History Heartwarming / GoodFellas

* It's implied that Paulie intentionally gave himself contempt of court so he could be there for Henry during his first year in jail.
** The above is borne out by Paulie's reaction when a young Henry is first arrested ["Hey, you popped your cherry!"], acting like a proud papa who just saw his son win the science fair. Paulie, though gruff and very stern with his running his crew, nevertheless seemed to take a personal, almost fatherly interest in Henry, counseling him to go back home to his wife Karen, and to stay away from drugs- not just because it's bad for business overall, but because they will ruin your life. And Paulie was obviously deeply hurt by Henry's eventual betrayal.
* [[AxCrazy Tommy's]] [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas relationship with]] [[MoralityPet his mother.]]
* A young Henry helping out a man who was just stabbed. He gets berated for ruining a bunch of aprons to do so, but he doesn't show any shame in it. His first reaction to seeing a man in trouble was to help.

* It's not much, but... Henry is a violent, drug-dealing asshole, an accomplice to murder and an unfaithful husband, but from the moment he first truly notices Karen, she's the only character besides himself that he cares about. She is justly furious about his girlfriends but even when he wakes up to find her pointing a gun at his face, he's more annoyed that she would go to the trouble of trying to scare him. It doesn't make either of them want to leave each other. When the shit really hits the fan and she destroys his valuable drug stash, he panics and screams at her, but hours later they are sleeping in each others' arms and he's got a gun in his hand, ready to defend them both. When he goes into witness protection, he admits that he can't do it without her.

** The above is borne out by Paulie's reaction when a young Henry is first arrested ["Hey, you popped your cherry!"], acting like a proud papa who just saw his son win the science fair. Paulie, though gruff and very stern with his running his crew, nevertheless seemed to take a personal, almost fatherly interest in Henry, counseling him to go back home to his wife Karen, and to stay away from drugs- not just because it's bad for business overall , but because they will ruin your life. And Paulie was obviously deeply hurt by Henry's eventual betrayal.

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* It's not much, but... Henry is a violent, drug-dealing asshole, an accomplice to murder and an unfaithful husband, but from the moment he first truly notices Karen, she's the only character besides himself that he cares about. She is justly furious about his girlfriends but even when he wakes up to find her pointing a gun at his face, he's more annoyed that she would go to the trouble of trying to scare him. It doesn't make either of them want to leave each other. When the *** really hits the fan and she destroys his valuable drug stash, he panics and screams at her, but hours later they are sleeping in each others' arms and he's got a gun in his hand, ready to defend them both. When he goes into witness protection, he admits that he can't do it without her.

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'''Henry:''' *immediately beats him in the face with a gun about fifteen times* I swear on my fucking mother, if you touch her again, you're DEAD!!!!" *hits him again*

--> '''Tommy:''' I didn't wanna get blood on your floor.

* It's not much, but...Henry is a violent, drug-dealing asshole, an accomplice to murder and an unfaithful husband, but from the moment he first truly notices Karen, she's the only character besides himself that he cares about. She is justly furious about his girlfriends but even when he wakes up to find her pointing a gun at his face, he's more annoyed that she would go to the trouble of trying to scare him. It doesn't make either of them want to leave each other. When the *** really hits the fan and she destroys his valuable drug stash, he panics and screams at her, but hours later they are sleeping in each others' arms and he's got a gun in his hand, ready to defend them both. When he goes into witness protection, he admits that he can't do it without her.

* Henry goes and beats the guy that groped Karen:

'''Henry:''' *immediately beats him in the face with a gun about fifteen times* I swear on my fucking mother, if you touch her again, you're DEAD!" *hits him again*

'''Henry:''' *immediately beats him in the face with a gun about fifteen times* I swear on my fucking mother, if you touch her again, you're ''DEAD!''" *hits him again*

'''Henry:''' *immediately beats him in the face with a gun about fifteen times* I swear on my fucking mother, if you touch her again, you're ''dead!''" *hits him again*

* Jimmy's ManlyTears after [[spoiler: Tommy is killed, showing that underneath the psychopathic nature, he did have a good friend he cared about and meant something to him.]]

* A young Henry helping out a man who was just stabbed.

** This also shows when Jimmy and Tommy tells Henry about Tommy being made. Jimmy actually seems more excited than Tommy, acting like a proud father who's son made it into Harvard. Jimmy beams, "We're all going to work for this guy some day!", not even caring that he's basically going to take a back seat theoretically in the crew he runs. He's just so happy that his protegé accomplished something an Irish-born like Henry and Jimmy couldn't.

** The above is borne out by Paulie's reaction when a young Henry is first arrested ["Hey, you popped your cherry!"]. Paulie, though gruff and very stern with his running his crew, nevertheless seemed to take a personal, almost fatherly interest in Henry, counseling him to go back home to his wife Karen, and to stay away from drugs- not just because it's BadForBusiness, but because they will ruin your life. And Paulie was obviously deeply hurt by Henry's eventual betrayal.

'''Henry:''' *immediately beats him in the face with a gun about fifteen times* I swear on my mother if you touch her again you're ''dead!''" *hits him again*

-->'''Guy''': What do you want, fucko? You want some?\\
'''Henry''': *immediately beats him in the face with a gun about fifteen times* I swear on my mother if you touch her again you're ''dead!''" *hits him again*

* After beating Batt's to death and moving the body, Tommy apologizes to Henry in his own way.

** This also shows when Jimmy and Tommy tells Henry about Tommy being made. Jimmy actually seems more excited than Tommy, acting like a proud father who's son made it into Harvard. Jimmy beams, "We're all going to work for this guy some day!", not even caring that he's basically going to take a back seat theoretically in the crew he runs. He's just so happy that his protege accomplished something an Irish-born like Henry and Jimmy couldn't.
* It's subtlely implied that Paulie intentionally gave himself contempt of court so he could be there for Henry during his first year in jail.

** This also shows when Jimmy and Tommy tells Henry about Tommy being made. Jimmy actually seems more excited than Tommy, acting like a proud father who's son made it into Harvard. Jimmy beams, "We're all going to work for this guy some day!", not even caring that he's basically going to take a back seat theoretically in the crew he runs. He's just so happy that his protgee accomplished something an Irish-born like Henry and Jimmy couldn't.

* Tommy's [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas relationship with]] [[MoralityPet his mother.]]

* Jimmy's ManlyTears after [[spoiler: Tommy is killed, showing that underneath the psychopathic nature, he did have a good friend he cared about.]]

-->'''Guy''': "What do you want, fucker?"\\