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Which fictional characters would you say fall under this description? I don't mean friendSHIPS (necessarily), I just mean characters who are like this towards their friend(s).

And I don't mean doormats either, although I guess one fan's supportive/forgiving friend is another fan's doormat.

Hermione puts up with a lot of crap from Harry and Ron. Harry is pretty forgiving too.

I'd say Buffy is pretty forgiving when her friends treat her like crap for the moments when she acts human.

Hermione is a motherfucking saint for putting up with the whole roster of crazy in those books. If I were in her place (and obviously had her talent) I would have burned the place to ground, and set myself up as the next all conquering Dark Lady of Wizardry.

Re: Most understanding/patient/forgiving/supportive friends in fiction

philstar22 - 2015-06-29 23:48 (UTC) - Expand

Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII. A lot of Final Fantasy characters (and the dynamics between them), but I would say Tifa is really high up there as one of the best (most supportive etc.) friends.

Turk and JD from Scrubs. :D

Agree...

But only about Turk.

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Just gonna leave these links here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4L4Uv5rf0

https://youtu.be/HTGv8xTByio

Jane lane from Daria. Her best friend stole her boyfriend, and I know they had a minor falling out over it, but that she actually managed to forgive is practically saintly. Honestly, my best friend in High School was closer than family, but if she'd done that to me I would not be able to forgive that at all.

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(Anonymous) - 2015-06-30 04:00 (UTC) - Expand

Some Watsons are doormats, but ACD's Watson is this IMO. (I actually think Watson in the Richie movies is the biggest doormat of them all. Even though he bitches and yells and snarks and tells Holmes to fuck off five times as much as any other Watson, he still always goes crawling back no matter how pissed and resentful he is. Whereas ACD Watson takes a lot of shit in stride, but usually puts his foot down and keeps it down on the rare occasions when he really does get fed up.)

Starsky in Starsky and Hutch. Particularly noteworthy because he doesn't just forgive all Hutch's little put-downs and needling and mind games, he's sincerely completely unbothered by them 99% of the time. It's almost like he knows some secret about Hutch that we don't know that makes all that stuff irrelevant to him.

Does R2D2 count? I'm going to say R2D2 counts. Not just towards C3PO either.

It bugs me to realize not a single one of the Buffyverse characters is this. I love pretty much every Buffyverse character and absolutely love many of the friendships between them, but almost all of the characters actually do sort of a shitty job at being a friend.

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Samwise

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Ehh, I guess a lot of people would disagree with me and say he's more of a doormat but Yamaguchi for Tsukishima from Haikyuu!! - it's pretty YMMV, I guess. In general, there are a lot of great and really supportive friends in Haikyuu!! - Kuroo for Kenma, for example. He is constantly looking out for him and encourages him, knows how to get him to do things he doesn't really want to do but respects when Kenma just wants to sit in a corner playing games. Kenma gets lost all the time and Kuroo just shrugs and goes searching for him - the first thing he does when getting off the bus with the team is checking where Kenma is so he doesn't get lost again.

He puts up with shit from Rocket and loves him as his best friend anyway. He forgives Gamora and Drax, both of who literally took chunks out of him in fights. He up and DIES for them. (But gets better because he's a plant and there was one twig that survived...)

All this without being able to speak more than a few words.

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BJ Hunnicutt. Damn, but he put up with a lot of shit from Hawkeye.

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(Anonymous) - 2015-06-30 00:09 (UTC) - Expand

Data!

Samwell Goddamn Tarley.

Foggy is a pretty great friend to Matt in both the comics and show. Matt is also a good friend, but it's sometimes a lot harder to be friends with Matt than it is to be friends with Foggy so I'm giving this one to Foggy

Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh. He loves his friends so much, it's awesome; you just know he'd go through any amount of horrendous shit to help any of them out.

Also, this is the dude who befriended the creepy thousands-of-years-old dead guy who inhabits and regularly takes control of his body. Like, wow, I sure as hell wouldn't have done that; if I was in Yugi's situation I'd get pissed off and call up an exorcist.

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IDK how many West Wing fans are bumming around, but Donna Moss had the patience of a saint. As did a lot of the assistants on that show (Cathy, Ginger, Margaret, Carol, Bonnie, Mrs. Landingham, etc), but that was their job, even if they did love and respect their bosses. Donna spilled over into actual friendship, especially with Josh of course, and was just such a sweet little sunflower even when Josh was a LOT.

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Scully as a friend of Mulder in my mental version of the X-Files where they never got together

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(Anonymous) - 2015-06-30 00:50 (UTC) - Expand

I feel like I should have a lot of examples, but I'm blanking right now, but... Naruto? He's ridiculously forgiving towards the villagers that made him an outcast (after his dad *and* his mom saved the village)/also to the girl that used to mock him a lot growing up/also the guy that antagonize him forever and ever.

William Bush.

The Brig, in his own inimitable way.

Daneel Olivaw.

I always love the sidekicks and friends, they're awesome.

Sunakawa Makoto.

Sam Gamgee, obviously.

Tib Muller and to a lesser extent, Tacy Kelly from the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace.

Simon Andresson from Kristin Lavransdatter and Arnvid Finnsson from The Master of Hestviken, both by Sigrid Undset. Both are incredibly patient with a colossal amount of shit from the main characters.

I just got back from seeing "Spy" and would like to nominate Nancy. She was the fuckung best.

Spock.

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