History Main / ThePowerOfFriendship

-->''"Two are better than one: they get a good wage for their labor. If the one falls, the other will lift up his companion. Woe to the solitary man! For if he should fall, he has no one to lift him up. So also, if two sleep together, they keep each other warm. How can one alone keep warm? Where a lone man may be overcome, two together can resist. A three-ply cord is not easily broken."''

->''[[BigBad You]] treat people's hearts like [[SoulJar bottles on a shelf]], but they're not! Hearts are made of the people we meet, and how we feel about them - they're what ties us together even when we're apart! They're what... make me strong. [...] [[ArcWords My friends!]] [[BadassBoast They are my power!]]''
-->'''Sora''', ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance''

* ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'': The power of friendship apparently [[ cures light wounds.]]

The series emphasizes this trope, particularly with the friendship between Sam and Frodo. Frodo would not have been able to make it through Mordor without Sam's help.

* In the HungerGames fanfiction ''Fanfic/SomeSemblanceOfMeaning'', this is how [[TheProtagonist Vale]] [[NiceGirl Whitaker]] makes it so far in her Games. She isn't a strong fighter by any means, nor is she at all ruthless, and she survives mainly by making friends instead of war. She has a lengthy list of allies--Kit, [[spoiler: [[BrotherSisterTeam Fen and Lark]], Phlox (though she quickly makes a FaceHeelTurn), and eventually [[PrivilegedRival Obsi]][[StarCrossedLovers dian]] ]]--and when she [[TheHeroDies does die in the final confrontation]], it is because she is [[spoiler: defying the Capitol]], not due to any betrayal. Both she and [[spoiler: Obsidian]] comment over the course of the story about how it's more important to stand for something and to forge bonds than it is to win by plowing through everyone in your way.

* In the HungerGames fanfiction ''Fanfic/SomeSemblanceOfMeaning'', this is how [[TheProtagonist Vale]] [[NiceGirl Whitaker]] makes it so far in her Games. She isn't a strong fighter by any means, nor is she at all ruthless, and she survives mainly by making friends instead of war. She has a lengthy list of allies--Kit, [[spoiler: [[BrotherSisterTeam Fen and Lark]], Phlox (though she quickly makes a FaceHeelTurn), and eventually [[PrivilegedRival Obsi]][[StarCrossedLovers dian]] ]]--and when she [[spoiler: [[TheHeroDies does die in the final confrontation]], it is because she is [[spoiler: defying the Capitol]], not due to any betrayal. Both she and [[spoiler: Obsidian]] comment over the course of the story about how it's more important to stand for something and to forge bonds than it is to win by plowing through everyone in your way.

* Cruelly subverted in ''WorldWarHulk'', where several of Banner/Hulk's friends try to appeal to their history, their friendship, or his better nature. [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption It never works]]. Oh, and Hulk's own TrueCompanions contain the traitor who caused the problem for which he blames the Earth heroes.

* Completely /destroyed/ in the Lighthouse Scene in "Manga/BattleRoyale".

->''You treat people's hearts like bottles on a shelf, but they're not! Hearts are made of the people we meet, and how we feel about them - they're what ties us together even when we're apart! They're what... make me strong. [...] [[ArcWords My friends!]] [[BadassBoast They are my power!]]''
-->'''Sora''', ''KingdomHearts [[KingdomHeartsDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]]''

* Parodied in the comedy show ''Series/{{Stella}}'', in which the three main characters use the power of friendship to create an invisible forcefield to trap a rival group of evil paperboys that have been bullying them throughout the episode. They then threaten to use the power of friendship to crush the bullies to death if they don't cut it out.
** Stella's Aesop is ALWAYS the power of friendship. ALWAYS.

* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'':
The show is perhaps more focused on this trope than any of the other KamenRider shows put together, as it stars a hero who wishes to make friends with nearly everyone, and lives up to the promise by creating the Kamen Rider Club, with contains him and six other TrueCompanions.
** All of Gentaro's States' form are only fully achieved when he reaffirmed / gain friendship[[note]]Elec for JK, Fire with Tomoko, Magnet with Kengo, Cosmic with the entire Rider club, Rocket from Nadeshiko[[/note]].
** The bond between them also powers his SuperMode.
** The SuperMode is so depended on it that [[spoiler: the lost of JK's friendship made Gentaro lose the ability to turn into Cosmic States mode]].

->''"Two are better than one: they get a good wage for their labor. If the one falls, the other will lift up his companion. Woe to the solitary man! For if he should fall, he has no one to lift him up."''
-->-- '''[[Literature/TheBible Ecclesiastes 4:9-10]]'''

** Black Star was for a time a Ineffectual Loner example. While he could beat teams in his class without Tsubaki, that tactic was getting him nowhere when it came to achieving what he actually wanted - to use the Nakatsukasa Purpose/fey blade mode. Typically for him, it took Kid beating him into the ground for the 'assassin' to see sense. In an uncharacteristic moment of reflection, Black Star actually acknowledges this when Spartoi set out to rescue the shinigami. Followed up on when he actually rescues Kid - the importance of the meister/Weapon relationship emphasized by the one who, [[CharacterDevelopment originally]], was least able to recognise it. Unfortunately, the relevance to Kid falls flat given that the majority of the arc has him separated from Liz and Patti, and that the 'climax' of the storyline involves not the trio but Kid and Black Star.

* Subverted in ''Manga/BusoRenkin''. Kazuki, while defending his school from a homunculus army released by Doctor Butterfly, says that he's regaining strength by drawing on the spirits of his friends and classmates. [[spoiler: What he (and the audience at this point) don't know at the time is exactly how ''literal'' that statement is - he's begun to draw on the life force of the people in the school, signaling that the Black Kakugane in him is beginning to awaken.]]

* Depending on how you play the Warden, ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' has some very powerful examples of this. A female Warden who befriends Morrigan can induce her to admit that she has never had or even wanted a friend before, but has come to view the Warden almost as a sister. A number of the other companions have similar trust issues, but with thoughtful gifts and compassionate dialogue choices, you can get them to make similar confessions regardless of the Warden's gender. This translates in gameplay as stat boosts.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAge2'', the mechanic returns, allowing you to build up Friendship by making choices your [[ArbitraryHeadcountLimit current two companions]] agree with... As well as building up [[InvertedTrope Rivalry, which makes them fight just as hard to either sway you to their reasoning, prove you wrong, or just out of spite]].

** The Power of Friendship, backed by the [[Amplifier Artifact Elements of Harmony]], can fire a rainbow-colored WaveMotionGun. Even without said amplifier, it's capable of incinerating and incarcerating {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that thrive on hatred and disharmony, and those that corrupt forces of good (namely [[FallenHero Luna becoming]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Moon]]). Then again, what else could you possibly expect from something with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a title like that]]?

** The Power of Friendship, backed by an AmplifierArtifact, can fire a rainbow-colored WaveMotionGun. Even without said amplifier, it's capable of incinerating {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. Then again, what else could you possibly expect from something with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a title like that]]?
** On the other [[HoldYourHippogriffs hoof]], every major threat to Equestria so far has been either a being that feeds off hatred and disharmony or the result of those things corrupting a force of good (namely [[FallenHero Luna becoming]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Moon]]).
** The Season 2 finale adds creatures that [[EmotionEater feed on love]], the changelings, who ''weren't'' defeated using the Power of Friendship. Instead, they suffered [[ThePowerOfLove a nasty backstab from their evening meal (and friendship's close cousin)]]. Though the matter of whether the Elements would have worked against them - as [[BigGood Celestia]] seemed to think - is debatable, the available evidence implies that the Elements of Harmony (and the Power of Friendship, by extension) are only useful against disharmony or pure chaos.

* ''Literaure/SailorNothing'':

* ''WebVideo/RedVsBlue'':