Defeat Means Friendship: Difference between revisions

[[File:fatenanohabattle 1249.jpg|link=Lyrical Nanoha|frame|"Nanoha's Guide To Making Friends: 100% Effective Or Your Money Back!"]]

 

 

In a series based around an endless series of [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours|one-on-one fights]], defeating a [[Worthy Opponent]] or [[The Rival]] will sometimes [[Magnetic Hero|convert them to the hero's side]], if not always to his cause. Furthermore, no matter how many people the [[Worthy Opponent]] has killed, how much grief he has caused, even if he slaughtered helpless children or the hero's own family, as soon as he shows a bit of remorse or goes out of his way to help the hero even once, he will be welcomed into the hero's circle of [[True Companions]] [[Easily Forgiven|with open arms]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'': after Pixy Misa is beaten in the "journey to the mind" episode she befriends and even fights alongside Sammy.

* This trope is how [[Popeye (comic strip)|Popeye]] befriends Toar, the immortal caveman. After Toar admits defeat ("You hit too hard, no fight crazy fool like you!"), Popeye offers him a friendship and Toar accepts.

 

* ''[[Hogyoku Ex Machina]]'' lampshades this when [[Bleach|Ishida]] asks, "Kurosaki, is there anyone you've fought that you haven't become best friends with?"

* Two examples in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', though in both cases the “defeats” were pretty mild:

** As'taris, dying to take the newly revealed Kansael from John, threatens to cut it out of his chest. Ringo [[Mind Over Matter|telekinetically]] shoves him away, takes his sword, and threatens to drop him in the ocean if he tries it again. As'taris is so impressed that Ringo actually fought back that he immediately drops his main objection to the four (that they were noncombatants) and thereafter views them as peers—more or less.

** The four “defeat” {{spoiler|the Hunter (and by proxy Jeft)}} simply by [[True Companions|being themselves]]; their obvious love for one another makes him long for an alternative to his friendless, loveless life of adventure and murder. He becomes the best friend they make in the entire book.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Rings of Dualty]]'' subverts it with the main characters, Link and Samba, because their battle came to a draw. Played pretty straight with {{spoiler|the Leviathans of Material}}.

 

== Film ==