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  • Johnny Depp, after hearing that the horse who played Ichabod's mount was going to be put down after filming, refused to part with it and adopted it as his pet.
  • The ending of the movie, with Ichabod, Katrina, and Young Masbath arriving in New York, ready to start their lives all over.
  • Young Masbath's protectiveness of Katrina, and vice versa. Watch them closely in any action sequence.
    • When the sight of severed heads is revealed in the Tree of the Dead, Katrina immediately shields him from it and comforts him.
  • A very small scene is the Headless Horseman comforting his horse before it died after it was shot. He pets it again after he get his head back, as if grateful to look upon his trusted companion with his own eyes again.
    • When the Hessian does get his head back, he turns to Ichabod and Katrina as if to attack them again. Instead, he just takes a moment to stare at them, as if silently thanking them for returning him to normal.
    • Crossed with Awesome: His deciding to go back to Hell with Daredevil rather than continue killing people for their heads—as well as dragging the one who controlled him along for the ride too.
  • Ichabod decides to leave town, because his usual thinking of "sense and reason" has been corrupted "by the spirit world". Katrina tries to reassure him.
    Katrina: Will you take nothing from Sleepy Hollow?
    Ichabod: Only a kiss. From a beautiful young woman, before she had seen my face or knew my name.
    Katrina: Yes. And without sense or reason.
    • And him admitting Katrina might be a witch... for she has bewitched him. A mite corny, a bit awkward and utterly sweet.
    • And he's also letting her know that if she were a witch (and as it turns out she is), he would not be prejudiced against her one bit. His mother would be proud.
  • Katrina's sincere kindness for others is very sweet. She gives Ichabod a book of spells that clearly means a lot to her - as a token from her mother - purely to protect him when he goes courting danger.
  • Katrina also bravely goes into the Western Woods to follow Ichabod and Young Masbath. He asks why, and she responds because no one else would.
  • The flashbacks to his childhood show that Ichabod adored his mother, and she was very loving and protective of him. The fact that she demonstrated magic suggests she taught him to be more open minded than his father.
    • Ichabod showing Katrina the optical illusion with the cardinal and the cage becomes especially sweet when you see it was something his mother did for him as a child. It also shows that despite the horror of her death, he stills holds some warm memories of his childhood enough to carry them with him as an adult.
  • Fridge Heartwarming - Ichabod refuses Young Masbath's offer of help after his father's death, saying his mother likely needs him. When he learns that the boy's mother is dead too, he immediately takes him on board. He knows what it's like to lose his mother at a young age.
    • Young Masbath speaks of his mother as "she is in heaven now and has my father to help her", rather sweetly trying to look on the positive side that his parents may be Together in Death.
  • Ichabod and Katrina's beautiful first meeting. He enters a ball at the Van Tassel house, where she is playing a variation of blind man's buff; she's blindfolded and must give a kiss to whoever she manages to catch. She catches Ichabod, who rather gentlemanly tells her "I am only a stranger" so she wouldn't feel the need to kiss him if she didn't want to. She smiles and says "have a kiss on account". Given Ichabod's loner status, it's likely the first time he was ever kissed by a pretty girl. As the exchange above shows, he remembers it and cherishes it.

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