Pet the Dog in Fan Works.
Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra
- The Worst Prisoner: When Zuko beats Sokka, he points out errors Sokka had been making and gives tips on how to improve his stance.
- Heroic Heartbreak: Cat is usually greatly annoyed having to be a sidekick when his brother works under his superhero identity, Dog the Mighty, and joins on Dog Aventures, mainly because they’re messy and Cat gets hurt and humiliated. Cat made an exception when Dog was called by a mother whose child had cancer and wanted Dog to meet him. Cat was genuinely proud of his brother and thought his behavior with the child was cute and endearing. Unfortunately, Dog really thought that he could help the child with cancer because of his child-like innocence, but when Cat gave his brother the news that the child passed, Cat did everything he could to tell Dog that there was nothing he could do and he did help the child by being there for him.
- A Blade Forged In The Ashes
may feature Archer being his usual cynical self, but it doesn't stop him from doing nice things from time to time to show. One particular moment is him saving Ren from her initial suicide after catching onto her Mid-Suicide Regret and talking to her about her issues, even giving her a pen and pad and paper to help her overcome her shyness to communicate easier. - Chaotic Harmony (My Little Pony & Sonic the Hedgehog): Sonic is a huge Jerkass thanks to no action over the course of a year. He completely ruined Cream's birthday party, split all ties with his friends, and thought about deserting his friends in Ponyville after they were transported via Chaos Control. But even after all of that, he couldn't resist helping Rarity finding her missing goggles that she needed to finish her design (that Sonic helped model, no less).
- The Chaotic Masters (Massive Multiplayer Crossover): When Wong tries to outbid Jade for a Palisman at Roulette's auction of magical artifacts just to spite her, the other attendees work together to outbid him in turn so that they can gift the Palisman to Jade, due to being disgusted by the pettiness of his actions.. Miss Dorado in particular later gives her a book of magic and information to care for one as well.
- Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters: (Jackie Chan Adventures & W.I.T.C.H.): Of all people, Phobos has a moment of this when he spares Roberta because she was the only one of his minions that was loyal, and makes her his new right hand during the climax of Season 1.
- I Against I, Me Against You (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic & Red vs. Blue):
- Grif actually becomes a pretty nice guy around Fluttershy, but only because she reminds him of how Sister used to be when they were kids.
- South of all characters gets this as she dies, seeming to express sincere regret at what she's done and giving Delta's message to Twilight.
- I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC (The DCU & Marvel Comics): Green Goblin seems to actually care for Harley Quinn, and gets angry whenever the Joker hits her.
- J-WITCH Series (Jackie Chan Adventures & W.I.T.C.H.): When they're reunited in "Return", Phobos apologizes to Raythor for throwing him into the Abyss of Shadows, and praises his loyalty. Also, even after being imprisoned for months by her, he still intends to just send Elyon back to Earth after he takes her powers, rather than harm her.
- Kage and its Recursive Fanfiction Shadows over Meridian (Jackie Chan Adventures & W.I.T.C.H.):
- After Jade is banished by Drago from their universe to the WITCH universe through the Shadow Realm and transformed partly back into a Shadowkhan, she quickly ends up becoming a Hero with Bad Publicity on Meridian due to the Hero Antagonists' prejudices and misconceptions as well as Nerissa's manipulations, forcing her to join the Knights of Vengeance in order to survive. The one person who has so far shown Jade more concern and respect than anyone else on Meridian is Raythor, the Knights' leader and Prince Phobos' loyal servant. His much better treatment of Jade (in comparison to the heroes who almost killed and locked her up for life) has earned him her liking and respect.
- Later we get a literal example of this trope. When Jade gives some food to Sniffer, the dog's owner, the Tracker (another Knight of Vengeance) unexpectedly helps Sniffer adjust to Jade so that they can interact with each other. In the next chapter, Jade plays with Sniffer without the Tracker interfering anyhow. This is completely unconceivable for Miranda, who considers Tracker to be a worse monster than herself in all respects.
- While Phobos is being practical, he does genuinely treat Kage/Jade well when he meets her. And when one of the conditions of their alliance would be for him to reward Raythor, Phobos acknowledges his loyalty and promises to reward him, even considering making him his new right hand man to replace Cedric. And even before that, Phobos complimented Raythor for making an ally out of Kage/Jade.
- Jade tries to repay the kindness Raythor showed her by putting Phobos back on the throne and making sure that he is rewarded for his loyalty.
- Jade plans to do this for Miranda and Cedric as well, promising them that after they complete her mission of destroying the Guardians' home lives, that she'll set them free to choose how they want to live, whether on Earth or Meridian.
- Frost admits to himself that while he initially assumed Jade to be The Load when the Knights were founded, she grew on him a little as she proved his assumptions wrong even before revealing herself to be the Shadow Realm's ruler.
- In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, a pair of Heel-Face Turns result in some metaphorical puppy-cuddling.
- Jackie helps an aged Maya with research on the extranet. Her whole contribution to various starship designs may also count.
- Mad Moxxi taking in Jackie—sure, she had another motive but considering Pandora's tendency toward Crapsack World status it was more than most others managed.
- Garrus beats the crap out of some criminals, being more of an Anti-Hero than Samantha Shepard, paragon. In the same stroke, he convinces a wannabe-criminal Street Urchin who was tagging along with them to seek a better life.
- For someone programmed to destroy things, Sarah shows an odd proclivity toward caring about the students who volunteered to be transformed back into Living Batteries, since worrying about "hurting" people would be the last thing one would expect the queen of Might Makes Right to concern herself with. She also steals a ship and destroys security systems...but deliberately avoids killing guards while making her escape as obvious as possible. Nimitz theorizes the Siren has done this on purpose.
- The renegade hero!!!....Invader Zim?: Zim genuinely praises Lilo's ability to control the experiments, nicknaming her "Commander Lilo".
- Rick and The Loud House (The Loud House & Rick and Morty):
- Ironically, it's the dog himself that does the petting. In chapter 2, after gaining super intelligence and enslaving humanity, Charlies/Spot decides to spare Leni, alongside Lincoln and Lana, solely because of her innocent nature.
- Rick also mentions that he likes to bring the sisters on adventures so they wouldn't feel left out.
- The Spectacular Spider-Man: Lost in Gotham: Damian/Robin V isn't a villain, but he's the coldest towards Peter/Spider-Man when he joins the Bats (especially when compared to how everyone else instantly accepts him as one of their own). That said, he gives Spider-Man a sincere thank you after he saved his life, and later admits (after some prompting from Harley) that he admires Peter's skill set.
- Fractured Fates: Following the conclusion of the second trial, Akira speaks to Asuna in an attempt to apologize for suspecting her (and almost convicting her) of being the killer throughout much of it. Though she finds it physically difficult to even say that she was wrong, Akira does manage to prove how sorry she is by giving Asuna both Kaneki's fedora and surprisingly poignant advice on how to move forward from her grief. Although the advice seems to have been lost on her come Chapter 3, it doesn't change the fact that Akira attempted to legitimately help out her fellow classmate.
- A Cure for Love: Light has a big moment of this when he calls up his Astraea contacts and chews them out for their attempt on L's life, obviously being very protective of L.
- May I have this dance?: After a rough family dinner, Bruno leaves a birthday gift for Mirabel in the middle of the night.
- Shadow and Rose: Morrigan has one in this Dragon Age: Origins retelling, when the companions are preparing for a dinner. As in the game, Morrigan and Alistair dislike each other intensely; however, when she sees him in his formal garments, she acknowledges that "You clean up decently." As Alistair himself notes, this is the nicest thing she says to him in the entire length of their acquaintance.
- Family Guy Fanon:
- Francis, with the fanfic trying to portray him with more likeable qualities, gets a few extra moments with his increase screentime. Examples inculde:
- While this moment is undermined by the fact he and Thelma were doing this for selfish reasons to get Peter and Lois' kids and make them love them enough to make them stay, if anything from what Meg noted, Francis went to her school and whacked her bullies with a bible thirteen times in "Between Sanity and Madness"; But a more heartwarming example later on is Francis apologizing to Peter about his cantankerous behavior.
- Despite holding a sign that says "Kick ass or else I disown you" and making fun of him loses his clothes, he attends Peter's baseball game alongside the others and helps him get a close victory in Season 3's "Peter Griffin's All-Stars".
- In "Live in Vegas", he sold his signature Bible to get Thelma a ring to make up for missing their anniversary.
- Teaming up with Peter to set up a Mother's Day (or Wife Day) dinner for Lois and Thelma in "Love and Sabotage"
- Having empathy for Meg, who had the mumps in "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven"
- While Lance Prueher, the boss of the Suicide Hotline Brian worked at, was a giant asshole to Brian, he does have one in "Break a Leg" when he gave Brian time off work on account of his broken leg. However, it's more of a Downplayed example as his dickery still kind of showed through, when he hired a monkey to cover for him in his absence and the monkey ended up doing a better job than he did.
- Francis, with the fanfic trying to portray him with more likeable qualities, gets a few extra moments with his increase screentime. Examples inculde:
- Fate/Black Avalon: Technically the entire fic is one big example, as Morgan is trying to make up for her mistakes by maximizing happiness. More specifically:
- She's rather gentle with Archer, largely treating him as a scared, angry child who just needs to be shown some kindness. Archer is, of course, more than a little confused at this, but Morgan promises that he'll end up with Artoria in the end.
- She clearly sees a lot of herself in Sakura, and one of her first goals is to get her out from under Zouken's thumb. She also asks permission before doing a sex-as-mana-transfer with Shirou, even though Shirou and Sakura aren't actually dating.
- Likewise, she sees the parallels between Illya and Shirou with herself and Artoria, and shuts down their first fight before it can even start.
- Elemental Chess Trilogy: The Big Bad gives one to Roy Mustang in the third part, promising not to order his men to harm Roy's wife or their unborn child. It's somewhat subverted, however, in that he doesn't promise to order his men not to do this.
- All For Luz: (The Owl House & My Hero Academia''):
- In chapter 11, despite part of her wanting to blame him for the slaughter of their friends for not warning them in time, Luz can't find it in herself to do that and instead tells Stanley its Kennedy and his team that are responsible, not him.
- In chapter 12, in a brief moment of lucidity during her bloody Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Luz let's Emilia live when she tearfully begs for her life, believing that there's no blood on her hands.
- During the Battle of Gravesfield, Luz also to save some innocent bystanders and cops from dying in her battles with the assassins, despite her Hero with Bad Publicity status.
- In chapter 24, Luz's (or shall we say Toshiko's) first meeting with Amity is this. She saw a girl falling to the ground after bumping into her and she used her Vine Tentacles Quirk on her because she didn't want to see Amity fall flat on her face, and then she wished her a good day. Even after the Trauma Conga Line she's been through and despite having Took a Level in Jerkass, Luz still hasn't lost her heart.
- In chapter 25, rather than let him die for trying to attack her, Toshiko uses her new Healing Hands aspect of her Quirk to save Willow's dad as she doesn't want the girl watching to be fatherless.
Toshiko: I’m not a monster. I would never take away a father from their daughter.- When Luz suddenly hugs the villain and starts bawling in his chest after everything that's happened to her in the Battle of Gravesfield, All For One is left confused until this scenario reminds him of when his late brother Yoichi, one person who cared about other than himself, did this when they were kids. Instead of using the situation to his advantage for manipulation, the supervillain makes a genuine effort to comfort the crying girl.
All For One: It’s… going to be alright, Noceda.- Its revealed in chapter 28, that the Golden Guard helped Skara's father, at the girl's tearful request, escape his impending execution and start a new life with his daughter in The Underdark City, a place the Emperor's Coven have knowledge about, at great personal risk to himself.
- In chapter 29, despite being suspicious of her, Eda allows Toshiko to stay at her house for a few days, due to being homeless and gives a new set of more durable clothes to wear that she kept when was in school.
- The Stanford Adventure Club (Girl Genius & Supernatural): Saturn Heterodyne's rap sheet includes forced marriage, Human Sacrifice and willing collaboration with the Nazis. When his wife talks about their married life, however, she concedes he was a very devoted and faithful husband who genuinely did his best to make her happy.
Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire
- Robb Returns: Robert acknowledges to both of his brothers that he has been a horrible brother and names Stannis his Hand of the King after he is told Jon Arryn might be in coma for a long time.
- After the reveal that she is a bastard, all Myrcella asks of her grandfather Tywin is for whoever husband he arranges to marry her to, to be kind to her. Tywin readily agrees, and makes it clear to Cersei that he will keep his promise.
Godzilla / King Kong / MonsterVerse
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
- Downplayed when one of Alan Jonah's goons admits that he feels a little sorry for Vivienne Graham after hearing hearing her Howl of Sorrow, saying it reminds him of the Death Wail his mother made when his sister died.
- Another one of Jonah's goons, Tejada, is genuinely distressed when a close friend of hers ends up running to his death.
- San-2/Youngest Brother, who has the same personality and memories as San before the latter fused to Vivienne, has some dog-petting moments toward Vivienne, whom he regards the same way that a kid would regard their favorite toy. Namely, he reacts with outrage when MaNi/Elder Brother savages Vivienne to a point which goes beyond necessity and beyond their Eldest Brother's (Ichi's) orders.
- Down And Out: Simon, after finally admitting his actions were his own fault, encourages Hazel to go to see Grace, and when Hazel tells him that she's still angry at Grace for her actions and not ready to forgive her, Simon encourages her to forgive Grace and tells her that everything was his fault. Downplayed example, as the Hazel he's speaking to turns out to be a hallucination.
- He Never Told You: The Cat and Grace do not have a good relationship. In spite of this, when Grace comes to The Cat after Simon's death, she does the best she can to comfort Grace, assuring her that Simon's death was not her fault.
- Asylum of Doom: After returning to her own time at the end of the story (or waking up from her nightmare, depending on your interpretation), Gaz's experience makes her reevaluate her previous belligerent attitude towards Dib, and she actually apologizes for calling him crazy.
- Gaz Dreams of Genie:
- Azie trying to convince Gaz to make a Selfless Wish turns out to be this, as if Gaz had done so, she would have escaped her ultimate fate.
- Azie also makes sure Dib doesn't remember Gaz wishing him out of existence once he's restored and promises to be a good sister to him after replacing Gaz.
- Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends:
- Zim's repeated acts of fondness towards Minimoose, which are the only times in the whole story that he ever shows affection towards anyone.
- When needing to make room for the minion trio to join the classroom, Ms. Bitters has Zita switch seats with another student so that she can then send a straight line of students to the Underground Classrooms without having to do so to her implied favorite.
- Ms. Bitters has apparently been encouraging Bob's natural ability to Break Them by Talking, to the point of pushing him towards a career in the CIA. Given her general apathy towards teaching, that says a lot.
- Zim the Warlord: Irken Reversion: After Zim beats all the other Reverted Irkens in a training fight, he shows the others that there's no hard feelings by taking them all out to dinner on his treat. When they all express disbelief at this after he just curbstomped all of them, he points out that it wasn't personal, and he only fought them all because the Tallest ordered it.
- Queen of All Oni (a part of Project Dark Jade): Once Jade turns evil once again, she has her minions kidnap her dog Scruffy and steal the Dog Talisman to make him immortal once more, and pampered him on several other occasions.
- The Old Life Alive Again: Xemnas did allow Roxas and Xion's relationship to go on, as long as they keep up their work. Ultimately deconstructed, since Xigbar took advantage of this condition.
- Peter Parker's Field Trip (Of course it's to Stark Industries): When his teacher and principle's disbelief in Peter's "internship" lands him in hot water, Tony shows up unannounced, not only proving that Peter was not lying, but also uncovers just how little the school did to confirm these lies and then walks out with Peter early to get ice cream.
- While Tony had every reason to blacklist Flash (repeatedly sending intern applications and bullying Peter), instead he saves him a harsh conversation with his parents by giving him a permission slip to intern under one of SI's subsidiaries as a starting point. Apparently, he has been spying on them with Natasha and was talked into being generous by Pepper.
- Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race: ProtoMan does this more and more as the series goes on.
- Even Wily gets one in a twisted way when he attacks an hallucination of his father after it threatens ProtoMan.
- Wily invokes and weaponizes this in Episode 11, using a hug with Bass to hurt ProtoMan.
- Hop to It: Gabriel Agreste gets a moment of this when he thanks Jack for saving Adrien from an akuma and allows her to come over to the mansion for French tutoring - though he stops short of apologizing for throwing her out of the mansion earlier. It's also undercut by the fact that he put Adrien in danger to begin with, though the author didn't know that for sure at the time the chapter was written, and only confirmed as much in-story some time later.
- Scarlet Lady: While Gabriel Agreste is arguably worse here than in canon, he has a few moments where he's kind to Nooroo (such as having a meal with him and Nathalie and (after a very exhausting akuma) carrying Nooroo to Gabriel's bedroom so they can both get some rest).
- Kedabory's Muppet Mania: The French Chef, a new addition to the cast, was established as being very serious about her work, as well as hot-tempered and having little patience for the Swedish Chef and his antics. However, some episodes show that she's not as cold-hearted as she seems.
- In Episode 6, she gleefully dances with her wife during the Dance Party Ending.
- In Episode 7, she's emotionally moved by Kermit's speech about family, particularly when he mentions her own wife and daughter. For the first time, she and Swedish Chef get along with each other, and even sing a portion of the closing number together.
- Codex Equus:
- Despite being an Omnicidal Maniac who hates his own people and wants them destroyed, Xestobium shows some degree of kindness to both Polistes and Metamorphosis for being the only two of his brothers he ever actually liked due to being much more noble than their kin.
- Dr. Toxikon chose to spare Thorax and his New Changelings his genocide because of Ember and Thorax's friendship.
- King Brachion was so impressed by Fluttershy's refusal to break from learning the horrible truth about nature that he was willing to sponsor her animal sanctuary, being a Royal Changeling who is rich in bits. He also kept Fluttershy's thank-you letter as a treasured keepsake (as well as one of many closely-guarded secrets).
- While still an Insufferable Genius at the time it happened, Prince Crimson Star, Golden Scepter's eighth son, was willing to go out of his way to save a classmate from an out-of-control carriage, blinding and horribly injuring himself in the process. This one act of kindness would prove instrumental in shattering his inflated ego, allowing him to become a much better person afterwards.
- Loved and Lost:
- Prince Jewelius, the only person to believe Twilight's misgivings about the false Cadance, comforts her after she's abandoned by her brother, friends, and mentor. After helping Twilight stop the Changeling invasion, he publically calls out all the other heroes for their mistakes and blames them for the invasion while telling Twilight she's done enough for one day. Subverted since it later turns out that Jewelius' kindness towards her is merely a way to gain her trust and make her more compliant to his manipulations.
- Despite being manipulated by Jewelius into stop trusting her former loved ones who are now disdained pariahs, Twilight still cares about them on some level. When Shining Armor is publically flogged by Commander Hildread as punishment for disgracing the Royal Guard, Twilight averts her eyes, finding no pleasure in her older brother's suffering despite disowning him the previous night. She asks Jewelius if the punishment is too harsh and tries to vouch for her brother by saying that he never meant for the invasion to happen.
- Though Jewelius' loyal and impersonal assistant Vivian carries out her master's order to wipe out all the injured royal guards who continue swearing loyalty to the usurped princesses, she voices in a slightly remorseful tone that it's a shame to kill so many fine military ponies.
- The Nuptialverse (author Died During Production): Near the end of Families, Olive Branch admits that he was planning on reporting Speedy Delivery's abuse of Scootaloo as soon as the latter was no longer needed. The author points out that this doesn't make Olive Branch a good pony; he just has a shred of decency.
- My Dream Is Yours: Olympia and Otis decide to answer Jamie Jam's request by asking her "Who's there?" Her response is to cry and hug them in relief as she thanks them for continuing the "Knock Knock" Joke that she had been trying to convey to Ohlm for the entire story.
- Persona V: Reversing the Wheel of Fate: For the barest instant in Chapter 20, Kunikazu Okumura shows a spark of happiness that his daughter has had friends over to their house; the cold businessman hasn't fully abandoned his love for Haru.
- Jusendo Aftermath: An AU fic where Ranma and Akane admitted their love for one another after the battle at Jusendo and agreed to get married, Nabiki invites Ukyo and the Kunos to their wedding for the sake of money, as she does in canon. However, their invitations give the time of the ceremony as long after it actually takes place, with the implication being that Nabiki deliberately arranged this to prevent Ukyo and the Kunos from crashing the actual ceremony.
- Lullabies: Has a moment for Pitch. While he only gave the Guardians parenting advice because his daughter asked him to, he really didn't have any personal gain in saving Jamie and Jack from drowning.
- Cinderella And Prince Charming: Cinder changes instantly once she confirms that Jaune is her soulmate, since their bond has quite literally been the only bright spot in her entire life.
- While she does try to continue her plan, she hesitates before executing Pyrrha (knowing she's Jaune's friend), resulting in her survival.
- When she finds herself injured in a room with Qrow, who she previously fled from even though she outnumbered him, she immediately pulls Jaune behind her for his protection.
- When she hears that Ruby is the one who injured her, she briefly considers going after her... then discards the thought because she's Jaune's friend.
- She instantly capitulates to Atlas' demands when they threaten Jaune.
- She goes back to save Jaune when Atlas threatens him, and then goes back to save Jaune's friends when they're in danger too.
- A Rabbit Among Wolves: Adam's ghost, of all people, gets one when he commends Jaune for shedding his naivete and assuring him he wasn't a bad person, just ignorant of the suffering of faunus.
- Service with a Smile: Roman Torchwick steps in and prevents Mercury from pickpocketing Jaune due to Jaune making "the best coffee in Vale". Roman notes Mercury is lucky Neo wasn't there to see it as she's even fonder of Jaune than he is. After the meeting, Cinder takes a liking to the cafe as well and orders Mercury and Emerald not to cause any trouble for it.
- After some thugs rob Jaune, trash his cafe, and beat him unconscious, his various criminal customers take actin. Cinder unlocks his aura so he'll heal in a few days rather than more than a year. Roman puts out word that he's looking for Jaune's stolen weapon. Junior's men completely remake the place. And every last one of them wants payback for what was done to their favorite barista.
- As the Vytal Festival approaches, Cinder suggests multiple times that Jaune hire a temp so he can take the time off and go visit his family, in an attempt to protect him from the coming slaughter.
- White Sheep (RWBY):
- Cinder constantly insists that Jaune is nothing but a powerful idiot who she has wrapped around her finger, with the added caveat that his mother will torture Cinder to death if Jaune is hurt. However, she refers to him as her little brother even privately, constantly worries that his suitors aren't good enough for him, and at one point literally forgets about her all-consuming ambitions when it becomes clear he is in actual danger.
- In the chapter where Jaune meets Adam, Adam's narration notes that Cinder's body language makes it obvious that she trusts Jaune subconsciously and implicitly, being completely unconcerned with turning her back to a monster that could tear her to shreds.
- During the tournament, Cinder gets pissed and throws Jaune into the ocean arena to get him out of the way. When she remembers he can't swim, she immediately leaps into the water, drags him out, and saves his life with CPR.
- When Jaune launches a coup against the Atlas council and it is broadcast on international television, the scene cuts to Cinder jumping up and down and laughing like a kid.Cinder: That's my little brother! I taught him that!
- Safe and Sound, a Star Trek (2009) fic, has Khan adopting Lucille Harewood after she loses her mother. While he considered her as a replacement for the child he lost, it's still rather sweet considering who this guy is.
- Imperium of Vader: When Tarkin brings Moffs Balfour, Shild, and Mors before Vader to presumably make examples of for their past failures, Vader is surprisingly lenient — the incompetent Balfour is allowed to resign with dignity, Shild's lax attitude towards the Hutts is blamed on Palpatine's own policy, and Vader actually compliments Mors for delegating her duties rather than just shirking them and then taking charge when the time called for it. After the meeting, Tarkin is impressed by the lack of a body count.
- Luminosity: Santiago works for the Volturi, who are...not nice people. And yet, she appears to genuinely care about everyone she works with, to the point of giving children dance lessons and needing Chelsea to cut a bond to a human so she doesn't mourn too much.
- In the Doctor Who fanfic Gemini, Ax-Crazy Villain Protagonist Captain June Harper becomes genuinely worried when her friend Nathan gets shot and starts passing out, she apologizes for making innocent bystander Kyra witness a violent murder, and she comforts her newly-recruited ally Skeerse after her prodding about his military experience makes him relive the horrors of the Dalek Civil War.
- From the Stars: The Tyranids are the ultimate Horde of Alien Locusts, consuming planets as casually as humans would eat breakfast, but when they fall under Taylor's control, they have no hostility toward her, acting rather like friendly dogs, even as she's having an emotional breakdown about what she's just learned from them.The Tyranids, the great devouring swarm of aliens that had scoured entire galaxies, were comforting me. The modified Mawloc was gently nudging my hand with its massive head, asking for pets, an image so silly I couldn't help but let out a little laugh, my throat hurting from the tiny exertion.
Unsorted/Dormant/Dead
- In and there, persephone falls, Stannis bluntly announces to a mourning Joanna that she has to remarry very soon, but grants the wildlings passage across the Wall and Jo the right to choose her husband with a trial by fight. He also decides to acknowledge the late Yves as her lawful husband, meaning her unborn child will be the heir of Winterfell, no matter what children may come later.
- Christine Hargensen might have been a mean Alpha Bitch who enjoys tormenting her classmates, but in the Carrie fanfic BFFs?, she appears to be a caring friend - even going so far as to cuddle one of her clique when she has a nightmare.
- In A Black Heart before he heads to Soul Society Ichigo, who's an unrepentant mass-murderer, calls up his accountant and tells them that unless he gives them explicit instructions otherwise within the next two weeks, to transfer everything he owns to his adoptive sister Tatsuki.
- In ACT II of Fate Ground Zero Archer does this to Kariya when he had made a deal with the latter to save Sakura if Kariya had Berserker kill Kotomine Kirei. When Kirei escapes Kariya is kicking himself over it because he believes now Sakura's chance of escape is gone, Archer appears holding Sakura and simply states that Kariya 'is presuming too much about his character'. Archer then proceeds to expel the Crest Worms from both of their bodies as he informs Kariya that no one else in the Matou Household will be waking up. When Kariya thanks him Archer informs him that he will leave his reasons for aiding them 'up to his imagination' and that act like that were ones he couldn't possibly ignore hinting at his own traumatic past. He also gives Kariya defense orientated Materia to protect himself and Sakura with. he also gives Kariya a firaga one later and checks up on the two of them during the course of the Grail War.
- In The Havoc Side of the Force, while Harry does come across as a Jerkass at points (partially due to being a Fish out of Temporal Water), his first actions after completing a successful job with Anakin is to take a job to Tatooine so Anakin can buy his mother's freedom with his cut of the profits.
- An In-Universe example in the Star Trek: The Original Series fanfic Heroes: observing Kirk's gentleness with Spock makes Surak hopeful that he's "a warrior by profession, not at heart."
- In The Illusive Emperor, Britannia is a remarkably popular Pilgrimage destination for Quarians due to being one of the few places in the galaxy that treats them well. Naturally, Ambassador Euphemia li Britannia petitions for them to be allowed a new homeworld every time Britannia discovers a new dextro-based planet.
- Jimmy Two-Shoes the Movie: Misery Loves Company
- Despite his status as Lucius' sniveling toady, Samy has been deliberately disobeying Lucius' demands to destroy the birthday presents that Beezy's Missing Mom has been sending to her son for the past 119 years and instead giving the presents directly to Beezy himself.
- In the final act, Lucius uses his supernatural powers to revive his missing son Belphy despite barely even knowing him and having to sacrifice several centuries of his own lifespan to do so.
- King of Thrones:
- Tywin has a soft spot for Queen Betha Blackwood, seeing her as a second mother. Her death at Summerhall was one of the few times in his adult life that he cried.
- In The Malfoy Series, while the Malfoys are a cruel and prejudiced family against others, they are very loving to each other.
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton:
- Every once in a while, Tucker will more or less find a decent date with a girl.
- Despite still being sore over the events with Katie Kaboom, upon hearing from her father that Katie is remorseful and is even getting anger management, Danny recommends her to go to the Xavier Institute of Gifted Youngsters, in hopes of helping her control her powers.
- In The Masks We Wear, Azula informs the imprisoned Mechanist of all the benefits of formally becoming a Fire Nation colony - autonomy, good relations with the Fire Nation homeland, complete support in case of dire need, the Mechanist's son getting pardoned for when he gets caught being with the Avatar, etc. - as well as the consequences of opposing the Fire Nation when Sozin's Comet finally arrives. The man quickly submits to the Princess and is implied to have accepted her offer for his people to become Fire Nation colonists.
- In Mega Man Recut, Wily considers killing Proto Man to stop him from becoming The Starscream, but decides against it and admits to himself that he likes Proto Man as a friend.
- Ordinary Girl:
- Emily will routinely provide Jesse small acts of kindness — like giving her a box full of VHS tapes for recreational purposes — in her brief time as her supervisor. While Jesse is naturally suspicious of these bouts of altruism, she is grateful regardless, having been treated either as a test-subject or a criminal for most of her life.
- It's implied that the iPod Jesse found in the lost-and-found bin was deliberately left there by Ahti as a gift for her.
- Peace of Mind, Piece of Heart: One of Catra's first actions on the train. Though she's at first indifferent to Butter Brickle, who was showing her the way to leave the car, she become sympathetic to him when he reveals that he's an outcast with no friends. Catra encourages him to stand up for himself, even agreeing to be his friend regardless of whether they actually see each other again. Her number comes down for that act of kindness.
- Naruto and Xanna in the Reaching for a Dream series tend to be Trolls or Jerkasses to most people they meet. But in Sekirei? Is that some new species of little sister?, both treat Akitsu very well and make sure to assure her that they never intend to replace her. Several characters note that regardless of what she's doing, Akitsu always looks happier when she's near one or both of them.
- In the sequel, Xanna promises to Akitsu (at her request) to kill the Sekirei in her sleep if they ever tire of her. Since Akitsu views abandonment as a Fate Worse than Death, this basically guarantees she'll be happy for the rest of her life.
- In the sequel
- Roar of the LION: After meeting Leon's Inspirationally Disadvantaged sister Terra, Mercury, knowing what it's like to not have working legs, makes her special powered leg braces that allow her to walk again and feed her painkillers to soothe her injuries.
- The A Song of Ice and Fire fanfic Times Like These gives a surprising one to Aerys of all people. Apparently, Aerys had a portrait of Steffon Baratheon, Robert's father, as a babe placed in the Throne Room, because Steffon was loyal and, considering Aerys' state of mind, states that he misses him! Stannis was surprised to see the portrait in such a public place to say the least when shown.
- Gerald Langer from the Mass Effect series Uplifted is a Nazi, literally. An anti-Semitic, homophobic Waffen SS officer who took in a young Joachim Hoch and raised him as his own son, and probably the only reason Joachim didn't end a complete sociopath. He is one of the most genuinely caring characters in the series.
- A series of Casper fics, the Whipstaff Tales, are basically one big series of pet the dog moments for The Ghostly Trio. Stretch in particular, who ends up in a rather sweet uncle/niece relationship with Kat's daughter, Amy.
