History Heartwarming / BacktoTheFuture

* One promotional trailer has Christopher Lloyd giving his blessing to the West End Doc Brown.

* Uncle Ollie finally comes to his senses when he realizes D.W. Tannen has no problem with endangering his nephew's life. He redeems himself for exploiting four-year-old Emmett's newfound fame as a stuntman by diving into the falls to save him, only escaping death himself thanks to Marty's quick action. He then tears up D.W. Tannen’s contract to make Emmett famous, retiring Daredevil Brown and apologizes to Emmett for not taking him fishing like he originally wanted. At the end, Uncle Ollie and Emmett fish together.

* Verne gives his parents a badly painted portrait of his parents for their anniversary gift, but Jules gives his parents his invention that can print headlines from any era including the future in addition to to tickets for a solar cruise to Mars. Verne is left feeling upstaged, but Clara assures him it's the thought that counts.

** Even better, Marty, for the first time in his life, actually gets to see his dad kick ass. The look on Marty's face says it all.

** Finally, when Marty is trying to explain to Doc why it's so important that he gets back to the future, he tells him that "I got a life back in 1985; I got a girl!" and shows Doc the love note Jennifer wrote on the flyer.

* For that matter, the easy acceptance between the other Browns and Marty. Both of them are used to having Doc's full attention, but they seem to have bonded easily enough once they got to the same part of the time stream.

* Even though Marty and Verne are enjoying the wealth Emmett’s stunts as Daredevil Brown brought them, their primary concern is Emmett’s happiness in doing those stunts.
* Uncle Ollie finally comes to his senses and saves 3-year-old Emmett from dying in a stunt after exploiting his newfound fame as a stunt man. He then tears up D.W. Tannen’s contract to make Emmett famous, retiring Daredevil Brown and apologizes to Emmett for not taking him fishing like he originally wanted. At the end, Uncle Ollie and Emmett fish together.

* When the entire town, including Clara and the boys, is angry at Doc for causing a blackout, Marty is the only one who isn’t angry at Doc and helps him disguise himself from the Sheriff who told Doc not to show his face around town.

* At the end of the episode, every one is mad at Doc because they can’t celebrate Founder’s Day without electricity. Clara secretly brings one of the founders to 1991 to remind the townsfolk that the original founders celebrated without electricity. The townsfolk are cheered up and celebrate Founder’s Day like the original founders did. In fact they loved it so much they almost kept the power shut down forever.

* In the "Who is Marty [=McFly=]?" arc, Marty is haunted by Professor Irving's insinuation that the current Doc wouldn't care if he faded out of existence and might even be deliberately allowing nature to take its course, since the Marty from the Lone Pines timeline was that Doc's original friend and assistant. (It bothers Marty enough to induce a full-blown NightmareSequence.) When Doc, who knows nothing of this aspect of the situation, realizes that the supposed alternate timeline Martys are actually lifelike animatronics and starts gunning them down to defend Twin Pines Marty, he inadvertently clears the air:

* After Doc tears up the letter, insisting on not getting warned, Marty sits at the wheel of the Delorean upset that he's not able to save Doc. Then it [[EurekaMoment dawns on him]] "I got all the time I want, I got a time machine, I can just go back early and warn him!" and he changes the Return time to 1985 [[HopeSpot to a ten minutes earlier]]. To hell with the space-time continuum, Marty's ''gonna save his friend''.
** [Too bad Marty returns to 1985 on the wrong side of town, and with the Delorean zonked out by the trip back.

[[folder:The Telltale Game]]
* In Episode 1:
** Marty feels too guilty to lie to Emmett about getting a patent, and confesses.
** Also, when Marty and Doc first re-unite after months:
--> '''Marty''': Doc, we've only been back together five minutes and we're talking about the end of the universe! I've missed that.
* When Doc's locked up in Tannen's police van, Marty tries to pilfer the keys to get him out. Tannen punches him, and Doc yanks Marty through the bars, saving his life. You can also see a [[ContinuityNod wedding band]] on his ring finger. It's nice to know that even though Clara isn't physically present, she's still there in spirit.
* In Episode 3:
** Meta-example: the return of Claudia Wells as Jennifer Parker. Wells had left acting shortly after the first film due to her mother being diagnosed with cancer, and had not returned until working a small independent film in 2008, but accepted the offer to rejoin the cast for ''The Game'', playing a well-received TookALevelInBadass version of Jennifer. Since then, she has become a regular working actress once more.
** After suffering an [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone emotional breakdown]], Citizen Brown sees the design for the flux capacitor in Doc's notebook...and begins to [[HesBack recover his true self]]. His whisper of "[[CatchPhrase Great Scott!]]" as he realizes the truth that's been nagging at him all these years -- and his subsequent enthusiasm and joy as he races off to get started on fixing the time machine -- is simply beautiful.
** Marty's father deciding to help you. Most of the episode he's shown as a coward and a voyeur, filming people in Hill Valley without their knowing in order to get brownie points from the Brown administration. Later, when his tapes are stolen, he still refuses to help until you remind him of his father. Eight words: "Never be afraid to do the right thing."
** When Citizen brown asks Marty to explain himself, one of the options the player can pick is "I'm not supposed to be in this timeline." By clicking that, Marty calls Citizen Brown his "best friend in the whole space-time continuum."
* Episode 4:
** Citizen Brown taking pity on his wife-to-be despite Marty's plan to break them up. Slightly dulled by Edna's role as the BigBad up until then, but only slightly.
** Doubling as an Awesome Moment, Marty's dad punches out police to save his wife.
* Episode 5:
** Edna finds true love with Kid Tannen, and even becomes Einstein's dog walker.
** Even better, in the original timeline Kid was given a life sentence in prison. Here, he's managed to turn over a new leaf, now living a normal life with Edna.
** Young Doc and his father making up for their behavior against each other and also finding out why Doc went into the past: to give Marty a [=McFly=] lineage book, from Seamus to present.
** Speaking of why Doc went to the past, it becomes sweeter ESPECIALLY when you find out why he went back to 1931. Doc had no info about Marty's grandmother Sylvia...because she was under the stage name Trixie Trotter! Thus Arthur eventually married the girl of his dreams!
*** The series-long arc is this. In episode 2, Marty notices an attraction between Artie and Trixie and while he's happy his grandfather is "sowing his oats", he hopes they don't get attached, because eventually Artie needs to father George with Marty's grandmother Sylvia. By episode 5, he's in full-blown panic that things are getting serious between Artie and Trixie, and when he hears they got married, he confronts them, believing the timeline is wrong and he's about to fade out from existence at any moment. But when he blurts out to them that Artie is supposed to marry a "Sylvia Miskin", Trixie says her name ''is'' Sylvia Miskin, showing that this was the "right" outcome all along, especially considering Marty's advice to Artie early in the series regarding meeting a "Sylvia" was to "let nature take its course". They were meant to end up together.
** After helping young Emmett to achieve his Hill Valley Expo Demonstration to give him back his dreams of becoming a scientist, Young Emmett asks for an explanation about who Marty is. Marty gives him a future newspaper piece, making him promise to never look at it until 1986 when he will be given the key of the city. After Young Emmett walks away and asks if he will see Marty someday again, Marty answers "[[CallBack I guarantee it.]]". Then Marty witnesses 1986!Doc coming out of the [=DeLorean=] and saying "You have a theatrical way of sending messages."
** Also since Emmett reconciled with his father, instead of abandoning his old home, he maintains it as a part-time home when not time-traveling. So, instead of the home being sold by the bank, Emmett's just having a yard sale.
** Marty and Doc sharing a hug after being separated for a long period of time (to them). It doesn't seem like much till you take into account not only had Marty thought Doc was dead after fading from existence but he was trapped in the past with no [=DeLorean=], no thanks to Edna disappearing into the past with it.
* Meta example: Michael J. Fox FINALLY appearing in Episode 5 as William [=McFly=] and [[MindScrew three alternate future versions of Marty]].
[[/folder]]

-->'''Lorraine''': (silently nods)

-->'''George''': No, Biff. You leave her alone.

* Doc calls makes a PlatonicDeclarationOfLove to Marty and Einstein and a romantic declaration of love to Clara.
* After returning from their trip to the Cretaceous period, Jules runs to hug Einstein and Verne jumps in Marty's arms. Verne tells Marty how he's happy to see him, and Marty who despite only saw Verne two seconds ago returns the sentiment.

* Marty has absolute faith that Doc will come to his concert because Doc has never broken a promise to him before.

[[AC: [[Recap/BackToTheFutureTheAnimatedSeriesS2E2PutOnYourThinkingCapsKidsItsTimeForMrWisdom Put On Your Thinking Caps, Kids! It's Time For Mr. Wisdom!]]]]

* Verne gives his parents a badly painted portrait of his parents for their universe gift, but Jules gives his parents his invention that can print headlines from any era including the future in addition to to tickets for a solar cruise to Mars. Verne is left feeling upstaged, but Clara assures him it's the thought that counts.

* After his gift almost gets his parents killed, Jules apologizes while Clara assures him it's the thought that counts.

* When the entire town including Clara and the boys are angry at Doc for causing a black out, Marty is the only one who isn’t angry at Doc and helps him disguise himself from the Sheriff who told Doc not to show his face around town.

[[AC: [[Recap/BackToTheFutureTheAnimatedSeriesS2E2PutOnYourThinkingCapsKidsIt'sTimeForMrWisdom Put On Your Thinking Caps, Kids! It's Time For Mr. Wisdom!]]]]

* Thinking it's Marty entertaining the passengers on the '''MSC Marty''', Clara and Doc happily greet him with Doc even about to embrace Marty until Marty reveals himself to be a Marty impersonator.

*** After helping young Emmett to achieve his Hill Valley Expo Demonstration to give him back his dreams of becoming a scientist, Young Emmett asks for an explanation about who Marty is. Marty gives him a future newspaper piece, making him promise to never look at it until 1986 when he will be given the key of the city. After Young Emmett walks away and asks if he will see Marty someday again, Marty answers "[[CallBack I guarantee it.]]". Then Marty witnesses 1986!Doc coming out of the [=DeLorean=] and saying "You have a theatrical way of sending messages."
*** Also since Emmett reconciled with his father, instead of abandoning his old home, he maintains it as a part-time home when not time-traveling. So, instead of the home being sold by the bank, Emmett's just having a yard sale.

* Even Biff gets a moment at the end. When the finished copies of George's first published novel are delivered to the McFly house, Biff excitedly brings them inside and actually seems genuinely happy for his old enemy.

* The ''Johnny B Goode'' rendition has elements of this, seeing how much fun the kids are having as their exposed to rock and roll a little earlier than they might have been in the old timeline, and have fun dancing, while Marty is getting to play the kind of music he likes for an enraptured audience and the band members are grinning themselves over getting to play this.
* George and Lorraine's relationship in the altered timeline, still playfully bantering and flirting with each other like they were teenagers. After being together for 30 years its quite clear that they are still very much in love.