Pinky and The Brain/Heartwarming

• The end of A Pinky and The Brain Christmas counts when Pinky gives Brain the world for Christmas. (Sort of - it's a little globe on a keychain)
• The scene right before it is even better -- Brain is just seconds from bringing his plan to total success, until he turns and sees just how sad Pinky is at not being able to give his letter to Santa Claus. Right then and there, Brain effectively decides that if Pinky can't get what he wants, then neither will he. Of course, it wasn't so much the letter itself as it was the contents of that letter. Brain initially passes it off as some stupid letter Pinky wrote. When he actually reads it, he realizes that Pinky was writing to Santa about how great a guy the Brain is, yet no one respects him, and that Pinky wished for Santa to give the Brain respect, and maybe even the world to go along with it. Who knows if Brain was tearing up more out of Pinky giving him the respect he so desired or the realization that he treated Pinky like a Jerkass yet he still wrote all that, but, er, it's just the fluorescent lighting....
  • This troper is an embittered jerk who kept a straight face throughout WALL-E, and has never seen Pinky and the Brain before. That entry made her tear up right there. That's how touching it is.
  • What makes this moment all the more touching is that for the very first time, Brain realizes how abusive he's been to Pinky. Even though he doesn't speak, the tears in his eyes say louder than words the one thing Brain is thinking: He's my only friend and I made him cry.
  • More to the heartwarming factor, that wasn't the only time Brain kept disregarding Pinky's letter, it happened about four other times before that.
  • And to take it up to eleven (it being Brain's guilt and the heartwarming mood of the moment), despite tearing up uncontrollably, Pinky refuses to defy Brain and follows his instructions to activate the device.
  • And Pinky still prompted Brain to start his world domination speech, even if it was right after he yelled at him and called his letter stupid.
  • Pinky said the letter was very, very important, whose name was mentioned over and over in the letter? Therefore, who is very, very important to Pinky?
• The ending of the episode where Pinky succeeds at getting Brain the world for his birthday -- after Brain screws it up himself (of course), instead of getting angry, he quietly says, "I don't deserve a friend like you, Pinky."
• "Two Mice and a Baby." Apparently Kal-El spent a few days with a pair of lab mice who grew to love him. In the end, they decided to give him back to a pair of human parents as they realized he would have a better upbringing there.
• Pinky himself is a heartwarming character. He completely respects Brain's position and often affirms and cheers him on. Many episodes, such as That Smarts show how he doesn't mind how useful he is in taking over the world, because he values his friendship with Brain a lot more.
  • Pinky: (sniffling) Being smart isn't any fun...Brain doesn't like me.
• In "That Smarts" when Brain believes it's Pinky's fault that their plans never succeed, he never even considers abandoning Pinky.
• Brain almost always refers to his inventions as "our invention [he and Pinky]", and says "The world will be ours!"
• Brain always acknowledges Pinky's intentional and serendipitous acts that contribute to his plans.

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