History Heartwarming / SinCity

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* The one-shot "Silent Night", which is almost completely devoid of dialog. It features Marv intimidating his way into a building on a snowy night, heading down a flight of stairs and giving some sleazy worms some cash, and they direct his attention to a metal door with a viewing slit. He looks inside and sees a terrified little girl. He kills the three scumbags, who are now obviously selling this girl for sex, opens the door and says the only line "Your momma's been asking after you, Kimberly. Let's get you home," following by a shot of Marv holding the tiny child to his chest before setting out back into the snow storm. Dirty subject matter, but definitely a CMOH for Marv.

* Although there's no way to be certain, if you think about it, Goldie's decision to sleep with Marv probably came from a feeling of affection or at least as a kind gesture on her part. Given how hard it is for Marv to get drunk (he drunks a double six-pack later in the story without being affected besides burping), they must have spent a ''lot'' of time drinking/talking together for him to get as sozzled as he was. She probably got to know him pretty well, probably well enough to realize she didn't need to sleep with him to get protection, especially if a guy got too rough or jerkish toward a lady at the bar and she got to see Marv set him straight.

--> ''She offers him a dollar.''

** -->'''Wendy''': You can call me Goldie.

** "You can call me Goldie".

* Also in ''Hell and Back'' we see that Leboweitz, an evil CorruptCop, [[PetTheDog cares very much for his family and is horrified when his son is beaten up.]]
* When Leibowitz turns on the Colonel to avenge his son's injury, he could easily just kill the mobster and then walk away. Instead, he risks antagonizing the Colonel's boss by shutting down the entire human trafficking operation and having all of the victims sent to the hospital.
* Katie giving Marv a free bottle of whiskey when he gets a broken heart in ''Just Another Saturday Night''.

--> '''Bertha:''' ''(as Johnny turns to leave)'' Just a second, you. You don't stink of anything I don't like, and you kind of remind me of an old boyfriend, okay?

** In, TheMovie Mort doesn't appear, but his role in picking up Hartigan from prison is filled by Hartigan's treacherous partner Bob, and Bob's TheAtoner comments are surprisingly touching.

--> '''She offers him a dollar.'''
--> ''Bertha:'' This won't take you very far.

--> '''Bertha:''' This won't take you very far.

* Hartigan accepts the entirely unfair circumstances he finds himself in because he chose to help an innocent girl who's attacker had powerful family connections.

* Marv's scene with his mother in the first Sin City story is a bit of a TearJerker the whole way through. Especially when he tells her he "met a girl." It's pretty creepy and insane that Marv talks about a dead one night stand as if she were his current, living girlfriend but it still manages to be very moving.

** "You can call me Goldy."

-->'''Hartigan:''' An old man dies. A young woman lives. [[HeroicSacrifice A fair trade.]]

* Wallace and Esther leaving Sin City behind at the end of ''Hell and Back'' is the only 100% happy ending in any of the major stories. It's definetely up there.

* The one-shot "Silent Night", which is almost completely devoid of dialog. It features Marv intimidating his way into a building on a snowy night, heading down a flight of stairs and giving some sleazy worms some cash, and they direct his attention to a metal door with a viewing slit. He looks inside and sees a [[spoiler: terrified little girl. He kills the three scumbags, who are now obviously selling this girl for sex, opens the door and says the only line "Your momma's been asking after you, Kimberly. Let's get you home," following by a shot of Marv holding the tiny child to his chest before setting out back into the snow storm]]. Dirty subject matter, but definitely a CMOH for Marv.

* In the short story ''And Behind Door Number Three'' we see Wendy wearing [[spoiler:Marv's cross necklace.]]

Despite the fact that the series is blacker than black sometimes, there are quite a few of these in SinCity:

'''Dwight:''' [[SelfDeprecation Seeing as how]] ''[[SelfDeprecation I'm]]'' [[SelfDeprecation one of those dumb things, I can't give you too hard a time about that, Shellie.]]

'''Dwight:''' [[SelfDeprecation Seeing as how]] ''[[SelfDeprecation I'm]]'' [[SelfDeprecation one of those dumb things, I can't give you too hard a time about that, Shellie.]]
* Every scene with Nancy and Hartigan.

* Basically every scene with Nancy and Hartigan.

'''Dwight:''' [[SelfDeprecation Seeing as how]] ''[[SelfDeprecation I'm]]'' [[SelfDeprecation one of those dumb things, I can't give you too hard a time about that, Shellie.]]

* Gail reminding Becky to dry her hair when she gets home or else she'll catch a cold in ''The Big Fat Kill''. Gail really does care about her girls.

* In the short story ''And Behind Door Number Three'' we see Wendy wearing [[spoiler:Marv's cross necklace.]]

* Katie giving Marv a free bottle of whiskey when he gets a broken heart in ''Just Another Saturday Night''.

* The one-shot "Silent Night", which is almost completely devoid of dialog. It features Marv intimidating his way into a building on a snowy night, heading down a flight of stairs and giving some sleazy worms some cash, and they direct his attention to a metal door with a viewing slit. He looks inside and sees a [[spoiler: terrified little girl. He kills the three scumbags, who are now obviously selling this go for sex, opens the door and says the only line "Your momma's been asking after you, Kimberly. Let's get you home.", following by a shot of Marv holding the tiny child to his chest before setting out back into the snow storm. ]] Dirty subject matter, but definitely a CMOH for Marv.
* Marv's scene with his mother in the first Sin City story is a bit of a TearJerker the whole way through. Especially when he tells her he "met a girl". It's pretty creepy and insane that Marv talks about a dead one night stand as if she were his current, living girlfriend but it still manages to be very moving.

* The one-shot "Silent Night":
-->'''Marv:''' Your momma's been asking after you, Kimberly. Let's get you home.