History Heartwarming / Golgo13

** It helps that Dave is ''extremely'' good at his job, and never fails to meet a deadline, [[ScottyTime even when he's hired to modify a gun that would take three days to do within three hours]]. It's clear by the bonuses and big payoffs that Golgo gives is as close a mark of appreciation the craftsmanship and professionalism Dave holds himself to.

* Golgo pays his respects to one of his illegitimate children's graves at the end of the story "Cold-Hearted Catharine", and in "Ebony Eyes", he fulfills the request of one of his exes to see their child before he leaves town.
* Meta one: the fact that Takao Saito trusted his assistants to carry on the series without him. He may have had emergency plans for the series should it have been canceled, but ultimately, he decided that his most famous character would do just fine without him.

* At the end of one of the Special Edition chapters, Golgo returns a favor from a young disabled butterfly collector by giving him a rare butterfly specimen. This is one of the rare moments where Golgo's professional demeanor shows its magnanimity. If you betray Golgo, he will not hesitate to end you, but if you assist him, (''especially'' if it is a deciding factor), he will pay you back in return.

** As a mark of this, there's a brief moment in Episode 12 where he helps Golgo escape quarantine in order to destroy the supercomputer the police are using to reconstruct one of his hits. He even comes with a batch of flowers to help the facade.
** It helps that Dave is ''extremely'' good at his job, and never fails to meet a deadline, [[ScottyTime even when he's hired to modify a gun that would take three days to do within three hours]]. It's clear by the big payoffs that Golgo gives is as close a mark of appreciation the craftsmanship and professionalism Dave exudes.

* At the end of one of the Special Edition chapters, Golgo returns a favor from a young disabled butterfly collector by giving him a rare butterfly specimen. This is one of the rare moments where Golgo's professional demeanor shows its magnaminty. If you betray Golgo, he will not hesitate to end you, but if you assist him, (''especially'' if it is a deciding factor), he will pay you back in return.
* Golgo's relationship with Dave [=McCartrney=] is full of funny moments, especially in the manga where Dave is almost always exhasperated by Golgo's unusual requests. However the anime makes it all the more heartwarming by introducing Dave as a regular character; he's the man Golgo ''always'' turns to when he needs a special weapon or a tune-up for his M16, even appearing in episodes adapted from manga chapters where he never even appeared in originally.

** It helps that Dave is ''extremely'' good at his job, and never fails, [[ScottyTime even when he's hired to modify a gun that would takes three days to do within three hours]]. Golgo appreciates him for the craftmanship and professionalism Dave employs by paying him generously.
* Golgo accepting Spartacus' contract in "The Brutes' Banquet" to kill his employers, who had set both men up for entertainment. He also has a respect for Spartacus as a professional, pointing out that he's almost just as good as he is.
* Golgo paying his respects to one of his illegitimate children's graves at the end of one story, and in the other he fulfils the request of one of his exes' to see their child before they leave.

** It helps that Dave is ''extremely'' good at his job, and never fails, [[ScottyTime even when he's hired to modify a gun that would takes three days to do within three hours]]. Golgo appreciates him for the craftmanship Dave employs by paying double the usual fee, as well as his own professonalism.

* Golgo paying his respects to one of his illegtimate children's graves at the end of one story, and in the other he fulfils the request of one of his exes' to see their child before they leave.

!!2008 Series and Manga*
* At the end of one of the Special Edition chapters, Golgo returns a favor from a young disabled butterfly collector by giving him a rare butterfly specimen. This is one of the rare moments where Golgo's professional demeanor shows its magnaminty. If you betray Golgo, he will not hesitate to end you, but if you assist him, especially if the intel is a deciding factor, he will pay you back in return.

** It helps that Dave is ''extremely'' good at his job, and never fails, even when he's hired to modify a gun that would takes three days to do within three hours. Golgo appreciates him for the craftmanship Dave employs by paying double the usual fee

* Golgo's relationship with Dave [=McCartrney=] is full of funny moments, especially in the manga where Dave is almost always exhasperated by Golgo's unusual requests. However the anime makes it all the more heartwarming by introducing Dave as a HyperComptetentSidekick; he's the man Golgo ''always'' turns to when he needs a special weapon or a tune-up for his M16, even appearing in episodes adapted from manga chapters where he never even appeared in originally.
** As a mark of this, there's a brief moment in Episode 12 where he helps Golgo escape quarantine in order to destroy the supercomputer the police are using to reconstruct one of his hits. He even comes with a batch of flowers to help the facade.

!!2008 Series and Manga

* For all of his many '''many''' faults Leonard Dawson was shown to truly love his son Robert and legitimately cared for him all his life, including baking him a homemade cake for his 6th birthday and crying tears of joy at his graduation. Granted, this love is quickly twisted as he goes off the deep end trying to kill Golgo 13 for his son's untimely murder, but it shows that Dawson was more than just a CorruptCorporateExecutive and actually had a heart up until his obsession with revenge ended up ruining the lives of his remaining family.