Empowered/Heartwarming

• When Thug Boy tells Empowered how much he respects her as a hero, she cries because it's the first time anyone complimented her as a superhero.
• Empowered and the Mook's daughter in the hospital after her x-ray vision keeps the mook from having an aneurysm and dying the same way Emp's father did.

"I think you are a pretty okay superhero. And I'm pretty sure my Mommy doesn't think you are a big skank anymore."

• • Emp convincing the mook to go to the hospital in the first place.
• The scene where Emp comes home after a more than usually humiliating day, crying because she's such a terrible superhero. Her friends fail to cheer her up, but then the Caged Demonwolf indignantly points out that she's done something that her colleagues couldn't manage between them: defeating him. (And that she was able to do it because she'd just been in another embarrassing incident.)
• No words. First time Thugboy meet Empowered. After an entire page of his completely dead reaction to the world after the demise of his friends (shown as a long line of panels with different backgrounds, but with his face costant, immutable and apathetic), that little hearth told the entire depth of Thugboy feelings better than a 1000 word epic poem.
• Thugboy watching Emp sleep and spooning with her to keep her nightmares away.
• Empowered and Manny's reactions to one another while she's fulfilling his dying wish. It's one of the most oddly touching scenes of someone tying Empowered up in the whole series.
• The painful sort of heartwarming: Emp and Spooky consoling each other after they both fail to prevent Mindf**k's sacrifice and death.