Heartwarming Moments/Comic Books: Difference between revisions

** Deadpool and Weasel's reunion in issue #44, in which it is revealed that Weasel cut a deal and did his jail time to appease Deadpool's decision to be more on the up and up (and to avoid a life sentence) and that Deadpool has TiVo'd every episode of ''Battlestar Galactica'' for Weasel in the event of reconciliation.

* In ''Cable & [[Deadpool]]'' #18, Deadpool, Siryn, and Cannonball find {{spoiler|an [[Alternate Universe]] version of Mr. Sinister caring for a baby Cable and trying to genetically engineer him into a mutant warrior/messiah for his own ends}}. Deadpool has this to say about it (and gets his own quirky CMOH for it):

* There's another issue where he buys Outlaw an apartment and furnishes it completely, as a thanks to her always being there for him.

* "Do not say thank you. Do not say you're proud of me. Do not say goodbye."

== Spider-Woman ==

* The last parts of ''[[Spider Woman]]: Agent of SWORD'', when a rogue Skrull delivers [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to [[Spider Woman]], stating that she's picked as the person to be switched by Veranke because nobody cares about her. Cue [[Big Damn Heroes]] by [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|the New Avengers]], eventually culminating with [[Ms. Marvel]] [[You Are Not Alone|reassuring her]] in the same way Jessica did to Carol back when Rogue stole her power. In the end of arc, [[Wolverine]] basically threw back her depressed comment to herself his own way:

 

 

** That same story, "First Thunder" had one of Billy's friends murdered in front of him and Billy starting to go into a [[Despair Event Horizon]] while still being Marvel. When Superman confronts him, Billy reverts back to normal and Superman sees that the hero who could give him a run for his money in a fair fight, and more importantly is a valuable ally to fight magical enemies that could stomp him with a shrug, was just a young boy who lost his friend. Supes then proves himself to be truly selfless and confronts Shazam for recruiting Billy in the first place.

** Also from ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', the [[Flash]] Family taking Superboy-Prime into the Speed Force; it doubles as a CMOA, because not only did they take down an unstoppable psychopath, but they did it as a family.

(All four of them disappear in a flash of lightning. Together) }}

*** This leaves Bart Allen alone against a murderous psychopath. He is distraught by this until:

'''Superboy-Prime''': ''You're right. You're even weaker than the rest. You've always been stupid. I watched you. Stupid little kid. Left all alone.''<br />

'''Kid Flash''': '''''Shut up!''' [[Punctuated Pounding|I'm - not - stupid!]]''<br />

'''Kid Flash''': ''{{spoiler|Grandpa}}?'' }}

** And from ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'' again, there is Superman from Earth Two coming to the aid of Power Girl and showing her the life she had with him and Lois. After she thought she was all alone, someone who didn't belong, it was truly heartening.

'''Earth 2 Lois Lane''': Oh, ''honey''... as far as we were concerned, you ''were'' our daughter. }}

** Again from ''Infinite Crisis'', the final assault against Brother Eye in orbit. Just after the strike team managed to knock out Eye's stabilizing unit to send it hurtling to Earth, the defense systems on the satellite activate to bring Batman, the Eye's original creator, [[Taking You with Me|down with it]]. All the while, the Eye is [[Villainous Breakdown|yelling at]] his "father", saying that after everything, Batman could never trust anyone ever again. Just then, a green aura appears and Hal Jordan (basically the one guy who best exemplifies the original reason Bats made Brother Eye)comes to get Batman. As they are leaving, Batman basically says: [[The Power of Trust|"You're wrong. I'd rather take my chances."]] To the satellite he created because he lost trust in his peers. ''That's'' gotta hurt.

* The [[Badass Creed]] of the Blue Lantern Corps must go here (and this troper doesn't even read the comics, he got this from the [[Badass Creed]] page):

Look to the stars - for hope burns bright'' }}

* From the end of [[Fifty Two]], one sentence from Rip Hunter to Booster Gold: [[The Multiverse|Welcome home.]]

* In ''[[Justice]]'', [[The Phantom Stranger]] snaps [[Green Lantern|Hal Jordan]] out of a hallucination, then actually ''hands'' him his power battery so that he can recharge and fly back to Earth.

* When [[The Phantom Stranger]] loans [[Superman]] a magic-resistant shield to give him a chance against the evil wizard Arion.

** The "To be a stranger" line is significant because Arion's motive for antagonizing Supes is that since Superman is an alien, he is a stranger with no right to interfere with our lives. [[The Phantom Stranger]] tells him, [[You Are Not Alone]].

* The DC [[Superfriends]] comic had a story where The Queen Of Fables separates the Super Friends and [[Trapped in TV Land|traps them in various stories]]. Superman lands in the tale of John Henry. As the contest against the machine begins, Superman begs John to stop, as he has read this story and knows that John will die at the end. John makes a speech about how he has to stand up to the machine to prove that machines can't replace people. Superman then picks up a hammer.

* [http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9820/impulsemaxwoobietw2.png This] panel from ''[[Flash|Impulse]]'' #66. Aww, so adorable...

* And here we have [[Garth Ennis]] take a break from his rampant cynicism and hatred of superheroes to let [[Hitman (Comic Book)|Hitman]] give some props to Superman: [http://www.beaucoupkevin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ennis-superman-help.jpg\]

* Despite it's being a [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] series, [[Superboy]] occasionally had some touching moments. One of the most notable was when Superboy has a dull day and is convinced that he didn't do anything noteworthy. All he managed to do was save a toddler from a well, help a teenage girl from being humiliated at a party, and rescued a reporter's briefcase. As it turns out, the toddler was Jimmy Olsen, the girl was Lois Lane, and the reporter was Perry White. Aww!

* The issue in [[Superboy]] where [http://pics.livejournal.com/starwolf_oakley/pic/003q7prc Superman gave Superboy his name in honor of his Kryptonian heritage]:

'''Superboy (''crying with happiness'')''': Kon-El--! I have a name... I have a '''real name'''! }}

* In ''Superman/Batman: The Search for K'', Superman [[Heroic BSOD|falls to his knees in despair]] when he and Batman found out that the squad armed with krypotonite weapons out for Superman's blood was created and funded by the US government itself (surprisingly Lex Luthor isn't involved). They didn't care about Superman's devotion to protect people and they wanted him dead. Batman then snaps Superman out of it by telling him that ''he'' believes in him.

* Star Wars Knights of the Old Repubic, #24; Zayne shares a passionate hug with his former girlfriend; the same girlfriend who tried to murder him, who treated him with unabashed hostility, finally believes in him, meaning that Zayne has exonerated himself to one of the most important people to him; The preceding scene where she breaks down sobbing while simply saying "You didn't do it." also counts.

* A recent issue of ''[[Star Wars]] Adventures'' goes into detail on Luke's training on Dagobah. In the [[The Empire Strikes Back|film]] Yoda doesn't seem to recognise R2-D2 at all - ''turns out [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|he did]].'' This little gem comes while Luke is off fighting dragonsnakes:

'''Yoda:''' Seen much have we, Artoo. Been part of much. Your part will continue. ''His'' part is just beginning. But my part, soon, will come to an end. }}

* In a one-shot issue of [[Star Wars]] simply called ''Jango Fett'', Jango tells his droid caretaker how he hates leaving Boba for long periods of time. He wishes that he could just sit down and be a father for a while, but his last job ended without him getting paid and he needs to make up for lost credits. Then he goes over to his five-year-old son, who is playing with action figures (and, in a CMOH all of its own, one of them is a model of Jango Fett himself), and tells him that he has to go again. The dejected Boba asks if he has to leave right then, and Jango smiles and says "No. Not right now," as the next page shows him playing with his son.

* Of all people, Norman Osborn gets one in ''Dark Avengers'', where he has a talk with the Sentry, who has a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] know as the Void. For the most part, everyone else helps him by fighting the Void, Osborn, on the other hand, tells him that he knows what's it like to have a evil side and that there is no Void, it's just the results of the Sentry refusing to embrace his human side (as he doesn't sleep or eat anymore), then takes him out for a hamburger.

* ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'' #57 when the android Vision is accepted into the team.

'''Henry Pym''': ''Is a man any less human because he has an artificial leg... or a transplanted heart? The five original Avengers included an Asgardian immortal... And a [[Incredible Hulk|green-skinned tormented behemoth]]! We ask merely a man's worth... not the accident of his condition!''<br />

(Vision excuses himself, goes into the next room and cries in a very human manner.) }}

* In a ''What If?'' story where Captain America isn't revived until the 1980s, and in the meantime an imposter Cap has turned America into a fascist police state, he has a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] kicking the imposter's ass on live national television. Then he turns to the cameras, berating the people who allowed their blind hero worship to turn their country into the kind of thing Captain America was created to fight. However, he still believes it's possible to return America to the way it was, and the choice is theirs. A murmur flows through the crowd, and after a couple minutes Cap recognizes it: America the Beautiful. At this, he starts crying.

* In ''Alias'', after Jessica Jones risks her life investigating a smear campaign against Captain America, Cap comes by in person to collect the tape that would have tied him to a murder case. He asks Jessica why she quit being a superhero, to which she replies that she didn't have what it takes. Cap counters:

* You wouldn't expect the Punisher to have many of these, and he really doesn't. One, however, comes at the end of [[Welcome Back Frank]], the first canon Punisher comic that [[Garth Ennis]] wrote for Marvel. Castle is living in a rundown apartment complex with three oddball neighbors: the enthusiastic punk weirdo "Spacker" Dave, the cheerfully obese Mr. Bumpo, and the meek and timid Joan. As he starts becoming familiar with them, he decides it's time to finish up his current mission and move on--only to be shot six times in the chest by an unexpected attack force of mafia soldiers. Dave and Joan find him bleeding out in his apartment and call a mob doctor known for keeping his mouth shut to help the Punisher, and while he's healing he and Joan talk about life. Joan admits that she's terrified of New York City, but can't leave. Frank doesn't believe it, and tells her it's as simple as "Just go[ing]." After he heals and takes out the mob boss, he finds a million dollars in her house safe...which he splits up three ways and leaves for his neighbors to find, along with a note for Joan that says "Just go." Their reactions, and especially Joan's look of tender joy and gratitude, definitely qualify for this trope.

** The scene is repeated, though with less emotion, in the 2004 Punisher movie.

*** The reason the movie fails with this is the fact that in comics we see small interactions between the Punisher and his neighbors. When he pulls Bumbo out from door hinges, comments on Dave's new piercings or accepts Joan's bakings. In a story arc about him destroying a mob these moments show us how much he misses being a normal human. He even lampshades this when he is ambushed by the enemy that he "let his guard down" and later when he tells his name to Joan because she deserves to know it. The movie has moments like this but they are more forced and don't feel like part of normal life in the neighborhood.

* The Sentry, [[Canon Sue|reviled though]] [[Base Breaker|he may be,]] had his own 8-issue miniseries that took place before [[Dork Age|the current stupidity.]] He had a psychologist, Dr. Worth, who himself was slowly breaking down under the combined strain of having to keep a [[Ax Crazy|frighteningly unstable]] [[Physical God]] from going nuts and destroying the world and having a miserable home life, with his distant religious fanatic wife Miriam and his crippled, mute daughter Katie. When the Void threatened Dr. Worth, Sentry placed him and his family inside his Watchtower for safekeeping. As Sentry turns to leave, Dr. Worth, his daughter in a chair watching the fireplace, turns to him...

'''Sentry:''' ''Please,'' Cornelius...please don't ask me that. I'm not God. I'd have to [[Healing Hands|do the same]] for ''everyone''.<br />

'''Dr. Worth:''' I would never tell anyone...I promise.<br />

'''Dr. Worth:''' Please, Sentry...I beg of you, please...she's just a child...[[Tear Jerker|please...]] }}

** Seemingly unmoved, Sentry leaves. Dr. Worth slowly walks over to stand behind his daughter's chair, stroking her hair. Then...

* While Avengers: Dissasembled is...Controversial it has a very nice heartwarming scene. After Avengers Mansion has been virtually destroyed by an explosion, the paramedics are busy attending to the wounded including the Avengers' loyal butler, Jarvis. Jarvis tries to wave the paramedics on so they can help the other Avengers, but the rather impatient paramedic seems unintrested and callous toward the old man. Then, Captain America himself walks in and berates the medic

* In Avangers Academy, Jennifer Takeda/Hazmat is unable to live outside a special suit or a special room due to her powers constantly making her body generate poison. Hank Pym, aka Giant-Man, promises to find her a cure, and while he hasn't found a permanent one, he does get Leech to come over to nullify Jennifer's powers and let her spend a day as a normal girl. The first thing she does when she comes out of her room is give Hank a hug. It's especially heartwarming considering Hank's nasty reputation as a crazy jerk, so it does a lot to change that perception.

 

* The fact that the [[Wildstorm Universe]] is on the ''far'' edge of the Cynicism side of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] only makes it more heartwarming when love and hope is triumphant.

** In ''Stormwatch'' #40 (volume 1), a terrorist attack has released a mutagen that violently mutates and kills the population of the small England town of Little Brook. The team dispatched to investigate follow the signal of a beacon to a church where they discover that ''everything'' is overgrown with human flesh.

(Breaks open the flesh-wall to reveal human survivors and that the walls were made by the people first hit by the mutagen using their last moments alive in order to to save others.)<br />

'''Fuji''': ''We forget that we do not hold the '''monopoly''' on '''hope'''.'' }}

** What makes it even more beautiful is that, as this is explained to him, it becomes evident that he's not the only one who's had to go through this. After he's already made his decision, curiosity gets the better of him, and he asks if anyone else has ever chosen to forget. Not a single one ever did.

* Danny Rand, the [[Immortal Iron Fist]], helping out a bunch of needy kids from Harlem and giving food and blankets to homeless people after turning his entire corporation, Rand Inc., into the largest non-profit charitable organization. You don't see Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne doing that.

** Bruce Wayne does keep upon his own philanthropy, however seldom mentioned, with his very own Wayne Foundation. Tony Stark, well...

*** Tony Stark also makes numerous donations to charities, although this troper doesn't recall if Stark Industries has an actual foundation.

* At the end of the mini series 1985 it is revealed that the author {{spoiler|writes his dead father into the marvel universe where there is the hint of him getting to know with Nurse Jane Foster, who Dad had a crush on. The series is also dedicated to the authors father - double awww.}}

* From the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' season 8 story arc 'Wolves at the Gate' when Xander is {{spoiler|cradling Renee's dead body, Dracula tells Buffy to get Willow so they can deafeat the vampire horde surrounding them, but she refuses to leave him alone. Dracula then shows that he might not care for many people, but if you hurt one of those he /does/, you die.}}

* Wash's [[Indulgent Fantasy Segue]] in the second issue of the ''[[Firefly]]'' spin-off miniseries ''Better Days'', involving his absolutely adorable hypothetical child with Zoe.

** Hell, Zoe's speech at the end of ''Float Out''. On so many levels.

'''ZOE:''' Sure is. Cheap Asian liquor. Perfect for a young couple of limited means on a first date. Wash loved it. Just like he loved flying. And his friends. {{spoiler|Just like '''she''' will.}} }}

** Tagg's story about passing up an opportunity to arrest Wash after seeing him dump a cargo of valuable water purifiers so his friends could get away.

* In Sláine: The Book of Invasions, Sláine finally pays his (incredibly greedy) Dwarf servant Ukko, and tells him to "start a new life in a new land". But Ukko doesn't want to go, and begs Sláine to allow him to help fight the Fomorian Sea Demon Moloch. Sláine says that it's something he must to himself, and then, after years of physically and mentally abusing Ukko to the point of torture just because he felt like it, Sláine comes out with this:

'''Sláine''': Of course we will, Ukko. Of course. Goodbye, my friend. }}

** Ukko's reaction makes it all the more heartwarming.

* ''[[Amelia Rules]]'' is full of heartwarming moments, but the final defeat of The Shadowman in ''Superheroes'' is truly the crowning one.

** {{spoiler|Amelia's friend Trish suffers from a life-threatening ventricular septal defect. She copes with her fear of death by writing a fantasy story called "The Adventures of Princess Trishara", where she and her friends fight against the evil Shadowman. In the end Trish and her parents move to California where she is to receive surgery. Amelia does not her from her again, but in a flash forward we see the teenaged Amelia receive a package with the conclusion of "The Adventures of Princess Trishara", where Trishara finally destroys The Shadowman using the above words that refer to their time together.}}

* At the end of the War of the Witchblades story arc where{{spoiler|Dani becomes the Angelus and restores balance to Sara. They hug and Sara says I think this a good look for you and Dani says Yes I think it is}}

* Belgian cartoonist Foerster usually wrote and drew horror stories with a very, very dark humor, but there's one story of his that actually ends on a tender note. A man has a boy, who immediately gets disliked by his mother who considers him a freak. As time passes by, everybody around the man and the boy finds the kid strange and scorn him. And to be fair, they have some reasons as the kid starts to lose his skin, eventually becoming a walking skeleton, and as everything around him withers and gets sick. His mother eventually commits suicide, as she's so disgusted by her son that she can't bear the idea she gave birth to him. But the man continues to raise him and to love him as if he was just a normal boy. As the man and the boy are finally so despised by everyone that they're thrown on the roads, the Grim Reaper himself appears and reveals that he's the boy's biological father, and that he'll make the boy his heir. The man tries to oppose this, but the Reaper replies by telling him he'll be his last job, and by giving him a heart attack... But the boy then kills the Reaper with his scythe, thus saving his adoptive father. And then, this dialogue occurs :

'''The boy''' : He may have been my father... But you're my daddy. And for this, you deserve to live a little longer. }}

* From ''[[Dork Tower]]'', the goodbye chat between Gilly and her brother Walden as she prepares to leave for London.

'''Gilly:''' "Well, except maybe for [[Straight Gay|the gay part]], of course."<br />

'''Walden:''' "Well, duh!" }}