History Heartwarming / BATMAN

** [[spoiler: Tommy Elliot's funeral]] in "Hush"; with all those close to Bruce in attendance.

** This troper read that as the only moment ever that these two adversaries truly understood each other.
** For this troper, it was Gordon's admonition to Batman to take the Joker in by the book, "to show him that our way works."

* In ''Gotham Knights'', Bruce Wayne at long last [[http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww246/Georgethecat/GothamKnights17pg19dickadopted.jpg legally adopts]] Dick Grayson. The fact that Batman is nervously stuttering makes it all the more heartwarming. And the last page where we see the paper that finalizes the adoption, with both Bruce and Dick's signatures on it makes this Troper all warm and fuzzy inside.

* In ''Red Robin'' #17, [[spoiler: Bruce has returned and is having a rooftop conversation with Tim. He states that since coming back, he has forgotten to do one thing. Cue the next page where the two hug.]] This troper "D'awww"ed.

* In ''The Long Halloween'', Batman, after being reluctantly forced to have to beat up Solomon Grundy on Thanksgiving, later leaves him a nice, whole turkey to eat.

* Another one for the Bat-group, this time Harvey and Montoya get a turn: http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1125719.html

* Long lost moment that I'm pretty sure was once here. Usually, Batman is a real dick to a lot of his wannabe sidekicks. Especially [[IronWoobie Sp]][[PluckyGirl oil]][[FunPersonified er]], most of their interactions are built with Crowning Moment of Bat Dickery. Then, there's this moment: http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/813093.html? "Don't apologize. And don't turn it off. I don't mind the company."

* The ending of ''TheKillingJoke'' is a bizarre combination of this trope and NightmareFuel, in which the Batman makes a genuine offer of help, which the Joker almost tearfully refuses. He then explains why he said no in the form of a joke which ''actually makes [[TheStoic the Batman]] laugh''.
** This troper read that as the only moment ever that these two adversaries truly understood each other.
** For this troper, it was Gordon's admonition to Batman to take the Joker in by the book, "to show him that our way works."

* An issue of Detective Comics has Batman acting unusually accommodating to the Golden Age Green Lantern, Alan Scott. He never criticizes the help given, makes sure to include him in all his investigations and everything goes great between them. After saying their good-byes after returning to the Batcave, we see Batman placing a new souvenir in his collection alongside a black and white picture of Alan Scott and a young boy shaking hands, signed [[spoiler:"To my biggest fan and junior guardsman, little Tommy Wayne".]]

* The epilogue to the Pre-[[CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] story "To Kill A Legend", in which {{the Phantom Stranger}} has given {{Batman}} the opportunity to travel to an AlternateUniverse to save his parents.

* ''Detective Comics'' #726 (not to be confused with the Paul Dini Christmas story; that's #826): TheJoker combines this trope with a hefty dose of CrowningMomentOfAwesome and MagnificentBastard. To explain: [[spoiler:He's used morse code to coerce the guy in the cell next to his to escape, kidnap a small girl, and hide her somewhere. By the time Batman's on the case, the guy's already offed himself, so Batman's only chance of saving the girl is The Joker himself. After a less-than-informative conversation, The Joker realizes that Batman really isn't in the mood for a mind-game, and flat-out tells him where the girl is: in the trunk of a half-submerged car. After fighting his way through an ARMY of thugs, Batman finally does find the girl, and saves her just before she suffocates. Later, Batman returns to Arkham and asks why Joker came clean, to which the Ace of Knaves gives this response:]]

* The conclusion of {{Comicbook/Batman}}'s "Fear of Faith" arc (itself a part of the larger "No Man's Land" crossover). To summarize: dozens of citizens, a great many of them immigrants, have taken shelter in the lawless, earthquake-ravaged Gotham inside a church run by two stubbornly pacifistic priests. Said priests' stubborn equal treatment of all who come their way leads to the Penguin using the church as an illegal arms storehouse, as well as the Scarecrow walking amongst the refugees and corrupting their minds. By the end, the refugees have just barely managed to avoid an all-out gang war, realize that Scarecrow's manipulations had led them down that path, and prepare to kill him. One of the priests, however, begs Huntress (the one vigilante who had placed it on herself to watch over the church) to stop them:

* Pretty much [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/546513.html#cutid1 this]], with plenty of father and son moments in {{Batman}}, whether it's between Bruce and Alfred or Bruce with Robin, from Dick to Tim and including briefly even [[TheUnfavourite Jason Todd]].

* In ''Red Robin'' #17, [[spoiler: Bruce has returned and is having a rooftop conversation with Tim. He states that since coming back, he has forgotten to do one thing. Cue the next page where the two hug.]] This troper "D'awww"ed.

* In Issue #6 of the New52 ''Batman & Robin'' #6:

--> "That's what you hold onto. That's what you can do for other people. You can give them safety. You can show them that they're not alone. That's how you make the world make sense. And if you can do that, you can stop the world from making more people like us. And no one will have to be scared anymore."

** Huntress convinces the mob to not murder Scarecrow (who had actually ''wanted'' to be killed as a martyr for his theory that fear drives people to unimaginable deeds), and instead reasons that Scarecrow is a figure to be pitied, not hated. The refugees gather around him, showering him with promises that their patron gods (Jesus, Allah, Vishnu, etc.) will forgive him. Scarecrow, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood utterly confused and broken]], flees the church, proven wrong about his HumansAreBastards theory.

---> "Do you remember your parents? Do you remember their smiles? Do you remember the way they made you feel safe?"
---> "Yes."
---> "That's what you hold onto. That's what you can do for other people. You can give them safety. You can show them that they're not alone. That's how you make the world make sense. And if you can do that, you can stop the world from making more people like us. And no one will have to be scared anymore."

* A real life example: [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/rosenwald-md/post/who-is-the-route-29-batman-this-guy/2012/03/28/gIQA8nPjgS_blog.html A man dresses up as Batman to cheer up children in the hospital.]]

----> '''Superman:''' Are you alright?
----> '''Alfred:''' Am I alright, sir?... No, I'm not... [[spoiler: My son has died]].

* ''Detective Comics'' #828 gives one between the Batman and the reformed Riddler. Riddler not only deduces that the murder victim they were investigating was someone Batman knew, he even [[InsufferableGenius offers to share the credit for solving the case!]]

* Detective Comics #828 gives one between the Batman and the reformed Riddler. Riddler not only deduces that the murder victim they were investigating was someone Batman knew, he even offers to share the credit for solving the case!

** Re: "Bruce has said outright that Dick was the only thing he ever did right". That moment deserves a mention all by itself. In the Obsidian Age arc of JLA (which was quite awesome despite the conspicuous lack of Grant Morrison) Nightwing and newbe JLA member Faith are discussing Faith's history with Batman (no not ''that'' kind of history you pervs). Faith says Batman told her that he's not proud of anything he's ever done in his life...'''except''' when he looks at Nightwing, saying "He's the only thing I ever did right". Nightwing is ''visibly stunned'' by the fact that Batman would say such a thing about him and gets a dopey child-like grin on his face. [[spoiler:Later when Bats comes back at the end of the arc Nightwing gives him a big hug. ''Awwwww''.]]
* The otherwise ridiculous Batgirl miniseries has a sweet moment. Batman watches his BrokenBird protege fight her abusive and psychotic assassin father until he's hanging by his fingertips from a ledge. Despite all he's done to her and her temptation to leave him to his fate, Batgirl tries to save him from falling at the last minute. Batman stops her father from falling and offers "what he should have offered a long time ago." He offers to adopt her and give her a real family.
* The epilogue to the pre-[[CrisisOnInfiniteEarths crisis]] story "To Kill A Legend", in which {{the Phantom Stranger}} has given {{Batman}} the opportunity to travel to an AlternateUniverse to save his parents.

** It's worth noting that in this alternate universe, [[spoiler:there are no superheroes. Krypton doesn't exist. The legends and myth that inspired other heroes don't exist (No RobinHood to inspire Green Arrow and so on). Even the constellations of the Greek heroes aren't present. Batman, BadassNormal that he is, may be the only chance for Earth to have superheroes]] and so Batman must choose between his alternate self's happiness or the good of the world. And the context of the ending quote is that [[spoiler: he chose his alternate self's happiness... ''and'' he got the good of the world thrown into the bargain. His alternate self is inspired by Batman's rescue of his parents to become a hero, and the SadisticChoice turns out to have not been so sadistic after all]].

* An issue of Detective Comics has Batman acting unusually accommodating to the Golden Age Green Lantern, Alan Scott. He never criticizes the help given, makes sure to include him in all his investigations and everything goes great between them. After saying their good-byes after returning to the batcave, we see Batman placing a new souvenir in his collection alongside a black and white picture of Alan Scott and a young boy shaking hands, signed [[spoiler:"To my biggest fan and junior guardsman, little Tommy Wayne".]]

* The otherwise ridiculous Batgirl miniseries has a sweet moment. Batman watches his BrokenBird protégé fight her abusive and psychotic assassin father until he's hanging by his fingertips from a ledge. Despite all he's done to her and her temptation to leave him to his fate, Batgirl tries to save him from falling at the last minute. Batman stops her father from falling and offers "what he should have offered a long time ago." He offers to adopt her and give her a real family.

--> '''Batman''': "If I had to choose between my identity becoming known or [the baby] having a normal life with his parents ... that's no choice at all."

* During Tim's first Father's Day as Bruce's adopted son, he was buying a watch for him. Then, there was trouble and Tim goes off, making him late for dinner. Bruce claims he isn't worried, though as the night progresses, he tells Alfred that he is going off on patrol and if he runs into Tim, it is purely coincidence (which Alfred doesn't buy). Just then, Tim returns, handing Bruce his gift. Only to realize it was broken. Feeling very bad, he apologizes about how he ruined Father's day for Bruce. Bruce simply ''smiles'' and tells him that Tim coming home safe made Father's day perfect for him.

* ''Detective Comics'' #726 (not to be confused with the Paul Dini Christmas story; that's 826): TheJoker combines this trope with a hefty dose of CrowningMomentOfAwesome and MagnificentBastard. To explain: [[spoiler:He's used morse code to coerce the guy in the cell next to his to escape, kidnap a small girl, and hide her somewhere. By the time Batman's on the case, the guy's already offed himself, so Batman's only chance of saving the girl is The Joker himself. After a less-than-informative conversation, The Joker realizes that Batman really isn't in the mood for a mind-game, and flat-out tells him where the girl is: in the trunk of a half-submerged car. After fighting his way through an ARMY of thugs, Batman finally does find the girl, and saves her just before she suffocates. Later, Batman returns to Arkham and asks why Joker came clean, to which the Ace of Knaves gives this response:]].

* One short in the ''Batman: No Man's Land'' arc, drawn in {{DCAU}} style, has Batman and Batgirl (Cass) trailing a mob assassin carrying a "violin case" through the broken city. At one point, the guy is stopped by a gang, who asks him to "pay". Cass is ready to leap to their defense, but Batman stops her. The killer opens the violin case and takes out...a violin. The gang leader: "It's been six weeks since the walls went up. Six weeks since we've heard any real music. Play us something. A little 'Danny Boy', maybe?" The ReactionShot may be the best use of Cass' ExpressiveMask ever.
* A surprising example from {{Batman}}'s [[TheBrute Bane]] in ''Secret Six'' after [[spoiler: Batman's death]]. To honour his foe, Bane, Catman and Ragdoll go around stopping a group of assasins who are targetting certain people, including children. It speaks volumes that despite Bane and Batman not seeing eye to eye, Bane was doing this out of respect for him. [[http://www.htmlcomics.com/Book/html.asp?Series_Name=Batman%20%28Battle%20For%20The%20Cowl%29&Book_No=015_Number=1Α=B&Lookup= "The Batman. The Batman saved your child, Mr Cooper."]]
* The Paul Dini-written Batgirl Adventures #1 features [[GenkiGirl Harley Quinn]] having to resort to forming a [[EnemyMine team]] with Batgirl in order to rescue Poison Ivy, which is heartwarming in itself to see the lengths Harley would go for Ivy. While the issue is memorable for [[LesYay certain innuendo]], the real moment of heartwarming comes when Harley arrives to untie Ivy, including [[TheGlomp a big hug]] and "Hi, Baybee!" greeting, much to Ivy's surprise and amazement as she believed Harley was killed when Kit abducted Ivy.
** During Dini's run on Detective Comics he wrote a story in which Harley helped Batman take down the new Ventriloquist. Her reason? The original was able to break out of his shell and tried to cheer her up when she felt alone and scared during her first night in Arkham.

* Batman gets many in Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? [[spoiler:Batman has died and all of his friends and enemies are telling different versions of his death.]]
-->''Clayface:'' [[spoiler:He died sssaving the city. No that's not true...he sssaved the city, yes...but he died sssssaving me.]] I ssssaid, "I'm not worth it." He said, "everyone's worth it."

** As long as we're discussing that comic, this engineering troper was rather pleased by the last story. Batman's mechanic, dude named Henry, is remembering his mother, who kicked him out of his home, when he is caught in and survives the earthquake which decimates Gotham. His first concern is for the batgear, which Batman relies on him to fix. Alfred then comes by and tells him that it's not worthwhile to try and fix all the broken gear, and that Henry should just go until Alfred needs him. Between this and his memory of his mother, Henry is heartbroken and feels that he's leaving the only good home he's known. As he's walking away from the Batcave, Henry sees Gotham. A whole city, broken and needing to be fixed. Henry has a lot of work to do. Just, the idea of one dude with a toolbelt walking to a decimated Gotham, so he can help rebuild it with the same care as he fixed the Bat's gear...

** Found it [[http://www.htmlcomics.com/Book/html.asp?Series_Name=Gotham%20Knights&Book_No=032&Page_Number=2Α=G&Lookup= here]]. I thought the things he does as Batman deserves a mention here too. One of them was him visiting Two-Face in jail and playing a brief game of chess with him, implying that he came every night to do it. He even watched over his "children", sending Dick's whole police squad armoured vests, watching Tim wipe the floor with some crooks with a proud smile and asking Barbara how her father is. And at the end of the day, he still found time to say thank you to Alfred for everything that he had done for him.

* At the end of Heart of Hush, Bruce Wayne looks over Selina Kyle and blames himself for [[spoiler: Hush cutting out her heart (she got better)]]. He tells her that after so many years of shutting out people, he could never shut her out, that Catwoman is the only person to ever hold his heart. Batman finally admits, that no matter what happens, he will always love her.
* [[Main/{{Batman}}The Joker]], of all people, gets one in Emperor Joker. Having achieved ultimate Cosmic Power, he decides to unmake the universe because anyplace that would let a monster like him exist must be broken. Harley Quinn approaches him and begs him to spare her. He actually takes pity on her and, for all her "tears of service," transforms her into a constellation, promising she'll have the best seat in the house.
* In "The Resurrection of R'as Al Ghul", Dick Grayson returns to Gotham to protect Batman's bratty son, Damian, and finds a thousand of R'as al Ghul's ninjas attacking Wayne Manor. He questions why he has to do all this for Damian, "a kid that no one likes", before remembering that Tim is in there too, at which point he throws himself into the fight. Awwww.
-->Dick: No. It's for Tim. For him, a thousand ninjas is just the beginning of what I would do.
* From Batgirl #5, especially considering everything's she's been through.

* In Red Robin #17, [[spoiler: Bruce has returned and is having a rooftop conversation with Tim. He states that since coming back, he has forgotten to do one thing. Cue the next page where the two hug.]] This troper "D'awww"ed.
* Red Robin #9: Tim finally reunites with his friends and family. The most touching would have to be [[spoiler: his reunion with Superboy. He stands in stunned silence as Superboy teases him about his [[PaintItBlack costume change]] until he finally hugs Superboy in relief.]]
--> '''[[spoiler: Superboy]]''': Tim? Buddy? If you're trying to be all dark and grim now this isn't going to help.
* "A Death in the Family" sneaks in a CMOH into the scene where Superman and Batman are informed that since the Joker now has diplomatic immunity, Batman is banned from doing anything to him. When they're alone, Supes rather apprehensively (Batman had punched him in the face earlier that day in a fit of rage) calls Batman "Bruce", asks if Jason was Robin, and mentions that he thought he was a really nice kid. All the anger and growling and vengeance that Batman had been caught up in since Jason's death immediately dissolves into grief as he says "Yes, he was. Jason was the best."
* ''Batman and Robin'' #20 - The entire family gathers to watch 'The Mark of Zorro'.

* In Issue #6 of the New52 Batman & Robin #6:

* The Riddler's conversation with The Penguin in Gotham Underground #9
--> '''Riddler''': Look Ozzie... I'm not really good at this. I don't really have many friends to speak of. But... But thank you for being the one person who I could actually converse with on an equal level and for--

--> '''Riddler''': Yes... Well in that we're in total agreement. See you in the next life my friend.
* Long lost moment that I'm pretty sure was once here. Usually, Batman is a real dick to a lot of his wannabe sidekicks. Especially [[IronWoobie Sp]][[PluckyGirl oil]][[FunPersonified er]], most of their interactions are built with Crowning Moment of Bat Dickery. Then, there's this moment: http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/813093.html? "Don't apologise. And don't turn it off. I don't mind the company."
* A real life example: [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/rosenwald-md/post/who-is-the-route-29-batman-this-guy/2012/03/28/gIQA8nPjgS_blog.html A man dresses up as Batman to cheer up children in the hospital.]]

* Long lost moment that I'm pretty sure was once here. Usually, Batman is a real dick to a lot of his wannabe sidekicks. Especially [[IronWoobie Sp]][[PluckyGirl oil]][[FunPersonified er]], most of their interactions are built with Crowning Moment of Bat Dickery. Then, there's this moment: [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/813093.html?]] "Don't apologise. And don't turn it off. I don't mind the company."

* Long lost moment that I'm pretty sure was once here. Usually, Batman is a real dick to a lot of his wannabe sidekicks. Especially [[IronWoobie Sp]][[PluckyGirl oil]][[FunPersonified er]], most of their interactions are built with Crowning Moment of Bat Dickery. Then, there's this moment: [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/813093.html? "Don't apologise. And don't turn it off. I don't mind the company."]]

--> '''Riddler''': Yes... Well in that we're in total agreement. See you in the next life my friend.

* The Riddler's conversation with The Penguin in Gotham Underground #9 may also count as a tearjerker.

--> '''Damian''': Why? Because he's my father, you idiot.

* Batman saves an inmate from committing suicide at Dead Man's Point on Arkham Island. Awww!
* In Issue #6 of the New52 Batman & Robin #6:
--> '''Nobody''': I was setting you free. Why would you throw away all I had to offer?
--> '''Damian''': Why? Because he's my father, you idiot.

* ''Batman and Robin'' #20 - The entire family gathers to watch 'The Mark of Zorro'.

--> '''Damian''': Why? Because he's my father, you idiot.

* Batman saves an inmate from committing suicide at Dead Man's Point on Arkham Island. Awww!