History Heartwarming / MadMax

* Max doesn't so much as flinch when the refinery-colonists haul his car - the most valuable thing he possesses, which they plainly don't intend to return - into their compound. But when ''Dog'' leaps out and attacks the mechanic's feet, he wrests free of his captors' grip and grabs hold of his pet so they won't kill it.

* The Feral Kid. Before, he just did his own thing, but after Max gave the kid a music box he found earlier, he warmed up to him.

* At the very end of ''The Road Warrior'', The Gyrocaptain drives up to Max, grinning and smoking a cigar. Max cracks a brief smile back for the first time in years.

* At the very end of ''The Road Warrior'', The Gyrocaptain drives up to Max, grinning and smoking a cigar. Max cracks a brief smile back for the first time in years.
* In ''Fury Road'', Capable finds Nux hiding in the back of the War Rig, suffering a VillainousBSOD brought on by his repeated failure to earn a glorious death. She shows neither fear nor hatred, but instead lies down to comfort him, effectively inducing his HeelFaceTurn with simple kindness.
** Towards the end [[spoiler: as Nux prepares for his HeroicSacrifice he looks straight at her and calmly says "Witness Me," the shot makes it clear that Capable doesn't look away.]]
* A rare PetTheDog moment from Max in ''Fury Road'', when Max returns from massacring the Bullet Farmer and his men, he throws Nux some new boots to replace the ones he stole from him earlier in the movie.
* Max finally deciding to give Furiosa and the Wives a hand ''willingly'' [[spoiler: and encouraging them to take the Citadel by cutting through Immortan Joe's pursuit force.]]
* ''Fury Road'': The warm camaraderie that immediately develops between the Wives and the Vulvani biker-women.
* Nearing the end of ''Fury Road'', [[spoiler: Furiosa is saved by Max via blood transfusion]].
** Subsequently, [[spoiler: "My name is Max."]] When he says this [[spoiler: to Furiosa while he's performing the blood transfusion to save her from her near-mortal stab wound, it's a powerful moment as Max realizes that ever since the death of his family and the fall of civilization, he's never really mentioned or gone by his name at all.]]
** [[spoiler: The sweetest part is the way he talks to her, telling her that everything is going to be fine. This is a guy who only a few days ago was grunting angrily at everyone.]]
* Max giving Splendid Angharad a small "thumbs up" after she manages to evade a boulder while hanging outside of the War Rig, [[spoiler: it's then immediately followed by some potent MoodWhiplash when she gets killed not but a few seconds later.]]

** [[spoiler: The sweetest part is the way he talks to her, telling her that everything is going to be fine. This is a guy who only a few days ago was grunting angrily at everyone.]]

** Subsequently, [[spoiler: "My name is Max."]] When he says this [[spoiler: to Furiosa while he's performing the blood transfusion to save her from her near-mortal stab wound, it's a powerful moment as Max realizes that ever since the death of his family and the fall of civilization, he's never really mentioned or gone by his name at all.]]

* Nearing the end of ''Fury Road'', [[spoiler: Furiosa is saved by Max via blood transfusion]].

* [[spoiler: "My name is Max."]] When he says this [[spoiler: to Furiosa when it looks like she might die of her wounds, it's a powerful moment as Max realizes that ever since the death of his family and the fall of civilization, he's never really mentioned or gone by his name at all.]]

* ''Fury Road'': The warm camaraderie that immediately develops between the Wives and the Vulvani biker-women.

* In ''Fury Road'', Capable finds Nux hiding in the back of the War Rig, suffering a VillainousBSOD brought on by his repeated failure to earn a glorious death. She shows neither fear nor hatred, but instead lies down to comfort him, effectively inducing his HeelFaceTurn with simple kindness.

* In ''Fury Road'', the Dag finds Nux hiding in the back of the War Rig, suffering a VillainousBSOD brought on by his repeated failure to earn a glorious death. She shows neither fear nor hatred, but instead lies down to comfort him, effectively inducing his HeelFaceTurn with simple kindness.

* Nearing the end of ''Fury Road'', [[spoiler: Furiosa is saved by Max via blood transfusion]].

* Savannah Nix's closing speech at the end of ''Thunderdome'':
-->'''Savannah:''' This you knows. The years travel fast. And time after time I've done the Tell. But this ain 't one body's Tell. It's the Tell of us all, and you got to listen it and 'member, 'cause what you hears today, you got to tell the newborn tomorrow. I's looking behind us now, into history back. I sees those of us that got the luck and started the haul for home. It lead us here and we was heartful 'cause we seen what there once was. One look, and we knewed we'd got it straight. Those what had gone before had knowing of things beyond our reckoning even beyond our dreaming. Time counts and keeps countin', and we knows now finding the trick of what's been and lost ain't no easy ride. But that's our trek, we gotta' travel it. And there ain't nobody knows where it's gonna' lead. Still in all, every night we does the Tell, so that we 'member who we was and where we came from... but most of all we 'members the man that finded us, him that came the salvage. And we lights the city, not just for him, but for all of them that are still out there. 'Cause we knows there come a night, when they sees the distant light, and they'll be comin' home.

-->'''Savannah:''' This you knows. The years travel fast. And time after time I've done the Tell. But this ain 't one body's Tell. It's the Tell of us all, and you got to listen it and 'member, 'cause what you hears today, you got to tell the newborn tomorrow. I's looking behind us now, into history back. I sees those of us that got the luck and started the haul for home. It lead us here and we was heartful
'cause we seen what there once was. One look, and we knewed we'd got it straight. Those what had gone before had knowing of things beyond our reckoning even beyond our dreaming. Time counts and keeps countin', and we knows now finding the trick of what's been and lost ain't no easy ride. But that's our trek, we gotta' travel it. And there ain't nobody knows where it's gonna' lead. Still in all, every night we does the Tell, so that we 'member who we was and where we came from... but most of all we 'members the man that finded us, him that came the salvage. And we lights the city, not just for him, but for all of them that are still out there. 'Cause we knows there come a night, when they sees the distant light, and they'll be comin' home.