History Heartwarming / Discworld

%%* ''Heartwarming/TheLastContinent''

* Heartwarming/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents
* Heartwarming/TheWeeFreeMen
%%* Heartwarming/AHatFullOfSky
* Heartwarming/{{Wintersmith}}
* Heartwarming/IShallWearMidnight

%%* Heartwarming/TheColourOfMagic
%%* Heartwarming/TheLightFantastic
* Heartwarming/EqualRites
%%* Heartwarming/{{Mort}}
* Heartwarming/{{Sourcery}}
* Heartwarming/WyrdSisters
%%* Heartwarming/{{Pyramids}}
* Heartwarming/GuardsGuards
%%* Heartwarming/{{Eric}}
* Heartwarming/MovingPictures
* Heartwarming/ReaperMan
%%* Heartwarming/WitchesAbroad
* Heartwarming/SmallGods
* Heartwarming/LordsAndLadies
* Heartwarming/MenAtArms
* Heartwarming/SoulMusic
* Heartwarming/InterestingTimes
* Heartwarming/{{Maskerade}}
* Heartwarming/FeetOfClay
* Heartwarming/{{Hogfather}}
* Heartwarming/{{Jingo}}
%%* Heartwarming/TheLastContinent
* Heartwarming/CarpeJugulum
* Heartwarming/TheFifthElephant
%%* Heartwarming/TheTruth
* Heartwarming/ThiefOfTime
* Heartwarming/NightWatch
* Heartwarming/MonstrousRegiment
* Heartwarming/GoingPostal
* Heartwarming/{{Thud}}
* Heartwarming/MakingMoney
* Heartwarming/UnseenAcademicals
* Heartwarming/{{Snuff}}

%%* Heartwarming/{{Eric}}
* Heartwarming/TheLastHero

[[folder:A Hat Full of Sky]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wintersmith]]
* "You forgot the last three lines. [[spoiler:Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart."]]
** Followed by a ''literal'' moment of "heartwarming" [[spoiler:when Tiffany channels the heat of the sun and melts the Wintersmith, leaving behind only the nail from his heart]].
*** [[spoiler:-And drew down the sun.]]
* Granny Weatherwax getting caught with [[spoiler: the kitten You curled up under her hat.]]
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[[folder:I Shall Wear Midnight]]
[[index]]
* Heartwarming/IShallWearMidnight
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Wee Free Men]]
* Tiffany: [[spoiler: "I never cried for Granny because there was no need to" ... "Because she never left me!"]]
* The Drome in [[spoiler:the Jolly Sailor dream, in a way that also managed to be a TearJerker for a creature that had before that been depicted solely as predatory ParanoiaFuel.]]
---> [[spoiler:"It thinks it's home, Tiffany thought. I've given it a dream it likes."]]
* Granny Aching [[spoiler: reappearing to Tiffany in the china shepherdess's dress, proving she'd appreciated the gift without spoken words.]]
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[[folder:The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]
* Maurice's [[BalancingDeathsBooks "two, and call it quits" speech]]. Also a rare (for Discworld) subversion of CatsAreMean.
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[[folder:The Last Hero]]
The whole book is one, rolled with CMOA. "Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains."

[[folder:The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]
* Maurice's [[BalancingDeathsBooks "two, and call it quits" speech]]. Also a rare (for Discworld) subversion of CatsAreMean.
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[[folder:Unseen Academicals]]
* This book manages to create a CMOH and a CMOA at the same time with just three words: [[spoiler: "I have worth."]]
* [[spoiler:The other passengers in the coach defending Nutt from the Furies.]]
* Ponder Stibbons was offered the post of a Bursar in the new University of Brazeneck. How much would they pay? He didn't ask. Awww.
* [[spoiler:"I wrote it for you."]]
* Archchancellor Ridcully's reaction when the Librarian was poisoned. Most of the time Ridcully seems to be the boisterous, thoughtless type, but his anger at the poisoning shows that, in his way, he truly cares for his friends.
* Upon finding out that new arrival Professor Macarona is a StraightGay, Ridcully has this to say "A lot of that sort of thing about, apparently … people make such a fuss. Anyway, in my opinion, there's not enough love in the world."
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[[folder:Making Money]]
* When [[spoiler: Mr. Fusspot inherits Wuffles' role]].
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[[folder:''Thud!'']]
* Commander Vimes anticipates A.E. Pessimal's wish to be in the Watch and grants him a lifelong desire.
* When Vimes, confused, lost and alone, [[spoiler:starts roaring the story he always reads to his son automatically and, miles away, Young Vimes stops crying--because, it seems, he--and everyone else for a few miles--can hear it.]]
** While not as intense or heartbreaking, my heart grew three sizes when everyone was sitting around the fire reading to Sam Jr.
** Actually, ''every'' scene where Vimes is with his son, or even thinks about him and his own feelings and responsibilities as a father, could qualify. Seeing her favourite ex-depressed drunken hard-boiled misanthropist being all awed by this new-found happiness makes this troper beam each time.
** Carrot [[spoiler: considers the resulting traffic jam worth the price of making sure that Vimes gets home in time to read to Young Sam.]]
----> [[spoiler:The better part of the city was now snarled with backed-up traffic - but it was clear that this did not worry Carrot. He had seen a problem; the problem was now solved. True, the solution had caused massive chaos - but that was a ''different'' problem.]]
** Related to this, and oddly combining with HighOctaneNightmareFuel or possibly TearJerker, is the way Vimes thinks about his wife and baby son, and how he loves them so much and is so happy with them and with the way his life has turned out that he's afraid the universe will do something cataclysmically awful to him in order to balance the books. It's typical of Vimes to be so cynical...but think about the worst catastrophe you can imagine in your life, and then realize that he considers his home life to be the exact ''opposite'' of that, because he loves his family ''that much'', and it swings right back into CMOH territory.
** Also, the bit when Brick, the junkie, the lowest of the low, raises his hands in a gesture which implies the whole universe was against him. "Well, Detritus was on his side now. That evened the odds a little bit."
*** And another Brick one:
-->What dey had been doin down dat hole was makin' der worl' a betterer place, Sergeant Detritus had said. And it seemed to Brick, as he smelled the food, that Sergeant Detritus had got dat one dead right.
** There's also the cavern under Koom Valley, and the kings' message on the Device.
-->"'Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled and wroten: "all thyngs strive," ... And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden....'"
* Vimes notices you can tell when Carrot is walking down the street by the way Angua looks at the door.
* Also in ''Thud'' when Sally says everytime Angua sees Carrot her heart skips a beat.
** And Carrot's speeds up.
* It's weirdly moving, too, to see such a clear representation of the fact that Vimes isn't kidding when he answers the "Who watches the watchman?" question with "Me." He means that absolutely literally, every moment of his life.
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[[folder:Going Postal]]
* Angrammarad (a golem), having tried its damnedest to save letters from a fire, is hit by cold water. Cold water + red-hot clay = explosion. When it ends up in the desert before the afterlife, Death informs it that the afterlife is on the other side.
--->'''Angrammarad''': I Think I Will Stay Here.\\
'''Death''': [[AC:But...there isn't anything here]]\\
'''Angrammarad''': Yes. It Is Perfect. I Am Free.
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[[folder:Monstrous Regiment]]
* [[JoanOfArc Wazzer]] speaks with the voice of the Duchess, and [[spoiler: bids all the generals to return to their homes, and rebuild their country - and she returns their kiss of service.]]
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[[folder:Night Watch]]
* Vimes's speech to Vetinari at the end [[spoiler:("How dare you? How dare you! At this time! In this place! They did the job they didn't have to do, and they died doing it, and you can't give them anything. Do you understand?")]], after he [[spoiler: captures Carcer, who had been taunting him the entire book]].
* Vimes in the graveyard reflecting on the revolution and coming to the conclusion that "he was honored to have been there twice."
* The engraved cigar case arriving.
* The birth of Sam Vimes Jr.
--> "I'll teach him to walk! I'm good at teaching people to walk!"
* Reg Shoe's annual gesture of solidarity.
* Just before the big fight. Every single watchman stayed with him, despite knowing that the odds were heavily against them.
* The ending, just after the graveyard scene and [[MomentOfAwesome Vimes's rant to Vetinari]].
--> "And then he went home. And the world turned toward morning."
* Some of Vimes' interactions with his young self indicate just how much he's grown. Particularly when Vimes forgets the torturer he's tied up in the basement until they light the building on fire; younger Vimes thinks he's done it on purpose and relishes the notion of such an evil man burning to death. Vimes runs into the building to rescue the man, or at least give him a chance to escape. It fits in perfectly with Vimes' struggles to control "The Beast" and to keep to the law, at least as far as is pragmatically possible.
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[[folder:The Truth]]

[[folder:Thief of Time]]
* Again combined with the {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, the Auditors of Reality cause the Apocalypse, and Death and the other [[spoiler: Four]] Horsemen respond by riding out [[spoiler: against the Auditors, FOR humanity]].
---> [[AC:Exactly. Only, while it is true we have to ride out,]] Death added, drawing his sword, [[AC:it doesn't say anywhere against]] ''[[AC:whom]]''.
* Near the end, [[spoiler: Lobsang]] makes the cherries of the monastery trees (which are always in bloom) ripen, as a gift for Lu Tze who had briefly considered that it'd be nice to ''pick'' cherries for once at the beginning of the book.
* Another near the end, when [[spoiler: Susan and Lobsang have their perfect moment.]]

[[folder:The Last Hero]]
The whole book is one, rolled with CMOA. "Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains."

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]
* Maurice's [[BalancingDeathsBooks "two, and call it quits" speech]]. Also a rare (for Discworld) subversion of CatsAreMean.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Fifth Elephant]]
* Gaspode may not want to admit it, but he has a bunch of [=CmoHs=] like in this book when he tries to stand up to a wolf pack to defend a sleeping Carrot.
* And also when he tries to help Gavin out during the wolf's last fight.
* Very subtle example: when Gaspode tells Carrot that hunters in the next town have caught a wolf, and Carrot (who's been searching for Angua) says: "''Killed it?''". Seems innocuous enough ... until you realize that it's the ''only'' time Carrot has EVER raised his voice out of sheer, unbridled emotion, not just to make sure someone can hear him. If Angua'd heard ''that'', she'd have no more doubts about how he feels.
* Vimes and Sybil, time and time again.
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[[folder:The Last Continent]]

[[folder:Carpe Jugulum]]
* From the Quite Reverend Mightily Oats: [[spoiler: "Everywhere I look I see something holy."]]
* The lengths to which Hodgesaargh, normally comic relief, went to make sure [[spoiler: the baby phoenix]] would have everything it needed to recover and thrive. There's a man who loves his birds.

[[folder:The Fifth Elephant]]
* Gaspode may not want to admit it, but he has a bunch of [=CmoHs=] like in this book when he tries to stand up to a wolf pack to defend a sleeping Carrot.
* And also when he tries to help Gavin out during the wolf's last fight.
* Very subtle example: when Gaspode tells Carrot that hunters in the next town have caught a wolf, and Carrot (who's been searching for Angua) says: "''Killed it?''". Seems innocuous enough ... until you realize that it's the ''only'' time Carrot has EVER raised his voice out of sheer, unbridled emotion, not just to make sure someone can hear him. If Angua'd heard ''that'', she'd have no more doubts about how he feels.
* Vimes and Sybil, time and time again.

[[folder:The Truth]]

[[folder:Thief of Time]]
* Again combined with the {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, the Auditors of Reality cause the Apocalypse, and Death and the other [[spoiler: Four]] Horsemen respond by riding out [[spoiler: against the Auditors, FOR humanity]].
---> [[AC:Exactly. Only, while it is true we have to ride out,]] Death added, drawing his sword, [[AC:it doesn't say anywhere against]] ''[[AC:whom]]''.
* Near the end, [[spoiler: Lobsang]] makes the cherries of the monastery trees (which are always in bloom) ripen, as a gift for Lu Tze who had briefly considered that it'd be nice to ''pick'' cherries for once at the beginning of the book.
* Another near the end, when [[spoiler: Susan and Lobsang have their perfect moment.]]

[[folder:The Last Hero]]
The whole book is one, rolled with CMOA. "Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains."

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]
* Maurice's [[BalancingDeathsBooks "two, and call it quits" speech]]. Also a rare (for Discworld) subversion of CatsAreMean.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jingo]]
* This may be a minor one, but I really like the relief of the Klatchian commander:
--> The commander swallowed, 'We give in', he said.\\
'What, just like that, sir?' said his sergeant. 'Without a fight?'\\
[='=]''Yes''[='=], sergeant. Without a fight. This man can make water run uphill and ''he'' has a commander. I love the idea of giving in without a fight. I've fought for ten years and giving in without a fight is what I've always wanted to do.'
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[[folder:Feet of Clay]]
* How about Mrs. Gammage at Biers? The story about her getting robbed is both a [=CMOH=] and a CrowningMomentOfFunny in my book. Mrs. Gammage is an old lady who has been drinking at the undead bar since before it was the undead bar, and never noticed the change. She was robbed once. The stolen goods were returned the next day and the thieves discovered to be mysteriously empty of blood.
* Dorfl recollecting Carrot's honest kindness and [[spoiler:fighting even harder against the king]] when he notices Carrot later on in the book is definitely a topper.
* [[spoiler:'''WORDS IN THE HEART CAN NOT BE TAKEN''']]

[[folder:Hogfather]]
[[index]]
* Heartwarming/{{Hogfather}}
[[/index]]

[[folder:Jingo]]
* This may be a minor one, but I really like the relief of the Klatchian commander:
--> The commander swallowed, 'We give in', he said.\\
'What, just like that, sir?' said his sergeant. 'Without a fight?'\\
[='=]''Yes''[='=], sergeant. Without a fight. This man can make water run uphill and ''he'' has a commander. I love the idea of giving in without a fight. I've fought for ten years and giving in without a fight is what I've always wanted to do.'

[[folder:The Last Continent]]

[[folder:Carpe Jugulum]]
* From the Quite Reverend Mightily Oats: [[spoiler: "Everywhere I look I see something holy."]]
* The lengths to which Hodgesaargh, normally comic relief, went to make sure [[spoiler: the baby phoenix]] would have everything it needed to recover and thrive. There's a man who loves his birds.

[[folder:The Fifth Elephant]]
* Gaspode may not want to admit it, but he has a bunch of [=CmoHs=] like in this book when he tries to stand up to a wolf pack to defend a sleeping Carrot.
* And also when he tries to help Gavin out during the wolf's last fight.
* Very subtle example: when Gaspode tells Carrot that hunters in the next town have caught a wolf, and Carrot (who's been searching for Angua) says: "''Killed it?''". Seems innocuous enough ... until you realize that it's the ''only'' time Carrot has EVER raised his voice out of sheer, unbridled emotion, not just to make sure someone can hear him. If Angua'd heard ''that'', she'd have no more doubts about how he feels.
* Vimes and Sybil, time and time again.

[[folder:The Truth]]

[[folder:Thief of Time]]
* Again combined with the {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, the Auditors of Reality cause the Apocalypse, and Death and the other [[spoiler: Four]] Horsemen respond by riding out [[spoiler: against the Auditors, FOR humanity]].
---> [[AC:Exactly. Only, while it is true we have to ride out,]] Death added, drawing his sword, [[AC:it doesn't say anywhere against]] ''[[AC:whom]]''.
* Near the end, [[spoiler: Lobsang]] makes the cherries of the monastery trees (which are always in bloom) ripen, as a gift for Lu Tze who had briefly considered that it'd be nice to ''pick'' cherries for once at the beginning of the book.
* Another near the end, when [[spoiler: Susan and Lobsang have their perfect moment.]]

[[folder:The Last Hero]]
The whole book is one, rolled with CMOA. "Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains."

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]
* Maurice's [[BalancingDeathsBooks "two, and call it quits" speech]]. Also a rare (for Discworld) subversion of CatsAreMean.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Maskerade]]
* And there's the scene in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'' when he plays with Granny for the soul of a small boy [[spoiler: and lets her win]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Interesting Times]]
The scene where Cohen the Barbarian gives his sword to Twoflower. "Hey four-eyes! Catch!" never before sounded so Heartwarming.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Soul Music]]
* Death and Susan both get one, when everything is over and Death asks, clearly expecting the answer to be "no", if she has a kiss for her granddad. Susan, borderline EmotionlessGirl and DeadpanSnarker realizes that being what he is makes him more alone than any creature in the universe, actually gives him one, just before going back to her school dormitory and [[spoiler:finally letting herself cry over the loss of her parents, who died at the beginning of the book.]] Also very much a TearJerker.
* The biggest for me is near the end. Buddy goes out to play his big concert, but instead of his guitar, he opens with a song on his harp. Think if you were going to a Beatles concert expecting to hear rocking stuff like ''Hard Day's Night'', and they open with ''Hey Jude''. Just the way it's described makes me start to well up every time, and it's not easy to describe a song in a novel in the first place.
** Oh yesss, particularly Dibbler being disturbed by how the song made him consider things more important than money.
** Particularly the line about how the song "took every man and woman and thing by the hand and showed him or her or it the way home."
* Also in ''SoulMusic'' Susan's swing... just... Susan's swing. Also a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
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[[folder:Men At Arms]]
* Not just that, but the shocking reveal as to how Samuel Vimes spent his money before becoming rich. [[spoiler: He donated about HALF his monthly earnings to the widows and orphans left behind by dead watchmen.]] At the end, he'll probably give it up [[spoiler: since Carrot gets Vetinari to approve of pensions for widows.]]
** Cuddy teaching Detritus to count. Aww.
** Detritus's reaction to [[spoiler: Cuddy's]] death. Made all the stronger by Carrot talking him down from obliterating a whole room's worth of assassins shortly afterword.
** "They call me ''Mister'' Vimes."
* When Gaspode refuses to leave a distraught Angua even when she's growling what's implied to be Canine for "Go away or I'll rip out your jugular".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lords And Ladies]]
* The scene when Magrat is exploring [[spoiler:the royal bedroom. There's a massive bed, big enough to fit a dozen people, and it hasn't been slept in. As a child, Verence slept on straw in an attic he shared with the rest of his family. As an apprentice, he slept on a pallet in a full dorm. As a Fool, he had slept in front of his master's door.]]
-->[[spoiler:''He'd always slept in front of the door of his master. And now he was king, he slept in front of the door to his kingdom.'']]
* Mustrum Ridcully and Esme Weatherwax's childhood connection. Every time Granny's box is mentioned with all the letters in a bundle I get a fuzzy feeling in my heart.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Witches Abroad]]

[[folder:Small Gods]]
* When the god Om, who starts the book completely self-centered, realizes (in a nod to the parable of the good shepherd) that if you want to have thousands of followers you have to care about the individual ones. Asked by a mathematically-challenged god whether one follower is less than fifty-one, he replies, "No. It's the same."
* Soldiers from opposite sides of a war begin, completely unironically, to help each other in the face of massive natural disaster.
* Brutha in the afterlife, deciding to help out the CompleteMonster of the book.
** Made all the more heartwarming when Death tries to warn him off by telling him the kind of man he was helping, to which Brutha simply replies, "I know. He's [[spoiler: Vorbis]]. But I'm me."
* Brutha, separated from his tiny, self-centered tortoise god and trapped in the Citadel, storms down to its enormous, immovable Great Gates and starts shouting, "I carried you in the desert! I believed all my life! Just give me this one thing! Give me a sign!" And the Great Gates, thanks to an unrelated (right?) subplot coming to its head at exactly the right moment, swing open.
* ''"I. He is Mine."'' Gave this troper some serious goosebumps.
* Om struggling his way across the land to make it to Brutha before he is killed. Hadn't he been a tortoise at the time, this troper would have shipped them so hard. Actually, they still do.

[[folder:Lords And Ladies]]
* The scene when Magrat is exploring [[spoiler:the royal bedroom. There's a massive bed, big enough to fit a dozen people, and it hasn't been slept in. As a child, Verence slept on straw in an attic he shared with the rest of his family. As an apprentice, he slept on a pallet in a full dorm. As a Fool, he had slept in front of his master's door.]]
-->[[spoiler:''He'd always slept in front of the door of his master. And now he was king, he slept in front of the door to his kingdom.'']]
* Mustrum Ridcully and Esme Weatherwax's childhood connection. Every time Granny's box is mentioned with all the letters in a bundle I get a fuzzy feeling in my heart.

[[folder:Men At Arms]]
* Not just that, but the shocking reveal as to how Samuel Vimes spent his money before becoming rich. [[spoiler: He donated about HALF his monthly earnings to the widows and orphans left behind by dead watchmen.]] At the end, he'll probably give it up [[spoiler: since Carrot gets Vetinari to approve of pensions for widows.]]
** Cuddy teaching Detritus to count. Aww.
** Detritus's reaction to [[spoiler: Cuddy's]] death. Made all the stronger by Carrot talking him down from obliterating a whole room's worth of assassins shortly afterword.
** "They call me ''Mister'' Vimes."
* When Gaspode refuses to leave a distraught Angua even when she's growling what's implied to be Canine for "Go away or I'll rip out your jugular".

[[folder:Soul Music]]
* Death and Susan both get one, when everything is over and Death asks, clearly expecting the answer to be "no", if she has a kiss for her granddad. Susan, borderline EmotionlessGirl and DeadpanSnarker realizes that being what he is makes him more alone than any creature in the universe, actually gives him one, just before going back to her school dormitory and [[spoiler:finally letting herself cry over the loss of her parents, who died at the beginning of the book.]] Also very much a TearJerker.
* The biggest for me is near the end. Buddy goes out to play his big concert, but instead of his guitar, he opens with a song on his harp. Think if you were going to a Beatles concert expecting to hear rocking stuff like ''Hard Day's Night'', and they open with ''Hey Jude''. Just the way it's described makes me start to well up every time, and it's not easy to describe a song in a novel in the first place.
** Oh yesss, particularly Dibbler being disturbed by how the song made him consider things more important than money.
** Particularly the line about how the song "took every man and woman and thing by the hand and showed him or her or it the way home."
* Also in ''SoulMusic'' Susan's swing... just... Susan's swing. Also a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

[[folder:Interesting Times]]
The scene where Cohen the Barbarian gives his sword to Twoflower. "Hey four-eyes! Catch!" never before sounded so Heartwarming.

[[folder:Maskerade]]
* And there's the scene in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'' when he plays with Granny for the soul of a small boy [[spoiler: and lets her win]].

[[folder:Feet of Clay]]
* How about Mrs. Gammage at Biers? The story about her getting robbed is both a [=CMOH=] and a CrowningMomentOfFunny in my book. Mrs. Gammage is an old lady who has been drinking at the undead bar since before it was the undead bar, and never noticed the change. She was robbed once. The stolen goods were returned the next day and the thieves discovered to be mysteriously empty of blood.
* Dorfl recollecting Carrot's honest kindness and [[spoiler:fighting even harder against the king]] when he notices Carrot later on in the book is definitely a topper.
* [[spoiler:'''WORDS IN THE HEART CAN NOT BE TAKEN''']]

[[folder:Hogfather]]
[[index]]
* Heartwarming/{{Hogfather}}
[[/index]]

[[folder:Jingo]]
* This may be a minor one, but I really like the relief of the Klatchian commander:
--> The commander swallowed, 'We give in', he said.\\
'What, just like that, sir?' said his sergeant. 'Without a fight?'\\
[='=]''Yes''[='=], sergeant. Without a fight. This man can make water run uphill and ''he'' has a commander. I love the idea of giving in without a fight. I've fought for ten years and giving in without a fight is what I've always wanted to do.'

[[folder:The Last Continent]]

[[folder:Carpe Jugulum]]
* From the Quite Reverend Mightily Oats: [[spoiler: "Everywhere I look I see something holy."]]
* The lengths to which Hodgesaargh, normally comic relief, went to make sure [[spoiler: the baby phoenix]] would have everything it needed to recover and thrive. There's a man who loves his birds.

[[folder:The Fifth Elephant]]
* Gaspode may not want to admit it, but he has a bunch of [=CmoHs=] like in this book when he tries to stand up to a wolf pack to defend a sleeping Carrot.
* And also when he tries to help Gavin out during the wolf's last fight.
* Very subtle example: when Gaspode tells Carrot that hunters in the next town have caught a wolf, and Carrot (who's been searching for Angua) says: "''Killed it?''". Seems innocuous enough ... until you realize that it's the ''only'' time Carrot has EVER raised his voice out of sheer, unbridled emotion, not just to make sure someone can hear him. If Angua'd heard ''that'', she'd have no more doubts about how he feels.
* Vimes and Sybil, time and time again.

[[folder:The Truth]]

[[folder:Thief of Time]]
* Again combined with the {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, the Auditors of Reality cause the Apocalypse, and Death and the other [[spoiler: Four]] Horsemen respond by riding out [[spoiler: against the Auditors, FOR humanity]].
---> [[AC:Exactly. Only, while it is true we have to ride out,]] Death added, drawing his sword, [[AC:it doesn't say anywhere against]] ''[[AC:whom]]''.
* Near the end, [[spoiler: Lobsang]] makes the cherries of the monastery trees (which are always in bloom) ripen, as a gift for Lu Tze who had briefly considered that it'd be nice to ''pick'' cherries for once at the beginning of the book.
* Another near the end, when [[spoiler: Susan and Lobsang have their perfect moment.]]

[[folder:The Last Hero]]
The whole book is one, rolled with CMOA. "Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains."

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]
* Maurice's [[BalancingDeathsBooks "two, and call it quits" speech]]. Also a rare (for Discworld) subversion of CatsAreMean.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Reaper Man]]
* At the end, [[spoiler:where Miss Flitworth dies - and Death takes her into the past to see that the man she loved didn't jilt her but was killed in an accident on the way to their wedding. Reunited, the ghosts go off into the afterlife together]].
** Slightly earlier, he brings her "a diamond to be her friend", misinterpreting "diamonds are a girl's best friend". Something about the scene tugs at this troper's heartstrings in a wonderful way.
* And it's implied he even earlier saves a little girl from death by [[spoiler: giving her some of the sand from his own life-timer, thus bringing his own death (which terrifies him) closer]].
* There's a subtler one earlier where the farmers remark on how Death cuts corn very quickly despite cutting ''each stalk individually''. This evokes how he empathizes with humanity and sees them as individuals, unlike the New Death later in the book who treats them like cattle.
* [[AC:What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: --Faust-- Eric]]

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[[folder:Moving Pictures]]
* Gaspode and Laddie's (''Good boy Laddie'') near-Death experience, with a maimed Gaspode squaring off against Death to protect Laddie. Also a TearJerker.
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[[folder:Guards! Guards!]]
* Possibly This Troper's favorite moment in Discworld is at the end of ''Guards! Guards!'' - showing Vimes and Sybil's blossoming relationship in the perfect terms -- (paraphrased):
--> "'What was it? Oh, yes... it's a one-in-a-million chance, he said, but it just might work.'
--> "And she smiled at him. It occurred to him that in her own special category of women, she was quite beautiful - and that was the category of all the women, in all his life, who had ever thought him worth smiling at. [...] The woman was a city."
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[[folder:Wyrd Sisters]]

* The fifteen-year kiss.

[[folder:Pyramids]]

[[folder:Guards! Guards!]]
* Possibly This Troper's favorite moment in Discworld is at the end of ''Guards! Guards!'' - showing Vimes and Sybil's blossoming relationship in the perfect terms -- (paraphrased):
--> "'What was it? Oh, yes... it's a one-in-a-million chance, he said, but it just might work.'
--> "And she smiled at him. It occurred to him that in her own special category of women, she was quite beautiful - and that was the category of all the women, in all his life, who had ever thought him worth smiling at. [...] The woman was a city."

[[folder: --Faust-- Eric]]

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[[folder:Moving Pictures]]
* Gaspode and Laddie's (''Good boy Laddie'') near-Death experience, with a maimed Gaspode squaring off against Death to protect Laddie. Also a TearJerker.
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[[folder:Sourcery]]
Rincewind's [[HeroicSacrifice one good deed]]. WAAAAAAH!
** Also a major Tear Jerker. ''Sourcery'' is the only book this troper has ever read that has literally made her cry. It takes quite a lot to do that.
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