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** Eh, your mileage may vary there. Android 18 (the version the Z Fighters meet, not Trunk's alternate universe version) does nothing bad but steal a car and beat the Z Fighters up in self-defence. Piccolo, the one who's not forgiven, actually has an excuse for the evil due to the fact he is an entierly different person - other than physical apperance - to King Piccolo, and the worst thing he personally did was try to kill Goku in a fight, something Goku doesn't see as any different than a handshake. Buu has no excuse though, so played strait there.
*** Buu does have an excuse in that he was basically a child who was specifically designed to kill more things than possible. When given the proper moral guiding, Buu just accepts that killing is wrong and promises not to do it anymore.
* Subverted in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. Winry didn't forgive {{spoiler|Scar}} for killing her parents. {{spoiler|Although it didn't stop her for treating his wounds, on the principle that her parents would have done the same.}} One strong theme in this manga is how to deal with sins, forgiveness, and cycle of hatred.
** Also subverted with the Ishbalan people after nearly getting wiped out in a genocide. Scar's master says that they should not forgive the Amestrians, because good people ''should'' be outraged at injustice, but they do need to ''endure'' it and not continue the cycle of hatred. The result is a rare middle ground between forgiveness and vengeance.
** Subverted ''again'' when Izumi forgives Edward and Alphonse for disobeying her repeated warnings to not attempt human transmutation ... but still expels them as her students. They now consider each other peers rather than master and student, though.
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* In the [[Professor Layton]] fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5769377/1/bbleeding_b_at_the_bsped_b_of_bSound_b bleeding at the sped of sound], the main character, a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|cyborg vampire]], wants to eat Layton and plans on killing Luke first. After luring him away and announcing her intention to kill him, Layton catches her, but she cries, causing him to forgive her and declare his love for her.
* In ''[[Light and Dark - The Adventures of Dark Yagami|Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami]]''- Dark's punishment for trying to ''destroy the world?'' [[You Are Grounded|He gets grounded.]]
* ''[[Ace Combat: The Equestrian War
* ''[[Princess Celestia Hates Tea]]'': Despite [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Twilight']]s wild accusations of being a changeling queen that got Celestia attacked by her own staff, getting blasted by the Elements of Harmony, getting her room exploded, and nearly getting her banished to the moon for a thousand years, the old goddess is surprisingly cordial with Twilight in the upcoming mess she caused. {{spoiler|And then Twilight [[Mind Rape]]s her in an [[It Makes Sense in Context|attempt to make her]] [[Serious Business|like Tea.]]}}
* One of the [[Fanon]] interpretations of Albus Dumbledore among ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fan writers turns him into a hypocrite willing to give Death Eaters and others of their ilk unlimited chances to "come back to the Light" (while standing ready to accuse anyone on his side who doesn't follow his every command of "going Dark").
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** And Tara, with the blindness thing. And Xander with the musical demon. And Buffy, with the psychological institution one. And Angel, with {{spoiler|the whole second half of Season 2}}. It's safe to say that just about everybody got one of these, at least.
** The Scoobies generally forgave those who were close to them more easily than those outside their inner circle. Faith had to work harder for forgiveness. Amy was particularly pissed that the gang took ''3 years'' to transform her from a rat back to human, and then very quickly cast her out. They never forgave her, but easily forgave Willow who {{spoiler|tried to kill all of them, and then tried to end the world}}.
* Amusingly subverted in an episode of ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'', where Simon figures out that Jayne had sold out both River and himself in a previous episode. Simon doesn't forgive Jayne, but he does point out they have way too many mutual enemies as it stands, and that constantly being at each others' throats over this would be pointless and stupid. Then, as he leaves, River sticks her head in, looks directly at Jayne, and warns him that "I can kill you with my brain."
* In ''[[Torchwood]]'', Captain Jack is shot dead by Owen. Despite the fact Owen was unaware that Jack would resurrect, Jack easily forgives him.
** In that same episode, the team mutinies against Jack and unintentionally releases a giant monster that steals the life force of anyone its giant shadow falls upon. Jack manages to destroy it by letting it feed of him. However, the effort leaves him dead for three days, which is the longest to date that he's ever stayed dead. He still forgives the team, minutes after reviving. It might be subverted, given that he ran off to find the Doctor a few scenes later.
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"A Quick One While He's Away" by [[The Who]]; the girl who is the subject of the song is forgiven by her long-absent boyfriend immediately after admitting her infidelity with Ivor the engine driver. A rare justified example — said boyfriend mentions he wasn't entirely faithful himself.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''
** Parodied in one strip
{{quote|"On second thought, let's [[The Grovel|see you grovel]] a little!"}}
* Subverted and played straight in ''[[FoxTrot]]'' when Quincy eats Paige's signed boyband picture. Andy bends over backwards to appease Paige, and when Paige calls herself on this, Andy forgives her without a second thought.
* Bill the Cat in ''[[Bloom County]]''. Among the horrible things he's done include, in separate arcs: Espionage against the United States by seducing Jean Kirkpatrick stealing data from her and selling it to the Soviet Union, causing the Chernobyl disaster after being traded to them in a prisoner exchange, shooting up the neighborhood with a machine gun while running for President, selling out the other members of his rock band and ruining their reputation, becoming a televangelist and accusing Opus of "Penguin Lust" on the air (never explaining what that is) and then being caught in a pedophile human trafficking ring. Despite all this, the other characters have a loyalty and admiration towards Bill that keeps him from ever truly being punished; Opus has named him sole beneficiary of his will and he has earned the Bloom Party nomination for President three times. Only Portnoy seems willing to express a dislike for him, trying to do so during two mock retrospectives of the character.
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