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** Even Dad looks heartbroken by that one.
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* [[https://pianosapress.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/kazam.jpg Ka-''zam!'']]

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* [[https://pianosapress.''[[https://pianosapress.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/kazam.jpg Ka-''zam!'']]Ka-ZAM!]]''
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* [[https://pianosapress.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/kazam.jpg Ka-''zam!'']]
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** Meanwhile, Calvin is practically in hysterics trying to find Hobbes because he thinks his best friend has been has been tigernapped. (Thankfully, he was not.)
-->"Mom says Hobbes wouldn't have been stolen because he's not valuable. (Sniff) Well, ''I'' think he's valuable."

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** Meanwhile, Calvin is practically in hysterics trying to find Hobbes because he thinks his best friend has been has been tigernapped. (Thankfully, he was not.)
-->"Mom says Hobbes wouldn't have been stolen because he's not valuable. (Sniff) (sniff) Well, ''I'' think he's valuable."
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* The baseball story arc. Calvin signs up for a baseball team, but close to the end, Calvin messes up by accident and makes his team lose. All of the other players cruelly insult Calvin, for something that wasn't even his fault! (One of them even asks if he can hit Calvin with the bat.) The kicker? At the end, Calvin asks the coach if he can sign off and the coach says, "[[spoiler:[[KickTheDog Ok, quitter! Goodbye]].]]" Thankfully, Hobbes has [[{{Calvinball}} a better idea]] when Calvin gets home.

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* The baseball story arc. Calvin signs up for a baseball team, but close to the end, Calvin messes up by accident and makes his team lose. All of the other players cruelly insult Calvin, for something that wasn't even his fault! (One of them even asks if he can hit Calvin with the bat.) The kicker? At the end, Calvin asks the coach if he can sign off and the coach says, "[[spoiler:[[KickTheDog "[[KickTheDog Ok, quitter! Goodbye]].Goodbye.]]" Thankfully, Hobbes has [[{{Calvinball}} a better idea]] when Calvin gets home.

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* The baseball story arc. Calvin signs up for a baseball team, but close to the end, Calvin messes up by accident and makes his team lose. All of the other players cruelly insult Calvin, for something that wasn't even his fault! (One of them even asks if he can hit Calvin with the bat.) The kicker? At the end, Calvin asks the coach if he can sign off and the coach says, "[[spoiler:[[KickTheDog Ok, quitter! Goodbye]].]]"
** Don't worry, Hobbes has [[{{Calvinball}} a better idea]] when Calvin gets home.

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* The baseball story arc. Calvin signs up for a baseball team, but close to the end, Calvin messes up by accident and makes his team lose. All of the other players cruelly insult Calvin, for something that wasn't even his fault! (One of them even asks if he can hit Calvin with the bat.) The kicker? At the end, Calvin asks the coach if he can sign off and the coach says, "[[spoiler:[[KickTheDog Ok, quitter! Goodbye]].]]"
** Don't worry,
]]" Thankfully, Hobbes has [[{{Calvinball}} a better idea]] when Calvin gets home.
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** For reference; most boys Calvin's age would poke a dead bird with a stick. Calvin ''[[WiseBeyondTheirYears waxes philosophical]]'' about it instead.
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* There's also the story arc when Calvin has to tell his father that he broke his binoculars, and Dad flies into a tirade lasting for almost an entire strip. At the end of it, a tearful Calvin looks up at the man and says, "Hey Dad, I have an idea. Let's pretend I already feel horrible about all this and that you don't need to rub it in anymore."

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* There's also the story arc when Calvin has to tell his father that he broke his binoculars, and Dad flies into a tirade lasting for almost an entire strip. At the end of it, a tearful Calvin looks up at the man and says, says: "Hey Dad, I have an idea. Let's pretend I already feel horrible about all this and that you don't need to rub it in anymore."
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* A storyline has Calvin finding an injured baby raccoon and trying to save its life. [[spoiler: He doesn't succeed.]]
--> '''Calvin:''' He was just little! What's the point of putting him here and then taking him back so soon?!

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* A storyline has Calvin finding an injured baby raccoon and trying to save its life. [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He doesn't succeed.]]
--> '''Calvin:''' -->'''Calvin''': He was just little! What's the point of putting him here and then taking him back so soon?!



* The Christmas strip where Calvin confesses to Hobbes that he didn't get him a Christmas present or a card. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Hobbes wishes him a merry Christmas anyway, and they hug each other.]]
* "[[http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q262/jaydensjourney/calvinhobbes.jpg I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up]]."

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* The Christmas strip where Calvin confesses to Hobbes that he didn't get him a Christmas present or a card. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Hobbes wishes him a merry Christmas anyway, and they hug each other.]]
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* "[[http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q262/jaydensjourney/calvinhobbes."[[http://i.imgur.com/Pbap0sm.jpg I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up]]."



-->My tiger, my heart - We're growing apart. We're trying to be friends, but it's hard sometimes to be friends with something that eats butterflies and pencil sharpeners, and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I think it would be happier being free...]]

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-->My tiger, my heart - -- We're growing apart. We're trying to be friends, but it's hard sometimes to be friends with something that eats butterflies and pencil sharpeners, and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I think it would be happier being free...]]



-->"This is something that you always figure will happen to someone else. Unfortunately, we're ''all'' 'someone else' to someone else."

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-->"This is something that you always figure will happen to someone else. Unfortunately, we're ''all'' 'someone else' to someone else." "

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* After the house is broken into (while the family was on vacation), Dad muses how he doesn't feel safe in his own home anymore.

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* After the The family returning home from a trip (on which Hobbes had been left behind at home by mistake) and discovering their house is had been broken into (while the family was on vacation), into. Dad muses how he doesn't feel safe in his own home anymore.



** Meanwhile, Calvin is practically in hysterics trying to find Hobbes.

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** Meanwhile, Calvin is practically in hysterics trying to find Hobbes.Hobbes because he thinks his best friend has been has been tigernapped. (Thankfully, he was not.)



* The family returning home from a trip (on which Hobbes had been left behind at home by mistake) and discovering their house had been broken into, and Calvin immediately is thrown into a panic thinking his best friend was stolen. Thankfully, he was not.
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* Many of the heartwarming scenes between Hobbes and Calvin become outright devastating if you agree with the interpretation that Hobbes is only alive in Calvin's imagination, and that that's all he has.

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* The baseball story arc. Calvin signs up for a baseball team, but close to the end, Calvin messes up by accident and makes his team lose. All of the other players cruelly insult Calvin, for something that wasn't even his fault! (One of them even asks if he can hit Calvin with the bat.) The kicker? At the end, Calvin asks the coach if he can sign off and the coach says, "[[spoiler:[[AdultsAreUseless Ok, quitter! Goodbye]].]]"

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** Calvin's mom's take on the break in.
-->"This is something that you always figure will happen to someone else. Unfortunately, we're ''all'' 'someone else' to someone else."
* The baseball story arc. Calvin signs up for a baseball team, but close to the end, Calvin messes up by accident and makes his team lose. All of the other players cruelly insult Calvin, for something that wasn't even his fault! (One of them even asks if he can hit Calvin with the bat.) The kicker? At the end, Calvin asks the coach if he can sign off and the coach says, "[[spoiler:[[AdultsAreUseless "[[spoiler:[[KickTheDog Ok, quitter! Goodbye]].]]"

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** This story has a bit of RealitySubtext to it, as Watterson said it had "just wrote itself" when his wife found a dead kitten one day.




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* The family returning home from a trip (on which Hobbes had been left behind at home by mistake) and discovering their house had been broken into, and Calvin immediately is thrown into a panic thinking his best friend was stolen. Thankfully, he was not.
* There's also the story arc when Calvin has to tell his father that he broke his binoculars, and Dad flies into a tirade lasting for almost an entire strip. At the end of it, a tearful Calvin looks up at the man and says, "Hey Dad, I have an idea. Let's pretend I already feel horrible about all this and that you don't need to rub it in anymore."
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-->"A man's home is his castle, but it shouldn't have to be his fortress."

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-->"A man's home is his castle, but it shouldn't have to be his a fortress."
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** Meanwhile, Calvin is practically in hysterics trying to find Hobbes.
-->"Mom says Hobbes wouldn't have been stolen because he's not valuable. (Sniff) Well, ''I'' think he's valuable."
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--> '''Calvin:''' He was just little! What's the point of putting him here and then taking him back so soon?!

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This page is not about you. NEVER use first-person voice when writing for the wiki. Ever. This entry is Natter anyway.


* The last strip (and the name of the last book) of the comic's run is definitely tragic on a meta level.
** *Sob* don't remind me...
"[[AndTheAdventureContinues It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy. Let's go exploring]]!!"

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* The last strip (and the name of the last book) of the comic's run is definitely tragic on a meta level. \n** *Sob* don't remind me...\n "[[AndTheAdventureContinues It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy. Let's go exploring]]!!"

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* The last strip (and the name of the last book) of the comic's run is definitely tragic on a meta level. "[[AndTheAdventureContinues It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy. Let's go exploring]]!!"

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* The last strip (and the name of the last book) of the comic's run is definitely tragic on a meta level.
** *Sob* don't remind me...
"[[AndTheAdventureContinues It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy. Let's go exploring]]!!"
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** Don't worry, Hobbes has [[{{Calvinball}} a better idea]] when Calvin gets home.

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** Don't worry, Hobbes has [[{{Calvinball}} a better idea]] when Calvin gets home.home.

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** Don't worry, Hobbes has [[Calvinball a better idea]] when Calvin gets home.

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** Don't worry, Hobbes has [[Calvinball [[{{Calvinball}} a better idea]] when Calvin gets home.
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* The baseball story arc. Calvin signs up for a baseball team, but close to the end, Calvin messes up by accident and makes his team lose. All of the other players cruelly insult Calvin, for something that wasn't even his fault! (One of them even asks if he can hit Calvin with the bat.) The kicker? At the end, Calvin asks the coach if he can sign off and the coach says, "[[spoiler:[[AdultsAreUseless Ok, quitter! Goodbye]].]]"

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* The baseball story arc. Calvin signs up for a baseball team, but close to the end, Calvin messes up by accident and makes his team lose. All of the other players cruelly insult Calvin, for something that wasn't even his fault! (One of them even asks if he can hit Calvin with the bat.) The kicker? At the end, Calvin asks the coach if he can sign off and the coach says, "[[spoiler:[[AdultsAreUseless Ok, quitter! Goodbye]].]]"]]"
** Don't worry, Hobbes has [[Calvinball a better idea]] when Calvin gets home.
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-->As sweet as a plum, ad lovely as dawn, rolling its tongue over its gums:

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-->As sweet as a plum, ad as lovely as dawn, rolling its tongue over its gums:
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* A storyline has Calvin finding an injured baby raccoon and trying to save its life. He doesn't succeed.

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* A storyline has Calvin finding an injured baby raccoon and trying to save its life. [[spoiler: He doesn't succeed.]]
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Renamed one trope as \"Heartwarming Moments\".


* The Christmas strip where Calvin confesses to Hobbes that he didn't get him a Christmas present or a card. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming Hobbes wishes him a merry Christmas anyway, and they hug each other.]]

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* The Christmas strip where Calvin confesses to Hobbes that he didn't get him a Christmas present or a card. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Hobbes wishes him a merry Christmas anyway, and they hug each other.]]



* The one where Calvin and Hobbes figure out that they can play together all night by dreaming about each other, then go to bed saying they'll see each other soon. Seems more like a {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}, until the 10th Anniversary compilation where Bill Watterson revealed that he wrote that strip after the death of his cat Sprite, who was the major inspiration for Hobbes' look and personality. "We can always meet again in dreams."

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* The one where Calvin and Hobbes figure out that they can play together all night by dreaming about each other, then go to bed saying they'll see each other soon. Seems more like a {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}, SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, until the 10th Anniversary compilation where Bill Watterson revealed that he wrote that strip after the death of his cat Sprite, who was the major inspiration for Hobbes' look and personality. "We can always meet again in dreams."
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* The baseball story arc. Calvin signs up for a baseball team, but close to the end, Calvin messes up by accident and makes his team lose. All of the other players insult Calvin, for something that wasn't even his fault! (One of them even asks if he can hit Calvin with the bat.) The kicker? At the end, Calvin asks the coach if he can sign off and the coach says, "[[spoiler:[[AdultsAreUseless Ok, quitter! Goodbye]].]]"

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* The baseball story arc. Calvin signs up for a baseball team, but close to the end, Calvin messes up by accident and makes his team lose. All of the other players cruelly insult Calvin, for something that wasn't even his fault! (One of them even asks if he can hit Calvin with the bat.) The kicker? At the end, Calvin asks the coach if he can sign off and the coach says, "[[spoiler:[[AdultsAreUseless Ok, quitter! Goodbye]].]]"
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-->"A man's home is his castle, but it shouldn't have to be his fortress."

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-->"A man's home is his castle, but it shouldn't have to be his fortress.""
* The baseball story arc. Calvin signs up for a baseball team, but close to the end, Calvin messes up by accident and makes his team lose. All of the other players insult Calvin, for something that wasn't even his fault! (One of them even asks if he can hit Calvin with the bat.) The kicker? At the end, Calvin asks the coach if he can sign off and the coach says, "[[spoiler:[[AdultsAreUseless Ok, quitter! Goodbye]].]]"
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-->My tiger, my friend, my little godsend. I know someday we'll be happy again.

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-->My tiger, my friend, my little godsend. I know someday we'll be happy again.again.
* After the house is broken into (while the family was on vacation), Dad muses how he doesn't feel safe in his own home anymore.
-->"A man's home is his castle, but it shouldn't have to be his fortress."
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* The last strip (and the name of the last book) of the comic's run is definitely tragic on a meta level. "[[AndTheAdventureContinues It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy. Let's go exploring]]!!"

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* The last strip (and the name of the last book) of the comic's run is definitely tragic on a meta level. "[[AndTheAdventureContinues It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy. Let's go exploring]]!!"exploring]]!!"
* The unofficial theme song, "My tiger, my heart:
-->As sweet as a plum, ad lovely as dawn, rolling its tongue over its gums:
-->My tiger and me, as happy as could be, sat out on the porch as the whole of the sky clouds quietly over.
-->And it starts to cry, softly, on my shoulder.
-->We don't want to grow up, but we have to grow up. As sad as I am, I do understand. I do understand, it just makes me sad.
-->My tiger, my heart - We're growing apart. We're trying to be friends, but it's hard sometimes to be friends with something that eats butterflies and pencil sharpeners, and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I think it would be happier being free...]]
-->My tiger, my friend, my little godsend. I know someday we'll be happy again.
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* The last strip of the comic's run is definitely tragic on a meta level. "Let's go exploring!!"

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* The last strip (and the name of the last book) of the comic's run is definitely tragic on a meta level. "Let's "[[AndTheAdventureContinues It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy. Let's go exploring!!"exploring]]!!"
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* The Christmas strip where Calvin confesses to Hobbes that he didn't get him a Christmas present or a card. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming Hobbes wishes him a merry Christmas anyway, and they hug each other.]]

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