History TearJerker / MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans

** Meanwhile, Savarin Griffon can be seen begging [[spoiler:the lifeless body of the chief for forgiveness. Despite everything, he still felt he was working for the workers, and now the horn has sounded for war.]]

*** Goes into Meta as well: Creator/YumiUchiyama [[https://twitter.com/yuumin_uchiyama/status/691233892854947840 tweeted]] that she and some of the cast were in tears when they dubbed the sequence.

** When Mikazuki arrives to get Kudelia out of there; the poor girl, in clear denial, begs him to help Fumitan, [[PleaseWakeUp insisting she will make it.]] Mikazuki calmly tells Kudelia they must leave, he even has to drag her away from the corpses and carry her, all the while Kudelia keeps repeating Fumitan's name.
-->'''Mika:''' That isn't Fumitan anymore.

** When Mikazuki arrives to get Kudelia out of there; the poor girl, in clear denial, begs him to help Fumitan, [[PleaseWakeUp insisting she will make it.]] Mikazuki calmly tells Kudelia they must leave, he even has to drag her away from the corpses and carry her, all the while Kudelia keeps repeating Fumitan's name.

* The latter part of Episode 16 counts for two reasons: [[spoiler:first would be Kudelia seeing the massacre that unfolded on the rallyists of Dort 3 before her very eyes, while she carries a dying picketer in her arms; second, and the one which hits harder, would be Fumitan TakingTheBullet for the girl who apparently touched her heart most despite being instructed by Nobliss to lead her to slaughter.]]

* The fallout between Biscuit and his brother, the latter of whom feels that sacrificing Atra is a NecessaryEvil if it means protecting the Slums, and Kudelia and Fumitan, the latter of whom is revealed to be a traitor.

* The fallout between Biscuit and his brother, the latter of whom feels that sacrificing Atra is a NecessaryEvil if it means protecting the Slums.

** Which makea [=McGillis=]'s efforts to comfort Almiria about her insecurities all the more heartwarming--and all the more saddening considering he even says that with their situation and his line of work, this might be the happiest they're ever going to be.

* It was revealed that the reason why an ArrangedMarriage was forced on [=McGillis=] and his 9-year old fiance is due to political reasons: The Bauduin Family does not wish to give [=McGillis=] more political power in two of Gjallahorn's noble families, so they select a less influential family member (the fiance is the daughter of the Head of Bauduin's mistress). You can hear both party-goers and servants making snide remarks about how the fiance was barely out of her diapers.

** The surviving Human Debris from the Brewers start crying when Orga offers them protection under Tekkadan, citing that they would be treated well.

** The Tekkadan group tried to spare some of them, only for them to shoot them from behind and force them to fire back after some of their own are killed. Shino ends up crying later on over it.

* The fact that we can see that most of the Human Debris from the Brewers don't like their situation or working with them, but they still get killed off unceremoniously. It's the exact same position Tekkadan was in with Maruba, only they didn't have a way out.

* [[spoiler: Despite his best efforts, Akihiro fails to reach out to his brother. Masahiro has been so broken that hearing Akihiro having people he can call family now that it brings him to a DespairEventHorizon on his own worth as a human being, to the point he chooses to [[DrivenToSuicide let himself get killed ]] [[TakingTheBullet in an attack meant for his brother rather than escaping with him.]] ]]

* [[spoiler: Despite his best efforts, Akihiro fails to reach out to his brother. Masahiro has been so broken that hearing Akihiro having people who care for him brings him to a DespairEventHorizon on his own worth as a human being, to the point he chooses to [[SuicideByCop let himself get killed than to live with his brother.]] ]]

* [[spoiler: Despite his best efforts, Akihiro fails to reach out to his brother. Masahiro has been so broken that hearing Akihiro having people who care for him brings him to a DespairEventHorizon on his on worth as a human being, to the point he chooses to [[SuicideByCop let himself get killed than to live with his brother.]] ]]

* [[spoiler: Despite his best efforts, Akihiro fails to reach out to his brother. Masahiro has been so broken that hearing Akihiro having people who care for him brings him to a DespairEventHorizon on his on worth as a human being, to the point he chooses to [[SuicideByCop let himself get killed than to live with himself]] ]]

** [[spoiler: Even worse, it's revealed that Masahiro is working for a group of pirates who are fighting Tekkadan, though not by choice.]]

* Akihiro also has a tragic backstory in which he used to have a family. Not only were his parents killed by pirates, he and his younger brother Masahiro were abducted and sold off to slave traders separately as Human Debris. Akihiro even admits that he had forgotten about his past until he became a part of the Tekkadan family.

* Atra's backstory of how she came to work with Tekkadan shows how much abuse she had to put up in her previous employment (doing menial household chores at a brothel). That includes being bullied by the employers and being [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment deliberately starved for making so much as a single mistake]]. It got worse to the point where she ran away, only to be exhausted from hunger. If Mikazuki hadn't taken pity on her, she would have died of starvation.

* Atra's backstory of how she came to work with Tekkadan shows how much abuse she had to put up in her previous employment (doing menial household chores at a brothel). That includes being bullied by the employers and being deliberately starved for making so much as a single mistake. It got worse to the point where she ran away, only to be exhausted from hunger. If Mikazuki hadn't taken pity on her, she would have died of starvation.

* Akihiro also has a tragic backstory in which he used have a family. Not only were his parents killed by pirates, he and his younger brother Masahiro were abducted and sold off to slave traders separately as Human Debris. Akihiro even admits that he had forgotten about his past until he became a part of the Tekkadan family.

* Atra's backstory of how she came to work with Tekkadan shows how much abuse she had to put up in her previous employment (doing menial household chores at a brothel). That includes being bullied by the employers and being deliberately starved for making so much as a single mistake. It's gotten worst to the point where she ran away, only to be exhausted from hunger. If Mikazuki didn't take pity on her, she could have died from starvation back then.
* Akihiro also has a tragic backstory where he used have a family. Not only were his parents killed by pirates, he and his younger brother Masahiro were abducted and sold off to slave traders as Human Debris separately. Akihiro even admitted that he forgot about his past until Tekkadan became a part of his family.

* Crank's death in the third episode. He tried to end things peacefully for the kids still stationed on Mars and went behind his superior's backs in order not bring further bloodshed, trying in his own way to atone for the sin of murdering children. His death is in no way honorable as he's killed by Mikazuki, before even finishing his LastWords.

* Crank's death in the third episode. He tried to end things peacefully for the kids still stationed on Mars and went behind his superior's backs in order not bring further bloodshed, trying in his own way to atone for the sin of murdering children. The best he could get was a MercyKill from Mikazuki to avoid his men being punished as well.

* Crank's death in the third episode. He tried to end things peacefully for the kids still stationed on Mars and went behind his superior's backs in order not bring further bloodshed, trying in his own way to atone for the sin of murdering children. Mikazuki couldn't give two shits about his mindset and murders him in cold blood.