History Tearjerker / DeusExMankindDivided

* Jim Miller's personal life. Aria mentions that when Miller exited the psychologist's office, he didn't say a word, and just rushed out of there. Turns out that Miller is going through a messy divorce, lost custody of the kids, and lost his Palisade safe account. No wonder Miller wasn't too eager to discuss his personal life.

* In ''A Criminal Past'' you meet the Fixer who is an AmbiguousDisorder HarmlessVillain who is forced [[spoiler: to assist in an OrganTheft and PrisonRiot. Despite being clearly mentally ill and not remotely a threat to anyone, his medical knowledge is exploited by the more dangerous criminals around him. It's also made clear he does what he does solely out of fear he'll be beaten or killed if he doesn't, which is clearly an accurate assessment.]] Commentary on prison populations or not, it's sad he's ended up where he is. Still, you only really break your heart when you hear his fear is primarily because all of the murderous criminals who exploit him remind him of his father.

* Also in the early mission to deal with the ID Forgery Ring, the peaceful option entails meeting with a sympathetic Prague Policewoman. The interaction is a genuinely sad,and touching moment, as The Policewoman points out the rarity of an augmented person approaching a Prague Cop and expecting something good to happen, and Jensen talking about how he used to be a cop, a long time ago. And The Policewoman expressing her regrets over what her job has her do now, and admits she would not be a Policewoman if she was given the chance to go back. It's an incredibly real and humanizing moment for the otherwise [[FacelessGoons faceless]], [[PoliceBrutality brutal]], [[CardCarryingVillain and unrelentingly racist, corrupt and totalitarian Prague Police Officers]], and it shows early on that they may not ''all'' be racist, violent people who believe augs to be less than "normal" people, and may very well be [[PunchClockVillain people just doing their job the way they're told to do it,]] [[AlasPoorVillain no matter how they feel about the cruelties they're committing or allowing to happen, with no choice in the matter.]]

* The "Mechanical Apartheid" trailer is both this and NightmareFuel, with the main focus being on a man and his wife, who possesses an augmented arm and viciously attacks him during the Aug Incident. As the world goes to hell, their relationship is strained to the breaking point and they separate, with the wife apparently joining a terrorist group that carries out a large bombing. Afterwords, the two briefly reunite, only to be torn apart once again when the police raid their home. The last time they see each other is on opposite sides of a fence just before guards pull her away and take her off into a building, [[NothingIsScarier her final fate unknown.]]

** You can also overhear a conversation about how an unaugmented man quit his job to be with his girlfriend. It would be a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, except by the time he arrived, she'd already died.

* Also in the early mission to deal with the ID Forgery Ring, the peaceful option entails meeting with a sympathetic Prague Policewoman. The interaction is a genuinely sad,and touching moment, as The Policewoman points out the rarity of an augmented person approaching a Prague Cop and expecting something good to happen, and Jensen talking about how he used to be a cop, a long time ago. And The Policewoman expressing her regrets over what her job has her do now, and admits she would not be a Policewoman if she was given the chance to go back. It's an incredibly real and humanizing moment for the otherwise [[FacelessGoons faceless]], [[PoliceBrutality brutal]], [[CardCarryingVillain and unrelentingly racist, corrupt and authoritarian Prague Police Officers]], and it shows early on that they may not ''all'' be racist, violent people who believe augs to be less than "normal" people, and may very well be [[PunchClockVillain people just doing their job the way they're told to do it,]] [[AlasPoorVillain no matter how they feel about the cruelties they're committing or allowing to happen, with no choice in the matter.]]

* Also in the early mission to deal with the ID Forgery Ring, the peaceful option entails meeting with a sympathetic Prague Policewoman. The interaction is a genuinely sad,and touching moment, as The Policewoman points out the rarity of an augmented person approaching a Prague Cop and expecting something good to happen, and Jensen talking about how he used to be a cop, a long time ago. And The Policewoman expressing her regrets over what she has to do, and admits she would not be a Policewoman if she was given the chance to go back. It's an incredibly real moment, and it shows early on that the [[FacelessGoons faceless]], [[PoliceBrutality brutal]], [[CardCarryingVillain and otherwise viciously racist and authoritarian Prague Police Officers]] may not ''all'' be racist, violent people who believe augs to be less than "normal" people, and may very well be [[PunchClockVillain people just doing their job the way they're told to do it,]] [[AlasPoorVillain no matter how they feel about the cruelties they're committing or allowing to happen, with no choice in the matter.]]
-->'''Policewoman:''' If I could do it again, I would be a fireman. No one looks at a fire and thinks: "Shit, does this one ''really'' deserve it?" You can just follow orders and feel good about it.

* If you choose to head to Palisade Bank to recover the Intel on the Orchid [[spoiler: Adam will find an audio file, it's a recording of a conversation between Megan Reed and Bob Page. Adam is clearly affected from hearing her voice, not to mention the implication that Megan is now willingly working for the Illuminati.]]

--> '''Husband:''' Where are you taking her? ''WHERE ARE YOU TAKING HER!?''

* The "Mechanical Apartheid" trailer is both this and NightmareFuel, with the main focus being on a man and his wife, who possesses an augmented arm and viciously attacks him during the Aug Incident. As the world goes to hell, their relationship is strained to the breaking point and they separate, with the wife apparently joining a terrorist group that carries out a large bombing. Afterwords, the two briefly reunite, only to be torn apart once again when the police raid their home. The last time they see each other is on opposite sides of a barb wire fence just before guards pull her away and take her off into a building, [[NothingIsScarier her final fate unknown.]]

* In the opening section in Dubai, Jensen comes across several mummified corpses littering the halls of the hotel that was under construction by augmented workmen when Darrow's broadcast hit. It's [[NightmareFuel horrifying]], but also profoundly sad on multiple levels. On the face of it, the corpses you find are all augmented. People think so little of the augmented in this setting that even after two years, nobody bothered to collect the dead for proper service, instead leaving them to dry out or rot. In a wider sense, the setting is symbolic of what has happened to the world at large, with the dream of a future built by an augmented humanity dead and left to wither away.

* In ''A Criminal Past'' you meet the Fixer who is an AmbiguousDisorder HarmlessVillain who is forced [[spoiler: to assist in an OrganTheft and PrisonRiot. Despite being clearly mentally ill and not remotely a threat to anyone, his medical knowledge is exploited by the more dangerous criminals around him. It's also made clear he does what he does solely out of fear he'll be beaten or killed if he doesn't, which is clearly an accurate assessment.]] Commentary on prison populations or not, it's sad he's ended up where he is. Still, you only really break your heart when you hear his fear is primarily because all of the murderous criminals who exploit him remind him of his father.