History Heartwarming / AwesomeGamesDoneQuick

* Setting up an entire marathon in 24 hours for the Houston Food Bank, titled ''Harvey Relief Done Quick''.

* At the end of the legendary SGDQ 2016 ''Pepsiman'' run, runner theboyks tells the audience and viewers to go on Twitter and tell the actor from the live-action cutscenes how much they love the game and how much they liked him in the cutscenes, because theboyks actually ''knows'' him and says that he's one of the nicest men that he's ever met.

* The runner for the ''Super Mario World'' Low % run, Rezephos, had his grandmother on the couch.

* At the end of Pokemon Blue, in recognition of [[MemeticBadAss Gunnermaniac's Oddish beating Blue's Venasaur,]] Keizaron stopped just [[UpToEleven one]] button press short of getting in third place so that he and Gunnermaniac could tie for third together. He waited at least five minutes for this event, and then, for even better heartwarming points, swapped controllers with Gunnermaniac so they could press each other's controllers. They even shared a brohug!

* For the 2017 AGDQ run of Undertale, TGH gives a shout-out to his friend Kyzen, who didn't make it to the event because he was getting preventive treatment for a pre-cancer ailment. The audience then broke into applause when Kyzen then shot off a donation message, and began chanting his name.
* The bidding war to "comfort" or "shun" Undertale's final boss was an absolute ''landslide'' in favour of comforting them. When the moment came up, the entire room began chanting "[[spoiler:HUG THE GOAT! HUG THE GOAT!]]'', and broke into applause when the option was selected. Even better? They met the donation incentive to fight the No Mercy final boss, leading to a second bidding war deciding whether to kill or spare that boss. They spared him, and let him sleep as AGDQ 2017 came to a close.

* At the end of the legendary SGDQ2016 ''Pepsiman'' run, runner theboyks tells the audience and viewers to go on Twitter and tell the actor from the live-action cutscenes how much they love the game and how much they liked him in the cutscenes, because theboyks actually ''knows'' him and says that he's one of the nicest men that he's ever met.

* The bidding war to "comfort" or "shun" Undertale's final boss was an absolute ''landslide'' in favour of comforting them. When the moment came up, the entire room began chanting "[[spoiler:HUG THE GOAT! HUG THE GOAT!]]'', and broke into applause when the option was selected. Even better? They met the donation incentive to fight the No Mercy final boss, leading to a second bidding war deciding whether to kill or spare that boss. They spared him, and let him sleep as AGDQ 2017 came to a close.

* For the 2017 AGDQ run of Undertale, TGH gives a shout-out to his friend Kyzen, who didn't make it to the event because he was getting preventive treatment for a pre-cancer ailment. The audience then broke into applause when Kyzen then shot off a donation message, and began chanting his name.

** BubblesDelFuego ending the run by telling everyone how, when he was recovering from Hodgkin's Lymphoma, watching the first ''VideoGame/DarkSouls1'' run at AGDQ 2013 inspired him to take up speedrunning and that he hoped his DS3 run had done the same for a fellow cancer survivor drew a huge round of applause and more than a few tears.

* TGH gives a shout-out to his friend Kyzen, who didn't make it to the event because he was getting preventive treatment for a pre-cancer ailment. The audience then broke into applause when Kyzen then shot off a donation message, and began chanting his name.

* All memes aside, it's quite heartwarming in a way that [[Series/LazyTown Robbie Rotten]] won the character name incentive for ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'' at AGDQ 2017. After all, they were raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, and Robbie's actor was fighting his own battle with cancer at the time.

* Despite (or possibly [[StreisandEffect due to]]) being banned from running this year, and spending the week in Japan instead, [=Bonesaw577=] won a character name poll for the ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' run by a landslide.

* Despite (or possibly [[StreisandEffect due to]]) being banned from running this year, and spending the week in Japan instead, [=Bonesaw577=] won a character name poll by a landslide.

* During the ''Super Metroid'' race at SGDQ 2016, when [=Behemoth87=] was the only player remaining and fighting Mother Brain, the twitch chat banded together in an unprecedented show of support and, taking a page from ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' offered up their energy.

* At the end of Pokemon Blue, in recognition of [[MemeticBadAss Gunnermaniac's Oddish beating Blue's Venasaur,]] Keizaron stopped just [[UpToEleven one]] button press short of getting in third place so that he and Gunnermaniac could tie for third together. He waited at least five minutes for this event, and then, for even better heartwarming points, swapped controllers with Gunnermaniac so they could press each other's controllers. They even shared a brohug!

* As schadenfreude as it was, [=Bonesaw577=] gaining ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime Sands-Of-Time]]''-at-SGDQ-2015 levels emotional support during his hindered and mistake-laden run of ''[[VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy Jak And Daxter]]'' during SGDQ 2016 was definitely this. Bonesaw's HeroicSecondWind when the $400,000 donation mark was met during the leg-end of the [[spoiler: [[FinalBoss Precursor Robot]]]] fight certainly made it all the better for everyone involved.

* As schadenfreude as it was, [=Bonesaw577=] gaining ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime Sands-Of-Time]]''-at-SGDQ-2015 levels emotional support during his hindered and mistake-laden run of''[[VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy Jak And Daxter]]'' during SGDQ 2016 was definitely this. Bonesaw's HeroicSecondWind when the $400,000 donation mark was met during the leg-end of the [[spoiler: [[FinalBoss Precursor Robot]]]] fight certainly made it all the better for everyone involved.

* As schadenfreude as it was, [=Bonesaw577=] gaining ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime Sands-Of-Time]]''-at-SGDQ-2015 levels emotional support during his hindered and mistake-laden ''[[VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy Jak And Daxter]]'' during SGDQ 2016 was definitely this. Bonesaw's HeroicSecondWind when the $400,000 donation mark was met during the leg-end of the [[spoiler: [[FinalBoss Precursor Robot]]]] fight certainly made it all the better for everyone involved.

* As schadenfreude as it was, [=Bonesaw577=] gaining ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime Sands-Of-Time]]''-at-SGDQ-2015 levels emotional support whilst he was running ''[[VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy Jak And Daxter]]'',, laden with many hindrances and mistakes, during SGDQ 2016 was definitely this. Bonesaw's HeroicSecondWind when the $400,000 donation mark was met during the leg-end of the [[spoiler: [[FinalBoss Precursor Robot]]]] fight certainly made it all the better for everyone involved.

* As schadenfreude as it was, Bonesaw577 gaining ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime Sands-Of-Time]]''-at-SGDQ-2015 levels emotional support whilst he was running ''[[VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy Jak And Daxter]]'',, laden with many hindrances and mistakes, during SGDQ 2016 was definitely this. Bonesaw's HeroicSecondWind when the $400,000 donation mark was met during the leg-end of the [[spoiler: [[FinalBoss Precursor Robot]]]] fight certainly made it all the better for everyone involved.

* The runner for the ''Super Mario World'' Low % run, Rezephos, had his grandmother on the couch.

* Partway through the Fallout 3 run in SGDQ 2016, the runner, Progamingwithed, mentioned that the woman on the couch was his girlfriend, and "today is the two-year anniversary of when she [[{{Transsexual}} started her transition"]]. The room responded with pure support.

* During Noir's ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' speedrun, there was a donation towards hitting his friend on the couch with the pillow he was sitting on. After doing so, much later, there was a donation on payback, with his friend hitting Noir. Instead, when he was about to smack Noir with the pillow, he dropped it and hugged him, warming all of the crowd's hearts. He still smacked him with the pillow afterwards.

* During Noir's [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 Half Life 2]] speedrun, there was a donation towards hitting his friend on the couch with the pillow he was sitting on. After doing so, much later, there was a donation on payback, with his friend hitting Noir. Instead, when he was about to smack Noir with the pillow, he dropped it and hugged him, warming all of the crowd's hearts.
** He still smacked him with the pillow afterwards.

* The group hug at the end of SGDQ 2015's run of ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime''. For context, the run had a lot go wrong with the game crashing twice and the run going sixteen minutes over estimate. Despite this, the runner Henneko kept positive throughout the whole run and many of the donations were made in support of him.

* The group hug at the end of SGDQ 2015's run of ''PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime''. For context, the run had a lot go wrong with the game crashing twice and the run going sixteen minutes over estimate. Despite this, the runner Henneko kept positive throughout the whole run and many of the donations were made in support of him.

* After completing his awesome run of ''VideoGame/MischiefMakers'' in the 2015 marathon, Jackafur gave heartfelt thanks to his supportive friends for helping him with a difficult previous year and capped it by proposing to his girlfriend live on camera. She said yes.

* After completing his awesome run of ''VideoGame/MischiefMakers'' in the 2015 marathon, Jackoffour gave heartfelt thanks to his supportive friends for helping him with a difficult previous year and capped it by proposing to his girlfriend live on camera. She said yes.