Fate/stay night/Heartwarming

""Of course I do... Not only do I STILL want to be hero, I WILL become one! You cannot because you gave up on your principles. I will NEVER become like you!!""
 * Fate/stay night had a ton of these in the final few episodes, especially 20 and 21. My personal favourites:
 * Rin laughing "Haha, you're so stupidly honest!! Just like Saber" at his dating-plan, then wishing him good luck, warmly stating "but that's what's so endearing about the two of you; I love you both so much.".
 * Ilya: "Hai hai hai! Ilya wants to meet in secret with Shirou too!"
 * Shirou about to take Saber's hand in the theatre when she starts imitating the onscreen swordplay, reminding him she's kind of scary.
 * The argument on the bridge, where Shirou tries so hard to convince Saber she deserves to allow herself a second chance, and she just won't give an inch. When he comes looking for her hours later, she's still standing on the bridge, lost in the emotions she refuses to admit she's feeling. Shirou half-pulls her back to his house where it's warm... and after a while, she steps closer to him. When she's been guarding herself so carefully, that smile they both have, and the way Saber takes Shirou's hand tighter when Gilgamesh shows up, speaks volumes.
 * Saber's attempt to cook for Shirou. * WHAM WHAM WHAM*
 * Saber wistfully sitting on the porch, wondering if she'll be able to read Shirou's future in the stars when night falls -- then scolding herself for acting like a lovestruck fairy-tale maiden.
 * Saber refusing Kotomine's offer to join him and finally admitting the truth: she'd rather have Shirou than anything the Holy Grail can give her.
 * Saber's simple faith in the face of Gil's taunting: "This was the right choice. I will not lose to a person like you. Shirou will not lose to a person like Kotomine."
 * And most of all, the post-date fight with Gil. I've never been as moved by a fictional romance as when Shirou, barely able to stand, screams to Saber that "There is not one thing I can replace you with in my heart!" And what Saber tells him when it's all over: "I finally realized it. All this time... you were my scabbard." (The fact that this turns out to be literally true only hurts the moment a little.)
 * The flashback to Saber's death showing Bedivere's desperate attempts to keep her from dying.
 * During Shirou and 's cataclysmic battle in Unlimited Blade Works, asks Shirou: "Is it really worth saving this sad and ugly world, when there is nothing left after it is saved? With all this death, cruelty and sadness, do you still WANT to become a hero?" With absolute sincerity, Shirou retorts:


 * Heaven's Feel route. Shirou's had a rough day; he's found out that

"Archer:"I found my answer. Don't worry Tohsaka, I'll do my best from now on too.""
 * The above reminds this troper of the (in)famous But Thou Must! [[media:Shirou_-_3x_Bring_Ilya_back.jpg|moment]]. Some people seem annoyed by it, but rather than creating another bad end which forces you to pick a certain choice as the game clearly does in other instances, the idea of being absolutely unwilling to abandon Ilya is so strong that Shirou literally has no other option is touching.
 * Let's face it, Ilya is just one gigantic unending CMOH in Heaven's Feel.
 * Almost immediately following this scene
 * The end of Heaven's Feel also provides one.
 * Earlier, in the Fate route
 * That leads into another one. While it's most apparent retroactively after Unlimited Blade Works, hearing is a first hint that maybe she's not as psychotically evil as she seemed...
 * Then there's the scene the night before the battle in Unlimited Blade Works. Rin had been acting weird earlier, so Shirou goes to see her.  That scene was the first of two times in the VN (the second being the True End of Heaven's Feel) that made this troper vocalize his feelings as such: "Awww..."
 * Archer's smile at the end of UBW. Just like when Kiritsugu pulled Shirou out of the fire ten years prior to the story, it makes you feel like Archer might have found his own salvation in saving Rin and Shirou, and the events of the route generally, after a long existence of pain, betrayal, and bloodshed.
 * Archer's smile at the end of UBW. Just like when Kiritsugu pulled Shirou out of the fire ten years prior to the story, it makes you feel like Archer might have found his own salvation in saving Rin and Shirou, and the events of the route generally, after a long existence of pain, betrayal, and bloodshed.


 * If that wasn't heartwarming enough, consider the fact that if you have the voice acting for that scene available in some way, you'll notice that when he says that, his speaking manner has changed back to the way they used to be. If you can tell the difference, its all the more apparent that Archer is freed, the cold, spiteful demeanor is gone, and
 * And you have no soul at all if the Last Episode of Fate/stay night Realta Nua doesn't make you at least go "aww..." The idea that  is one of the most affecting parts of writing in Type-Moon's long history.
 * The clincher?  And let me elaborate on just how heartwarming it is:
 * A minor one in Unlimited Blade Works: After Saber Archer points out that  Saber's reply?  It's subtle, but it proves Saber's absolute devotion and protectiveness towards Shirou and her insistence on staying loyal-- despite the circumstances mentioned above, as well as the fact that this isn't even her route and that she isn't the love interest, and it's what makes this a CMOH.
 * Heaven's Feel, Day 11's lunch. Shirou sets up what looks like a clumsy effort bound to only worsen the awkward tension between Rin and Sakura. However, the result when  is a very heartwarming (and faceburning) moment.