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{{quote|'''Rozalin:''' ...Y-you... You are really going to trust me? I am the [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|daughter of Overlord Zenon]]. I am a [[Card-Carrying Villain|demon]], and [[You Killed My Father|you intend to kill my father]]. What part of that equation gives you the notion that you can trust me!? Are you mocking me?

 

Trust is a rare commodity. And we mean the ''premium'' stuff, not the dime a dozen trust the [[Horrible Judge of Character]] dishes out. When someone is trusted by another person, [[Good Feels Good|it feels good]] and may even ''strengthen'' the one trusted, like benefiting from a small scale [[Combined Energy Attack]] or [[Heroic Resolve]]. Those so trusted will feel obligated to live up to that trust, giving the proverbial extra 10%, or sticking with the truster through hell or high water.

 

 

In the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|right setting]] it can act as strongly as the [[Power of Love]] or [[Power of Friendship|Friendship]]. Of course, in darker and more cynical series, the [[Love Martyr]] and [[Horrible Judge of Character]] will think [[Love Redeems|this is enough to change someone]] and be proven [[The Farmer and the Viper|wrong painfully.]] In certain settings, insulting the one who instills '''The Power of Trust''' in front of the trustee can be a [[Berserk Button]].

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* It's worth noting that in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', Jou's crest was actually called Faithfulness or Sincerity (the dub changed it to Reliability, which seems to make more sense).

** In the same game, Hiruma throws a blind pass as he's being sacked, even though holding onto the ball would have been the safer option. Based on the opposition's defensive formation, he just ''knows'' that Yukimitsu will be exactly where he needs to be to receive that pass. Touchdown.

 

* Inverted in ''Mighty Avengers''. Evil god Chthon, who gets more powerful the more people believe in his existence (which he enforces via terror), finds out that there's even stronger source of power for him - the lack of trust for a man who was trying to stop him, [[Butt Monkey|Henry Pym]].

 

* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', this was what motivated {{spoiler|Haruhi into [[Take a Third Option|taking a third option]] and preventing a [[Heroic BSOD]].}}

* Pretty much the second-half (so far) [[Story Arc]] of ''[[Misfiled Dreams]]''.

* This is a rising theme in the ''[[Mistborn]]'' trilogy, and one of the keys to victory in the last book.

 

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': almost every Doctor, at one point, said, "Trust me, I'm the Doctor," or variations.

* ''[[Firefly]]'': River's trust actually managed to make Simon a [[Determinator]] . For some time he was the last person left that she could trust. And the knowledge of that fact probably pushed him on.

** Mal also discusses this at the end of "Our Mrs. Reynolds," when he catches up to Saffron.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Blade]]'': All of Hajime's transformations come from being trusted. Really, all of them.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' takes this in an unusual direction: back Detective Jinno was apparently extremely easy to fool (even falling for the old [[Look Behind You!]] bit), but was so kind and earnest that it made the people who lied to him want to become better people so those lies became the truth. The flashbacks revealing this imply that this is what turned protagonist Shotaro Hidari from a juvenile delinquent into an honest man.

** Not always, though, which since this trope is [[Up to Eleven]], causes so much more hurt and confusion than it usually would. A big plot point in season six and part of season seven was Mulder trusting his ex-partner/ex-girlfriend Diana Fowley over Scully. Scully and the Lone Gunmen even had hard proof that she was working for the [[Big Bad]], and Mulder refused to believe it. It almost caused the break-up of the partnership. Of course, that was what Diana Fowley had wanted all along.

** Or the episode "Wetwired", where Scully is affected by subliminal messages on TV that Mulder betrayed her to the Cigarette-Smoking Man (Mulder himself is not affected "thanks" to his red-green color blindness). Seeing the trust they've built up to that point just go poof is ''extremely'' disturbing, almost traumatizing. Especially for Scully, once she snaps out of it.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* A Miracle of Science (from which the picture at the trope description is taken) has it in several occasions:

** Played straight on [http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos114.html page 114] and [http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos417.html page 417]

 

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[[Category:Idealism Tropes]]

[[Category:Stock Aesops]]

[[Category:Redemption Tropes]]

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