History EasilyForgiven / Literature

* In ''Literature/TheHammer2022'', Aslan quickly forgives Tiny for slapping [[Sdrawkcab Alias "Baron Narsa von Rendsley"]] despite the fact that Tiny struck him almost entirely without provocation. This alleviates Tiny's concerns that he could be put to death for assaulting the crown prince of the Aslan Empire.

* ''Literature/SisterhoodSeries'' by Creator/FernMichaels: This trope certainly pops up. For example, Charles sends presidential men with gold shields to scare Jack Emery, but the men ''misconstrue'' the orders and give Jack a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in the book ''Payback''. Jack Emery knows that Charles is responsible for this, but after the book ''Free Fall'', in which Jack becomes an honorary member of the Vigilantes and is revealed as this to the entire group, it seems that Jack has pretty much forgotten about the whole affair. Also, Jack and Ted Robinson start out as friends, become enemies by the book ''Free Fall'', but once Ted more or less becomes a member by the book ''Collateral Damage'', it's all cool now. Although Jack did say that they are trying to take it one step at a time.

** Particularly in media set during the early days of the Rebel Alliance, the Rebels are such a small presence that they're always eager for new recruits, even recruits who have defected from the Empire. Even when these former Imperials have killed Rebels. Some of their best people are ex-Imperials who quit for various reasons. By the time of the ''Literature/XWingSeries'', around three or four years after Endor, attitudes have changed and members of the New Republic are suspicious of new ex-Imperials; Wedge Antilles is very ready to forgive former enemies, even ones he's flown against personally, but he's the exception. He and other characters argue about whether it's ever too late to change. An in-universe decade later in ''Literature/TheBlackFleetCrisis'', Admiral Ackbar also [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls out one of his officers]] for being unwilling to swear Plat Mallar, a refugee fighter pilot from a nominally Imperial world massacred by the Yevetha, into the New Republic Defense Force, rhetorically asking him how many heroes of the Rebellion would have gotten in under the NRDF's new recruiting standards.

** A repeated theme throughout numerous works mention that while Luke Easily Forgave Darth Vader for years of death and destruction after ten minutes of good behaviour (admittedly good behaviour that was essential in toppling TheEmpire), the rest of the galaxy most certainly did ''not'', and still generally consider him one of the greatest evils in galactic history. Leia in particular was originally outraged that Luke would forgive the "monster" that tortured her (and [[DisownedParent said something similar directly to Anakin Skywalker's Force ghost]] in ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura''), and decades later while she admitted that he was essentially a good man, he was also a good man that did horrible things.
** Kyp Durron. Despite turning to the dark side and ''wiping out an entire solar system'' in the ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'', everyone seems to forgive him once he helps destroy the Sun Crusher. In his defence, he was under the influence of [[spoiler:Exar Kun's ghost]]. Later works in Legends almost uniformly portray Durron as TheAtoner, and in ''Literature/IJedi'', protagonist Corran Horn (a former SpacePolice officer) comes to view accepting him back into the Jedi Order as a kind of community service.

** Particularly in media set during the early days of the Rebel Alliance, the Rebels are such a small presence that they're always eager for new recruits, even recruits who have defected from the Empire. Even when these former Imperials have killed Rebels. Some of their best people are ex-Imperials who quit for various reasons. By the time of the ''Literature/XWingSeries'', around three or four years after Endor, attitudes have changed and members of the New Republic are suspicious of new ex-Imperials; Wedge Antilles is very ready to forgive former enemies, even ones he's flown against personally, but he's the exception. He and other characters argue about whether it's ever too late to change.
** A repeated theme throughout numerous works mention that while Luke Easily Forgave Darth Vader for years of death and destruction after ten minutes of good behaviour (admittedly good behaviour that was essential in toppling TheEmpire), the rest of the galaxy most certainly did ''not'', and still generally consider him one of the greatest evils in galactic history. Leia in particular was originally outraged that Luke would forgive the "monster" that tortured her (and said something similar directly to Anakin Skywalker's Force ghost in ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura''), and decades later while she admitted that he was essentially a good man, he was also a good man that did horrible things.
** Kyp Durron. Despite turning to the dark side and ''wiping out an entire solar system'' in the ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'', everyone seems to forgive him once he helps destroy the Sun Crusher. In his defence, he was under the influence of [[spoiler:Exar Kun's ghost]].

** A repeated theme throughout numerous works mention that while Luke Easily Forgave Darth Vader for years of death and destruction after ten minutes of good behaviour (admittedly good behaviour that was essential in toppling TheEmpire), the rest of the galaxy most certainly did ''not'', and still generally consider him one of the greatest evils in galactic history. Leia in particular was originally outraged that Luke would forgive the "monster" that tortured her, and decades later while she admitted that he was essentially a good man, he was also a good man that did horrible things.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'':
** In ''New Moon'', when Edward breaks up with Bella he gives her a number of different excuses and pretty much blatantly lies to her and hurts her feelings as he leaves. She then spends most of the book in a stupor because of this. Not once does she bring this up when they are reunited at the end of the book.
** In ''Eclipse,'' Edward bribes Alice to essentially kidnap Bella while he's away and hold her hostage in their house. This includes spying on Bella while she's at school, not letting her out of the house, and almost not letting her use the phone. Bella is understandably angry with Edward because of this, but the instant he comes back, she forgets all about that and starts making out with him.

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[[EasilyForgiven Easy forgiveness]] in literature.

* This is an irritant for Mr. Knightley in ''Literature/{{Emma}}''. He is not impressed with how quick everyone is to forgive the fact that Frank Churchill willingly deceived his father and stepmother for months, pretended to be in love with Emma when he wasn't, and made his actual fiancee so unhappy that she broke their secret engagement. It might have turned out all right because Emma never reciprocated enough to be hurt by the deception and Frank was able to convince his fiancee of his sincerity, but Knightley does not like how everyone seems to be in a huge hurry to forgive.

** A rather odd example in ''[[WarriorCatsNovellas Tigerclaw's Fury]]''. In the ''Warriors'' universe, fleeing from battle until your leader tells you to do so would be considered treachery and cowardice. Fleeing from battle when ''Tigerclaw'' is your leader would be considered suicidal. But the cats who abandon him when it looks like he's losing don't get any sort of comeuppance.

* Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: This trope certainly pops up. For example, Charles sends presidential men with gold shields to scare Jack Emery, but the men ''misconstrue'' the orders and give Jack a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in the book ''Payback''. Jack Emery knows that Charles is responsible for this, but after the book ''Free Fall'', in which Jack becomes an honorary member of the Vigilantes and is revealed as this to the entire group, it seems that Jack has pretty much forgotten about the whole affair. Also, Jack and Ted Robinson start out as friends, become enemies by the book ''Free Fall'', but once Ted more or less becomes a member by the book ''Collateral Damage'', it's all cool now. Although Jack did say that they are trying to take it one step at a time.

** Particularly in media set during the early days of the Rebel Alliance, the Rebels are such a small presence that they're always eager for new recruits, even recruits who have defected from the Empire. Even when these former Imperials have killed Rebels. Some of their best people are ex-Imperials who quit for various reasons. By the time of the ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'', around three or four years after Endor, attitudes have changed and members of the New Republic are suspicious of new ex-Imperials; Wedge Antilles is very ready to forgive former enemies, even ones he's flown against personally, but he's the exception. He and other characters argue about whether it's ever too late to change.