I watched two episodes of Digimon in my whole life. In the second one they were fighting a monster that was too strong for them, until one guy, who had until then been very bad at teamwork, broke down crying screaming at the others "I'm not worthy of you leave me here to die", and somehow that activated the ~magical power of friendship, his digimon got an upgrade and they defeated the monster. I was so angry that apparently friendship = feeling unworthy, so much bullshit. I still get annoyed when I think about that episode.
For an actually useful example, the first season of Beyblade has an episode on Lake Baikal, near the end of the season: Kai joined the bad guys to gain power, but Tyson and the others fight him with his own old blade, defeat him, save his life, and get him back to the side of good through ~the power of friendship. I haven't watched it in many years, but I remember that I really loved that story arc.
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Date: 2016-01-18 11:45 pm (UTC)leave me here to die", and somehow that activated the ~magical power of friendship, his digimon got an upgrade and they defeated the monster. I was so angry that apparently friendship = feeling unworthy, so much bullshit.I still get annoyed when I think about that episode.
For an actually useful example, the first season of Beyblade has an episode on Lake Baikal, near the end of the season: Kai joined the bad guys to gain power, but Tyson and the others fight him with his own old blade, defeat him, save his life, and get him back to the side of good through ~the power of friendship. I haven't watched it in many years, but I remember that I really loved that story arc.