Heartwarming / Wonka

• As Wonka departs from the ship he was working on to start his career as a chocolatier, the rest of the crew members all bid him farewell and wish him luck with his new career.
• While most of Wonka's sovereigns are lost to bad luck and fines, two of those coins are ones he gave to a struggling mother with a crying infant to give them a place to stay for the night.
  • Also, his last one fell into a sewer grate, and it's greatly implied it's the one Charlie Bucket would find and use it to buy the chocolate bar that would contain his Golden Ticket. Looks like their stories were entwined without even knowing it.
• Officer Affable giving Wonka enough money to pay for his room after being forced to confiscate his earnings. It settles him as a Punch-Clock Villain and causes Wonka to trust him with the ledger of Slugworth, Fickelgruber, and Prodnose's misdeeds in the climax.
• "For A Moment", just watching Wonka and Noodle playing and dancing together. This is probably the first time anyone has ever treated the poor girl with kindness, and she's enjoying every minute together with her friend.
• During "You've Never Had Chocolate Like This" Wonka's chocolate helps out a man after a Rejected Marriage Proposal for being too meek. With his newfound confidence, he goes back after the girl he loves, and by the end of the song the two are Happily Married.
  Married Couple: We have just tied the knot and it's / All because of Wonka's chocolate!
• By the end of the movie, thanks in part to Wonka two more couples are brought together: Basil the zoo guard and the lady who guarded the Chocolate Cartel's vault (he had a crush on her in school and admitted to it under the influence of the Big Night Out Chocolate), and Larry Chucklesworth and his ex-wife (who returns to him after being impressed by his standup comedy comeback). Three if one counts Scrubbit and Bleacher, given that was due to trickery on Wonka and Noodle's part.
• Though it's ruined shortly by Mrs. Scrubbit and Bleacher's sabotage, the grand opening of Wonka's shop. Everyone is so amazed and awed by both the scenery and the candy itself, happily buying as much chocolate as they can afford. Even Wonka's friends are overjoyed at his success.
• Noodle and Abacus share a very sweet moment during this, when Noodle says a man just paid them 100 sovereigns. The elderly Abacus squees in delight right along with her.
• What ultimately gets Wonka to decide to leave town is ultimately when the Cartel offer to pay off the debts of his friends, even naming Noodle by name when Lofty asks him why he left.
• Bleacher has a minor Pet the Dog moment where he encourages Larry to keep up his work as a comedian as he thinks the man is rather talented.
• The reveal of what was in Wonka's mother's last bar of chocolate: a piece of gold foil with a message saying the secret to good chocolate is not about the chocolate itself but the people you share it with. After seeing a final vision of his mother, Wonka then proceeds to share the chocolate bar with his friends.
  • This also means that, once Wonka begins to search for an heir, the Golden Tickets will double as a secret tribute to his beloved mother.
• The use of "Pure Imagination" with new lyrics: Wonka sings it to Noodle while taking her to meet her mother, assuring Noodle her dreams can come true (they certainly have — Dorothy is a librarian!). After watching the reunion between mother and daughter, Wonka continues the song as he and Lofty begin to build his Chocolate Factory.
  • There's also a poignant undertone to this. As Wonka's friends from the boarding house are all going on to their improved lives, he's effectively alone in the world again (save for, as it turns out, Lofty as his first employee), and it clearly pains him a little to see her and her mother so happy while trying to hold his tears as he sings. The audience knows that Wonka goes through a lot of hardships in his subsequent career, will become more cynical for it, and finally become an isolated recluse alongside the Oompa-Loompa workforce, but eventually he will know the kind of happiness he's witnessing again when Charlie Bucket proves worthy of being his heir.
  • And for those who view this as a different verison of the story we know, Slugworth, Fickelgruber, and Prodnose are out of his way with no way for them to send spies to steal his recipes, meaning this Wonka won't have to isolate himself from the rest of the world and can be truly happy.
  • As Lofty approaches, he sees the reunion and earnestly spouts a familiar adage:
    "So shines a good deed in a weary world."

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