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Heal the Cutie: An adorable and lovable character had their innocence shattered by a horrible experience, but begins an emotional healing process (probably with help from their friends) and shows signs of their sweet, loving side again.
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Happily Ever After: A love story that ends with a mention that the couple lived happily ever after.Happily Adopted: A single character or a childless couple adopt(s) homeless or parentless children with great kindness and compassion.Group Hug: The protagonists all hug one another.Good Parents: Parents who are caring towards their children and willing to do anything that will make life better for them.Good All Along: A character finds out that someone they believed was working against them and distrusted, was good the entire time and was using a suspicious façade to hide their benign ulterior motives.Golden Moment: The scene where the moral is delivered.Fright-Induced Bunkmate: A scared character who woke up at night wants to share an older character's bed.Friendship Moment: A character expresses friendship in an uncharacteristically affectionate way.Forgiveness: An Aesop about when to forgive.First Time in the Sun: Someone who's been living somewhere bleak sees nature for the first time (often paired with Cue the Sun).First Kiss: Either the first time someone has kissed anyone romantically, or the first time a couple kisses.Everybody Lives: The story ends with no one dying.Earn Your Happy Ending: A character gets their happy ending after enduring a lot of suffering.Cheerful Child: An adorable, optimistic, and innocent child.The Cutie: An adorable character with a sweet, innocent personality.Creating Life Is Awesome: Giving a new being, maybe even a new species, a chance at life.Commonality Connection: Two people hit it off after they learn that they have something in common.Comfort the Dying: Someone is dying, but they have someone there to make them feel better.Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Two lovers break up, or two friends end a friendship, but they get back together.Big Damn Reunion: Characters reunite after a long time.Big Damn Heroes: Saving the day in a showy way.Bait-and-Switch Sentiment (for a subversion): A character seems to be doing something for sentimental reasons but isn't.Back from the Dead (if used positively).
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Babies Ever After: The story ends with the main characters having children.Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: A character who otherwise acts ungrateful and mean towards someone reveals that they actually do care about the other person.Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: A character is reprimanded for the wrongs they've done, then commended for the one thing they did right.Anguished Declaration of Love: A character who has long avoided revealing their feelings for a person ends up confessing their love when it looks like the two of them will die.Adopt the Dog: A morally-grey character does something nice to show that they're becoming more moral.To create a genuinely heartwarming moment is a lot harder than it seems without plunging into sentimentality.
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A failed attempt at creating a heartwarming moment can result in Narm if the producers muck it up. And what may be heartwarming for one may be more of a case of Tastes Like Diabetes for another, since opinions may vary vastly on a highly subjective trope like this one. This trope can have massive overlap with Squee!, when the moment is aimed at fulfilling the (mostly sexually or romantically oriented) wishes of the fanbase. That is where the Heartwarming Moments come in, when the writers actually pull off a glowing scene that makes the whole audience say, against their better judgment, "Awww". These could include a character helping another when it was especially needed, or when a villain finally has a real change of heart in response to the earnest efforts of the hero. There are certain moments in popular culture that feel so right, where something happens in stories that feels so good and so appropriate in the story, that you can't help but be moved by it.