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* The entire last issue of ''Agents of CHANGE'' is a series of punches to the gut, as [[spoiler: Robo mourns Emma Armstrong, who he had to kill himself before her Biomega infection destroyed the world]].
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--->'''Robo''': I used to resent '''Mr. Tesla''' for keeping me cooped up.\\

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--->'''Robo''': -->'''Robo''': I used to resent '''Mr. Tesla''' for keeping me cooped up.\\



--->'''Jenkins:''' I ''know'' how this goes. There's ''no'' turning back. You have to do it.\\

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--->'''Jenkins:''' -->'''Jenkins:''' I ''know'' how this goes. There's ''no'' turning back. You have to do it.\\
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* Robo and Tesla's falling out in "The Deadly Art Of Science".
* In the very first volume, chapter 2, Robo gets a letter from the granddaughter of an old friend from the war telling him that her grandfather has died of cancer. This is intercut with a interview where Robo is asked what the hardest part of his life was. He tells the interviewer that the hardest part is that he is 83 and can do a ''great'' [[Radio/TheJackBennyProgram Jack Benny]], but no one knows to appreciate it anymore. It's pretty obvious what he's actually thinking about.
* TheReveal that Edison became evil because he wanted to be with his wife forever.
* Robo ultimately DidNotGetTheGirl as Helen ends up with Chen. He knows it's probably for the best as he is functionally immortal, but it still doesn't lessen the blow.
* There's an undercurrent of melancholy all throughout ''Knights of the Golden Circle''. It starts with Robo having spent fourteen years alone in a shack in the desert in a time that isn't his, and then he reveals to Doc Holliday and Marshal Reeves that he's dying - he barely knows them, but he's got nobody else to tell. He goes down fighting, but it's hard to see his battered head put in a box to unconsciously take TheSlowPath back home.
* Robo revealing to ALAN 2.0 that he and Tesla fought before he went on his mission in ''The Will To Power'' - and that it was the last time he saw his creator alive.
--->'''Robo''': I used to resent '''Mr. Tesla''' for keeping me cooped up.\\
'''ALAN 2.0:''' Was it also for your protection?\\
'''Robo''': '''Yeah.''' We just had different opinions about how much protecting an invincible super robot '''needed.''' It was hard for him, and I never made it any '''easier.''' Hell, we argued about it the last time we '''spoke.''' The '''army''' said they'd make my citizenship "happen" if I just did one '''little''' secret mission for them. It was an offer I '''couldn't''' refuse. But Mr. Tesla was a '''pacifist.''' I'd never seen him so '''angry.''' And then I never saw him '''again.''' (This especially hurts when you remember that Robo went on that mission in 1939 and Tesla died in January of 1943.)
* Jenkins demanding that Alan MercyKill him [[ZombieInfectee before he turns]] in ''The Vengeful Dead''.
--->'''Jenkins:''' I ''know'' how this goes. There's ''no'' turning back. You have to do it.\\
'''Alan:''' I don't want to.\\
'''Jenkins:''' ''They'' can't. They ''won't''. Before it's too late. It's ''got'' to be done. ''I'' can't help Robo anymore. ''You're'' Final Wolf now.
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