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** Capitol One: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yosTIwbFjzM Warkittens]
** Mastercard: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcwqkEtn20&NR=1 Badger and the Biker].
== Anime
* Sebastian Michaelis from ''[[Black Butler]]'' is a demon who owns the soul of the main character and ''will'' collect it someday, and has a huge soft spot for cats. Especially black ones.
* Hiruma from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'':
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** Zoro's own moment way back at the beginning is played in a very similar way. Up until then, he was hyped as a heartless monster, but when he eats a poorly-cooked and filthy rice ball a sweet little girl he saved earlier made for him, and asks Luffy to tell her it was good, you know he's a massive softy at heart.
** In chapter 650, {{spoiler|Akainu and Aokiji had a death match to decide who would become the Fleet Admiral. After a massive battle that lasted ten days, Akainu emerges the victor. But he decides to spare Aokiji despite the latter vehemently opposing his ideals and promotion.}}
* Subverted in ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' with the [[Dirty Old Man]] Mr. Kimura. The characters spot him picking up trash and
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'':
** Riza Hawkeye's softer side is best shown whenever she's around her beloved pet dog, Black Hayate. Although her training methods are a bit harsh...
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* Psychopath Desty Nova from ''[[Gunnm|Battle Angel Alita]]'' gets this sort of moment only in unreality, when he's in Alita's mind trying to remake her memories and trap her in virtual reality. Part of the illusion puts him in the role of her father figure. They share a truly empathic moment where Nova no longer seems insane, and he wishes that the moment could last forever... then he tries to defend Alita from the approaching "monster" even though (in the virtual-reality) it seems to be working toward a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
* In [[Ranma ½]], [[Bumbling Dad|Bumbling]] [[Jerkass|jerk]] of a dad Genma is shown tucking in a sleeping Ranma like a small child in one story. It subverted later, however, when Ranma wakes up and notices his food all eaten with a sign left saying "Yum!"
* Doctor Clive in ''[[
* ''[[Hellsing]]'': Alucard gets one when he pats Seras on the head and smiles fondly at her.
** Anderson acts very friendly towards the children back in the orphanage, and hoped he could bring them to the museum where Maxwell and Integra had their talk.
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* In the [[Ace Attorney]] manga, Robin Wolfe's treatment of his [[Hikkimori]] spider fanatic brother Bobby subverts this. Robin built a guest house called the "Den of Spiders", full of Bobby's collection of spiders and spider books, and it is revealed that it took a considerable amount of money to get all this and feed the spiders. However, the Den is also equipped with a chair with restraints, supposedly to protect Bobby from harming himself, but actually to keep him out of sight. Robin apparently sent Bobby on an errand to another city to give him work experience and confidence (which pleased him to be useful to his brother), as no company would hire him, but it was actually a ruse to get him away from home so he could use the Den of Spiders to torment Eddie Johnson, driving him to suicide. Bobby sees through most of Robin's attempts to seem like a loving older brother, and realizes Robin hates him. However, Lira, while saying that she hated her father for killing Eddie, but once loved him as her father, recalls a fond memory of him (badly) drawing her picture.
* In ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', [[Dark Action Girl]] Shaina hugs a cute rabbit in a flashback.
== Comics ==▼
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[The Cartoon History of the Universe]]'' discusses the concept of selective kindness in talking about inter-cultural relationships: tender to their own people, callously brutal to everyone else.
{{quote|'''Barbarian Chief''' (doting over his wife while being surrounded by piles of corpses): Ooh, honey, did you hurt your finger?}}
* Kingdok from ''[[Bone]]'' prepares and brings food to [[Those Two Guys|the two stupid rat creatures]] for inadvertently doing him a favor. Unlike most examples, Kingdok actually retains most of his scariness and menace as he's doing this.
* [[Lobo]] of [[The DCU]] parodies this: he is a relentless killing machine who often kills his bounties instead of capturing them, yet at the same time has a soft spot for "space dolphins". But he ''did'' once spare Aquaman's life because he felt he couldn't hurt somebody who loved dolphins as much as he did.
* Vril Dox has a couple of these in L.E.G.I.O.N. Right before he is raped and killed, he confesses to his unconscious teammates that he really does care about them, but he doesn't really know how to express that. When Lyrissa Mallor dies, he mourns for her, believing that without her, L.E.G.I.O.N. would not have gotten as far as it did. When Vril Dox finally gets to see his son, after Stealth believed that he would become just as controlling as he was of the rest of the group, Vril remembers his father being a controlling jerk, and himself being controlling to the Durlan. So he lets the mother have the child. awww.
* Catwoman obviously can't pet a ''dog'' without ruining the motif, but she's been subjected to a number of Pet The ''Cat'' moments, a prime example being [https://web.archive.org/web/20150224155238/http://www2.warnerbros.com/gothamgirls/play/files/GG_06.swf the ending of this web-toon]. {{spoiler|She's not the least bit disappointed that she wound up saving kitties instead of stealing gemstones.}}
* Edward Blake in ''[[Watchmen]]'' has a couple of moments like this. The first is when he is talking to a teenaged Laurie and tilts her chin up to look at her eyes, which he says are like her mother's. It turns out that {{spoiler|she's his daughter,}} and he looks a little sad when Sally Jupiter drags her daughter away from him. The second instance of this for him is when he {{spoiler|cries after finding out about Adrian Veidt's plan to achieve world peace by killing millions worldwide.}} He even cries when talking about this to an old archenemy, who he says is "the closest thing I have to a friend." Considering that Blake has several instances where he could be said to cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]], these moments are probably sorely needed for his character.
* [[Hellboy]] is a huge demon with enough strength to tear a car in half. He is the [[Badass]] to end all badasses. As such, his action figure comes with the following props: A six-pack of beer, a revolver, and a... kitty?! Yes, the son of Satan is a cat-lover.
** Also in the film [[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy II: The Golden Army]], Prince Nuada had a literal pet the dog moment. [[Justified]] by the fact that his big problem is with humans overrunning the planet and pushing out other species, so it's natural that he's a lot nicer to dogs than humans.
* Artist
* In ''[[Cross Gen|Negation]]'', the [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|Saurian]] party member subverts her pet the [[Call a Smeerp a Rabbit|Kaliman retriever]] moment when she names him "tasty treat" in her people's language.
* In one ''[[The Far Side|Far Side]]'' comic, a band of unruly Vikings, after successfully sacking a castle and stealing its women, are eagerly awaited at their ship by the crew's dog. As Gary Larson says on this in ''The Prehistory of The Far Side'':▼
{{quote|''"...I was trying to suggest that it doesn't really matter what you do for a living or how big a jerk you are, your dog still likes to see you come home."''}}▼
* In ''[[Punisher]] War Journal'', the Rhino has a few. First, he writes an apology letter to the widow of a cop he had accidentally killed and sends her money with each score he pulls off. Second, in the last issue he convinces the Punisher to leave the Stilt-Man gang alone (on Christmas no less) because he could tell they were just stupid, not evil.
* Dr. Octopus from ''[[Spider-Man]]'' has gotten a few pet the dog moments over the decades, including trying to save Aunt May from Hammerhead and trying to develop a cure for AIDS in order to save his ex girl friend.
* In the climax of the Drowning Man arc, ''[[Deadpool]]'' shows us that he's given up on redemption by locking Blind Al in The Box, severely beating Weasel, and... petting Deuce the Devil Dog on the head.
* When Gotham City is destroyed by an earthquake, usual [[Batman]] villain Poison Ivy takes over the city park and makes it a haven for the city's orphaned children, caring for them like her own children. When the police see her as a dangerous terrorist and try to take back control, the herbicidal chemicals they use poisons one of the girls inside, and Poison Ivy chooses to give herself up to save her life.
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* Seen in both ''[[Garfield]]'' and ''[[Get Fuzzy]]'', where the cats in those comics are horrible to their owners and the dogs they live with, but lavish affection on their stuffed bears, Pookie and Smacky, respectively.
** Bucky himself gets the rare one now and then. One that stands out in particular is when Rob and Satchel leave to go donate blood. They return to find that Bucky had baked cookies for them and decorated the living room with balloons and a banner welcoming them home.
* In the beginning of the ''Punisher: Max'' comic ''Kitchen Irish'', Frank is eating lunch in a diner when a bomb goes off in the pub across the street. People all around him get butchered when the diner's large window shatters, and once the debris settle he finds a man whose chest had been shattered, revealing his heart, giving the following Pet The Dog moment from Frank.
{{quote|Injured Man: ''"help me."''
Castle: ''So I do. For no reason I can pin down it becomes very important that this guy makes it. Maybe he has a wife and kids. Maybe he wants to see them again like nothing else on Earth. }}
** Frank works on keeping the man's exposed heart from bleeding out, and when a rookie EMT gets there they spend an hour working together on the man before finally succeeding in stabilizing him.
== Fan Works ==
* ''[[Luminosity]]'': Santiago works for the Volturi, who are...not nice people. And yet, she appears to genuinely care about everyone she works with, to the point of giving children dance lessons {{spoiler|and needing Chelsea to cut a bond to a human so she doesn't mourn too much}}.
* ''[[I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC]]''. Green Goblin seems to actually care for Harley Quinn, and gets angry whenever the Joker hits her.
* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]/[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' [[Crossover]] ''[[Chaotic Harmony]]'': Sonic is a huge [[Jerkass]] thanks to no action over the course of a year. He completely ruined Cream's birthday party, split all ties with his friends, and thought about deserting his friends in Ponyville after they were transported via Chaos Control. But even after all of that, he couldn't resist helping Rarity finding her missing goggles that she needed to finish her design. (That ''Sonic'' helped model, no less.)
== Films -- Animation ==
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* A more heroic example - throughout the beginning of ''[[Tangled]]'', Flynn steals a tiara from the royal family (one which is so highly valued because it belonged to the king and queen's kidnapped daughter, no less), betrays and abandons his partners in crime to keep it for himself, and constantly tries to weasel out of his deal with Rapunzel, which leads to him taking her into a bar full of thugs to try to scare her into going home. When the thugs find out that he's got a bounty on his head and trap the pair in the bar though, Flynn shields Rapunzel from them.
* ''[[The Lorax (film)|The Lorax]]''. During the Once-ler's [[Villain Song]] "How Bad Can I Be", he sings: "Just look at me petting this puppy."
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Ilsa, Indy's [[Bond Girl]] and the perfect embodiment of an Aryan antagonist in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|The Last Crusade]]'', reveals herself to be a villain when she tricks Indy into giving up an important [[Plot Coupon]]. She's a Nazi, but she's also a dedicated scholar and archaeologist who earns our sympathy when she weeps at the sight of her countrymen burning books. Doesn't save her from a [[Karmic Death]], mostly because of her being [[Too Dumb to Live]].
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* In ''The Jackie Robinson Story,'' the title character takes a cat away from some racists who are trying to intimidate him [[Blofeld Ploy|by mistreating the cat]]
* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in ''[[The Cabin in the Woods]]''. {{spoiler|Hadley, one of the engineers behind the massacre at the cabin, remarks that he's actually rooting for Dana to make it out alive ... only to completely ignore her as she's being mauled by a zombie, because he sees some tequila that needs drinking.}}
== Gamebooks ==
* The British ''[[Fighting Fantasy]] Gamebooks'' published in the 1980s and 1990s contain an interesting example in Lord Azzur, the tyrannical ruler of Port Blacksand, the otherwise hopelessly corrupt and vile City of Thieves. While Azzur was a notorious pirate and murderer before he seized control of Blacksand, he indulges some rather odd acts of charity, including providing a luxurious home for a woman abducted by the evil Snake Men of the [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|Desert of Skulls]] and left with the head of a giant snake, and celebrating the New Year by executing several of Port Blacksand's wealthiest citizens and donating their riches to the poor.
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* Skeeter's introduced as a minor villain in the first ''[[Time Scout]]'' book. The second doesn't give you much reason to think otherwise, until you learn about his back story. Just before that happens, he keeps a promise and gives a small fortune to a friend known to be perfectly innocent and good.
* Horribly subverted in one chapter of the fifth ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' book. The viewpoint character is a [[Mook]] whose plan is going [[You Have Failed Me...|dangerously badly]], and who is thinking about how he would much rather be back home instead and how much he misses his [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|beloved sister.]] Then the plan fails completely and he has to kill an accomplice to cover his tracks; and as he's disposing of the body at the end of the chapter he goes back to reminiscing about his sister, and what a pity it was that she discovered what he was and would have exposed him...
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
** In ''[[Harry Potter and
** Cruelly subverted in the case of Mad-Eye Moody. After he seriously upsets Neville on his first day of class, he invites the kid for tea, talks to him about Herbology (the one class Neville is very good at), and loans him a book about magical plants of the Mediterranean. {{spoiler|We later find out that "Moody" was secretly the same person who tortured Neville's parents to insanity and only gave him the book as a way for Harry to figure out how to beat the Second Task, to get him one step closer to the plan to resurrect Voldemort.}}
* In ''Laika,'' Mikhail's mother and father [[Invoked Trope|attempt to make their son a better person by making him care for the titular dog.]] It doesn't work: Mikhail throws Laika in the river because he's tired of his parents forcing him to take care of a pet he doesn't want.
* In ''[[Dead Souls]]'', although Chichikov is a cheapskate running a macabre (if harmless) scam, the author informs us that he'll always give a copper to a beggar.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[ER]]'''s Frank the Receptionist, who was generally a cynical, overweight, often prejudiced jerk but once had a heart attack; at the end of the episode, we discovered that he had a handicapped daughter who loved him very much.
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** There have also been a few scenes which have shown that Casey hasn't repressed ''all'' his compassion, perhaps most notably when he {{spoiler|offered to help Sarah's [[Lovable Rogue]] father get his sentence reduced}}.
* The second season of ''[[The Office]]'' (American version) gave regional manager Michael Scott, initially modeled after his English counterpart as an unsympathetic egomaniac, a few very poignant Pet the Dog moments early in its run, when the character tears up at "Office Olympics" day, and is shown to genuinely care for children in the Halloween episode. Later seasons write Carell's character to be much more likable.
** Dwight Schrute (assistant TO the regional manager) is portrayed as a very unlikable (outside of humor value) character. Pet the Dog is subverted (TWICE) and played straight when he sits with a tearful Pam. He first takes off his jacket, making it seem like he's going to give it to her, but then just says "It's hot in here." He offers her a handkerchief and says he'll stay with her in a genuinely kind moment, putting his arm around her shoulder. Then he says, "You must be PMSing pretty bad." [
*** This may not actually be a complete instance of subversion. Dwight's still being his odd Dwight self, but it's clear from his tone and his body language that he's genuinely upset to see Pam crying and doing his best to make her feel better.
** Another Dwight example is when he rescues his ''worst enemy'' Jim from getting beat up by pepperspraying the attacker. This is after Jim has spent every office day making things as inconvenient for Dwight as possible. Dwight refuses any thank you gift Jim offers, saying that he just did his duty (which drives Jim ''crazy'').
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** Jordan also gets more than one—talking about the abortion she got years ago, saying how much she loves Cox, staring down at Jack with a loving expression... awww...
* ''Everwood'' does it during the first episodes: Dr Abbott begins as an obnoxious almost misanthropic doctor, but then is revealed to be a very devoted father and husband; Bright starts off as a bully, but then he's shown to be a very sensitive person grieving over his friend's accident.
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'': Major Winchester gets one when he tries to give a group of Korean orphans a bunch of candy for Christmas in "Death Takes a Holiday". He deliberately works to ensure no one knows about it.
** Unlike Major Burns, Major Winchester was envisioned as a [[Worthy Opponent]] from the start, so he has lots of Pet The Dog moments.
*** Including talking a concert pianist whose hand was crippled out of depression and defending a stuttering patient {{spoiler|Although the latter was inspired by his sister having the same handicap}}.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Boom Town", Blon Slitheen has a nice chat with a young woman about family instead of eating her. It is subverted however, when the Doctor doesn't fall for it.
{{quote|'''Blon:''' I spared her life.
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* In the 2003 revival of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', the episode ''It's Still a Good Life'' shows us that Anthony has grown up and is still mentally a child, considering people who hide things from him to be "sneaky people", bullying the townsfolk, and wishing away people to the cornfield (this, we find out, includes his own wife). In spite of this, he seems to love his mother and his daughter as much as he is capable of. In fact, his daughter is the only one who does not fear him at all, because he never threatens or harms her.
* One of the stories during the last season of [[Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?]] had the famous outlaw Jesse James and his brother Frank help out an old widow pay off her mortgage using money they stole from previous robberies(and they give her the helpful advice to ask for a receipt when the debt collector shows up the next morning) after she let them into her home and served them dinner during a cold, rainy night.
== New Media ==
* The *chan boards, of all places, has this in the concept of the [[MS Paint]] relationship thread. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20090307175617/http://www.paintchan.com/relationships/ here] for examples.
** Furthermore, the channel on 4chan known as /r9k/, a board originally developed with a filter that blocks unoriginal text or images, has (d)evolved to embody the [[MS Paint]] relationship thread, becoming the unofficial place to ask questions, share or complain about relationships. Many believe that it needs to be cauterized.
** [http://www.inquisitr.com/18170/4chan-b-goes-after-cat-abusers-wins/ 4chan saves a cat.]
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* [[Something Awful]] may proudly be ([[Villain Decay|or at least used to be]]) some of the greatest jerks on the internet, but often remark that new members can get lost in Pet Island.
* On Encyclopedia Dramatica, often described as some kind of haven for trolls, the talk pages are quite civil, oftentimes even polite—moreso than those of [[The Other Wiki]].
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* In one ''[[The Far Side|Far Side]]'' comic, a band of unruly Vikings, after successfully sacking a castle and stealing its women, are eagerly awaited at their ship by the crew's dog. As Gary Larson says on this in ''The Prehistory of The Far Side'':
▲{{quote|''"...I was trying to suggest that it doesn't really matter what you do for a living or how big a jerk you are, your dog still likes to see you come home."''}}
* Lucy is the resident "crab" and "fussbudget" ''[[Peanuts]]'', but has a lot of these in often [https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2015/02/04 literally]. In one series of strips, the rain washes away Charlie Brown's pitchers mound, so she actually builds him a new one. [https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1966/05/05 Not very well], [https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1966/05/06 of course], but it's the thought that counts.
== Professional Wrestling ==
* On the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ7IGD0e1Bg&list=UUJ5v_MCY6GNUBTO8-D3XoAg St. Patrick’s Day] edition of Raw in 2014, [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] ordered [[The Shield (Wrestling)|The Shield]] to triple power bomb [[Jerry Lawler|Memphis native]] for his role during Occupy RAW. However, Kane [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!|reaction to letting the guy go]] was a clear sign about The Shield... [[Even Evil Has Standards|THEY HAVE RULES TOO]] since they know about his [[Heart Trauma|medical history]]. You can guess what Kane was [[This Is Gonna Suck|about to happen despite his protest]].
== Theater ==
* "The Policeman's Song" in [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' laments that even thieves and murderers love the simple, pure English countryside. ("When the coster's finished jumping on his mother / He loves to lie a-basking in the sun...")
** And "When a felon's not engaged in his employment / or maturing his felonious little plans. / His capacity for innocent enjoyment / is just as great as any honest man's."
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', a female villain quite literally pets a dog to prove her not-all-bad-ness. One of the characters remarks that her love of dogs must mean she's good inside, prompting the main character to rant about how her love of dogs proves nothing. While it might seem like a subversion at the time, as we proceed it turns out that the villain is not a creepy stalkerish murderer, but a lonely dog lover who only wants to be loved. [[Shoot the Dog|Then Snake kills her.]]
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* Travis Touchdown of ''[[No More Heroes]]'', a perverted, [[Blood Knight]] [[Otaku]], has a thing for cats. He owns a Scottish Fold, Jeane, which he can interact with in both games and one of the jobs in the first game has him finding runaway cats.
* Yeager of ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' was portrayed as one of the [[Big Bad]]'s servants, and was considered to be evil and manipulative. However, there are two girls who're helping him, and during his final battle, explicitly ordered them to ''not'' join in the fight between him and the heroes, heavily implying that he ''wanted'' to die. If you do a big of digging, you find that {{spoiler|Gauche and Droite were actually from an orphanage that Yeager ''funded'', and pledged their lives to help him}}.
* ''[[Runescape]]'': More often than not, the Mahjarrat will fight each other in order to avoid being sacrificed at the very ritual named after them. This is not always the case, however. Sometimes, they will agree on who should be sacrificed. For example, Zemouregal was willing to settle the ritual peacefully by offering Lamistard…and the other Mahjarrat found themselves inclined to agree.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0131.html Haley's motive for collecting money.] And we can't forget that she favoured helping the dirt farmers even though there would be absolutely no reward. Notably, she called Roy out for assuming that she ''wouldn't'' want to help them - yes, she likes money, but just because she expects compensation for adventuring doesn't mean she won't help people in need!
** Belkar Bitterleaf, a [[Chaotic Evil]] halfling who on one occasion used a kobold's head for a salsa bowl, has recently adopted {{spoiler|the late}} Lord Shojo's cat, Mr. Scruffy. While he justifies it by using the cat for a weapon at one point, he seems to genuinely care for it. Then again, he also liked Lord Shojo for being a [[Magnificent Bastard]], to the point of going berserk {{spoiler|when Miko killed him. ("YOU KILLED THE WACKY OLD DUDE WITH THE CAT?!?")}}
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{{quote|"Saddest story you ever heard. Got to do something to shut him up."}}
** Even the [[Big Bad|kid's]] [[Complete Monster|version]] of Jack Noir gets one. {{spoiler|Thanks to Bec's prototyping, he's [[Undying Loyalty|incredibly loyal]] to Jade - so much so, that when Courtyard Droll kills her (as per Jack's earlier orders), he takes her to her Quest Bed, more-or-less willingly undoing her death. Note that Jack's sole motivation is to kill everything in existence.}}
* Seymour from ''[[Nosfera]]'' deciding to spare the life of the Medusa Head in front of her children.
* In ''[[City of Reality]]'', an unnamed villain {{spoiler|who's revised the timeline}} gives a seemingly heartfelt apology to a little girl she's had to [[Mind Control]] for her ends {{spoiler|and in the original timeline had been forced to kill}}.
* In ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'', the [[Show Within a Show]] ''Rebel Cry'' introduces the admiral hunting our hero [https://web.archive.org/web/20120507102651/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00679.html by having him remonstrate with his superior about harsh treatment and get slapped down.]
* [[Hitman with a Heart|Black Monday Blues]] of ''[[Dead Winter]]'' [http://www.deadwinter.cc/page/040.htm saves a little girl he stumbles upon] before [[Riding Into the Sunset|walking into the sunset]].
* ''[[The Kingfisher]]'': Demetri picks Jack out to be thrown into a deadly game (be a vampire or be food?) and tries to sway him with moral relativism, but he does have cute pets.
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', Dorian, one of the terrorists behind the Act, has been shown to send most of the money he earns from working in the organisation behind SOTF to his mother. It helps that he's well... [[The Woobie|pathetic]] too.
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** Then blows all the acquired sympathy by {{spoiler|using him to deliver a bomb to Red}}.
** There's also a subversion when he apologizes to Red's girlfriend {{spoiler|for causing Red's death}}, offering her money to make amends. As he walks towards her, the audience can see him holding a Home Run bat behind his back. {{spoiler|Fortunately, Leaf is not fooled and kills him with Jiggleypuff.}}
* [[The Slender Man Mythos|The Slender Man]] may be a [[Humanoid Abomination]] with terrifying powers and inscrutable motives, but he still [https://web.archive.org/web/20141111030449/http://iamslenderman.blogspot.com/2010/02/give-me-20-dollars.html supports the Haiti relief effort.]
* Despite all her abuse, [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s shown affection towards Nella on occasion. The end of her ''[[Ever After (film)|Ever After]]'' and ''[[My Little Pony]]'' reviews give the impression that she knows how ridiculously adorable Nella can be and loves it like the rest of us.
* From the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', [[Diabolical Mastermind]] Lord Doom was one of the primary researchers behind the AIDS cure. He provided the cure to the world not for any underhanded ulterior motive, but because the AIDS epidemic was killing innocent people and he wouldn't stand for that. He also gives tens of millions of dollars to charities every year.
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** Shizune, as [[Student Council President]], has a reputation around Yamaku as incredibly bossy, and as a result, everyone besides her best friend and interpreter, Misha, left the council. However, in Hanako's route, she {{spoiler|helps Hisao take Hanako to the nurse's office when she suffers a panic attack}}, and it's implied that she likes and is concerned about Hanako, but can't get close to her because Hanako's best friend is Lilly, who is in a feud with Shizune. In Lilly's route, Shizune {{spoiler|manages to reconcile with Lilly}}. In Shizune's own route, she {{spoiler|reveals that all of her actions, starting with her attempts to recruit Hisao to the student council, were done so that he would snap out of his depression. She also states that making people happy and engaged is her goal, and she hopes to become a philanthropist}}.
* "Give Them a Dog" is #6 of ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_19183_6-tricks-movies-use-to-make-sure-you-root-right-guy.html 6 Tricks Movies Use to Make Sure You Root for the Right Guy].
== Western Animation ==
* If the show has a [[Christmas Episode]], it will often feature the villain in Pet the Dog mode (e.g. [[Kim Possible|Dr. Drakken]], [[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|Skeletor]], and [[Justice League (animation)|Ultra-Humanite]]).
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* [[Deconstructed]] on ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Prince Zuko is given several moments that establish him as [[Enigmatic Minion|less of a villain]] than most of the Fire Nation: [[Sword Over Head|sparing his arch rival]] Commander Zhao—and later [[Save the Villain|trying to save his life]], choosing to save his uncle over chasing the Avatar, refusing to rob a pregnant woman when he's starving, freeing Appa from Lake Laogai, etc. {{spoiler|All this, however, does not lead to a [[Heel Face Turn]], but only [[Wham! Episode|doubles the shock]] when it ''doesn't'' happen. Though it doesn't make any surprise when it eventually [[Heel Face Turn|does happen]].}}
** Azula gets a couple during the [[Beach Episode]], such as when she makes a cutting remark towards Ty Lee about how she only attracts so many men because she is such a tease, and then apologises when Ty Lee cries (even admitting that she is [[No Guy Wants an Amazon|a bit jealous]]). This goes some way to showing that Azula's friendship with Mai and Ty Lee ''does'' mean something to her {{spoiler|which foreshadows the [[Villainous Breakdown|effect]] that their [[Heel Face Turn]] has on her}}.
* Occasionally, a character (who's otherwise a jerk) in ''[[Recess]]'' will have a moment like this. For example, there's Gelman. When he discoers that TJ has becmoe a hero (from everyone's perspective BUT TJ himself), instead of challenging him to a fight, he decides to offer him cookies.
** Though the Ashleys are mean, they help to save Third Street School from Dr. Phillium Benedict in Recess: School's Out. In "No Strings Attached", it turns out that the tickets they gave Spinelli are actually genuine tickets, even though Spinelli had attempted to scare them with a rubber spider early on in the same episode.
** Though Randall isn't well-liked among his fellow students, he at least is shown to care about his family. He wants to make his father proud of him, for example. Fortunately for him, he does...by being a snitch.
** Mrs. Finster was a Sadist Teacher in the first season, but she is shown to hae a consicence of sorts. He decides to break up with Phillium Benedict when he decides to aboilish recess. Yes, even though TJ and his gang always seem to get in trouble whenever htere's Recess, she's against the idea of abolishing it.
* The Monarch in ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', tears up moments before he was to be declared man and wife with Dr. Girlfriend. The Phantom Limb interupts the wedding with copters which prompts the Monarch to scream "OHHHH, DICK MOVE!"
** [[Big Bad|The Monarch]] pet the dog so hard in season two, that fans were actually upset to be reminded in the following season that he is, in fact, a professional villain, and therefore not very nice.
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* On ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'', Denzel Crocker, [[Evil Teacher]] and [[Big Bad]] before the [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]] set in, has willingly given up a baby he was raising as his heir when he believes someone else can raise it better.
** In Vicky's case, it's literal because her pets, particularly her dog Doidle, are the only beings she treats with any respect. But a more amazing example about Vicky comes in the storybook ''In a Tizzy over Turkey!'': Her parents and Tootie (who, keep in mind, she treats no different than the kids she babysits) go out to get some cranberry sauce, but their car breaks down, and Vicky is actually sad that they're gonna miss their Thanksgiving dinner! Yep, even Timmy feels sorry for her when he hears that...
* Used with little subtlety in ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (animation)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas!]]'', when Cindy Lou Who wakes up and sees him looting the family's presents. He ''could'' have just tied her up and gagged her, but instead he tells her a comforting fib, gets her a glass of water, and sends her back to bed, foreshadowing his [[Heel Face Turn]].
** This is [[Played for Laughs]] in [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film)|the live action movie]], when the Grinch saves her from a mail machine. She sees it as proof that he's a good person, and he gets pissed and wraps her up in wrapping paper (though she is still unharmed, and her parents assume that she had trouble wrapping some gifts).
* Heloise on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' has had few. A lot have to do with her [[Morality Pet]] Jimmy. She had a literal example with [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|Cerbee]], and again with a poodle rat in another episode.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]''. Shego's been known to do this... in her scene with Senor Senior Junior she's shown to be genuinely caring.
* At the end of the ''[[Turtles Forever]]'' special, the hard-as-nails [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|Mirage Turtles]] acknowledge their parallel universe counterparts (both the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|'87]] and [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|'03]] Turtles) as [[Bash Brothers]], and have developed some sort of respect for them. The Mirage Turtles even admit to liking the [[Brought to You by The Letter "S"|initialized belt-buckles]] of the old-toon Turtles. As it turns out, all three Turtle Teams are [[Not So Different]].
* ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]''; in the episode where Megatron challenges Optimus Prime to a duel, there's a literal example. When the other Decepticons gather around as spectators, Soundwave lets [[Robot Dog| Ravage]] out to sit beside him, and then strokes him as a human would a regular dog.
* While ''[[
* ''[[Recess]]'': Miss Finster is prone to this, usually with Spinelli. She also pulls this trope at the end of ''[[Recess: School's Out]]'', after finding out that Miss Grotke's a martial arts expert and finds a newfound respect for her. This is especially heartwarming when in previous seasons, Miss Finster's shown not to like her too much.
* Almost every character in ''[[Archer]]'' is an unsympathetic/borderline [[Comedic Sociopathy|sociopathic]] [[Jerkass]], but they've each gotten at least one moment each.
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** Lana has a bizarre one when she agrees to have pity sex with Pam.
* The Boss from "[[The Life and Times of Tim]]" does this with his Dog Keith
== Real Life ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130218203601/http://www.dosomething.org/blog/chatterbox/bikers-help-fight-animal-cruelty Bikers help fight animal cruelty.]
* And there's also the group of bikers who volunteered to keep watch over soldiers' funerals to prevent The Westboro "church" from harassing the bereaved.
* Speaking of the Westboro church, its pastor, Fred Phelps, was a major figure in the Civil Rights movement, a champion of racial equality and integration. [[What Could Have Been|If only he had died in the 1970s, he would be remembered today as a hero by people of all political persuasions.]]
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* WWE Tribute to the Troops is held every year as a SCO show for the military, even [[Heel]]s have respect. Children charities are also recognized by WWE and donations have been made to them. [[Fridge Brilliance|It makes sense]] since many of the wrestlers have children of their own and they too [[Papa Wolf|have been known]] to [[Mama Bear|protect them]].
* Though Juche philosophy is the only known religion that allowed to be practiced in public, North Korean Buddhists are often treated with some respects unlike followers of other religions, which can be jailed for it. The Buddhist Temple [http://articles.latimes.com/2005/oct/02/world/fg-temple2 Pohyonsa] is deemed a natural treasure in North Korea due to the history Buddhism on had on Korean culture.
* When it comes to Republicans and school funding, many are quick to jump to a conclusion unless one hears about [[wikipedia:Steve Stockman|Congressman Steve Stockman]] reason to limit school funding. It shouldn’t be a surprise this Texan would be tough on crime but his reasoning to limit funding would make him sound more [[Friend to All Children|kid-friendly]] than one thinks. Stockman’s reason: to end the abuse of the [http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130715/09261623802/texas-lawmaker-proposes-bill-to-strip-funding-schools-that-abuse-zero-tolerance-weapons-policies.shtml zero-tolerance] policies, which are sending too many students to jail rather than many by handle in schools. This lawmaker had it was teachers overacting over simple items like toys and food taking a shape of guns when someone like him can tell the difference. Here’s a look at the [http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/15/59351.htm bill] to protect students in the state of Texas. This is coming from the same guy accuse of [https://web.archive.org/web/20140308172519/http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/02/tea-partiers-blast-stockman-for-lazy-and-unethical-campaign-stovall-gets-support.html/ lazy and unethical campaign] from the '''Tea Party''', yet he's one of the few Republicans [[Everyone Has Standards|has limits]].
**Sure, corporal punishment is still allow in Texas, but they do have limits on the usage on lesser violations, requires parental permission, and the student is allowed back into school.
* Spain under Franco saved many in the Jewish population from the Holocaust and gave them citizenship. Japan also did the same thing and treated Jews no different any other foreigners.
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