* Russell's "'''YOU LEAVE MR. FREDRICKSEN ALONE!'''"
* Carl [[spoiler:stripping his house of all its furniture (including his and Ellie's armchairs) to make it buoyant enough to fly again,]] then [[spoiler:donning Russell's Wilderness Explorer sash and shouldering his cane to pilot the house.]]
* Following a {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}, Carl realizes that all his beloved mementoes of his wife are just things, and as long as he has his memories of her that will be enough. This allows him to completely empty his house, making it light enough that the remaining balloons can lift it again and allow him to rescue his new friends. Hell, pretty much everything the guy does in the second half, considering he's in his late 70s.
* And another {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}, when the house lifts off [[spoiler: and you see the pile of junk but then, right beside it, him and Ellie's armchairs carefully placed]].
* It doubles as a CMOH, but [[spoiler: seeing the house sitting next to the falls after we all thought it had been lost]] makes you jump up and cheer at the sheer ''rightness'' of it.
** Could also be a TearJerker if you realize that he won't ever know it got there.

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*Carl freeing Kevin, Russell climbing the hose to the house.
* Russell's "'''YOU LEAVE MR. FREDRICKSEN ALONE!'''" has to qualify, as does Carl [[spoiler:stripping his house of all its furniture (including his and Ellie's armchairs) to make it buoyant enough to fly again,]] then [[spoiler:donning Russell's Wilderness Explorer sash and shouldering his cane to pilot the house.]]
* [[spoiler:Does the Adventure Book not count? Ellie's "Thanks for the adventure, now go have another!" will make you cry Tears of Awesome.]]
* [[spoiler:The same applies to the first five ten minutes of the film which shows the events before the story.]]
* [[spoiler:This Troper had to torrent the film months before he could pay to see it, ending with Russian text and thus, unable to read Ellie's message. All it took was Carl's reaction to the words to make this troper cry.]]
* Dug helping Russell and Carl escape. He went up against dozens upon dozens of dogs who all ready hated him and would sooner kill him than see him again, and what does Dug do to this man who he just meets and calls his master? [[spoiler: He not only leads them away from the hungry, ravenous pack of dogs to a tunnel, pushes a pile of rocks in front of said group to stop them, and stands up in front of the group of dogs himself, along with the leader, who hates him with an unbridled passion ''JUST BECAUSE HE WANTED CARL AND RUSSELL TO GET AWAY''. Get me that dog. I would love him FOREVER.]]
*When Carl does a short zip-line with a garden hose and his own cane!
* As angsty and poorly timed as it was, Russell tying balloons to himself and propelling himself forward with a leaf blower took massive titanium balls. I mean, he's a little kid! And he's voluntarily going thousands of feet in the air without showing the slightest fear!

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