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** The events of AvengersArena and AvengersUndercover caused Nico to leave the group and not come back.

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** The events of AvengersArena ComicBook/AvengersArena and AvengersUndercover ComicBook/AvengersUndercover caused Nico to leave the group and not come back.
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* At the end of Issue 13 of Volume 2, Molly falls asleep on a bench just outside of the team's current base (The La Brea Tar Pits) and dreams about her parents, who are just about to take her to Disneyland. It's clear from the dream that even though she knows they were evil, Molly still misses her parents.

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* At the end of Issue 13 of Volume 2, Molly falls asleep on a bench just outside of the team's current base (The La Brea Tar Pits) and dreams about her parents, who are just about to take her to Disneyland. It's clear from the dream that even though she knows they that her parents were evil, Molly still misses her parents.them.
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* At the end of Issue 13 of Volume 2, Molly falls asleep on a bench just outside of The La Brea Tar Pits and dreams about her parents, who are just about to take her to Disneyland. It's clear from the dream that even though she knows they were evil, Molly still misses her parents.

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* At the end of Issue 13 of Volume 2, Molly falls asleep on a bench just outside of The the team's current base (The La Brea Tar Pits Pits) and dreams about her parents, who are just about to take her to Disneyland. It's clear from the dream that even though she knows they were evil, Molly still misses her parents.
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* At the end of Issue 13 of Volume 2, Molly falls asleep on a bench just outside of The La Brea Tar Pits and dreams about her parents, who are just about to take her to Disneyland. It's clear from the dream that even though she knows their evil, Molly still misses her parents.

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* At the end of Issue 13 of Volume 2, Molly falls asleep on a bench just outside of The La Brea Tar Pits and dreams about her parents, who are just about to take her to Disneyland. It's clear from the dream that even though she knows their they were evil, Molly still misses her parents.
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* At the end of Issue 13 of Volume 2, Molly falls asleep on a bench just outside of The La Brea Tar Pits and dreams about her parents, who are just about to take her to Disneyland. It's clear from the dream that even though she knows their evil, Molly still misses her parents.
-->'''Molly:''' ''(Dreaming) You're home.''
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* Issue 10: Karolina’s break up with Julie.
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** For her Grandmother's part, she simply wanted her children and grandchildren back so she was going to an extreme end to get them back. You can see how she still blames the pride children for sending them to their deaths, an accusation that manages to get to them since they still did love their parents even if they were evil. They ultimately make a decision to have the Avengers take her in because she'd keep coming after Molly and she was cloning super-villains.

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** For her Grandmother's part, she simply wanted her children and grandchildren back so she was going to an extreme end to get them back. You can see how she still blames the pride children for sending them to their deaths, an accusation that manages to get to them since they still did love their parents even if they were evil. They ultimately make a decision to have the Avengers take her in because she'd keep coming after Molly and she was cloning super-villains.super-villains.
* Issue 11: Somewhat mixed with CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming where the team finally tried to find Klara and bring her back, only to find out she's happy with her new foster dads and doesn't want to leave them. It's bittersweet because even though Klara's in a better place than everyone feared, she's not coming back because she felt she had no stability with the team and was in constant fear of getting killed all the time. The group decides to respect her decision, but Molly has the most heartbroken expression on her face as they leave. To make it even sadder, Klara's the only one out of everyone who's managed to find two adults that want to help her and hasn't succumbed to the belief all adults are potential supervillains.
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* In the vampire arc, we witness Karolina's deep self-hatred and hidden DeathSeeker attitude (she's willing to risk dying to save her friends because she doesn't want to be in the same world with monsters like their parents or risk becoming like them), the romantic tensions between Alex, Nico, Karolina and Topher, as well as Topher's deep cynicism.

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* Issue 6: Molly is constantly torn between her grandmother and her friends during the conflict, not wanting either side to harm the other. She clearly doesn't want to really leave her grandmother, but then she finds out that her her grandmother cloned her mother and that she intended to bring her father back too. It becomes too much for Molly to take so she simply jumps out of the window.
--> '''Molly:''' Can we go now?

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* Issue 6: Molly is constantly torn between her grandmother and her friends during the conflict, not wanting either side to harm the other. She clearly doesn't want to really leave her grandmother, but then she finds out that her her grandmother cloned her mother and that she intended to bring her father back too. It becomes too much for Molly to take so she simply jumps out of the window.
--> '''Molly:''' Can we go now?
window with Gert and leaves the other behind while she cries.
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* Issue 5: Victor complains about being revived by stating that he didn't ask for it after how he died, showing he still felt guilt over what he did to his nephew.

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* Issue 5: Victor complains about being revived by stating that he didn't ask for it after how he died, showing he still felt guilt over what he did to his nephew.nephew.
* Issue 6: Molly is constantly torn between her grandmother and her friends during the conflict, not wanting either side to harm the other. She clearly doesn't want to really leave her grandmother, but then she finds out that her her grandmother cloned her mother and that she intended to bring her father back too. It becomes too much for Molly to take so she simply jumps out of the window.
--> '''Molly:''' Can we go now?
** For her Grandmother's part, she simply wanted her children and grandchildren back so she was going to an extreme end to get them back. You can see how she still blames the pride children for sending them to their deaths, an accusation that manages to get to them since they still did love their parents even if they were evil. They ultimately make a decision to have the Avengers take her in because she'd keep coming after Molly and she was cloning super-villains.
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---> '''Gert:''' You came back for me. But you didn't wait for me. (...) We aren't... anything now. We can't be. But just yesterday, in my time, you were my...

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---> '''Gert:''' You came back for me. But you didn't wait for me. (...) We aren't... anything now. We can't be. But just yesterday, in my time, you were my...my...
* Issue 5: Victor complains about being revived by stating that he didn't ask for it after how he died, showing he still felt guilt over what he did to his nephew.
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*** If that wasn't bad enough, they sent Chase a box of Victor's personal affects only for Chase to open it and find his head.

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*** If that wasn't bad enough, they sent Chase a box of Victor's personal affects affects, only for Chase to open it and find his head.
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** Karolina started the day happy. By the end she's curdle up and sad as she tells her friends that she won't come with them.

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** Karolina started starts the day happy. By the end she's curdle curled up and sad as she tells her friends that she won't come with them.
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** Gert feels out of place. Her friends grew up and left her behind, so she's not only younger than them but to her it seems like Chase is just a grown man who ate her boyfriend yesterday. She can't bring herself to be with him since he's too old for her now, in her eyes.
---> '''Gert:''' You came back for me. But you didn't wait for me.

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** Gert feels out of place. Her friends grew up and left her behind, so she's not only younger than them but to her it seems like Chase is just a grown man who ate her boyfriend yesterday. She can't bring herself to be with him [[AgeGapRomance since he's too old for her now, now]], in her eyes.
---> '''Gert:''' You came back for me. But you didn't wait for me. (...) We aren't... anything now. We can't be. But just yesterday, in my time, you were my...
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--> '''Gert:''' You came back for me. But you didn't wait for me.

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--> ---> '''Gert:''' You came back for me. But you didn't wait for me.
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-->'''Chase:''' It was you all along, Gert. When we lost you, that's when everything started to fall apart.

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-->'''Chase:''' It was you all along, Gert. When we lost you, that's when everything started to fall apart.apart.
* Issue 3: Nico mentions that the others keep her grounded, keep her from feeling like she's become a bad person. So once all of them were gone, she felt herself falling into despair, so she'll go with Chase and Gert no matter what since she has nothing left.
** Karolina started the day happy. By the end she's curdle up and sad as she tells her friends that she won't come with them.
** Gert feels out of place. Her friends grew up and left her behind, so she's not only younger than them but to her it seems like Chase is just a grown man who ate her boyfriend yesterday. She can't bring herself to be with him since he's too old for her now, in her eyes.
--> '''Gert:''' You came back for me. But you didn't wait for me.
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* The series had a hell of a DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Chase is critically wounded, Old Lace is dead, and Nico has decided to flip off the only person with any interest in helping them. Klara points out how dire their situation is, and all Nico can do is offer halfhearted platitudes about how things will get better; the next page shows Klara curled up in a little ball of misery, suggesting that such platitudes did not work, and the very last page shows ''Chase on life support''...]]
* Volume Three Issue Six ends with [[spoiler: Xavin giving themself up, masquerading as Karolina, so Karolina will be able to stay on Earth with the other Runaways. Xavin willingly went with the Majesdanians in place of Karolina. The flashback shown makes it even more heartbreaking, Karolina doesn't want Xavin to go and they share one last kiss. Made worse because Xavin has never been seen since (and Volume 3 was released in 2009).]]

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* Victor [[spoiler:loses his mom shortly after he finds out he's the son of Ultron, so not only did he have the experience of finding out he was related to a villain and was programmed to be one in the future, but he loses the only other family he has.]]
* Volume 3, Issue Six ends with [[spoiler: Xavin giving themself up, masquerading as Karolina, so Karolina will be able to stay on Earth with the other Runaways. Xavin willingly went with the Majesdanians in place of Karolina. The flashback shown makes it even more heartbreaking, Karolina doesn't want Xavin to go and they share one last kiss. Made worse because Xavin has never been seen since (and Volume 3 was released in 2009).]]
* The third series had a hell of a DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Chase is critically wounded, Old Lace is dead, and Nico has decided to flip off the only person with any interest in helping them. Klara points out how dire their situation is, and all Nico can do is offer halfhearted platitudes about how things will get better; the next page shows Klara curled up in a little ball of misery, suggesting that such platitudes did not work, and the very last page shows ''Chase on life support''...]]
* Volume Three Issue Six ends with [[spoiler: Xavin giving themself up, masquerading as Karolina, so Karolina will be able to stay on Earth with the other Runaways. Xavin willingly went with the Majesdanians in place of Karolina. The flashback shown makes it even more heartbreaking, Karolina doesn't want Xavin to go and they share one last kiss. Made worse because Xavin has never been seen since (and Volume 3 was released in 2009).]]

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* [[spoiler:Gert's death in Issue 18 of Volume 2.]]
* [[spoiler:Old Lace's sudden cruel death in the "Homeschooling" arc, and Chase's subsequent HeroicBSOD where he's doubled over on the floor.]]
-->''"Gert. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry. Come back. '''Please''' come back."''

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* [[spoiler:Gert's death in Issue 18 of Volume 2.Alex [[spoiler:may have been a traitor, but Nico still didn't feel he deserved to die. She even tried a Resurrection spell to bring him back but it didn't work.]]
* [[spoiler:Old Lace's sudden cruel death Gert's [[spoiler:death in the "Homeschooling" arc, and Chase's subsequent HeroicBSOD where he's doubled over on the floor.Issue 18 of Volume 2.]]
-->''"Gert.** Made worse for Chase since [[spoiler:he saw her future-self die in the 1st Issue of Volume 2 and was working to prevent that. Instead, she died even earlier.]]
** And then there's [[spoiler:Old Lace's sudden cruel death in the "Homeschooling" arc, and Chase's subsequent HeroicBSOD where he's doubled over on the floor.]]
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I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry. Come back. '''Please''' come back."''
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*** If that wasn't bad enough, they sent Chase a box of Victor's personal affects only for Chase to open it and find his head.
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** Victor got drawn in by the Avengers and was killed during TheVision2015. Chase points out they don't even know ''how'' he died.

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** Victor got drawn in by the Avengers and was killed during TheVision2015.ComicBook/TheVision2015. Chase points out they don't even know ''how'' he died.

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* And then they have to explain to Gert how their group broke apart. The events of AvengersArena and AvengersUndercover caused Nico to leave the group and not come back. Victor got drawn in by the Avengers and was killed during TheVision2015 (Chase points out they don't even know how he died). Then the state came and took Klara, no doubt because Chase probably wasn't qualified to look after her after the above incidents, Molly was taken in by her grandmother, and Karolina went off on her own. Get herself is floored because she thought that they would always be a family, and that she considered herself the expendable member. Chase points out that wasn't the case:

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* And then they have to explain to Gert how their group broke apart. apart.
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The events of AvengersArena and AvengersUndercover caused Nico to leave the group and not come back. back.
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Victor got drawn in by the Avengers and was killed during TheVision2015 (Chase TheVision2015. Chase points out they don't even know how ''how'' he died). died.
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Then the state came and took Klara, no doubt because Chase probably wasn't qualified to look after her after the above incidents, incidents.
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Molly was taken in by her grandmother, and grandmother.
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Karolina went off on her own. Get own since she had nothing left.
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* Just seeing Nico alone and struggling to light a stove to cook noodles is a farcry from someone who had been part of two hero teams, both of which cared about her.

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* Just seeing Nico alone and struggling to light a stove to cook noodles is a farcry from someone who had been part of two hero teams, both of which cared about her.her.
* And then they have to explain to Gert how their group broke apart. The events of AvengersArena and AvengersUndercover caused Nico to leave the group and not come back. Victor got drawn in by the Avengers and was killed during TheVision2015 (Chase points out they don't even know how he died). Then the state came and took Klara, no doubt because Chase probably wasn't qualified to look after her after the above incidents, Molly was taken in by her grandmother, and Karolina went off on her own. Get herself is floored because she thought that they would always be a family, and that she considered herself the expendable member. Chase points out that wasn't the case:
-->'''Chase:''' It was you all along, Gert. When we lost you, that's when everything started to fall apart.
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* Just seeing Nico alone and struggling to ignite a pair of noodles to cook is a farcry from someone who had been part of two teams who cared about her.

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* Just seeing Nico alone and struggling to ignite light a pair of stove to cook noodles to cook is a farcry from someone who had been part of two teams who hero teams, both of which cared about her.

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* Volume Three Issue Six ends with [[spoiler: Xavin giving themself up, masquerading as Karolina, so Karolina will be able to stay on Earth with the other Runaways. Xavin willingly went with the Majesdanians in place of Karolina. The flashback shown makes it even more heartbreaking, Karolina doesn't want Xavin to go and they share one last kiss. Made worse because Xavin has never been seen since (and Volume 3 was released in 2009).]]

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* Volume Three Issue Six ends with [[spoiler: Xavin giving themself up, masquerading as Karolina, so Karolina will be able to stay on Earth with the other Runaways. Xavin willingly went with the Majesdanians in place of Karolina. The flashback shown makes it even more heartbreaking, Karolina doesn't want Xavin to go and they share one last kiss. Made worse because Xavin has never been seen since (and Volume 3 was released in 2009).]]]]

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* Just seeing Nico alone and struggling to ignite a pair of noodles to cook is a farcry from someone who had been part of two teams who cared about her.
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* The series had a hell of a DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Chase is critically wounded, Old Lace is dead, and Nico has decided to flip off the only person with any interest in helping them. Klara points out how dire their situation is, and all Nico can do is offer halfhearted platitudes about how things will get better; the next page shows Klara curled up in a little ball of misery, suggesting that such platitudes did not work, and the very last page shows ''Chase on life support''...]]

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* The series had a hell of a DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Chase is critically wounded, Old Lace is dead, and Nico has decided to flip off the only person with any interest in helping them. Klara points out how dire their situation is, and all Nico can do is offer halfhearted platitudes about how things will get better; the next page shows Klara curled up in a little ball of misery, suggesting that such platitudes did not work, and the very last page shows ''Chase on life support''...]]
* Volume Three Issue Six ends with [[spoiler: Xavin giving themself up, masquerading as Karolina, so Karolina will be able to stay on Earth with the other Runaways. Xavin willingly went with the Majesdanians in place of Karolina. The flashback shown makes it even more heartbreaking, Karolina doesn't want Xavin to go and they share one last kiss. Made worse because Xavin has never been seen since (and Volume 3 was released in 2009).
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** Even worse, their parents ''do'' care about them... which is the entire reason they [[spoiler:continue with their plan to help the Gibborim destroy the world. So their kids can inherit it.]] And later, [[spoiler:the Yorks parents are willing to blow up a chunk off New York in the past, after learning that Gert died.]]
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* The AdultFear present in this series is pretty damn scary. Realizing that [[spoiler: your parents are highly dangerous crooks]] who give absolutely no shits about you and are going to exploit the hell out of out you simply for their own gain is hard to take. Then becoming runaways and having no idea how to survive on your own (even with having jobs, it'd still be hard to make ends meet since people aren't looking for teens to have full-time jobs, excepting of course some...shadier jobs).

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* [[spoiler: Gert's death in Issue 18 of Volume 2.]]

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* [[spoiler: Gert's [[spoiler:Gert's death in Issue 18 of Volume 2.]]
* [[spoiler:Old Lace's sudden cruel death in the "Homeschooling" arc, and Chase's subsequent HeroicBSOD where he's doubled over on the floor.]]
-->''"Gert. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry. Come back. '''Please''' come back."''
* The series had a hell of a DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Chase is critically wounded, Old Lace is dead, and Nico has decided to flip off the only person with any interest in helping them. Klara points out how dire their situation is, and all Nico can do is offer halfhearted platitudes about how things will get better; the next page shows Klara curled up in a little ball of misery, suggesting that such platitudes did not work, and the very last page shows ''Chase on life support''...
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* [[spoiler: Gert's death in Issue 18 of Volume 2.]]

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