Heartwarming / Archie's Weird Mysteries

• In "Cine-Madness", Reggie states how he has a family member named Amy at a kindergarten. Later, after unleashing movie monsters into the real world, he stops some trolls from harming the children, hugs his cousin and promises that everything will be alright.
• "Something is Haunting Riverdale High" gives one to Archie. After spending time in between dimensions with Dilton, Ethel, and Midge, he decides to spend more time with them. Similarly, in "Attack of the 50 Foot Veronica", he offers to buy Dilton lunch after his invention (apparently) fails and in "Archie's Date With Fate", he stands up to Veronica and calls her self-centered when she treats Dilton rudely after he unintentionally interrupts a date in excitement about his latest success.
• In "Attack of the 50ft Veronica", Jughead of all people was able to stop Veronica from rampaging by helping her find a way to reshrink herself. In the end she dressed up as Jughead to show her appreciation.
• "The Haunting of Riverdale" gives one to Jughead. He and the former head librarian, "Quiet Violet", make peace, allowing her spirit to move on to the next life. Their exchange is heart-melting, but the real gem?
  Jughead: Is it possible to miss someone you never got a chance to know?
  Betty: [holding out an autobiography Violet published] You can know her from her book.
  • And he does. Her book become his favorite book to read. Aww...
• In "Big Monster on Campus", Moose befriends his wrestling rival (who's a robot) and offers him a job at his father's mechanics job. What makes it heartwarming is that this is after Moose lost a match to him and he felt useless for some time before he regained his confidence and won the match even after he went through hell and back with the school. Moose really does have a big heart.
• "Driven to Distraction": Archie gets knocked out while saving Betty, Veronica, Jughead, and Reggie from his Yandere car. When he wakes up, they're all gathered around him and very worried. Reggie calls him "buddy" and begs him to talk to them and Jughead says he doesn't have to pay him back for the money he borrowed for his date, as long as he's okay. Archie looks up at them with a smile.
• After a few minutes of desperate but useless effort, Jughead successfully saves Archie from mannequin state. Archie almost immediately hugs him.
• "The Christmas Phantom": The story opens with Archie's gung-ho approach towards Christmas annoying Betty, Veronica, and Jughead, and when he gets locked in the Lodge department store, he assumes everyone will be so busy with festivities that no one will notice his absence. Actually, Betty, Jughead, and Veronica are sitting and waiting for him to arrive. Reggie tries to interest them in the food and presents. However, Jughead says that Archie making a Christmas toast before they eat is a tradition between the two of them, and Veronica (who naturally enjoys getting presents) mentions how fun it is for both her and Archie to see her opening them. Finally, Reggie gives up and admits Christmas isn't the same without Archie.
• "Alternate Riverdales": Betty and Veronica give Archie an ultimatum about choosing one of them. While bemoaning the difficulty he's having, Archie tells the story of his parents' first meeting, a picture-perfect Love at First Sight moment. It's pretty clear he thinks it's adorable.
• "Teen Out of Time":
  • Principal Weatherbee takes a break from being at odds with Archie to advise him not to give up because of a terrible day, and Archie returns the favor when he runs into Mr. Weatherbee's past self.
  • Archie finds himself in his own past while traveling forward in history. Seeing the younger Betty crying on the curb, he takes the time to find out what's wrong and nudge her and his past self towards friendship.
  • When Vinnie gloats about having fed Archie to his T-Rex, Betty and Veronica both begin crying on each other's shoulders. Hearing Jughead also sobbing, the girls open their two-way hug so they can all mourn together.

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