Heartwarming / Twisted Metal

• The first game:
  • Thumper's driver Bruce Cochrane wishes for his South Central neighborhood to be free of violence and hate. Calypso claims that he grants it, but the driver's suspicious. Calypso tells him to go home and see, so he does, and he finds... "Calypso was not lying." It seems that he changed the world so that the violence in his neighborhood never existed to begin with. That said, there's more than one way to interpret even that one: after all, Calypso may have granted the wish by killing off all the gang members.
  • In the "Lost Ending" version, Bruce's wish was to save his girlfriend, who had been kidnapped by his former boss. When Calypso offered the driver the opportunity to gun down his former boss, he refused, and simply took his girlfriend away. After the driver, his co-pilot, and his girl leave, Calypso is more annoyed by the scene being anticlimactic than anything else, and he guns down the driver's former boss himself.
• The second game:
  • Grasshopper's driver Krista Sparks, rebuilt into an unwilling robot suicide bomber, meets up with Calypso, who turns out to be the father she was looking for. After she tells him she's afraid the inevitable explosion might hurt despite her mechanical nature, he simply hugs her and closes his eyes as the two are engulfed in flames. Borders on Tear Jerker.
  • Despite being hinted at as just another trick by Calypso, seeing Marcus Kane wake up from a supposed coma, with everyone around him happy to see him alive. In the game, he is seen as just another crazy, conspiracy theory-driven homeless man, now he is embraced by a family who is glad he's back, with him being just as happy.
    • In other endings, Calypso usually sarcastically mocks the contestant. With Marcus, Calypso instead congratulates him on both winning and figuring out it was all a dream and invited him to come back if he wishes.
• The fourth game:
  • Drag Queen's wish was a very humble and simple one: to sing at the Super Bowl halftime show. While one may bemoan that it's a very simple wish, Sweet Tooth grants it without any strings attached, no jokes or Karmic Twist Ending.
• Small Brawl:
  • There's something to be said about Spectre's ending. He wanted to find his missing father and Billy Calypso, the neighborhood bully, can only dig up a locket with picture of him. But then it's revealed the locket hides the key to the car of the same name. He may not have found his missing dad but he did find his legacy...
• In a game as Darker and Edgier as Black, it'd be hard to find even one remotely decent moment that isn't cruelly subverted moments later.
  • However, Raven of all people gets a Heartwarming moment that isn't used just to set up a Tear Jerker. To be fair, the ending does start off pretty dark, where Raven gets revenge on the two Jerk Jocks who accidentally drowned Kelly by using two Voodoo Dolls to gouge their eyes out, and held on to the dolls to presumably do the same to her parents. And yet, at the end of the video, she reminisced on Kelly, claiming how she felt like Kelly was watching over her and protecting her. Especially poignant considering some of Raven's lines in her story mode hinted that she wanted to have been killed in the contest, if she didn't outright kill herself, just so she and Kelly could be together again after she died.
  Raven: "People may come and go; they live and they die. But a true friend is forever."
  • It actually gets better in Raven's Lost profile: where everybody else in the game had their endings from Black go From Bad to Worse (by either becoming bloodthirsty murderers that terrorized innocent people, or having their wishes bite them right in the ass), Raven had become a hero to the people of Midtown, using her voodoo dolls and the spirits in her hearse to protect the innocent, and drive out the maniacs and murderers that plagued the city.
  • No-Face's Lost profile is one of these mixed with Tear Jerker. He has become a killer, but is only killing those he thinks are evil and is only killing period so he can fix his face so that his baby daughter won't cry every time she looks at him.
• Head-On:
  • Grasshopper's ending once again. Krista's spirit wishes that the accident that gave Calypso motivation for his Deal with the Devil never happens. The result? A brief, touching glimpse into Calypso's former life... before revealing that the accident, instead of killing her and her family, now put her in a 12-15+ year-long coma instead, with the mother still nowhere to be seen. It seems that Calypso couldn't grant a decent wish even if he wanted to. It's a even more heart-wrenching when you consider that Calypso's incomplete sentences before she asked the wrong wish implied that Krista was in a coma all along and everything he did was just in hopes she would wish to come back to life, much like Roadkill in the second game.
  • Mortimer's ending. Instead of wishing for revenge on the people who woke him from his slumber, he instead just wishes to go back to sleep. Calypso grants his wish, and helps him fall asleep in his coffin with a teddy bear and a story:
  Calypso: Once upon a time, there was a competition called Twisted Metal. There was a very brave driver called Mortimer, who drove the fearsome vehicle Shadow. Becoming the Champion of the tournament, Mortimer lived happily ever after. The end.
  • It's even more adorable than it sounds. The story is accompanied by visuals in the style of a child's drawings, of Mortimer winning Twisted Metal, all of which aren't just nonviolent, but genuinely adorable.

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