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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?
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When the Power Of Trust is directed at a [[True Neutral|morally neutral]] or gray-black character, it makes them [[Good Feels Good|feel good]] in an uncomfortable way... the kind that makes them have to suppress the urge to [[Pet the Dog]]. This is one of the things that can make bad guys like [[The Mole]] [[Becoming the Mask|switch]] [[Heel Face Turn|sides]]. (Sometimes they will backslide. However, telling them [[Remember That You Trust Me]] can neutralize that effect.)
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
Because [[Children Are Innocent]], they can wield this without even noticing it. [[Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand]] runs on this.
It's not without its advantage for the trusting character, who can frequently carry off great deeds because of relying on the character he trusts. [[Back-to-Back Badasses]], for instance, is feasible only for characters willing to trust each other, since it gives the other character a prime chance to stab you [[In the Back]]
Even if [[In the End You Are on Your Own]], the Power Of Trust an ally bestows can be just as good as their physical presence.
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* ''[[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.
* [[The X-Files|Mulder and Scully]] trust each other so closely and so intensely that if someone tells one of them something and the other contradicts it, they will pretty much believe the other without even thinking about it. Essentially, ''The X-Files'' is
** 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.
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** Ditto for ''[[Battle Moon Wars]]'', as a [[Shout-Out]].
** Note the stronger version is called in Japan "[[The Power of Friendship|Friendship]]".
* Possibly touched upon in ''[[The World Ends With You]]''. Neku is told repeatedly to trust his partner, and {{spoiler|after the incident where he had to learn that lesson in the first place}} he
* One of the main themes of ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' is trusting one's friends. Special focus is given in [[Final Fantasy VIII|Squall]] and [[Final Fantasy IX|Zidane]]'s stories.
* Played straight but twisted in ''[[Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume]]''. The plume can supercharge any member of your party into a walking engine of death, at the cost of their life following the battle. And it explicitly only works on permanent party members, who have come to trust Wylfred.
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** In fact, in case {{spoiler|2-4}} they [[Take a Third Option]]. {{spoiler|Edgeworth wins by getting Engarde convicted. Phoenix wins by getting Maya back safely and getting the real killer to admit his guilt. Without Edgeworth trusting Phoenix neither would have happened.}}
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia|"Zelos...I trust you."]]'' Lloyd saying this makes the difference between {{spoiler|Zelos being a [[Fake Defector]] who helps the party escape the Tower of Salvation's death traps and obtains the final item they need for the Eternal Ring, or truly defecting in the hopes of dying and escaping his destiny}}.
* In ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] 2'', this is the pivotal trope of [[Broken Bird|Kaori Yae]]'s storyline. After [[Et Tu, Brute?|a traumatic event]] [[Backstory|in her past]], she has lost all trust in both the others and herself. It's now up to you, the main protagonist, [[He's Back|to help her regain]] her belief in
* In ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldurs Gate]]'' ''2'' ''Throne of Baal'', {{spoiler|the reborn Sarevok}} can be redeemed if you trust him enough. Refusing to use a geas to compel his loyalty is the first step on his long road from Chaotic Evil to Chaotic Good.
* [[Tales of Legendia|''...I trust you, Shirley.'']] And later, ''"Everything will be fine...I trust you."''
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