2 things

[dhampyresa]

1. For reasons of Fic Research, can y'all rec me episodes of kid shows about THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP? Whether that's teaming up to defeat the Bad Guy or converting the Bad Guy to the side of good.


2. I've just watched Illustre et Inconnu. Comment Jacques Jaujard a sauvé le Louvre a movie documentary about the man who saved the Louvre during WW2 and WOW. What was done was amazing. They emptied the Louvre of pretty much everything right before the war started -- and I do mean right before: the last work to be evacuated was the Winged Victory of Samothrace and it left the Louvre on September 3 1939, 5pm, right when French declared war on Nazi Germany. It's an amazing documentary both really well done and about a fascinating subject. A++ would totally recommend. (I want to know EVERYTHING about Rose Valland now.)

Comments

[the_rck]

The old Teen Titans cartoon (not Teen Titans, Go!) had a lot of power of friendship stuff. Almost every episode had elements of that as I recall, and it wasn't beat-you-over-the-head levels but rather more subtle.

Possibly Lilo & Stitch? The movie, I mean. I've never seen the spin off show.

[schneefink]

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.

[melannen]

Rose Valland is so great. I only met her via the book Monuments Men but I kinda fell in (spinster archivist) love with her a little.

Oh, also: RE your first request: Any episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but the pilot is basically a platonic ideal of everything you asked for.

Steven Universe is about the power of all different kinds of love, including but not just friendship, although Steven's 'making friends with everything' superpower does come up a lot; I've only watched S1 but of those, the two-parter "Mirror Gem/Ocean Gem" is a good example of Friendship converting an antagonist, and the episode "Alone Together" does some interesting things with the trope of the Power of Friendship.

[geckoholic]

That documentary sounds so interesting, shame my french won't hold up. XD

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converting the Bad Guy to the side of good

Il y a un paquet de méchants qui sont passés du côté lumineux de la force dans DBZ. Bon, après, c'est plus le pouvoir du on-aime-se-taper-dessus-on-devient-potes et du on-s'allie-contre-un-ennemi-plus-fort que le véritable pouvoir de l'amitié. XD

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Of course, I immediately think of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic where basically every episode is about the Power of Friendship!!!

But let me see if I can find specific episodes elsewhere...

Or I could find this listing in TV Tropes that seems to cover...everything:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThePowerOfFriendship