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Season One
- Tripitaka, despite being hungry herself, gives her food to a starving monk. The monk later repays this kindness by helping her escape when she's being chased by the Font Demon.
- When Tripitaka gets captured (by Sandy), Monkey decides to rescue her, despite being initially reluctant to help her at all.
- Pigsy is ordered to kill Tripitaka. He lets her go instead, and when she returns to free Monkey and Sandy, he helps her escape capture again and then agrees to help her free her friends.
- Monkey gets trapped inside his own mind and relives what happened five hundred years before. Tripitaka briefly pulls him back, and when he wakes up, he grabs her hand and asks for her help. When they go back into his mind, they're still holding hands.
- When Tripitaka is recovering from being poisoned, Monkey falls asleep curled up next to her. Aww...
- The woman who was pretending to be Tripitaka's mother was very reluctant to go along with it, and only did so because the Font Demon threatened to take her daughters from her. Even then, moments before the Font Demon arrives, the woman tells Tripitaka the truth and tells her to run before its too late.
- Monkey takes an invisibility potion and sneaks into the Jade Palace in order to make sure that Tripitaka is OK. He's also not even angry that she's been lying to him all this time (in pretending to be a boy monk); he's mostly just confused.
- Monkey then insists that Tripitaka takes the remaining potion in order to escape. She refuses, since she would have to leave him (along with all the other captured Gods) behind.
Tripitaka: I left you once. I won't do it again.- Then when Monkey tells Pigsy that Tripitaka is actually a girl, Pigsy accepts it without question, and assures Monkey that they should trust in Tripitaka's deeds and actions.
- When the Shaman pushes Tripitaka off a balcony, Monkey immediately abandons his desire for vengeance against Davari and jumps after her. And he saves her using his cloud.Monkey: Let. Her. Go.
Season Two
- Tripitaka sincerely apologising to Monkey for not trusting him in the Infinite Archive.
- Pigsy eventually learning to trust Sandy with the plant that will one day save his life.
- Sandy singing to the lost children in order to show them they can trust her. And then bringing them back to the village.
- The small moment between Monkey and Tripitaka while they’re waiting for Sandy and Pigsy to catch up to them.
- The pairs (Monkey and Tripitaka, Pigsy and Sandy) end up having some heartwarming moments while separated. And they’re happy to see each other when reunited.
- The monk can’t bring himself to light Gaxin’s funeral pyre, so Monica offers to do it for him.
- Monica gives her tavern to Tripitaka and pays Kaedo to deliver her there safely. Monica may have a hard exterior, but she does care deep down.
- One by one, Tripitaka’s friends rally back to her side. First is Sandy, who had been reluctant to follow Gaxin from the start. Then Kaedo, who goes against his bounty mission to help her. Then Pigsy. And finally, when they’ve left the camp, Monkey joins them.Tripitaka: Do you really think I’m the real Tripitaka?Kaedo: It’s not what they call you that counts. It’s what you do that does.
- After killing Hagfish, Shadow Monkey tells Monkey to kill Tripitaka, so that they can both be free. Monkey refuses, and puts himself in between Tripitaka and Shadow Monkey without hesitation.
- When Monkey finds out that Shadow Monkey wants to kill Tripitaka, he goes into protective mode. Without even pausing to think, he tells the others to forget about the scroll and that their first priority is killing Shadow Monkey. He guards Tripitaka while she sleeps. When he wakes up the next morning and finds her bed empty, he cries out for her before turning and seeing her safe. When Shadow Monkey takes her, Monkey immediately dives after her through the portal, yanks her away and forces himself in between the two of them.
- This happens while he’s uncertain whether or not she’s the real "Tripitaka". Proving that regardless of whether she is or not, he still considers her his friend and will protect her at all costs.
- Gaxin sincerely apologises to Tripitaka for underestimating her and for treating her as nothing more than a servant girl.
- Monkey and Tripitaka riding his cloud together, with Tripitaka sitting piggyback on Monkey.
- The only way to defeat Shadow Monkey is to destroy the shadow scroll, and the only way to do that is to launch the scroll into the sun. Realising it’s the only way to protect Tripitaka and the world, Monkey flies the scroll into the sun himself, sacrificing himself.
- Before he leaves, he tells Tripitaka he’s proud of her.
- Despite it going against the laws of nature, Tripitaka is determined to resurrect Monkey using the scrolls. Gaxin, having seen he was wrong about his destiny, decides to do it instead, because whoever does it will die. He’s realised that it’s her the world needs, not him, so sacrifices himself to bring back the hero they all need.
