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* When Detective Ikari is in the 2D world with Tsukiko and he sees his wife, who tells him she is about to die? Cut to a scene of her flatlining holding a photograph of her husband.
** Made all the more powerful by his declaration "The reality is I have no place where I'm supposed to be" and yet he goes anyway.
* Despite the fact that Yuichi Taira is a {{Spoiled Brat}} who immediately and irrationally blames his less-fortunate classmate, Ushiyama, for his misfortunes, the relentless bullying he experiences simply because he happens to resemble Lil' Slugger is still sad. Yuichi tries to put on a brave face, but as time goes on, his paranoia starts to get to him and he begins to see everyone as conspiring against him, to the point that he's refusing to leave his bedroom and go to school. Then, when Yuichi finally snaps, he runs outside into a world he sees [[MindScrew full of bright colors and warped images]]...[[OhCrap and then he sees Lil' Slugger skating towards him]]...
* All Harumi Chono wants is to live a quiet, happy life after being proposed to by a fellow teacher. However, she's also having to deal with threatening messages being left to her by a local prostitute known as Maria. The twist? [[SplitPersonality Harumi]] ''[[SplitPersonality is]]'' [[SplitPersonality Maria]], and the more she tries to keep a handle on her multiple personalities, the more she finds herself blacking out and losing control of everything. By the time Harumi has her own encounter with Lil' Slugger, she's wandering the streets jerking around erratically (imagining Maria dragging her) while wearing Maria's wig and makeup smeared all over her face.
** The worst thing? Lil' Slugger attacking Harumi/Maria didn't fix her problems at all. In "The Final Episode," as the black goo Lil' Slugger has become swallows up Tokyo, Harumi/Maria is briefly shown wandering the streets again, with messily applied makeup and an empty, vacant expression on her face. [[DownerEnding And then she gets swallowed up too]].
* Taeko discovering by pure chance that her own father, whom she adored and looked up to had been taking pictures of her undressing in her room when she finds photos he neglected to delete. She then proceeds to destroy her own room in search of the camera and breaks down crying and vomiting, before becoming a runaway.
** Not helping is the fact that she was posting a "Happy Birthday!" message for him on his computer when she accidentally uncovered his perversion. Her innocence is nothing short of destroyed after that moment.
** Her refusals to call her father back, and vowing never to return to the house he had built for them so that she would never be confronted by the horrible memories there. And finally, her contemplating suicide as she looks over a raging river.
** Ultimately, she is attacked by Lil' Slugger, her home is destroyed in a landslide and upon waking up to her father sitting by her bedside in the hospital, she has become an amnesiac, not recognizing her father at all.
* Ikari returning to the streets of a devastated, eerily silent Tokyo, with the corpses of dozens of unfortunate victims lying around him as he ponders on the hellish scene.
-->'''Ikari:''' My God. It's just like after the war...
* Tsukiko apologizing to Maromi.
** The death of the real Maromi is very soulcrushing itself. The show saves us the pain of actually watching the little puppy getting hit by the car, but then immediately shows us the aftermath of its lifeless body lying on the road with blood splashed all over the place and Tsukiko (as a child) finding it. The scene can be particularly crushing for anyone who lost a pet that way.
*** More or less that she's holding Maromi's dead corpse in her arms, crying and apologizing for her mistake. Add to the fact that yes, Tsukiko ''is'' and ''isn't'' at fault for Maromi getting run over, considering she should have held onto his leash but didn't expect the cramp to be that horrible.
* [[GrandFinale "Goodbye..."]]
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