History TearJerker / GirlGenius

'''Gil:''' [[LonelyAtTheTop Well, that's how I feel]] ''[[LonelyAtTheTop all the time]]''. I always hoped I'd find -- not just someone to {{marry|ForLove}} -- but a ''[[BirdsOfAFeather real partner]]''. I've ''read'' about female Sparks all my life, but even in Paris -- ''Paris'', for pity's sake -- just finding ''any'' girl that I could really ''talk'' to... About things I was working on -- ''ideas''... ''Well''. But Miss Clay -- she had the Spark. And... she ''liked'' me. She ''did''. And I... liker ''her''.

* How about in "Agatha vs the Jägers"? Seeing a superhuman immortal hunter monster collapse into tears because he found the last scion of the family he loves and swore to obey, plus gets to go home? Their cause was literally hopeless...
-->'''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051010 Ognian]]:''' Ve haff missed you! Please, please be ''real!''\\

* After [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060306 Gilgamesh terrorizes Wooster in order to make sure Albia doesn't exploit Agatha after she flees there,]] he takes a moment to regret that he had to turn the man who had been his best friend into a minion.

** The novel expands upon the scene where Gil first meets Zeetha since she talks more about her father 'Chump', revealing that he disappeared from Skifander when she was barely a month old and that part of her reason for coming to Europa was to look for him. She's noticeably defensive and self-conscious, perhaps still feeling the pain of a child whose father walked out on them and their mother with no apparent explanation. To make matters worse, both the Foglios out of universe and certain comic panels in-universe have all but confirmed that 'Chump' is ''Klaus Wulfenbach,'' who -- after being betrayed and sent into exile by Lucrezia -- fell in love with Queen Zantabraxus, had lots of adventures with her, helped her regain her throne, got married and even started a family...only for it all to be ruined by having to flee Skifander (possibly not even intentionally) and likely never see his wife or daughter again in order to keep his son alive.

** The novel expands upon the scene where Gil first meets Zeetha since she talks more about her father 'Chump', revealing that he disappeared from Skifander when she was barely a month old and that part of her reason for coming to Europa was to look for him. She's noticeably defensive and self-conscious, probably still feeling the pain of a child whose father walked out on them and their mother with no apparent explanation. To make matters worse, the Foglios out of universe and certain comic panels in-universe have all but confirmed that 'Chump' is ''Klaus Wulfenbach,'' who -- after being betrayed and exiled by Lucrezia -- fell in love with Queen Zantabraxus, had lots of adventures with her, helped her regain her throne, got married and even started a family...only to have his new life destroyed by having to flee Skifander (possibly not even intentionally) and likely never see his wife or daughter again in order to keep his son alive.

** The novel expands upon the scene where Gil first meets Zeetha since she talks more about her father 'Chump', revealing that he disappeared from Skifander when she was barely a month old and that part of her reason for coming to Europa was to look for him. She's noticeably defensive and self-conscious, probably still feeling the pain of a child whose father walked out on them and their mother with no apparent explanation. To make matters worse, the Foglios out of universe and certain comic panels in-universe have all but confirmed that 'Chump' is ''Klaus Wulfenbach,'' who after being betrayed and exiled by Lucrezia fell in love, married and started a family with Queen Zantabraxus, only to have his new life destroyed by having to flee Skifander (possibly not even intentionally) and likely never see his wife or daughter again in order to keep his son alive.

** The picture of Carson's reaction to seeing his dead son's body clinging to the corpse of Klaus Barry is... [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070813 distressing]] especially since the way they died would make an open casket funeral impossible. In the same vein, Agatha realizing that [[spoiler:her mother (intentionally?) murdered her own son, Agatha's older brother.]]

* After [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060306 Gilgamesh terrorizes Wooster in order to make sure Albion doesn't exploit Agatha after she flees there,]] he takes a moment to regret that he had to turn the man who had been his best friend into a minion.

-->Agatha waited for Lars to finish, and then saw that he had.

-->"Except of course, when they ''do'' manage to kill themselves. My cousin, Zoniax, she was so much faster than I'll ''ever'' be. But they gave her... they let her..." She broke down sobbing. Before she knew what she was doing, Agatha found herself cradling the crying girl in her arms.

* ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheSiegeOfMechanicsburg'' gives a much sadder context to [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121024 this scene]] by showing Klaus' thoughts (before revealing [[spoiler:Lucrezia's hand in the deed]]):