Heartwarming / Left 4 Dead

aka: Left 4 Dead 2

• From The Sacrifice: "You guys are the only family I've got!"
• In The Sacrifice, Francis goes into Sincerity Mode and confides in Louis that he has Insulaphobia, the fear of islands. Louis offers to "Watch his back" when they reach the Florida Keyes. They then proceed to psyche themselves up by saying things like "Punk-ass Island BITCH, y'all better watch your back!"
  • The entirety of The Sacrifice is this as you see the how the characters from the first game have, in the span of a week, all formed an incredibly deep friendship.
• Choosing to go and rescue an incapped survivor during the rush to the rescue vehicle in any of the campaign finales.
• The first time you finish the last campaign of any given game, especially if you played through the campaigns in order. This is the moment when you can truthfully say that Left 4 Dead is a modern-day Odyssey, not just a game about zombies.
• In the Passing, when Ellis falls head over heels for Zoey. Love is not dead, even if everyone else is!
• In Left 4 Dead 2, if you leave the safehouse to defib a Survivor, in a Versus round, you earn the "Heartwarmer" achievement.
• "Y'know all those things I said about you Ellis? I was joking..."
  • Doubles as a Tearjerker, since Nick will only say this when Ellis has died.
• Throughout Dead Center and The Passing, Nick has been nothing but condescending and rude towards the other survivors. By Dark Carnival, he has significantly mellowed out.
  Nick: I hate to be the bearer of bad news guys, but unless Ellis knows how to build a monster truck, we ain't driving through this.
  Ellis: Sorry, guys. Guess it wasn't such a hot idea after all.
  Nick: Don't sweat it, Ellis. At least you got us out of that mall.
• These lines in Dark Carnival where Nick enters Sincerity Mode towards Coach.
  Coach: Once the world goes back to normal, I'm buying you guys a steak dinner.
  Nick: Buddy, you get me out of this alive and I will deep-fry you an entire goddamn cow.
• In one campaign, you come across a bride and her wedding communion, which despite all of them becoming infected, they faithfully sit in their seats and wait for the groom. Even the bride, who has become a witch, sits there and waits patiently for him.
  • To hammer it in even further, despite her having the usual witch temperament, changing the music on the radio will make her go utterly bonkers on the guy who did it, showing that despite her infected state, she still cares about the wedding even if it's all but dead.
• In the trailer, Coach is knocked backwards by an explosion and Nick immediately rushes in to help him back up.
• In the first level of the Last Stand campaign, you can find a piece of graffiti paying tribute to Jim French, Bill's voice actor who passed away prior to the update's release;
  Jim, thank you for your sacrifice
  1920-2017
• A subtle one, but finishing the Last Stand campaign on any difficulty gives the player "Still Standing" achievement, as if thanking the player for still playing the game.

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