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Basic Trope: Person A does something bad. People from group B forgive them with no repercussions.

• Straight: Bob is forced by the villains to destroy the important book. Joe is a good samaritan and forgives Bob, not seeing him as a bad person
• Exaggerated:
  • Bob kills ten people out of frustration. Joe buys him ice cream.
  • Up to Eleven: Bob/Beth kills millions of people out of boredom. Joe/Julia begins dating him/her and offers him/her a job on his/her Badass Crew.
• Justified: Bob is forced at gunpoint to destroy the important book. Joe would rather suffer than lose his friend.
• Inverted:
  • See Redemption Equals Death
  • Alternatively: Joe saves Bob midway through.
• Subverted:
  • Bob is forced by the villains to destroy the important book. Joe is disgusted that his friend did not confide in him.
  • Alternatively, Joe tells Bob that in order to be redeemed, he must make it up to the people that he has wronged.
  • Bob is forced by the villains to destroy the important book. Joe did not take action not before he forgives Bob, but it's because he doesn't give a damn about the book in the first place.
• Double Subverted:
  • ...But then Joe realizes that his friend had no other choice.
  • For the thrid entry, Alice cared about the book, but being a good samaritan, she forgave both of them.
• Parodied: Bob, Joe, and Alice get together for lunch. Bob flips over the table (intentionally) and then immediately asks forgiveness, which is given.
• Deconstructed:
  • Through a first person narrative we find that Joe was not forgiven for an offense, thus leading for him to forgive others.
  • Bob notices how easily Joe forgives people, so he comes up with a Freudian Excuse and makes a speech about how tragic his life is. It makes Joe let his guard down, thus allowing Bob to successfully betray him.
• Reconstructed:
  • Joe understands the weirdness of how easily he forgives people, but still will not let up because of his principles.
  • Joe was aware of the betrayal and counters it, pointing out how miserable Bob really is by making another speech with his real Freudian Excuse. Bob is shocked about Joe being the only one who understands him, even to the point of becoming The Atoner.
• Averted: Joe does not easily forgive Bob for destroying the book. Bob has to spend the rest of the episode (or even more than one episode) trying to make amends with Joe.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "Wait, why are you forgiving me so easily? Don't you know how important that book was?"
• Invoked: Bob knows how forgiving Joe is, so he uses this to get away with a number of dirty deeds.
• Defied: Joe makes it clear from the beginning that he isn't a forgiving person.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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