Line #1 TearJerker/SuburbanKnights


1	* Ma-Ti's death.
2	** Critic's small, whimpery "no"when Ma-Ti dies. Even more heartbreaking because one might expect an hilarious, melodramatic BigNo to break up the sad.
3	** Also when he comes back into his house at the end and sees the coffee Ma-Ti fetched him sitting on the counter. The look on his face just breaks your heart.
4	** Even moreso during the ending montage where 'everyone was reviewing like usual', cut to Spoony trying to review ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''... and stops just to '''[[SayMyName scream "MA-TIIIIII!!!!"]]''' with the most heart-wrenching face he could muster.
5	** Critic sitting by Ma-Ti's body, his glasses off, his tie gone and looking completely and ''crushed''.
6	*** He also rips off his tie before running over. Out-of-universe Doug forgot to wear the tie so that was why, but he also said there was an in-verse reason which he didn't divulge. Seeing as how the tie and the glasses were the last two "Critic" identifiers left, [[FridgeHorror maybe it's another way of showing that he (Critic)]] ''[[FridgeHorror really]]'' [[FridgeHorror hates himself]].
7	*** If you sympathized with the Critic at the end of WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}, he was at least still wearing his glasses (albeit broken) and snarking, and you could take comfort in the knowledge that he wasn't fully broken. Here, he's ''completely vulnerable''.
8	*** It might sound weird, but the fact that he's still sitting in a kinda girly way just makes it worse.
9	** Also serving as a heartwarming moment, Critic kissing the Quaker Oats can at the funeral. Fuck how he treated Ma-Ti earlier, boy desperately needed a hug.
10	** At the funeral, Sage has tears in his eyes. ''Sage''--the only person who can scare Ask That Guy--is crying. Sage even said in the commentary that he got into a bad place so he could make the tears real.
11	*** Also at the funeral, Chick clinging to Creator/JewWario like she might fall apart if he lets go of her.
12	** Ma-Ti still got the Critic his coffee.
13	*** Even Lewis and Liz say in their commentary it's like a final stab in the gut.
14	*** The "from Ma-Ti" written on the coffee cup. It was probably just done to make the scene more clear, but it's still sad in a touching kind of way that Ma-Ti took a minute to leave the Critic a note.
15	** Critic lying on his bed alone, having no energy to do anything or even go back to his usual clothes. (Giving more credence to the "ItsAllMyFault so I don't want to wear my IconicOutfit" theory up above.)
16	** "Linkara... do you ever think we'll see Ma-Ti again?" God...he sounds so ''hopeful'', almost like a little kid (and coming from such a broken, cynical guy, that's really ''saying something'').
17	** In part five, Ma-Ti]sadly leaving for the Critic's coffee ([[HarsherInHindsight which will come back to bite the Critic later]]). The depressing music and the way he just opens the door with his head don't help.
18	* Even though he gets saved both times, Critic being willing to let Jaffers kill him when he still had ample opportunity to run away (unlike WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} where he was trapped against a fridge) [[DeathSeeker just doesn't sit right]].
19	* And if you thought the theme song and music video would offer lulzy relief, you'd be wrong.
20	** The rockiness just fades out into something sadder and slower, mirroring the story.
21	*** "I don't want to end this way/in our flight of fantasy/stand by my side/it will be okay..."
22	* We get more JerkassWoobie-dom from the Critic in the search for the Necronomicon. While he needs a slap for how he treats Chester, it's made incredibly clear that there's no way he's moving on from Ma-Ti's death.
23	** And if you've ever tried to give up something addictive, you'll know (despite his looking around in a haunted house) how Chester is feeling when he's forced to be sober and is telling Critic he's in a world of hell.

Context TearJerker / SuburbanKnights