Line #3 Heartwarming/CowboyBebop


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9	* For the multitude of tearjerkers in ''Hard Luck Woman'', the way that Ein joins Ed is very heartwarming. Ein wakes up, seemingly in reaction to Jet's cooking, but then he ignores the food and runs out of the ship to catch up with Ed, who the viewers don't realize is leaving yet. Outside the ship, he wavers for a second, and obviously considers going back inside, where he'll be certain to be fed and at least somewhat taken care of. But instead, he keeps going and catches up with Ed, so that they'll be together, whatever happens. [[AGirlAndHerX A girl and her dog, indeed]].
10	* Everyone on the crew seems to like Ed, especially Jet. Faye encourages Ed to look for her father, Jet tells her stories and Spike even gives her the cowboy hat he earned from Andy, not to mention the look on his face when she gives him a paper pinwheel in episode 24. [[TearJerker Never mind what he does with the pinwheel itself]]: He tapes it to the bow of the ''Bebop''.
11	** Not to mention the time where they gave up a huge bounty just so Ed could finish her chess game with [[MonsterOfTheWeek that week's criminal]]. 'Course, they were [[ThrowTheDogABone doing it for the criminal]] too, because they felt him going to jail was too harsh considering he was too senile to remember what he did.
12	* The male co-host of the bounty hunter program getting a sweet moment with his mother in the finale.
13	* The photograph at the end of "Wild Horses".
14	* The entire conflict in "Brain Scratch Fever" is based around the rest of the Bebop crew trying to rescue Faye from a cult she'd attempted to infiltrate. Spike and Jet had issues with her at the start, but at this point they definitely consider her [[TrueCompanions a true companion.]]
15	* A more comedic episode, but "Cowboy Funk" has one at the end for the Teddy Bomber. After a whole episode of attempting to give his well-rehearsed MotiveRant, and constantly getting interrupted, the officer escorting him to jail actually asked him specifically about his motive, just when the Bomber had given up all hope of having his voice heard. Even if the cop was arresting him, it meant a lot to him. The copper even gives a comforting pat on the shoulder. Sweet.
16	* In a weird way, when Chessmaster Hex peacefully passes away at the end of [[Recap/CowboyBebopSession14BohemianRhapsody Bohemian Rhapsody]]. There's something comforting about knowing that despite everything that happened to him and that he'd done, Hex was granted a peaceful death, having just beat Ed and [[ObiWanMoment calmly letting go]].
17	* The ending of "The Real Folk Blues Pt. 2". While its no doubt a TearJerker on the count of Spike's passing and him having lost all he had to live for and being unable to achieve his dreams of freedom while alive, there's a tinge of uplifting as well; the camera rises higher and higher into the sky during daybreak with the pan ending in space with Spike's star going out. It very well signifies Spike's spirit ascending into the heavens, [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence finally gaining the truest freedom of all.]] [[DiedHappilyEverAfter Plus maybe a peaceful afterlife with Julia.]] It is sad, but the final text "You're gonna carry that weight." almost certainly means that the weight of Jet and Faye's memories of Spike, including us, the audience, will ensure that he will never truly die ("A man only truly dies when he is forgotten." quoth [[Manga/OnePiece Dr. Hiruluk]]) and that we can always choose to pick ourselves up, do what makes us feel alive, and understand what it means to achieve fulfillment and contentment in our world. "Blue" is just as life-affirming to us as it is a requiem for Spike and Julia.
18	** The remaining Red Dragon thugs bearing witness to Spike's last moments tie into "carrying that weight" as well. With the organization all but gone with Vicious' death, the ones that shared Shin's mindset (if there are any) can have the freedom to find any future they want which the now-deceased couldn't have in life. Spike may not have had true freedom, but unintentionally or otherwise, he gave the men who survived the raid their own. Good on him.
19	* In "Pierrot Le Fou", Spike and Faye's unspoken bond is given some focus. After a KickTheDog moment where Faye steals an orange from a bedridden Spike, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold she's immediately concerned for him after seeing that Tongpu wants a rematch and instructs Ed not to tell Spike about the invitation.]]
20	** In the same scene, Spike, who intends to fight Tongpu anyway despite getting his ass kicked the first time around, grimly remarks that he might not come back. He then says that he's just kidding, and asks if Faye will come to his rescue. Sure enough, Faye shows up in the middle of the battle to lend a hand. She doesn't end up accomplishing much, but the fact she came at all speaks volumes about how much she cares about Spike, even if she doesn't show it very often.

Context Heartwarming / CowboyBebop