Easily Forgiven: Difference between revisions

* Subverted in ''[[Angel]]''. {{spoiler|Wesley is tricked into thinking that Angel will kill his new born son, Connor, so Wesley kidnaps him to prevent this from happening. For his efforts, he gets his throat slit and the baby is taken by one of Angel's enemies who escapes into a demon dimension. At the hospital, Angel calmly tells Wesley that he understands why he did what he did, but that he needs to understand that it's Angel talking to him now, not Angelus. Angel then grabs Wesley's pillow and attempts to smother him with it, yelling that he'll never forgive him. As he's dragged off by the other members of their team, Angel swears to kill Wesley the next time he sees him. This is also partially inverted, as Wesley holds a grudge against his friends for abandoning him. The team does eventually make up, but it takes a rather long time.}}

** Also subverted when Wesley himself later stabs Gunn non-fatally in revenge for not telling anyone that he passed Illyria's sarcophagus through customs, a bonehead move on Gunn's part which {{spoiler|led to the death of Fred}}.

** Played straight there after however when Wesley kills {{spoiler|Knox}}, restores his and Connors {{spoiler|memories of the past two seasons}} and lies to Angel about his willingness to kill {{spoiler|Illyria}} and Angel lets it all slide. Not that he could really afford firing him at that point.

* Willow in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.

** Being the leading cause of a student being shot and paralyzed from the waist down.

* Happens a lot on ''[[Rome]]''. Eirene goes from hating Pullo for having {{spoiler|killed her fiancé in cold blood}} to agreeing to marry him within the course of an episode. Caesar forgives Brutus for siding with Pompey in the civil war. Vorenus forgives Pullo not once but twice, the first time {{spoiler|when he watches Pullo fighting for his life in the gladiator arena}} and the second {{spoiler|when Pullo has found out that Vorenus' daughters are not dead but have been sold to slavery.}} Antonius and Octavius quickly set aside their previous battle-to-the-death differences and join forces to fight against Brutus and Cassius. The list goes on... It could probably be best described in the words of Antonius:

'''Antonius''': So do I. But that's no bar to friendship. }}

** Justified in that many of these scenarios involving historical figures actually played out that way in real life.

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* Parodied in one strip from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' when Susie decides to forgive Calvin for some nasty things he said that made her cry. He's so overjoyed that she immediately rethinks this decision:

** In another strip, Calvin causes the family car to roll out the driveway and fall down a ditch across the street. He and Hobbes hide in a tree, but is confused to find his parents are more concerned about whether he was safe than about the car (which, incidentally, wasn't damaged.)

* 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.

* Particularly in the early strips, the cast of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' was surprisingly tolerant of Aylee's human eating tendencies and Bun-Bun's general sociopathic tendencies. They do eventually put their foot down on Aylee eating people and convince her to quit, but Bun-Bun still gets a mostly free pass for all the violent and manipulative things he's done, does, and will do. Of course, that might just be because he'd kill them all if they tried to get tough with him. [[Token Evil Teammate|Better to keep the switchblade-wielding bully on their side]].

** There is a brief part in the Cannibals Anonymous Storyline in which, after Aylee upset Zoe by serving a human for Thanksgiving, Torg fired her, but later accepted her back after she worked on improving herself, in which the seriousness of her activities is mentioned to a degree.

''A moment of silence follows as Aylee reflects on this.'' }}

* Played with in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'': http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0724.html

* Buck Strickland from ''[[King of the Hill]]'' has done some pretty nasty things to Hank and he always sticks by his side, his worst act was framing Hank for the murder of his mistress Debbie. He plants a lot of evidence that made it seem like he was guilty of the crime, and yet Hank almost immediately forgives him after the murder is solved.

* ''[[Regular Show]]'' has Skips being forgiven for {{spoiler|killing Rigby over a game of arm wrestling. Rigby was really cool about the whole thing.}}

{{spoiler|'''Rigby'''}}''':''' Huh? ....You know what? Water under the bridge. }}

* ''[[Huntik Secrets and Seekers]]'' has Zhalia easily forgiven {{spoiler|after Lok, Dante, and Sophie discover she's [[The Mole]] for the [[Big Bad]]}}. See the quote.