The Marvelous World Of DC has several tragedies that will make you cry.
- Jor-El and Lara's final farewells to baby Kal-El in "Last Son" before sending him off Krypton, combined with their Last Kiss right before Galactus blows Krypton up and eats it.
- The apparent death of Bucky Barnes in "Project Ragna Rok", followed by Captain America's Heroic Sacrifice afterwards. Even if you know they'll be Saved by Canon, it doesn't make the passage any easier to read- or to witness, as the heartbroken Easy Company and Howling Commandos show.
- Apparently, Martha Kent had an accident in her youth that ensured she'd never be able to have children. She and her husband Jonathan were devastated. Thank heavens baby Kal-El showed up in "Figment Of Your Imagination" when he did.
- Arella Roth's Death by Childbirth in "Cut Of The Same Cloth", right after entrusting baby Raven to her older half-brother Hellboy, to ensure she doesn't fall under her demonic father's influence.
- The reason Doctor Strange had his car accident in this 'verse? He accidentally levitated and crashed his own car with subconscious accidental magic release fueled by his anger at botching up an operation on a little girl earlier that day, costing her the ability to use her legs. Also doubles as Heartwarming Moments, given what a Glory Hound Strange was in Marvel Comics canon.
- The death of Agent D at the hands of Sinestro in "Trial By Fire", doubled with Clark Kent's discovery of his true nature. He not only finds out that he's the last known living Kryptonian, but he has to watch someone he considered an Honorary Uncle die right in front of him. And in order to understand his powers and purpose in life, he'll have to leave the Kents' farm behind.
- Even sadder from Agent K's perspective. Agent D was one of the few people who seemed to have a humanizing influence on Agent K, bringing out his more sympathetic qualities, such as by convincing him to let the Kents keep Clark, instead of bringing him up in an MIB safehouse. Now that D has died, Clark's going to leave the house, and K's torn between taking Clark captive and bringing him into custody as MIB rules dictate, or letting him roam the planet unsupervised, as Agent D would have wanted. Thankfully, he manages to Take a Third Option.
- You have to feel sorry for Stanley Ipkiss in "The Masks We Wear". Initially a down-on-his-luck cartoonist in Gotham City, he's visited by a little trickster god who manipulates him into putting on a supernatural mask that loosens up his inhibitions, after which he's then brainwashed and sent off to a remote island to be pitted into battle with a literal god. Even after being freed from the brainwashing and returned to mainland America, he's now a wanted man having to stay downwind of the police and the BPRD. And on top of that, he has no idea whether his much loved dog is still okay ever since he left their apartment. Someone give that man a hug...
- Also, while Queen Hippolyta recounting her old World War II days is heartwarming and awesome, you have to take into account that apart from Namor and Wolverine(and of course, Steve, but she doesn't know that), most of her old war friends have died by the modern day. And the implication that she had a romance with Steve Rogers implies she must have heard of his supposed death: and even if she did find out he's still alive, they'd never be able to resume their romance, because as an immortal Amazon, Hippolyta would eventually outlive him.
- Boy Blue's near death in "A Roar Of Thunder" is pretty saddening, especially when you take into account that he actually does die in Fables canon. Also, while Doctor Strange as Sorcerer Supreme is pretty awesome, that means the Ancient One still died before Passing the Torch to him.
- Where to begin with "The Calm/The Storm"? Norman Osborn, by all accounts a Benevolent Boss, is going to lose his sanity and end up becoming the Green Goblin; Otto Octavius has lost his wife thanks to Jack Napier and will end up with his mind altered by his mechanical arms; Victor Fries and his sister-in-law Louise Lincoln will end up becoming supervillains (and Victor will never be able to remove his suit); Pamela Isley and Alec Holland both got caught up in a Freak Lab Accident, right after she asked him out on a date; and Rudy Jones is now a creepy purple-skinned monster who absorbs the powers and memories of those he touches, by accident. No wonder the poor janitor runs away after Superman touches him.
- Additionally, Flint Marko and Eel O'Brian (aka Sandman and Plastic Man) end up being separated from one another, Eel stretching out of Flint's grasp and falling down a whirlpool while screaming his name, and Flint dissolving into sand afterwards. Villainous Friendship is a heartwarming thing, but these two hardly even qualify as villains.
- Louise Lincoln's What the Hell, Hero? to her brother-in-law Victor Fries right before the accident. Her sister is dying of a disease, and in her eyes, Victor is only prolonging her pain by putting her in cryostasis. She desperately wants him to let Nora die in peace. Also, see Harsher in Hindsight above.
- Even sadder in the case of poor little Garfield Logan. His parents are now dead, his best friend hospitalized, in need of top-level cybernetics to save his life, his favorite Oscorp professor Curt Connors has lost his arm (which will, in turn, end up driving him to eventually mutate himself into the Lizard), and he, his two other friends Virgil and Richie, and his uncle Hank, have now awakened as mutants, and are being shunned by the public. I'd say he's got very good reason to cry into his uncle's shoulder when he comes to at the hospital. Thankfully, he's still got his uncle to take care of him, and he and the other young mutants will be taken care of at the X-Mansion.
- The start of "This Man" shows Johnny Storm "storming" away from a confrontation with his father. Turns out, most of those teens whose lives were affected by the Oscorp lab accident were his friends, and his father doesn't seem to care about that. It doesn't help that Johnny feels his father prefers son-in-law Reed Richards to him, either.
- Bruce Banner's abusive father is long dead, but he still left a mark on his son to this day.
- Ronnie Raymond's whole situation. He and his friend Rick Jones go out into an off-limits testing site on a dare, where they nearly get killed by Victor Von Doom's machine exploding. When he comes to, there's a flaming man standing near his unconscious father, and he panics, loses control, and starts attacking Johnny Storm, nearly strangling him as he goes increasingly feral, before the voice of Martin Stein in his head stops him. And then at the end of the chapter, he and his father are now prisoners of General Ross.
