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* In a JLA story, Martian Manhunter takes the Spectre, with the rest of the team tagging along, on a mental journey to prove a point. They end up in a hellish dimension with warped, misshapen scenery, nightmarish laughter, and gangs of roving demons that even the Justice League are no match for. But J'onn then reveals that at the core of this madness is a small untouched sanctuary of peace and love. In it, a dorky but friendly man and his wife welcome the heroes to their home. The Spectre is enraged and uses his light on them, which will destroy any illusion or deception. Instead of being destroyed, they ''glow right back'', and the astonished Spectre realizes that this goodness is genuine. Where is this place? [[spoiler: In the mind of the Joker.]]
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** The after effects can be seen in ''{{Nightwing}}'' #139, the Brother vs. Brother issue. Tim and Dick end up physically fighting over the fact that Tim[[spoiler:wants to use a Lazarus Pit to bring back everyone he had lost at that point: his father, best friend and girlfriend. It ends with Tim accepting he can't use it and crumpling into big-brother Nightwing's arms for a well-earned Cooldown Hug. It's a tearjerker breakdown and a depressing reminder that a year and a half is a short time to lose three people you love.]]
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* ''FinalNight'' featured the death of former Silver Age Green Lantern Hal Jordan who, after years of controversy as insane anti-hero Parallax, makes a HeroicSacrifice to save the world... but not before visiting his long time love Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire and fellow former Green Lanterns Guy Gardner and John Stewart, and then paying respects to his other superhero BFF Oliver Queen, AKA: Green Arrow (who was dead at the time). Even fans who dislike Hal would have hard pressed to deny that the scenes dealing with Hal trying to make sense of how his life went off the rails as the story builds to his death are incredibly sad.
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* Creator/GrantMorrison ends his run on ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' with a classic one in "The Empire Of Chairs". Kay (Crazy Jane) Challis is subjected to electro-shock therapy which makes her just an ordinary person. She goes about an ordinary little life, getting more and more sad, until she leaves to - we think - kill herself. However, in a lovely pastiche of "It's A Wonderful Life", as she is apparently about to do so... Cliff Steele shows up at her side, and leads her - now smiling - off onto Danny The Street, who promptly dematerializes out of the series. Sad to happy tear-jerker in the blink of an eye!
** [[spoiler: The death of Mr. Nobody]].
** [[spoiler: The death of Mr. Nobody]].
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** And then there's the scene with Tommy and Sister Concepta at the grave of Pat Noonan, who was his surrogate father and her lover (yes, she's a nun).
-->'''Tommy:''' He was a great man, wasn't he, Connie?\\
'''Concepta:''' He was just a man, Tommy. He wasn't a great man, or a good man, or some kind of a saint. He did some decent things and he did some evil things. He killed people. Sometimes for his country, sometimes for money. Once or twice just to help his friends. He did what he thought he had to. He was no better and no worse than a lot of people who've walked this Earth. He was just a man. And I loved him more than God almighty.
** The ending of JLA/HITMAN: [[spoiler: a while after Tommy's death, Superman stumbles across the mostly-demolished wall of the Watchtower bathroom, and finds the facetious "Tommy wuz here" graffiti Tommy had scribbled there a few hours before the Crowning Moment of Awesome in which he had singlehandedly stopped a Bloodlines-alien infestation.]]
** And then there's the scene with Tommy and Sister Concepta at the grave of Pat Noonan, who was his surrogate father and her lover (yes, she's a nun).
-->'''Tommy:''' He was a great man, wasn't he, Connie?\\
'''Concepta:''' He was just a man, Tommy. He wasn't a great man, or a good man, or some kind of a saint. He did some decent things and he did some evil things. He killed people. Sometimes for his country, sometimes for money. Once or twice just to help his friends. He did what he thought he had to. He was no better and no worse than a lot of people who've walked this Earth. He was just a man. And I loved him more than God almighty.
** The ending of JLA/HITMAN: [[spoiler: a while after Tommy's death, Superman stumbles across the mostly-demolished wall of the Watchtower bathroom, and finds the facetious "Tommy wuz here" graffiti Tommy had scribbled there a few hours before the Crowning Moment of Awesome in which he had singlehandedly stopped a Bloodlines-alien infestation.]]
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* [[spoiler:Captain Marvel's redemption and sacrifice]] in ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', along with Superman's reaction. Also, the flashback to [[spoiler:Lois Lane's death]], and [[spoiler:Magog's HeelFaceTurn]].
* [[spoiler:The hypothetical defeat of the JusticeLeague and the destruction of Earth]] in ''Comicbook/{{Justice}}''. Everything in that sequence is painful to read: [[spoiler:Flash's utter failure to save his city, the gruesome death of the MartianManhunter, the boiling of Aquaman's oceans, the death of Lois Lane, the crushing of Wonder Woman, the destruction of the Earth and the survival of a tearful Superman who couldn't even lift a finger; even when it was a nightmare implanted by Brainiac and Lex Luthor into their fellow supervillains, it's really crushing how the possibility of such event could be greater than everyone expects, driving them to collectively attack and temporarily defeat the Justice League]]. Keep in mind, these are only the '''first pages''' of the introduction.
** When Zatanna and the Martian Manhunter find Aquaman's [[spoiler:maimed body. Keep in consideration that Brainiac removed the top of his head and his brain. At first, a worried Zatanna thinks that he is dead, but Professor Caulder (leader of the ComicBook/DoomPatrol) is able to restore his missing parts by submerging him in saltwater]]. This is one special story that actually shows Aquaman's full potential and drive '''as it should be'''.
** The [[spoiler:almost-death of Zatanna. The chase for Brainiac leads Zatanna to magically teleport herself and her companions right behind Brainiac's consciousness, which is jumping between bodies; it reaches outer space, where Zatanna (who is fully human) fades out from lack of oxygen. Superman basically has to burn through the atmosphere with the beautiful magician wrapped on his cape to make it in time to ground level, and make an enormous effort just to ''not to blow her up'' with his super-breath or crush her thorax by administering CPR]]. He succeeds, but the frantic pace of the sequence and Superman's [[spoiler:rush to save her]] is '''really''' painful to watch.
* [[spoiler:The death of TheFlash]] in ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. The fact that it had been foreshadowed for half a year up to that point didn't lessen the impact.
-->''"Th-there's hope... there is always hope... Time to save the world! Time... back in time... Do what you have to... we must save the world... we must save the world..."''
** From the issue immediately following, [[spoiler:{{Supergirl}}'s HeroicSacrifice]].
*** The subsequent Christmas story where [[spoiler:she briefly appeared after having been [[RetGone erased from continuity]]]]:
----> "We do it because it needs to be done. Because if we don't, no one else will. And we do it even if no one knows what we've done. Even if no one knows we exist. Even if no one remembers we ever existed."
* Issue #12 of the mini-series ''Ion: Guardian of the Universe'' was especially emotional. Kyle Rayner's [[spoiler:mother dies, at which point he uses his Ion powers to revive her. The real TearJerker moment comes when she asks him to put her to rest, and tells him she loves him]].
* From the more recent "Threeboot" continuity, there's ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' #11, when [[spoiler:Elysion has killed Dream Girl.]] Brainiac 5 places a force-field over her body, and informs the other Legion members present that he has a plan to save her, to beat death - by outthinking it. The others go off to try and stop Elysion from doing any more damage, while Brainiac 5 remains standing over his fallen teammate. The final page of the issue shows Brainiac still inactive, and Legionnaire Theena confronts him.
-->'''Theena:''' But sir, you said you had a plan to save her.
-->'''Brainiac 5:''' Not yet.
-->'''Theena:''' Why not?
-->'''Brainiac 5:''' ''(in a small voice, with tears streaming down his face)'' I'm not ''smart'' enough.
** The sorrow, frustration, and impotence conveyed in that one phrase is heartbreaking.
* The Death of Superboy in the fifth issue of ''InfiniteCrisis''.
** The after effects can be seen in ''{{Nightwing}}'' #139, the Brother vs. Brother issue. Tim and Dick end up physically fighting over the fact that Tim[[spoiler:wants to use a Lazarus Pit to bring back everyone he had lost at that point: his father, best friend and girlfriend. It ends with Tim accepting he can't use it and crumpling into big-brother Nightwing's arms for a well-earned Cooldown Hug. It's a tearjerker breakdown and a depressing reminder that a year and a half is a short time to lose three people you love.]]
** Also, that painfully depressing tribute issue of ''SupermanBatman'': written as a tribute to a young boy who died of cancer. The issue was written and drawn by '''26''' different artists at DC Comics, including all the big, well known guys, and concluded with a tearjerking Superman centric short.
*** It's worse if you know the story behind it. The boy in question, Sam Loeb, was Jeph Loeb's son. He had been asked to write that issue of ''Superman/Batman'' because it was about Superboy and Robin, but had only got as far as writing the outline before he died of bone cancer. It was at his funeral that the idea of the 26 (nicknamed because there were originally 26 of them and it was issue 26 of the comic) to finish it and get it out in his name. The writers and artists were from both Marvel and DC (Marvel having decided that it was bigger than any rivalry) and all profits went to establishing a fund in Sam's name. The Superman short was written by Jeph as a way of dealing with the loss of his son. The kicker? The note that Superboy finds, and is shown on the last page of the short, was the last note Sam wrote before he died.
* Similarly, the death of Bart Allen after his depressingly short stint as the fourth Flash. It's the fact that his last words to another character are "I think I love..." which really gets people.
** The reaction of Tim Drake to Bart's death (making him the last remaining member of the original "Young Justice" trio from the nineties) even more than Bart's actual death: A single page with no words and a dropped communicator, and Robin just sitting there in silence at the bottom of the page said more than the entire, ''disastrous'' arc had thus far. Even without Bart being mentioned at all in the rest of the issue, you ''knew'' what it was that had freaked Tim out so much.
** The death of Bart's speed-scout in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' which sends Bart into shock and makes him stop wanting to be a hero.
* ''FinalCrisis: Requiem''. ''Especially'' the ending.
** For that matter, the backstory of the MartianManhunter. Specifically the bit involving [[ThePlague how]] he became the LastOfHisKind.
** Not to mention Batman's tribute to Martian Man hunter in the tie in: silently unmasking and laying an Oreo on J'onn's coffin.
* The DCU Elseworlds comic, ''Created Equal''. A [[NegativeSpaceWedgie cosmic storm]] sweeps past Earth, [[{{Gendercide}} killing every male on the planet]] except for Superman. If Superman using his heat vision to carve in a Batman insignia on the grave marked "Bruce Wayne" doesn't get to you, then the dialogue between Martha Kent and her adopted son over the grave of Jonathan Kent will. Or the fact that Superman is forced to [[spoiler:leave Earth because his presence threatens to mutate the virus, killing the rest of the human population ''two days before his son is born'']]. And then the second issue starts with tragedy when [[spoiler:Adam accidentally kills his mother while hugging her]].
* This editor had barely heard of Comicbook/AnimalMan before ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', and he cried like a baby at [[spoiler:his death. It's made worse when he, being the Meta Guy he is, tells the others what the audience is thinking]].
** Many tearjerker moments exist in 52. Week 34, Day 7 finds [[spoiler:the Question]] in the hospital dying [[spoiler:of cancer]] as Renee Montoya looks on - on New Year's Eve, deliriously singing "Oh Danny Boy" in a haze of pain and morphine as the television counts down. 5... 4... 3... 2...
** The last few issues are chock-full of tears, some happy, some sad, especially with each twist of Skeets' fate, and the ultimate fate of Ralph and Sue Dibny. "Honey, your nose is twitching."
** Booster [[spoiler:getting the chance to say goodbye to Beetle, and saving the multiverse right afterward]]:
---> '''Booster''': Light up the whole damn sky, Daniel! ''This one's for the blue and the gold!''
*** On the subject of Booster, him having to [[spoiler:sacrifice Skeets to stop Mr. Mind]], particularly their last conversation. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Skeets got better.]]
* Mar'i "Nightstar" Grayson's very existence in an alternate reality is enough of a tear jerker in itself, considering Dick Grayson's relationship history, but worse is when Mar'i is asking about her grandparents. Yes, there is grandpa Bruce, but recall both Dick and Kori didn't exactly have much more than each other. Being told her Tamaranean grandparents are with X'Hal and the Grayson's are in heaven is one of those moments you just want to pick up and hug her. And Dick.
* The universe of the Crime Syndicate. It's a wonderfully comic book idea: evil counterparts of the Justice League ruling the world and fighting good counterparts of classic DC villains. However, it descends into pure horror and TearJerker with one detail about this world: because of the nature of their universe, ''evil will always win.'' Meaning that in this universe, people like Lex Luthor and the Joker can be redeemed, become more then their mainstream counterparts could ever hope to be... and constantly be thwarted by Ultraman and Owlman, and fight in vain for truth and justice in a world that is inherently evil.
** There is a hope spot though: as a side effect of the universe being reshuffled in a ''[[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]'' arc, evil doesn't always win there ''any more,'' but that also means good doesn't always win in the main universe any more, either.
* JusticeSocietyOfAmerica has a few good contenders - Jakeem Thunder's tearfully-rendered orders to the Thunderbolt to bring back Johnny Thunder, who'd died following the Ultra-Humanite battle. Then there's Atom-Smasher's death at the hands of TheSpectre, and Stargirl's reaction to it - she's a cutesy teen hero, and he's the older guy she has feelings for and idolized, so she breaks down in tears over his dead body. Then again when she spends an issue talking about parents (i.e. how her stepfather is a good one and her real father is a scumbag), only to find out that her birth father has died. Her reaction is to break into tears, and ask her stepfather why she even cares, unable to comprehend why she would feel bad for someone who "was never even there!" "Because you're a wonderful daughter." is the answer.
** there is also a more meta tear jerker there. Stargirl is based on the sister of Geoff Johns, who wrote JSA (and Stars & STRIPE); she died on flight [=TWA800=]. It makes me a bit teary after an Archive Binge of my collection to see this character go from a bit of a brat into a competent reliable mentor-ish hero and remember that he wrote her after his sister.
* The last story in the collected edition of "The Lightning Saga", which shows all of the personal meetings between Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. It shows all of the ups and downs (in one scene, Batman is talking about how he has found a new Robin named Jason and how happy he is), and it's all drawn in the styles of the some of the most memorable artists who have ever drawn in Justice League. How can you ''not'' shed a tear or two?
* Half of ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'' #47 (based on [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans the animated series]]) deals with Robin reminiscing about his parents on the anniversary of their death, with the other Titans coming in periodically to try and help him cope, each in their own individual way. The story ends with Robin going up to the roof of the Tower, taking off his mask and ''breaking down and crying'' before being comforted by Starfire, while off across the bay a concerned Franchise/{{Batman}} watches through binoculars, smiling and deciding that Robin's in good hands.
* The first canonical meeting of Superman and [[{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] in the ModernAge, "First Thunder". Billy's friend is killed by mercenaries (hired by Dr. Sivana) and Cap manages to arrest them and take them to the police headquarters. Upon taking his friend's body to the hospital and being told he is dead, Billy transforms to confront the killers and then Sivana. When Superman confronts Cap later on, Supes discovers that the mighty hero he had just recently met was really a young boy.
* The death of the Losers in ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier''. And the send-off they get from Johnny Cloud:
--->"Ask my family and they'll tell you I was a Navajo. Ask the Army Air Force and they'll say I was an American. But if you ask my brothers, they'll set you straight. [[InsultBackfire John Cloud was a Loser.]]"
** The story of John Henry, a black vigilante fighting the Klan in the South. His family murdered, he is eventually killed by the Klan after months of fighting them.
*** Even worse is HOW he dies: he's wounded and trying to escape a murderous posse, and he ends up in a back yard where a small white girl with dead eyes regards him, and then calls out to the posse his location...
* ComicBook/KingdomCome and JSA has been already mentioned, but what about that story, when the Superman from Kingdom Come is, right after [[spoiler:the nuclear explosion that killed the other superheroes]], transported to main DC-Earth, joins the JSA and when he returns home we can see what happened with him after the end of ComicBook/KingdomCome? [[spoiler:We seen him almost killing all ONZ members only to stop at the last moment, when he finds out that not all of his friends have died. He retires and spends the rest of his life peacefully - we see him raising babies with WonderWoman, attending on Batman's funeral and other stuff like that. Hundreds of years pass, until we reach the 31st Century - a multi-racial crowd is starring at the sky when ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} is flying by. An old, grey-haired man, using his own cape as a cloak and a cane to stand is among the crowd. And he is so damn proud it makes me cry.]]
** Agreed. One of the scenes taking place on main Earth is particularly sad. Kingdom Come Superman, after everything that happened to him for the last ten years, uses his vision to look over the world he finds himself in, only to see heroes flying around without a care in the world, visiting sick friends at a hospital, or showing kids how to fold a flag. You can practically feel his heart breaking.
* A recent arc in BoosterGold has him traveling back in time to watch himself at the funeral of [[HeterosexualLifePartners Ted Kord]], the second BlueBeetle. He just stands there, unable to say anything at all. He just collapses and starts to cry. We cut back to the present day, where Ted, now reanimated as a Black Lantern zombie, is attacking Booster Gold and Jamie Reyes, the current Blue Beetle. Booster eventually defeats the zombie Blue Beetle, with some of Ted Kord's old technology. At the end, Booster buries his friend again and says "Rest well, Ted. You'll never be forgotten." Booster's RobotBuddy, Skeets, replies "Indeed he won't, sir" and then proceeds to show a montage of all the memories that the two shared in life. The last page shows Jaime stating "I can be the Blue Beetle, but I can never replace Ted." Booster replies, "Maybe so. All you can do is be the best Jaime Reyes you can be. Everything else will fall in place. Best way to honor Ted I can think of."
* The ''WonderWoman'' story "[[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/130542.html Chalk Drawings]]" isn't really about Wonder Woman; it's about the suicide of a depressed teenage girl. And it's absolutely heartbreaking.
* In the climax of BlueBeetle, when he's finally facing down the Reach, we see Jaime decide [[spoiler:to make a heroic sacrifice.]] That's not tearjerking. It's pretty awesome, but not tearjerking. And then you see the Scarab, an alien intelligence designed to help the Reach conquer planets, completely agree to stick with him until the end, stating "Reyes[Friend]/Sacrifice[Good]. Scarab[Hero]" Yes you are, Scarab. *Sniff.* Yes, you are.
* A story where Zatanna has a nightmare and then convinces [[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Batgirl]] and Wonder Woman to go out clubbing and dancing. At first, the story seems like a cheery fluff story set in the past, but as the story goes on, it becomes more and more apparent that [[spoiler:Zatanna's nightmare was actually a prophecy of Barbara Gordon being paralyzed. Zatanna and Wonder Woman, knowing they can't fight prophecy, just wanted to give her one last perfect night.]] The tears really come when the story cuts to the present and you see how important that night was to her.
--->[[spoiler:'''Barbara Gordon''': I had the most wonderful dream. I was dancing...]]
* ''MadameXanadu'' #26 starts with a very young boy, Sammy, who drifts from place to place, who for some reason has an unbearable stench. Dogs are particularly angry at him at all times and he can't remember where he went to school, thoug he naturally drifts to playgrounds. In dreams, he's a brave space adventurer, whose only fear is the mysterious Space Witch that keeps popping in his dreams. And one snowy night, as he's escaping from another pack, one of he dogs manages to bite him... [[spoiler:and his foot comes off]]. Suddenly, the winds heralding the Witch swirl, and Madame Xanadu soothes the dogs and sends them home. Then, she gently asks him to trust her, and to show her where he sleeps. He takes her to the abandoned storeroom where he always sleeps, and she casts a memory spell to help him remember - [[spoiler:his mother, a teenage mother unable to raise him, descending to prostitution and drug abuse, left him in the storeroom to get her fix, telling him to wait for her. Turns out, he never left; all that remains of him is the tiny skeleton in the floor. Madame Xanadu soothes him, and tells him he can go now. Sammy sinks into his body, and finally goes to sleep forever.]]
* Early in Grant Morrison's ''JLA'' run, Professor Ivo and T. O. Morrow rig up a fake superheroine to join the Justice League in open tryouts -- Tomorrow Woman. The plan is to have her detonate a bomb that will wipe out the entire League at the proper moment. While she's chained up in "downtime," her creators gloat that they didn't even put the word "freedom" in her vocabulary banks. When the time comes, and the League is facing a major cataclysm, Tomorrow Woman sacrifices herself and uses the explosion to stop it. Superman finds her soon after, obviously the worse for ware:
-->'''Tomorrow Woman''': Duh-duh-d-d-don't... don't look at me...
-->'''Superman''': Why? You didn't have to sacrifice yourself. Why did you ''do'' it?
-->'''Tomorrow Woman''': I... I... word not present in vocabulary... word not present in.. present in vocabulary...
* Not a superhero, not powered by spandex, without the hero resurrection option, just a husband facing down a star-powered demon creature without thinking to save his wife: [[BlackCanary And then the very brave, very good Larry Lance... dies!]]
* The ''JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' story "Out of Time" which chronicles the final moments of the [[spoiler:third]] Hourman as he sacrifices himself to preserve the timeline and the universe [[spoiler:and to give the first and second Hourmen a chance to be a family again.]]
* IdentityCrisis. All of it.
** Especially [[spoiler:Batman and Robin. Orphans]].
--->[[spoiler:'''Alfred:''' I'm sorry Master Bruce.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Bruce:''' I'm sorry Dick.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Bruce (again):''' I'm sorry Tim.]]
*** [[spoiler:It took me a long time to read Sue's funeral without crying my eyes out. Especially when Ralph is so distraught he can't even speak and ends up losing his shape.]]
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* TearJerker/{{Superman}}
* TearJerker/BeforeWatchmen
* TearJerker/BlackestNight
* TearJerker/BrightestDay
* TearJerker/{{Flashpoint}}
* TearJerker/{{Lucifer}}
* TearJerker/TheSandman
* TearJerker/{{Starman}}
* TearJerker/{{Watchmen}}
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* [[spoiler:Captain Marvel's redemption and sacrifice]] in ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', along with Superman's reaction. Also, the flashback to [[spoiler:Lois Lane's death]], and [[spoiler:Magog's HeelFaceTurn]].
* [[spoiler:The hypothetical defeat of the JusticeLeague and the destruction of Earth]] in ''Comicbook/{{Justice}}''. Everything in that sequence is painful to read: [[spoiler:Flash's utter failure to save his city, the gruesome death of the MartianManhunter, the boiling of Aquaman's oceans, the death of Lois Lane, the crushing of Wonder Woman, the destruction of the Earth and the survival of a tearful Superman who couldn't even lift a finger; even when it was a nightmare implanted by Brainiac and Lex Luthor into their fellow supervillains, it's really crushing how the possibility of such event could be greater than everyone expects, driving them to collectively attack and temporarily defeat the Justice League]]. Keep in mind, these are only the '''first pages''' of the introduction.
** When Zatanna and the Martian Manhunter find Aquaman's [[spoiler:maimed body. Keep in consideration that Brainiac removed the top of his head and his brain. At first, a worried Zatanna thinks that he is dead, but Professor Caulder (leader of the ComicBook/DoomPatrol) is able to restore his missing parts by submerging him in saltwater]]. This is one special story that actually shows Aquaman's full potential and drive '''as it should be'''.
** The [[spoiler:almost-death of Zatanna. The chase for Brainiac leads Zatanna to magically teleport herself and her companions right behind Brainiac's consciousness, which is jumping between bodies; it reaches outer space, where Zatanna (who is fully human) fades out from lack of oxygen. Superman basically has to burn through the atmosphere with the beautiful magician wrapped on his cape to make it in time to ground level, and make an enormous effort just to ''not to blow her up'' with his super-breath or crush her thorax by administering CPR]]. He succeeds, but the frantic pace of the sequence and Superman's [[spoiler:rush to save her]] is '''really''' painful to watch.
* [[spoiler:The death of TheFlash]] in ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. The fact that it had been foreshadowed for half a year up to that point didn't lessen the impact.
-->''"Th-there's hope... there is always hope... Time to save the world! Time... back in time... Do what you have to... we must save the world... we must save the world..."''
** From the issue immediately following, [[spoiler:{{Supergirl}}'s HeroicSacrifice]].
*** The subsequent Christmas story where [[spoiler:she briefly appeared after having been [[RetGone erased from continuity]]]]:
----> "We do it because it needs to be done. Because if we don't, no one else will. And we do it even if no one knows what we've done. Even if no one knows we exist. Even if no one remembers we ever existed."
* Issue #12 of the mini-series ''Ion: Guardian of the Universe'' was especially emotional. Kyle Rayner's [[spoiler:mother dies, at which point he uses his Ion powers to revive her. The real TearJerker moment comes when she asks him to put her to rest, and tells him she loves him]].
* From the more recent "Threeboot" continuity, there's ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' #11, when [[spoiler:Elysion has killed Dream Girl.]] Brainiac 5 places a force-field over her body, and informs the other Legion members present that he has a plan to save her, to beat death - by outthinking it. The others go off to try and stop Elysion from doing any more damage, while Brainiac 5 remains standing over his fallen teammate. The final page of the issue shows Brainiac still inactive, and Legionnaire Theena confronts him.
-->'''Theena:''' But sir, you said you had a plan to save her.
-->'''Brainiac 5:''' Not yet.
-->'''Theena:''' Why not?
-->'''Brainiac 5:''' ''(in a small voice, with tears streaming down his face)'' I'm not ''smart'' enough.
** The sorrow, frustration, and impotence conveyed in that one phrase is heartbreaking.
* The Death of Superboy in the fifth issue of ''InfiniteCrisis''.
** The after effects can be seen in ''{{Nightwing}}'' #139, the Brother vs. Brother issue. Tim and Dick end up physically fighting over the fact that Tim[[spoiler:wants to use a Lazarus Pit to bring back everyone he had lost at that point: his father, best friend and girlfriend. It ends with Tim accepting he can't use it and crumpling into big-brother Nightwing's arms for a well-earned Cooldown Hug. It's a tearjerker breakdown and a depressing reminder that a year and a half is a short time to lose three people you love.]]
** Also, that painfully depressing tribute issue of ''SupermanBatman'': written as a tribute to a young boy who died of cancer. The issue was written and drawn by '''26''' different artists at DC Comics, including all the big, well known guys, and concluded with a tearjerking Superman centric short.
*** It's worse if you know the story behind it. The boy in question, Sam Loeb, was Jeph Loeb's son. He had been asked to write that issue of ''Superman/Batman'' because it was about Superboy and Robin, but had only got as far as writing the outline before he died of bone cancer. It was at his funeral that the idea of the 26 (nicknamed because there were originally 26 of them and it was issue 26 of the comic) to finish it and get it out in his name. The writers and artists were from both Marvel and DC (Marvel having decided that it was bigger than any rivalry) and all profits went to establishing a fund in Sam's name. The Superman short was written by Jeph as a way of dealing with the loss of his son. The kicker? The note that Superboy finds, and is shown on the last page of the short, was the last note Sam wrote before he died.
* Similarly, the death of Bart Allen after his depressingly short stint as the fourth Flash. It's the fact that his last words to another character are "I think I love..." which really gets people.
** The reaction of Tim Drake to Bart's death (making him the last remaining member of the original "Young Justice" trio from the nineties) even more than Bart's actual death: A single page with no words and a dropped communicator, and Robin just sitting there in silence at the bottom of the page said more than the entire, ''disastrous'' arc had thus far. Even without Bart being mentioned at all in the rest of the issue, you ''knew'' what it was that had freaked Tim out so much.
** The death of Bart's speed-scout in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' which sends Bart into shock and makes him stop wanting to be a hero.
* ''FinalCrisis: Requiem''. ''Especially'' the ending.
** For that matter, the backstory of the MartianManhunter. Specifically the bit involving [[ThePlague how]] he became the LastOfHisKind.
** Not to mention Batman's tribute to Martian Man hunter in the tie in: silently unmasking and laying an Oreo on J'onn's coffin.
* The DCU Elseworlds comic, ''Created Equal''. A [[NegativeSpaceWedgie cosmic storm]] sweeps past Earth, [[{{Gendercide}} killing every male on the planet]] except for Superman. If Superman using his heat vision to carve in a Batman insignia on the grave marked "Bruce Wayne" doesn't get to you, then the dialogue between Martha Kent and her adopted son over the grave of Jonathan Kent will. Or the fact that Superman is forced to [[spoiler:leave Earth because his presence threatens to mutate the virus, killing the rest of the human population ''two days before his son is born'']]. And then the second issue starts with tragedy when [[spoiler:Adam accidentally kills his mother while hugging her]].
* This editor had barely heard of Comicbook/AnimalMan before ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', and he cried like a baby at [[spoiler:his death. It's made worse when he, being the Meta Guy he is, tells the others what the audience is thinking]].
** Many tearjerker moments exist in 52. Week 34, Day 7 finds [[spoiler:the Question]] in the hospital dying [[spoiler:of cancer]] as Renee Montoya looks on - on New Year's Eve, deliriously singing "Oh Danny Boy" in a haze of pain and morphine as the television counts down. 5... 4... 3... 2...
** The last few issues are chock-full of tears, some happy, some sad, especially with each twist of Skeets' fate, and the ultimate fate of Ralph and Sue Dibny. "Honey, your nose is twitching."
** Booster [[spoiler:getting the chance to say goodbye to Beetle, and saving the multiverse right afterward]]:
---> '''Booster''': Light up the whole damn sky, Daniel! ''This one's for the blue and the gold!''
*** On the subject of Booster, him having to [[spoiler:sacrifice Skeets to stop Mr. Mind]], particularly their last conversation. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Skeets got better.]]
* Mar'i "Nightstar" Grayson's very existence in an alternate reality is enough of a tear jerker in itself, considering Dick Grayson's relationship history, but worse is when Mar'i is asking about her grandparents. Yes, there is grandpa Bruce, but recall both Dick and Kori didn't exactly have much more than each other. Being told her Tamaranean grandparents are with X'Hal and the Grayson's are in heaven is one of those moments you just want to pick up and hug her. And Dick.
* The universe of the Crime Syndicate. It's a wonderfully comic book idea: evil counterparts of the Justice League ruling the world and fighting good counterparts of classic DC villains. However, it descends into pure horror and TearJerker with one detail about this world: because of the nature of their universe, ''evil will always win.'' Meaning that in this universe, people like Lex Luthor and the Joker can be redeemed, become more then their mainstream counterparts could ever hope to be... and constantly be thwarted by Ultraman and Owlman, and fight in vain for truth and justice in a world that is inherently evil.
** There is a hope spot though: as a side effect of the universe being reshuffled in a ''[[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]'' arc, evil doesn't always win there ''any more,'' but that also means good doesn't always win in the main universe any more, either.
* JusticeSocietyOfAmerica has a few good contenders - Jakeem Thunder's tearfully-rendered orders to the Thunderbolt to bring back Johnny Thunder, who'd died following the Ultra-Humanite battle. Then there's Atom-Smasher's death at the hands of TheSpectre, and Stargirl's reaction to it - she's a cutesy teen hero, and he's the older guy she has feelings for and idolized, so she breaks down in tears over his dead body. Then again when she spends an issue talking about parents (i.e. how her stepfather is a good one and her real father is a scumbag), only to find out that her birth father has died. Her reaction is to break into tears, and ask her stepfather why she even cares, unable to comprehend why she would feel bad for someone who "was never even there!" "Because you're a wonderful daughter." is the answer.
** there is also a more meta tear jerker there. Stargirl is based on the sister of Geoff Johns, who wrote JSA (and Stars & STRIPE); she died on flight [=TWA800=]. It makes me a bit teary after an Archive Binge of my collection to see this character go from a bit of a brat into a competent reliable mentor-ish hero and remember that he wrote her after his sister.
* The last story in the collected edition of "The Lightning Saga", which shows all of the personal meetings between Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. It shows all of the ups and downs (in one scene, Batman is talking about how he has found a new Robin named Jason and how happy he is), and it's all drawn in the styles of the some of the most memorable artists who have ever drawn in Justice League. How can you ''not'' shed a tear or two?
* Half of ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'' #47 (based on [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans the animated series]]) deals with Robin reminiscing about his parents on the anniversary of their death, with the other Titans coming in periodically to try and help him cope, each in their own individual way. The story ends with Robin going up to the roof of the Tower, taking off his mask and ''breaking down and crying'' before being comforted by Starfire, while off across the bay a concerned Franchise/{{Batman}} watches through binoculars, smiling and deciding that Robin's in good hands.
* The first canonical meeting of Superman and [[{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] in the ModernAge, "First Thunder". Billy's friend is killed by mercenaries (hired by Dr. Sivana) and Cap manages to arrest them and take them to the police headquarters. Upon taking his friend's body to the hospital and being told he is dead, Billy transforms to confront the killers and then Sivana. When Superman confronts Cap later on, Supes discovers that the mighty hero he had just recently met was really a young boy.
* The death of the Losers in ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier''. And the send-off they get from Johnny Cloud:
--->"Ask my family and they'll tell you I was a Navajo. Ask the Army Air Force and they'll say I was an American. But if you ask my brothers, they'll set you straight. [[InsultBackfire John Cloud was a Loser.]]"
** The story of John Henry, a black vigilante fighting the Klan in the South. His family murdered, he is eventually killed by the Klan after months of fighting them.
*** Even worse is HOW he dies: he's wounded and trying to escape a murderous posse, and he ends up in a back yard where a small white girl with dead eyes regards him, and then calls out to the posse his location...
* ComicBook/KingdomCome and JSA has been already mentioned, but what about that story, when the Superman from Kingdom Come is, right after [[spoiler:the nuclear explosion that killed the other superheroes]], transported to main DC-Earth, joins the JSA and when he returns home we can see what happened with him after the end of ComicBook/KingdomCome? [[spoiler:We seen him almost killing all ONZ members only to stop at the last moment, when he finds out that not all of his friends have died. He retires and spends the rest of his life peacefully - we see him raising babies with WonderWoman, attending on Batman's funeral and other stuff like that. Hundreds of years pass, until we reach the 31st Century - a multi-racial crowd is starring at the sky when ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} is flying by. An old, grey-haired man, using his own cape as a cloak and a cane to stand is among the crowd. And he is so damn proud it makes me cry.]]
** Agreed. One of the scenes taking place on main Earth is particularly sad. Kingdom Come Superman, after everything that happened to him for the last ten years, uses his vision to look over the world he finds himself in, only to see heroes flying around without a care in the world, visiting sick friends at a hospital, or showing kids how to fold a flag. You can practically feel his heart breaking.
* A recent arc in BoosterGold has him traveling back in time to watch himself at the funeral of [[HeterosexualLifePartners Ted Kord]], the second BlueBeetle. He just stands there, unable to say anything at all. He just collapses and starts to cry. We cut back to the present day, where Ted, now reanimated as a Black Lantern zombie, is attacking Booster Gold and Jamie Reyes, the current Blue Beetle. Booster eventually defeats the zombie Blue Beetle, with some of Ted Kord's old technology. At the end, Booster buries his friend again and says "Rest well, Ted. You'll never be forgotten." Booster's RobotBuddy, Skeets, replies "Indeed he won't, sir" and then proceeds to show a montage of all the memories that the two shared in life. The last page shows Jaime stating "I can be the Blue Beetle, but I can never replace Ted." Booster replies, "Maybe so. All you can do is be the best Jaime Reyes you can be. Everything else will fall in place. Best way to honor Ted I can think of."
* The ''WonderWoman'' story "[[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/130542.html Chalk Drawings]]" isn't really about Wonder Woman; it's about the suicide of a depressed teenage girl. And it's absolutely heartbreaking.
* In the climax of BlueBeetle, when he's finally facing down the Reach, we see Jaime decide [[spoiler:to make a heroic sacrifice.]] That's not tearjerking. It's pretty awesome, but not tearjerking. And then you see the Scarab, an alien intelligence designed to help the Reach conquer planets, completely agree to stick with him until the end, stating "Reyes[Friend]/Sacrifice[Good]. Scarab[Hero]" Yes you are, Scarab. *Sniff.* Yes, you are.
* A story where Zatanna has a nightmare and then convinces [[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Batgirl]] and Wonder Woman to go out clubbing and dancing. At first, the story seems like a cheery fluff story set in the past, but as the story goes on, it becomes more and more apparent that [[spoiler:Zatanna's nightmare was actually a prophecy of Barbara Gordon being paralyzed. Zatanna and Wonder Woman, knowing they can't fight prophecy, just wanted to give her one last perfect night.]] The tears really come when the story cuts to the present and you see how important that night was to her.
--->[[spoiler:'''Barbara Gordon''': I had the most wonderful dream. I was dancing...]]
* ''MadameXanadu'' #26 starts with a very young boy, Sammy, who drifts from place to place, who for some reason has an unbearable stench. Dogs are particularly angry at him at all times and he can't remember where he went to school, thoug he naturally drifts to playgrounds. In dreams, he's a brave space adventurer, whose only fear is the mysterious Space Witch that keeps popping in his dreams. And one snowy night, as he's escaping from another pack, one of he dogs manages to bite him... [[spoiler:and his foot comes off]]. Suddenly, the winds heralding the Witch swirl, and Madame Xanadu soothes the dogs and sends them home. Then, she gently asks him to trust her, and to show her where he sleeps. He takes her to the abandoned storeroom where he always sleeps, and she casts a memory spell to help him remember - [[spoiler:his mother, a teenage mother unable to raise him, descending to prostitution and drug abuse, left him in the storeroom to get her fix, telling him to wait for her. Turns out, he never left; all that remains of him is the tiny skeleton in the floor. Madame Xanadu soothes him, and tells him he can go now. Sammy sinks into his body, and finally goes to sleep forever.]]
* Early in Grant Morrison's ''JLA'' run, Professor Ivo and T. O. Morrow rig up a fake superheroine to join the Justice League in open tryouts -- Tomorrow Woman. The plan is to have her detonate a bomb that will wipe out the entire League at the proper moment. While she's chained up in "downtime," her creators gloat that they didn't even put the word "freedom" in her vocabulary banks. When the time comes, and the League is facing a major cataclysm, Tomorrow Woman sacrifices herself and uses the explosion to stop it. Superman finds her soon after, obviously the worse for ware:
-->'''Tomorrow Woman''': Duh-duh-d-d-don't... don't look at me...
-->'''Superman''': Why? You didn't have to sacrifice yourself. Why did you ''do'' it?
-->'''Tomorrow Woman''': I... I... word not present in vocabulary... word not present in.. present in vocabulary...
* Not a superhero, not powered by spandex, without the hero resurrection option, just a husband facing down a star-powered demon creature without thinking to save his wife: [[BlackCanary And then the very brave, very good Larry Lance... dies!]]
* The ''JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' story "Out of Time" which chronicles the final moments of the [[spoiler:third]] Hourman as he sacrifices himself to preserve the timeline and the universe [[spoiler:and to give the first and second Hourmen a chance to be a family again.]]
* IdentityCrisis. All of it.
** Especially [[spoiler:Batman and Robin. Orphans]].
--->[[spoiler:'''Alfred:''' I'm sorry Master Bruce.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Bruce:''' I'm sorry Dick.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Bruce (again):''' I'm sorry Tim.]]
*** [[spoiler:It took me a long time to read Sue's funeral without crying my eyes out. Especially when Ralph is so distraught he can't even speak and ends up losing his shape.]]
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