History Heartwarming / FantasticFour

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* [[Creator/StanLee Doctor Doom's creator]] once called him his favorite villain. Even if Doom would object to his terminology "villain", he would have nonetheless respected the fact that Mr. Lee did appreciate him.
** No matter how you feel about Doom, him marching into hell and saving his mother's soul is pretty damn heartwarming.

** No matter how you feel about Doom, him marching into hell and saving his mother's soul is pretty [[JustForPun damn]] heartwarming.

* Showing that even villains can have a heartwarming moment, ''Spider-Man Family'' #4 includes a short comic where the Puppet Master is creating a Franchise/SpiderMan doll to use in one of his evil schemes, when he meets a young boy named Louis, who tells Puppet Master about his deceased mother and how his most treasured possessions are the action figures she gave him before her death. Louis is then attacked by 3 bullies, ({{Expy}}s of WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy), who throw his action figures into the lake. Here's the heartwarming part - Puppet Master not only comforts Louis, telling him he knows how Louis feels (his own mother died when he was young and he was often picked on, causing him to turn to his puppets as "friends"), he gives him the Spider-Man doll he was working on. I repeat - ''he abandons one of his evil plans to comfort a distraught boy''. If that isn't a PetTheDog moment, I don't know what is.

* One of the earliest Fantastic Four stories: "This Man... This Monster" counts as one of the greatest Heartwarming moments. In the story, a rival scientist to Reed steals the Thing's powers to impersonate him, so that he can get a chance to get close to Reed and kill him. He finds Reed in mortal peril, trapped in a barrier between dimensions... [[spoiler: and leaps in to save him. Reed is horrified at his friend apparently choosing to die with him, and tells him ItsBeenAnHonor. This inspires the scientist to do a HeroicSacrifice: he uses the Thing's body to hurl Reed ou of the barrier to safety, while [[RedemptionEqualsDeath he is left behind]]. Reed thinks he has lost his friend and is absolutely grief-struck, blaming himself for the loss of his friend... Meanwhile, the original Ben Grimm, finding out he has been impersonated, comes across this and comforts Reed, to his shock and joy.]] This tale of is consistently ranked as one of the best stories of the Four, or of Lee. And it's not hard to see why.

-->''"My family are an equation: alter one part of the equation and it no longer tells the truth. You failed at the start; you can't change our essential nature anymore than you can change E=Mc[[superscript:2]]...Alicia's part of the equation too. Daughter of the Puppet Master. My secret weapon. Oh, Sue, Johnny, Ben, my dearest friends, all of us so beautiful like a perfect emotional molecule turning in mathematical space."

-->''"My family are an equation: alter one part of the equation and it no longer tells the truth. You failed at the start; you can't change our essential nature anymore than you can change E=Mc[[Superscript:2]]...Alicia's part of the equation too. Daughter of the Puppet Master. My secret weapon. Oh, Sue, Johnny, Ben, my dearest friends, all of us so beautiful like a perfect emotional molecule turning in mathematical space."

-->''"My family are an equation: alter one part of the equation and it no longer tells the truth. You failed at the start; you can't change our essential nature anymore than you can change E=Mc[[Superscript 2]]...Alicia's part of the equation too. Daughter of the Puppet Master. My secret weapon. Oh, Sue, Johnny, Ben, my dearest friends, all of us so beautiful like a perfect emotional molecule turning in mathematical space."

-->''"My family are an equation: alter one part of the equation and it no longer tells the truth. You failed at the start; you can't change our essential nature anymore than you can change [=E=Mc2=]...Alicia's part of the equation too. Daughter of the Puppet Master. My secret weapon. Oh, Sue, Johnny, Ben, my dearest friends, all of us so beautiful like a perfect emotional molecule turning in mathematical space."

-->''"My family are an equation: alter one part of the equation and it no longer tells the truth. You failed at the start; you can't change our essential nature anymore than you can change [[=E=Mc2=]]...Alicia's part of the equation too. Daughter of the Puppet Master. My secret weapon. Oh, Sue, Johnny, Ben, my dearest friends, all of us so beautiful like a perfect emotional molecule turning in mathematical space."

-->''"My family are an equation: alter one part of the equation and it no longer tells the truth. You failed at the start; you can't change our essential nature anymore than you can change E=Mc2...Alicia's part of the equation too. Daughter of the Puppet Master. My secret weapon. Oh, Sue, Johnny, Ben, my dearest friends, all of us so beautiful like a perfect emotional molecule turning in mathematical space."

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* Showing that even villains can have a heartwarming moment, ''Spider-Man Family'' #4 includes a short comic where the Puppet Master is creating a Franchise/SpiderMan doll to use in one of his evil schemes, when he meets a young boy named Louis, who tells Puppet Master about his deceased mother and how his most treasured possessions are the action figures she gave him before her death. Louis is then attacked by 3 bullies, ({{Expy}}s of WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy), who throw his action figures into the lake. Here's the heartwarming part - Puppet Master not only comforts Louis, telling him he knows how Louis feels (his own mother died when he was young and he was often picked on, causing him to turn to his puppets as "friends), he gives him the Spider-Man doll he was working on. I repeat - ''he abandons one of his evil plans to comfort a distraught boy''. If that isn't a PetTheDog moment, I don't know what is.

-->'''"Uncle" Benjamin Grimm''': [[SomethingInMyEye Works for me kid.]] Works for me.