History TearJerker / DoomPatrol

* In the flashback sequence explaining what became of Dorothy Spinner and Kate Godwin in the interim between Rachel Pollack and John Arcudi's respective runs, Dorothy shoots down the suggestion of reuniting with her birth mother on the grounds that she gave her away. The suggestion that Dorothy is convinced she was given up for adoption because her birth mother never wanted her is downright ''painful'' and adds another poignant layer to how troubled and dysphoric Dorothy feels about herself .

* In the flashback sequence explaining what became of Dorothy Spinner and Kate Godwin in the interim between Rachel Pollack and John Arcudi's respective runs, Dorothy shoots down the suggestion of reuniting with her birth mother on the grounds that she gave her away. The suggestion that Dorothy is convinced she was given up for adoption because her birth mother never wanted her is downright ''painful''.

* A brief one, but when we see Will Magnus again during TheGrandFinale we are told he's been trying to rebuild the Metal Men, because he misses them that much.

* A brief one, but when we see Will Magnus again during TheFinale, he is trying to recreate the ComicBook/MetalMen but can't seem to figure out some key component, rendering him alone and depressed about having lost his friends.

* TheReveal that the Chief had organised the accidents that turned the OG team into freaks. To see a paternalistic figure and team mentor be revealed to be a ManipulativeBastard who never cared for them is probably the saddest, harshest moment in the entire series.

* When Robotman and Coagula share a body, Cliff briefly sees the bullying Kate suffered when she first began crossdressing when she was still biologically
a boy, and her classmates laughed at her. It's enough for Cliff, who had been InnocentlyInsensitive towards her, to apologise.

a boy, and her classmates laughed at her. It's enough for Cliff, who had been InocentlyInsensitive towards her, to apologise.

* Dolores' death, and the fact she spent 20 years searching for Flex [[ShootTheShaggyDogStory only to be brainwashed by the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E. and cause him to be captured]]. This causes Flex Mentallo to enter a brief HeroicBSOD

* The ending of the original Arnold Drake run, where the Doom Patrol choses to sacrifice themselves in an explosion to save a little fishing town. Doubles as a moment of awesome, which makes it all the more bittersweet.
** Slightly undermined by how pretty much everyone was revealed to have survived the explosion, or at least brought back from the dead.

* The original ending of the Drake, where the Doom Patrol choses to sacrifice themselves in an explosion to save a little fishing town. Doubles as a moment of awesome, which makes it all the more bittersweet.

* The truth behind why Dorothy Spinner's menstrual cycle affects her powers so much. Originally, Morrison implied it traumatized her because no one told her about puberty and she felt she had to kill her imaginary friends because she was too old for them. Rachel Pollack went back and revealed it was a lot worse than how Morrison put it. One day while Dorothy was still living in Kansas, she took a discarded dress out of the dumpster behind a dance school in her town and used it to make up a special dance in the woods (inspired by a book she read about tribal ceremonies in Africa). But some local boys saw what Dorothy was doing and started bullying her, throwing rocks at her until they saw blood was flowing down her legs. They started saying she was a "Monkey on the rag" and Dorothy ran home in tears, where her mother scolded her and said to Dorothy's face she should've aborted her. [[spoiler:And then Arcudi's run made this worse when it turned out Mrs. Spinner was Dorothy's ''adopted'' mother.]]