Heartwarming / Monster High

• Ghoulia is an enormous fan of the comic book superhero Dead Fast, but can't attend a convention that'll be auctioning the only existing copy of the special Issue #0. After falling into a fantastic Dead Fast-centric dream, she wakes up to find it in her hands! Turns out that Cleo had sent all 10,000 of her royal servants to win it for her. Although Cleo does tell the other ghouls not to spread this info around and ruin her rep.
  • Ghoulia is actually crying Tears of Joy when she sees the comic book.
• Toralei, Purrsephone and Meowlody jumping in to prevent cheating Nefera (their own squad leader) from sabotaging the B Squad's routine.
  Toralei: We want to win, but not like this.
  • It was really adorable when Toralei and the others up and hugged Bloodgood when she offered to let them come to Monster High.
• Pretty much the entirety of "Cyrano De Ghoulia" (when it isn't being hilarious, that is): the ghouls agreeing to help shy Ghoulia win over the boy she likes, Frankie taking the fall to distract Moe ("That one's for you, Ghoulia!"), and Ghoulia and Slow Moe walking off hand in hand at the end.
  • Actually, Slow Moe and Ghoulia in general. Who would have thought two zombie kids could be so adorable together?
• Frankie's Basic Diary mentions her first rain shower. Just go on the wiki and read it. It's downright adorable.
• At the end of "Fright On", Romulus asked Draculaura for a dance. It shows how much he's began to trust vampires, and maybe by extension his best friend Clawd's judgement.
• Abbey letting Heath take her to the dance, because the fact that he kept trying to ask her and his expression when the other girls try to kick him out shows that he really was serious about her.
• Clawdeen apologizing to Draculaura after realizing she was wrong to try to break up her and Clawd's relationship.
• Frankie defending Jackson from Manny's bullying. When the two introduce themselves and shake hands, Frankie's sparks create a puff of smoke around them in the shape of a heart. Aww!
• In "Friday Night Frights", Clawdeen gets injured during the game. Draculaura has been seeing herself as dead weight on the team throughout the special, and Clawdeen decides to overplay her injury in order to get Draculaura into the field. Clawd catches on and asks, "Are you sure?", his tone indicating that he completely agrees with her plan. She nods at him, and he tells Draculaura she's in:
  Draculaura: Are you crazy? We could still win!
  Clawd: I know.
  • Remarkably, it's the facial animation that sells this moment, both in Clawdeen's sincerity after Clawd asks if she's sure, and Draculaura's HUGE grin when Clawd insists on putting her in.
• In 13 Wishes, despite Howleen's wish erasing everyone's memories of Cleo, they still end up together.
• Ghoulia and Cleo's Mad Science Notebook, especially when Cleo commands a pep-talk for Ghoulia, who was feeling useless in their perfume project.
• In Haunted, Rochelle, after being transformed from gargoyle to ghost, finally gets to truly experience swimming without sinking like, well, a rock. She smiles in the cutest way afterwards.
• Cleo and Deuce realizing how much they love each other after Nefera tries to break them up in Boo York, Boo York.
  • When they kiss at the end, one of his snakes kisses her forehead.
  • Lux accepting her son's double life as a rapper even if it doesn't fit with her traditional values.
  • And even if it was played as a Hope Spot, Catty and Pharaoh professing their love for music and each other through the eponymous "Boo York, Boo York" song. Doubles as a CMOA. Then at the end when they get back together after they get their music, and emotions, back.
• Jane Boolittle starts out cripplingly shy and afraid to enter social situations, but, with the help of the pets, begins to come out of her shell and makes friends with the ghouls. When invited to the jungle dance, she's afraid to go, but Toralei's insults incite her to join the party, and she even gets voted Queen of the dance.
• Twyla's pet peeve is vacuum cleaners, which may seem a bit random, until you realize that her pet is a literal dust bunny! Thus, her dislike of vacuums is out of a protectiveness toward her pet.
• Headmistress Bloodgood provides a lot of this for being a great principal. She's stern but fair when she needs to be, but she has a great sense of humor and will do whatever she can to help her students grow and express themselves.
• Skelita's Art Class journal details her project's process. Since she grew up watching her abuela making pottery, she wants to live up to that tradition. After a period without inspiration, she fashions an elaborate calavera vase. When she sends the picture to her grandmother, she says it's a beautiful combination of tradition and personal expression, which Skelita thinks is the "best compliment [she] could ever have".
• Skelita's collector diary is also full of heartwarming. In the past she's always loved celebrating Dia de los Muertos alongside humans (and losing something each year), but she always felt like she was only invited to celebrate because her grandmother was. This particular year, her abuela is unable to attend, but the path to the human world still appears. Skelita arrives to the celebrations, and sees an altar to her decorated with all of her lost objects, and her human friends say that she will always be invited to the party for her kindness.
• The Steam duo's diaries are full of this, too, since Robecca is reunited with her father and she finds Cleo's mother, earning the mummy's eternal gratitude and getting back her only family member.
• In Jackson's diary, he mentions that he tried to stand up to Manny, only for Deuce to tell him that he just pissed Manny off, and Manny's only going to bully him worse. Then Jackson says that Manny actually started avoiding him, "almost like some monster had said something to him." Holt, who apparently goes through Jackson's diary to add notes, sarcastically wonders who it could have been, heavily implying it was himself. They may not get along, but it seems like Holt is at least a little protective of Jackson.
• Clair kissing Jackson at the end of Ghouls Rule. Jackson's jubilant expression afterwards makes it even more adorable.
• G3 Frankie's presence as a confident, accepted nonbinary character. Their identity and pronouns are made visible but they're still very much like the Frankies before and are portrayed as loved by their friends. It's a pretty huge point of representation, and a surprisingly prominent one, for a franchise previously denied the ability to showcase queer characters.

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