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One way this can happen is if the "Dog" character [[Sexual Karma|gets a girlfriend]]. This can be very irritating to fans of the female character, who is considered a [[Standard Hero Reward|reward]] and objectified in particularly bad versions of this; by this trope's very metaphor, a "bone." (Even "better", listen to [[Unpleasable Fanbase|fans complain]] if this [[Entitled to Have You|doesn't happen]].)
If the bone is thrown only to be cruelly snatched away later, then this becomes [[Yank the
Compare [[Karmic Jackpot]], [[Earn Your Happy Ending]].
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* In the long run, things do improve for Hare in [[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu]], a good example being the 23rd episode.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' had Jeremiah Gottwald, who lost his rank, dignity, and honor after being Geassed by Lelouch, then was crippled trying to redeem himself while fighting against Lelouch, and then {{spoiler|was resurrected as a super-strong bulletproof cyborg, ''[[Heel Face Turn|willingly joined Lelouch]]'', became his dignified retainer, and might even have a romantic involvement with another of Lelouch's retainers, the beautiful [[Ninja Maid]] Sayoko.}} And in the end... {{spoiler|Not only he survives and plays quite the role in the final battle, but he's given a nice and quiet life in the countryside (orange farm included) and an adoptive daughter of sorts in Anya.}}
* For the first part of ''[[Macademi Wasshoi]]'', Metallis was the designated [[Chew Toy]]. Then he falls in love with Suzuka and, even if he has to find a way to be around her that won't [[Anti
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Shinji spends the whole series thinking of himself as worthless and unworthy of defending the Earth, largely due to his nasty relationship with his father his whole life. The final two episodes are one huge [[Mind Screw]] where he retreats inside his mind after being forced to kill his new <s>[[Ho Yay|boy]]</s>friend, and slowly comes to realize his relationship with his father is not his fault at all, and he does deserve to be happy. He then finds himself in a pastoral landscape where everyone, including his father, congratulates him on his epiphany. At least, that's one way to interpret what the hell's going on in those episodes.
** {{spoiler|Then ''End of Evangelion'' yanks it, horrendously.}}
*** {{spoiler|Not really. End of Evangelion is more of an [[Earn Your Happy Ending]] counterpart to the TV series' [[Bittersweet Ending]]; Shinji goes through a bit more hell, but he gets to spend quite a bit of time with Asuka, and it's strongly implied, if not outright stated, that everyone else can come [[Back From the Dead]].}}
**** Not within the show but [[Super Robot Wars|the Alpha series]] threw him a very big one, complete with a BFS. Helps that he's got [[Super Robot]] [[Hot Blooded|pilots]] to model after.
** A less-mind-screwy example for Shinji came in the series, where he lead an assault that stopped a particularly-large angel from destroying Tokyo-3 and NERV. Upon reading the report, and learning how Shinji was by-and-large the person responsible for the day's rescue, Gendo tells him "Good work, Shinji." It's very brief, and done by "Sound Only" video screen, but means the world to a [["Well Done, Son" Guy]].
** a similarly less-mind-screwy example is from the episode where they defeat the angel that was found in a volcano. After they've completed the mission, we briefly get to see Shinji relaxing in the hot-springs afterwards. In the English dub he even says, "this feels like Heaven..." with an almost goofy-looking grin plastered across his face. It's hard not to feel happy for him in the warm-fuzzies sense for that one brief moment. [[Too Good to Last|Too bad it doesn't last for him]].
** Another great example is Asuka. {{spoiler|After descending into a downward spiral for the entire course of the series, at the End of Evangelion, she finally learns that her mother really did love her, and decides to kick some ass! Of course, things sorta balance themselves out after awhile...}}
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* In ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]]'' something nice would occasionally happen to Yamcha the Chief [[Butt Monkey]] / [[The Worf Effect]] character. Strongly averted in ''Z'' to the point of [[Designated Monkey]].
** Krillin the lesser [[Butt Monkey]] does actually get a bone in ''Z''. The man dies three times (four if you count GT), and gets his head handed to on a regular basis. He's vastly outclassed by the Saiyans and to a lesser extent, Piccolo, and is routinely made fun of for his [[Dragonball Z Abridged|Owned Count.]] Despite this, he managed to come through and save the day on several occasions-- he oneshotted most of the saibamen, he came extremely close to killing Nappa and Vegeta, he played a critical role in foiling the bad guys' plans on Namek until Goku arrived, he sliced off part of Frieza's tail, saving Gohan's life in the process, and [[Earn Your Happy Ending|he gets to marry Android #18 in the end.]]
* ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'': James tends to enter a lot of [[Filler|minor competitions]], and usually declines or outright tells off Jessie and Meowth's idea of "assistance." Most of the time [[Yank the
* ''[[One Piece]]'''s Sanji has endured a great deal of suffering due to being the Straw Hats' resident [[The Chew Toy|Chew Toy]]. Not content to make him a [[Chivalrous Pervert]] who generally lucks out with women, Oda's killed his fantasies of mermaids with Kokoro, a fat old lady mermaid; dashed his dreams of getting a bounty with a [[Facial Composite Failure|horribly drawn Wanted Poster]]; stole his hope to exploit the [[Power Perversion Potential]] of invisibility through a villain with a one-of-a-kind invisibility Devil Fruit; and, finally, he was stuck on an island of transvestites for two years, where he was briefly forced to go native. However, with the crew's arrival at Fishman Island, Sanji has finally gotten to meet real life, ''attractive'' mermaids, and they ''like'' him. Granted, the [[Nosebleed]] that eventually resulted nearly kills him, but for him it was [[Worth It]].
** Then he met their [[Worlds Most Beautiful Woman|princess]] and {{spoiler|got cured, being able to hit on her with no problems}}. [[Accidental Innuendo|The biggest bone ever]], people!
* [[No Sense of Direction|Ryoga]], the resident [[The Woobie|woobie]] of [[Ranma One Half]] was given one of these when his virtually perfectly suited and accepting girlfriend Akari showed up near the end of the series.
* After thirteen episodes of being Sternbild's [[Chew Toy]], things start looking up for Kotetsu/Wild Tiger in the fourteenth episode of ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'': he manages to finish the season fourth in the rankings, people start treating him as Barnaby's equal instead of his sidekick, his boss stops acting like a total dick towards him, and {{spoiler|he seems to have gotten an unexpected power boost}}. Of course, given the ominous foreshadowing of {{spoiler|said power upgrade}} and the fact that there's still another twelve episodes to go, [[Yank the
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': [[Manga]] only: Homura finally reunites with Madoka in some kind of afterlife. The anime however, condemn her to walking the earth for a long, long time, with no guarantee to ever see Madoka again.
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** There are also a few occasions in which [[Dreadful Musician|Cacofonix]] saves the day with his dreadful music, and the villagers reward him by letting him participate in the victory feast (as opposed to tying him up to prevent him from playing as per the usual [[Running Gag]]).
* [[Donald Duck]] did get the upper hand on [[Jerkass|Gladstone]] [[Born Lucky|Gander]] about 10% of the time in [[Carl Barks|classic Disney Duckverse comics]].
** [[Don Rosa]] loved doing this to Donald. ''The Duck Who Never Was'' did it as a sixtieth birthday present to the character via [[
* There was a brief scene in ''Gotham Knights'' where for once, [[Batman]] accepted the Spoiler, even telling her that he doesn't mind the company.
* In Volume 5 of ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'' Emp (kidnapped along with a bunch of the Superhomies' celebrity doubles) [[Bound and Gagged|wriggles out of her restraints]], dons her [[Clothes Make the Superman|super suit]] (which she'd wrapped around her waist) and tells off the double who insulted her earlier. Then for once, just once, she actually ''smiles'' in anticipation because the mooks have no idea what's coming.
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* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': Neville Longbottom spends the first six books of the series as the sad sack of Hogwarts, being a klutz even when doing simple things like walking, being one of Snape's constant targets for abuse (second only to Harry), and only being good at one class: Herbology, arguable the only class in Hogwarts that doesn't require magic. Finally, the stars align for him in Book 7. With Harry and the gang out of Hogwarts trying to find the horcruxes, he and Ginny lead the resistance against Snape's new regime at Hogwarts. Though he does experience his fair share of torture throughout the year, he holds strong and keeps the resistance going. But his true [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] comes at the end of the book, when he {{spoiler|pulls the Sword of Griffindor out of the Sorting Hat and proceeds to lop the head off of Voldemort's snake, Nagini, destroying the Dark Lord's final horcrux and making him a mere mortal once again}}. Talk about [[Take a Level In Badass|taking a level in badass]]!
** To make it even more [[Badass]], Neville tells Voldemort ''[[Badass Boast|"I'll join you when Hell freezes over!"]]'' in front of everyone of importance in the Wizarding World, his friends, Hogwarts instructors and everyone in general. That was also a unified/''combined'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] and Throw The Dog A Bone for the entire [[Cool Teacher|teaching staff at Hogwarts]]; in watching Neville and his stand against Voldemort, they got to see that everything they were all about - ''their entire careers'' - actually meant something.
*** There are hints before Book 7 that Neville may be something of a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]], such as his part in the Ministry raid in book 5, where he's not the most useful by any stretch of the imagination but proves that he has Gryffindor-grade balls just by going. He's also apparently ''really'' good at herbology (and dancing, see the Goblet of Fire movie, but not so in the book) and Charms, according to the book version of Half-Blood Prince, where Professor McGonagall recommends that he take a N.E.W.T in that subject... and there's that one minor thing... yes, he bears the burden of his parents' [[Fate Worse Than Death]] without collapsing himself.
* In ''[[The Pilo Family Circus (Literature)|The Pilo Family Circus]],'' Mugabo is powerful magician reduced to the level of performing cheap tricks for the circus' audience, and occasionally being intimidated by [[Monster Clown|Gonko]] or [[Big Bad|Kurt Pilo]] into pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Even his occasional breakdowns aren't taken that seriously. At the end, though, after narrowly avoiding death at the hands of [[One
* An entire planet gets this treatment in a story from [[Star Trek Myriad Universes]], which explores hypothetical timelines distinct from the [[Star Trek]] canon and/or the mainstream [[Star Trek Novel Verse]]. According to [[Word of God]], planet Coridan's prosperous status in ''The Tears of Eridanus'' is to make up for its usual portrayal as the Federation's [[Butt Monkey]] world.
* ''[[In Death]]'': Eve and Roarke certainly got this by meeting each other at the very beginning of the series. ''Interlude In Death'' even has Eve putting a [[Lampshade Hanging]] on this trope, with regards to their relationship.
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** And yes, [[It Got Worse]] {{spoiler|with a scoop of [[Eye Scream]]}}.
* ''[[Married With Children]]'' episodes usually end with everything falling apart for at least one of the main characters, usually Al. Occasionally, however, an episode will end on an upswing. In one episode, Al destroys Marcy's brand new Mercedes by dumping a load of wet cement on it after Marcy spends the whole show (and many other episodes before that) coming out ahead in their eternal conflict. To top it all off, Al manages to come out $6,000 ahead, when he usually ends up even deeper in debt than when he started.
* Occurs, of course, at the end of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]: The Peacekeeper Wars'', with Aeryn and John both finally together, their enemies off their back, and their child born and healthy. The series finale had teased this, but turned it into a [[Yank the
* One episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' has Fozzie, the usual [[Butt Monkey]], mock the snarky critics [[Waldorf and Statler]] with the help of the guest star; the masterful Bruce Forsyth, no less, is Fozzie's accomplice in this. The bear manages to ''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|out-snark Statler and Waldorf]] so badly that they end up hiding in their box waving a white flag''.
** Fozzie also gets revenge in another episode, in which that night's show is canceled as it was already scheduled for open auditions. One pair of auditioners are Statler and Waldorf; Fozzie goes up to their balcony to mock them.
** Also, any Swedish Chef sketch that doesn't end with him being attacked by his cuisine or otherwise harmed.
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* ''[[Extras]]'': The last episode of the second series ''doesn't'' end with Andy's abject humiliation, which is no small victory for his character.
* Things regularly go horribly wrong for the two leads of ''[[Peep Show]]''. The series 7 opener seems to be building up to things being worse than ever, with Mark [[Heroic BSOD|dazedly walking out on the birth of his child]] and a subplot about the flat being flooded and Jez's unreliable junkie friend Superhans being sent to fix it. But {{spoiler|Jeremy finds Mark before the baby's born, Sophie didn't realise he was gone, the baby's fine and the flat has "minimal water damage". It's the latter that seems to please Mark the most.}}
* In ''[[Crownies]]'', the resident [[Butt Monkey]] Richard gets two in episode nine: he finally impresses a judge who he has a terrible history with (mainly because of uncooperative witnesses) to the point where the accused is sentenced to 20-27 years (Richard's goal was 25, for the accused's impulsive murder of a postman, but the judge added two years for [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|tampering with the mail]]). This is quickly followed by a passionate sexual encounter in his office chair with the psychiatrist whose testimony got the aforementioned conviction. (Though this does cause a hitch when it ruins Conrad's suit and Tatum comes close to letting slip that he's not really gay).
* In ''[[Misfits]]'' Simon the nerd-turned-arsonist spends most of his time in the first season being abused by [[Jerkass|Nathan]] and ignored by the others, with the exception of [[Team Mom|Kelly]]; the fifth episode was particularly cruel, ending with him being emotionally manipulated by Sally the probation worker {{spoiler|and accidentally killing her in a fight}}. However, things start improving for him in the second season:
** In the first episode, he manages to [[Talking the Monster To Death|make peace]] with his friend-turned-shapeshifter without killing her; then, the rest of the Misfits help him {{spoiler|dispose of Sally's corpse.}}
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== Magazines ==
* ''[[Mad Magazine]]'''s ''Monroe'' is occasionally thrown a bone, though they often [[Yank the
** Getting to make out with his Irish cousin. When his parents find out, they force him to sleep in his roofless tree house in the pouring rain.
** Having the school bully steal his date at the cinema, but then getting him to eat a rotten hot dog he found on the floor of ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' screening next door.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* After years of being Games Workshop's [[Butt Monkey]] (half the units were unplayable, Unwinnable mission types), [[Warhammer 40000|Imperial Guard players]] finally got a codex that's actually good. Everyone else is worried that IG players will go into a [[
** If the mediocre IG became a powerhouse, one can only hope they never do get around to that Dark Eldar thing they keep promising.
*** Model-wise, Dark Eldars have pretty much have one of the best ranges now, being the only army to have their entire range overhauled, and having one of Games Workshop's best sculptors working on them. Your Milage May Vary on how they actually look, but they are indeed more detailed than any other range (since their range is one of the few to have a new basic trooper plastic sprue done for them with the new plastic moulding technology, alot of details will be retained).
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* ''[[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]]'', Allen ends up with his crush, Shion; and the person she cares about more than him has to leave until some [[Reincarnation]] in the future.
* In ''[[Blaz Blue]]'', [[The Woobie|Noel Vermillion]] has nothing but sad endings. Except that one ending involving her getting enchanted with Litchi Faye Ling's cute panda hairpin and pins on it happily. It's the closest thing to 'happy ending' she can get. The true endings also improve things for her somewhat (although the second game is still somewhat bittersweet despite the fact that she's {{spoiler|been convinced she's a person despite her [[Artificial Human]] status and never having been in the timeline before and hanging around with her best friend}} since {{spoiler|her other best friend has undergone a [[Heel Face Turn]] and wants to kill her.}}
** The gag ending for Lambda-11 looks like this when she gets a pet insect and makes friends with [[Fun Personified|Makoto]] {{spoiler|but this turns into a [[Yank the
* Steiner, [[Knight in Shining Armor|Knight In, er, Cheap and Rusty Armor]], [[The Big Guy]] (and also [[The Lancer]]) spends a good portion of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' as the [[Butt Monkey]] to [[The Hero|Zidane]] as well as a [[Chew Toy]]...BUT! He also manages to {{spoiler|hook up with his long-time rival [[Lady of War|Beatrix]] in the end (it turned out that ''she'' had a crush on him, and then it might actually be mutual).}} Still feel sorry for the guy?
* Being the [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|kind of game]] that it is, [[Super Robot Wars]] tend to have this in spades. Quite noticable in Alpha 3 with [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|NGE]] given how depressing the original series was and how the focus of that game is to defeat what passes as an [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|elder god]] there.
* In the ending of ''[[Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney]]: Trials and Tribulations'', after two games of being verbally abused, [[Whip It Good|whipped]], having his pay cut to unbelievable levels, had a ''tracking device placed on him'' and ''fired'' (though he gets rehired), it's implied that [[Inspector Lestrade|Dick Gumshoe]] finally hooks up with Maggey Byrde.
** Unfortunately, as [[Status Quo Is God]], they seem to be [[Just Friends]] again by the time of ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]'', barely a month later.
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* Santa Christ wiping ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]'' from [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'s mind. Seeing as how the Critic was pretty much made to be abused... we guess [[Even Evil Has Standards|even Doug and Rob have limits.]]
** The ending of his "Commercials Special" is more obvious. After being nearly completely broken, he gets his confidence back through [[The Cast Showoff|a song]].
** "Sequels Month" saw the Critic being put through the wringer by some incredibly bad movies. The next video after that was ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Film)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'', in which he was upbeat, enthusiastic and thought the film was fantastic [[So Bad
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* ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]'' had one instance of the usual [[Jerkass]] Squidward actually leading a band to an awesome glam-rock superbowl show that sent his [[Smug Snake]] rival Squilliam ''into a coma''.
** And another episode has Spongebob destroy Squidward's house while he's trying to make it more fancy than Squillam's... only for the resulting rubble to indeed beat Squilliam's house.
*** A third example has Squidward managing to compose a musical piece for a competition, and having that piece selected to be played despite Spongebob/Patrick's general annoyingness. When the composition is actually PLAYED, it's revealed that he actually wrote the annoyingness INTO the piece, you'd expect this to be a [[Yank the
**** The Tiki Island episode is pretty much dedicated to this. Even when it looks like it's undone in the end, it turns out that it's not.
** Another example occurs in an episode where he falls in love with a female Squid. Squidward turns to Spongebob for advice, but it goes wrong. When Squidward finally has enough, he starts yelling at [[SpongeBob]] right in front of his girlfriend. At first, Squid thinks she's going to break up with him for said outburts, but it ends up making her more attracted to him.
* Literal Dog: The ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' movie ''[[Wakkos Wish (Film)|Wakkos Wish]]'' actually subverted [[Failure Is the Only Option]] for everyone, including [[Badly
** There was also had Rita and Runt being adopted by Dr. Scratchinsniff and Brain getting a position of significant power.
** The [[Acceptable Targets|Mime]] still got the shaft though. In fact {{spoiler|dropping a safe on him was ''Yakko's'' wish}}.
** A Christmas episode has Chicken Boo posing as... [[Mall Santa|oh, try to guess]]. When his disguise fails, he escapes the usual torrent of abuse when rescued by the real Santa Claus, who says he deserves a happy ending just this once.
** A half-literal example in the [[Crossover]] episode featuring [[Tiny Toon Adventures|Elmyra]] - after spending the whole episode tormenting the Warners, they have the perfect idea - introduce Elmyra to Mindy. When Mindy wanders off into danger as she usually does, poor Buttons [[Badly
*** Also counts as a great [[Take That Scrappy]] moment.
* In the "Peter's Daughter" episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter treats Meg kindly after she goes into a coma.
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* After a long, long chain of failures, there are ''two'' occasions late in ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' where the method home ''isn't'' irrevocably lost. In the first case, Jack is defeated by an invincible warrior guarding it... but the warrior spares his life and explicitly sees a [[Future Badass]] Jack coming back to use the portal at some point ahead. In the second, the portal is destroyed (by Jack [[Grand Theft Me|possessed by Aku's evil]]), but Jack is told that it will be rebuilt in due time, at which point he may use it. Sadly, neither one truly paid off because Cartoon Network let the show fall through.
* [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]] achieved this trope in two of the animated specials: ''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown'' (where, in spite of [[Never My Fault|being blamed for causing his team to lose a football game]], he actually gets to kiss [[He Who Must Not Be Seen|The Little Red-Haired Girl]]) and ''It's Magic, Charlie Brown'' (where he takes advantage of being turned invisible and actually kicks Lucy's football).
** A nod to the football gag, plus [[Laser
*** Also used in ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' when Charlie Brown stops at the last minute and kicks Lucy. [[Laser
** Notably ''not'' employed in the comics themselves, though, where any and all triumphs Charlie Brown achieves are ''always'' dragged down or retconned, such as an example where he hit a home run and won the baseball game, yet it later turned out this was only because the female pitcher had a crush on him. Another time, a winning run was walked in because the pitcher couldn't pitch strikes to Linus' toddler brother Rerun (who thought they were [[Comically Missing the Point|playing for the Stanley Cup]]). Sadly, a "youth sports commission" [[Acceptable Targets|not unlike the Mafia]] forces Charlie Brown to forfeit the victory after it's revealed Snoopy had money on the game.
*** Charlie Brown does get at least one victory in the comics. During the last part of its run, he helps Rerun by defeating a bully in a game of marbles.
*** Another time was when Lucy was berating Charlie Brown at her psychology booth for wasting his life he spent the morning cleaning his closet shelf. To prove her point, she asked Linus what he was doing that morning. When he said he just watched TV, Lucy was humiliated seeing her argument explode in her face while Charlie made the most of this great turn of events with a smug "My closet shelf is real clean!"
* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'': Lumpus has a mad crush on Jane Doe, but his efforts to get her to realize that always backfire hilariously. Jane frequently misinterprets his motives, leading her to see him as A) a friend, or B) a jerk. [[Failure Is the Only Option|Failure]] is Lumpus' only option, as Jane gets together with and even ''marries'' everyone except Lumpus. The second-to-last episode focuses on the two, and is called {{spoiler|Wedding Bell Blues}}. [[Happily Married|Guess]] [[Official Couple|what]] [[Happily Married|happens]] at the end?
** Of course, the last episode then [[Yank the
* The last season of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is basically this for Ron.
** The final episode is this for Dr. Drakken, whose invention defeats the [[Tripod Terror|alien war machines]], getting him the recognition he always craved.
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* On ''[[Phineas and Ferb]],'' [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man|cute, ridiculously-nice Jeremy]] embodies this trope for [[Butt Monkey|Candace]]; many episodes have Candace accidentally putting herself through all sorts of grief trying to bust her brothers, only for Jeremy to show up in the last sixty seconds and somehow manage to make her day brighter.
** Also, every now and then this is also delivered by her brothers themselves.
** [[Mad Scientist|Doofenshmirtz]] also gets this occasionally, usually either from his [[Friendly Enemy]] [[Animal Superhero|Perry]] or [[Mad
* In ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'', Tom actually has managed to one-up the mouse a few times.
* The [[Running Gag|running gag]] in one episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' involves Rainbow Dash not being able to get a cup of apple cider because they always run out by the time she reaches the booth, or in one instance because she spilled the cup (leading her to ''shove the dirt it was spilled on into her mouth''). She finally gets one in the very end of the episode.
* During his "Ruler of Kongo Bongo" election campaign, [[Donkey Kong Country (Animation)|Donkey Kong]] promises [[The Brute|Krusha]] that he won't pummel him next time he tries to steal the [[MacGuffin|Crystal Coconut]]. When Krusha ''does'' get his hands on the coconut, Donkey Kong ''keeps his promise'' and lets Krusha off the hook. As long as he returns the Crystal Coconut, of course.
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