1 | For a webcomic that focuses heavily on adult humor and gaming and nerd culture, ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' does have its moments of sadness. |
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3 | * The last panel of [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/08/28/ the conclusion to Armadeaddon]]. The guy standing with Gabe and Tycho in the photo is Jim, an old friend of theirs. Jim came back as a skeleton in the story arc, so Tycho is remembering all the good times they had with him back when he was alive. |
4 | * [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/11/14/a-ring-and-a-prayer "A Ring and a Prayer"]], when a despairing [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] (in his ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' garb) begs Gabe, who is in tears, to shoot him at point blank range in the head if he really loves him. He complies. [[HarsherInHindsight It's even more gut wrenching]] in light of ''VideoGame/SonicBoom: Rise of Lyric'' becoming a critical and commercial flop. |
5 | -->'''Sonic:''' Do it. If you ever loved me, you'll do it. |
6 | %%* The [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/04/10/ end]] of the "Seventh Spring" arc. |
7 | %%* When you realize what happens to the two of them, [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/07/04/ this]] strip turns on the waterworks. |
8 | * Some of Tycho's words after the birth of his daughter are tearjerking and heartwarming at the same time. |
9 | -->"I need you to be thus armed because I fear your mother and I have played a trick on you; we have brought you to a place where [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism hidden weaponry is sometimes necessary]]. In our defense, and I recognize that it may be insufficient, this was the only world available to us." |
10 | * [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/21 Part 1 of the story arc Ripped From Today's Headlines]], the last panel is pretty heartwrenching. Tycho holding his dead wife in his arms, realizing that he just killed her, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and feeling really bad for it]]. |
11 | --> '''Tycho''': Oh my god. Oh my god. Please don't leave me. |
12 | %%* [[http://penny-arcade.com/2012/08/01/nathan This news post.]] |
13 | %%* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/09/07 Anti-anxiety medicine.]] Half TearJerker, half NightmareFuel. |
14 | * Gabe [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/11/30 teaching his son about Online Safety]] can really hit home to any parent watching their kid grow up. |
15 | %%* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/24 This]] strip (and the post for it) from Tycho on playing VideoGame/TheLastOfUs. |
16 | * [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/01/13/unhelpful-ism The result of Tycho playing]] the heart-rending game ''VideoGame/ThatDragonCancer''. Somehow, Gabe's glib reaction makes it worse. |
17 | --> '''Tycho''': A man has distilled his grief into a thick, bitter potion... and I have drunk deep. There is the man I was ''before'' That Dragon, Cancer, and now there is the wretched thing it has made of me... |
18 | --> '''Gabe''': At least it has dragons, right? You love dragons! |
19 | --> '''Tycho''': [[DudeNotFunny Get the fuck out of here!]] |
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