Heartwarming / Disenchantment

"What is this feeling that I don't want to drink away?" "That's hope."

Disenchantment might take place in a Crapsack World, but it makes the genuine friendship built between three unlikely and flawed protagonists even more sweet.

Spoilers Off applies to all "Moments" pages, so all spoilers are unmarked.

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Season 1

"A Princess, an Elf, and a Demon Walk Into a Bar"

• After all the chaos of their escape, the central trio settle down for the night and have their first real conversation, in which they quickly start to truly bond. Elfo is even excited at Luci cruelly mocking his dreams because he sees it as friendly banter.
  Bean: What is this feeling I don't want to drink away?
  Elfo: That's hope. It's hope!
• Oona attempting to give Bean a talk about the birds and the bees, even if she can't really relate. Given that the two don't really get along in most cases, it means something that Oona at least tried to be a good stepmother.

"The Princess of Darkness"

• Even though Luci is well, a demon, he really shows his altruistic side when he voluntarily surrenders himself to the crazy exorcist Big Jo, in order to save Bean from being set on fire and burning to death, even though he easily could've saved his own skin by doing nothing.
• Bean and Elfo return the favor by tracking down Big Jo to a volcano, just to save Luci from being thrown into the lava. Because that's what friends do, right?

"Faster, Princess! Kill! Kill!"

• Bean ultimately refusing to execute Gwen the Witch. Which turned out to be a pretty good decision, as Gwen was completely harmless and innocent of the crimes she was accused of. After Hansel and Gretel (the real culprits behind all the gruesome murders) are killed, Gwen is exonerated and allowed to go free, so she can finally live in peace with her sister (who as it later turns out, somehow survived getting blown up in the house).
• Zog publicly honoring Bean (or as close as he's likely to come, at least) after her heroism in defeating Hansel and Gretel.

"Love's Tender Rampage"

• Tess uses her Crystal Ball eye to see Bean's fortune, and sympathizes with how sad the princess' life is.
• Bean helps Tess to escape, knowing "what it's like to feel like a freak". This accidentally comes off as insensitive as Tess doesn't think she's a freak, but it's the thought that counts.

"The Limits of Immortality"

• As questionable as their motives might be, it's surprisingly sweet to watch Odval be supportive and affectionate to Sorcerio, especially given how dry and snarky he is to everyone else.
  • And before that, Sorcerio's nickname for Odval, "Oddie", is honestly just plain sweet and adorable, even with all their mysteries.

"To Thine Own Elf Be True"

• Combined with a Tearjerker, Luci shows how much he's truly come to care for his companions when Elfo is killed. Dripping with Tranquil Fury, he demands "Who did that?", to which all the soldiers understandably back away with no one owning up to it.
• Bean tearfully embraces her mother Dagmar after reviving her with the Elixir of Life.

"Dreamland Falls"

• Bean and Luci pay their respects for their late friend Elfo at his funeral.
  • The fact that Tess came to Elfo's funeral in spite of all the crap he put her through.
  • Dagmar suggesting that Elfo be given a grand funeral due to his role in bringing her back. Considering what comes out about her later, it could count as a Pet the Dog moment.
• Luci takes it upon himself to investigate what's really going on with Dagmar, to no apparent advantage to himself (in fact, he may even be actively working against his mission by trying to prevent Bean from being corrupted, showing that he cares more about her than his job by now). After telling Zog the truth, he gave the poor guy a sympathetic look and even showed him the shelf reveal.

Season 2

"The Disenchantress"

• Despite Bean's actions in reviving Dagmar causing Oona no end of grief, Oona still tried to break onto the ship and save Bean from her mother.
• Jerry's Heel–Face Turn has a lot of sadness to it, but it's also sweet.
  Bean: Thanks for hammering my mother, Jerry. You're a true friend.
  Jerry: (dazed wonder) Jerry's a friend... (keels over dead)

"Stairway to Hell"

• Thanks to a bad connection, Elfo only hears Bean telling him to go to Hell with no context about it being a way to get him back to life. But he trusts her so innately that he immediately sets out getting there.
• After living a Butt-Monkey life, Jerry has become God's favorite, to the point that Elfo calling him something as basic as "dum-dum" gets him damned to Hell.
  • To put that into context, Elfo threw every insult in the book at God, and God just thought it was charming. But one bad word about Jerry, and cue the divine wrath.
• After some very questionable moments about whose side he's really on, Luci ultimately gives up his new promotion, his wings, and even his immortality forever to get Bean and Elfo back to Earth.
• Zog and Merkimer form an Odd Friendship once Zog discovers that he is still alive. When Merkimer is about to get eaten by the Bozaks, Zog comes back to rescue him.

"The Very Thing"

• Oona angrily points out that, despite all their differences (including being a completely different species to the point where even their reproductive methods are different) and Oona being essentially a Replacement Scrappy for everyone in a strange kingdom with no one to turn to, she still did her best to love Bean and tried to be a good mother to her. While they rarely spoke, Oona was always polite, even kind, to Bean. Yet Bean was always cold and suspicious of her, even immediately suspecting her of being the one to poison the entire kingdom. Despite all of this, Oona still easily forgives her for everything (except stealing her drugs), which leads to...
• Oona legitimetely offering Bean a chance to join her in pirate escapades.

"The Lonely Heart is a Hunter"

• Ursula makes Zog happy, apparently for the first time in many years.
  Peasant: Blimey! What's happened to your face?
  Zog: What? Nothing! You've just never seen me smile before!
• Zog loving Ursula so much that, even though she makes him happier than he's ever been in years and is his first genuine relationship at the end of two disastrously failed marriages, he still can't bring himself to trap her with him as a human and lets her go back to the woods, where she'll be happy.

"Love's Slimy Embrace"

• Elfo becoming Derek's friend after seeing how lonely he is.
• Bean somewhat admitting that she does love Derek.

"Tiabeanie Falls"

• When Luci, Elfo, and Bean are about to be burned at the stake, Luci reveals that he's been stripped of his immortality, and is going to die with the other two. Bean and Elfo are not at all upset, and the three friends take comfort in the fact that they will die together. When the blaze starts to reach them, Bean simply says "See you in Hell, boys", not showing anger, but thinking of her only two real friends.

Season 3

"Subterranean Homesick Blues"

• After spending most of the episode wanting to die after thinking that his beloved daughter was burned to death, Zog is reinvigorated after Elfo lets slip that she's still alive.

"You're the Bean"

• Zog, under the belief he is about to die, admits that he does truly love Bean and Derek along with wishing that he was a better king to his people.
• Zog is reunited with Bean. Alas, he's also lost his mind and thinks that she's a demon sent to remind him of his failures, but she's still happy to see him.
• When impersonating Dagmar, she and Bean end up insulting each other trying to prove to be the "real" one; in a very twisted example, Bean proves it by saying to Dagmar she never loved her. All Dagmar can do is stammer, clearly unable to say it as well. For all her Abusive Parents tendencies, the queen seems to really love Bean.

"Beanie Get Your Gun"

• After finding poor Derek lost and pantsless in the woods, Sagatha the hooker fairy and her friends help boost his confidence so that he can take back his money (and his pants) and get back to Dreamland. A smitten Derek offers to marry her in return.
• Oona returns for Derek and Sagatha's wedding, where she is clearly happy to see her family again.

"Last Splash"

• After all of Bean's cheap flings, she truly falls in love for the first time with Mora the mermaid. Made even sweeter with how it's never once brought up that it's a lesbian relationship, and the sparks between them are presented just as matter-of-factly as if Mora was a man.

"Bad Moon Rising"

• Oona spends much of the episode consoling a lovelorn Bean. It's also worth noting that she is completely nonplussed about the fact that Bean's paramour was a woman, and assures Bean that there will be plenty of other men, women, and otherwise for her.

"Hey Pig Spender"

• Merkimer accepts exile and a possible lifetime condemned to the body of a pig rather than let Bean and her friends die because of Other!Merkimer's duplicity. At the end, Bean tells him he's a better person as a pig than the actual humans in Bentwood.

"The Madness of King Zog"

• Oona reluctantly departs again, but not before giving Bean another pep talk, and a kiss on the forehead. She also takes Derek with her, finally giving him a parental figure again.
  • That Bean by now pretty much considers Oona one of her best allies. Oona reassures Bean in turn that she will do just fine without her.
• Bean spends most of the episode trying to help her dad get better.
• Zog Passing the Torch to Bean: "Be a good queenie, Beanie."

"Bean Falls Down"

• After Luci dies he wakes up in Heaven. Of course Luci being a demon (albeit one that betrayed hell), he lets out a Big "NO!".

Season 4

• The Bean/Mora content being expanded upon.
• After spending three seasons being at each other's throats, Bean and Zøg's relationship is starting to improve, with both parts actually doing their best to support and give advice to the other.
• After Luci saves Bean from the mirror, Bean gives him several kisses on the nose. At first Luci acts annoyed, but then he starts giggling and purring like a cat.
• Jasper decides to join Derek as the latter is running away from the castle for supposedly killing an elf, even though he is in no way obligated to do so, because he has grown to like his half-brother. Remember, the two of them had a severe Sibling Rivalry merely one episode before.

Season 5

"Goodbye, Bean"

• Luci gets a wish from god to be able to have or do anything. His wish is to bring Mora back from the dead so she can reunite with Bean. When asked why, he is forced to admit that he loves Bean, and that she has worked too hard for the sake of too many people to not get her own happy ending.
• Bean ends the show eloping with Mora and happily living with her on an idyllic beach. She well and truly fought for it.
• Zog is shown being content living with Ursula and Jasper in the woods, even tossing his crown to the deer who has quite a collection of those on its antlers.
• The last scene before the epilogue we see of Elfo is him happily giggling and kissing Mary in bed with her, the couple as happy as they can be.
• The Throggs are shown reaching the moon with Alva's rocket and they are clearly ecstatic, playing around in low gravity without a care in the world.
• Sorcerio and Odval expressing approval towards Bean and Mora's relationship and even marrying each other after Bean and Mora ditch their own wedding and elope.
• God accepts cats back to Heaven simply because he likes them and missed them.
• Pops finally marries Queen Grogda. At their wedding, Tess also shows interest in Junior.
• Satan looking wistfully at Luci's name in the book of the dead before cancelling it, perhaps accepting that even if he will never see him again as he is in Heaven, he's proud and content of his fate.
• Even Merkimer and Miss Moonpence get a happy ending together. Two talking pigs in love.

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