Heartwarming / I Am Legend

• In the book, Neville realizes the dog is going to die pretty soon. Knowing he has no time for small steps, he basically forces himself on the frightened animal, directly trying to comfort it. He accompanies it for an entire week, trying to lessen its suffering and at least giving it a peaceful death in safety.
• Ruth helping Robert to commit suicide, rather than letting him die in a show execution.
• In the flashback, Neville's daughter gives him Sam saying the puppy will protect him. It gave Dr. Neville a friend in his isolation, and indeed Sam saved him though at the cost of her own life.
• The film's alternate ending. The reunion between the Alpha male Darkseeker and the female is almost indescribably tender, and very powerful. Neville going with Anna and Ethan to the survivor's community. Three years of desperation and loneliness and bad deeds with good intentions, and Neville can finally be with people again.
• The interactions between Neville and Sam, Sam is the only one keeping Neville anchored to reality and behaves like a puppy which is shown when she was refusing to eat her vegetables. When Neville tells her that they will stay until she eats them, the movie jump cuts to Sam being washed. Because of these interactions, it's what makes Sam's fate all the more tragic and heartbreaking.