History TearJerker / KidCosmic

** Not to mention, another reason why he's holding off and convinces Jo to hold off telling Kid about it all not being real. He too wants to see Kid's parents, seeing how at least one of them is his own kid. It's clear that he's been given a SadisticChoice to either let his grandson live a lie, or tell him the truth and risk crushing his spirit.

* Papa G realizing on day one that he and the Local Heroes are stuck in a LotusEaterMachine. Why doesn’t he immediately tell everyone? Because he sees how happy the Kid is to finally be the hero he wants to be and have the adventures he wished to have. But Papa G also realizes that if the LotusEaterMachine world continues, sooner or later the world will create fake versions of the Kid’s parents and if nothing is done before then, the Kid won’t want to leave.
** Not to mention, another reason why he's holding off and convinces Jo to hold off telling Kid about it all not being real. He too wants to see Kid's parents, he misses them as well.

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* As with many a series finale, "Kid Cosmic and the Grand Opening of Planet Earth" is chock full of these:

Sometimes, being a hero can hurt.

* In Season 2, Jo abandons the team to join Krosh, and outright tells Kid that he sucks, to his face even. This unimaginably crushes Kid.
* In "Kid Cosmic and the Fallen Hero" Fantos defeats Jo steals all the stones and strands Jo in the middle of a desert planet. She starts to realize that her insults are likely the last things she'll have ever said to her loved ones, and the shot holds on Queen Xhan's rules to being a leader. Jo has no way of escaping and all she can think about are the impending doom of her friends and mother, and the pain she's caused them.

* In Season 3 "Kid Cosmic and the Planet Killer", Papa G is crushed by a lot boulders, leaving Kid to try and, tearfully, dig him out. We get a flashback of how things were when Papa G and Kid both dealing with the loss of Kid's parents, and how it took some time for them to heal together. Kid really doesn't want to lose Papa G, as he's his last living relative left and he deeply cares for him.
* Fantos is thrown into the same LotusEaterMachine that he threw the Local Heroes into and the first thing that happens is his mom coming back. He’s overjoyed that his mom came back for him (even if he ends up treating her the same as he did before) but then he has a realization. His mom hates him so he must be stuck in a LotusEaterMachine. Granted he did treat her terribly but it’s a bit sad that Fantos knows without a doubt that his own mother hates him so much that she wouldn’t come back for him.

-->''Kid:' "Because right now I feel... nothing. My real parents would never make me feel that way."

--->'''Kid:'' "Because right now I feel... nothing. My real parents would never make me feel that way."

* Papa G realizing he and the Local Heroes are stuck in a LotusEaterMachine. Why doesn’t he immediately tell everyone? Because he sees how happy the Kid is to finally be the hero he wants to be and have the adventures he wished to have. But Papa G also realizes that if the LotusEaterMachine world continues, sooner or later the world will create fake versions of the Kid’s parents and if nothing is done before then, the Kid won’t want to leave.

* In Season 3 "Kid Cosmic and the Planet Killer", Papa G is crushed by a lot boulders, leaving Kid to try and, tearfully, dig him out. We get a flashback of how things were when Papa G and Kid both dealing with the loss of Kid's parents, and how it took some time for them to heal together. Kid really doesn't want to lose Papa G, as he's his last living relative left and he deeply cares for him.

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* In "Kid Cosmic and the Fallen Hero" Fantos defeats Jo steals all the stones and strands Jo in the middle of a desert planet. She starts to realize that her insults were the last things she said to her loved ones and the shot holds on Queen Xhan's rules to being a leader. Jo has no way of escaping and all she can think about are the impending doom of her loved ones and the pain she caused them.

* In "Kid Cosmic and the Fallen Hero" Fantos defeats Jo steals all the stones and strands Jo in the middle of a desert planet. She starts to realize that her insults were the last things she said to her loved ones and the shot holds on Queen Xhan's rules to being a leader. Jo has no way of escaping and all she can think about are the impeding doom of her loved ones and the pain she caused them.

** Also the [[SequelHook Sequel Hook]] revealing four of the five survivors didn't survive their nemesis coming back.

* A rather subtle one with Chuck. When he uses his translator he's shown to be rather talkative and even philosophical at times but after he gives the translator to Tuna Sandwich, he's forced to speak in a much slower, harsher voice with [[YouNoTakeCandle broken vocabulary]]. There's just something tragic about someone that used to be rather eloquent losing the ability to speak the way they used to.

* Poor Rosa in "Kid Cosmic and y La Nina Gigantica". She's only 4-years-old. and honestly doesn't understand the ramifications of Chuck being an evil alien, so when she accidentally lets him go, Kid snaps at her, causing her to cry.

** For the aliens and the Local Heroes at the beginning of episode 10. Where they've lost the battle and are about to be locked up (and in the Local Heroes' case, possibly arrested), and the Earth Force Enforcement Force plus Biker in Black celebrate their victory ''in their faces''.