* When Markie's car goes off a cliff during a street race (before the main characters are recruited), both Monkey and Kurt are shown being relieved that he's okay.
* When Taro [[spoiler:makes it to the end of the Water Realm JustInTime]], even ''Markie'' happily celebrates his survival.
* In the Storm Realm Monkey urges Markie to go back to save Taro because the Metal Maniacs are "welded".
** Similarly, Tork goes to fight the drones for the same reason.
* Monkey tries to cheer up Pork Chop after they go through the Water Realm.
* Nolo says that he only hates one of the Metal Maniacs, not all of them.
* In the Metro Realm Tork goes back to see Nolo is alright after Nolo turns his car upside down. This is despite everything Nolo has done to Tork.
* All except one of the drivers go to save [[spoiler: Markie from the drones after he got lost in the Junk Realm.]] TrueCompanions.
* During ''The Ultimate Race'', a Silencerz driver [[spoiler: in the Acceledrome]] destroys drones that are blocking Vert from getting through. What makes this heartwarming is that the only known drivers are [[spoiler: Banjee Castillo]] and [[spoiler: Jack Wheeler]], [[spoiler: [[PapaWolf the implications]] [[AFriendInNeed either way]] can be touching]]. Even if not, it may still count, as the other drivers for them are theorized to be [[spoiler: Dan Dresden]] and most notably [[spoiler: Alec Wood]].
* Instead of becoming a [[spoiler: Acceleron Vert goes back to fight for his friends.]]