Heartwarming / Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes

• "The Cure":
  • A powerless and partially amnesiac Ben Grimm watches the team disappear into one of the Mole Man's holes during a fight on TV. He immediately heads out to help them.
    "I may not have any superpowers, but Ben Grimm never leaves his team behind."
  • The first thing amnesiac Ben does when he sees Johnny on fire is to try and put the flames out, even though Johnny has just been insulting him. Awww.
  • Jen decides to leave the team because she views the Four as family and doesn't want to take Ben's place.
• In "Scavenger Hunt," after the latest effort against Terminus fails, the others take the possible end of Earth incredibly lightly - dumbfounding Reed.
  Reed: What is the matter with you three? You're making jokes? Everything we tried was useless. All the foes we faced... Doom, Annihilus, Super-Skrull - we've always beat them, but this? This is different. Terminus is unstoppable! How can you not take this seriously?
  Sue: Because it's you, Reed. You'll come up with something.
  Johnny: Y'know how many times you've let us down? Ever? About... zero!
  Ben: There's always a way. You know who told me that? You did, Stretch, so let's get out there and clobber this guy.
  Reed: Thank you. [The team put their hands together] Now let's go clobber this guy!
• "Trial By Fire":
  • Johnny is imprisoned and put on trial by the Kree for destroying their sentry robots (he thought they were attacking), with Reed as his lawyer and Sue and Ben as witnesses for the defense. Ben's reaction to being summoned without warning and seeing Johnny?
    "I see Stretch found ya, Matchstick. And you're in trouble as usual." [punches his fist] "Who do ya want me to hit first?!"
  • And when the testimonies aren't enough and Johnny is found guilty, both Sue and Ben immediately step up to defend him physically against his executioners, followed by Reed, whose only comment is "so much for fostering interplanetary relations." Even when warned that this will mark them as enemies of the Kree and get them executed along with Johnny, the Fantastic Four stick together — it doesn't even occur to them not to.
  • Johnny also has a moment like this in the episode. When he hears the above proclamation, he tells the other three, "I caused this, you guys. You don't have to go down with me."
  • When Johnny sees a robotic lion encroaching on a crying Kree boy, he calls to the child to get away. Even though he calls him "Smurf", which he originally used to tease Ronan, there's no trace of mockery now. Ultimately, he manages to damage the collar restricting his powers from sheer determination to save the kid, showing the Supreme Intelligence the Fantastic Four as potential allies.
• The whole episode "Doom's Word is Law". Bruiser's gotta be one of the most adorkable, human robots ever.
  • Arguably most of all when he dives into open air with some of the most touching Last Words ever spoken by a robot: "No. No destroy Ben."
• "Contest of Champions":
  • The ending. Ben, the last member of the team standing, has just won the titular contest. The judge, a Sufficiently Advanced Alien, offers him anything he asks for, suggesting heavily that he'd want to use it to get his humanity back. But Ben turns it down and instead wishes that everyone who lost the games should be released, starting with his teammates.
  • Also, while Ben is still fighting—and getting mauled—Reed asks the Grandmaster to let him take Ben's place and begs Ben to stay down. Mr. Fantastic's last plan fell flat, and it doesn't seem likely that he has another one—he simply doesn't want to see his stubborn friend get beaten to death in front of him.
• "Doomsday".
  • It's a little weird thanks to Johnny calling Ben ugly in the process, but when he's explaining to his sister why he's been down on Reed in light of the accusations, Johnny points out that the accident was a dream come true for him, but Ben decidedly got the short end of the stick and clearly feels sorry for the poor guy.
  • Alicia allows Ben to pour out his anger at the possibility the papers raised that his best friend turned him into a monster. Then she talks him through it with a short but sweet speech. First of all, she insists that Ben is no monster; a monster wouldn't be as good a person as he is. Then she reminds him that Reed's guilt over the consequences of the shields failing implies that there's no way he would have sabotaged them on purpose.
    Alicia: Reed carries so much guilt about what happened to all of you, especially you. If I can see that, why can't you?
  • The ending scenes with Reed and Ben. Reed, having blacked out while falling out of the sky, awakens to his friend holding him up with the words, "Easy, Stretch. I gotcha." Then we have this:
    Reporter: Mr. Fantastic, what really happened here today? Did you cause all this, like the shield failure?
    Ben: I can't believe this! This man just saved the whole city, and this is how you treat him? For your information, Dr. Doom did all this!

    Ben: Stretch, I'm sorry. I know you'd never do anything like that to us.
    Reed: But it is my fault. All this...The shields failing, the insanity our lives have become...it's my fault. I'm the one who's sorry.

• In "Johnny Storm and the Potion of Fire", Johnny finally overcoming the fire spirit with the power of (familial) love, not to mention his concern over Susan while trying to get her to Please Wake Up when the spirit seemed to have killed her.
• "Hard Knocks":
  • A Ship Tease example; the other three come up to Reed's lab to find him unconscious on the floor with the Hulk towering over him. As Johnny and Ben attack the Hulk, Susan hovers over Reed, cradling his head in her lap.
  • Susan finally does join the battle after the Hulk goes toe to toe with Ben effortlessly and attacks Johnny, declaring that he's not hurting her family while she's around.
  • Later, when Ben tells Bruce that, "Us monsters have to stick together." It doesn't necessarily fulfill the intended purpose, but it's the thought that counts...which is followed by Bruce telling him that the Thing is a hero to millions, not a monster.
• Johnny telling Reed that it was actually Ben who saved the day in ("Molehattan") and then resisting the urge to steal his spotlight when the kids come over.
• In "Bait and Switch" after the team gets their powers switched around, Reed, who swapped powers and appearance with Ben, constantly goes on about restoring Sue and Johnny's powers to normal. Ben picks up on this and Reed admits he's keeping Ben's powers instead of reclaiming his own because his friend deserves some normalcy in life. It's especially heartwarming on Reed's end because it's shown that Ben's powers don't just make him problematically stronger but also make it difficult to focus. So Reed, who loves scientific innovation and discovery, was willing to inhibit his own intellect so his friend could have the more normal life he wants so much. At the end, Ben stays around to protect the others from a Doombot, even knowing the power swap back will return the monstrous appearance that gives him so much trouble, because they're a team and family and nothing changes that.