Heartwarming / Babe

• Right in the very beginning, when Fly adopts Babe. She goes from claiming pigs are stupider than dogs to comforting him the moment she sees how heartbroken he is about losing his mother. Babe more than returns the favor after her pups are weaned and sold, coming over to a very depressed Fly:
  "May I call you 'mom'?"
  • Fly licking his snout immediately afterwards makes the moment all the sweeter.
• When Babe runs away and Fly comes to tell Rex, what does he tell her? "Call the boss."
  • The moment is somewhat mitigated by Fly pleading for Rex's help; Rex is still jealous of Babe. Rex deciding to lay his jealousy aside and guide the anguished Fly is a heartwarming moment, though.
• When Hoggett is caring for Babe after the latter got sick while singing and dancing "If I Had Words".
  • Thanks to this, any time the song plays as a Leitmotif becomes this, especially on repeat viewings. The words also bear quoting: "If I had words to make a day for you/I'd sing you a morning, golden and new/I would make this day last for all time/Then fill the night deep in moonshine..."
  • The fact this movie was able to take a rather playful love song from the 70s and turn it into a tender, sincere lullaby. What makes it even more sweet is when it returns in the ending as a glorious reprise signifying how Babe accomplished so much thanks to the faith and love Hoggett has for him.
• Also, Rex finally accepting Babe's role in the farm and encouraging him to get better after he started drowning in despair.
  "Come on, son. Pull yourself together. The boss ... needs you."
• Mr. and Mrs. Hoggett are polar opposites, but they are very sweet together, especially the scene where Mrs. Hoggett departs on a Bingo Tournament, with Mr. Hoggett holding an umbrella for her all the way to the coach.
• Babe winning the sheepdog trials. Everyone who ever doubted him is nothing but happy that he proved them wrong.
  • Especially Mrs. Hoggett, who is in tears of joy.
  • Rex and Fly even start licking each other's faces. They've finally fixed their relationship.
  • What tops it all is the reaction by Hoggett, "who, in his life, had uttered fewer words than any of them," which elicits a contented sigh and a smile from Babe.
    "That'll do, pig. That'll do."
    • To clarify, “That’ll do” is the traditional “at ease” command when a sheepdog has finished its task. In his typical understated way, Hoggett is telling Babe “You’ve done everything right. You’ve done everything I could have asked or hoped for.”