Questionable Content/Heartwarming

Note: examples are sorted in numerical order — please insert new examples in their corresponding places. Exceptions may be made when a sequence of strips is nominated collectively.

• Pintsize giving Faye $400 in donations after an AnthroPC Housewarming Party in order to help her decorate her room. Faye is speechless, while Marten resists making the obvious remark.
• Strip 509. Simple and effective:

Faye: Why would you want me to get better if you weren't planning on waiting for me so we could date?
Marten: Because I CARE about you, dammit.

• Please tell me I'm not the only one who went "Awwwww!" when Dora finally kissed Marten in If You Need Me I Can Always Be Found?
  • I know I didn't, but back then I was still rabidly Marten x Faye.
• One for Hanners. Sven and Faye go out to a karaoke bar, and take Hannelore with them. She works up the courage to get up on stage and perform the only song she knows.... "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." The entire audience sang along.
• This strip.
• Marten passes his "Worry Hat" on to Hannelore.
  • Hanners giving Marten the hat back in I'll Be By Your Side.
• Shut up and kiss me, you dolt.
• The shut-in Marigold gets one in this, this, and this strip.
  • "Marigold... is pretty." "I see a smiiiiillllle"
  • This strip. Goddamn, it's about time something good happened to Hanners.
  • Marten is a true friend.
    • So is Hannelore. Good enough that she can overcome her OCD enough to comfort.
• YMMV on this, but They came back to visit!
• Hannelore is such an adorable Woobie that not even Faye's status as a Deadpan Snarker ruins this strip.
  • This Hanners-hugging-wannabe troper, author of this very link, has a new favourite moment.
  • And the growth of Hannelore continues: we go from "Hugging Hannelore Heralds Heavy Hyperventilation" to, well, huggles.
• The strip I Bless the Rains where a discussion about guilty pleasures turns into a kiss between Faye and Angus.
  • The one immediately after is pretty damn cute too.
• In U Stream, Jeph was drawing Hanners giving a Sven a hug. It was basically d'awwww inducing.
  • Made even better when it appeared in the comic. Aww.
• Faye hugs Dora while bluring the line between empathy and rage, and offers to get Dora some help.
• This comic. Because, sometimes, you need to know it's going to be alright.
• As odd as this comic is, I can't help but find it sweet that Pintsize is concerned about Marten in his own weird way.
• Only 'cause I know you like it.
• Strip 1889.
• Momo's new chassis. Judging by the nosebleed, Marigold is going to be eating ramen for longer than she lets on to pay it off. It establishes Momo is more than some kind of surrogate pet/comic relief character (the way Pintsize or Winslow are usually portrayed); Marigold cares for her pretty deeply.

I LOVE YOU MARIGOLD!

• • In fact, that is shaping up to be an entire crowning arc of Heartwarming, combined with a straight-played Become A Real Girl for Momo.
  • "The least we could do is invite them to the party, and perhaps offer them some champagne."
    • Not only was this just in time for Christmas, but Jeph actually wrote the entire fictional speech, of which he only used an excerpt in the comic, which somehow makes it even more heartwarming. It can be found here.
• Double CMoH; The AI on Hannelore's Dad's space station apologizes to someone he played a cruel prank on by giving her some shares in Ellicott-Chatham Technologies. The fact that he owns shares in the first place reminds us that A Is really are humanity's equals. The second part comes when he says the shares she now owns are worth 4.6 Million US Dollars. Her ponytail comes undone from the shock.

Station: Blink once for "go fuck yourself", twice for "apology accepted."

• This strip may not seem like much, until you understand that Hannelore spent her entire childhood dealing with a crippling OCD and a severe germophobia, and until this day had never before hugged her own father.
• Hannelore's words of encouragement to Marigold. They become even more touching in retrospect as the next few strips show how much Hannelore is speaking from her own heart about having come through to the other side of that day herself.

Someday, everything is going to go right for you, and it will be so wonderful you won't even know what to do.

• • On that note, Hannelore admitting that she loves Station. Given Hanners' personality, this is definitely a Wham! Line.