History TearJerker / SupermanTheAnimatedSeries

[[caption-width-right:350:''"The world didn't need a ComicBook/{{Superman}}. Just [[BadassBystander a brave one."'']]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"The world didn't need a ComicBook/{{Superman}}. Just [[BadassBystander a brave one.]]]]

-->'''Bizarro''': [[CloningBlues Me not Superman. You Superman...]] [[HeroicSacrifice Superman... save... Lois...]]\\\

** Krypton's destruction, which is made even sadder and poignant by the beautiful soundtrack. Right at the beginning of the cataclysm and the arrival of another earthquake comes this exchange:

** The episode has some pretty tragic RealitySubtext too. The original plan was to kill off either one or ''both'' of the Kents, only to have them brought back in a later episode. After Creator/JackKirby died in real life, however, and to keep a sense of actual cost to Darksied's invasion, the script was changed to kill off Turpin in order to allow the writers to give The King a send-off. All while making the final slate be even more beautiful as it states the episode was dedicated to..

* "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS1E4FunAndGames Fun and Games]]": Toyman is revealed to have a vendetta against Bruno Mannnheim, leader of Inter-Gang and uses toy based weapons to try and kill him. After Lois wrote an article that stated that Toyman is just another PsychopathicManchild, he first kidnaps Mannheim and then Lois and takes them to his lair. While [[TwoScenesOneDialogue Toyman has Lois conduct an interview with him, Clark and Jimmy find out about the connection between Mannheim and Toyman]]. It's revealed that a toymaker named Winslow Schott wanted to create a toy factory, but didn't have the funds to do so, [[DealWithTheDevil so Mannheim loaned him the money]]. Unbeknownst to Schott, the factory was a front for one of Mannheim's criminal schemes, and when the authorities found out, Mannheim was investigated but cleared of any wrong doing, [[FallGuy Schott on the other hand was arrested and found guilty of all charges, and sentenced to prison]]. Clark suspects that Schott became Toyman after leaving prison, but Jimmy says that he died a few months before parole, which is when Clark reads that he had a son, Winslow Schott Jr.:

* "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS1E4FunAndGames Fun and Games]]": Toyman is revealed to have a vendetta against Bruno Mamnheim, leader of Inter-Gang and uses toy based weapons to try and kill him. After Lois wrote an article that stated that Toyman is just another PsychopathicManchild, he first kidnaps Manheim and then Lois and takes them to his lair. While [[TwoScenesOneDialogue Toyman has Lois conduct an interview with him, Clark and Jimmy find out about the connection between Maheim and Toyman]]. It's revealed that a toymaker named Whinslow Schott wanted to create a toy factory, but didn't have the funds to do so, [[DealWithTheDevil so Manheim loaned him the money]]. Unbeknownst to Schott, the factory was a front for one of Manheim's criminal schemes, and when the authorities found out, Manheim was investigated but cleared of any wrong doing, [[FallGuy Schott on the other hand was arrested and found guilty of all charges, and sentenced to prison]]. Clark suspects that Schott became Toyman after leaving prison, but Jimmy says that he died a few months before parole, which is when Clark reads that he had a son, Whinslow Schott Jr.:

-->'''Toyman:''' That's right, Miss Lane. The toymaker had a son. But without his father the poor little boy was bounced from [[FosterKid foster home to foster home]] like a little toy that nobody wanted. A childhood is a terrible thing to lose, Miss Lane. [[[[YouKilledMyFather But I'm getting mine back. With a vengeance]].

** Superman's reaction to Turpin's death. He howls with rage and starts tearing Darkseid's machine apart. Up until this point, we've never seen Superman ''this'' angry before.
** The ending has Superman crying. Not that the ending wasn't such for the viewers as well...

* "Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS1E4FunAndGames": Toyman is revealed to have a vendetta against Bruno Mamnheim, leader of Inter-Gang and uses toy based weapons to try and kill him. After Lois wrote an article that stated that Toyman is just another PsychopathicManchild, he first kidnaps Manheim and then Lois and takes them to his lair. While [[TwoScenesOneDialogue Toyman has Lois conduct an interview with him, Clark and Jimmy find out about the connection between Maheim and Toyman]]. It's revealed that a toymaker named Whinslow Schott wanted to create a toy factory, but didn't have the funds to do so, [[DealWithTheDevil so Manheim loaned him the money]]. Unbeknownst to Schott, the factory was a front for one of Manheim's criminal schemes, and when the authorities found out, Manheim was investigated but cleared of any wrong doing, [[FallGuy Schott on the other hand was arrested and found guilty of all charges, and sentenced to prison]]. Clark suspects that Schott became Toyman after leaving prison, but Jimmy says that he died a few months before parole, which is when Clark reads that he had a son, Whinslow Schott Jr.:

* In "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E16To18WorldsFinest World's Finest]]", after Superman saved her and Air Force One from terrorists, Lois tries to discuss about their relationship, but Superman had to leave to deal with another crisis. Lois berates herself for thinking they can have a future together. Soon, she become smitten with Bruce Wayne, to the point where she decides to move in with Bruce in Gotham, and eager to marry soon. Until she found out Bruce is Batman, realizing he's MarriedToHisJob and doesn't want to spend the rest of her life worrying if he'll come home alive. Another relationship with a superhero she's not sure she can live with.

* The whole sequence at the start of [[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E27E28LittleGirlLost "Little Girl Lost"]], when Superman investigates the remains of his home planet, he comes across a distress signal that leads him to the frozen world of Argo. There, he finds a hologram of a scientist named Kala In-Ze, who explains that Argo had been the sister planet to Krypton. When Krypton was destroyed, it threw Argo out of their suns orbit, killing millions, and dooming the last survivors to a slow death of cold and starvation. Her surviving family was put in [[HumanPopsicle stasis]] and with tears in her eyes, she desperately pleads for rescue. The camera then pans to the pods, [[CryonicsFailure all of which have failed]]... except for Kala's daughter, Kara, the future Supergirl.

* The whole sequence at the start of [[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E27E28LittleGirlLost "Little Girl Lost"]], when Superman investigates the remains of his home planet, he comes across a distress signal that leads him to the frozen world of Argo. There, he finds a hologram of a scientist named Kala In-Ze, who explains that Argo had been the sister planet to Krypton. When Krypton was destroyed, it threw Argo out of their suns orbit, killing millions, and dooming the last survivors to a slow death of cold and starvation. Her surviving family was put in [[HumanPopsicle stasis]] and with tears in her eyes, she desperately pleads for rescue. The camera then pans to the pods, [[CryonicsFailure all of which have failed]]... except for Kala's daughter, the future Supergirl.