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* Any moment with Midnighter and Jenny Quantum when she was still a toddler. Seeing a [[Badass]] bottle-feeding an infant will always do this, but how can you not [[Tastes Like Diabetes|die]] of cute when the little girl later ''pats said Badass on the head'' and tells him:

{{quote| Best I stay with you, Daddy Midnight. You just get into trouble when I'm gone.}}

* For someone who pretty much personifies the [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Anti Hero]], Midnighter gets kind of a lot of these moments - if it's not his daughter, it's his husband. In the "Godhead" arc, a man named John Clay forms a cult devoted entirely to worshipping himself - only it spreads like a virus, converting everyone it touches. When the Authority tries to fight him, they find that the worship has given him the highest levels of post-human power, and he ends up beating the snot out of them all and infecting Jack Hawksmoor, the Doctor, and Midnighter. Jack becomes a rich celebrity schmuck with a bad goatee; Jeroen reconciles with his wife, a brainless, selfish J-Lo [[Expy]]; Midnighter actively resists. How? Well, they want his first act as a convert to be a public statement that he's lived a wicked, perverted lifestyle, but is now cured. Under the influence of the virus, they can make him flagellate himself with iron spikes, but they can't make him say he doesn't love Apollo.

* For someone who pretty much personifies the [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Anti-Hero]], Midnighter gets kind of a lot of these moments - if it's not his daughter, it's his husband. In the "Godhead" arc, a man named John Clay forms a cult devoted entirely to worshipping himself - only it spreads like a virus, converting everyone it touches. When the Authority tries to fight him, they find that the worship has given him the highest levels of post-human power, and he ends up beating the snot out of them all and infecting Jack Hawksmoor, the Doctor, and Midnighter. Jack becomes a rich celebrity schmuck with a bad goatee; Jeroen reconciles with his wife, a brainless, selfish J-Lo [[Expy]]; Midnighter actively resists. How? Well, they want his first act as a convert to be a public statement that he's lived a wicked, perverted lifestyle, but is now cured. Under the influence of the virus, they can make him flagellate himself with iron spikes, but they can't make him say he doesn't love Apollo.

* From the most recent run, [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/231875.html this], which has been known to prompt noises normally reserved for giggling babies and boxes of kittens. As one commentator puts it, "I keep getting weirded out of the d'awwww because ''this is the d'awwww of a killer''."

* From issue #17 of Abnett's run: Midnighter, in search of a cure for Apollo, has finally found out who's calling him North - {{spoiler|it's a little girl called Gaia. A century baby like Jenny, Gaia's real form turns out to be the ''island'' Midnighter's wound up, and in return for helping her, she gives him... an apple.}}