History Heartwarming / Superman

* In a 90s Superman Christmas issue, Lois asked Superman if he would be willing to put in an appearance at the Daily Planet's annual charity Christmas party for a Metropolis foster care center, to take the kids' minds off the fact that the Planet couldn't afford to buy toys for the kids due to budget cuts (Metropolis had been nearly leveled by Lex Luthor in [[ComicBook/FallofMetropolis an earlier arc).]] Superman had a better idea: he convinced Professor Emil Hamilton (this was years before his most recent FaceHeelTurn) to dress as Santa Claus and cobble together a quick sleigh, borrowed some reindeer from the Metropolis Zoo, and called up [[Franchise/{{Batman}} a friend of his in Gotham City]], who was happy to contact a Metropolis toy-store for toys and have them give him the bill. Superman, in a solid black body-stocking so he wouldn't be noticed in the night sky, carried the sleigh and reindeer to the Daily Planet roof, where Professor Hamilton gleefully distributed the toys.

* In a 90s Superman Christmas issue, Lois asked Superman if he would be willing to put in an appearance at the Daily Planet's annual charity Christmas party for a Metropolis foster care center, to take the kids' minds off the fact that the Planet couldn't afford to buy toys for the kids due to budget cuts (Metropolis had been nearly leveled by Lex Luthor in an earlier arc). Superman had a better idea: he convinced Professor Emil Hamilton (this was years before his most recent FaceHeelTurn) to dress as Santa Claus and cobble together a quick sleigh, borrowed some reindeer from the Metropolis Zoo, and called up [[Franchise/{{Batman}} a friend of his in Gotham City]], who was happy to contact a Metropolis toy-store for toys and have them give him the bill. Superman, in a solid black body-stocking so he wouldn't be noticed in the night sky, carried the sleigh and reindeer to the Daily Planet roof, where Professor Hamilton gleefully distributed the toys.

* [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ComicBook/{{Superboy}} had some touching moments. One of the most notable was when Superboy has a dull day and is convinced that he didn't do anything noteworthy. All he did was save a toddler from a dry well, help keep a teenage girl from being humiliated at a party, and rescued a reporter's briefcase. As it turns out, the toddler was ComicBook/JimmyOlsen, the girl was ComicBook/LoisLane, and the reporter was Perry White.

* In the story "The Lady and the Lion", Superman gets transformed into a humanoid lion after rebuffing Circe's proposal of marriage. Supes considers himself ruined, but Jimmy insists they're still friends and Lois invites him to attend a play with her to prove her feelings haven't changed. When the play (''Beauty and the Beast'') touches a nerve with the transformed hero, Lois impulsively kisses him. At the end, after finding a way to transform back, Superman gives her a kiss as his normal self in thanks.
* In ''Action Comics #270'', Superman dreams he is stuck in the future world, in which Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} -now Superwoman- is the world's greatest hero and he is a decrepit, powerless has-been. Although he feels frustrated about being forgotten or treated as a silly old glory, he is happy about his cousin having acclaim and praise. And later he meets Lois, and it turns out that she never forgot him and always waited for him.

---> Tommy: I think I told you...you can't help what people are going to believe about you. Somethin' like that. I guess you can't help who's going to believe in you, either.

* In Supermen of America #5, an Alien comes to Earth searching for what the meaning of perfection is. When it gets to Clark, what does it see? [[https://i.imgur.com/itknyYW.jpg Clark's idea of perfection is just hanging out on the Kent farm with his Pa.]]

** [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FPAetrvLhD4/TEgxBp5TywI/AAAAAAAAA_c/pc1R3lBUKFk/s1600/07-15-10+01+20.jpg The final panel]].
* During Day of Vengeance, with magic destroyed, Mxyzptlk was reduced to a barely functioning, mortal homeless man who couldn't get his brain to function properly. Clark meets him in the rain and, without any hesitation, embraced Mxy and pledges to help him.

* ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}: Superman'' depicts Superman and Lois still HappilyMarried. Lois is even pregnant with Clark's son. [[spoiler:In the second and final issue, Clark and Lois name the boy Jonathan Samuel Kent.]]

'''Superman:''' ''Bruce--Lois is...Lois is...\\
'''Batman:''' I know. Don't Worry. '''We'll''' find her.
** Several more heartwarming moments that also overlap with funny. The first being when Batman confronts a bar full of scary bikers to find out information on several other missing people that dissapeared along with Lois. After starting to square up and teach the bikers not to mess with [[MemeticMutation The Goddamed Batman]], Superman walks in begging everybody to stop and just help them find the missing poeple while struggling to hold himself in the doorway. What happens next isn't shown but the conversation in the Batmobile gives you a pretty good idea.
-->'''Superman:''' I'm Sorry. I know you told me to wait in the car. I know that could have gone wrong, but...\\

-->'''Batman:''' He's much lighter than I thought he's be. He's helping, I know..Using what little power he has left to shift his mass...But he's so light and frail. A misstep will break him in two..Break that heart of his in two...10:13PM...and for no apparent reason..I suddenly miss [[ParentalSubstitute Alfred]]...[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Damn you Clark.]]

* ''Comicbook/SupermanRebirth'' #1:[[spoiler: After realizing that there's no way now for him to come back, the pre-''Flashpoint'' Superman helps Lana bury the New 52 Superman beside his parents. Then, he erects a statue of him in the Fortress of Solitude [[HesBack before declaring that all tomorrow needs is Superman]].]]
** It's revealed that the New 52 Superman created a statue of Ma and Pa Kent mimicking the iconic one of Jor-El and Lara holding up a planet. [[spoiler: Pre-''Flashpoint'' Superman is amazed as ''he'' never even considered doing the same and adds the statue of the dead Superman between his Earth parents.]] Hope is returning indeed.

* ''Comicbook/SupermanRebirth'' #2 has Clark and Jon bonding together as Superman and Superboy. [[spoiler:Jon also reveals what happened to his cat and opt to give it a proper burial.]]

* ''Good Night Moon'' is just pure and utter heartwarming mixed with Tearjerker. Superman, after a fight with the Demolition Team, sees that his battle ended near a cancer ward for children. He decides that he wants to do something special for them. So does he just meet them? Maybe give a speech? How about having Green Lantern create a space shuttle to fly them to space (so the kids can experience weightlessness) and then take them to the watchtower to meet the justice league before finally getting them each space suits so they can walk on the surface of the moon.

** Action Comics #1000. After being lambasted and the butt end of every joke from here to the sun, Superman finally gets his famous red trunks and gold belt back. But this isn't done with the intention of trying to undo all the changes that have gone in the last 7 years. Rather, Superman has both returned to his roots, but still keeps with the changing times, symbolized by the cuff links on his wrists that were holdovers from his last suit in Rebirth. And the promise that Jon and Lois remaining by his side was a PERMANENT fixture.

-->'''Superman''': Green Arrow once asked me in a private conversation if my life was hell. “Hell?” I asked. “Actual Hell! Because you can never turn off your super-hearing. You can't not see the madness of the world with your super-vision. You can't stop seeing and hearing all the horrors of the world." First of all...yes, I can. I can turn it off anytime I want. I don't. I never have and I never will. But I can. We all can. I could leave the planet and never come back, and yes some days it does feel like madness. The screams for help never stop. The hate never stops. Oh and the ignorance sometimes never stops and it just breaks my heart. But what a lot of people don't get to see or hear is what I get to see or hear...what happens after the scream,People help. People reach out. More times than not, a scream--and someone nearby helps before I can even lift a finger. People do their jobs. It's stunning to see. Beautiful, really. The police, firemen, EMTs, politicians, even. Nothing is perfect, and it never will be, but...the world works."
* In ''Superman'' #18, by Bendis, Superman decides to [[spoiler:reveal his secret identity to the world. Before he does so, he privately reveals his identity to Perry first in his office. In a page with no text to show the reader what they are saying, we can nevertheless see that Perry's reaction is to sit up and go hug Clark, without the slightest hint of anger. He knew that Clark kept his identity hidden to protect those closest to him, including Perry, and is completely understanding.]]

* [[http://markwaid.com/howigothere/i-believed-a-man-could-fly/ Superman saved Mark Waid's life.]] Yes, ''that'' Creator/MarkWaid.

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* In the new Superman ongoing series written by Brian Michael Bendis. Issue # 2 has Superman thinking about a time when Green Arrow asked him if having super hearing is hell as he can hear the screams for help of billions of people everyday and can’t shut it out. Superman reveals that yes he can shut off his super hearing anytime he wants but chooses not too and says he never will why? Because that same sentence that while he confirms that he can constantly hear the ignorance, hatred, and cruelty of humanity on a daily basis along with the daily cries out for help. He also can hear what comes after those screams: people go out and help a lot of times before he can even show up whether it be fire fighters, police, EMTs and etc. People do help and while he points out that it doesn’t happen all the time it happens enough. Goes to show for just how much people look up to Superman he looks up to the compassion and the ability to do the right thing when it counts of humanity.

* In ''Theater/{{Godspell}}'', Jesus himself wears a Superman t-shirt.

* In the new Superman ongoing series written by Brian Micheal Bendis. Issue # 2 has Superman thinking about a time when Green Arrow asked him if having super hearing is hell as he can hear the screams for help of billions of people everyday and can’t shut it out. Superman reveals that yes he can shut off his super hearing anytime he wants but chooses not too and says he never will why? Because that same sentence that while he confirms that he can constantly hear the ignorance, hatred, and cruelty of humanity on a daily basis along with the daily cries out for help. He also can hear what comes after those screams: people go out and help a lot of times before he can even show up whether it be fire fighters, police, EMTs and etc. People do help and while he points out that it doesn’t happen all the time it happens enough. Goes to show for just how much people look up to Superman he looks up to the compassion and the ability to do the right thing when it counts of humanity.

-->'''Batman:''' He's much lighter than I thought he's be. He's helping, I know..Using what little power he has left to shift his mass...But he's so light and frail. A misstep will break him in two..Break that heart of his in two...10:13PM...and for no apparent reason..I suddenly miss [[ParentalSubstitute Alfred]]...[[JerkassFacade Damn]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold you Clark.]]

* [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ComicBook/{{Superboy}} had some touching moments. One of the most notable was when Superboy has a dull day and is convinced that he didn't do anything noteworthy. All he did was save a toddler from a dry well, help keep a teenage girl from being humiliated at a party, and rescued a reporter's briefcase. As it turns out, the toddler was ComicBook/JimmyOlsen, the girl was ComicBook/LoisLane, and the reporter was Perry White. Aww!

* In "Funeral For a Friend" the death of Superman was such a huge loss that it was basically treated like a CrisisCrossover. Special props to a moment from ''Batman'' during the nightmarish lead up to the ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} event, where a morbidly depressed Bruce Wayne wallows in despair in the cave, and it's revealed that he's still wearing one of the JLA's Superman-Shield black armbands, reminding the reader just ''how'' miserable and hopeless Bruce's world is right now. Because he can't even call up Clark to help him, either with his problems or with emotional support, just when he most needed it. Awww...

* ''Good Night Moon''is just pure and utter heartwarming mixed with Tearjerker. Superman, after a fight with the Demolition Team, sees that his battle ended near a cancer ward for children. He decides that he wants to do something special for them. So does he just meet them? Maybe give a speech? How about having Green Lantern create a space shuttle to fly them to space (so the kids can experience weightlessness) and then take them to the watchtower to meet the justice league before finally getting them each space suits so they can walk on the surface of the moon.

* A really [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming heartwarming]] moment in Superman: The Man of Steel #101 during the Critical Condition story arc where Superman was poisoned with Kryptonite and is slowly dying from it. At some point previously, Lois had gone missing and Superman [[TheDeterminator despite being severely weakened and in pain]] does everything he can to find her. After he tries to infiltrate Lexcorp and is almost killed by Luthor's defences and agents, be barely managed to escape and plummet out of Lexcorp tower to the ground bellow. After falling and dazed from the impact, he looks up and sees Batman who had been notified about his situation. [[AFriendInNeed Bruce helps Clark get out of the streets and vows to help Clark stating that they will find Lois.]]

* In ''Action Comics'' #555-''ComicBook/Supergirl1982'' #20, Superman throws a surprise party to celebrate Kara's arrival's anniversay. The scene is poignant, all the more since Supergirl would get killed off two years later.

* In pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|on Infinite Earths}} days, the rare occasions when [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Luthor]] would get a PetTheDog moment, and Superman would smile and Lex would look embarrassed, and you'd realize that [[UsedToBeASweetKid the nice kid Lex used to be and Clark's old friend]] [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight is still in there somewhere,]] and that Supes has never given up hope for his old friend's redemption. These often double as [[TearJerker Tear Jerkers,]] since in the [[StatusQuoIsGod long run,]] they usually wind up as [[IgnoredEpiphany Ignored Epiphanies]] and [[StatusQuoIsGod he stays a villain.]]

** Several more heartwarming moments that also overlap with funny. The first being when Batman confronts a bar full of scary bikers to find out information on several other missing people that dissapeared along with Lois. After starting to square up and teach the bikers not to mess with [[MemeticMutation The Goddamed Batman]], Superman walks in begging everybody to stop and just help them find the missing poeple while struggling to hold himself in the doorway. What happens next isn't shown but the conversation in the Batmobile give you a pretty good idea.

'''Batman:''' They're never afraid of [[AllLovingHero you]] are they? [[SicklyGreenGlow Glowing Green. Seeping radiation.]] [[PhysicalGod You could break this planet in two]]..And yet when they see you hold yourself up in a doorway...[[TheGoodSamaritan They trip over each other to help you.]]\\

'''Batman:''' They're never afraid of [[AllLovingHero you]] are they? [[SicklyGreenGlow Glowing Green. Seeping radiation.]] [[PhysicalGod You could break this planet in two..And yet when they see you hold yourself up in a doorway...[[TheGoodSamaritan They trip over each other to help you.]]\\

'''Batman:''' He's much lighter than I thought he's be. He's helping, I know..Using what little power he has left to shift his mass...But he's so light and frail. A misstep will break him in two..Break that heart of his in two...10:13PM...and for no apparent reason..I suddenly miss [[ParentalSubstitute Alfred]]...[[JerkassFacade Damn]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold you Clark.]]