Characters who never seem to lose their optimism regardless of whatever hardships they face in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Child of the Storm has Clark, as usual, even if he is a little more paranoid and wary than canon, being a generally cheerful soul who believes in the innate goodness of humanity.
- The Night Unfurls has Hugh. He was orphaned and malnourished. He lost his voice from a Slashed Throat, and is Left for Dead without an eye during his debut chapter in the story. He remains bright, cheerful and eager to please, persisting even as he blurs in war-torn battlefields and Eldritch Locations as a Kid Hero, nary a Heroic BSoD or a Break the Cutie situation whatsoever. He did miraculously survive at least two Near-Death Experiences after all, meaning that despite the cruelty he receives, fortune is on his side.
- In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Yamcha once claims defensively that he still has hope after he momentarily cheers at Cell being knocked out of the Cell Games arena, only to have forgotten that Cell can fly to avoid a ring-out. Tien remarks that the fact he has any hope left at all is his most admirable trait. Yamcha thanks him for the compliment, not realizing he'd been insulted. Even Cell has to speak up at that point."Yamcha, for the love of God, don't thank him."
- In Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità,
Italy remains all smiles even after being beaten and nearly raped. Italy remained all smiles even after being bullied shortly afterwards. Nothing is as it seems though...
- Lavinia Gilden/Tansy Leefinch from Some Semblance of Meaning always tries to exhibit pure optimism... even though she's working as a mentor for District Twelve, sending two kids a year into the arena to face near-certain death. Over the course of the story, she does lose a bit of her Genki Girl attitude, but she still tries to look on the bright side.
- For His Own Sake:
- Keitaro used to act like nothing that happened at the Hinata Inn really bothered him. But years of constant abuse took their toll, despite his efforts to hide how badly he was hurting, and he eventually decided enough was enough.
- Mutsumi also deconstructs this, as she plunges deep into denial and continues to insist that Keitaro and Naru are just having a rough patch and will get back together, as she can't accept that her decision to step aside for their sake was All for Nothing.
- Kaolla Su is a downplayed version; compared to Mutsumi, she's more cognizant of how things are 'going wrong', yet retains a very childish outlook on the whole matter and similarly believes that they can 'fix everything' and make it all go back to normal.
- The Story of Apollo, Daphne and Luca: An Italian Tragedy: Caterina (Giulia's mother) often has a sweet and optimistic disposition and always makes an effort to see the bright side of a situation.
- In the dystopian, Crapsack World of Miraculous: The Phoenix Rises, there's still Haley, Max's cheerful, idealistic younger sister. Unlike older characters, who are clearly fed up with those rotten adults, Haley always manages to keep her chipper mood and brighten up the other characters' day.
- What Goes Around Comes Around deconstructs this with Adrien, whose relentless positivity stems from denial and selfishness. Not only does he deny his own problems, but those of others, and all his ideas of the way the world should work ultimately benefit him in some fashion. Such as expecting Marinette to swoon into his arms after she's revealed as Ladybug, and for her to be a perfectly supportive girlfriend who puts all of his desires ahead of her own. Ultimately reconstructed to some degree by the end, as he drops his selfish streak and resolves to make the best of his new life with Amelie and Felix, whom he warmly addresses as his mother and brother.
- Flashback: In the Bad Future, Inasa never lost faith that humanity would beat back the alien menace, even after the war waged on for years. The Resistance forces were decimated, entire countries classes, and an interstellar trafficking ring was thriving, yet he continued to believe that they would eventually prevail.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- A Kingdom Divided: Dinky Hooves retains a positive attitude despite the civil war that explodes across Equestria. Even being paralyzed doesn't destroy her smile.
- Derpy Hooves in Shadow Snark.Shadow Snark: You're pretty euphoric for someone who just learned they have no friends.
- Always Visible: Delia Yonce
- Memetic Bystander "Poor-chan" is typically portrayed by fandom as the comically extreme, oblivious version, who lives in a cardboard box and can't afford a computer for her classes, yet is always writing cheerful letters to her "Mother in Heaven".
