especially devoting huge amounts of time and effort to fixing the damage she caused.
- Despair Island: When the contestants are all rescued, Duncan is surprised by how easily Geoff forgives Justin for almost getting him executed at the end of the challenge just minutes earlier. This especally sticks out as Bridgette adamantly refuses to accept Justin's apology, and even forbids Geoff from inviting him to their wedding in the years afterwards.
- TDWT Reducks Redux: When Harold apologizes to Courtney for getting her kicked off through unfair circumstances back in the first season, she quickly accepts it, telling him she stopped caring about it long ago. Even he's surprised by this.
- Total Drama Legends: Zig-zagged with Noah's newfound cruelty. After Noah realizes he alienated himself from the rest of his team, even Owen, he apologizes for how he was acting. Owen accepts the apology almost immediately, and convinces the team to vote him off in order to save Noah. Jasmine, however, the main target of Noah's bullying, rejects Noah's apology, not believing it to be genuine. It takes several more chapters before Noah finally earns Jasmine's forgiveness.
- "How We Seared the Sky", set in the continuity of the live-action films, sees new Autobot ally Alexis Paxton fall in love with the newly-defected Starscream, to the extent that she even finds it in herself to forgive him after learning that he killed her father in the Battle of Mission City (her father was piloting a jet in the battle and Starscream shot his plane down).
- The Panda Chronicles: Aaron T quickly forgives Jesse for not believing him about being sick, on the condition that he gets to tell everyone Jesse "cried like a little bitch" about it.
- The Dimensional Drifter: When Yoko sees Judai after three years of him being AWOL, she just slaps him and forces him into the house again. Yuya is nowhere close to forgiving at first, but after questioning his mother, he decides to say nothing and soon gets sidetracked by more important stuff. It's implied that part of Yoko's reason for putting him in the house again is her Empty Nest syndrome, which nobody is willing to discuss.
