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(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:
{{quote|'''Kid Flash''': ''Wally! Wally, where are you going?! I can't do this! [[Freak-Out|I can't do this alone!]]''
'''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.''
'''Kid Flash''': '''''Shut up!''' [[Punctuated Pounding|I'm - not - stupid!]]''
'''????''': ''Bart.''
(Hand reaches out of the Speed Force, securing Superboy-Prime. It is followed by a face - it is {{spoiler|Barry Allen, the deceased [[Silver Age]] [[Flash]] and Kid Flash's grandfather in his Flash costume}}.)
'''{{spoiler|Barry Allen}}''': ''[[You Are Not Alone|You're not alone]] either.''
'''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.
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* 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.
{{quote|'''Vision''': ''You accept me? Though I'm not [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|truly a human being]]?''
'''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!''
(Vision excuses himself, goes into the next room and cries in a very human manner.) }}
* In an issue of ''Marvel Adventures: [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'', Sue has felt increasingly ignored and sidelined by her team mates, to the extent that she's thinking of leaving them to join S.H.I.E.L.D and work with Nick Fury. Then, as she's working up the courage to tell them she's leaving, they are distracted by an interview they did after an earlier battle... in which all three of her friends cheerfully admit that Sue's the strength behind them and that they'd be lost and useless without her. And what makes it especially genuine -- and thus the more heartwarming -- is that none of the other members are even aware that she's been working for S.H.I.E.L.D on the side, much less thinking of leaving.
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* 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...
{{quote|'''Dr. Worth:''' Sentry...
'''Sentry:''' ''Please,'' Cornelius...please don't ask me that. I'm not God. I'd have to [[Healing Hands|do the same]] for ''everyone''.
'''Dr. Worth:''' I would never tell anyone...I promise.
'''Sentry:''' I can't.
'''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...
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* 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.
{{quote|'''[[The Big Guy|Fuji]]''': ''We deal in so much horror, my friends, that sometimes we forget how '''human''' our goal is. We seek to pull hope from terror -- Life from death. If we arrive '''to late''', we '''assume''' that '''horror''' has '''won'''.''
(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.)
'''Fuji''': ''We forget that we do not hold the '''monopoly''' on '''hope'''.'' }}
*** Fuji using a [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]] to bring Hellstrike out of a coma also qualifies.
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'''Gilly:''' "Probably. He's my big brother. And one day I hope I find a guy kinda like him."
''(Beat. Hug.)''
'''Gilly:''' "Well, except maybe for [[Invisible to Gaydar|the gay part]], of course."
'''Walden:''' "Well, duh!" }}
* [[Castle Waiting]]: towards the end of book 2, {{spoiler|the palace cat teaches Pindar to purr.}} "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr." Cue the "Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!" squeeing.
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