Redwall/Heartwarming

• Blaggut. Nothing specifically that he did, just Blaggut's existence is the entire series' CMOH. He starts out as the typical Ugly Cute Punch Clock Villain rat, patiently enduring his boss Slipp's abuse, then starts to get second thoughts when Slipp is contemptuous of his being nice to the lost baby mouse and mole they find. Then he cries his eyes out for hours when Slipp kills the badger mother. Slipp gets angry and starts to beat him up again, and Blaggut gets a Crowning Moment of Awesome/The Dog Bites Back moment by killing him and going back to the Abbey to face the music. And they exonerate him of all blame and he gets to be one of only two vermin in twenty books whose Mook Face Turn actually worked out. Awwwwwwwwwwww.
• The water rats at the end of Marlfox. After the villains are defeated, they celebrate, flinging their weapons into the lake and becoming a peaceful farming community. They may have been the Mooks of the Marlfoxes, but it turns out that despite their apparent devotion the foxes have a 0% Approval Rating, so they have a happy ending too.
• Veil's Redemption Equals Death moment.
• The end of Martin the Warrior is a Tear Jerker, even if it was inevitable ^[1]. Now, we know from the first book that Martin was Matthias. And Matthias and Cornflower got married. Then Word of God said that just as Martin = Matthias, Rose = Cornflower. Cue the tears again...

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1. ↑ since Rose obviously wasn't there for Mossflower