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A character, sometimes the Butt-Monkey of a given work, is treated for the first time in their lives with genuine kindness and friendship. It may extend to the character's life being saved, and as such, they now may feel I Owe You My Life. As such, they will be exceptionally loyal to their benefactor, even if the benefactor admits that it was all a lie. If the benefactor is a villain, this character could either be their Morality Pet or someone they cared about before the benefactor turned evil. The nature of this character type is such that their loyalty to their benefactor will extend to generally absurd lengths. Not even the benefactor will be able to persuade them that they had cruel ulterior motives — this can be problematic if the Butt-Monkey in question ends up turning Ax-Crazy. Can be part of a Heel–Face Turn. Normally one of the defining aspects of the Harem Genre, as with so many girls all vying after one boy, usually the most amount of time the series can devote to explaining why they all like him is that he simply treats them as human beings. Though this trope is often portrayed sympathetically, it is also what often creates the Stalker with a Crush and the Yandere. A character who follows this may be one that Desperately Craves Affection as well. Will be immune to Twisting the Words. Often is also The Woobie. Related to It Meant Something to Me. See also Disproportionate Reward. Compare Character Witness and its animal version, Androcles' Lion. Contrast with its polar opposite, Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal, and with Ungrateful Bastard and The Farmer and the Viper. May lead to Defusing the Tyke-Bomb. Possible overlap with Reformation Acknowledgement and Evil Desires Innocence. A complete inverse of this trope would likely be But for Me, It Was Tuesday. |
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Karathan in Aquaman (2018) is implied to have been friends with King Atlan because the former won the latter's friendship by talking with them rather than fighting. Thousands of years later, Arthur does the same. | |
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The unlikely "friendship" between Tara and long-standing nemesis Mickie James came about in TNA when Tara wasn't actually for Madison Rayne running over James with Tara's motorcycle. Despite not being able to stop the heinous act, James not only beat Rayne for the Knockout's Title belt but wagered it on the grounds Tara would be free from contract Rayne was dangling over her head should Rayne lose her rematch. While Tara still fought James on the independent circuit, she was never quite as hostile to Mickie as before, taking Mickie's side against Amber Rodriguez and Melina and the MCW Ladies Night and joining her and Jazz for Chikara's King Of Trios. | |
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In Sherlock, much of the reason why Sherlock allows John into his life and befriends him comes from John praising his deductive skills as "incredible" and "fantastic" while everyone else just calls him "freak." As the show progresses, it's clear that they would both die for one another. | |
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Two examples in GreedFall: At the end of the game when gathering allies for the final battle neither the Bridge Alliance nor Thélème are convinced of De Sardet's story of the threat to the island's god. The Nauts and the Coin Guard are a bit more open-minded but don't think they're really affected by it. However, all four will come to help if De Sardet has reached "Friendly" status with them, as he/she helped them out enough times before. If you complete Kurt's first two companion quests before the Coin Guard's attempted coup he turns on the traitor Guards and warns De Sardet and Constantin, giving them time to mount a successful defence of all three cities. |
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Mountain Fiji was responsible for getting Little Egypt a job in GLOW. Even though it did not end well, Egypt being forced out with an ACL break, she still organized GLOW reunion shows for the purpose of helping Fiji pay for her own injuries and diabetes treatment. | |
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TARU became the lifelong manager of Crazy MAX, a bunch of punks he barely knew because they spared him from a beatdown they gave to TARU's partner and opponents during a match. | |
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Twig: The friendship and genuine emotion offered by the Lambsbridge Gang is enough to overcome Laser Guided Tyke Bomb Mary's villainous loyalties and convince her to become the Sixth Ranger for their team, as all the affection she's ever received has been rote and her creator has never treated her as more than a tool. Subsequently, this is inverted with Sylvester's tendency to attack, humiliate, belittle, and otherwise drive away anyone outside the Lambsbridge Gang who shows signs of being nice to him or being sympathetic to his situation. He explains this is a basic Pavlovian response; the doctors who raised him were always kind and soothing right before they injected his brain with neurotoxins to force it to rapidly generate new connections, an incredibly painful process. |
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In Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lab Rat Stuckey is happy to kill his boss and Elliot to cover up his own crimes but is genuinely upset when Olivia walks in on the scene because she was generally decent to him and he doesn't want to have to hurt her. Olivia is able to use this against him in order to save Elliot. | |
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Star Trek Online: Gaius Selan, the security officer of the Romulan Republic flagship RRW Lleiset, is a liberated Borg who used to be in the Tal Shiar. He fights for the Republic because they rescued him from the Collective (where the Tal Shiar didn't even try) and because they treat him like a person. | |
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In Pokémon Detective Pikachu, this is implied to be Mewtwo's motivation to helping Detective Pikachu and Harry and later on, Tim as well. Despite being the cause that led to Mewtwo's capture, Harry and Pikachu risked their lives to rescue Mewtwo and did so, at the cost of Harry being critically injured. | |
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Liv Morgan stopped Billie Kay from getting a dirty win over Aliyah simply because she was sick of being bullied by Billie and Peyton Royce. When the Iconic Duo double-teamed Liv, Aliyah made a Heel–Face Turn to help her and return the favour. They became fast friends and teamed together many times. | |
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Eerie Cuties: Cess & Laura are childhood friends, who began the series as a pair of minor antagonists to Layla. But their friendship was briefly severed by Tia's manipulations, during which, Nina befriended Laura to cheer her up. She and Cessily make up by the end of chapter 13 and Laura finally returned to normal. Laura was touched by Nina's kindness towards her, which caused her and Cessily to become friends with her... for real this time. | |
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Valentine: Kate is the only one of the girls in the opening scene who lets Jeremy Melton down nicely (Shelley, Lily, and Paige harshly reject him) and doesn't corroborate Dorothy when she framed him for sexual assault. This is why Adam/Jeremy leaves her alive at the end of the film. | |
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B.P.R.D.: In BPRD: 1947, agent Jacob Stegner gives a coin to a homeless beggar woman. The woman later appears to him to tell him that one of his missing comrades is still alive. Before she mysteriously disappears, she says, "I tell you this... because you were kind." | |
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X-Men: In New X-Men: Academy X, X-23 goes to considerable lengths to protect Dust from the Purifiers when they attack the academy because Dust was one of the only people at the academy who was nice to her when she arrived. On the other end, Dust was nice to Laura because she was a refreshing change from her old roommate Surge, who didn't agree with her beliefs. In Uncanny X-Men, former supervillain Rogue was made to feel distinctly unwelcome when she first joined the X-Men. In UXM #172 she accompanies her new teammates to Tokyo to attend Wolverine's wedding. On seeing her, Wolverine comments that if it were up to him, he'd cut out her heart, but his fiancee, the aristocratic Mariko Yashida, says that Rogue as a guest is entitled to all due courtesy and respect and welcomes her. Effectively Mariko was merely acting in accordance with the ethical and social rules of her class, but it still was the first time Rogue was unreservedly welcomed by anyone since she left the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and so in the following issue Rogue shows no hesitation to lay down her life to prevent her death ("Lady Mariko was kind t'me — she accepted me, right off — ah won't let her come to any harm!"). The fire from Viper's blaster actually hurts her badly, but Rogue accepts her likely death philosophically. However, Logan now feels indebted to her for saving the woman he loves and makes Rogue absorb his healing factor. |
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The Ghost and Molly McGee showed Molly is the only human who treated the grumpy ghost Scratch with respect and kindness. In episode 1, she showed him the dollhouse to get along with him on her grandmother's advice. For that reason, he starts to like her in return even though she comes off as annoyingly cheerful to his easily irritated sensibilities. The character Andrea Davenport is extremely rude and bullies Molly in many of her earliest appearances, softening over time. However, it isn't until the episode "The Don't-Gooder" where Molly witnesses Andrea get snubbed on a hug by her parents because they want social media brownie points that Molly realizes Andrea's motivation is because of a lack of affection. Molly saves Andrea's image from a charity cheating scandal, and Andrea returns the favor by saving Molly's house using her extensive social media presence. She even proclaims herself to be Molly's best friend (which shocks everyone, Molly included). From then on, Andrea treats Molly like an actual friend (still pompous, but nice about it). |
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Antenora in Wild ARMs: Million Memories has her conscience pricked when she takes the opportunity to abduct Yulie right after the latter has healed her. To ease her guilt. Antenora regular visits and checks on Yulie while she's imprisoned, but Yulie's kind nature and willingness to listen to her issues regarding Vinsfield and Slayheim leads her to secretly free her, hand her a map so she can escape, and then urges her to get to safety when the battles around them are about to get really messy. | |
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Fire Emblem: Leads to two Heel Face Turns in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. Jaffar encountered Nino while too wounded to move. Instead of killing him, as per Black Fang custom, she bandages him up. Later, he saves her from being sacrificed as a scapegoat, and, if the player is willing, kills her tormentor. Soren in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn feels this toward Ike. When Soren had been abused, abandoned, and left for dead, Ike found him and gave him food and respect. Soren was so incredibly touched by this simple random act of kindness that he literally devoted the entire rest of his life to him, even after they were separated for years and Ike didn't remember meeting him. However, Ike does continue to show Soren kindness repeatedly throughout the games, which he appreciates. Their paired ending even describes Ike as the only person Soren ever trusted. In Fire Emblem: Awakening, Maribelle reveals this as her reason for being completely devoted to Lissa; due to her being so difficult the other children instantly hated her and mocked her, leaving her without any friends until Lissa reached out to her. Similarly, Panne joins Chrom's Shepherds in an attempt to repay the kindness given to her by Chrom and Lissa's older sister, Queen/Exalt Emmeryn, despite how she's a member of the very persecuted Taguel race. Henry's support with Ricken has a bittersweet double dose. Henry says Mustafa, the first noble Plegian commander the Avatar meets, treated him like family—and other Plegians (disparagingly) imply Henry felt genuine loyalty in return. He seems as cavalier about Mustafa's death as any other person he'd known before, but when Ricken asks what Henry would do if he were slain, Henry immediately swears he'd seek (literally) bloody vengeance. He's almost surprised to find that he truly considers the Shepherds his friends. Henry's emotions are always difficult to read, but he seems to have forgiven the Shepherds for Mustafa's death, knowing that true responsibility lay with Gangrel, whom they defeated. In Fire Emblem Fates, the Team Pet Lilith says that she follows the Avatar because he/she nursed her back to health when younger, thinking she was an injured bird. Jakob explains to Azura in their supports that he was practically sold off by his Abusive Parents to the Nohrian royals, and since up until then he was a nobleman, he had no idea of how to perform even the most menial chores. The young Avatar insisted on keeping Jakob around as his/her companion despite his initial blunders, so he became their loyal Battle Butler to repay the favor. Fire Emblem: Three Houses brings us Dedue, who is unfalteringly loyal to Dimitri because the latter was the only person who treated him with respect and dignity after the Tragedy of Duscur. |
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In one episode of Bones, a female suspect who had previously stalked the victim-of-the-week becomes smitten with Booth after he briefly comforts her. She later tries to kill Brennan, whom she saw as competition. Bonus points for Sweets recognizing what was happening a moment too late to stop Booth. | |
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The Simpsons did an episode where Homer and Marge entered a Wife Swap-style reality show. The Henpecked Husband ends up falling for Marge, while his frigid, controlling wife falls for Patty. In "Colonel Homer", this is why Lurleen Lumpkin ends up falling for Homer. She even outright admits to him that he's the first person to ever treat her so kindly "without wanting something in return". While more a Puppy Love example, there's the infamous crush Ralph Wiggum developed on Lisa when she was the only one to give him a Valentine. One episode features a platonic, familial example. Bart wins a $500 cash settlement from Krusty after a jagged metal O in his box of Krusty-O's gave him appendicitis. He plans to spend it on a comic book but instead buys an album made by Lisa's jazz mentor "Bleeding Gums" Murphy, who died earlier that episode. When Lisa asks why, Bart explains that it's because she was the only person who believed him when he said he was sick, rather than assuming he was making it up for attention. |
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In Man on Fire, Creasy is aloof and embittered until Lupita, the young girl he's assigned to protect, brings him out of his shell by being nice to him. This is why, when she's kidnapped, he goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. | |
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Iago in Aladdin: The Return of Jafar regrets helping Jafar after Aladdin sticks up for him and Aladdin and his friends treat Iago better than Jafar ever did. This causes his Heel–Face Turn and he ultimately helps them defeat Jafar. | |
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Several characters in Dark Souls have this. Lady of the Darkling is fervently loyal to Gwyndolin because he accepted her as a follower despite her hideous appearance, providing her purpose in life. Eingyi is similarly devoted to Quelaag's sister because she sucked the deadly Blightpuss from his body, saving his life but becoming deathly sick in the process. Also, it's possible for Maiden Rhea to become friendly towards the player should the player save her from the Tomb of the Giants after her escorts all either hollowed or abandoned her. | |
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A platonic and villainous example occurs midway through the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. Karai has become the Dragon Ascendant and part of the package includes the service of the Foot Mystics. The Mystics grow to really hate Karai because she treats them like crap, and while they refer to the previous Shredder as an "Utrom abomination", they appreciated that he had a lot of respect for them. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ralph's instant friendship with Vanellope stems from her being the first (non-villain) video game character to look beyond his "bad guy" role. | |
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Togainu no Chi has Nano attached to Akira because he's the only one who showed any kindness towards him in the past when he was used for experiments. | |
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In one episode of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002), Adam and Teela stumble upon a creature trapped in a collapsed cave, with Adam taking pity on it and helping to free it. Later on, when He-Man and the Masters are tangling with a trio of dragons that Skeletor unleashed on them, a larger dragon appears, with it turning out to be the creature Adam had freed. Recognizing He-Man as him, it came to the Masters' aid by taming the smaller dragons (who turn out to be its children, its eggs having been stolen by Beast-Man) and leading them home. Man-At-Arms then had to run interference and prevent Teela from suspecting Adam was He-Man when she wondered why the dragon helped out He-Man. | |
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DmC: Devil May Cry: Kat is loyal to Vergil to the point of near-worship because he once saved her from abuse and gave her a purpose. The loyalty lasts until the revelation that he was using her and wants to rule over the humans, at which point she chooses Dante, who has by then also earned her loyalty and regards her as an equal. | |
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In Star Trek: Discovery episode "The Wolf Inside", Burnham treats Mirror!Saru kindly, presumably unlike her Evil Doppelgänger, even giving him a name instead of just calling him "Slave". So, when Tyler/Voq assaults her, Mirror!Saru saves her and informs security about it. | |
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Crimson Gray: The reason for Lizzie's attachment to John is because he stood up for her when a couple of classmates were badmouthing her. | |
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RWBY: How the relationship between Jaune and Pyrrha starts. Unaware of Pyrrha's formidable reputation, Jaune innocently treats her just like he would any other person. Suffering from a bad case of Lonely at the Top, Pyrrha is immediately charmed by his unassuming nature and goes out of her way to keep an eye on him during the team's upcoming combat trials. Their friendship gave Pyrrha the chance to make even more friends, but it's with Jaune that she likes to spend time. They become best friends and partners in no time and Pyrrha finds herself in love with him. Villainous example: the only reason Emerald sides with the villains is because Cinder took her in off the streets to be her "apprentice", which earned her Emerald's Undying Loyalty. The tragic part is this is almost certainly one-sided; Cinder only wanted her for her Semblance. Once she finally accepts that Cinder holds no real affection for her, and learns the full extent of Salem's plans, she's persuaded to make a Heel–Face Turn. The Maidens of the Seasons usually pass on their powers to whomever they're thinking of when they die (provided that the person in question is female and under 30), so a simple act of kindness in their final moments can be enough for someone to inherit the role, which is exactly how Penny ends up becoming the new Winter Maiden after Fria dies. |
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Camp Lazlo: One episode has the Acorn Flats Scout Mistress named Jane Doe showing kindness to the Camp Kidney campers named Chip and Skip. So much so that she takes them in as if they're orphans. It soon gets out of hand, however, when they take advantage of her kindness, followed by a few of their fellow campers joining in on the fun. To the point where they break one of her valuable gifts, causing her to lose it and kick them out. They do apologize and make up for it at the end of the episode. | |
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In Hakuouki, Saito Hajime is wholly, almost obsessively loyal to the Shinsengumi in general and Hijikata in particular because Hijikata and Shinsengumi co-founder Kondou were the first people to understand and accept without question his left-handed sword-fighting stance and refusal to stop wearing his swords on his right side (nearly a taboo in samurai culture) instead of accusing him of cheating. | |
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On The Inside Man, everyone at the office that Mark Shepherd is sent to infiltrate is so nice to him that he begins to have qualms about his job of trying to steal the company's secrets. He eventually performs a Heel–Face Turn, undergoing a "transformation from undercover hacker to company defender." | |
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On The Watch (2021), Cheery is kind to a goblin named Spike who is part of the group working for Carcer and Wonse, that have been treated as a Fantastic Underclass. As a result, Spike flips to the Watch's side and later takes an arrow in the back for them. | |
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In Elizabeth, when Elizabeth is taken to the Tower of London one of her inquisitors gives her his cloak because it is cold. Elizabeth replies "I will not forget this kindness". Years later when the man is one of many who has plotted against her, she has an audience with him and says "All your many kindnesses are remembered". | |
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A story arc in For Better or for Worse revolved around April dealing with a bully in school named Jeremy Jones. Things come to a head when while chasing her on his bike, he ends up getting hit by a car. April stuck with the driver and called for help. She later came to visit him in the hospital, convinced by Elly. It's revealed she was the only kid who did, not even his so-called friends showed up. Afterwards, he eases up on her, and later that Halloween when some kids vandalized her dad's model train set, he tipped April off to the culprits. They never become friends but he mostly leaves her alone afterwards. | |
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Stalker x Stalker: After Junko's dad went to prison when she was in elementary school for murdering the families of two boys who had been bullying her, nobody in her class wanted anything to do with her—except Yukio, who treated her warmly and didn't even flinch when she told him that her dad would kill anyone who was mean to her, and responded that, in that case, he would just have to keep being nice to her. They've been attached at the hip ever since. | |
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Rick and Morty In the episode "Lawnmower Dog", Snuffles is turned into a super-intelligent dog with one of Rick's helmets. Having been mistreated by Summer and Jerry, he decides to create his own dog army and punish humans (with castration and conquest). Morty, who was the only one nice to him, is spared and allowed to live a life of luxury. The main reason Beth Smith would keep her verbally and mentally abusive, alcoholic, arrogant, lazy, manipulative, and irresponsible father around her children, regardless of all the havoc he leaves behind, is because she thought he was a great father to her when she was a child. But this is ultimately subverted when she begins to realize that he was very neglectful of her, having him build dangerous toys to spend time with him, which led him to assume she was crazy, so he created Froopyland to keep her away from the neighbour and keep her occupied, instead of doing it himself. Also the main reason for her relationship with Jerry. Despite her supposed disgust or annoyance over his faults of being spineless and submissive, it turns out that she's drawn to those faults in a roundabout way because it gives Beth the advantage in her power dynamic with Jerry, allowing her to feel good and special about herself because of how devoted he is to her. Furthermore, Jerry has put with a lot of nonsense from Beth, especially when it comes to Rick and he has stayed by her side despite it all. Despite their Season 3 separation, she chooses to get back together with him because she finds she is happier with him. |
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Problem Child: Junior is shown to actually like Ben as a father since Ben was the first person to adopt him to actually treat him better. | |
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Birds of Prey: Huntress' devotion to the Black Canary definitely has shades of this. | |
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Raising Hope: In one Christmas Special, Jimmy gets to see what his life would be like if he never had his baby Hope. After seeing how awful things are, Jimmy set things right by recreating the night where he conceived Hope. He asks his love interest Sabrina for help, who has now become a prostitute and extremely jaded in this timeline, and tells her he knows she's still a good person underneath her bitter exterior. She claims that was the nicest thing anyone has ever told her and agrees to help him. | |
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A proxy example in Pocahontas. The titular heroine doesn't demonise John Smith and the settlers like the rest of her tribe because her first impression of him is putting his knife away when he sees Meeko — and playing with him, showing that he is a decent person. She then becomes dedicated to protecting him and advocating peace. | |
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In VA-11 HALL-A, Sei works as a Valkyrie (first responder and paramedic, essentially) for the White Knights, Glitch City's corrupt authorities. About halfway through the story, a massive data breach exposes the true depths of their corruption, not only forcing them to disband but also inciting the city to lynch them en masse - but no one goes after Sei. She guesses that this is because everyone who recognized her did so through her having saved their life (or someone close to them) at some point and pretended not to notice her to save hers in return. | |
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An interesting version of this occurs in the Final Fantasy XIV mission "Every Little Thing She Does is Magitek". After repairing a captured Garlean Empire Magitek Armor, Biggs, Wedge, and Cid realize that a repaired part still isn't working right, and Wedge suggests being nice to it to show it appreciation. However, after you and Cid defend it from a group of Imperial Soldiers, it snaps to life and fixes the problem, accepting them. Cid, however, says that he hopes they don't have to do that with the Enterprise. | |
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On The Big Bang Theory, Raj becomes infatuated with Bernadette because, since she is nice to him, he thinks maybe she likes him. He goes so far as to write silly, suggestive poems about her. After his "Did they/Didn't they night" with Penny, Leonard calls him out about it. When she finds out, she is not happy about it (but still nice to him.) Similarly, Howard's endless one-way flirtations with Penny stemmed from her being nice to him, which he took as a sign of attraction. After one too many crass come-ons, she delivers an epic The Reason You Suck speech that puts him in a Heroic BSoD. When they finally talk it out, he admits that justifiably not many women are nice to him, which is why he was so infatuated with her. She apologizes for her actions and their friendship looks repaired... until he again thinks it's a sign of attraction and tries to kiss her; she punches him square in the face. |
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Static Shock: Deconstruction. Eddie Felson met Daisy Watkins at science summer camp. He developed a crush on her because she was the only person at the camp that was kind to him. However, his crush on her becomes an unhealthy obsession, with him stalking her and stealing luxury items to give to her. What made it worse was it was implied from Daisy's reaction to seeing him again and from the way she talked about him is that she did not like him even as a friend and whatever kindness she ever showed him was out of pity. | |
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Wicked: Not so much "because you were nice to me" as "because you were nice to my sister", but when Galinda tells Boq to ask out the Inspirationally Disabled Nessarose, Elphaba goes to Madame Morrible and insists on bringing Galinda into her magic class or else Elphaba's leaving. Rather than let her star pupil leave, Morrible reluctantly takes on Galinda as a student. It then ends up becoming this in the opposite direction, where Elphaba's genuine kindness in response to Galinda's self-serving actions (she only did it to get Boq out of her hair) lead Galinda to befriend Elphaba for real. | |
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Ready Jet Go!: Jet, Sean, Sydney, and Mindy (Jet and Mindy especially) showing kindness towards Mitchell despite his imperfections is what gets him to open up to them and become a trustworthy ally of the team. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Taiga Hanaya's answer to why he tolerated Nico Saiba despite her presence seriously grating on his nerves? She called him her doctor and that made him happy. He is so devoted to protecting her that he would rather die than fail, has very little consideration for his own life anyway and Nico really cares about him even though it's a chore sometimes (probably more often than that). | |
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In DuckTales (2017), Launchpad helps the Rescue Rangers in getting their Ranger Plane to initially fly. They return by the end of the episode and save Launchpad from Steelbeak. | |
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The Order of the Stick: This is why the Monster In The Darkness helps O-Chul. On the other hand, since he's got a rather hazy view of "nice", it's also why he helps Xykon: Much later, Lien is confused as to why trolls would save Serini's life, guessing it might be for the money she gave them in exchange for blood, to which Serini replies they'd have got more by looting her corpse. O-Chul, perhaps remembering his own relationship with the MITD, sees the real reason. |
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The Resident Evil series has a few: Ada Wong is this way towards Leon ever since he took a bullet for her in Resident Evil 2. Ada will sometimes go out of her way to give Leon some support when she can, even if it's against her orders. If Leon rescues a dog whose leg is caught in a bear trap in Resident Evil 4, the dog will later come back to assist him against a Boss Battle. |
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In the The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim expansion Dawnguard, you can have this sort of relationship with Serana. She (being a vampire) will walk into a vampire-hunter stronghold to give you useful information because you helped free her and escorted her home. This is also the reason she gives for trusting you to find her mother. | |
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Metal Gear: Big Boss uses this trope to play the benefactor role a LOT. This has essentially become his MO for converting enemies to his side and inspiring unwavering loyalty in his men, and he has become frighteningly efficient at this. One prominent example of this is in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain with Quiet, an XOF assassin originally sent to kill Big Boss. After surviving their first encounter, they run into each other again in Afghanistan, where they engage in a Sniper Duel. Big Boss not only defeats her but opts to spare her life, thus winning her loyalty and leading to her defecting from Cipher to the Diamond Dogs. This trope, combined with Stockholm Syndrome, is why Otacon falls for Sniper Wolf during Metal Gear Solid. |
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In Persona 5, this is mutually done for both Joker and Ryuji. Ryuji had become a pariah at Shujin Academy due to Kamoshida's treatment towards him and his old track team hating him but he becomes fast friends with Joker after their trip to the Metaverse and Joker is the first person in a long time to treat Ryuji kindly. For Joker, Ryuji was the first one to befriend him despite the wrongful accusations and rumors that Joker has a criminal record. This is actually how Joker interacts with all the Confidantes- they're almost all social outcasts for one reason or another, whether it's Ann (whose looks make most people in the school think she's a slut), Tae Takemi (who's a disgraced doctor with a checkered past), Shinya Oda (who's a video game ace who has no friends due to his mom's obsessive behavior), or Munehisa Iwai (who's a former member of the yakuza). Joker listens to all of them and treats them with respect, and in return, they all develop serious loyalty to him. | |
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In New X-Men: Academy X, X-23 goes to considerable lengths to protect Dust from the Purifiers when they attack the academy because Dust was one of the only people at the academy who was nice to her when she arrived. On the other end, Dust was nice to Laura because she was a refreshing change from her old roommate Surge, who didn't agree with her beliefs. | |
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In the Old World Blues DLC of Fallout: New Vegas, if you manage to befriend or help out at least three of the Think Tanks, they'll stand up to Dr. Klein when he tries to do away with you, meaning you won't have to kill them. | |
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This is part of the reason Princess Sapphire Rhodonite falls for Almaz in Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice: Sapphire faced a lot of derision as a heartless sociopath because she didn't cry at the Queen's funeral. Almaz was the only one to realize she was mourning her mother's death and stand up for her. | |
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In Uncanny X-Men, former supervillain Rogue was made to feel distinctly unwelcome when she first joined the X-Men. In UXM #172 she accompanies her new teammates to Tokyo to attend Wolverine's wedding. On seeing her, Wolverine comments that if it were up to him, he'd cut out her heart, but his fiancee, the aristocratic Mariko Yashida, says that Rogue as a guest is entitled to all due courtesy and respect and welcomes her. Effectively Mariko was merely acting in accordance with the ethical and social rules of her class, but it still was the first time Rogue was unreservedly welcomed by anyone since she left the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and so in the following issue Rogue shows no hesitation to lay down her life to prevent her death ("Lady Mariko was kind t'me — she accepted me, right off — ah won't let her come to any harm!"). The fire from Viper's blaster actually hurts her badly, but Rogue accepts her likely death philosophically. However, Logan now feels indebted to her for saving the woman he loves and makes Rogue absorb his healing factor. | |
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In Warframe the Tenno were the only ones to express empathy and compassion towards the titular warframes, who were driven mad with rage and anguish from having been turned into human weapons by the Orokin, allowing them to finally feel at peace. The warframes repaid this kindness with their Undying Loyalty. | |
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In Neverwinter Nights 2's built-in campaign, Neeshka mentions this about the PC if Relationship Values are stable before fighting the final boss, allowing her to resist The Dragon's mind control. It's a big part of the reason why the "romance" path with her, even though mostly cut, comes off as better written than most of the ones seen in video games. Inversely, Neeshka won't even need to be mind-controlled into betraying the PC if their relationship values are low enough. | |
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Ada Wong is this way towards Leon ever since he took a bullet for her in Resident Evil 2. Ada will sometimes go out of her way to give Leon some support when she can, even if it's against her orders. | |
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If Leon rescues a dog whose leg is caught in a bear trap in Resident Evil 4, the dog will later come back to assist him against a Boss Battle. | |
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The Happyhills Homicide: Madison Carpenter is the only victim the Clown shows remorse for, even calling her "the only kind one". When he was still John Wade, Madison was the only one at Westpine High who would treat him with any decency, which lead to him developing a crush on her. | |
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The Last Jedi: Because she showed him sympathy in spite of his crimes in The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren has developed feelings for Rey, to the point where he isn't annoyed that she uses his real name. However, he's still unwilling to reform, instead offering her to rule the galaxy at his side. Despite his warnings that he will have to kill her, he appears extremely reluctant to fulfill this promise. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, the Warden can be played as demonstrating genuine kindness toward everyone he/she meets, including the members of the party. Since many of the party members have a history of being friendless, the Warden's consideration toward them can inspire them to Undying Loyalty. This trope is pronounced to Morrigan (who actively avoids any sentiments and attachments), Oghren (who suffers from ridicule by his own people), and Zevran (who is desensitized by his job as a Crow). | |
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In Mad Max: Fury Road, Immortan treated Furiosa like his property. The rest of the Citadel probably had to be cowed into respecting her as she climbed the ranks, and they obviously dislike her. Max is the first guy who showed her proper respect and didn't try to kill her at the first sign of weakness. As a result, he and Furiosa become as close to a Battle Couple as possible without actually being a couple. Nux's Mook–Face Turn comes when Capable, one of the Wives, shows him actual compassion for the first time since his induction into the War Boys death cult. |
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In 13 Reasons Why, Hannah feels this way about Clay and Tyler feels this way about Alex. Justin also feels this way about Bryce as Bryce provides an escape from his terrible home life but this trope is deconstructed as Justin allows Bryce to rape his girlfriend because Bryce thinks: “What’s mine is yours (Justin)� | |
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The Owl House: This is heavily implied to be the reason why Amity Blight develops a crush on Luz Noceda. In a world like The Boiling Isles, which runs on Social Darwinism and Everything Is Trying to Kill You, along with Amity having Abusive Parents and Big Sibling Bullies, she is drawn to Luz's constant kindness, even in moments where she doesn't need to be. A more direct example from the episode "Labyrinth Runners". After Gus finds Hunter squatting in Hexside's auditorium, he realizes that Hunter has been eating out of trash cans, and despite not trusting him, decides to give him his packed lunch. Hunter pays him back for this by saving him from Graye and the Coven Scouts, and sticking by him for the rest of the episode to try to keep him safe, even though that means blowing his cover and putting himself in extreme danger. King actually keeping his end of their deal and freeing The Collector makes him one of the only people the almighty childlike being is willing to listen to; not only destroying Belos and saving his friends, but casually foiling the Day of Unity by pulling the moon away to undo the eclipse. |
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In Fire Emblem Fates, the Team Pet Lilith says that she follows the Avatar because he/she nursed her back to health when younger, thinking she was an injured bird. Jakob explains to Azura in their supports that he was practically sold off by his Abusive Parents to the Nohrian royals, and since up until then he was a nobleman, he had no idea of how to perform even the most menial chores. The young Avatar insisted on keeping Jakob around as his/her companion despite his initial blunders, so he became their loyal Battle Butler to repay the favor. |
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The Last Human In A Crowded Galaxy: Nearly every robot she meets loves Sarya since she treats them no different from any other person. One that looks like a red EVE starts following her around. | |
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Sin City: Quoted above: Marv's attitude toward Goldie in the first issue. He's not an idiot — he realizes that Goldie almost certainly got close to him because she needed protection from whoever it was that killed her in the opening pages. But as he explains to Goldie's Angsty Surviving Twin Wendy, be that as it may — she's the only stranger who's ever shown Marv any genuine kindness, and it's also implied that she's the only woman who wasn't too terrified of his appearance to sleep with him. So he searches relentlessly to find her killer. | |
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In Fallout 3, Gob will give the player a discount if they treat him nicely since everyone else in the town (especially his boss Colin Moriarty) treat him like crap for being a ghoul. | |
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Castlevania: When Dracula finds out his wife, Lisa, was arrested on trumped-up charges of witchcraft and is already dead, he warns her elderly neighbor to take her family and run before he unleashes hell on Wallachia. He doesn't tell her this because she was nice to Dracula himself, but because she was the only person to pay respect to Lisa's memory. One of Dracula's human servants, Isaac, serves him because of this trope; Isaac was a former slave who was abused and treated like a waste of oxygen by everyone, and Dracula was the first person to show him any sort of respect and kindness. |
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Soren in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn feels this toward Ike. When Soren had been abused, abandoned, and left for dead, Ike found him and gave him food and respect. Soren was so incredibly touched by this simple random act of kindness that he literally devoted the entire rest of his life to him, even after they were separated for years and Ike didn't remember meeting him. However, Ike does continue to show Soren kindness repeatedly throughout the games, which he appreciates. Their paired ending even describes Ike as the only person Soren ever trusted. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Iroh is imprisoned by the Fire Nation. He's treated very poorly by the guards, except for a woman who brings his meals. When he planned to escape, he told her to take the rest of the day off because she always treated him kindly, and he didn't want her around for what was about to happen. | |
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Minotaur Hotel: In the main route, Asterion will become close friends with you for this very reason, as you're the first master to ever treat him like a friend. Regardless of what actions you make, Storm will always become close with P for the sheer fact that he gave him a charm that makes him appear human. If P. is particularly kind to Storm they have a more obvious Unresolved Sexual Tension. |
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Sleepaway Camp: This is the reason Angela spares Ricky, Ronnie, and Susie. | |
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For most of The Tale of the Bunny Picnic, the dog is an antagonist. That changes as soon as Bean helps him hide from his abusive owner, and then leads the rest of the bunnies in driving him off. The dog decides to befriend the bunnies instead of chasing them after that. | |
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Steven Universe: Lapis Lazuli has this attitude towards Steven. He befriended her while she was still trapped in a mirror for thousands of years before Steven set her free. Afterwards, she actually tried to kill him after she stole the Earth's ocean to try to get back to Homeworld, but their friendship was confirmed when he healed her cracked gem. Ever since then, she's made several efforts to protect him or at least warn him of danger, and eventually, she held Jasper in a fusion at the bottom of the ocean to prevent her from harming Steven. While she's still shown to be hostile, or at least ambivalent towards the other Crystal Gems, it's very clear that she wants to do whatever she can for Steven, the only being in thousands of years who was nice to her and treated her kindly. It ultimately results in her deciding to officially join the Crystal Gems when the Diamonds invade Earth in "Reunited". Peridot also begins to develop these feelings due to Steven showing her compassion and trust and the rest of the Gems showing her varying degrees of compassion. It ultimately results in her turning on Yellow Diamond and becoming a Crystal Gem to help protect Earth. The Pebbles who live in the walls of the Diamond Palace. They appear to be made entirely by accident, and their purpose seems to be "stay out of sight and perform various chores". Pink Diamond actively sought them out and thanked them for their work, which led many of them being her playmates. They befriend Steven for similar reasons. |
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Fritz Von Erich gave Bruiser Brody a job in WCCW after being blacklisted from every US promotion after falling out with Vince McMahon Sr. Because of this, he became close to the Von Erich family, even looking out for David during a tour in Japan. | |
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Fallout In Fallout 3, Gob will give the player a discount if they treat him nicely since everyone else in the town (especially his boss Colin Moriarty) treat him like crap for being a ghoul. This is also most likely the only reason that, when you're in Raven Rock and have the option to free a Deathclaw from its cage, it doesn't attack you on sight. Granted, the base was going to go up in flames soon and it either wanted out or wanted its revenge, but it could have attacked you at that moment but didn't. Fallout: New Vegas has a super mutant called Mean-son-of-a bitch who used to be a slave who was brutally abused by the people watching him, until a man from Westside took pity on him and bought his freedom. Afterwards, Mean followed him back to Westside, where he repaid his debt by becoming the town's principal defender; apparently, once he even drove off the dreaded Fiends by himself. Another example in New Vegas has to do with the first town you visit, that is Goodsprings where local Doc Mitchell helps get you back into walking shape after the ambush that ended with you getting shot in the head, and Sunny Smiles helps teach you some key tactics to living in the wasteland. You have the chance to repay their actions when the villainous Powder Gangers come to the town and you can rally the townsfolk to fight them off. There's no story-relevant reason to ever return to Goodsprings after you leave, but doing so is well worth the comeback. In the Old World Blues DLC of Fallout: New Vegas, if you manage to befriend or help out at least three of the Think Tanks, they'll stand up to Dr. Klein when he tries to do away with you, meaning you won't have to kill them. |
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In Garfield and Friends, in the U.S. Acres segments. This trope is the reason Lanolin's at times the nicest (or at least compared to how she treats the other characters, normally) to Orson. Then when Bo said that he and the others like her too, pleasantly surprised, Lanolin said she'll try to be nicer to them then. | |
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Magick Chicks: It's no secret that Sandi is loyal to Faith and there's a reason for that: when she was younger, Sandi couldn't control her power, which alienated the other kids around her. Faith took Sandi under her wing and taught her how to properly channel her ability. Sandi further explained that, though it took time and effort on Faith's part, she never gave up on her. And for that, she's eternally grateful to her. | |
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Ed Wood: Bela and Ed Wood's friendship started with Bela being flattered by Ed's enthusiasm and admiration for him as an actor. What cemented it was despite how bad Ed's films are, he was willing to do it to at least help Bela get work. | |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2: This trope is why Mog swore fealty to Lightning. Ever since Mog fell into Valhalla, he's been going with the "weak obey the strong" rule there, but he's been rejected and abandoned multiple times by many powerful opponents who didn't want such a weak creature. When he ran into Lightning and lost his game, he expected to be abandoned again... but she told him to come with her. Lightning was the first person to accept him as he was and not just ditch him. | |
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Ayasaki-san: A transfer student has a crush on Chiaki since he picked up her eraser she dropped, this causes her to stalk him. | |
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Kaeloo: It's heavily implied that the main reason Stumpy loves Ursula more than anyone else is that she accepts him despite all his flaws, while his other friends constantly make fun of and bully him. It's also suggested that one of the main reasons Mr. Cat is relatively nicer to Kaeloo than anyone else and spares her from some of the more vicious things he does is that she shows him a lot of kindness. |
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In Full Metal Jacket, Joker is the one person who actually is nice to "Gomer Pyle", encourages him, and actually refers to him by his real name of "Leonard." It's implied this is the reason Pyle doesn't kill Joker after killing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman — he definitely considers it and even takes aim at Joker, but instead just sits down and shoots himself. | |
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In a 1925 Little Orphan Annie comic, Annie rescues a puppy being abused by a group of boys. She shelters the pup and gives him away to a good home. A few months later, when Annie is kidnapped, the fully grown dog, which she had named Sandy, ends up coming to her rescue. He has been her longstanding companion ever since. | |
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In Being Human (UK), the only reason Herrick has any compunctions about killing Nina is that she was the only one who was kind to him and protected him when he lost his memory. He still stabs her. | |
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In Glee, the event that sparks Kurt's crush on Finn is when Finn once berated one of his friends for slamming Kurt into a locker. Even though Finn's seen taking part in this sort of bullying in the first episode, this one instance of kindness made Kurt like him. And once Finn joins the Glee club and they become friends, he starts to like Finn almost too much... And later this happens again between Kurt and Blaine, and Blaine and Jeremiah. |
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Digger: At the end of the comic, it turns out the bandersnatch would not go overland because "the Shadow" asked it not to. It didn't mind obeying, since it was asked nicely, and "hardly anyone asks us nicely." | |
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This becoms doubly touching in Deviant: The Renegades; Show a Deviant, especially a Renegade, enough Kindness & you've not only gained a quite possibly highly powerful, (potentially) rouge Cyborg, Psychic, Mutant, Hybrid, or Energy Manipulator as an ally, but you've also just quite possibly helped them become (hopefully) better able to control their powers, or even find peace if their Loyalty & Conviction were at equal levels. | |
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Blood is Mine: Michelle was meant to betray the protagonist from the very beginning, but when the time came, she just couldn't make herself do it because of how genuinely nice she was treated. Even the author was surprised at such a turn of events. | |
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Because Max on Goof Troop showed compassion for his mistreated and miserable neighbor, PJ, and went out of his way to provide him with opportunities he'd never had and friendship, including coming up with two separate elaborate plans to maintain it, he ended up with one of the sweetest, most loyal friends he could ever ask for, who stuck with him through middle school, high school, and college. | |
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Red vs. Blue: This treatment by the Reds and Blues blows Washington out of the water, and helps bring out his good side again. Fitting, because the total lack of this trope got him to go evil in the first place. | |
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In Strong Female Protagonist, Patrick revealed to Alison within his mind that the time she believed him when he revealed what he had uncovered of The Conspiracy after she had already routed his plans as a supervillain, to be the time that he first thought of her as a friend rather than an enemy. Subverted in that this made her a threat to the order he had painstakingly established within his psyche, and so he attacked her with intent to kill. | |
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In Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, the title character lends his services as an assassin to Louie, a mobster who saved his life from a gang beating when he was younger. As Ghost Dog considers himself a modern Samurai, he considers himself Louie's loyal retainer. Louie's loyalty to Ghost Dog is nowhere near as strong (he barely even remembers the incident back when he chased off some disrespectful punks who happened to be beating up some black kid). | |
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In one episode of Alvin and the Chipmunks when Alvin was left behind by the others because he didn't do his chores, Alvin did them for once, only for a Contrived Coincidence to occur when an alien being chased by an agent and a scientist begged Alvin to hide him. Despite Alvin's attempts to dissuade the hunters, they ransacked the house in search of the alien before offering to Alvin they'd fix it up and by the one next door for him (which had a cool dirt bike Alvin wanted) in exchange for him telling them where the alien was. Despite this, Alvin continued to feign ignorance, resulting in the agent and scientist leaving the house in its messed-up state with one minute before the others came home. Fortunately for Alvin, before departing, the grateful alien zapped the house with a ray that restored the house to the way it was before he arrived. | |
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In Hoops, Matty has adamantly refused to join the basketball team. Ben spends most of "The Pilot" trying to convince him to do so, even going so far as to hire a hooker to try to get him laid. The plan doesn't work out and both Hopkins and the hooker get arrested before the hooker even makes it through Matty's door. At the end of the episode, however, when Ben is about to throw in the towel, he finds that Matty has joined the team. Matty says that he did so because what Ben did was the first time anyone had ever done anything like this for him. | |
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In Tell No One, Bruno, a gangster, has a hemophiliac son he would do anything for. When Bruno first brought his son to the hospital, the doctors and then police thought he abused his son, but Alexandre, a doctor turned pediatrician, figured out the truth and convinced everyone of it. Therefore, when Alexandre is falsely accused of murder, Bruno gladly steps in to help. | |
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In Chapter Two of Deltarune, we discover that even when she was a Barbaric Bully, Susie never went after Noelle. This is because Noelle offered her a pencil on the first day of school, and, considering her to be genuinely nice, she decided to spare her. Ironically, Noelle's crush on her stems from liking how wild and dangerous she is, and mistakenly thought that Susie was ignoring her because she didn't notice or care that she was alive. | |
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Case 02: Paranormal Evil: Marty bonds with Sally because she constantly brought lucky clovers to his comatose body, despite them being complete strangers to each other. Due to this, he's willing to fight a zombie and cultist army in order to prevent her from being used as Gla'aki's vessel. | |
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During an episode of Malcolm in the Middle, Malcolm and his brothers are babysat by a hot blonde babysitter. It turns out she has a crush on Francis due to him once sort of complimenting her when she was younger (and fat). Francis, being away at military school, has no idea she's changed so much, and narrowly misses a chance to date a girl who would have been genuinely devoted to him. You want to punch him the whole time. | |
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Near the end of Joker (2019), Arthur spares Gary for being the only person who had been nothing but nice to him the entire movie, when everyone else has either done nothing but act like a jerk to him, or treat him nicely at first but then throw him under the bus when convenient. | |
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Tintin: Tintin gets several allies this way: in Prisoners of the Sun, for instance, he defends a boy from some bullies, and the boy later offers to guide him to a secret Inca temple, even though he could be killed for doing so. | |
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In Futurama, Kif to Leela in "Brannigan, Begin Again". | |
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Fate/Grand Order Abused in life and feared in death, anyone who treats Beni-Enma kindly will win her eternal loyalty, like the protagonist and the old man who helped her in the past. While he acknowledges that Jason can be a Jerkass sometimes, a major reason why Heracles puts up with him and genuinely likes him is that he's one of the few people during his life to treat him as an actual person. This is what ultimately convinces Ereshkigal to sway to the heroes' side in Babylonia. The protagonist's kind-hearted personality despite everything Ishtar, and by extension herself, had done to the people of Uruk and them made her switch to fighting for their cause. This is noticeable in your first interactions with her, where after freeing her from being tied up, she's willing to help let you escape minions from the Underworld, specifically because you were nice to her. With her backstory and how lonely she was, she was not expecting a human of all people to be as nice to her as you were. Teach Us FGO! The Greats and Legends of Grand Order reveals that Anne Bonny and Mary Read love the protagonist because they treated the two of them kindly despite being pirates, whereas they were hated in life for being criminals. Oryou remembers planning on all kinds of deceptions to trick Ryouma into releasing her from a cursed spear and then killing him. She was surprised when Ryouma just removed the spear, commented on how that must have sucked, and left. She fell in love with him and followed. Caster Altria's Undying Loyalty to the protagonist lies in this trope since they're the first person to treat her as a normal person instead of The Chosen One. Hans Christian Andersen's opinion of the protagonist changes as they bring him refreshments and give him time to rest in between assignments- it helps that the protagonist is respectable overall. These factors sharply contrast his relationship with Sesshouin Kiara, who more or less just needed him to ascend her to the level of a True Demon. As seen with her relationship with her Masters in Fate/stay night, Medea can be a treacherous Servant if treated poorly, living up to her title as the "Witch of Betrayal". However, treat her well, as Kuzuki and the protagonist do, and she becomes an incredibly loyal and loving Servant who would gladly lay down her life for her Master. According to supplementary materials, the only way to ensure the loyalty of Mephistopheles is to keep treating him well while surviving his inevitable betrayals. He will then follow orders willingly, mostly out of amusement at his Master's stubbornness. Miss Crane is endlessly grateful for any favors or kindness she receives (no matter how small), intending to repay every last one in time. She sees the clothes she makes as the highest form of repayment she can bestow, perfecting her craft to the point that it would seem as though the gods made them. The Assassin of ParaÃso's Undying Loyalty to the protagonist stems from them being the first person to treat her like a person instead of just a tool. Grey exhibits a weird variation. She holds high respect for Lord El-Melloi II because he was one of the few people who didn't like her face, since that means he doesn't care about her lineage as so many others did. This applies to the protagonist as well, as she is happy, they look at her like any other person and not as a Saberface. In "GUDAGUDA Final Honnoji", Li Shuwen chooses to help Oda Kippoushi fight Chaldea (despite being from Chaldea himself) because Kippoushi took him when he first arrived to the Singularity, giving him food and shelter. As far as he's concerned, he has a debt to pay. Asterios' loyalty to his Master and Euryale is because they call him by his name instead of "Minotaur," giving him freedom, and simply being his friends. By being treated as a man instead of a monster, Asterios reclaims pieces of his faded humanity. This is the reason why Paul Bunyan teams up with Chaldea against the Nameless Master. Fran's fondness for Babbage stems from the fact that he was the only known person in her life to show her kindness. It's revealed in Benienma's Interlude that Shuten was the one to convince Ibaraki-Douji to leave her mother's household and to enjoy things as an oni boss instead of suffering. This explains Ibaraki-Douji's loyalty to Shuten. In the Turas Realta manga, Kiyohime falls for Ritsuka when she realizes he is telling the truth that he finds her ability to change into a fire dragon cool and not disgusting. Kingprotea loves the protagonist for caring about her for her, rather than just her power. Meltryllis falls in love with the protagonist for treating her kindly and never seeing her as a monster, rescuing her from the despair and loneliness she felt ever since she was created. Surtr fell in love with Ophelia when they became connected during their respective first deaths, as she sympathized with and reassured him on failing his task of bringing Ragnarök. However, he's pretty bad at actually getting this affection across. |
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Heroes of the Seasons: Gobi sees the various leaders of the Christmas-hating coalition as mere pawns. He is only loyal to Lord Ciceri, who took him in after Vyena's Holy Order slaughtered his family. | |
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Nightbooks: The cat, Lenore, starts the film as The Mole for Natacha, spying on the kids and reporting to her. After Alex saves him from Natacha's wrath and heals wounds he sustained courtesy of a Shredder, he grows much kinder to Alex and Yazmin, eventually betraying Natacha by mixing the sleeping potion into the mist she sprays on herself. | |
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Dreaming Freedom: Jeongmin falls in love with Jayheok because he was one of the first people in her life to be kind and a good friend to her, which Juhyeon notices. Siyun also falls in love with Jeongmin because she promised to always stay by his side, even after hearing his backstory that revealed what he did to a few of his former peers. |
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Final Fantasy: In Episode Zero: Promise, the prologue novel to Final Fantasy XIII, Vanille bumps into Nora and Hope Estheim when lining up to get Purged from Bodhum. Nora's kindness towards Vanille compels the latter to join her and Hope on the Purge train, reasoning that she wants to be with kind people if they should get treated like criminals. Final Fantasy XIII-2: This trope is why Mog swore fealty to Lightning. Ever since Mog fell into Valhalla, he's been going with the "weak obey the strong" rule there, but he's been rejected and abandoned multiple times by many powerful opponents who didn't want such a weak creature. When he ran into Lightning and lost his game, he expected to be abandoned again... but she told him to come with her. Lightning was the first person to accept him as he was and not just ditch him. An interesting version of this occurs in the Final Fantasy XIV mission "Every Little Thing She Does is Magitek". After repairing a captured Garlean Empire Magitek Armor, Biggs, Wedge, and Cid realize that a repaired part still isn't working right, and Wedge suggests being nice to it to show it appreciation. However, after you and Cid defend it from a group of Imperial Soldiers, it snaps to life and fixes the problem, accepting them. Cid, however, says that he hopes they don't have to do that with the Enterprise. |
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In the season 1 finale of Young Dracula, Ingrid saves the Branaughs from a pack of hungry vampires because Mrs. B gave her a present. | |
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Later in the series, Reese admits that he was once on the verge of committing suicide (Lethal Weapon style — he had a special bullet and everything) until the events of the pilot when Carter showed him kindness and empathy. | |
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Downplayed in I Miss the Sunrise, where it only leads to one favor. If you attempt to rescue the Black One in Episode 3, he'll cite this as his motivation when he returns to help you later on. | |
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In Dorothy of Oz, Abee is so devoted to Mara because she was the only person to treat him like a human being and not beat the crap out of him for being unable to answer a question. He even states this in the second volume when they first meet. | |
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A relatively low-stakes example occurs at the final ball in The Princess Diaries, when Mia, newly crowned as princess, chooses Michael to be her partner for her first dance. When he asks why she picked him, she tells him, "Because you saw me when I was invisible," referring to the fact that Michael was one of the few people who cared about Mia even when she was just a normal teenager — and a social outcast at that — rather than only taking an interest in her life after she was revealed to be a princess. | |
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Until Dawn: There's no indication that the wolf Mike meets in the sanitorium is abused by the Stranger, but if you don't kick it, or give it a bone to chew on if you did, it'll immediately warm up to Mike's affection and repay his kindness later by guiding him through the sanitorium on his second visit, growling and barking if any wendigos are nearby. | |
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Game of Thrones: Brienne of Tarth is in love with King Renly Baratheon because he's the only man who recognizes her worth as a human being and a warrior, and does not judge her based on her appearance or gender. He himself understands how painful it is to be frequently mocked for not adhering to rigid gender roles (his older brothers Robert and Stannis have bullied him for his lack of combat experience, not to mention his homosexuality), so his empathy towards Brienne's situation allows him to be accepting of her masculinity. Jon and Ygritte's relationship kicks off when he spares her life. Also because Ygritte, as a Wildling, treats being defeated and spared as interest in her. Sandor Clegane turns up in Season 6, having been saved and brought back to health by Septon Ray and his people. Though Clegane is gruff and grouchy as ever, it's clear that he cares about them. He is truly horrified later when he finds them butchered by Lem Lemoncloak and the other rogue Brotherhood men. When Sandor retrieves his axe, it's clear that Lem and his buddies done fucked up. Ask Tyrion to name his favorite family member, and he will without a moment’s hesitation say “Jaime�, his older brother. Several characters throughout the show comment that Jaime always looked out for Tyrion, sticking up for him and protecting him from other people, even fellow Lannisters. Cersei: "You’ve ALWAYS pitied him. Our POOR little brother.� |
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Puyo Puyo: Due to the setting's rules on spacetime travel, Ecolo was never able to forge a genuine connection with anyone before the events of Puyo Puyo 7, as everyone he met would immediately forget about him at his next dimension jump. Because of this, Ringo's Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory and her surprisingly jovial treatment of him have caused him to develop a downright unhealthy, but genuinely affectionate attachment to her. | |
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Averted in Exam. White tells Blonde that helping him was a mistake when he has her at gunpoint, not showing any care about her help. | |
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Spider-Man: During The Gauntlet storyline, the Juggernaut helped Spider-Man after the wall-crawler tried to help the villain when he was attacked by the latest Captain Universe. | |
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Invader Zim: Although Zim was pretty mean to Keef for the most part because he called them "friends" and pretended to enjoy his company (for appearance's sake), Keef became obsessed with Zim even after Zim made it clear he wanted nothing to do with him. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: The Green / Savage Hulk usually has the mentality of a small child, so this means if someone's nice to him, or even just acts nice to him, they've got his undying friendship. | |
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Good Omens (2019): It is heavily implied (confirmed in season 2) that Crowley fell in love with Aziraphale because of his kindness. In their first (not the first) meeting at the Garden of Eden Aziraphale sheltered Crowley under his wing when it started raining. Also, Crowley was impressed that Aziraphale had given away his flaming sword to save the humans. Could be the same for Aziraphale, because in their actual first meeting angel Crowley sheltered Aziraphale under his wing when the stars started falling. In series 2, Crowley and Aziraphale play matchmakers for two mortals, and Crowley's idea of falling in love is to be sheltered during the rain, he's very insistent on it, brings it up multiple times, and later in the season actually tries it out on the mortals Nina and Maggie to bring them together. He is so fixed on this idea precisely because that was how he fell in love with Aziraphale. |
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In Kingdom of Heaven, Balian is forced to kill a Saracen knight in a fight over a horse, but he spares the life of the man's servant, sets him free once they reach Jerusalem, and even gives him the horse that had been the subject of the fight. Some time later, it's revealed that the "servant" is actually Saracen leader Saladin's right-hand man (presumably traveling incognito to avoid becoming a target), and he repays Balian's mercy several times over the course of the movie. | |
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As seen with her relationship with her Masters in Fate/stay night, Medea can be a treacherous Servant if treated poorly, living up to her title as the "Witch of Betrayal". However, treat her well, as Kuzuki and the protagonist do, and she becomes an incredibly loyal and loving Servant who would gladly lay down her life for her Master. | |
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The Jeffersons: When George was just starting his dry-cleaning business, one of his first customers was a rich woman who mistook his dry cleaners for another. She decided to take a chance on him anyway and recommended him to her friends after he did a good job. Years later, the roles are reversed: the woman's down on her luck after the death of her husband, while George is a successful businessman. When she comes in to pick up her cleaning, he tells her she can pay him whenever she's able, then tears up her invoice after she leaves. It's implied this isn't the first time he's done this for her, either. | |
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At the end of Slaxx, this is why the ghost of Keerat lets Libby and Shruti live, and even saves Libby from Craig after he kills Shruti and tries to kill her. They were the only people who cared about Keerat's plight and how she died, and vowed to tell her story to the world. | |
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In Babe: Pig in the City, Babe gets chased by a vicious bull terrier until it ends up in a position where it's about to drown, and Babe goes back to rescue it. The Bull Terrier thanks Babe because he didn't believe anyone would've gone back to save him and offers him his collar as a sign of friendship. | |
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52: When Doc Magnus single-handedly takes down the Mad Scientist think tank, he lets T.O. Morrow escape. When Morrow asks why, Magnus says that it's because Morrow was one of the only people who actually took his theories seriously when he was first starting out. | |
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Subverted twice in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Naughty Nautical Neighbors", First, Patrick made friends with Squidward after performing CPR to get the fork out of his throat just until he fell asleep while Squidward was playing his clarinet in which he tries dragging him out of his house, throwing out his back on the process. This causes SpongeBob to ram his head on Squidward's back, putting him back to normal. The two are friends until SpongeBob breaks his double bass which prompts Squidward to literally kick him out of his house. Of course, this didn't stop SpongeBob and Patrick from fighting over Squidward. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, part of why Liz is so protective of Ashley is because she helped her quit smoking, despite having first met when Liz was cranky from withdrawal and snapped at Ashley when she bumped into her in the hallway. | |
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Drowtales: Ariel buys a cheap gladiator to help deal with a school bully. However, after the gladiator saves her life, Ariel grants her her freedom, but she refuses to leave. However, Vaelia's reasons for loyalty are not purely because Ariel did something for her. Mel'arnach and Lulianne seem to have this even though they're a jailer and prisoner respectively. This becomes especially apparent when Mel escapes and Lulianne follows. |
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In Ghost 1.0, Jacker and Boogan are the first clients to treat Ghost like a person rather than an asset. They communicate with her throughout her mission, show concern for her well-being, and generally make her feel like part of their team. As such, when Ghost's boss Viktor kidnaps Jacker toward the end of the game, Ghost immediately enacts a plan to rescue him. | |
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Shrapnel, As a result of Reznya being the first and only person to accept the Commandah’s desperate request to help him save his bruddahs, she gains not only his Undying Loyalty, but the Undying Loyalty of all the Ugandan Knuckles working under him as well. | |
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Turandot has Liu, who follows Calaf like a dog, looks after his elderly father, suffers torture, and kills herself so that he can marry the unattainable title character... because he smiled at her once. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the episode "Keep Calm And Flutter On", Discord is redeemed (mostly) when he realizes that Fluttershy actually is trying to be his friend, that Friendship really is Magic, and that if he continues his chaotic rampage he'll lose the only friend he's ever had. Fluttershy purposely invoked this trope, and Discord knew she was doing it... but it still worked. And in "Twilight's Kingdom", he is reformed once and for all (though still remaining untamed) after Twilight saves him from Tirek even though Discord had earlier done a Face–Heel Turn and helped Tirek drain all the ponies' powers. In "School Raze", the racist Chancellor Neighsay is truly touched when the non-pony students he'd locked up freed him in an Enemy Mine scenario, and his gratitude helps him turn over a new leaf. |
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Doctor Who: In "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead", Donna ends up trapped in a virtual reality. She finds herself assisted by the virtual avatar of Miss Evangelista, the Brainless Beauty who died in the previous episode and became a genius upon being uploaded. Evangelista wants to repay Donna for being kind to her when she was alive. | |
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Star Wars Rebels: Zeb showing compassion to his archenemy Agent Kallus when they were stranded on an icy, inhospitable moon together winds up triggering a Heel–Face Turn for Kallus, as Zeb is was able to be reasonable with him, and the Empire didn’t bother to go look for him. Since no one would at first believe he's changed, he'd use this trope as an excuse. | |
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In Dick Tracy, this was the reason for the Mole's Heel–Face Turn. After he was thrown in jail, Tracy gave the Mole a Christmas present, a care package with some simple gifts. The Mole had lived such a lonely, miserable life that the simple gesture meant the world to him. He went straight and these days is a good friend of Tracy and his family. | |
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In Person of Interest, Lionel Fusco manipulated crime scenes for Stills and Azarello because Stills was a friend to him when his wife left him and took custody of his kid. Later in the series, Reese admits that he was once on the verge of committing suicide (Lethal Weapon style — he had a special bullet and everything) until the events of the pilot when Carter showed him kindness and empathy. |
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In Jimmy Two-Shoes Chuck, a bus driver, becomes an obsessed stalker of a friend to an unwilling Jimmy after Jimmy called him "pal" and apologized for accidentally wrecking his bus. Chuck is shown to try to become a persistent friend to anyone who's even remotely nice to him. | |
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Secret Wars (2015): Miles Morales gives Molecule Man a hamburger. Even in context, it's pretty weird (as Miles had it in his pocket forgotten for three weeks), but it's also the first act of kindness that anybody has shown Molecule Man in eight years, as he's been tucked away to be used as a Living Battery. At the end of the storyline, Owen repays the debt by cosmically retconning Miles and his loved ones to the new Marvel Universe, and while he's at it, bringing Miles' mother Back from the Dead. | |
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Lamento - beyond the void: Asato is loyal and devoted to Konoe stems from the fact that Konoe is the first to treat him with any kindness, in contrast with the other Kirannote Asato's clan cats. The reason behind Leaks eventual attachment to Shui is because of the latter's unconditional and selfless kindness towards him, even if he isn't receptive or appreciative of it at first. In the past, he was a magician who lived in solitude and didn't like the other cats only because they all immediately hate him for no good reason, although he never did anything to harm them. Only Shui who didn't treat him like the other cats. |
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2 Days in the Valley: Becky tries to talk Webb and Helga out of killing the homicide detectives searching her house, saying the two treated her nicely while questioning her. | |
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The ABCs of Death: In the "R" segment, the patient lets the nurse live when he escapes from the facility because she was the only one of the staff who was kind to him. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In Angelalily's debut episode (episode 27 of Happy, Happy, Bang! Bang!), after a game of seeing who can catch Paddi first, Wilie apologizes to Angelalily for ruining her scarf and gives her a scarf of his own to replace it. Angelalily, in return, gives Wilie one of her toys, and the two become friends. | |
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Adora begins to rethink the Horde's teachings when she's captured by two members of the Rebellion, and they not only choose to take her back to Bright Moon nonviolently, but make conversation with her and, in Bow's case, are downright friendly. She's genuinely taken aback when she sees that the "savage" rebels she's been raised to hate and fear are actually good people. Catra's love for Adora stems from the fact that Adora's the only person that ever gave a damn about her. When Adora defects to the Rebellion, Catra... fails to get over this. Unfortunately, as Catra's Sanity Slippage ensues, she averts the trope more and more, treating both Adora and Scorpia extremely badly. Hordak warms up to Entrapta because she's friendly and cheerful and isn't afraid of him. When he confesses to her that he's a defective clone and has spent his whole life trying to prove he has worth in spite of that, she says she sort of knows how he feels — she's pretty weird, too, and is sometimes isolated because of it. She then surprises him by saying she's genuinely okay with that, because "defections" and uniqueness aren't just okay, but something to be cherished. Hordak is genuinely touched and assures Entrapta that, in his opinion, anyone who dismisses her for her weirdness is an idiot, anyway. |
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Transformers (2019): After Arcee and Greenlight restore Gauge's lost memories, Gauge is left questioning whether she should aid them or continue following Heretech like she was taught. She ultimately decides to help Arcee and Greenlight because they asked for her help but never ordered her, and she respected that they were willing to let her make her own choices while Heretech ordered everyone to do what he said and took away their choices. | |
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Etra chan saw it!: In some stories where the antagonist character of the story isn't really as bad as they initially seem, an act of kindness on the protagonist's part is enough to make them have a Heel Realization and change their ways. Other times this trope is the reason why characters like Hiiragi and Yuzuriha end up stalking the protagonist. | |
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In the third season finale of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, she bumped into a fellow student who had just dropped out of school, and was panicking about the decision. Even though she didn't know him, she gently talked him through his worries and gave him encouragement. At the end of the episode, after everything else had gone wrong for her, he gave her a call to tell her that his tech startup had been funded, and he wanted to hire her. | |
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Piggy (2022): A group of mean girls bully Sara at the pool and steal her clothes, forcing the overweight teen to walk home wearing nothing but a bikini. On her way, Sara encounters a white van. She sees a stranger abduct the mean girls' ringleader and another one of the group call for help from inside the vehicle. The stranger makes eye contact with Sara and silently drops her clothes on the ground. With this kind gesture coming after being bullied, she just waves at him, as if saying thanks, letting him drive away. | |
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Vivian joins Mario's party because he treated her way better than her sisters ever did. | |
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In A Knight's Tale, William twice jousts against a Sir Thomas Colville. The first time Colville is injured on the second lance, and William agrees to have them both tilt and then not strike each other to maintain Colville's honor. The second time, William learns right before the bout that Colville is really Prince Edward incognito, and before the others can withdraw for him William tilts at him. Edward is both impressed by William's willingness to face him as a Worthy Opponent, as well as grateful for the earlier honorable draw; and repays the kindness after William is revealed as a commoner by knighting him. Moreover, he declares that William is descended from an Impoverished Patrician and warns anyone that to question him is treason. | |
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Dragons: The Nine Realms: After D'Angelo helped his dragon, Ex-Big Bad Buzzsaw tells the riders where the base of his former partner Sledkin is without being asked to. | |
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses brings us Dedue, who is unfalteringly loyal to Dimitri because the latter was the only person who treated him with respect and dignity after the Tragedy of Duscur. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! this is why Galatea is so devoted to Bob, Jean, and Molly. They taught her what kindness is. | |
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Stellaris: Coming to the aid of another Empire in war will boost your relations considerably, which can lead to trade and research agreements and possibly even an alliance. Even Fanatical Purifiers have the potential to be befriended this way if you save them from their own annihilation. An enslaved synthetic population has a chance of causing a Robot War in the form of an endgame crisis. If you were kind to your own synths and gave them equal rights by signing the AI Accord, not only will they refuse to rebel, they will fight all the harder to protect their creators. If you save a pre-spaceflight civilization from an asteroid there is a chance that they will return the favor much later in the game. Destroying an asteroid approaching one of your own colonies in their own less advanced spaceship. |
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Genius: The Transgression: Neid-type Geniuses tend to have... issues with the whole "They Called Me Mad!" thing, and are extremely resentful over being misunderstood, and even mocked, by their formerly fellow scientists, and by Muggles in general. Naturally, if they find someone who actually does believe them, or at the very least understand them, someone who manages to gain their trust, then that someone just found themselves a powerful ally. | |
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Buffyverse: Happens repeatedly with Faith. First, it happens with her and the Mayor; he gave her a place to stay and treated her like she was his own daughter, giving her a profound loyalty to him. Then it happens again with her and Angel. She was willing to die to save him, all because he helped her come back from being evil while everyone else hated her (mainly because he understood her, seeing as he was in the same situation about 100 years previously). In season 4 of Angel, this is the reason why she refused to even try to kill Angelus and in Angel and Faith she is still very loyal to him. Faith also does this with Gwendolyn Post. (Faith loves this trope.) Also, another reason why she helps Angel in Season 9, is because she really wants Giles back, since he was nice to her, too. Also seen with Spike who likes Buffy's mother and sister for this reason, and shows his best side when Buffy treats him with respect; his demonic aspect comes out when she forgets this trope. A particularly heartbreaking example: Lorne's speech about Fred in "A Hole in the World". |
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DSBT InsaniT: Eunice the elephant goes with Asia after she helped free him from captivity. | |
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Ace Attorney: Basically the reason why Phoenix becomes a lawyer — he remembers this one incident when he was nine years old, where Edgeworth was in his class and stood up for him in a class trial after Edgeworth's pocket money was stolen, and it was thought Phoenix had been the culprit. It later turned out that Larry had been the culprit all along, but the event is ultimately no less important to Phoenix for that. Maya Fey first meets Phoenix when he defends her in court despite Maya A) being framed for the murder of Phoenix's beloved mentor, and, B) being caught at the scene of the crime in circumstances so suspicious that no attorney would willingly take her case. Although Redd's blackmailing also influenced that. This act of kindness understandably seeds a pretty strong friendship, which Maya is later willing to get tasered and briefly jailed over. |
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During the Siege On Tolkeen in Rifts, the forces of Tolkeen liberated the Daemonix, a race of sub-demons, from enslavement in another dimension. They then asked the Daemonix to help them fight the Coalition. they instantly agreed, because Tolkeen asked them. As far back as the despised Daemonix could remember, no one has ever asked them anything. No previous master had ever given them a choice or the freedom to say no. Overwhelmed with gratitude, the Daemonix fought side by side with Tolkeen. | |
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Hey Arnold!: In "Helga On The Couch," it's shown that Helga fell for Arnold when she was in preschool because he was the only person in her life who noticed her and treated her kindly, by complimenting her, giving her his crackers at snack time, and providing her with an umbrella when it was storming outside. | |
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Ken Shamrock promised to instruct the kickboxer Maurice Smith in grappling, which was fulfilled by proxy of his brother Frank, who he in turn instructed in striking and put together an "Alliance" for (with Tsuyoshi Kohsaka) in Ultimate Fighting Championship. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Awakening, Maribelle reveals this as her reason for being completely devoted to Lissa; due to her being so difficult the other children instantly hated her and mocked her, leaving her without any friends until Lissa reached out to her. Similarly, Panne joins Chrom's Shepherds in an attempt to repay the kindness given to her by Chrom and Lissa's older sister, Queen/Exalt Emmeryn, despite how she's a member of the very persecuted Taguel race. Henry's support with Ricken has a bittersweet double dose. Henry says Mustafa, the first noble Plegian commander the Avatar meets, treated him like family—and other Plegians (disparagingly) imply Henry felt genuine loyalty in return. He seems as cavalier about Mustafa's death as any other person he'd known before, but when Ricken asks what Henry would do if he were slain, Henry immediately swears he'd seek (literally) bloody vengeance. He's almost surprised to find that he truly considers the Shepherds his friends. Henry's emotions are always difficult to read, but he seems to have forgiven the Shepherds for Mustafa's death, knowing that true responsibility lay with Gangrel, whom they defeated. |
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The Professional: Léon is the only person to treat Mathilda with kindness besides her deceased little brother. In fact, this is what led to him allowing her to live at his apartment after her family was killed by Stansfield and his crew. | |
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Family Guy: Deconstructed with Meg. Since everyone treats her like complete garbage most of the time, she will fall in love with any guy who shows her any amount of kindness, sometimes to an obsessive degree. In "Barely Legal", Brian goes with Meg to a school dance out of pity, defends her when bullies taunt her, and makes out with her while drunk. Despite Brian telling Meg numerous times that the kiss meant nothing, she continues to obsess over him to the point where she kidnaps him, tapes him to a chair, and nearly rapes him before being stopped. In "The Hand that Rocks the Wheelchair", Meg is asked to take care of Joe while Bonnie is out of town. Joe's kindness to Meg causes her to fall in love with him. She begins to act as though she were Joe's wife (going as far as attempting to breastfeed baby Susie). When she finds out that Bonnie will be returning early, Meg goes to the airport and places a gun in her bag, leading her to be arrested. And she did this just so she could have more time with Joe. In "Quagmire and Meg", Meg is saddened that nobody came to her 18th birthday. Nobody except Quagmire that is, who is clearly there just to make a pass at her now that she's a legal adult. While she never goes to the lengths that she went to with Brian and Joe, she's so desperate for love that she actually starts dating Quagmire, who is not only older than her father but is also a notorious sexual predator. She is even willing to have sex with him at his cabin before Peter and Lois put a stop to it. |
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In The Walking Dead (Telltale), pretty much the only brave thing ever done by Ben is if he volunteers to come with Lee in Season 5 to rescue Clementine. He outright says the only reason he does is that Clementine was the only one in the group who was nice to him and who was his only true friend, and that she'd have done the same for him. | |
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In Episode Zero: Promise, the prologue novel to Final Fantasy XIII, Vanille bumps into Nora and Hope Estheim when lining up to get Purged from Bodhum. Nora's kindness towards Vanille compels the latter to join her and Hope on the Purge train, reasoning that she wants to be with kind people if they should get treated like criminals. | |
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: Bill reveals in "Birthright" that he never forgot how Keiko risked herself saving his life when the Ion Dragon threatened them in 1952, and he implies that it was a major factor in his falling in love with her. | |
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In Long Live the Queen, Elodie's Aunt Lucille is a Lumen, but she's always hidden her powers out of fear of persecution. Elodie can invite her to the palace and make her her Lumen Minister. Lucille was also trying to kill Elodie to allow her husband, and later her daughter, to inherit Nova. However, making her Lumen Minister causes her to immediately stop attacking Elodie and become loyal to her, unless Elodie murders her daughter. In this route, Elodie never even learns that Lucille was involved in the attempts on her life. | |
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Tales of the Abyss has Sheltered Aristocrat Luke fon Fabre, who has Undying Loyalty towards his mentor and Parental Substitute straight up because of this trope. Unfortunately said mentor is the Big Bad and invoked this to use and then discard Luke. He also is like that to anyone nice to him; as Tsundere as he is before his development, he's there for Guy and Ion just because they are nice to him. Even after, if anyone does anything that he considers "nice" to him, he develops Undying Loyalty to them. | |
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In the Wander over Yonder episode "The Little Guy", Wander is kind and friendly to mistreated Watchdog Westley, eventually inducing a Heel–Face Turn. It's implied Wander is intentionally invoking this trope, but also that he's not faking his friendship and kindness — he's just naturally kind and friendly to virtually everyone, even his enemies. | |
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The formation of Paul London's tag team with Brian Kendrick came about when the latter tried to save Paul from a Brock Lesnar mauling. Kendrick was, of course, no help at all, Lesnar still being in his "squash everything, lose nothing" phase, but Paul was forever grateful regardless. | |
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Bastard: Jin eventually reveals that the only reason he didn't give Kyun to his Serial Killer father at first was she was the only person to smile at him. | |
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A villainous example: In the 1998 miniseries Merlin, Morgan le Fay becomes an ally of Queen Mab because "the Old Ways have been good to me." | |
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In both the novel and film of Gone with the Wind, Belle helps out Ashley Wilkes because Ashley's wife, Melanie, was nice to her early on, accepting her wartime donation instead of treating her like dirt, as most of the rest of the town does. | |
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Ratatouille: Colette starts off rather harsh towards Linguini but softens up to him over time because he actually takes her advice seriously. | |
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My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) pretty much runs on this. Every new friend the protagonists make comes about because one of them was willing to befriend them: Capper was planning to sell them before they escaped. Because Rarity had given him a selfless gift and expected nothing in return, he does his best to mislead Tempest as to where they're going. Captain Celaeno and her pirates are persuaded to abandon the Storm King's forces after Rainbow Dash sings them a rousing song, encouraging them to live their lives to the full. Princess Skystar joins them in the final battle against the Storm King's forces even after Twilight tried to rob her because Pinkie Pie sincerely entertained her with the "One Small Thing" number. And of course Tempest Shadow reforms and pulls a Heel–Face Turn because Twilight chose to save her life. |
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In Kingdom Hearts, Sora's party were the first only people ever to be nice to Naminé, even despite everything she'd done to them, which is why she spends the next year straight working on their behalf. | |
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Sonic Superstars: Trip is one of Eggman's henchmen, except she's only working for them because Fang the Hunter strong-armed her into doing so, threatening to hurt her animal friends if she doesn't comply. Throughout the game, Fang keeps bossing and abusing her for basically everything, even doing nothing when she falls into her own trap in Lagoon City Zone. It is at that point that she meets Amy Rose, who treats her with compassion, helping her escape to safety in a mandatory act in said level. This act of kindness contributes greatly to Trip defecting to Sonic's team and beating Fang for the time being. | |
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Octopath Traveler: Yusufa stands up for Primrose and distracts Helgenish for her because Prim was the only dancer there who was kind to her. This ends up being what gets her killed. This is also why Therion continues to assist House Ravus, even after the band on his arm is unlocked. |
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In the third season of Tyrant (2014), Bassam wins over Ahmed by giving Nusrat a proper burial, which Leila had denied for political reasons. | |
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In Star Trek: Nemesis, young Shinzon was thrown into a Romulan slave mine on Remus, where one of the Reman laborers took pity on him and helped him survive. This would drive him to lead the fight to end Reman slavery. | |
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In the M.M.O. City of Heroes, we have a rarer villainous example of this as signature Mad Scientist Doctor Aeon is working for Big Bad Lord Recluse and turns down numerous attempts from several rival villains to bribe/poach him because back when he was a no-name mad theorist with next to no money or prestige to his name and everyone else called him “mad�, Lord Recluse believed in him and his experiments, gave him a paycheck, a company and his own city to rule. Dr. Aeon refuses to ever betray his beloved evil overlord. | |
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