- The ending of Trials of Unity.
- Daring and Derring's eventual reconciliation in Platinum Crown.
- The end of Curse of the Yeti.
Daring: (hurt) Well, everyone has been released at last. You're going to go back into hiding like you said, so go. You got your end of those little pieces of treasure back from whence you came, at any rate!
Daren: (stone-faced) ... no. I have my li'le treasure... right here.
- The stageplay does it one better: they add a sweeping Colttish soundtrack under this scene, which only enhances it!
- In fact, any Do Family togetherness moment.
- Any scene with Daring and her younger brother Darrin. Daring drops the "tough-filly adventurer" facade and becomes older sister to a loved younger brother.
- The Wooden Mask was some serious Nightmare Fuel. But it did allow for one of the sweetest moments between Herpy and Daring when he snapped her out of its control.
Herpy You're really going to do this, right? You do this and you will lose everything. Do you remember... when that yeti came down to the University? We were all trapped in the library. You were the only thing standing between us and death. Everyone was scared out of their wits... But not me. Not me, Daring. Because you were there. I knew that I was going to live that day because the great Daring Do was there to protect us. That's why I came with you on this insane quest. Everyone said I was going to die but I didn't believe them because I was with you... (close to tears) I guess they were right.
Daring (Slowly taking off the mask) ...No, they weren't.
- Honestly, pretty much all the Ship Tease moments between Daring and Herpy could be considered this. For all the flirting that goes on between Bravado and Daring, the moments shared between her and Herpy simply feels more warm and heartfelt. And then there's The Ring of the Marengeti...
- Even though people disagree a lot about the Expanded Universe, Door of Time reaches one agreement among most fans: It is implied at several points that the two are happily married in the future.
- He may be a vicious monster, but he won't abandon his pack. Cue the second Rex vs. Ahuizotl fight.
Ahuizotl (about to bash Digg's head against a rock): I can't believe you would defend this weak, simpering idiot!
- A muted one, but when Daren and Storm Talon meet again.
Storm Talon looked down at his drink, barely able to look the pony in the eyes. So long ago he had stormed off in anger over some thing he couldn't even remember. A friendship ruined because he was too proud and angry. He had so trivially rejected his best friend, only to come face-to-face with him again so many years later. It had haunted him. Taking a deep swig of his salt-laden beverage, he turned to his former friend and spoke, "Look, I'm too bucking old to hold a grudge. So here's something I should have said a long time ago: I'm sorry."
The old pony looked the griffon, downed his own mug, put his hoof of the griffon's shoulder and said, "You managed to be there for my kids these last few years while I wasn't. That's worth far more to me than any apology, old friend."
- And when Daring's father learns that she blames herself for Zapapple Tock's death:
Daring: If I hadn't left for a moment...
Daren: There would have been nothing you could have done; you would both have been killed. And there was no way you could have known.
- As Nagridge is buried, Daring relays what was almost certainly an apology to Okpono. His reply?
"I already have forgiven
"As grudges make bad living."
- And in Ring of the Marengeti, he defends Roanland Nagridge from a former exchange student with a grudge.
"This stallion here is not as his aunt was.
"And you know ties of kindred call for love.
"To love a kinsmare only if she's good
"Means that one does not love her like one should."
