* ''Love and Capes'' is mostly a warm and lighthearted book, but Abby gets a genuinely heartbreaking moment near the end of #10:
-->"[[SamaritanSyndrome Fifteen people fell off the bridge...and I could only save fourteen.]]"
* The timeline where Evil Brain successfully kills Crusader, tearing a RippleProofMemory Abby's life apart where she wakes up in her apartment and no one remembers Mark. She goes back in time to save him, but worries she's failed while in disguise and her past self is on date number one with Mark. So Abby takes off her hologram, runs into past Mark's arms, and gives him TheBigDamnKiss as herself. She cries afterward as he has to disappear, thinking it's the last time she will see him, only to check her watch. It's midnight, and he was killed at 11:58 PM. ''She did it.''
* The death of Windstar in ''Ever After'' via HeroicSacrifice and the aftermath. Especially when Windstar's father painfully observes that the rest of the world doesn't believe that the death of a superhero is real...but it's real to him. There's a certain amount of Fridge Tearjerker, when you realize that the heroes can't just mourn the loss of their friend either. They have to subject his body to a large amount of invasive scanning and testing, making sure they aren't dealing with a clone, [[ShapeShifting a shapeshifter]], [[AlternateUniverse an alternate universe version of him]], or any number of other things - and the list of things to check for just keeps getting longer.