Defeat Means Friendship: Difference between revisions

* Hayato from ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'' makes friends with Kaga, Osamu, Shinjyo, Johji and others after a few or more races with them, although he made friends with Kaga and Johji ''before'' the race started.

* Played straight with some villains-of-the-week (such as Bucci) in ''[[Gun X Sword]]''. Subverted in that this is what {{spoiler|The Claw}} wants, or claims to want, with all of his enemies. In the latter case, the desire to make friends with everyone comes across as a sign of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|extremism]] at best, and insanity at worst.

* This is standard operating procedure for ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. Usagi believes that there is always a way to solve things without violence or killing and that somewhere inside of them, everyone has some good to them. While there are some villains she has to outright destroy, she has a pretty good track record of turning enemies into friends.

* One arc of ''[[Sakigake Otokojuku]]'' featured a bunch of transfer students from the closest thing to Otokojuku anywhere else in the world—the prep school for the Annapolis naval academy. Principal Edajima organized a series of "friendly" boxing matches between select new students and old students, ostensibly as a bonding exercise. In reality, the gloves used in the matches were metal and covered in spikes. The American students all lost their matches, but became the best of pals with their adversaries (and the Japanese students in general); when time came for the new arrivals to head home, unofficial class leaders Momotaro Tsurugi and Kieth Jackson both state that they cherished their time together.

* There's an interesting variant in ''[[Claymore]]''. {{spoiler|Miria}} vows not kill any of her former comrades when she leads a revolt against The Organization. She fights and defeats all of them... only to get butchered horribly when they regenerate. {{spoiler|Her resolve not to kill inspired every single enemy Claymore to defect to her side and they faked her death.}}

* In ''[[Holyland]]'', {{spoiler|Iwado, Shougo, Taka and Tsuchiya}} after their defeat by Yuu.

 

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