Even Big Creepy-Crawlies deserve love.
"The strange blue world to which my father sent me.
If you knew how you are loved, not one of you would raise a hand in rage again."
If you knew how you are loved, not one of you would raise a hand in rage again."
— Superman, gazing at Earth from space
This character, simply put, loves everyone. Loves them with a deep, spiritual love that means they will shake heaven and earth, destroy gods and planets, bring nations to their knees, etc. for the person they just met yesterday. They will believe the best of everyone, and constantly give someone a second chance (though they will defeat the Big Bad). They repay cruelty with kindness and anger with calm. They are the ones who will suffer for the sins of their loved ones. Most people think they're insane, but somehow they pull it off.
The Empathic Weapon trusts them completely, as does every animal and child who immediately recognize the good in them and take quickly to them. Their every step causes flowers to bloom. Their circle of friends are in awe of them, if not somewhat in love with them. They befriend and take in those who need it most. They'll even attract an Anti-Hero or two who will stick around so they can figure out what drugs this person is taking — and where they can get some. In their hands, The Power of Love and The Power of Friendship can be an awesome force, they may be the standard-bearer for the message that You Are Not Alone, You Are Better Than You Think You Are and if anything can redeem a person against the odds by showing them the light of goodness, it will probably be the All-Loving Hero.
On the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, All-Loving Hero is a heavily idealistic character. Even in a dark world, they are ideal. They will always say Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers! and inspire hope.
In terms of The Four Loves, All-Loving Hero is Agape, or Unconditional Love for All, personified. However, by no means is the character exempt from the other three loves.
The Fool is sometimes the embryonic state of All-Loving Hero doubled as the Idiot Hero. A Magnetic Hero has the intangible quality of earning respect and followers that some All-Loving Hero characters do but without needing the "love and forgive everyone" part. An All-Loving Hero who takes their idealism too far into Facepalm-worthy idiocy (like seriously trying to trade the Artifact of Doom if the villain promises not to hurt anyone) may lapse into Stupid Good or Lawful Stupid, and they can also form into Kindhearted Simpletons if they manage to help others thoroughly. Such a character may have moments where they are Not So Above It All or fall short of this standard.
The viewpoint character in a White Man's Burden story will often be an All-Loving Hero. For the character who only thinks they're All-Loving Hero, see the Love Freak. The Cutie shares a lot of the All-Loving Hero's characteristic personality type, but isn't as much of a paragon of idealism and may or may not have their overpowering charisma. Similarly, The Pollyanna has the All-Loving Hero's optimism and good heart but doesn't have the same kind of charisma or deep spiritualism. The Redeemer is often a trait caused by All-Loving Heroism.
See also Ideal Hero. Compare Martyr Without a Cause, The Paragon, The Heart, Incorruptible Pure Pureness, Purity Sue, The Empath, Nice Guy, Rousseau Was Right, The Soft-Hearted Warrior. In Shades of Conflict, this Trope heavily synergizes well with White-and-Grey Morality, thanks to the latter's principle that the characters are either good or misguided.
Contrast It's All About Me, Narcissist, Small Name, Big Ego, Hates Everyone Equally, Misanthrope Supreme, Absolute Xenophobe, The Resenter and Green-Eyed Monster.
If the All-Loving hero encounters a Complete Monster, there are 2 possible outcomes:
1. They might be the only who mourns the death of this villain that doesn't deserve sympathy.
2. The villain's actions are so bad, even the All-Loving hero despises them.
Although its previous trope name was The Messiah, this trope is not about Jesus-analogues; that's Messianic Archetype. While they and All-Loving Hero sometimes overlap, a character with the Messianic Archetype can be far-flung from being All-Loving Hero in mind and behavior.
In the context of methods of climax fulfillment, this may be referred to as a "Love Hero". May overlap with For Happiness as character motivation. This hero, in turn, may become Loved by All.
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Asian Animation
- Noonbory and the Super 7 has the title character. Villain or hero, it matters not to him; he will help anyone who needs it, no questions asked, no reward necessary.
Comic Books
- Astro City: The Silver Agent. Even after he had been found guilty of murder and executed, the Agent still uses time travel to repeatedly return to the city and save it through several major crises, and his selfless sacrifice shames the citizenry for decades.
- Batman
- Depending on the Writer with Bruce Wayne. At times writers will show him as an angsty, revenge driven Anti-Hero. Other writers will characterize him as a more compassionate hero than he initially looks, as he tries to genuinely help troubled Anti Villains who want to change and get better. Plus, he deeply believes in not killing his enemies and is a Friend to All Children.
- Batgirl: Cassandra Cain Batgirl III once asked "why does everyone I love die?", to which the person she was speaking to responded: "because you love everyone, and everybody dies."
- Nightwing: Dick Grayson. He's the kind of hero who lets the people he just saved hug him for half an hour
until they stop shaking, and Bruce has canonically said that Dick saved him (not the other way around) when he came to live at Wayne Manor. Phil Jimenez said it best here:
"Dick has so many connections to other characters. In many ways, even more than Superman or Batman, Nightwing is the soul, the linchpin, of The DCU. He's well respected by everyone, known to the JLA, the Titans, The Outsiders, Birds of Prey – everyone looks to him for advice, for friendship, for his skills. He's natural leader of the DCU."- Robin: Tim Drake started out this way— wanting to help everyone, getting along with all his classmates regardless of how rude or cruel they were, trying to rehabilitate villains and sometimes inadvertently earning their respect or affection — but later writers decided to give him an extensive angst upgrade and this trait faded almost entirely after he was put through a brutal Trauma Conga Line.
- Captain America: Steve Rogers is a staunch example of this; a patriotic American soldier who will defend the lives of those from any race, creed or identity. It's to the point that even Magneto, who spent his life believing all Humans Are Bastards, tried to prove this by using a device that reveals one's innermost prejudice. It was useless against Cap, because he hates no one and has compassion for all. Magneto had to concede defeat.
- Likewise, Casper the Friendly Ghost in his comic books, even more so than in any other incarnation of the character. He'll go out of his way to help any stranger, human or animal (and sometimes vegetable or mineral). If a villain antagonizing him suddenly runs into trouble, Casper will promptly turn and offer his help, often (though not always) shaming the villain into turning over a new leaf.
- Paulie in Circles loved everyone he met and always regarded every person with kindness, even his enemies like Carter Allen when he paid for his back injuries.
- Flycatcher, the frog prince of Fables, is universally kind and universally loved for it, and he's the only character who had no sins to absolve or remit under the Fabletown Amnesty. The All-Loving Syndrome really kicks in when he receives a purity-powered suit of armor that allows him to resurrect the dead, defeating massive armies without spilling blood, and establishes the completely peaceful "Kingdom of Haven" in the middle of enemy territory.
- The Flash:
- Barry Allen treasures his life and his friends above anything else. While Jay is a Cool Old Guy and Wally skirts on Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Barry is all around a Nice Guy. In fact, writers say his biggest flaw is that he tries to be helpful to everyone, he's just too nice.
- His successor Wally West was known for being compassionate and honestly interested in reforming most of his enemies. To have Wally really want to put you down required a truly monstrous act.
- Chubby Huggs from Get Fuzzy, who begins every day with hugging his pillow and thanking it for being so soft, and continues in the same way. Needless to say, Bucky is scared to death of Chubby Huggs.
- Lucifer: Christopher Rudd. He's a damned soul in Hell who manages through skill and luck to become one of Hell's nobility. What do you guess he does then? He teaches demons compassion and kindness, gets them and the damned to get along, and finally leads their army to save the Silver City and conquer it in one fell swoop in the name of justice.
- Miranda believes in the New Champions' mission to make the world a better place more than anyone and wishes to extend a helping hand to anyone in need. Even when she's used as a Living Battery as part of Magnetrix's plot to bomb New York with a massive Disruption Orb, Miranda can't help but empathize with Magnetrix and try to convince her to stand down. She also refutes Emilio trying to write Magnetrix off as a crazy terrorist, believing that any one of the New Champions could have ended up like her in the wrong circumstances.
Monte: Is that enough charge Magg—Magnetrix? I really think taking any more could kill her... or me. Getting woozy here.
Magnetrix: Does it look like I give a @#$%?!
Liberty: It really doesn't. But your poor boyfriend's spells are weakening. And caring a lot... [kicks Magnetrix and tackles her off the roof] is kind of my thing! - The Sandman (1989): Death of the Endless is quite possibly the friendliest, most compassionate entity in the DC Universe. She loves you, no matter who you are or what you've done.
- She-Hulk: She-Hulk is traditionally an amazingly kind, moral, altrustic, idealistic, and philanthropic individual, including systematically helping even dangerous criminals to be treated decently via her legal work, creating her own disaster relief organisation, and being as good as impossible to corrupt, even after weeks of systematic torture and brainwashing. She is usually up there with Captain America as the most purely heroic Marvel Comics character, and is always very kind, friendly, helpful, and inspirational to regular people, rather than considering herself above them.
- Spider-Man: Peter Parker (Spider-Man) is compassionate enough to have teamed up and allied with almost every character.
- In spite of her Memetic Badass status, Squirrel Girl prefers to defeat enemies with love and friendship, opting to Take a Third Option whenever possible. This is especially evident in The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, where she repeatedly looks for resolutions beyond mere muscles — in a battle against Ultron, she refused to simply pummel him to destruction and instead sought a way to stop him, save everyone, and still give Ultron a path to redemption.
- Star Wars:
- Zayne Carrick from Knights of the Old Republic is a good example of a fool who is an embryonic All-Loving Hero. Initially, a failing Jedi Padawan whose only power seems to be literal good luck (as in, he spent an hour trying to catch a petty thief for the half-dozenth time, and thus arrived late to what should have been his own murder), over the course of the series he saves first himself; then a junk scavenger and his adopted daughter; then a bunch of captured Jedi; then several million people from an orbital nuclear bombardment; then he tries to save one of the Jedi masters who were trying to kill him. As one of them says:
"You...You... would save me?"- Luke Skywalker in In the Shadows of their Fathers, part of Star Wars Rebellion. He goes to Jabiim to help against the Empire, but the Jabiim people were abandoned by his father as tactically unwise during the Clone Wars, and a number of them immediately want him dead◊. After he's locked up some taunt him and try to beat him up and he's rescued, the idea that his father was a monster seems to hurt◊ worse◊ than the beating... and when the Jabiim are attacked, he fights to defend them without hesitation despite their hostility. Later he tries to stay with them when it would be extremely unwise for the Rebellion, because he is not his father. The Jabiim commander agrees◊, basically telling Luke that he's not as tactical but vastly more humane, and they need him more out there.
- Street Fighter: Elena wishes to befriend all of the fighters she encounters, including those who are openly hostile towards her, like Makoto.
- Superman:
- Superman is continuously portrayed as always believing in the best of people, and the ideal of what a superhero should be, even in-universe.
- Superman: Up in the Sky illustrates this better than any other recent Superman story. A little girl is kidnapped by an alien menace, and although he knows he's leaving Earth exposed by trying to rescue her, he would not forgive himself for not trying if there's a chance. Not a spoiler, Superman ends up saving the little girl AND the entire planet. Cause he's friggin' Superman, it's what he's all about.
- He expresses love for the entire planet in JLA/Hitman #2:
"The strange blue world to which my father sent me.
If you knew how you are loved, not one of you would raise a hand in rage again." - Reign of Doomsday: When they are running away from a bunch of Doomsday clones, Superman insists on bringing the original Doomsday along with them in case that they can learn something from it. Supergirl guesses that is not the only reason, though: Superman feared that the other Doomsdays could hurt it.
Supergirl: That wasn't the only reason you had us bring Doomsday, was it, Kal? Even the thing that killed you— you were worried the other Doomsdays might harm it.
- In the Elseworlds story Superman: Red Son, at first. People initially thought his loyalty and bias is purely towards Russia, but as Luthor correctly predicts, his altruism doesn't end at his homeland's borders. That said, there's a Deconstruction as just because Superman cares about people not dying, it doesn't necessarily means he cares about people on an individual level. Later moments of heroism are juxtaposed with inner monologue about how he's been increasingly using them as an excuse to avoid hearing about how the people aren't necessarily happy about the methods behind how their perceived utopia is thriving.
Stalin: Oh, for God's sake. Who cares about Pytor Roslov?
Superman: I care about everybody, sir. - Supergirl is usually portrayed in this fashion (except for when DC is putting her through a Darker and Edgier phase). Back in the Silver Age, she tried to help every person in trouble she bumped into. In Supergirl (2016), when the public demands to know why she's trying to redeem the mass-murderer Cyborg Superman she replies she refuses to give up on anybody.
- A scene in All-Star Superman shows Superman saving the life of a suicidal teenage girl named Regan by calmly talking to her before she jumps from the roof of a tall building. Superman does this despite knowing he's going to die soon. While doing so, Superman says that Regan is much stronger than she knows, and gives her a Cooldown Hug.
- In Just Imagine...the Superman Family, Clark Kent is slandered and kidnapped by a loony obsessed fan, angry at him not paying attention to her. Rather than getting angry at the old lady's antics, Clark gets worried about her mental state, blames himself for not being sympathetic enough when she tried to ruin his reputation in a bid for attention, calmly talks her into handing over her handgun, insists he may be her friend so that she is not so lonely, and swears to himself that he will try to find the son who abandoned her and repair their broken relationship.
- Justice Society of America (2007): In issue #10, during a conversation with the rest of the Justice Society, Superman's super-hearing picks up the voice of a woman who's about to jump off a ledge. Despite being held down by the rest of the Society combined, including Starman using his Gravity Master powers to increase the weight of the entire Society a hundredfold, Superman shakes them all off and speeds through the city to catch the woman before she hits the ground. After catching her, Superman says that "giving up never helped anyone". It's this moment of Superman being a Hope Bringer that convinces the Society that there might be something to Superman's way after all.
- Tintin: The titular character is dedicated to his friends, brave and always willing to do the right thing, and has given second chances to villains who genuinely wanted to redeem themselves.
- Wing from The Transformers: Drift. Wing is a non-aligned bot who goes on missions to help people, no matter what species they are in distress. Takes an injured Decepticon under his care, and argues with his superiors that it should their duty to help those who are suffering.
- Wonder Woman
- Princess Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince (Wonder Woman)
- In addition to being one of the strongest warriors, she is a walking avatar of love and peace. Part of the reason Wondy's villains are less known is because when she started out, she not only had a no-killing rule, she also attempted to reform everyone she fought and was frequently successful in turning villains into allies.
- This is emphasized during the Blackest Night miniseries, where her love for all things in existence, as discussed by both Aphrodite and Star Sapphire Carol Ferris, leads to her being recruited into the Star Sapphire Corps.
- Even the Darker and Edgier Wonder Woman (2011) maintains the all-loving mantle of previous versions. When she is forced to marry Hades to protect others only to leave him at the altar, Hades wonders how it's possible since she said she loved him while bound by the Lasso of Truth. Diana says that she never lied; she loves him, just like she loves everybody.
- In Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, this aspect of her character is given massive recontextualization and reexamination. Taking place in a Bad Future ravaged by an apocalypse that an amnesiac Diana discovers was apparently her own fault, the story dissects the inherent disconnect between someone who unabashedly cherishes all humanity, but is also capable of great violence against the forces who threaten it, including a large portion of humanity itself. The story ends up nevertheless reminding readers that her brutality is still very much rooted in a retaliation against cruelty, that her compassion and hope in humanity's infinite potential is in fact her greatest strength, and that both are necessary if the world is to continue its survival.
- Princess Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince (Wonder Woman)
- X-Men:
- Professor Xavier is a zig-zagged example. On the one hand, he's the voice of coexistence against Magneto's voice of separation. Even after all the battles with all the villainous mutants and all the plots by the villainous humans and even the more numerous mundane everyday prejudice by muggles he still believes peaceful coexistence will happen. However, from the start he's had a consistent dark side, with its manifestation Depending on the Writer and Alternative Character Interpretation. He was largely played up as this following the films, which leaned into this interpretation. By the Krakoan era, the implication is that heart he's this, but like the Red Son version of Superman, he's not so good with individuals - leading to famous lines such as "Professor Xavier is a JERK!" - and that his faith in humanity is severely dented. The Krakoan era also adds another interesting angle with the revelation that Moira had spent decades working to break him to get him to a point he'd be more willing to make questionable decisions, meaning Xavier may have very well been a played straight version of this trope without her influence.
- Jean Grey was always The Heart of the X-Men and it stands out in how much Darker and Edgier the team became after her deaths, and she was practically deified for it to the intense discomfort of her time-travelling teenage counterpart, who isn't amused either by sainthood or being a Dark Messiah, it's been marked as a key part of her character from her resurrection, something emphasised from X-Men: Red onwards, which juxtaposed Jean's open and sincere compassionate idealism with Cassandra Nova's cynical Humans Are Bastards attitude. In the end, Jean was right, and not only gave Nova a Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers! speech, but pointed out that 'compassionate' (as in, willing to help Nova even after all the horrors she'd perpetrated) is not the same as 'stupid' or 'weak'.
Films — Live-Action
- Victor Laszlo in Casablanca. It says something about him that the only person in the entire movie who isn't in complete awe and admiration of the utterly heroic and saintly resistance leader is the Nazi officer who has been sent to capture him, which is a ringing endorsement if ever there was one. When his wife, believing that he was dead, has fallen in love with another man, and his example is so powerful that that other man is eventually quite willing to sacrifice his one chance at happiness by convincing her to stay with him.
- DC Extended Universe: Not as underlined or highlighted compared to most versions, but it should be noted that Clark saved his childhood bully from drowning, cried over having to kill Zod (whom previously sworn to kill all humans) in Man of Steel, stood up for criminals whose lives were indirectly taken by Batman's "one man reign of terror" and even rescued Lex Luthor (whom, mind you, ruined his reputation, kidnapped and nearly killed his mother, nearly killed his girlfriend and blackmailed him to murder a human) from Doomsday's fist in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Not to mention the many times where he's willing to sacrifice himself to save the entire human race regardless of how much pain it brought him. For all of his angst, he's still portrayed as a man whose compassion for others is his main driving force no matter what.
- Santa Claus in Ernest Saves Christmas. Every single thing the man does oozes sincerity, generosity, compassion, love, saintliness, and just flat-out Christmas. Hell, the whole plot of the movie is that he's running out of time to pick a new Santa Claus because he literally loves doing good so much that he's stretched the clock as long as it will go just so he can continue doing it.
- The Fourth Wise Man: Artaban is this, nearly to a fault. He is late for the journey to meet the Savior because he met a desperately ill man and couldn't do other than tend to him. Shortly afterwards, he uses a priceless gem as a bribe to save an infant's life. He settles among a leper colony for decades, living in shocking poverty because they needed a physician.
- The Hunger Games: Primrose "Prim" Everdeen seems incapable of bearing any ill will towards anything.
- The Love of Siam. Ying, the Chinese girl who has a crush on Mew. Throughout the movie, she is kind and helpful to both Tong and Mew. She is the only person out of Tong's friends to comfort Tong when he is confused about his sexuality. It should be noted that she's not that close to Tong and only just met him not long ago. She also helps Mew with his love song and fixes him up with Tong despite knowing that in doing so mean she would have no chance with Mew in the future.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- When Spider-Man witnesses a weapons deal and sees the dealer about to shoot a mouthy thug in an early scene in Spider-Man: Homecoming, he thwarts it deliberately revealing his spying location, shouting "You want to shoot someone, shoot me!".
- Steve is a very idealistic person and always tries to see the best in everyone. It's this trait that makes Dr. Erskine choose Steve for the super soldier program in Captain America: The First Avenger.
- The titular bear of Paddington is a very kindhearted and friendly young bear who was taught to treat everyone friendly by his Aunt Lucy. This allows him to win over Family Brown as well as (almost) the whole neighborhood. His friendlyness goes for everyone he meets, mind you. Even when he goes to jail in the second movie, he manages to become friends with the inmates and helps some of them to reform. Shown again in the third movie, when Paddington talks the man who just kidnapped and tried to kill him out of his Gold Fever and shows zero ill will against him after that, instead being happy for him reuniting with his daughter.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Philip Swift is a Good Shepherd who believes that God's love is available to everyone; pirates, mermaids, etc. He becomes a downplayed example later in the film in that he loves everyone except Blackbeard.
- Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. Consider that upon discovering his father is a Sith Lord and one of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, he decides — against the advice of everyone — that Dad can be saved from the Dark Side. He turns out to be right. In the sequel trilogy, after his nephew Ben's fall to the Dark Side and his "transformation" into Kylo Ren, which he played a role in, he blames none other than himself, then exiled himself out of sheer guilt. For the Star Wars Legends continuity, Luke was this in the early years but starting with the Legacy era he does such things as advocating torture. The mantle was passed on to his son Ben, who wants to redeem people who his father would rather kill. It takes Ben's Sith girlfriend to show Luke how he's not that different from them.
- Superman (2025): The titular character is shown here with kindness in his heart for all living things. He spends every battle minimizing collateral damage, making sure no civilians are caught in the crossfire, and taking down bad guys non-lethally, even if it's a mindless rampaging kaiju that's destroying the city, at multiple points attempting to talk down supervillains actively trying to kill him. He makes a point to save a dog and a squirrel from being trampled by the kaiju, and he risks his life to rescue Krypto, even after being told he's only a dog, acknowledging that he's not even a good dog at that. He is also very polite to his robot servants, despite them repeatedly reminding him they don't feel empathy and are incapable of caring.
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Charlie Bucket. Even with how the bratty the other four Golden Ticket Winners are, he's still concerned for them in the end of the tour thought the factory, even mentioning Veruca (the worst of them) by name, and also trying to save Augustus from drowning in the chocolate river.
- X-Men (Film Series): Professor X is still dedicated to protecting humans even when they try to subjugate or even commit genocide against mutantkind. Compared to a normal person, he's unusually forgiving towards Erik Lehnsherr, who has ruined and endangered Xavier's life (and is a big threat to the X-Men) more than once. In X-Men: Apocalypse, Hank summarizes Charles' mindset as "He thinks the best of people. He has hope." Professor X welcomes Storm to his school in spite of the fact that she had tried to kill the X-Men in Cairo.
- A Year and Change: Somewhat downplayed with Owen, overlapping with Jerk with a Heart of Gold. He ends up taking in Victor, Todd, and Angie into his home. However, Victor calls Owen out for this when a conversation about Kenny is brought up, who is currently under investigation for being sexually involved with a minor.
Owen: I ask you a simple question like, how you could turn your back on your only brother? And you got nothin' to say.Victor: I should have told you this before. This isn't the first time the golden boy has done something like this. (Tells a story about when they were in high school and his brother got involved with a younger girl.)Owen: I never heard about this.Victor: Jesus Christ, Owen. That's 'cause you think if you give everybody a chance they're gonna be a good person. You know, buy them a soda, talk to them for a little while, send them on their way and they're harmless as rabbits. But let me tell you something, there are people whose heads are fucked up, and my brother is definitely one of them.
Live-Action TV
- Simmons from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a downplayed example. She's is the only member of the team to consistently show sympathy with the mind-controlled soldiers they encounter in the main arc. She also seems to genuinely like everybody who isn't an outright antagonist; is always shown to be friendly and interested when meeting new people; is the first one to forgive Skye for betraying the team; and is the only main character never to have succumbed to a Green-Eyed Monster moment, despite the heavy amount of Ship Tease between the show's main and recurring characters, which by rights ought to leave everyone a little miffed on occasion.
- Arrowverse: Both Barry Allen a.k.a. The Flash and Kara Danvers a.k.a. Supergirl are this: They both are very optimistic and free-spirited and always eager to rescue everyone. Barry especially always sees the good in others and helps a lot of former villains and criminals reform. He's even nominated the "Paragon Of Love" during the Crisis On Infinite Earths event. Both Barry and Kara are played in stark contrast to Oliver Queen a.k.a. Green Arrow, the Arrowverse's original hero, who started out as an outright Anti-Hero and is far more sceptical and cynical.
- Hakuya Ryouga / AbaRed of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger. He is immune to the mind-screwing abilities of a Monster of the Week specifically because, in his niece's words, "he doesn't hate anyone or anything." Naturally, evil Ranger Nakadai Mikoto does everything in his power to crush the idealism out of him, but Ryouga never stops believing that Mikoto can be redeemed — and he's proven right.
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tara Maclay is an example of this. Her most commendable and endearing traits were, undoubtedly, her compassion, her understanding, and her capacity for forgiveness when it was truly deserved. For instance, when Joyce died, Tara was the one who offered Buffy the only helpful guidance, having experienced the exact same grief when she lost her own mother. She was also Buffy's sympathetic ear about her relationship with Spike.
- The Chosen (TV series):
- Jesus, naturally. He shows an incredible amount of patience and compassion towards everybody, including those who are shunned by the general Jewish population such as tax collectors, those afflicted with ailments that make them ceremonially unclean, and foreigners who worship pagan deities.
- Philip acts like this to the other disciples, even being kind to Matthew, who is sidelined by the rest, from the start. In the last episode of season 2, a clip of Philip is shown when Jesus, discussing the Beatitudes, mentions the "peacemakers".
- The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: Deet. You'll be hard-pressed to find a more loving, gentle and compassionate character in the entire franchise.
- Some of the nicer Doctors in Doctor Who have drifted into this, although Beware the Nice Ones applies.
- The Fourth Doctor during his Douglas Adams-edited period (Series 17) deserves special mention here, being one of the few Doctors who was outright merciful to his enemies (rather than affable but judgemental), always seeming to hope his opponents would just get over wanting to take over the universe, and (thanks to his anti-authoritarian personality) he fails to see punishment as a good thing even when deserved.
- The Tenth Doctor. The Doctor is an immortal alien, last of his species, who can go anywhere in space and anywhen in time. Does he try to conquer? To get more power? To get revenge for his destroyed planet? Nah, that's the Master's work. The Doctor didn't choose his name for nothing: he wants to make people better. Anywhere he goes, he meets a threat, and stops it. For people he hardly knows. And he never stops to make a family, to settle, to have peace. He just keeps going, following his TARDIS's will, and always saves as many lives as possible. But it goes beyond. The Doctor treats his enemies with respect. He gives them chances to stop, and doesn't kill them if can be avoided (though sometimes, when pushed to the limit, he does punish them in a WORSE way). One of the best examples of the Doctor's pure heart is in the "Last of the Time Lords", where after witnessing the world destroyed, the humans terrorized, and being humiliated and tortured by the Master, the Doctor defeats his worst enemy, who seems horrified. He goes to him… hugs him… and whispers three words that such a monster cannot bear: "I forgive you. " Being a Time Lord, he doesn't have one, but two hearts. Two golden hearts.
- The Eleventh Doctor is not very merciful, but he strongly prefers intimidating his enemies with the sheer force of personality rather than even being so aggressive as to outwit them, readily forgives enemies, and is noted to have a special affinity for children in distress.
- The Twelfth Doctor is a double subversion. He is trying to atone for the many mistakes he's made in the past from the beginning of his life, is a Pragmatic Hero, a Grumpy Old Man, and has No Social Skills, and still makes mistakes even now — sometimes because he's trying to be a better man. But he loves children, is fiercely protective of companions and humanity in general, and over the course of his Myth Arc his capacity for Sympathy for the Devil is thoroughly explored with such characters as Missy, Davros, and Bonnie the Zygon. He also seems to have a certain affinity for monsters he encounters who are not intentionally evil, such as the Teller and the Foretold. Those who are evil enough — or hurt him enough, as in the case of Ashildr/Me — to truly earn his rage will (usually) pay dearly for it, but he still believes in showing mercy whenever possible, and no matter what crimes the villain may have committed. The events of the Series 10 Story Arc start with his decision to spare Missy from final execution and lead to a tragic Season Finale two-parter, in which his attempt to redeem her at last led him to confront her, her previous incarnation, and three generations worth of Cybermen. After that ordeal, he only has his regeneration adventure to go through, which ends with him telling the self to come that they should "Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind."
- Constable Benton Fraser from Due South makes himself something of a local hero in the slum neighborhood of Chicago he lives in, unwittingly and unerringly winning the hearts of nearly everyone around him due to his constant, unwavering kindness to his fellow man. His partner, Ray Vecchio (and later Ray Kowalski), his friends, and even his boss are fiercely protective of him when danger arises. His lack of street smarts and general naiveté can cause problems, though, and they sometimes wonder about his sanity.
Fraser: You mean you're using some promotional ploy to get something for nothing?
Ray: Welcome to the United States of America, Fraser. - The titular character of Finding Carter has this trait, and interestingly enough while Carter is shown to be very charismatic, loving, and easily forgiving, the series doesn't shy away from the potential negative implications of the trait, as it causes Carter to overlook the flaws in people — she is initially hostile to her birth mother because she wants to apprehend the woman who abducted Carter as a child and who Carter views as being her "real" mother, despite Lori being a criminal and arguably someone who doesn't have Carter's best interests at heart. Later in the series Carter's boyfriend Crash accidentally shoots her best friend/ex-boyfriend Max and she finds herself delivering excuses for his actions to her friend and family who insist that Crash is bad news and needs to be arrested.
- Flash Gordon: Flash's idealism and altruism inadvertently brings together several tribes of highly eccentric crazies (including multiple members of the Big Bad's faction), who've spent decades hating each other.
- Ganbare!! Robocon: Robocon. He has an undying love for humanity and spares no effort to prove his worth in spite of how many times he is rejected. He still never stopped searching for ways to light up people's lives even though he was considered an outlier by both humans and robots and eventually became accepted by the Oyamas by saving their son's life.
- Game of Thrones: In complete contrast to his older brother Joffrey, Tommen wants to take the path of least bloodshed. Unfortunately, this makes him indecisive when the High Sparrow kidnaps his wife and later his mother since he does not want any blood on his hands.
- Peter Petrelli of Heroes (2006) embodies this to a point that's almost Genre Blindness or even Idiot Ball. He's so sweet and trusting that he'll even cast his lot in with the villain if he has a convincing enough sob story.
- Frank Pembleton from Homicide: Life on the Street is a lot meaner than most examples, but he truly believes that all life is equal and he puts massive amounts of dedication and effort into his cases, regardless of who the victim was in life. This doesn't at all make him pleasant to be around; Pembleton may view everyone as equals, but he's a misanthrope who has a rather dim view of people in general and he's very unpleasant to be around for anyone who doesn't share his philosophical views.
- Typical personality trait of many primary Kamen Riders. Example include:
- Gentaro Kisaragi, Kamen Rider Fourze, who in his introduction stated his goal to befriend each and every single person in his new high school. This includes forgiving someone for throwing away a girl's love letter and being nice to the Jerk Jock "king" and Alpha Bitch "queen" of the school despite their harassment (both verbal and physical). He'll even do it with the Monster of the Week. You have to be really bad for him to refuse you a Last-Second Chance. He even extended his hand to several people who would probably be the last people to receive his handshake, such as the man who killed him, The Dragon who put two of his friends to the Dark Nebula and threatened death to the rest of his friends, and finally the Big Bad. This is the same Big Bad that killed his best friend Kengo Utahoshi. Pyxis, the guy who is the reason Fourze has a Nightmare Fuel page is the only person he's not extended a hand of friendship to.
- Emu Hojo is subtler than Gentaro, but has soon figured out that sometimes you have to deal some hard knocks if you want to be an All-Loving Hero in a crappy world like that of Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. He tries to bring out the best in people, gives them a chance, and puts up with their crap, but the lives of his patients always go first. Threaten them and he will knock you on your ass and then nicely ask you to repent. Repeatedly, if needed.
- LazyTown: Even when Robbie Rotten puts Sportacus in danger (including poisoning him on more than one occasion), Sportacus is more than willing to Save the Villain and interacts positively with him on those rare occasions Robbie is on his best behavior.
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood:
- Fred Rogers is famous for being one of the nicest people ever, both on his show and off. There's an urban legend about him that involves two punks stealing his car. When they realized it was his car, they returned it and included a note that read "we didn't know it was yours".
- A story widely told is that a fundamentalist priest/pastor/whatever called on Mr. Rogers to castigate a nearby group of homosexuals. Without missing a beat, Rogers turned to said people and said: "God loves you just the way you are."
- Despite being an atoning petty criminal, Jerkass, and a Book Dumb hick, the titular character of My Name Is Earl has a real knack for getting along with people, is actively working hard to become a better person by righting all his past wrongs, in the process making his town a better place, and is willing to make great sacrifices for the people he cares about. Sometimes he relapses, but he brings up some interesting questions on morality and what makes a good person.
- Even though he has his jerk moments, Ned Bigby from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide does not hate anybody, and he always gives advice to those in trouble, whether he or she is a student or a teacher. He hates letting people down so much that his bad habit in "Guide to: Bad Habits" is saying yes to everyone.
- In Once Upon a Time (2011), one of the strongest qualities Belle has is her ability/willingness to understand virtually everyone and find good in them, including villains. She goes with Rumplestiltskin to save her people from the Ogre Wars, and ends up falling in love with him and helping him reform eventually. She gives good advice to Mulan, encourages Dreamy the dwarf (though, given he ends up Grumpy, it didn't turn out well), spares Robin Hood's life when he's captured by Rumple, and even extends sympathy to a trapped young ogre who other people are willing to kill on sight.
- Oz: Downplayed by Kareem Said. He's arrogant, prejudiced, and it takes a lot to get into his good graces, but he still tries to help any inmate who comes to him if he thinks they have a legitimate grievance no matter how diametrically opposed he is to their political views and lifestyles.
- Person of Interest: The Machine, the government supercomputer designed to stop terrorist threats before they happen, is so effective at its job because it cares for everyone. It values human life and free will above all else (which has actually caused several problems), and while it understands that sometimes its assets have no choice but to kill people, it never orders such things itself. Best demonstrated with Root, who was a sociopathic serial killer before the Machine started talking to her. By mid-Season 3, she's one of the best forces of good in the series who adheres to Thou Shalt Not Kill one hundred percent. Even when it helps her escape from a psych hospital and the government assassin sent to kill her, it stops her from killing anyone, including the assassin himself.
Root: Seriously? Even this guy?
[Root's earpiece beeps]
Root: All right... I guess you're the boss... - Sesame Street: Abby Cadabby. Her faith in Oscar the Grouch's heart is unshakable.
- Daniel Jackson in Stargate and Stargate SG-1 is The Face of The Team. Whenever they met a new culture, he'd love to sit down and talk with them. Though he hates the Go'ald, his main beef with them is that they abducted his wife (and do likewise to others).
- Twin Peaks: Albert strives to be one, and is an Actual Pacifist as a result, hence why he works as a medical examiner; it's one of the only jobs at the FBI where he can actively help people while never picking up a weapon. Although he is rude, abrasive, and cynical, Albert does take his path of nonviolence very seriously, refusing to even defend himself when his Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Truman has enough of his crap and tries to punch him in the face. He explains that the foundation of this choice is simply love for all of humanity. He then very sincerely says, "I love you, Sheriff Truman." Truman gains a lot more respect for him after that, and they reach an understanding.
- The titular Ultraman Cosmos is rather noteworthy for this, as he explicitly only kills Kaiju if he ABSOLUTELY has no other choice — he'd rather get beat up trying to stop a rampaging monster so he can calm it down rather than harm them.
- Wonder Woman (1975): Wonder Woman almost always completely outclasses her opposition but restrains herself from fighting unless she has to. Additionally, she regularly seeks to reform the bad guys, regularly releases low-level Mooks who are unimportant, and perpetrators who evidence guilt and desire to not do evil are generally let off the hook. This behavior flows directly from the comics, in which she changed the way superheroes behaved in terms of rehabilitating criminals.
Music
- David Bowie: The titular "Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud" is a Nature Hero who lives on a mountain and serves as a "missionary mystic of peace/love" — which offends the fearful, small-minded villagers of Dreadful so much that they decide to hang him. He survives because the mountain (apparently a Genius Loci) causes an avalanche that destroys Dreadful — much to the Boy's dismay.
- Implied with the protagonist in Planet Perfecto — "Bullet In The Gun". In addition to saying "Til the end of all time, I'll be by your side", she says "Fight fire with fire, fight enemies with love."
Podcasts
- Ketil from The Books of Thoth episode “How the Aesir Learned the Mantras.” He wants to help everyone find inner peace and break free from the cycle of rebirth. He doesn’t hold any ill will towards the Aesir, despite their many attempts to get a rise out of him. He even takes them on as members of his sangha.
Professional Wrestling
- Combine an all-loving personality with separation anxiety, bipolar disorder, delusion, split personalities and the strength to bend a man in two and you'd end up with something like Daffney Unger, where love leads to violence when it isn't "returned". Dr. Stevie's "treatment" did nothing to improve this.
- Ricky Ruffin couldn't be himself without all of you, he thanks you all and loves you all with all his heart.
- Bayley's gimmick on NXT, after getting over her starstruck phase, was automatically being the best friend she could be to everybody. She continued to act this way on the main roster until her heel turn.
Psychology
- Cognitive scientist Scott Barry Kaufman has proposed the Light Triad personality model, combining humanism, Kantianism, and faith in humanity. High scorers on humanism are likelier to value others' dignity and self-worth. High scorers on Kantianism are likelier to see others as people, not as a means to an end. High scorers of faith in humanity are likelier to believe others are fundamentally good. Individuals who score high on light triad traits also report higher levels of religiosity, spirituality, life satisfaction, acceptance of others, belief that they and others are good, compassion, empathy, self-esteem, authenticity, sense of self, positive enthusiasm, having a quiet ego, openness to experience, and conscientiousness. Additionally, those who score higher on the light triad scale are intellectually curious, secure in their attachments to others, and more tolerant of other perspectives. These individuals typically have fewer motives for achievement and self-enhancement (even though the light triad was positively related to productivity and competence).
Radio
- Our Miss Brooks: Connie Brooks is a kind and caring person, who frequently goes out of her way to help her friends, pupils and even perfect strangers. An example of the latter occurs in "The Burglar". Here, Connie catches a man breaking into the house and raiding the refrigerator. Instead of turning him in, Connie and Mrs. Davis share breakfast with the man and get him a job filling in for the school custodian.
Mythology & Religion
- Jainism is an entire religion that espouses ahimsa (non-violence), which is actually also a tenet of many Indian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, but whereas others limit the principle to humans, Jains include everything, literally: humans, cows, cats, snakes, mosquitoes, bees, bananas, palm, bacteria... Most Jains are vegetarians because they do not want to inflict violence on animals, and if it's detestable, then vegans. If even that is detestable, then they will abstain from eating root vegetables because they are life in early stages after all. Jains are also taught not to detest anyone simply because they have differing opinions regarding a subject (such as being in a different religion or world view) because every beliefs are true, just, well, in different viewpoints. However, Jains are also simultaneously taught not to be too attached to things and these include living ones, to prevent obsessive love, but instead have to do it equally; in essence, just like unconditional love (agape).
- Guanyin from Buddhist and East Asian folklore. S/he's so utterly compassionate that it actually makes her/him awesome at what s/he does.
- This is the defining trope for Jesus. The whole "love your enemies" thing is the most obvious. The times when we see Him angry are the ones where He's railing against those who fail to love anyone (other than themselves) and leading people astray with their lies. Christians believe that Isaiah 53:2-11 is a prophecy of His Heroic Sacrifice to shield humanity from their sins (which include murdering Him).
Amanda DeWitt: [Jesus] practiced righteous anger. Even in his most passionate moments, he still exhibited perfect control. He never lashed out to protect himself. He never called down judgment to silence the opposition. He never pursued vengeance. Instead, his sternness was always meant to correct, purify, and instruct.
- Universal love was a defining feature of the ancient Chinese philosophy of Mohism. Mozi, the founder of Mohism, went so far as to say that we should not act preferentially even towards our own family, because we are all equal under heaven; this was a major point of contention in debate with their major rival, the Confucians.
- The goddess Hestia in Classical Mythology was loved and respected by the other gods, as she loved and respected all of them even those with a bad reputation as Ares or Eris. When Priapus tried to rape her, all other Olympians rushed in to protect her and beat him off Olympus.
Tabletop Games
- Forgotten Realms: The god Ilmater. The first sentence of his catechism is "Help all who hurt, no matter who they are."
- Nobilis: Both Devils and Deceivers explore why loving absolutely everything is not necessarily a virtuous trait. The Devils love the laughter of children and the beauty of a sunset... but they also love cancer and genocide. In fact, they love cancer and genocide more, because who else is going to love them? As for the Deceivers... to make a long explanation short, let's just say that love doesn't have to be sane or healthy. This is the way they present themselves. Deceivers claim to deeply love everyone in creation. The catch is that the "you" that they love is completely divorced from any creational properties such as matter, life, or even existence. This is discussed and defied in their sourcebook, which points out that "I love you but I hate everything you are, do and value" isn't actually a very loving thing to say.
- In Nomine: Novalis, Archangel of Flowers, is, as a function of the Word she embodies, endlessly loving and forgiving. She is willing to see the best in anybody, up to and including the Princes of Hell, and steadfastly believes that the War can and should be won by changing hearts instead of at the point of a sword.
- Pathfinder:
- Shelyn is a Friend to All Living Things and the setting's divine embodiment of love, kindness, and both inner and outer beauty.
- Sarenrae sees the potential for good in everyone and redemption is a big part of her dogma, but she's a bit more militant than Shelyn.
- The empyreal lord Korada is endlessly empathic and forgiving, and believes that all creatures, even the vilest villains and fiends, can be convinced to see the light and accept goodness into their hearts.
- Sanguinius, Primarch of the Blood Angels from Warhammer 40,000, saw the good in the savage and bloodthirsty mutants and heretics of the maltreated Revenant Legion and refused to give up on them. Under his guidance, they were raised from a group of monsters into honorable and cultured defenders of humanity. Though, Sanguinius did have a darker, Blood Knight side to him that broke free when he reached his limits, his fight with Angron showed it was fueled by righteous fury and a sense of justice.
Theatre
- The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya:
- Fevroniya firmly believes in being kind to everyone, including Grishka, a drunken jerk who betrayed the city to the Tatars and framed Fevroniya for it. She actually refuses to enter Heaven until she can send a message to Grishka to help him.
- After entering Paradise, everyone becomes this, as Kitezh's residents who had ascended to Heaven easily agree to help Grishka despite him betraying them.
Toys
- Mata Nui of the BIONICLE franchise, as befitting the franchise's analogue to God. He's introduced in The Legend Reborn apologizing to a beetle he almost stepped on, and later jumps into a gladiatorial arena to save someone he didn't even know despite the fact that A) he was stuck in a body he wasn't used to, B) the only weapons he had on him were the aforementioned beetle and a broken stinger he picked up, and C) him falling in combat might have spelled out the end of the universe.
Visual Novels
- Artificial Nexus: The protagonist Susan is very friendly and positive, and shows no vindictive signs at all. Notably, during the final sequence of the game, an optional side conversation has her reaching out to the Big Bad, asking why they can't be friends and work together.
- CLANNAD series has got a lot of characters who can be classified as such, including:
- Sanae, who seems to support emotionally almost everyone who has problems.
- Kotomi is another example. She doesn't seem to hate anyone, especially after she gets rid of her fears.
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: People Makoto can befriend include a traumatized writer with a persecution complex, a delinquent biker, a Child Soldier, a strict disciplinarian with No Social Skills, an intimidating (but gentle) martial artist, and an emotionally distant detective. The people he can't befriend are a Jerkass elitist, a Serial Killer, and the Big Bad- and even then, he tries to understand them and even wants to Save the Villain. The sequel takes it further, as he tries to redeem Junko's Ultimate Despair cult because they were ordinary Hope's Peak students before she brainwashed them, and in the end, with a little help from Hajime, he succeeeds.
- Dies Irae:
- The girl of the guillotine, Marie, remains an ever-present source of love due to her desire to just be able to embrace everyone around her, something she had been denied of for her entire life due to the guillotines curse. This goes on to the point that she ascends to godhood and becomes known as the omnibenevolent goddess, someone who embraces everyone and gives them all a second chance regardless of what kind of person they happen to be.
- An unusual example with Reinhard. Unusual in that he is the Big Bad yet still remaining all loving to all. However, he also has a case of Blue-and-Orange Morality as he sees love and destruction as the same thing.
Reinhard: My love shall take the form of destruction. I shall ravage so I can cherish. I adore the weak that bow before me, as well as the defeated that bend their knees. My love expands to the vassals that rebel, and those that mean me harm. I love all and everything. And so shall I lay waste to everything before me.
- Fate/stay night: Emiya Shirou can only feel happy by seeing or making other people happy. This is actually presented as a character flaw: Shirou places no value on his own life except insofar as his life can benefit others, he cannot live for his own sake, and his desire to protect and save absolutely everyone often brings him more grief than happiness, and in at least one timeline he winds up a Broken Hero whose greatest desire is to kill himself.
- Kyle Hyde of Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is something of an All-Loving Hero who never planned to be. He only goes to the titular hotel on business. It turns out that all the other patrons of the hotel all have big problems, including Dunning Smith, pining for his kidnapped daughter; Jeff Damon, who ran away from home after getting sick of his father's shady legal dealings; Kevin Woodward, trying to get his head around his malpractice suit and his wife somehow producing the money for a settlement; Helen Parker, searching for her lost son who loved to frequent the hotel; Martin Summer, who plagiarized that son's text and led to his disappearance and others. Kyle Hyde manages to "take out [all of their] garbage" with evidence, questioning, and occasional tough love. He doesn't even want to arrest the person he's looking for despite what he did, he just wants to ask him "why?".
- Yuichi Aizawa and Ayu Tsukimiya from Kanon. The former goes out of his way to help the girls he befriends with their problems, and the latter is the one who gives everyone a chance to live happily (aside from Makoto, who is already dead, but implied to have been reborn as the fox she used to be).
- Ami, the protagonist's adorable little cousin from Spirit Hunter: NG, is shown to be incredibly nice and forgiving towards others. She's quick to befriend Maruhashi despite his scary appearance, and even shows concern for the driver of a car that nearly killed her.
- Magical Warrior Diamond Heart has the protagonist, the Crystal Warrior of love and hope, Valerie. A friendly, forgiving, and caring girl who doesn't seem to have a hateful bone in her body. She extends a hand to just about everyone, even characters like the cold and unfriendly Liam and the cynical jerk, Chandra.
Web Animation
- 13 Cards: Gabriel likes cats and pigeons, and is the only clone to never show annoyance or animosity towards any of the others. Heck, he's even on friendly terms with Waru.
- Dreamscape: Ahjeen is a very nice guy who wants to make friends with everybody.
- Paranormal High School: Despite her appearance and demeanor, Riko Yamikawa is this, best shown in videos starring her. Her social media videos, while appearing to be her venting her frustrations, actually have her complimenting other people and wanting to make sure people stay healthy and happy. While videos involving her confronting supernatural beings or scammers often cause them to make a Heel–Face Turn or otherwise turn friendly towards her.
- RWBY: In the Remnant fairytale of the Story of the Seasons, an old reclusive wizard is helped to come out of his shell by four sisters, improving his life for the better. When the Old Wizard asks them what made him so special that they'd go out of their way to help him, they tell him he's not special at all: he was a person in need of help, so they helped him, as they help every single person they come across. He is so impressed with their compassion, he gives them the gift of his magical powers so that the sisters can use them to help humanity.
- Tales of Zale: The titular protagonist is a friendly fox just looking to find his place in a post-human apocalypse world.
Webcomics
- Eggie from the Adventures With Eggie is this. She sang songs for money, so that she could buy a cow away from its neglectful owner. She also gets along nicely with children. She even compliments a shady character, Anthony Asslord, on his (not real) name.
- Luntsha is shaping up to be this in Anecdote of Error. Nothing less than this trope would even consider breaking a dangerous enemy combatant out of prison, after they assaulted them, just because the enemy was holding back.
- End from Beyond the End is this. He gives everyone a chance; angels, demons, and everything in between. Suspicious or not, he loves them all the same. He won't even question Michael casting him down from Heaven without telling him why he did so, nevermind hate him for it.
- In El Goonish Shive, "good" Tom seems to be this. According to Word of God: he isn't the least bit manipulative, his extracurricular school activities all benefit society and raise awareness in some way, he's rescued at least three puppies from various situations, he will never judge you, he will always listen, and he's just an all-around good guy.
- Izzy Pritchard from Ennui GO!, despite her cynical, hedonistic and snarky attitude, is ultimately this. She's quite forgiving and accommodating even toward her enemies, especially if she happened to screw them over in the past like Venus, believes in seeing the good in people and that anyone is deserving of help even if they happen to make life difficult for others.
Izzy: Let's go. We can get you [Florida Man] help.
Florida Man: Pass.
Izzy: What?
Florida Man: I've been around long enough that I've probably tried at some point. Besides, some people can't be helped.
Izzy: BULLSHIT.
Florida Man: Heh?
Izzy: I said bullshit. Anyone can be helped.
Florida Man: Even me?
Izzy: Yes. - Fenic from Goodbye to Halos. She openly asks "Is it weird if I want to love everyone?"
- Rachael from Guilded Age takes this as a mantra and mission statement, vowing to "Love everyone equally." She's later forced to admit this is impossible (Scipio pointed out that this would mean she'd love her enemies just as much her True Companions) and that coming up with that "philosophy" was basically a panic move in the face of a Relationship Upgrade with E-Merl.
- Homestuck:
- John Egbert. He not only treats his various friends and allies incredibly well but also constantly tries to make friends with his enemies and the Trolls (who initially start out insulting and annoying the Kids rather than helping them). He almost never starts a fight and is intensely trusting of others; indeed the only two characters he's genuinely antagonistic towards are Bec Noir and Lord English, two of the three most evil characters in the comic. At first, this is deconstructed by showing how naïve and easily tricked he is (we're shown an alternate timeline where Terezi somehow convinced him it was a good idea to attack a boss five times more powerful than him which predictably led to his death) but it's later reconstructed as these very traits allow him to help, support, and lead his allies and friends.
- Jade Harley also qualifies, despite having a considerably shorter fuse than John. She actually forgave the abovementioned Bec for killing one of her best friends and didn't blame the Tavros for killing her grandfather, due to misunderstanding. In fact, she spends most of the "Collide" trying to stop a fight between Bec and PM, using the fact, that both of them can't kill her, due to her pet dog's consciousness inside their minds.
- Acheron/Kayn'dar in Inverloch. The story is too short to let this trait really bloom, but the signs are all there. He insists on being polite to everyone and trusting everyone until proven otherwise, even the thief who tried to steal from him, and that is despite being raised as the Proud Warrior Race Guy and experiencing Fantastic Racism all the time. The resolution of the Happy Ending doesn't hurt too.
- Nixvir:
- Erik is not exactly this at the start, being both incredibly violent and horribly abusive towards children, but through Character Development, he develops into this, to the point where he becomes a Shell-Shocked Veteran during the Battle of Conevstall Saga and becomes torn up about the many lives that he takes, so much that during the chapter Erik and the Kerkopes, he tries to avoid killing the titular Greek mythical creatures.
- Oriel is a more straightforward example, since she is gentle, compassionate and kind; when she beholds Vaizros' suffering at the hands of both Erik and Archon Stegg, she decides, against all the gods, to walk up to him, kneel by his side and give him a Mercy Kill. She also expresses immense pity for what the snowmen have to go through under their corrupt theocratic government.
- Pixie and Brutus: Cute kitten Pixie is overly optimistic and jolly, befriending every creature she meets and carrying for everyone.
- Brian from Think Before You Think is an example. He goes out of his way to save a girl he just met from suicide, and he is just generally nice to everyone he encounters.
Websites
- SCP-999 of the SCP Foundation. It loves everything and wants to bring joy to everyone no matter who or what they are. Not even an Omnicidal Maniac Eldritch Abomination is too horrible for it to love unconditionally.
Web Videos
- Nana from Kittisaurus. She's the most affectionate cat of the group, even bringing the likes of Coco and TT out of their shells. She's so affectionate that Claire wonders if she had another family previously given how much she loves being petted.
- Empires SMP Season 2: Sausage is notably kind and amiable to most people, so much that he's willing to absorb Dark Sausage as part of himself again, after his previous incarnation cast him out in Season 1. It likely has something to do with him being born to be composed of the 'good' part of the King of Mythland's soul and not the 'bad' part (who's embodied in the then-Omnicidal Maniac Dark Sausage, as mentioned).
- Lindsay Doe from Sexplanations (a YouTube channel about sex) is one of the nicest and most open-hearted people on the site. She even has compassion for pedophiles as long as they haven't actually hurt a kid and want to change themselves, as they can't control how they feel.
Other
- Sometimes downplayed Depending on the Writer, but Jenny Everywhere's multiversal perspective means that for any given enemy she encounters, there's a universe out there where they're her best friend. As a result, she is often depicted as having little to no personal animosity toward her enemies, and wanting to redeem them if possible. This does not mean she will flinch at doing what is necessary if that's not an option, mind you.
