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* In the book ''[[Avalon High]]'', main protagonist Elaine can't bring herself to hate [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders|Jennifer]], even though she cheated on her boyfriend, who happens to be Elaine's crush and wanted the best for Will. Same with Will himself. He realized his best friend and girlfriend loved each other and couldn't blame either them. {{spoiler|It helps that the characters are actually the reincarnations of King Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot.}}
* Obligatory ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' example. In one episode, Riley returns to Sunnydale after his breakup with Buffy and reveals that he's married. Willow decides that since it would be petty for Buffy to hate his wife, she'll do it for her. In the end, neither girl can hate her, because she's so cool and they're so perfect together.
* In series 2 of ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' [[Ascended Extra|Jackie]] turns up at CID claiming to be [[The Baby Trap|pregnant with Gene's baby]] and Alex can only [[Green
* In ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]'', Peter tells Aldous that while he has many reasons to hate him, the main one being that he's the guy Sarah dumped him to be with, he can't deny that Aldous is a cool guy too. But then it's subverted a minute later when Aldous lets slip that [[Your Cheating Heart|he and Sarah had begun seeing each other a year before she and Peter actually broke up]], enraging Peter.
* [[Spellman Files]] has this go on with Maggie. Isabel (and her sister Rae to some extent) don't really want her to settle down with Henry, but both Spellmans can't help but like Maggie. {{spoiler|Luckily for them, Maggie breaks up with Henry and becomes their future sister-in-law instead.}}
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* A more disturbing example: ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]'': "No matter what he did, I think I will forgive him". Yeah, [[Complete Monster|Johan]] is just that charming.
* Played with in interesting (and non-romantic) ways in ''The Things They Carried''. Tim, a soldier in the Vietnam War, is best friends with The Medic, Rat. Rat gets shot, and transferred out of [[The Squad]]. Soon after, Tim himself is shot, and nearly loses his leg because Rat's replacement forgot to treat him for shock. Tim is rather bitter about this. Tim learns that the new medic is actually a nice guy who was simply inexperienced and cracked under the pressure of combat. Tim comments that if he could only bring himself to hate the new medic, he could also forgive him.
* Both Physis and Jomy have this reaction to Keith Anyan in the last two episodes of ''[[Toward the Terra]]'', each separately commenting that even though Keith has been doing everything he can to exterminate their race, they can't bring themselves to hate him. In both cases the most probable answer to [[Why Can't I Hate You?]] seems to be "Because he already hates himself enough for both."
* Real life example: American tennis player Andy Roddick on Roger Federer, the man who's denied him multiple slams, most painfully one at Wimbledon 2009: "I've said to him before, 'I'd love to hate you, but you're really nice.'"
* ''Bring Me the Head ofPrince Charming'' mixes this with an aversion of [[Evil Is One Big Happy Family]]--sloth, wrath, and pettiness are so rampant in the demonic community that the demon protagonist discovers he likes his angelic counterpart more than he likes most of his fellow demons. {{spoiler|Until said angel hooks up with his ex-girlfriend and converts her to the side of light, that is . . .}}
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