History TearJerker / TheOldGuard

* A [[Heartwarming/TheOldGuard heartwarming variant]] is Joe's concern for Nicky in the van while their captors tell them to shut up, followed by Joe [[RantInducingSlight putting the homophobic guards in their place with his eloquent declaration]] of [[BattleCouple his love for Nicky]].

* Joe's reaction after the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Keane ends with [[spoiler:Nicky being shot in the face as a result of desperately trying to keep Keane from hurting Joe. Even with their immortality, Joe is visibly close to tears seeing him dead on the floor, knowing that Nicky's healing could very well have randomly stopped just as Andy's and Lykon's did. When Nicky does resurrect, Joe all but collapses in relief.]]

* Booker's [[spoiler: 100-year exile from the group for his part in their capture by Merrick. [[RegretfulTraitor Booker did so out of a desperate hope that they might find a way for him to die and therefore reunite him with his dead family, but in doing do he put the rest of his Immortal family in danger and potentially jeopardized their cover]]. His exile is ''definitely'' not an easy decision for the Immortals, seeing as Booker's depression was hardly a secret and that they could have done better to help him and he helped their capture not for profit but out of desperation to find a way to die, but that does not change the fact that he betrayed the closest thing that he had to a family remaining; Joe is furious when he finds out that Booker was involved in their capture. And the fact that Andy is beginning to lose her immortality makes it less likely that he will ever see her again.]]

* Booker's [[OutlivingOnesOffspring recollection of how he saw his wife and all three of his sons age and die]] [[SurvivorGuilt and of the angry deathbed denunciations of his youngest son toward him]], and how he notes that, ''Just because we stop dying doesn't mean we stop hurting.'' [[TheAlcoholic His drinking and wistful expression make it clear that he's still grieving]].

* Andy is bitter that she sees the same old problems that she and her team have tried to resolve and she and Booker are both grieving their long-dead families while the likes of Copley and Merrick are too young to understand that, sometimes, what's best for somebody is not prolonged life.

* After the beginning mission that [[spoiler: turns out to be a decoy arranged by Copley]], Andy bitterly comments that, for all their efforts to help the world, it doesn't seem to work and that, if anything, the world is getting worse.
* Nile, upon learning that she cannot die, is frightened and bewildered... until Andy finds her, explains what she can, and even then Nile is devastated; she is heartbroken at the idea that her friends and family will age and die while she will not and the fact that she must not tell them or they will catch onto her secret.

* Booker's recollection of how he saw his wife and all three of his sons age and die and of the angry deathbed denunciations of his youngest son toward him, and how he notes that, ''Just because we stop dying doesn't mean we stop hurting.'' His drinking and wistful expression make it clear that he's still grieving.
** This makes Booker's betrayal of his family even more poignant; he reasons that if a medical industry can find ways to save life then maybe it can find a way to end it.

* A [[Heartwarming/TheOldGuard heartwarming variant]] is Joe's concern for Nicky in the van while their captors tell them to shut up, followed by Joe putting the homophobic guards in their place with his eloquent declaration of his love for Nicky.
* Copley's WhatHaveIDone after Nile chews him out for helping Merrick kidnap and torture her teammates just to see if immortality is medically possible; Copley, [[WellIntentionedExtremist who had lost his wife to a degenerative disease, had followed the Immortals in the hope that this would be a gift to humanity and to his wife's memory]], quickly [[HeelRealization realizes just how wrong he was to sell them out]] when Nile snaps, ''It wasn't your gift to give!'' From there, he seeks to atone for his betrayal.
* Booker's [[spoiler: 100-year exile from the group for his part in their capture by Merrick. Booker did so out of a desperate hope that they might find a way for him to die and therefore reunite him with his dead family, but in doing do he put the rest of his Immortal family in danger and potentially jeopardized their cover. His exile is ''definitely'' not an easy decision for the Immortals, seeing as Booker's depression was hardly a secret and that they could have done better to help him and he helped their capture not for profit but out of desperation to find a way to die, but that does not change the fact that he betrayed the closest thing that he had to a family remaining; Joe is furious when he finds out that Booker was involved in their capture. And the fact that Andy is beginning to lose her immortality makes it less likely that he will ever see her again.]]

* Andy's anguish that, even five centuries later, she still cannot find Quynh and her admission that she gave up.
* Quynh; she's [[spoiler: been locked in an iron coffin and trapped at the bottom of the sea in an undisclosed location for five centuries, drowning and coming back to life over and over, forever fighting desperately to escape]].

* Copley's [[WhatHaveWeDone What Have I Done]] after Nile chews him out for helping Merrick kidnap and torture her teammates just to see if immortality is medically possible; Copley, [[WellIntentionedExtremist who had lost his wife to a degenerative disease, had followed the Immortals in the hope that this would be a gift to humanity and to his wife's memory]], quickly [[HeelRealization realizes just how wrong he was to sell them out]] when Nile snaps, ''It wasn't your gift to give!'' From there, he seeks to atone for his betrayal.

* A [[Heartwarming/TheOldGuard heartwarming variant]] is Joe's concern for Nicky in the van while their captors tell them to shut up, followed by Joe putting the homophobic guards in their place with his eloquent declaration of his love for Nicky.

* Quynh; she's been locked in an iron coffin and trapped at the bottom of the sea in an undisclosed location for five centuries, drowning and coming back to life over and over, forever fighting desperately to escape.
** Andy and Quynh screaming for each other as their captors drag them apart, lock Quynh in an iron coffin, and Andy can do nothing but scream for Quynh and pull at her shackles until her wrists bleed

** This makes Booker's betrayal of his family even more poignant; he reasons that if a medical industry can find ways to save life then maybe it can find a way to end it.