History Heartwarming / PokemonSunAndMoon

* Despite their alien appearance, you can play with all of the Ultra Beasts in Pokémon Refresh. Each has their own distinct personality in Refresh, with certain quirks: Guzzlord turns out to be the most expressive of the beasts, and gets so sad when denied a Poké Bean it veers into adorable; when happy, Xurkitree does this [[http://68.media.tumblr.com/cde4506c8ac7a7b4e2b017135d22c84d/tumblr_ogcnodxksH1sodr1ro1_1280.gif adorable]] little dance; Nihilego is also quite expressive for something lacking a face or eyes, such as doing spins when happy, and, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential should the player decide to be cruel and hit it by rapidly tapping it]], pulling down the "brim" of its hat-like bell to hide from you; Pheromosa's default expression in Pokémon Refresh looks rather sad, but its face briefly lights up whenever you feed or pet it.

--> ''Youngster'': I... I won? I knew big brother was the best!

* More than any other Pokémon game, Sun and Moon make a point of showing Pokémon who are out and about with their trainers. A Drifloon you rescue reappears at a supermarket with their young trainer (and gives you a gift as a thank you). The Professor's Pokémon wreak havoc in his lab. Your mother clearly dotes on the family Meowth (although that doesn't stop her from conscripting it into unpacking duty) and your new house is full of signs that a Pokémon lives there. A rather snooty young trainer confers with her Mudsdale and passes along the message that she thinks you'd be suited to Battle Royale fights. The game has always featured Pokémon out of their Pokeballs in houses and Pokémon centres, and a good few have had Pokémon with more apparent personalities (such as the Lucario who adopts you in X/Y), but this iteration gives us a real feel for the different relationships they have with their trainers, from long-suffering working partners to worried babysitters to lifelong companions.
* Araquanid's Pokedex entry in Moon states that despite its appearance, it cares about other Pokémon, and that if it finds weak or vulnerable ones, it'll protect them with its water bubble. Awwww!
** Although this can quickly lurch into ''NightmareFuel'', when you read its Sun Pokedex entry: it uses its water bubble to DROWN its prey before eating. Does Araquanid pull Pokémon into its water bubble to protect them, only to accidently drown them because it innocently thinks they can breath under water like it can? The naivety is sorta adorable, I guess...
* Despite their alien appearance, you can play with all of the Ultra Beasts in Pokémon Refresh. Each has their own distinct personality in Refresh, with certain quirks: Guzzlord turns out to be the most expressive of the beasts, and gets so sad when denied a Poké Bean it veers into adorable; when happy, Xurkitree does this [[http://68.media.tumblr.com/cde4506c8ac7a7b4e2b017135d22c84d/tumblr_ogcnodxksH1sodr1ro1_1280.gif adorable]] little dance; Nihilego is also quite expressive for something lacking a face or eyes, such as doing spins when happy, and, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential should the player decide to be cruel and hit it by rapidly tapping it]], pulling down the "brim" of it's hat-like bell to hide from you; Pheromosa's default expression in Pokémon Refresh looks rather sad, but its face briefly lights up whenever you feed or pet it.

* An easily overlooked one but the trial guides are this. All of those trainers who give you directions to the trial site, give you tips about the upcoming trials, and sometimes even heal up your Pokémon before the captain's gate? They're all volunteers! Meaning none of them are being paid by the captains or kahunas to help trial-goers out; they're happy to watch challengers succeed and want to help them any way they can.

* If you ask Rotom to rate the Alola Pokédex after you've completed it, it will talk about how proud it is of you and how it's glad it got the chance to travel by your side and meet all of Alola's Pokémon.

* Many fans immediately noticed the ring and Professor Kukui's left hand and guessed he was married and we would meet his wife in the game. [[spoiler: They were right, he's married to Professor Burnet of the Dream Radar and she wears a matching ring on a chain around her neck.]]

* Sometimes when an unevolved wild Pokémon calls for help, instead of their own species a Happiny or Chansey will show up. FriendToAllLivingThings indeed!
** Likewise, if you harass a wild [[HeartwarmingOrphan Cubone]] in Wela Volcano Park and it calls for help, be prepared for a [[MamaBear Kangaskhan]] to show up to defend it. In fact, it's the ''easiest'' way to encounter Kangaskhan--it only has a ''1%'' encounter rate while Cubone are fairly common.

* Instead of being kept in their Pokeballs, all three starter options are sent out from the start so that you can see and interact with them before choosing. When you pick your starter, there's a small ceremony where it also chooses you to be its trainer, which ends with your player character picking up and holding the starter they choose.

* Plumeria's request that Lillie and the player character [[spoiler: save Guzma if they can is quite heartwarming as she precedes it with a sincere apology for all she and Team Skull have done to them and how she knows she has no right to ask the two of anything. She isn't all that emotional, but she encourages and praises both characters, explains a bit about Guzma's motivations, and ends by implying that she wants them to save Guzma so that he can make up for what he has done as well.]]
* Upon [[spoiler: Lusamine's]] defeat, [[spoiler: she falls to the ground, defused with Nihilego, when her daughter, Lillie, runs up to her body on the ground to see if she's alright. Lusamine looks up at Lillie, smiles, and caresses her cheek, saying "When did you start becoming beautiful?" before falling into a coma, showing that she was no longer suffering from the Neurotoxins, and that she does love her children.]]

** After [[spoiler:you become the first Alolan Champion]], you can revisit him [[spoiler:at the conservation deck in Aether Paradise, where he's making good on his statement to clean up the foundation. There, he gives you one of the Type: Null and all of the memory disks it'll need when it evolves into Silvally--yes, he's confident that you'll be able to evolve it because he trusts that you'll treat it with love. He then goes on to say that he wants to train to become strong enough to take on the Alolan Pokémon League, since he heard the champion's a pretty strong trainer. Oh Gladion...]]

* After you beat the game, [[spoiler: the CreativeClosingCredits show pictures of all the characters in the game simply enjoying themselves. Highlights include Hau and Hala racing on Tauros, Mimikyu playing at Aether House with Acerola and the other two children, Gladion petting (and getting licked by) Silvally, Professor Kukui and Burnet with a Rockruff, Lillie hugging the box legendary, and ending with the picture of the player character, Hau and Lillie that the Rotom Dex took at the beginning of the game.]]
** [[spoiler: Lillie's]] final message, which plays over a picture of her hugging [[spoiler: Nebby, now either a Solgaleo or Lunala depending on the version, is heartwarming.]]

* During the post-game, you can find a former Team Skull Grunt working in at the restaurant Mallow's family owns. According to her, Mallow helped get her hired on and start anew in the fallout of Team Skull's disbandment. She then gives you a whipped dream and sachet and said Mallow wanted to give them to you as congratulations for [[spoiler: becoming the champion of Alola]].

** Even [[spoiler: Guzma seems to be reluctantly heading towards turning over a new leaf. When you talk to his mother post-game she says he told her to give you his favorite TM (Swagger), and after you battle him again on the beach he gives you his lucky Dawn Stone as well. And then Hala comes over and encourages Guzma to start training under him again to become a legitimate trainer. Guzma is abrasive as ever during all this, but you can tell he's heading towards a HeelFaceTurn. Not only that, but if you're playing Moon, he can show up as [[GoKartingWithBowser one of the special opponents you can fight against in the Battle Tree and team up with him for Multi Battles]].]]

* Mimikyu's wish to be as loved at Pikachu was almost [[https://twitter.com/squidgear/status/753332712560332800 immediately granted]] from the amount of art created not long after its reveal, many of them depicting it [[https://twitter.com/pankiwicakes/status/752936979516493825 being welcomed by Pikachu himself]].

* Remember how Bounsweet were constantly at risk due to their sweet aroma, in particular being ''eaten'' by some Pokémon? Well, its final evolution, Tsareena, uses its strength to protect its fellow pre-evolution, and will not tolerate anyone/anything with evil in their hearts - clearly their situation isn't quite as bad as before.
* If you play online, you might notice a particularly common nickname people give the version mascots: [[spoiler: Nebby]].
** Adding onto this, some people [[spoiler: not only named the version mascots Nebby, but also gave it the Poke Doll that Lillie gives you before she leaves to Kanto.]]
*** And one more thing. Some people [[spoiler: even wanted to give the box legendary (and the doll) back to Lillie after beating the main game, and have portrayed in in [[http://dc9spot.tumblr.com/post/153851474574/it-was-always-yours fanart]].]]
* After defeating the villain and saving the day you get to catch the box Legendary Pokémon. But unlike other games, you've known these beasts for a while, seeing as [[spoiler: the Legendary is Nebby, the little Pokémon you saved that started your journey]]. Lille tells the Legendary that [[spoiler: you are now their mother/father and will raise them and protect them. Consider that you and Lillie have been working to protect Nebby since the opening, it feels like you accepting the role you've been playing the entire game: being the no-longer-so-little Legendary's parent]]
* [[spoiler: The fact that Team Skull undergoes a HeelFaceTurn at the end and are accepted back into society. A lot of people identified with them as a group of outcasts who were so hurt by their failures that they just stopped trying. Guzma especially, as someone who was said to have a lot of potential when he was younger but failed anyway and gave up completely after that. The fact that you see them start finding new goals and finally moving on gives a very hopeful message to anyone who is struggling with that same sort of problem.]]

* One of the Battle Tree's trainer's is a youngster who borrowed his brother's Pokémon to fight you as he was too young to have any of his own. If you lose to him, he's clearly happy about his first victory.

** For its reputation as a brutal, terrifying pokémon, Hydreigon is practically happy-go-lucky to see you in Pokémon Refreash. It shakes wildly and goofy when it sees you and uses each mouth to eat Poké Beans.

** For it's reputation as a brutally, terrifying pokemon, Hydreigon is practically happy-go-lucky to see you in pokemon care. It shakes wildly and goofy when it sees you and uses each mouth to eat a poke bean.

* After so many generations of the games have focused on one particular Marowak who died protecting her Cubone child, it is heartwarming that the lore for Alola Marowak centers on how they are resistant to such tragedies.

** Even [[spoiler: Guzma seems to be reluctantly heading towards turning over a new leaf. When you talk to his mother post-game she says he told her to give you his favorite TM (Swagger), and after you battle him again on the beach he gives you his lucky Dawn Stone as well. And then Hala comes over and encourages Guzma to start training under him again to become a legitimate trainer. Guzma is abrasive as ever during all this, but you can tell he's heading towards a HeelFaceTurn. Not only that, but if you're playing Moon, he can show up as one of the special opponents you can fight against in the Battle Tree and team up with him for Multi Battles.]]

* In the last battle with Gladion in the main story, his Type: Null has evolved into a Silvally, and his Golbat into a Crobat. He also adds a fourth Pokémon, a Lucario. All three of those evolutions require a high level of friendship with the Pokémon. Gladion later gains a Sneasel that, near the end of the game, evolves into a Weavile, and post-game, he has a Porygon-Z. Both of these Pokémon evolve by trading (Porygon-Z twice), meaning Gladion found a trading partner. Seems like Hau's friendliness must've rubbed off on Gladion a bit.

* In the last battle with Gladion in the main story, his Type: Null has evolved into a Silvally, and his Golbat into a Crobat. He also adds a fourth Pokémon, a Lucario. All three of those evolutions require a high level of friendship with the Pokémon. Seems like Hau's friendliness must've rubbed off on Gladion a bit.

* The video for "The Song of Mimikyu" ends with Mimikyu asking if it and the player can be friends. The player's response? She catches it. Its wish has been granted.

** Even [[spoiler: Guzma seems to be reluctantly heading towards turning over a new leaf. When you talk to his mother post-game she says he told her to give you his favorite TM (Swagger), and after you battle him again on the beach he gives you his lucky Dawn Stone as well. And then Hala comes over and encourages Guzma to start training under him again to become a legitimate trainer. Guzma is abrasive as ever during all this, but you can tell he's heading towards a HeelFaceTurn.]]

** [[http://emmawight.deviantart.com/art/Mimikyu-Love-646062023 This picture]] in which Red, the most famous user of Pikachu in the games, meets a Mimikyu. One can just ''hear'' him [[WhenHeSmiles silently thinking]] " It's so cute!". D'awwww...

* Did you ever feel bad about all those Pokémon you'd usually store in the boxes where they sit passively, before you decide to take them out? Well, you don't have to feel bad about it anymore! Generation VII introduces Poké Pelago, a series of small islands where your boxxed Pokémon can participate in various activities while you're on your own adventure, and you can check up on them anytime.

** [[http://emmawight.deviantart.com/art/Mimikyu-Love-646062023 This picture]] in which Red, the most famous user of Pikachu in the games, meets a Mimikyu. One can just ''hear'' him silently thinking "It's so cute!". D'awwww...

* One of the sidequests that turns up on Melemele Island involves some Corsola that have been injured by their natural predator while their trainer was away. You can [[VideoGameCaringPotential choose to help them]], either by bringing them to a Pokémon center, or by healing them with a potion. Their trainer will be so grateful for your intervention that she will gift you with a Wide Lens.* There's a moment when Lillie recounts a childhood memory of going outside to sing and dance in the rain after watching a movie where a man did the same thing. Her mother, while shocked at first by the action, joined in with her. They both caught colds after the fact, naturally, and slept in bed together while they recovered. [[spoiler:Also a Tear Jerker, since her mother changed between then and the present.]]

* More than any other Pokémon game, Sun and Moon make a point of showing Pokémon who are out and about with their trainers. A Drifloon you rescue reappears at a supermarket with their young trainer (and gives you a gift as a thank you). The Professor's Pokémon wreak havoc in his lab. Your mother clearly dotes on the family Meowth (although that doesn't stop her from conscripting it into unpacking duty) and your new house is full of signs that a Pokémon lives there. A rather snooty young trainer confers with her Mudsdale and passes along the message that he thinks you'd be suited to Battle Royale fights. The game has always featured Pokémon out of their Pokeballs in houses and Pokémon centres, and a good few have had Pokémon with more apparent personalities (such as the Lucario who adopts you in X/Y), but this iteration gives us a real feel for the different relationships they have with their trainers, from long-suffering working partners to worried babysitters to lifelong companions.

* If you go along with the implication [[spoiler:that the Ultra Beasts have destroyed the universe of the GBA and DS games]], any Pokémon that you brought to your current games from the RSE era can become a source of this.

** [[http://emmawight.deviantart.com/art/Mimikyu-Love-646062023 This picture]] has Red, the most famous user of Pikachu in the games, meet a Mimikyu. One can just hear him thinking "It's so cute!". Dawwww.

* Rowlet's in battle animation has it swiveling it's head back to look at you before attacking. It's pretty adorable how the game's actually showing it listening to you.

* After defeating the kahuna of each island, if you go into the island's local restaurant and order the last item on the menu, the kahuna of that island will come in and join you for a meal. Afterwards, they pay for the meal and give you the freebie Heart Scales you would've gotten from the meal if you'd eaten alone. Talk about generous!