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* In ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', [[TheOjou Sasami]], who sees herself as a fierce rival of Rin's and whom she constantly fights with, occasionally tries to make overtures of friendship. They usually fail, though, because Rin sees her [[UnknownRival neither as a rival]] nor as a potential friend, but rather an annoying girl she has no particular good or ill will towards. They do get a genuine moment in the short Sasami-centered miniroute, though, where Rin finds Sasami's softball glove but gives it back to her when she sees how much it means to her. Sasami is clearly touched.
** And later, in Refrain, [[spoiler:Riki is tasked with single-handedly reforming the Little Busters while Kyousuke is framed as an antagonist at best and a bitter loser going through some serious depression at best.]] One night, Riki goes to his room to see if he's okay, and Kyousuke notices that he's struggling and asks if something's wrong. It isn't much, but it's enough to tell Riki that deep down, Kyousuke does still care about him and want him to be happy.

* Happens fairly frequently in WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender.

* Subverted and played for laughs in ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaTrainingOfTheDead''. A zombiefied Habuko initially seems to remember Tsuyu and doesn't seem like she'll bite her, much to Tsuyu's relief...until Aoyama does instead. Now, the friends are zombies together!

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* In ''ComicStrip/PricklyCity'', Winslow hugs Carmen when she's down (and the panel is grayscale).

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* In ''ComicStrip/PricklyCity'', the first panel of one strip is gray scale. The second has Winslow hugging Carmen in a sunshine-yellow-toned strip. The third is in full color.
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* The interactions between the Franchise/{{Superman}} Family and their friends provide plenty of examples:
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman: Public Enemies'', Superman has become fed up with ComicBook/LexLuthor's evil and is seriously considering to end him for good. Franchise/{{Batman}}, who usually would argue against that kind of solution, calmly tells Superman he won't stop him, and that they can just make it look like an accident or "better yet, as if he'd vanished without a trace." His thoughts indicate, among other things, he is sick of what Luthor does to Clark.

** ''ComicBook/SuperSons'': The ''Super Sons of Tomorrow'' arc provides one for ComicBook/JonathanSamuelKent and [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Damian Wayne]]. Damian comes to Jon's defense when the Future Tim Drake comes to kill him. He does everything he can to protect Jon, even fighting his own team, the Teen Titans, to do so. At the end, Superman is uncertain of letting Jon continue his adventures with Damian, since Damian's future supposedly has bad ramifications for Jon, but both boys vow to stick together and protect each other from whatever comes their way.

* At the beginning of ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour'', ComicBook/PowerGirl and ComicBook/JimmyOlsen remember the just-departed Franchise/{{Superman}} by trading stories about him. And at the end, Power Girl picks Jimmy and takes him for a flight as her cousin used to do in the 1940's.

* In ''Manga/DrStone'', CoolOldGuy blacksmith Kaseki observes the friendship between {{Teen Genius}}es Senku and Chrome, and laments the fact that he didn't have friends growing up because nobody else shared his love of inventing and crafting. Chrome replies that he does have friends -- the two of them. When Kaseki brings up the 50-year age difference between them, Chrome says "Age? What does that have to do with anything?", which moves Kaseki to ManlyTears.

* In ''Anime/PrincessSarah'', this trope, alone, often single-handedly keeps Sarah from sinking deep into despair. For examples, we have: Ermengarde refusing to betray Sarah even under threat of punishment, Peter helping Sarah with her arduous errands, Monsieur Dufarge giving her a book, Lottie standing up for "Mamma Sarah" when Lavinia tries to take her doll away, and just about every scene involving Becky in the middle of the series.

** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'' provides another Supes/Bats moment when Bruce states that, despite his paranoid nature, he'll set aside his doubts regarding that girl who just turned up claiming to be Superman's family... for Clark's sake.

* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' has Gon and Killua, whose moments border on HoYay. Such as Gon readily admitting that Killua is his 'best friend in the world', while Killua privately thinks how glad he is to have met Gon.

** The ''Super Sons of Tomorrow'' arc provides one for ComicBook/JonathanSamuelKent and [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Damian Wayne]]. Damian comes to Jon's defense when the Future Tim Drake comes to kill him. He does everything he can to protect Jon, even fighting his own team, the Teen Titans, to do so. At the end, Superman is uncertain of letting Jon continue his adventures with Damian, since Damian's future supposedly has bad ramifications for Jon, but both boys vow to stick together and protect each other from whatever comes their way.

* There are many in ''Series//{{Supernatural}}'' but some standouts:
** In Season 3's "Jus In Belo," Dean and Agent Hendrickson share a bonding moment over having unsuccessful personal lives because they are dedicated to the mission of doing good in the world.
** In Season 4's "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester", Dean and Castiel sit at a playground, watching children play. Castiel admits he has questions about Heaven's plans and doesn't envy the burden Dean carries. It's one of the first indications that Castiel cares about Dean personally and isn't as fantastical as his angelic siblings.

** One of the best was [[EmotionlessGirl Effy]] following her [[FoeYay former rival]] Katie outside and offer her a cigarette and some comfort after Katie's life had basically just gone to shit over the course of one day.

* Cruelly (but hilariously) subverted in an episode of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': In a moment of supreme generosity Percy movingly offers his life savings to bail out a bankrupted Blackadder... but discovers that Edmund had long since stolen the money and spent it.

* Tom Paris and Harry Kim in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "The Chute": Harry faces down a mob that wants to beat up Tom. "This man is my friend. ''Nobody'' touches him!"

** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' as a whole is responsible for a massive, massive number of these, and while there are entirely too many to list, one that stands out is the TOS episode "The Empath", in which [=McCoy=] knocks out both Kirk and Spock in order to sacrifice himself to the Enemy of the Week.
** Data and Deanna have a more subtle [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4WfV0K00JM moment]] at the end of the TNG episode "Tin Man". Deanna's is an empath who relies on emotions to do her job while Data can't even seem to understand them. So to see this moment, and the quiet wonder of Deanna's face as she realises "My god, he ''gets'' it." seriously tugged the heartstrings.

** At the end of "Body Parts", Quark sits in the empty space that used to be his bar, all his possessions and business assets having been confiscated. Rom comes in to console him, and after a little bit... cue practically every non-Ferengi on the station coming up with contrived, mock-cynical, Quark-esque excuses to set up the bar exactly as it was. For a Ferengi who lives by his culture's avaricious ideals, this moment left him genuinely speechless.

** Buffy and Willow have their greatest alienation at the end of Season 6, with Willow attacking, calling Buffy 'superbitch', etc. When Willow returns at the start of Season 7 and is injured. Buffy joins hands with her, so Willow can take some of Buffy's energy to heal faster.

* In ''Franchise/IronMan'':

* Many many instances in ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'', with Tsuna gaining a backbone to stand up and fight for his "family". Most definitely happening more and more as the series goes on and Tsuna matures.

* [[VitriolicBestBuds Asuna and Ayaka]] of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' get one of these first when Ayaka agrees to drop the trip to Wales argument, then later when she sees the Ala Alba off. Ayaka's last words to Asuna were to keep Negi safe, then when Asuna says she will no matter how much injury she takes, Ayaka yells at her to stay safe as well.

* When Sasuke asks ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' why he cares about him so much Naruto's response is to smile and say "Because we're friends".

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': There are ''several'' between Germany and Italy and Japan and Italy. However, Germany and Japan both [[PromotedToLoveInterest wanted more]].

* There are a few in part 1 of ''FanFic/TheVinylScratchTapes'', such as Vinyl going berserk when Octavia's concert is shut down.

-->'''Touka''': I'm not going to report you to anyone. We're best friends, Yoriko. And if you want to see my proof, then just ask.
* Quite a few happen in ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm,'' such as when, after undergoing a TraumaCongaLine towards the end of the first book, [[VitriolicBestBuds Carol]] stares down ''[[WarGod Sif]]'' in order to ensure that Harry won't be alone.

* In ''FanFic/StarWarsLineage'', Obi-Wan shares one with Garen in the fifth book of the second series. Having been [[spoiler: crippled due to Obi-Wan having grabbed the IdiotBall]] in the previous book, they've been on harsh terms since then. But Obi-Wan visits to say farewell, and provokes him into a wrestling match like they used to have all the time in the créche. After working out some tension, their insults lose their sting and they go back to being VitriolicBestBuds once more.

* In ''VisualNovel/GrisaiaNoRakuen'' we learn that Robbie is willing to take such large risks for Yuuji because of the time Yuuji saved him from a larger recruit Robbie had just pissed off. Why Robbie needed such incentive as that to consider Yuuji an irreplaceable friend when Yuuji has fought so hard for him that he puked blood and passed out is unclear.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': after Maximus the horse and the Snuggly Duckling Thugs [[spoiler: break Flynn out of jail]], Flynn has one of these with Maximus before [[SilentSnarker the horse gives him a look]] that says "Save it, pretty-boy, you've got a princess to rescue!" It's also because Flynn is taking the opportunity to deliver an ''extremely'' self-serving speech about the two 'misjudging' each other, when Maximus quite accurately had Flynn pegged as a charming-but-shiftless thief and ne'er-do-well throughout the movie.

** Data and Deanna have a more subtle [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4WfV0K00JM moment]] at the end of the TNG episode ''Tin Man''. Deanna's is an empath who relies on emotions to do her job while Data can't even seem to understand them. So to see this moment, and the quiet wonder of Deanna's face as she realises "My god, he ''gets'' it." seriously tugged the heartstrings.

* Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine:

** The whole gang gets one towards Tara in "[[Recp/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E6Family Family]]": "We are her blood kin, who are you?!" "We're family"

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' and his team, they get ''at least'' one a season. A few that come to mind are: Wes helping them out of tight spots, even though they'd pretty much ditched him (justifiably), Fred telling Spike he's worth saving, and the following quote from "[[Recap/AngelS01E22ToSanshuInLA To Sanshu in L.A.]]", while Cordelia was in the hospital.

** And then there's this from "[[Recap/AngelS01E07Offspring Offspring]]":

** There is another more low-key, Xander moment in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E1TheFreshmen The Freshmen]]". A lonely, depressed and injured Buffy runs into Xander at the Bronze, who crouches down before her, proposal-like, and tells her: "You're my hero. Now let's go put that bitch in the ground!"

** And in season 6 when Xander says he doesn't know what he'd do without Buffy and Willow, to which she replies "Let's never find out".