History EasilyForgiven / ComicBooks

* ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'':

* Creator/MarvelComics has had several villains over the years reform or claim to reform [[EasilyForgiven with their crime conveniently forgotten]]. [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] was once a mutant terrorist and the ComicBook/{{Juggernaut|MarvelComics}} had caused massive destruction and threw around buses full of children in his fights. Yet both were accepted on to the ComicBook/XMen when they claimed to reform and did some good. ComicBook/{{Ares|Marvel}}, the God of War has tried to start WWIII, destroy civilization, and murders mortals on a whim. The moment he has a son and wants to raise him on Earth ComicBook/IronMan forgets all of his past crimes and wants to make him an [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avenger]]. Virtually no other character expresses a problem with Iron Man letting on the team a 5,000-year-old warlord who has more blood on his hands than every Avenger villain combined... for laughs.

* A weird example - where an unrepentant villain forgives one of the good guys - was how Franchise/SpiderMan villain Tombstone's feud with ''Daily Bugle'' editor Joe Robinson ended. After a storyline that spanned years, where it had been revealed the two had been VitriolicBestBuds (in the loosest sense of the word) even though Tombstone had bullied Joe as a child, followed by Joe turning him in for murder in the present, followed by many attempts on Joe's life by the villain, Joe finally confronted him at Norman Osborn's chemical plant during one such attempt, shot and wounded the assassin, causing him to fall into a room full of strange, chemical gas, which resulted in Tombstone turning from a BadassNormal to an EmpoweredBadassNormal. The next time they met, Joe expected his old "friend" to kill him; instead, Tombstone told him that he was actually ''glad'' that Joe had shot him, because now he was a new man, and that now, "all debts were paid". (And he clearly meant it, because while Tombstone has appeared several times since, he has not tried to strike at Robinson again.)

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Paula von Gunther murdered many, tortured many and gave allied secrets to the Nazis. While her motivation for doing so, to save her daughter's life, is sympathetic it does not make the lives of those she killed, injured and compromised worth any less. Once she's told her tale ''everyone'' forgives her and she doesn't even need to go back to prison, which she escaped from, to finish out her time for the crimes she'd already been convicted of. This was partially due to the medium, as her HeelFaceTurn needed to be told in a single issue as stories needed to make sense without having to purchase an older issue.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Done ''twice'' by Ellie Jennersen in "Friends and Relations":
** Ellie's quiet life was upended by her nephew Fred, who used the excuse of renovating her robot museum as a cover for [[spoiler:renting out her robots to commit crimes]]. He ended up framing her for robbery, assault, and terrorism, and almost had her sent to prison. But after everything was straightened out, she simply wished him well in his new life and encouraged him to be an upstanding citizen.
** Ellie also forgave her former college roommate, [[spoiler:the villainous Vivi Viktor,]] who {{Mind Rape}}d Ellie, stole her designs, and left her with memory problems for ''decades''. Yet in the end, Ellie forgives [[spoiler:Vivi]] without so much as a sharp word, and is content to let the criminal justice system resolve the matter.