History TearJerker / IZombie

* Major's character arc coming to its first wall these season as he pushes Liv away and uses Utopium to bury his guilt over his current situation.

!Season 5
[[AC:5x09: Fresh Princess]]
* The VictimOfTheWeek is a pageant contestant who was poisoned in the nineties and just died after 20 years in a coma. Based on the traits Liv assumes after eating her brains, the girl was a SheepInSheepsClothing and the (accidental) killer is her own remorseful mother, who [[StageMom was trying to sabotage a competitor.]]

* TheBadGuyWins ending of the other plot, where General Mills's daughter (who is a bit surly at being the city's hostage but not really a bad person) is starved by VanHelsingHateCrimes practicioners until she goes Romero and is unleashed at a pie-eating contest meant tp promote unity.

* Levon's execution, and Liv spending the rest of the episode in a funk afterwards.

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* After another episode filled with wacky brain hijinks, [[RealityEnsues reality ensues]]. Clive tells Liv he's done working with her, because her brains-induced personality swings have gotten too unpredictable.

* Major shows up to the house of a zombie he has to make disappear... only to discover she's ready to do the job for him, he walked in as she was about to commit suicide. Pre-zombie, she worked as a [[UnproblematicProstitution escort]], traveled, studied photography, and genuinely loved her life. Then she had a zombie client, and he [[SexSlave makes her available]] to the other zombies as her payment for brains. Unlike a typical media suicide, she's rational, calm, and has clearly though this through- she makes it clear to Major that this isn't a snap hysterical decision, but her only choice. The good news: he's able to offer her another one, by explaining about the zombie cure. The bad news: at the end of the episode, the cure failed. New Hope, the rat, has turned back into a zombie after her supposed cure.

* [[spoiler: During the episode Liv has to kill a zombie who could have literally just walked of the set of ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. The kicker is that she knew the zombie previously in life--they were even friends in a way. Later, Liv take the family pearls that said zombie had worn and returned them to the dead girl's mother. As soon as the poor lady sees them she is practically flattened to the ground. All the while Liv is observing the scene from nearby whilst struggling with the fact she had to kill someone she knew.]]

* In this episode, a kid named Jerome, that Major looks out for, is looking for his friend who went missing four days prior. This part serves little purpose until the final scene where Jerome, whilst searching for his friend and handing out fliers, comes across [[spoiler:Blaine]] who mentions that they've seen him and takes it upon themselves to lead Jerome there. [[spoiler:It's a tearjerker because considering who [[BigBad Blaine]] is, Jerome won't see his friend again most likely and no one will see either of them again most likely.]]

* Major mentions in the beginning of the episode that the kid he and Jerome were looking for still hasn't turned up [[spoiler:and now Jerome's gone missing too, however responding to texts. I wonder why...]]
** [[spoiler:It turns out Jerome's been dead the whole episode and Blaine's been answering his texts for him. It also implies that Blaine killed his friend as well.]]

* Major becomes exceedingly frustrated with how the police is refusing to help and how even Clive can't help him [[spoiler:though his zombie boss, Lieutenant Suzuki, may have something to do it with it]]. It's depressingly similar to how most family members and loved ones become when a loved one goes missing.
** Major goes to Jerome and Eddie's skate park and confronts someone who was wearing Jerome's American flag hi-top chucks. [[spoiler: This was the same guy who ate Jerome at the end of the last episode, so unfortunately, Major gets tossed around like a ragdoll.]]

* Liv confronts Lowell with his apathy towards Blaine [[spoiler:delivering the brains of dead homeless teenagers, like Jerome, to him]]. It breaks him completely.
* [[spoiler:Lowell's death. We know it's happening as soon as he and Liv plan to kill Blaine, but it's still heartbreaking to see Liv's reaction when Lowell gets shot by Blaine when his murder attempt fails. Especially as Lowell had previously said he's terrified of the idea of physical confrontation, but would do it for her.]]
** Before [[spoiler:Lowell dies]], he turns to Liv, puts two fingers on his heart and mouths the words "I love you." Also counts as heartwarming, because he knew he probably wasn't going to make it so he had to at least say goodbye.

* This being the episode after [[spoiler:Lowell's death]], there are many such moments. But especially [[spoiler:the end, when Liv is crying over Lowell's body.]]

* He was a dick, but hearing [[spoiler:Sebastian talk about how he ate his aunt's brain in a fit of hunger]] was pretty messed up. It is pretty hard not to feel sorry for the guy.
* Liv [[spoiler:having to explain to Peyton that she's a zombie. Unfortunately, Peyton doesn't respond well and runs away.]]

* [[spoiler: Liv scratches Major in order to keep him alive after being stabbed by Blaine. She comes out and tells him the truth about everything. Expectedly, after everything he's been through and everything she's kept from him, he completely rejects her like Peyton.]]
* [[spoiler:Liv's brother was injured in the explosion at Meat Cute, and needs a blood transfusion. Unfortunately, he's O-negative. So is Liv...but Liv's a zombie. The quiet way she refuses to help is heartbreaking]].

* As expected, [[spoiler:Liv's mom and brother completely reject her after she refuses to give blood for Evan, believing that she wanted him to die. Her mom thinks she's on drugs, and Evan tells her to her face that he never wants to see her again.]]
* [[spoiler:Byron]] confessing to Wendell's murder, as he cries knowing that he has to leave his dog, because it was him believing that Wendell killed his dog that pushed him to do it in the first place.
* Major, who just seems to want to move on with his life, is [[spoiler:blackmailed by Du Clark into using his zombie hunting prowess for their own advantage, with Liv's life as collateral]]. This is something that visibly tears at him.

* Major's character arc coming to its first wall these season as he [[spoiler:pushes Liv away and uses Utopium to bury his guilt over his current situation.]]
* The killer of the week; [[spoiler:Sonny]] thought he'd taken revenge on his father's drink-driving killer, who got off without jail time for being a minor - and was apparently still partying hard and probably driving drunk... and Sonny could reasonably be said to also be trying to spare other people his own pain. Turns out? The drunk driver who killed his father wasn't the frat bro, but another student with the same name. The real tear-jerker moment is when you realize that if [[spoiler:Sonny]] had found the right Chad Wolcoff, seeing that Chad was profoundly sorry for his actions, and trying his best to atone by warning other teenagers against drink-driving, very probably would have been enough for him.

* Major trying to dispose of [[spoiler:one of the targets on Max Rager's zombie suspect list. The man wakes up in Major's trunk and begs him not to kill him, telling him he has a wife and child. And when the man realizes that he's not going to make it, he asks Major to at least take care of his dog]].

* Major finally recognizes that he has reached rock bottom when he [[spoiler:tries getting some Utopium from a junkie that used to live in the halfway house he worked at. Racked with self-loathing, Major shows up at Liv's door and says the words we've all been waiting for: "I need help."]]

* Major shows up to the house of a zombie he has to make disappear... only to discover she's ready to do the job for him, he walked in as she was about to commit suicide. Pre-zombie, she worked as a [[UnproblematicProstitution escort]], traveled, studied photography, and genuinely loved her life. Then she had a zombie client, and he [[SexSlave makes her available]] to the other zombies as her payment for brains. Unlike a typical media suicide, she's rational, calm, and has clearly though this through- she makes it clear to Major that this isn't a snap hysterical decision, but her only choice. The good news: he's able to offer her another one, by explaining about the zombie cure. The bad news: at the end of the episode, [[spoiler: the cure failed. New Hope, the rat, has turned back into a zombie after her supposed cure.]]
* After another episode filled with wacky brain hijinks, [[RealityEnsues reality ensues]]. Clive [[spoiler: tells Liv he's done working with her, because her brains-induced personality swings have gotten too unpredictable]].

* In one of the most horrific sequences on the show, Rita goes from conniving bitch to JerkassWoobie, [[spoiler: when Vaughn Du Clark leaves her to possibly ''die'' at the hands of a zombie. Instead, she gets turned, leading to the heartbreaking sight of Rita rapping on her father's door, a bloody, zombified mess.]] Rita didn't deserve that.

* Good news: Liv managed to [[spoiler:convince Clive to get Major out of jail]]. Somewhat awkward news: [[spoiler:Liv [[BrokenMasquerade had to out herself and Major as zombies to convince him]]]]. Bad news? [[spoiler:In helping Liv, Clive effectively threw away his chances to get into the FBI ''and'' his chances at love with Dale[[note]]due to him using some evidence she discovered that discredited the allegations against Major[[/note]]]].
* Janko arrives near the end [[spoiler:at the morgue to take Liv. Luckily, Ravi figured it out before he could and, after some struggling, managed to take him down... via an accidental overdose of tranquilizer. Ravi is so [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shaken up]] by this that he legitimately considered ''having Clive arrest him'']].

* Liv found Drake, [[spoiler:unfortunately after he gone full Romero, and had to shoot him point blank to save Clive]].

--> '''Rita''': Did you ''ever'' care about me?
--> '''Vaughn''': Do you ''hear'' yourself? ''(Going berserk)'' DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF!?! Making this moment about you!

* When Vivian shows Liv, Major, and Clive the zombie children going to school at Filmore Graves, one of them (Wally) recognizes Clive, and he later tells Liv that the boy and his family used to live in his building. [[spoiler: By the end of the episode, Wally and his family have all been executed by anti-zombie radicals thanks to news about the Max Rager outbreak being leaked.]] We're then treated to shots of Clive breaking down, and Vivian having to hold back tears while she informs the teacher and other students in the class.

* Major [[spoiler:finally being forced to take the serum, thereby erasing his memory. Thankfully subverted in the following episode when he gains his memories back.]]

* [[spoiler:Natalie]]'s death. After everything.

* [[spoiler: Filmore-Grave executing Mama Leoni. Also crosses over into NightmareFuel as now people know no one is safe from the fist of Filmore-Graves.]]

* [[spoiler: Isobel passes away from her illness. Ravi turns up to give her a driving lesson and is so cheerful about it until he sees Levon's face and Liv and Isobel's mother crying on the sofa. The LittleNo he utters sets up the upcoming heartbreak.]]
** [[spoiler: Ravi's reaction upon seeing her dead body on the bed. Since Isobel spent the entire episode FakingTheDead multiple times as a prank, he tries to convince himself that she is just pranking them again and [[PleaseWakeUp implores her to cut it out and just wake up while breaking down into tears]]. Later, at the morgue, he laments the fact that he NeverGotToSayGoodbye.]]

* In the Filmore-Graves safehouse, Major and Liv find the zombie couple who lived there locked up in the basement, both full Romero. The [[DeathOfPersonality suicide]] note explains that Filmore-Graves stopped sending them brain tubes, and they couldn't go through with a traditional SuicidePact because neither of them could bear to live one second without the other.

** [[spoiler: Ravi's reaction upon seeing her dead body on the bed. Since Isobel spent the entire episode FakingTheDead multiple times as a prank, he tries to convince himself that she is just pranking them again and [[PleaseWakeUp implores her to cut it out and just wake up while breaking down into tears]].]]

* [[spoiler: Isobel passing away. Ravi turns up to give her a driving lesson and is so cheerful about it until he sees Levon's face.]]

* Chase Graves disciplines one of Major's ChildSoldiers, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal zombie-style]]. Her squadmate/booty-call instinctively returns fire, putting a gruesome hole in Chase's neck. Chase responds by [[BoomHeadshot putting a gruesome hole in his head.]] And Major can't react fast enough to stop any of it.