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* At the end of ''[[Speed Grapher]]'', Saiga lost his sight but still remained an excellent photographer. Recently, a real life blind photographer, Tara Miller, won an award for photography.
* In [[Ouran]], [[Maaya Sakamoto]]'s character Haruhi has a male [[Unwanted Harem]]. One of the members is a boy named Hikaru, who's voiced by [[Kenichi Suzumura]]. Some years later, Maaya and Kenichi... got married.
** Before that, in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SeedSEED Destiny]]'', Shinn and Lunamaria fans were up in arms when they [[Strangled Byby the Red String|hooked up with no buildup whatsoever]] after he (Shinn) {{spoiler|seemingly killed Athrun and Lunamaria's sister, Meyrin}}. Making it more confusing is when Mitsuo Fukuda, [[Word of God|in a post-show interview]], said that Shinn and Lunamaria were "the only true couple" in the series.
* While it's listed in [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], it could be an example of this as well: in ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'', when discussing the logistics of [[Combining Mecha]], Kamina decides that a combination of 16 mechs at once would be a stupid thing to do, since a true combination would require everyone involved to be deeply connected to each other in spirit. In [[The Movie]], not only do they pull that off, but the resulting Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is none other than {{spoiler|Kamina reincarnated}}. And it works.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Luffy {{spoiler|asking Jimbei to join his crew}} becomes even more heartwarming when you realize that {{spoiler|Jimbei was there to pull Luffy out of his [[Heroic BSOD]]}} and supported him when the rest of the crew couldn't be there.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* One that was mentioned in [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara's review of]] ''[[Action Comics]] #1'': [[Superman]] rescuing Lois for the first time and bounding away with her in his arms does indeed become even more adorable now that they're married.
** Of course November 2011 came along and now they're not.
* A large part of [[Grant Morrison (Creator)|Grant Morrison's]] run on ''[[Animal Man (Comic Book)|Animal Man]]'' dealt with the idea of fiction and how fictional characters "exist" in those stories. At one point the book shows a purgatory where all the forgotten and unused comic characters exist in limbo, and one of the characters that is shown is Mr. Freeze, questioning whether or not he'll ever get out of that place. It took about a decade later, but his revival in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'' cemented him as a major member of [[Batman|Batman's]] [[Rogues Gallery]].
 
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'', the experience of making this film actually helped Tony Hendra, who played the manager, get over his suicidal depression.
* ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]'': The producers built Michael Jordan (then retired from basketball) a custom court so he could practice his moves to look good for the movie. He credits this with helping him make his comeback when he un-retired.
* In the British film ''Victim'', released in 1961, Dirk Bogarde plays a homosexual barrister who decides to fight criminals blackmailing gay men (blackmailing homosexuals with threats of revealing their true inclination was common in the era when homosexuality was still a crime). Bogarde, who at the time was a major star in British cinema, took a big risk by accepting the lead role in this pro-gay movie, since in Britain in 1961 homosexuality was illegal and carried a significant social stigma. It wasn't common knowledge at the time, but it's been later revealed that Bogarde himself was gay. Seeing ''Victim'' with this knowledge, knowing how personally Bogarde must have felt his role, certainly adds an extra level of heartwarming to the movie.
* The La Marseillaise scene in ''[[Casablanca]]'' was already a tearjerking scene of patriotic pride. It gets all the more heartwarming when you learn that most of the extras in the movie who were singing along were exiled from Europe because of the Nazis and World War II.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' series 5 and 6, the friendship between {{spoiler|Amy Pond and River Song}} becomes even more heartwarming following [[The Reveal]] that {{spoiler|River is Amy's [[Kid From the Future|future daughter]]}}.
** Meanwhile, {{spoiler|River and Rory's}} relationship becomes a mix of this and [[Tear Jerker|heartbreaking]].
** Particularly when Rory comes to meet her in prison in ''A Good Man Goes to War''. She sounds so unbelievably happy, yet sad, to see him, and goes on to tell him all about how the Doctor had just taken her ice skating for her birthday. [[The Reveal]] throws the scene into a new light. {{spoiler|It's basically a young woman happily telling her father about a date with her boyfriend.}}
* An interesting example happens in the first episode of ''[[Sherlock (TV)|Sherlock]]''. John Watson is kidnapped by a somewhat sinister man claiming to be Sherlock Holmes' archenemy, who offers him money to spy on him. When John asks why, he simply says, "Because I worry about him. Constantly." At the time it sounds vaguely threatening, until the end of the episode when you find out that {{spoiler|the supposed archenemy is [[Big Brother Instinct|Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older brother]]}}.
* In Volume 1 of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Lindermann ends up healing Heidi Petrelli of the paralysis that his men caused in an assassination attempt on Nathan. At first glance, it seems like a ploy to get her to trust him. However, after the events of Volume 3, especially the flashback to the event as well as Lindermann's reaction to the event and his role in "killing" Arthur Petrelli, it seemed to be doing it out of genuine guilt.
 
== [[Music]] ==
* "Speechless", by [[Lady Gaga]], is a [[Tear Jerker|pretty sad song]]. However, the knowledge that it ''did'' persuade her dad to give up drinking and get the heart surgery he needed makes it this.
** Similarly, Martika's Toy Soldiers goes from tear jerker to heartwarming once you learn that not only it was written for a friend who was knee deep into drugs... but that said friend actually went into rehab and got better.
* [[Pink (Music)|Pink]]'s "Family Portrait" is a song about how parents constantly fighting affects the children. The song encouraged many kids in troubled homes to speak up to their parents about their feelings.
** Not to mention "Please Don't Leave Me" when you realize that she and Carey Hart got back together.
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In [[Street Fighter]], one of Guile's [[Memetic Mutation|most popular]] post-battle lines is "Go home and be a family man." In later installations of the game, Guile is voiced by actor [[Travis Willingham]]... who then married fellow VA [[Laura Bailey]] (who now voices Chun-Li, who's a close friend of Guile in-.story). The meme has mutated accordingly: '''[[Street Fighter (Franchise)/Memes|"Travis Willingham is a family man!"]]'''
 
 
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== Web Original ==
* In their failure date, [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] breaking down and asking [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]] if she cares about him. She doesn't answer and they both run off by the end of the episode, but by this point we know he's basically the only guy who she unselfishly cares for.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the [[DVD Commentary]] for the ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' episode "Anthology of Interest II", when it was still uncertain if the show would stay on, one of the guys talking asked "What if we had a fifth season?"
** The episode dealing with [[Robosexual|Robosexuality]] seemed like wishful thinking, in that this analogy for gay marriage becomes legal, but now New York state allows gay marriage in real life.
* "New Kidney in Town", an episode of ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'', involved Chris plagiarizing a speech about hope from Meg, and getting an interview for it with a local anchor (because the essay won a contest to introduce [[Barack Obama]] when he came to town at the end of the episode). Chris says, rather plainly, that he got the essay from an angel. He was speaking more in a religious sense, but think for a second about from where, or rather ''who'', it actually came.
** Also another episode, where Stewie goes back in time to the episode where Brian does the "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" dance for Peter, and does it for him instead of Brian. At first Peter is cheered up because you think Stewie did it better. Then you realize that [[Fridge Brilliance|this was the episode where Peter was upset because Stewie was mad at him, so seeing him do that would've cheered Peter up]].
* In the [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]] episode "It's Way Ed," the Eds kept falling behind on the latest fads. Edd tries cheering Eddy up by saying fads come in a cycle and that they'd be back in style in ten years. Ten years after that episode aired {{spoiler|[[The Movie]] ended with the Eds being accepted by the kids of the Cul-De-Sac}}.
* Optimus Primal of ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' said as Dinobot's eulogy "May his spark join the Matrix, the greatest of Cybertron" for his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in ''Code Of Hero''. Years later, when they had the Transformers Hall Of Fame and would induct memorable Cybertronians based on fan votes (the rest were preselected), Dinobot was one of the choices, and beat out G1 veterans such as Soundwave, Grimlock, Jazz and Shockwave, truly joining the Greatest of Cybertron.
** To add to this, he was the first fan-inductee and a ''massive'' underdog candidate. The Greatest of Cybertron will be joining him, as well.
* ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' episode "The Wall" have Alvin, Simon, and Theodore, plus the Chipettes, supposedly pull down the Berlin Wall during a concert through the [[Power of Rock]]/ [[Power of Love]]. Alvin then wakes up, sees the wall still standing, and sadly notes, "It was all just a dream... but it doesn't have to be." And eleven months later, it wasn't.
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