History TearJerker / SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries

* The downfall of Norman Osborn is rather tragic. Norman starts out as a neglectful father and Fisk's puppet and throughout the show, Norman takes strides to [[CharacterDevelopment better himself]] only for Fisk to put so much pressure on him that after an freak accident, Norman develops an second side: the infamous Green Goblin. [[HopeSpot Luckily Spider-Man saves Norman and things go well.. Until the Green Goblin resurfaces]] and after one particular battle, Norman is sucked into a portal where he remains for the rest of the show. Yes Norman wasn't the nicest character but he truly loved Harry and him becoming the Goblin was due to Fisk's demands for chemical weapons and as for Fisk himself? He gets away [[KarmaHoudini scot free.]] Until season 5 anyways but even then hr likely didn't stay locked up for long.

* The downfall of Norman Osborn is rather tragic. Norman starts out as a neglectful father and Fisk's puppet and throughout the show, Norman takes strides to [[CharacterDevelopment better himself]] only for Fisk to put so much pressure on him that after an freak accident, Norman develops an second side: the infamous Green Goblin. [[HopeSpot Luckily Spider-Man saves Norman and things go well.. Until the Green Goblin resurfaces]] and after one particular battle, Norman is sucked into a portal where he remains for the rest of the show. Yes Norman wasn't the nicest character but he truly loved Harry and him becoming the Goblin was due to Fisk's demands for chemical weapons and as for Fisk himself? He gets away [[KarmaHoudini scot free.]]

* After finally being freed from his imprisonment outside of the normal spacetime in "The Price of Heroism", Captain America willingly traps himself and the Red Skull again. And this time, there may be ''no'' way to free him again...

--> '''Spider-Carnage''': [[ThisCannotBe No it, it can't be!]]

-->'''Spider-Man:''' Jason Philips was the Hobgoblin?! Poor Felicia. She sure knows how to pick'em.

'''Genevieve:''' (''in a quiet and somber tone'') To be a mutant...is to be ''cursed''...

--> '''Spider-Man''': (desperately) ''Caaaaaaaat!!!!!''

* The last shot of "Attack of the Octobot", in which it's revealed that the "house" Spider-Man has visited Taina in is actually a hospital for terminally ill children. Taina's courage and bright outlook even when she's fully aware of her condition makes Spidey call her "a bigger superhero than [he'll] ever be."

--> '''Mary Jane Clone''': If any part of me is like the real Mary Jane. She loves Peter Parker more than anything in the world. More... than... anything.

* The last shot of "Attack of the Octobot", in which it's revealed that the "house" Spider-Man has visited Taina in is actually a hospital for terminally ill children. Taina's courage and bright outlook even when she's fully aware of her condition even makes Spidey call her "a bigger superhero than [he'll] ever be."

* The last shot of "Attack of the Octobot", in which it's revealed that the "house" Spider-Man has visited Taina in is actually a hospital for terminally ill children. Taina's courage and bright outlook even when she's fully aware of her condition even makes Spidey call her "a bigger superhero than I'll ever be."

* Felicia's heartbreak when she realizes Jason Macendale was the Hobgoblin and he was only marrying her for her wealth and beauty.

* In "Doctor Strange", Mary Jane has been tricked into joining a cult that is preying on her longing to be reunited with her father. Dr. Strange breaks the spell by unlocking her memories of what her father was [[AbusiveParents really like]], causing her to cry. However, this does lead to a crowning moment of awesome for MJ when she rejects Dormammu's deception, leaving him unable to crossover into the human world.

* For as psychotic and creepy as he is, Hydro-Man's original death scene is quite tragic as he desperately cries out to Mary-Jane, asking why she wouldn't just love him back.
--> '''Morrie:''' Why, Mary-Jane? Why? I... love... you...\\
'''MJ:''' But you don't kidnap people you love, Morrie... And you don't force yourself on people you love, either. Morrie, it's over. We've got to get you some help.\\

''He misses as Spidey gets out of the way, causes him to splash on to the ground where he then evaporates''

* Eddie Brock getting sucked into a black hole like vortex in "Carnage", just after saving the only person he's ever cared about more than himself, ouch...
* Morbius, already a living vampire, TakingTheBullet for Felicia and becoming mutated into a humanoid bat creature. It doesn't help that he does this while yelling ''"I will love you - ALWAYS!"''

* While we all knew it was coming, Black Cat's farewell to Spider-man at the end of "The Vampire Queen" is still a fairly bittersweet tearjerker. Even knowing that they do cross paths again in the future, to see their relationship sadly come to an end despite Spidey's pleas for her to stay is somewhat depressing.

** This also makes it the SECOND time that Spider-Man loses her. The first one's heartbreak doesn't have time to set in before the NightmareFuel of Spider-Man legitimately ready to kill the Green Goblin.

'''Hank:''' No! He wants to eliminate ''mutants!''\\

** Later on, it seems that following the conversation with Hank, that Genevieve is having second thoughts about whether to help Landon carry out this plot, and musters up enough courage to try and get Landon to stop the plan as well. Unfortunately, Landon is beyond reason and shouts her down, angrily ranting on how mutants are a blight on humanity. Genevieve offers no further protest after this, and sadly accepts that this is what she and other mutants are to the world, or at least will be perceived as, and continues with the plan. It's implied that her respect for Landon is also feeding into her [[InternalizedCategorism self-loathing]] as well.

* Kingpin's backstory. He was bullied because of his weight and was desperate for the approval of his criminal father. During a robbery, Kingpin's father left him to take the fall and he ended up in prison where [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook he attained the skills and ambitions to rise as a crime lord]]. The height of Fisk's ruthlessness is shown when he has his father killed and he repeats the cycle of abuse by leaving his own son to take the fall for his crimes as his father once did to him. Fisk himself expresses fear that his son will try to take revenge on him just as Fisk did to his own father.
* The events leading up to Harry Osborn taking up the Green Goblin mantle. He takes losing his father and MJ's disappearance pretty hard. And even Peter regrets that his time spent as Spider-Man means that he couldn't be there for him. He then starts hearing the voice of Green Goblin speak to him ([[RealAfterAll and it turns to be more than merely a hallucination]]) promising him that he will reveal where Norman is if he becomes his successor. Eventually, after fighting Spider-Man, Harry accuses the latter of doing something to his father, but Spider-Man reveals that the Green Goblin was Norman all along. Even the vision of the former Goblin confirms this, which only drives Harry further into insanity. Harry was more of a victim of circumstances, but it's always sad to Peter to be at odds with a friend in both civilian and superhero life.

* In "Doctor Strange" Mary-Jane has been tricked into joining a cult that is preying on her longing to be reunited with her father. Dr. Strange breaks the spell by unlocking her memories of what her father was [[AbusiveParents really like]], causing her to cry. However, this does lead to a crowning moment of awesome for MJ when she rejects Dormammu's deception, leaving him unable to crossover into the human world.
* Spider-Carnage's talk with the still-alive Uncle Ben from another reality to talk Spider-Carnage out of destroying the multiverse near the end of the "Spider Wars" arc. The speech moves him so much he actually starts ''crying'', and subsequently performs a HeroicSacrifice after realizing the Carnage symbiote still won't let him go and hurts too much to try.

--> '''Alternate!Uncle Ben''': Peter, its me. Uncle Ben.

--> '''Spider-Carnage''': (''shows his true face'') I love you too Uncle Ben. I... love... you... too! (''breaks down crying'')

* For as psychotic and creepy as he is, Hydroman's original death scene is quite tragic as he desperately cries out to Mary-Jane, asking why she wouldn't just love him back.

-->'''Spider Man:''' Jason Philips was the Hobgoblin?! Poor Felicia. She sure knows how to pick'em.
* In "Doctor Strange" Mary-Jane has been tricked into joining a cult that is preying on her longing to be reunited with her father. Dr. Strange breaks the spell by unlocking her memories of what her father was [[AbusiveParents really like]]. However, this does lead to a crowning moment of awesome for MJ when she rejects Dormammu's deception, leaving him unable to crossover into the human world. Though it must be hard for MJ to relive her terrible childhood.

* In "Doctor Strange" Mary-Jane has been tricked into joining a cult that is preying on her longing to be reunited with her father. Dr Strange breaks the spell by unlocking her memories of what her father was [[AbusiveParents really like]]. However, this does lead to a crowning moment of awesome for MJ when she rejects Dormammu's deception, leaving him unable to crossover into the human world.
* Spider-Carnage's talk with the still-alive Uncle Ben from another reality to talk Spider-Carnage out of destroying the multiverse near the end of the "Spider Wars" arc. The speech moves him so much he actually starts ''crying'', and subsequently performs a HeroicSacrifice after realizing the Carnage symbiote still won't let him go and it hurts so much to try.

--> '''Spider-man''': Why? Why can't I be with you?

--> '''Spider-man''': I need ''you''. I won't let you go.

--> '''Spider-man''': (desperately) ''Caaaaaaaat!!!!!''