Heartwarming / Sinfest

Considering the name of the comic and its tendency to be extremely cynical, there are a number of truly touching comics throughout the archives.

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• For example, the end of the "Come Back" Arc had many tearing up big time.
• Tangerine and Lil'E. Nuff said.
• After learning that she put people in Hell, Nique tries multiple times to get some people out, but when it becomes clear she can't, she sends them cupcakes (which made them really happy). Then, she donated the money the Devil gave her to various charities, including some Slick had set up to help Squig with his gambling debts, allowing Slick to pay of the money Squig owed to Lil'E.
• This scene with Seymour and Lil'E.
• This.
• This Sunday strip from the Fuchsia and Criminy love story.
  • Especially touching as the story being told could very well be about Slick and Monique.
• The entire Devil Girl subplot is shaping up nicely as a CMOH for Criminy and Fuchsia (starting around here and coming up occasionally for several months). For example, observe this and this. And it just got worse! Dammit, I need a tissue!
  • And if digging a hole into Hell is what it takes, then, dammit, that's what you've gotta do.
    "Did you really come down here to save me?"
    "Yes. Well, no. Not to save you. ...just to be with you."
• This other Sunday strip definitely qualifies.
  • Doubles as a Moment of Awesome.
• This strip addresses Cursed with Awesome surprisingly sweetly.
• Take one CMOH, add in two "Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?"s. Mix thoroughly, and you get... this.
• This moment between Monique and God.
• "Emotopia needs hope." And they got it.
• After a week or so of comics regarding Armageddon and Apocalypses this strip was kind of sweet.
  • A number of the colour Sunday comics have their own special moments that you don't really find elsewhere in the strip, but these two that bookend a week, when put together, really make you smile. The second one works on its own, but when you take into account the Sunday strip the week beforehand, it adds a little more to it.
• Seymour's always saying he's the good guy. And once in a while, he lives up to it.
• "I'm here for you."
• He'll always take the shot for her.
• These three strips. (It's not necessary to read them in order, but it makes more sense.)
• HUGGLES!
• Pretty much anytime Chibi Buddha appears in the comic counts, but doubly so on the Sundays. For example, This one, or this one.
  • Or this one.
  • This one is quite sweet. Chibi Buddha really does have that effect on the strips.
• Look closely at the 'employee of the month' poster!
• Flowers.
• Remember when.
• And then there's this. Cynical as Sinfest can get, when Tatsuya Ishida wants to do sweet and heartwarming he can do it well.
• Fuchsia was having one of the worst days ever, and then...
• From devastated to elation, without a word spoken, in this strip.
• Baby Blue doesn't get as much Character Development as Fuchsia, and even less than that is sympathetic. But, yes, she'll risk the Devil's wrath to help her friend. And you know she's pulling triple^note One that's hers, one that's Fuchsia's, and one to fix the hope Fyoosh inspired. shifts to cover for her.
• After believing Percy left forever Percy comes back
• Calligraphy: Bros
• When you look into the abyss...
• You could perhaps call this one a Crowning Moment Of Heart-Rescuing; after 'Nique literally steals Slick's heart and is playing keep-away with it, it flies out of her hands and disappears into the hole to Hell. Slick loses consciousness, and so 'Nique climbs down the hole to retrieve his heart and fix it. Quite sweet. (Of course, then she gets a glimpse into it...)
  • ...And fixes it anyway.
• After Monique tells Slick she doesn't want to grow old and die, he tries to bargain eternal life, youth and health for her using his "Soul Credit."
• Tange finds a way to repay 'Nique.
• This is equal parts heartwarming and Tear Jerker. Go get the Kleenex.
• Fuchsia had been previously warned by Baby Blue to delete her wiki before The Devil found out about it. But as she is about to delete the video files, she pauses, takes a look around, and uncovers all the paintings she's been hiding all this time. She proceeds to march out of the Devil's mansion, blowing up the security alarm as she goes. The image on her computer that prompted the decision, as seen in the final panel? Her and Criminy lying under the tree together.
  • And she doesn't take anything with her except for one thing: a little book called "I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone it, People Like Me," by Stuart Smalley.
• A gluttonous suid hedonist puts aside his obvious trepidation against the local eldritch creature to come to the aid of his lionhearted but defenseless friend and a strangely temperamental tome of questionable literature. OR, to put it in less violet toned phrasing: Squiq saves Criminy and Tomey from The Devil.
• Baby Blue's loyalties are clear. Totally clear.
• "Would you like some tea?"
• "You are cool."
• Baby Blue being if you ever do anything to hurt over Fuchsia. On top of the fact that she spares Criminy, despite hating him, solely because killing him would hurt her friend.
• While it doesn't work out well for Story-Time Zombie, we finally get to see Fuchsia and Criminy's reunion.
• There are about three individual ones in this Sunday strip
  • Criminy and Fuchsia napping together
  • Story Time Zombie attacking Baby Blue when he thinks she's going to hurt Fyoosh.
  • "This is Blue. Could not find Fuchsia. Returning to base now. Over."
• Fyoosh finds the Zombie's cave.
• "I like you, Lily."
• Any strip centering on the Enlightened Drones. Their joy quickly becomes everyone's joy, except for the Devil and Blue obviously.
  • The world has many splendors indeed.
  • Especially these.
• Trike Girl and her gals making something better for just about everyone to enjoy.
• "No. That's- You don't have to... Thanks, though."
• This moment manages heartwarming, tear-jerking and Fridge Horror.
• They waved at me! Especially since whether a child or amnesiac, he liked the angels while innocent.
• There is something strangely sweet about this strip.
  • Aww, look. Seymour's finally decided to emulate his hero. You know, instead of braining people with his faith.
• You can stand under my umbrella.
  • And to our knowledge, it's the first time he's kissed her back!
• Even the devil won't let his son get mauled by his three-headed dog. Even though Li'l E lost his memory and became good.
• On the house.
• This. A tired meme, yes, but Nanna cheering up Xanthe is incredibly sweet.
• The Dragon is wounded, and a member of the Sisterhood helps him.
  • The follow-up has the same Sister see he's healed and ready to soar again.
• Tangerine saving Lil'E.
• Get. UP!
• Seymour showing up to check on Lil'E with cookies and inadvertently giving Lily and Tangerine a means of escape from Hell.
• Baby Blue helps out Fuchsia.
• Fight back... Fight. BACK.
• "No one would even notice if I disappeared from the... from the... the... the..." "I would notice."
• In a way, the fact that Xanthe actually reads some of Slick's attempt at a sexy but still feminist-and-LBGT-friendly screenplay and gives him constructive criticism instead of just an insult, making him realize that his heart is still suffering from being locked away in the process.
• Abby, I am so proud of you. Good job.
• Are... Are we still friends?
• When we see the day Blue and Fuchsia were hired by the Devil to work the mansion...it's not scary. Mr. D sees them having a rough time of things at the club (and maybe recognizes Blue from when they were teens) and picks them over the devil girls he's offered. Blue's reaction is what sells it. There's no dialogue, but you can just hear her telling Fyoosh "it's cool, I know this guy, it'll be okay now!"
• Sadtron needs hug.
• Absinthe's new platonic girlfriend
• Blue needs her fork
• Blue getting a "throne" for Christmas, followed by the Devil showing his respect for her.
• Fuchsia shelters Criminy from a storm.
• Blue cuts the feed of a Fembot attack so that Fuchsia wouldn't get spotted.
• Slick is happy for Absinthe and Nique, while judging from his reflection he must be upset about being replaced as her friend.
• The moment Slenderman went for Lil 'E, the drones set to work protecting him. Guess who's call that was?
  • Followed with the angel telling Lil'E his mother would be proud of him and his father was watching over him.
  • Afterwards The Devil is getting ready to shoot the angels, but remembering last time chooses to shoot elsewhere.
• Slick is down in the dumps because Demon Slick ruined the the meeting with his old friends and is dragging him into a strip club, Squigley sees Slick being thrown around and grabs his leg to stop him and Jesus casually strolls on by, forcing Demon Slick to run away. Plus, Squigley can't even sees Demon Slick, so it looks like Slick is being thrown around by nothing, but stills steps in anyways, because Slick is his friend.
  • Now in the "Hero" arc, Squigley joins Slick in his battle to exorcise Sleaze (Demon Slick).
• Blue gives Fyoosh a fair warning and compliment.
• Fuchsia wants to paint something in the walled-off Reality Zone despite being able to be inside for only 20 seconds. She decides to climb up over the wall. After serious hesitation, she gives herself the courage by quoting her gift from Criminy: "I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone it, People Like Me." After reaching the top and recovering from the climb, she sees a gorgeous panoramic view of nature.
  • Even more heartwarming, you see her making several attempts to last longer in there. The payoff on this comes during the Feminity mini-arc, when you see her just relaxing in the Reality Zone. What's notable here is that the first few panels are a Fembot being turned effectively human by the Reality Zone... and then you see Fuschia completely no-selling the Zone.
  • Even later, during the last arc of 2017, and the early arc of 2018, her painting easel and equipment have moved almost full time into the Reality Zone, and she's clearly not even affected any more.
• Being cheered on by Tangerine, Lil'E finally does his first "POMF" (or micro-BOMF). He and Tangerine dance all around to celebrate, and flip off the observing drones, presumably intending to flip off whoever was watching, including The Devil himself. The Devil, who really was watching, heads back home, into his secure vault, and uploads a new video: "first_bomf."
• Monique finally putting some serious thought into how Slick's been coping without her, hinting that she might try and make contact with him again, looking through old photos.
• Entourage gets Vainglorious a Devilmas gift. No surprise there. Vainglorious is mildly dismissive. No surprise there. He opens it and it turns out to be a music box. Vain LOVES it. Big surprise there.
• Nana reflects back on Lilith, nicknamed "Lily." She saw good in everyone. Including The Devil.
• The Way She Used To Be. Doubles as a TearJerker.
• Lil'E doesn't need to bow.
• Turns out, the Devil didn't relegate Vainglorious's painting to the tool shed after all. He has it in pride of place above the party hall.
  The Devil: I'm a great supporter of the arts. Always on the lookout for exciting new talent. Such as yourself.
• She will always be with him, in his most secure place. Right next to the door where he must never forget her name, lest he lose access to that which he misses most.
• At the end of the day he's still a dad.
• It isn't FATHER Time this year...
  • Also, she decides to answer a very familiar request...
• Despite the Redneck thinking that the xeno-lover is both stupid and annoying, he takes the opportunity to save his life despite how easy it would be to do nothing.
• These series of strips featuring Squigley drinking Chad Juice and temporarily becoming a chad, before being welcomed into a gym after it wears off. While the whole arc itself is kind of ruined by the presence of rather gross Straw Characters, it's still rather wholesome to see Squigley being treated with some sympathy after years of being dunked on as a Straw Character in his own right.

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