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== Deadpool/Cable and Deadpool ==
* ''[[Cable and Deadpool]] #50''. After seeing Deadpool alternate between [[Psycho for Hire]],[[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V Antihero]]and [[Heroic Sociopath]] for most of the comic it is great to see him go out and be a hero because he wanted to be one. The scene at the end where he decides to share some beers with his friends is what really drives it home.
** Also the panels right after {{spoiler|Cable blows up his own island, self-included, having sent Deadpool on a false mission to retrieve an item that actually warps Deadpool right back to safety in his own apartment}}. Deadpool sits down on his couch and turns on the news to find out about the explosion, a devastated expression on his masked face. "Nate...I wasn't worth it." * picks up gun* "...And I won't let you down."
** And most of Bob of HYDRA's fanboying of Deadpool in general.
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* 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 ==
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== Other Marvel ==
* ''[[Marvel Adventures]]: [[Iron Man]]'' had one issue where a kid falls into a hole in a field in the middle of Nebraska. Since it's old Stark-tech property, Tony Stark comes down, as Iron Man, to rescue the kid. Turns out it a nuke-proof bunker built by his father, Harold, to preserve something. At one point Tony thinks about how his dad was so remote. Later on he fights some [[Zeerust]] robots, who stop fighting when he tells them he's "Designate: Stark, Anthony", and open the vault. Tony is stunned by what he sees in there before turning to leave. The last panel of the comic shows us the contents; {{spoiler|pictures of Tony at all the events Howard could never make it to. This is what he chose to survive a ''nuclear apocalypse''}}. I don't care if it's a cliché, it's still aww-worthy.
** All the Marvel Adventures universe is made of Crowning Moments of Heartwarming. Some call it the [[Lighter and Softer|Anti-616]]; others [[Epileptic Tree|think it's where the 616 heroes go when they die]]. Either way, it's quite a tonic to the [[Crapsack World|current Marvel canon]].
*** The [[Epileptic Tree|idea]] that Steve Rogers is in the Marvel Adventures universe right now is a CMOH for me.
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*** Fuji using a [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]] to bring Hellstrike out of a coma also qualifies.
* ''[[Gold Digger]]'' manages one with a [[Continuity Nod]] in GD #103. Faced with Penny's discovery of Madrid, which she'd concealed at Madrid's request over the last two years of the time skip, only for Madrid to finally request to see Gina in order to finally see her "family" which her shared memories with Gina make as close as if they were her own, in her memories. Gina, however, doesn't believe it, until Madrid demonstrates in the face of her flat refusal (and demonstration of how dangerous Madrid still is given she shares Gina's knowledge and intelligence as well) that she'd cracked light-gate technology, allowing her to have simply slid into Gina's life and replaced her (and even shunted Gina into the sun) effortlessly if she'd wanted to, as she exits to a self-imposed exile out of Gina's way in the Astral Rifts, thus proving that she'd been telling the truth about her good intentions the entire time. Later on, with only Madrid and Subtracto alone in the Rifts, Madrid receives a surprise guest in the form of Gina, who knew exactly where she went, and had set up a barbecue of her family and friends just a ways away from Madrid's campsite....which she was welcome to join whenever she was ready. Given the scene had seemed set to place Madrid out in the Astral Rifts to become her capable and massively powerful future self that'd saved Brittany a few issues earlier as part of a [[Stable Time Loop]], Madrid's teary-eyed hug of her new "sister" was all the more satisfying for the subversion of expectations from this long time reader.
* In one ''[[Astro City]]'' short story, every night a man dreams about a woman. He knows everything about her, but doesn't know why he knows these things or who she is. He finds out she's {{spoiler|his wife, who due to time space stuff, was never born.}} When he's given the choice to forget all about her, he chooses not to. Gets this troper every single time.
** 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.
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* ''[[Amelia Rules]]'' is full of heartwarming moments, but the final defeat of The Shadowman in ''Superheroes'' is truly the crowning one.
{{quote|"I am a BRAVE GIRL. My HOME is ALWAYS NEAR! And YOU... ARE '''INSIGNIFICANT'''!"}}
** {{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 :
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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 [[
'''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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