Line #5 Heartwarming/TheHauntedMansion


1	For heartwarming moments from the [[Film/TheHauntedMansion2003 2003 film]], see [[Heartwarming/TheHauntedMansion2003 here]].
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3	!!The Rides
4	* The idea of a spirit who was haunted in life (as the Ghost Host is suggested to have committed suicide) opening up his home to all these other wayward spirits who cannot pass on for some reason and giving them a place to rest and enjoy themselves. He could just as easily have kept to himself.
5	* Since he was such a fan-favorite character, the Imagineers brought back the Hatbox Ghost, with advanced effects that allow him to work! Many fans are overjoyed about his permanent re-addition, and some even claim that he completes the Mansion.
6	* The Ghost Post manages to make one that is also rather creepy. Apparently, all of [[GoldDigger Constance's]] husbands still love her, even after she murdered them. And she seems to at least enjoy their company.
7	* The Hatbox Ghost as a character, as in both iterations, his role is that of a justice-seeking BigGood. Originally, the Bride was a villain, and the HBG provides the punchline that connects her to the head-ghosts in the attic's boxes, and in the new version, he hints to the viewers where some evidence of Constance's crimes may be. Even though he's silent, both times his character exists only to expose the Bride in order bring justice to the Mansion and rid it of its only evil.
8	* For all the tragedy and torment that [[FateWorseThanDeath Melanie and her soul has and will experience till Judgement Day]], she is still sweet enough, even in death, to ensure that no one will remain trapped within her cursed home like she is as her corpse is seen pointing towards the exit and escape from the Phantom's condemnation...until the 2019 refurbishment removed this, turning Melanie's ultimate fate into an obsessed ghost begging anyone she sees to marry her.
9	* The fact that [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Haunted Mansion Holiday]] is an annual thing implies there's 999 someones who actually enjoy Jack's version of Christmas and are willing to celebrate Halloween Town's take on the holiday every year.
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11	!!Other
12	* A story from the SLG comics titled "The Groundskeeper's Secret" offers a possible explanation for why the caretaker keeps working at the manor in spite of being scared shitless by the residents: His wife is one of the happy haunts and he spends his break dining with her ghost on her gravesite. [[HappinessInMinimumWage He's willing to stick with a job that terrifies him and doesn't earn him much money if it means spending time with someone he loves.]]
13	* Disney has released a print, which, in addition to forming a skull shape when viewed from afar, depicts the Hatbox Ghost at the end of his long-awaited journey back to the Mansion, arriving at the famous gates.
14	* In the Haunted Mansion Holiday, Jack brings to the mansion his own brand of Christmas. And the ghosts like it! After what happened [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas the last time]] he tried making Christmas, it's actually kinda sweet to see that Jack's been able to bring Christmas to someone.
15	* In the video game, after Zeke finds and awakens all the Singing Busts, they sing a song dedicated to him out of thanks.
16	-->'''Singing Busts''': "''We will speak and we will creak for our meekest brother, Zeke!"''.
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18	!!Literature
19	* In "The Fearsome Foursome" sure, the story ends with all four of the child protagonists dead, but it still actually has some happy moments, in spite of that.
20	** Noah's father dies when he's young, while working as a firefighter. When Noah ends up choosing to save his stepfather Phillip and Dot (both of whom he hates), he realizes it is because he is his father's son and cannot choose to allow someone to be hurt when he can help.
21	*** Phillip hugging Noah afterwards, thanking him, and saying he was proud of him while promising to do better in the future. It would've been a very happy ending if not for... well... the tentacles.
22	** Though they all end the story dead and buried, the Fearsome Foursome are still ''all about the scares'' and immediately take to their new life (so to speak) in the Haunted Mansion, with Noah relishing in his new weird abilities, and Willa and Tim searching for the ballroom.

Context Heartwarming / TheHauntedMansion