History TearJerker / DeusExHumanRevolution

** [[spoiler: Depending on the ending and your own personal morals, doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.]]
*** Depends '''heavily'''.

** Which leads to its own FridgeHorror, as the only way to find these notes are to steal their personal messengers, preventing the users from ever sending the mails [[spoiler: before Belltower kills them, anyway.]]

** [[spoiler: Depending on the ending and your own personal morals, doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.]]

** In [[spoiler:the deepest part of the laboratory]], you find one of the women from the prison, [[spoiler:already turned into a Hyron drone]], begging for a MercyKill... and there's nothing else you can do to help her.

* While in the Hengsha Court Gardens, some of the notes you can find in those single-person beds are downright heartbreaking. Particularly the email from a husband to his wife and child talking about how glorious everything is [[BlatantLies and how well he's doing]], and another one that's essentially a suicide note.

* In the police station when access to the morgue is needed [[spoiler: deciding to be social and getting access through Wayne Haas by choosing mostly ''Plead'' and choosing ''Absolve'' once was the epitome of a tear jerker.]]

** In the deepest part of the laboratory, you find one of the women from the prison, already turned into a Hyron drone, begging for a MercyKill... and there's nothing else you can do to help her.

* The entirety of [[spoiler: Hyron]] and its' role in the end. Where to even begin?

** IIRC, all you have to do is keep hitting [[spoiler: the drones]] with nonlethal weaponry or use the laser rifle on [[spoiler: Zhao]]. The ending doesn't change, but you don't have to kill them.

* The last exchange between Jensen and Pritchard. [[spoiler: He really cared about Adam's well being all along. It gets sadder if you think about the self-destruct option being the real ending]]

* A minor one, but searching the pods in the Alice Garden Pods during the first Hensha visit, you can find a email from a father to his daughter, describing his business trip as glamorous. Presumably not to worry her.

* In a way, [[spoiler: the ForegoneConclusion awaiting beyond the endings. If Adam lets Darrow's message out the people will learn of the Illuminati's existence and give up a promising technology in a desperate attempt to keep their freedom...only to be ruled from the shadows twenty five years later. If Adam trusts the Illuminati to be the leaders the world needs, they prove incompetent at their self-appointed task and let the world slide into Hell. If he trusts Sarif to defeat the Illuminati, then his boss fails and the Illuminati's successors find a way to control augmentation after all. If he kills himself and everyone in Panchaea, trusting humanity to make the right choices...it doesn't. No matter who Adam trusts, they will inevitably let him down.]]

** [[spoiler: To add even further insult to injury, you can also find Malik's corpse in an operating table in the Harvesters' hideout, meaning Belltower sold them her corpse to be stripped for augmentations just like they did with Sevchenko]]

* In "The Missing Link" DLC in [[spoiler:the secret laboratory area of]] Rifleman Base, you come across a young woman named Nina Sullivan, who is all of 20 years old and scared out of mind. While you can talk with her to and get information, due to your current circumstances, you're in no position to help her, despite her frantic pleas. Then there's an [[OhCrap Oh Shit]] moment when you are on your way back out, and she is gone. Turns out a very speedy guard transferred her (just her - yeah, you have to give the apparently rushed as hell plot a lot of leeway) back to the main cell block, and she's one of the ones you can choose to save. Phew. (there is a secret to save both the prisoners and the scientist, just google 'how to save the prisoners and whistleblower' or look for the vent on the right of the bottom fo the tower and shoot the gas canister inside the room it leads you to.)

*** But then the nice/neutral people won't talk to me anymore, either, because they're ''[[YouMonster scared]]'' [[YouMonster of me]]! Seriously, though, what does Adam ''say'' to these people to evoke those responses?\\
"So, how about this weather?"\\
"Augmenters have desecrated their own flesh! How can you even consider yourselves human anymore?!"\\
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"Do you know when the tram will reopen?"\\
"You were human once... Beautiful. Why did you do it?"

** His reaction as he hears the gunshot and sees her body sink to the ground speaks volumes.
--> '''Adam''': You ''bastard!'' '''FARIDAH!'''

** That last one is said by a janitor in ''Adam's apartment building''. He gets it even when he tries to go ''home'' for the night.

*** Looking through discussion threads on the game [[spoiler: will show that many many gamers who were previously in the middle of a PacifistRun took one look at the situation, said to hell with the pacifist run and went lethal to save her, even if it was just for that section alone. NO ONE TOUCHES FLY GIRL! JENSEN SMASH!]]

** [[spoiler: Some players didn't even realize that her death was preventable as they had been trading fire with the mercs since the section began.]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge I was still pissed though]]

** [[spoiler: To many, Malik's corpse being stripped for augmentations was the breaking point of their pacifist runs, rather than her murder.]]
** Just FOUR words: [[spoiler: "Any time, fly girl."]].
*** Arguably a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, that. [[spoiler: especially if you manage to do it ''without killing any Belltower mooks.'']]

** [[spoiler: depending on the ending and your own personal morals, doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.]]
* [[spoiler: you return to Detroit and the riots have broken out]]. After playing the first game and reading that [[spoiler: aug research had disappeared in the face of controversy, and augmented humans were heavily discriminated against]], you realize at this part in the game that it's all downhill from here. You are literally [[spoiler: watching the world collapse from within, and it's all a long, slow slide to the first game's Crapsack World. ]]