Heartwarming / The Expendables

• In the first film, when the rest of the team decides that revisiting the island would be crazy, Jet Li's character, Yang, insists on accompanying Barney. When Barney asks him what's he's doing, Yang's response is "Friends die together."
• Barney may be a cynical and burnt-out Knight in Sour Armor, but upon seeing the joyous reunions of the Russian families with the fathers and sons he has rescued, for the first time in the series his cold exterior finally dissolves to reveal a genuinely warm smile, as if for the first time he felt that the battles he fought for meant something.
• Although not an "official" expendable, CIA Agent Maggie Chan reminds Barney at the end of The Expendables 2 with a warm grin.
  If you're in trouble, call me or you're dead.
• After Caesar gets shot, Trench shows up. The first thing he does is ask after Caesar's condition. The second thing he does is offer his help to Ross in taking out Stonebanks.
• In the third movie, both Barney and Galgo are prepared to take off on a Suicide Mission to try and rescue the young team, cue all of the other Expendables locked and loaded, not about to let their boss fly into death's embrace alone.
  Lee Christmas: You were stupid enough to get yourself into this mess! And we're the only ones crazy enough to get you out of it!
• Not much later, Barney reveals he has been listening to Galgo's story. The Motor Mouth Galgo is stunned speechless.