Heartwarming / The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter

• The end of the film, in which Bastian has been unwittingly sacrificing his memories of his life on Earth in order to use godlike wishes. Bastian is confronted by the Big Bad Xayide, the land is in ruins in spite of his wasted wishes, and he has only one memory left. What does he wish for?
  Bastian: (looks at Xayide) I wish for you have a heart.
  (Xayide suddenly stops in her tracks, the snide grin on her face falling into a realization of sincerely distraught shame, and a Single Tear rolls down her cheek. When it splashes on the ground, its ripples spread across Fantasia, undoing all her evil deeds.)
• The part where Bastian has only two memories left — his much-mourned mother and his grieving, impatient father — and Bastian chooses to remember his father.
  • When Atreyu realizes that Bastian sacrificed his memory of his mother to bring him back to life, Atreyu's reaction is an aggrieved, "Falkor, you shouldn't have let him!" He believed that memory was more precious than his own life.
• Bastian's father reads along on his son's adventure and encourages him.
  • The movie ends with the two hugging each other after Bastian has returned.