History TearJerker / AllStarSuperman

-->'''Superman''': Pa...? I... why can't I hear Pa's heartbeat... '''Pa! Not my Pa! I can save him! I can save everybody! PAAAAA!!!!'''

-->'''Superman''': Pa? ... I.. .Why can't I hear Pa's heartbeat... '''Pa! Not my Pa! I can save him! I can save everybody! PAAAAA!'''

--->'''Lois:''' [[spoiler:(''after Clark has fallen over dead'') [[CannotSpitItOut He]] ''[[CannotSpitItOut can't]]'' [[CannotSpitItOut be [dead]. Clark is... Clark is...]]]]

* When Jonathan Kent [[spoiler:suffers a heart attack, Superman rushes to him so fast that ''his hair catches on fire'' from the friction, but he's still too late.]]

-->'''Superman''': [[spoiler:Pa? ... I.. .Why can't I hear Pa's heartbeat... '''Pa! Not my Pa! I can save him! I can save everybody! PAAAAA!''']]

--->This single piece of artwork. ''All-Star Superman'' Episode 6. I swear on my life I am going to meet Frank Quitely one day and I am going to talk to him about this cover. Because it's Superman looking down at his dad’s grave and then that look on his face… It's not sorrow, or regret. He’s not sad, he’s not feeling disappointment. His entire body language is just saying one thing. "I’m not good enough." Superman is nearly a god. He can solve any problem, fight any monster, right any wrong. [[spoiler:And he can't save his fucking dad.]] It flies in the face of everything he is. All of his accomplishments, every trophy in his fortress of solitude, he looks down at that stone in the ground and they all turn to fucking dust.

* '''Superman:''' [[spoiler:I love you, Lois Lane. Until the end of time.]]
* In-Universe with [[spoiler:Lex Luthor openly weeping as he understands his place in the universe for the first time in his otherwise miserable life, courtesy of briefly experiencing the world through Superman's eyes.]]

--->'''Lois''' [[spoiler: (''after Clark has fallen over dead''): [[CannotSpitItOut He]] ''[[CannotSpitItOut can't]]'' [[CannotSpitItOut be [dead]. Clark is...Clark is...]]]]

** [[http://ballisticducks.tumblr.com/post/115808650751/if-youre-having-a-superman-day-well-i-was-leafing This]] post on the cover to the issue summarizes the sentiment of it quite well.
--->This single piece of artwork. ''All-Star Superman'' Episode 6. I swear on my life I am going to meet Frank Quitely one day and I am going to talk to him about this cover. Because it’s Superman looking down at his dad’s grave and then that look on his face… It’s not sorrow, or regret. He’s not sad, he’s not feeling disappointment. His entire body language is just saying one thing. “I’m not good enough.” Superman is nearly a god. He can solve any problem, fight any monster, right any wrong. [[spoiler:And he can’t save his fucking dad.]] It flies in the face of everything he is. All of his accomplishments, every trophy in his fortress of solitude, he looks down at that stone in the ground and they all turn to fucking dust.

* '''Superman''': [[spoiler:I love you, Lois Lane. Until the end of time.]]
* In-Universe with [[spoiler: Lex Luthor openly weeping as he understands his place in the universe for the first time in his otherwise miserable life, courtesy of briefly experiencing the world through Superman's eyes.]]

-->'''Superman:''' [[UnstoppableRage You killed him!]]

* When Jonathan Kent [[spoiler:suffers a heart attack, Superman rushes to him so fast that ''his hair catches on fire'' from the friction, but he's still too late]].

-->'''Lois''' [[spoiler: (''after Clark has fallen over dead''): [[CannotSpitItOut He]] ''[[CannotSpitItOut can't]]'' [[CannotSpitItOut be [dead]. Clark is...Clark is...]]]]

-->This single piece of artwork. ''All-Star Superman'' Episode 6. I swear on my life I am going to meet Frank Quitely one day and I am going to talk to him about this cover. Because it’s Superman looking down at his dad’s grave and then that look on his face… It’s not sorrow, or regret. He’s not sad, he’s not feeling disappointment. His entire body language is just saying one thing. “I’m not good enough.” Superman is nearly a god. He can solve any problem, fight any monster, right any wrong. [[spoiler:And he can’t save his fucking dad.]] It flies in the face of everything he is. All of his accomplishments, every trophy in his fortress of solitude, he looks down at that stone in the ground and they all turn to fucking dust.

--> Superman: "[[UnstoppableRage You killed him!]]"

* The utter infuriation on Clark's face near the end of the 5th issue as he implores Luthor to try and reform. He had been very polite and unassuming for the entirety of the story, but Lex's stubbornness causes his mild-mannered facade to shatter in rage.

* The film actually manages to out-Tearjerk the comic in the ending, thanks to Christopher Drake's amazing score.

* The Unknown Superman's comment to Jonathan Kent, "It all works out in the end." Becomes one retroactively.

-->This single piece of artwork. All Star Superman Episode 6. I swear on my life I am going to meet Frank Quitely one day and I am going to talk to him about this cover. Because it’s Superman looking down at his dad’s grave and then that look on his face… It’s not sorrow, or regret. He’s not sad, he’s not feeling disappointment. His entire body language is just saying one thing. “I’m not good enough.” Superman is nearly a god. He can solve any problem, fight any monster, right any wrong. [[spoiler:And he can’t save his fucking dad.]] It flies in the face of everything he is. All of his accomplishments, every trophy in his fortress of solitude, he looks down at that stone in the ground and they all turn to fucking dust.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/all_star_superman_2.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:He was always too late to save him.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:He was never fast enough to save him.]]

** YMMV on that: certainly when Lois stares at Clark after he [[spoiler: returns from the Underverse]], and then gives him the paper so he can 'go tell Superman', it seems like she's put it together.

-->'''Superman''': [[spoiler:Pa? ...I...Why can't I hear Pa's heartbeat...'''Pa! Not my Pa! I can save him! I can save everybody! PAAAAA!''']]

* The utter infuriating on Clark's face near the end of the 5th issue as he implores Luthor to try and reform. He had been very polite and unassuming for the entirety of the story, but Lex's stubbornness causes his mild-mannered facade to shatter in rage.

-->'''Superman''': [[spoiler:Pa? Why can't I hear his heartbeat?]]

* In-Universe with [[spoiler: Lex Luthor openly weeping at all the pain and anguish that he can hear now that he has Superman's powers.]]

* That [[Heartwarming/AllStarSuperman heartwarming]] moment with the suicidal kid is also a tear jerker. If you took all eighty years of the character's history and distilled it into a single pure moment containing all his best qualities, that one page would be it. He inspires strength, wisdom, kindness, freedom, value and hope in just a few words. And he saves a life.

-->"It's a cruel joke. The mechanistic clockwork of reality, hinging on a precious, impossible defiance of entropy. On Life. And the clockwork doesn't care. It's like... ''(growing realization)'' It's like it's just ''us'', in here together. ''We're all we've got.''"

-->"It's a cruel joke. The mechanistic clockwork of reality, hinging on a precious, impossible defiance of entropy. On Life. And the clockwork doesn't care. It's like...::growing realization:: It's like it's just ''us'', in here together. ''We're all we've got.''"

* That [[Heartwarming/AllStarSuperman heartwarming]] moment with the suicidal kid is also a tear jerker. If you took all eighty years of the character's history and distilled it into a single pure moment containing all his best qualities, that one page would be it. He inspires strength, wisdom, kindness, freedom, value and hope in just a few words. And he saves a life. I'm crying just thinking about it.

* That [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/AllStarSuperman heartwarming]] moment with the suicidal kid is also a tear jerker. If you took all eighty years of the character's history and distilled it into a single pure moment containing all his best qualities, that one page would be it. He inspires strength, wisdom, kindness, freedom, value and hope in just a few words. And he saves a life. I'm crying just thinking about it.

* In-Universe with [[spoiler: Lex Luthor openly weeping at all the pain and anguish that he can hear now that he has Superman's powers.]]

* That [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/AllStarSuperman heartwarming]] moment with the suicidal kid is also a tear jerker. If you took all eighty years of the character's history and distilled it into a single pure moment containing all his best qualities, that one page would be it. He inspires strength, wisdom, kindness, freedom, value and hope in just a few words. And he saves a life. I'm crying just thinking about it.

* '''Superman''':[[spoiler: I love you Lois Lane. Until the end of time.]]