Season 1
- At the end of "Heavy Mortal Hopes", Terra watches Beatrix’s Instagram story and sees how Riven and Dane mock her weight and fondness for flowers. The poor girl is driven to tears.
- After showing nothing but contempt to the Winx for most of the season, Stella breaks down to Musa in "Wither Into the Truth" about the emotional abuse her mother Luna puts her through, to the point where her powers are now taking a toll. She even reveals that the incident with her previous roommate was a genuine accident; Luna pressured her into saying she did it on purpose, as to save face.
- In "A Fanatic Heart", Sam is severely injured by a Burned One and Musa avoids him. When Terra calls her out on it, she explains that her mother died last year and how her powers picked up everything her mother was feeling in those final moments. The experience of losing someone she cared about (and having to endure their pain as a result) traumatized Musa so badly that she practically begs for Terra not to put her through that again.Musa: My mom died last year, Terra. And I was with her, and I felt it. The moment it happened. I felt everything she felt. (voice starts to break) That's why I can't talk about my family, and that's why I can't be with Sam now. I can't feel it, please don't make me feel it again!
- Bloom telling her parents the truth about herself, that their real daughter never survived and she's a changeling. The entire scene plays out without dialogue, but it's as heartbreaking as you can imagine for anyone who's been told their child was dead. Looking over old baby photos and a handprint taken after she was born, realizing the real Bloom never came home. Though it's also heartwarming as they accept that the Bloom in front of them is still the girl they'd raised and loved her entire life, hugging her and accepting her powers and her friends with open arms.
Season 2
- While it's not unwarranted, seeing Beatrix knocked down a peg is rather sad. Dane abandons her for other people, and Riven breaks it off with her when she snitches on him knowing something about Silva's rescue (and even that was done because her boyfriend and adoptive father were being strangled to death by Rosalind).
- Sky coming back from a confrontation between Andreas and Silva. The former was under Sebastian's mind control, and would have killed the latter. So Sky had to kill his biological father, whom he had originally thought dead until recently, and now lose him all over again. He stumbles into the courtyard catatonic, and Bloom can only hold him.
- And in the flashback to the event itself, Sky lets out a howl of pain and anguish that is heartbreaking to listen to.
- How does Aisha find out that Grey is actually a mole? Queen Luna reveals it to her while she's appearing as a character witness for Bloom. And for an added Kick the Dog, Aisha had been arguing on Bloom's behalf with the basis that she was a good judge of character, so Luna taunts her that she clearly isn't. Aisha tries to remain stoic as she leaves the room, but it's clear she's devastated. Stella and Bloom want to comfort her, but they have to stay to finish the interview.
- Luna's Kick the Dog extends to her own daughter as well. She quotes a letter Stella had written, in which she described bloom as a ticking time bomb likely to explode at any minute. Stella only wrote that to get back into her mother's good graces, and didn't mean it, but she looks so ashamed to have those words read aloud in front of her friend. It's even sadder that, although it stings Bloom to hear it, she agrees.
- Bloom's punishment for her murder of Rosalind - being put in stasis for twenty years immediately! She's taken from the office and doesn't even get to say goodbye to her friends. Stella can only break the news to them in the suite, and a heartbroken Aisha collapses crying in her arms.
- Although Farah comes Back from the Dead to act as an advisor, she can't stay permanently, and her departure is very bittersweet. The girls had believed her to be missing for most of the year, found out she was killed and now they have to lose her all over again. Bloom sounds like a scared little girl as she asks her headmistress for one last hug.
- And even though Bloom finding out she's dead is intended more as Paranoia Fuel over what she might do with her powers, the way she says "it can't be possible" tells us that she could never have imagined that her headmistress wouldn't be alive somewhere. She'd just begun to see Rosalind as Good Is Not Soft, but now she has a Broken Pedestal to deal with as well as the loss of another mother figure.
- Beatrix reveals information she got from Sebastian in exchange for betraying the others - she had two sisters in Aster Dell, who are alive out there. In contrast to her normal snarking and manipulation, she sounds so vulnerable as she pleads with Stella to understand. Stella for her part understands but can't let Beatrix forget that she betrayed them for the sake of herself.Beatrix: I didn't have anyone else.Stella: You had me.
- Aisha confronts Grey, and doesn't care that his feelings for her were genuine. He was her first love, and now all her memories of their time together will be forever tainted by The Reveal. He won't have that problem, because he never believed her to be anything more than what she already was."My first boyfriend. My first kiss. I hate that it was you."
- Beatrix's Heroic Sacrifice. She finally does the right thing, and is Killed Mid-Sentence by a petty Sebastian.
- Stella initially doesn't even notice when she comes in with the others. It's only when Sebastian mentions "Beatrix's sacrifice", and Stella responds with a confused "sacrifice?" before noticing the body in the corner of the room. She runs towards her, but then stops herself. She can't even grieve for her friend, because they have to stop Sebastian.
- And when the battle is over, despite the triumph in the girls transforming and defeating Sebastian to save the school, Stella just runs over to where Beatrix lies and starts weeping uncontrollably. Even Terra, who was bullied by Beatrix the previous season, looks sad as she comforts Stella.
- Although Flora is confident in her sacrifice - drawing the Scrapers to her so they'll be killed by the poison when they feed off her - her voice falters as she asks Musa if it will hurt.
- And in the epilogue, we see that she carries a nasty scar from the attack. For the otherwise cheerful Flora, it's quite sad to see her examining it.
- Bloom has to give up her friends, boyfriend and the new life she's found for herself - crossing into the Realm of Darkness to close the portal Sebastian opened. She can only tell Sky that he means more to her than anything, and writing him a letter was only because saying goodbye in person would be too painful.
- Aisha discovers Bloom's goodbye letter, and immediately hurries into their room, hoping Bloom is still there. Upon all the other girls reading Bloom's letters to them, they collapse in each other's arms.
