The Power of Trust: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Kanokon]]'' provides our protagonists with an [[All Your Colors Combined]] sort of super mode that requires an open heart to work. In other words, trust. We learn this after that trust is lost, naturally.

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', though Ed rarely holds back in showing how much he hates Mustang, he seems to trust him almost implicitly, due to the fact that Mustang's been keeping his and Al's secret for four years. He evens comments in one episode of Brotherhood:

* ''[[Baccano]]'' has this involving the immortal 10 year old, Czeslaw Meyer. No, he's not the [[Deliberately Cute Child|sweet kid]] who makes the [[Loads and Loads of Characters|huge cast]] of [[The Mafia|assorted]] [[Psycho for Hire|criminals]] find themselves. After a couple hundred years of bad experiences, he has issues trusting anything in this world. The anime and novels has [[The Ditz|Issac]], [[Dumb Blonde|Mirria]], [[Battle Butler|Ennis]], [[The Mafia|Maiza]] and [[Stepford Smiler|Elmer]] to drive the point to him. It only takes about 70 years.

* In ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'', Shannon has trouble tapping into his hidden D-Knight abilities because he doesn't trust Zefiris enough to use them. When they first try [[Fusion Dance|combining]], his power gives out after several minutes of fighting.

* Horribly subverted in ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]''. {{spoiler|Mr Orange}} [[Oblivious Guilt Slinging|feels obligated]] to confess to {{spoiler|Mr White}}, who has taken the bullet for him, that he was the rat all along. The latter then tearfully, but promptly, executes him.

* In ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'', psychology professor Sean Maguire is lecturing his class:

'''Sean:''' Mm, well, that's- very deep, thank you, Jeremy. }}

* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', just before leaping out of the window of a high building, Aladdin offers Jasmine his hand and asks: "do you trust me?" Later he asks the same thing when inviting her for a carpet ride, [[Something Only They Would Say|which gives away his disguise]].

* In [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' novel ''[[Dark Heresy|Scourge the Heretic]]'', when Elyra and Kyrlock are undercover, Elyra lays out a plan to Kyrlock that involves their splitting up, Kyrlock is uneasy: he could easily escape both his home planet and the Inquisition entirely, but Elyra would be entrusting him with her life, and he's not sure he could do it. Then, when a man [[Attempted Rape|goes to rape a girl]] in front of them and [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|offers to share with Elyra to appease her]], Kyrlock [[Fake Defector|says he will take him up on it]] and gets close enough to brain him; Elyra shoots him. Afterwards, when Kyrlock says that he knew she would back him up, Elyra is embarrassed to realize how nearly she didn't.

* In [[Ben Counter]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''Galaxy In Flames'', after Garro, on Tarvitz's [[I Gave My Word|bare word]], shoots down Tarvitz's pursuers because Tarvitz is his [[The Power of Friendship|friend]] and [[Fire-Forged Friends|battle brother]].

** Later, Horus persuades Fulgrim that he trusts him because he gave him [[Cool Sword|a sword whose powers they both know]], which nearly killed Horus himself.

* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]] [[Ultramarines (novel)|Ultramarines]]'' novel ''The Killing Ground'', Uriel is subjected to three ordeals to prove that he is untainted by Chaos. The second involves pulling a sacred relic from boiling oil. When he says before that he will succeed, Leodegarius, administering it, says he hopes he will, with obvious sincerity; when he is struggling with the pain, Leodegarius looks at him with obvious desire to have the evidence to prove his innocence. This confidence is what gives him the strength to do it.

* This trope is how [[Vorkosigan Saga|Cordelia Vorkosigan]] gets "results beyond hope".

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''The Hour of The Dragon'', Zenobia implores [[Conan the Barbarian]] to trust her, and he grudgingly does.

** In "The Shadow Kingdom", [[Kull]] is given a stolen gem to inspire trust, because he can now betray the man.

* This is one of the central themes of ''Worlds of Deep Space 9: Cardassia'' in the ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine relaunch]]''. Vedek Yevir appeals to the virtue of trust in order to prevent a 14-year-old would-be suicide bomber from going through with the attack.

* ''[[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.

* This theme almost becomes Hatter's [[Arc Words]] on ''[[Alice (TV miniseries)|Alice 2009]]''. On first meeting her: "I see. You don't trust me." Midway through the mini-series: "You still don't trust me?" On saving her life multiple times, getting tortured, beaten, and pretty much going through hell in the attempt to [[I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy|Make His Beloved Happy]]: "You trust me now?" Alice: {{spoiler|"Completely."}}

** But to be fair to Alice, he certainly doesn't ''look'' or ''behave'' like a particularly trustworthy guy.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League Unlimited]]:'' When we catch up with Shayera "Hawkgirl" Hol, she's in a depressed, self-loathing funk because she betrayed the League's trust and made herself a pariah on two worlds. What snaps her out of it is Superman and Green Lantern's announcement that she's welcome to rejoin the League any time she wants.

** Made more [[Justice League (film)/Heartwarming|heartwarming]] by [[The Reveal]] that ''she has never been expelled from the League''. ({{spoiler|Superman, Flash and, presumably, J'onn the Psychic chose to trust her, while only Wonder Woman and Batman voted for expulsion; Green Lantern abstained}}).

* ''[[Generator Rex]]: In the start of Six Minus Six, we see that Rex fully trusts Six not to hurt/kill him {{spoiler|Even though White was ordering Six to since Rex was in danger of turning into his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]. Instead, [[Take a Third Option|Six attacked the machine Rex was hooked up to.]] }}

** {{spoiler|Became a [[Chekhov's Gun]] later when Six, his memories of the last six years gone because of the machine, attack Rex and was about to kill him. He stopped because Rex didn't even flinch when he brought the sword down.}}

* ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men]]'': A single moment of trust saved the world {{spoiler|and the lack of trust damned it the first time around. Emma betrayed the team, which led to Phoenix running around under the control of the Inner Circle (who just expelled Emma, who wanted to destroy it). She was left tied to a wall when Logan found her. In the first timeline, he left her there. Which meant no one could contain and destroy Phoenix, and thus Phoenix burned the world. A message fragment from Xavier passed back through time was enough to help Logan trust her and free her, allowing her to sacrifice herself for the world.}}

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' provides some negative examples. When Robin tries to get Slade's trust as Red X so they can meet, he is [[Out-Gambitted]]. Slade notes, "Trust is easy to destroy, but it takes time to build." Terra happily exclaims the Titans trust her. That doesn't end well. In an episode titled "Trust", Robin ends up giving a communicator to "Hotspot". That was actually a [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] moment, since it was really [[Shapeshifting|Madame Rogue]].