History TearJerker / XMen

* X-Force #26 2008 run: The death of [[spoiler: Kurt Wagner, also known as Nightcrawler]].

* The one featuring [[CallingTheoldManOut Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Magneto]]. Even Beast and the Professor can't help feeling like shit for [[JerkAssWoobie Magnus.]]

--> [Gambit, eyes welling up with tears, puts his hand on Wolverine's shoulder]

* Professor X's face off with Magneto, and what Xavier is forced to do to halt his former friend's rampage. He basically mindRapes Magnus, invading his mind and making him relive his most horrific childhood memory. The way way Magneto pleads, like the child he was when it actually happened, is heartbreaking.

--> [Jean breaks down and cries]
--> [Gambit, eyes welling up with tears, puts his hand on Wolverine's shoulder] '''Gambit''': He's gone, mon ami.

* Professor X's face off with Magneto, and what Xavier is forced to do to halt his former friend's rampage. He basically MindRapes Magnus, invading his mind and making him relive his most horrific childhood memory. The way way he pleads, like the child he was when it actually happened, is heartbreaking.

-->'''Wolverine''': Don't tell me about God! What kind of God would let men do this to me?

-->'''Nightcrawler''': We are alike, you and I, angry at the world, and ourselves. My pain drove me to seek God. Yours drove you away.

-->'''Nightcrawler'''We are alike, you and I, angry at the world, and ourselves. My pain drove me to seek God. Yours drove you away.
-->'''Wolverine''' Don't tell me about God! What kind of God would let men do this to me?

** -->'''Nightcrawler'''We are alike, you and I, angry at the world, and ourselves. My pain drove me to seek God. Yours drove you away.
-->'''Wolverine'''Don't tell me about God! What kind of God would let men do this to me?

--> '''Mystique'''I don't deserve your...PRAYERS!

--> '''Mystique''''I don't deserve your...PRAYERS!

--> '''Xavier''': "Perhaps not in body, my children, but my spirit will remain among you, where it was always meant to

* The entirety of "Graduation Day," from beginning to end. Special points to the series' final lines:
--> '''Jubilee''': "Can he ever come back?"
--> '''Xavier''': "Perhaps not in body, my children, but my spirit will remain among you, where it was always meant to be."

--> '''Heather:''' [[HeartwarmingMoments It's okay...really...it's going to be all right]].

* Kōichi and Riko, [[spoiler: murdered by the Inner Circle, and just after they'd been cured of the virus no less]].

*** Despite being a stark-raving mad genocidal racist, Graydon's inner turmoil over being related to and abused by Mystique and Sabertooth as the normal son of two of some of the most villainous mutants in history is heartbreaking. Their horrible treatment of him kicked off his entire descent in mutant prejudice. Especially when he breaks out in angry tears as Nightcrawler tries to talk him out of his hatred when he tried to kill Mystique.

** Despite being a stark-raving mad genocidal racist, Graydon's inner turmoil over being related to and abused by Mystique and Sabertooth as the normal son of two of some of the most villainous mutants in history is heartbreaking. Their horrible treatment of him kicked off his entire descent in mutant prejudice. Especially when he breaks out in angry tears as Nightcrawler tries to talk him out of his hatred when he tried to kill Mystique.

** At the end of the Dark Phoenix Saga, as Lilandra departs, Professor X notices that their psychic bond has weakened somewhat. He asks her why, and the answer is heartbreaking:

'''Mystique:''' Sad? You want to talk about sad? I am a shape-shifted, an outcast even among mutants trusted by no one! I don't have a life of my own; I just steal little bits from other people's lives, but that's how I survive. So, there's your truth, "Son": I didn't want you! Still sad for me?\\

--> '''Heather:''' We mean you no harm...we only want to help you, you've ''got'' to listen to me...please

--> '''Heather:''' [[HeartwarmingMoments It's okay...really...it's going to be all right]]

-->'''Jean:''' I can't fight it, Scott - never every second of every day, not slipping not even for an instant! Scott, please, do it! (''Jean begins to cry'')

* Earlier in the same episode Xavier is having a HeroicBSOD over the defeat of his Xmen. Lililandra's adviser asks why she doesn't go to him and she replies:
--> The part of me that is woman wants to comfort him with every breath I take, [[TheChainsOfCommanding but an empress must be made of steel even at the cost of her heart]]

-->'''Jean:''' I can't fight it, Scott - never every second of every day, not slipping not even for an instant! Scott, please, do it!

* The death of [[spoiler: Kurt Wagner, also known as Nightcrawler]].

[the two kiss but with sadness on their faces]