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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** Duke Devlin is possibly the most blatant example, but the reasons are far more clear in the manga version of the story, where the true villain is his insane father.
** Seto Kaiba repeatedly tried to kill the protagonists in the early manga, including Tristan's year old nephew who just happened to be with them at the time. One of the ways was locking them in a house with a child mass murderer. They do hold a bit of a grudge for a while, but still forgive him far too quickly.
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▲**** Because it happened before the second anime begins, it seems nobody even remembers Mokuba is an attempted murderer and serial cheater (which, in the Yu-Gi-Oh world, is practically worse.) He's just Seto's [[Morality Pet]].
*** Kaiba does get a bit of a pass on the strength of the fact that during their second fight Yugi ''destroyed his heart'' (as in "Mind crush!") and left him to rebuild it properly without all the deformity that resulted from years of abuse, so in theory he's morally a different person whose previous misdeeds are irrelevant. Since he's still a [[Jerkass]] who's completely willing to kill people if they're party to an attempt to kill him first, this policy may need reexamining, but it's based on sound magical theory.
*** Both Kaiba brother's Easy Forgiveness rests on a ''foundation'' of Mokuba's Easily Forgiving Seto for emotionally mistreating him and, shortly before Mind Crush II, ''torturing'' him with the Mind Crush I simulator he'd built to use on Yugi after beating him. Yugi&Yugi take pity on them both for their evil adoptive father and screwed-up relationship that ''used'' to be all [[Big Brother Instinct]], and fix Seto. Violently. From then on, Yugi is focused on continuing to fix Seto during most of their interactions.
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*** Marik at least had the excuse that he believed the Pharaoh was responsible for [[You Killed My Father|killing his father]] and enslaving his family, and once he realises his error (and sees his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]) he helps Yugi win his duel against said Evil Side and resolves to atone for his actions.
*** Dartz a [[Filler Villain]], {{spoiler|a 10,000 year old king of Atlantis}}, a businessman corrupt corporate and leader of his [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|destroy-the-world-because-humanity-ruined-it]] cult. His goal involves taking the souls of millions of souls of both humans and Duel Monster, literally killing off two worlds, he treats his henchmen poorly and will throw them away if they're useless, when he's not taking advantage of their [[Dark and Troubled Past]]. But it gets worse {{spoiler|he later reveals he's behind the events to why his henchmen are so screwed up, all so they would join him.}} He's more a [[Complete Monster]] than the rest of the antagonists,, yet he is just let off the hook and ascend to heaven.
** In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]'', Yuya's willingness to forgive Sora is a ''little'' understandable, as he knew the guy for a long time, and nothing Sora did was directed to Yuya personally. Dennis, however, was far more sinister and deceptive, not to mention sadistic, but the Lancers still offered him clemency - which he rejected.
** Grace and Glory were downright sadistic bullies before falling out of favor of Duel Academy, were supposedly willing accomplices to the genocidal purge of the Xyz Dimension, and never truly showed any signs of wanting to reform, but were still welcome among the Lancers later.
* Shizuru in ''[[My-HiME]]'' is Easily Forgiven by by Natsuki ([[Draco in Leather Pants|a good number of the series' fans too]]) for the things she did as a [[Psycho Lesbian]]. Haruka and Yukino weren't quite as easily convinced, though.
** Same thing with Mikoto, who was directly responsible for killing two of Mai's Most Important People. Mai, however, realizes she was [[Brainwashed]] the whole time ({{spoiler|and it was actually Shiho who was responsible for Takumi's death}}), and decides not to hold it against Mikoto{{spoiler|, even telling her up front that she loves her (though [[Hide Your Lesbians|probably not]] in ''that'' way)}}.
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