Line #16 Heartwarming/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy


1	!!In general
2	* It says something about how Ford sees his and and Arthur's friendship that he risked being destroyed along with the Earth to save him and him alone, and saw to his comfort after teleporting by spending precious time beforehand buying booze and peanuts to help with the aftereffects.
3	* The end of the first season of the radio series, the second book, and the TV show--Arthur and Ford become stranded on prehistoric earth, which--while overrun with TooDumbToLive AncientAstronauts--is also covered with unspoiled beauty and delicious fruits, and Ford and Arthur circumnavigate the globe before returning to their landing spot and embracing the local populace (set to [[{{Heartwarming/Music}} "What a Wonderful World"]] in the radio series and TV show.)
4	!!Specific to the radio series
5	* The end of the Hexagonal Phase, the final Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show that started it all. it initially seems like it's going to be a downer ending when Arthur [[spoiler: successfully sees Fenchurch during a hyperspace jump, before loosing her again.]] He seems depressed, and even after finding his [[spoiler: shack from the Guide Mk. 2's simulation, along with Marvin being rebuilt, he's informed by him that the vogans will be destroying the planet due to a lack of filed paperwork...]] and he's accepted it, fully ok with dying at this point... then the door to his [[spoiler: shack]] opens.
6	---> [[spoiler: Fenchruch:]] Oh Arthur, you're back!
7	---> Arthur: [[spoiler: F-Fenchurch.]]
8	---> [[spoiler: Fenchurch]]: [[spoiler: I was just filling out the planning application. You're home just in time for tea!]]
9	---> Arthur: ...oh... (Nearly breaking down from happiness) that's nice.
10	** After years of Arthur's life being total hell, to see him finally get a happy ending, will undoubtedly bring a tear to your eye.
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13	!!Specific to the novels
14	* The ending of ''So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish''. There's something about [[spoiler: Marvin finally feeling happy for once before he dies]] that just makes one feel all tingly inside.
15	** Not just that, but [[spoiler: Marvin's last words were "Goodbye, Arthur." Not a final snark or reminder of his depression. Just a simple goodbye. Arthur is just as touched as we are.]]
16	* The entire book is a CMOH. Arthur returns home, meets a nice girl, and basically has the life he's been longing for for the past eight years. It's got plenty of Adamsian wit but is sprinkled with a lot of very sweet (and fittingly off-kilter) moments. Of particular note is Ford and Arthur watching ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' together. It was the last thing Ford was doing the night before the Earth got destroyed, and his little way of showing that, for all the sarcasm, he actually quite likes humanity. (So much, in fact, that when he helped Arthur and Fenchurch hitch a lift on the spacecraft, the only possessions Ford brought with them were two large boxes of videocassettes of movies.) In fact, there's the fact that he came back at all and that the first thing he did was find Arthur, as well as his joy (and subsequent confusion) at having all of his hard work on the ''Guide'' entry on Earth recognized and put in place of "Mostly harmless."
17	** Arthur alone with Fenchurch for the first time:
18	---> For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-‐conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss Cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation. He felt on the sudden like a cramped and zoo-‐born animal who awakes one morning to find the door to his cage hanging quietly open and the savannah stretching grey and pink to the distant rising sun, while all around new sounds are waking.
19	---> He wondered what the new sounds were as he gazed at her openly wondering face and her eyes that smiled with a shared surprise.
20	---> He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones till it now said something it had never said to him before,which was "Yes".
21	** This little tidbit, in which an old lady on a plane sees Arthur and Fenchurch making love on the wing:
22	--->Mrs E. Kapelsen of Boston, Massachusetts was an elderly lady, indeed, she felt her life was nearly at an end. She had seen a lot of it, been puzzled by some, but, she was a little uneasy to feel at this late stage, bored by too much. It had all been very pleasant, but perhaps a little too explicable, a little too routine.
23	--->With a sigh she flipped up the little plastic window shutter and looked out over the wing.
24	--->At first she thought she ought to call the stewardess, but then she thought no, damn it, definitely not, this was for her, and her alone.
25	--->By the time her two inexplicable people finally slipped back off the wing and tumbled into the slipstream she had cheered up an awful lot.
26	--->She was mostly immensely relieved to think that virtually everything that anybody had ever told her was wrong.
27	** And, of course, the last ''Guide'' entry (and, indeed, chapter) of the book, which--unlike most other ''Guide'' entries--is happy and uplifting. It tells the tale of a genius [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetic engineer]] who is told to build super-soldiers to ward off alien invaders, but gets sidetracked by the view from his lab window and instead designs [[FlyCrazy a type of fly that can find its way through a half open window]] and an [[EnfantTerrible off-switch for children]]. The incoming invaders (who are only off to war because they can't cope with things at home) are so impressed by the breakthroughs of this one guy that instead of wreaking havoc, they form an alliance and trading agreements and everyone lives happily ever after.
28	** It's a little sad in hindsight, but Arthur is "finally having a nice day" when he and Fenchurch are in Santa Barbara [[note]] where Douglas Adams lived for the last year of his life and where he died [[/note]] of all places.
29	** Fenchurch's story about the picture of the raft and the otter, including that she's saying that hanging out with Arthur gives her the same feeling as she had when she realized the otter wasn't actually having to pull the raft, although that's nice too. The whole thing is pretty relatable and uplifting.
30	* Related to the first above: in ''Life, the Universe, and Everything'', [[spoiler:Marvin]] encounters a Lorro, a living mattress. It's implied that the former [[spoiler:actually enjoyed the company]].
31	* A small one in ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'' that most [[FridgeLogic only really think about after reading the book]] is that, at the very end of the final book, Arthur is stood in the bar and looks at Ford. He could have looked at Trillian, the woman he loved, or his own daughter but he looks at Ford Prefect, the man who saved him from destruction of Earth in the first book and the alien doomed to die on Earth in the last.
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33	!! Specific to the 2005 film
34	* Of all things, the 2005 film's use of the invasion fleet attacking Earth and being swallowed by a small dog comes off as a heartwarming moment.
35	** This sort of thing happens all the time.
36	* "[[InMemoriam For Douglas.]]"
37	** This dedication is even more heartbreaking when you notice that it occurs exactly one hour and 42 minutes into the movie. Probably accidental, but still an amazing coincidence. Combine that with the last scene in the film, as the ''Heart of Gold'' activates the Infinite Improbability Drive, changing into various objects; the last thing it changes into is [[spoiler: the face of Creator/DouglasAdams.]]
38	* Arthur leading Ford, Zaphod and Marvin in a charge to save Trillian ([[ImprobableWeaponUser using Marvin's arm as a weapon no less]]}, who'd been captured by Vogons is both this and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]]. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Even if they got the wrong building...]]
39	* When Arthur finally admits how he feels about Trillian, as Lunkwill and Fook try to [[spoiler: remove his brain]].
40	--> '''Arthur''': Fine. Fine, take it! Because my head is filled with questions and I can assure you no answer to any one of them has ever brought me one iota of happiness! Except for one. The one. The only question I've ever wanted an answer to, is she the one? The answer bloody well isn't forty-two, it's yes. Undoubtedly, unequivocally, unabashedly yes. And for one week, one week in my sad little blip of an existence, it made me happy.\
41	'''Trillian:''' ''(mumbling in a deep haze)'' That's a good answer.
42	* Underplayed (to the point that it's in question if it was even intentional) but Zaphod seems to [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]] after Trillian and Ford take turns shooting him with the point of view gun; he's just as happy as the two of them to see Arthur arrive at their feast, makes a point of getting "''us''" out of danger when the Vogons arrive, expresses genuine sorrow at [[spoiler: Marvin's DisneyDeath]], apologizes to Arthur for getting his "spaceship" destroyed, and in the process calls him by the right name for the first time in the film.
43	* Arthur having chosen that he'd rather travel the universe with Ford and Trillian, the former recommending [[MythologyGag a restaurant at the end of the Universe]] and the latter saying she's a bit peckish. They've become TrueCompanions (along with BetaCouple Questular and Zaphod.)
44	-->'''Zaphod:''' I'm going to Humma's. He has my head...I think. Doesn't he? I'm so confused.\

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