History TearJerker / MAR

* Episode 10, TheReveal that Alviss tattoo isn't just decretive. It's actually a curse someone put on him.

* Episode 55, Alviss opponent Kouga reveals during their match that he had spent his entire life since childhood tormented by everyone around him for his "[[AttractivenessDiscrimination ugly]]" face. Kouga further explains that it's for that reason that he despises those people considered "good looking". The bitter man goes on to state that he is happily looking forward to when the Chess Pieces win the war, so he can make all the people who treated him badly suffer. While Kouga's motivations are still rather petty, it's not hard to at least feel some pity for the man.

* Episode 55, Alviss opponent Kouga reveals during their match that he had spent his entire life since childhood tormented by everyone around him for his "ugly" face. Kouga further explains that it's for that reason that he despises those people considered "good looking". The bitter man goes on to state that he is happily looking forward to when the Chess Pieces win the war, so he can make all the people who treated him badly suffer. While Kouga's motivations are still rather petty, it's not hard to at least feel some pity for the man.

* The beginning of the War Games in episode 16 "The War Games Commence". Team MÄR and several Cross Guards, along with one of the guards' former leaders Gaira arrive to participate. Sadly after the preliminary round's over. Ginta, Alviss and the others quickly learn that only Gaira survived the round.

* The sheer tragic and repulsive implications for King [[spoiler: aka the Orb's actions to possess Danna's body while the latter's soul unknowingly went to Babbo]]. Once he gets out of throne to finish the job, [[spoiler: he kills the majority of Team Mär, his own men and proceeds to mentally torture Alviss and Ginta with the false knowledge that the Leader of the Chess Pieces is their beloved idol and own father respectively. All while using the body of a noble hero as a cold hearted bastardization of his former self.]]

*** [[spoiler: This is made even worse by the sequel that reveals he was the father of TheHero Kai. So Orb not bastardized the legacy of a noble sorcerer, but this was the first time he ruined the reputation of a father.]]
* Episode 6, Edward's story. He explains that Princess Snow was the only child of a benevolent King and Queen. Her parents loved her very much but Snow's mother eventually became ill and passed away. Then Snow's father married a new Queen, who turned out to be a selfish and greedy WickedStepmother. When the King died Snow's stepmother took control of the kingdom. Edward tried to protect Snow from her, but the new Queen's people eventually caught up to them. Forcing Snow to put herself into magical stasis while Edward went to go find help.

* Episode 28 ends with the surprisingly sad death of Kannochi. Despite being a self proclaimed psychopath, not even having a sympathetic backstory to explain his cruel personality. [[AlasPoorVillain Ginta and the others feel genuine remorse when he expires]]. Kannochi even offers some parting words of advice for Ginta before he dies.

* Episode 95. All of it. The truth of Snow's existence is absolutely tragic and puts a lot of her words and actions up until that point in a much sadder context. Essentially, [[spoiler: Snow was never supposed to exist in MÄR Heaven. She is a magically created clone of Koyuki, made by Diana to serve her plans. Diana was going to sacrifice Snow and Koyuki and use the connection between their soul fragments to rip open a portal to Earth so she could conquer it. Snow had been locked up and all alone as a child, and constantly had visions of Ginta and Koyuki in the other world and wished nothing more than be friends with Ginta. She wanted Ginta to rely on her the same way he relied on Koyuki back on Earth but Snow just kept failing. By the time she realizes this, she experiences a DespairEventHorizon so bad she's willing to simply fade away and disappear forever. She's just a fragment of Koyuki's soul that was used and treated like an object instead of a person, destined to die to bring pain to others when all she wanted to do was help people. Ginta manages to pull her out of this despair with a CooldownHug and some kind words. Things get even more sad when she dies in his arms two episodes later after confessing her love to him.]]

* In episode 5 of the anime, when Alviss reveals that [[spoiler: Babbo once belonged to Phantom, the commander of the Chess Pieces]].

--> '''Kannochi''': (''as his body is almost completely melted'') Do your best. See? Don't you think it's nice to waste away after saying such a thing to your opponent...

** Halloween locking up Ian, explaining what his punishment for trying to fight Ginta against orders will be. Instead of being punished directly, Gido, the woman Ian loves would be punished in his place.

** [[spoiler: This is what makes the anime ending so heartwarming at the end. Snow is able to merge herself back with Koyuki to form the one single being they were always meant to be, in the process giving Ginta the means to defeat the Orb and resurrect everyone. At the end, Snow, now living as one being with Koyuki gets to be with the guy she loves. Her entire character arc is tragically sad but manages to find a happy ending.]]

* Episode 22 "Nanashi vs Loco and the Straw Doll!". During the battle, Nanashi notes that Loco reminds him of his dear friend Pirun. A young girl who Nanashi saved from the Chess Pieces, only for her to be killed along with everyone else when the thieves guild was wiped out.

* In the episode "To Caldia, the Land of Witches". The reveal that the woman whom Dorothy has been looking to kill is the Chess Pieces' Queen. Dorothy's [[spoiler: own sister Diana, who's also Snow's stepmother. The queen of kingdom Lestava]].