Dead Space 2/Heartwarming
- Out-of-context, the intro movie of Nicole and Isaac is quite sweet. You can tell how much they love each other.
- Now, the Nicole hallucinations are agreed to be High Octane Nightmare Fuel. Then you get the one in the mines. Nicole is slamming Isaac against the walls, screaming at him, asking why he won't let her go. Hitting the button prompt leads to Isaac admitting "Because you were my everything. And if I let you go, I have nothing left." Nicole IMMEDIATELY drops him and turns into normal Nicole. Then, in this calm, touching voice, says; "Step Four: Acceptance. Now you're ready to finish this." Sorry, I have something in my eye.
- Equally, after Isaac sends Ellie away. He slowly collapses against the wall, crushed. The camera turns and, hey, it's non-demonic Nicole! She quietly asks if he wants to talk about it, like she genuinely cares.
- It turns into a pretty brutal subversion when she reveals that she only turned good to manipulate you further.
- It manages to simultaneously be really sweet, really sad, and really creepy when she asks Isaac to touch her and "make us whole".
- Equally, after Isaac sends Ellie away. He slowly collapses against the wall, crushed. The camera turns and, hey, it's non-demonic Nicole! She quietly asks if he wants to talk about it, like she genuinely cares.
- This Troper thought that the only thing more heart-warming than Issac staying behind so Ellie could escape was watching Issac collapse at the end, only to be greeted by Ellie smashing in through the roof to return the favor (even after she discovered that Issac caused the outbreak.)
- The Mythology Gag ending. After going through hell Issac escapes with Ellie. He turns around, after settling into the cockpit of the gunship, and the music scratches. Instead of seeing Nicole as a necromorph, he sees Ellie, who says "...What?"
- Whilst it may not seem like much, discovering that Tiedemann, despite being the villain, disobeyed orders and helped a large amount of people escape kinda reminds you that he's just following orders.
- In Severed: The ending of Severed in a weird way. If you've played Extraction, you'd remember that Gabe was a kind of dick, but his final moments are pretty heart-warming in a way, you can see how he's changed from the man that he was