History TearJerker / BeforeWatchmen

** When Hollis gets his BerserkButton tripped leading to the above incident, his thoughts go to Moe Vernon's song, "Ride of the Valkyries", which he played when he committed suicide after finding his wife was having an Affair. He also sees [[spoiler: Silhouette's NiceHat, laying upside down next to her blood soaked bed.]]

** Hooded Justice's [[spoiler: [[BuryYourGays death]].]] After what we find out about him in issue 5 [[spoiler: that he's the child killer,]] it's hard to feel bad for him [[spoiler: when Hollis breaks his neck to prevent Byron]]. Then Cooke pulls his twist, and shows us that what he did was a classic vigilante act, without full evidence [[spoiler: by Comedian admitting to kidnapping the final kid dressed as Justice to trick him, though he didn't expect Hollis to kill him.]] Hollis remarks that [[spoiler: Justice]] would have killed him and Byron that night, but it wouldn't have come down to that if they'd known.

* The first two issues are a HopeSpot. Laurie runs away from her mother and lives in San Francisco with her friends and boyfriend. Then issues 3 and 4 happen and are made all the more heartbreaking after so much happiness.

* The first two issues are basically a HopeSpot. Laurie runs away from her mother and lives in San Francisco with her friends and boyfriend. Then issues 3 and 4 happen and are made all the more heartbreaking after so much happiness.

** Eddie of all people shows he has some empathy when he comes to [[spoiler: the graveyard to pay his respects]] and talks to Sally about his time in the Pacific. His unit was all killed, save himself and another man named Greg. A native woman found him, and she and Greg took him to her home, where she patched him up. When the two leave, Eddie even gives her son his helmet. [[spoiler: The GeneralRipper in charge orders the area shelled when he gets back. Eddie tries to warn her, but comes too late, finding her badly burnt, with her sun a fried husk fused to her side. The General shoots her in the head to put her out of her misery.]]

** Silhouette storms a meeting of pedophiles watching child pornography. Originally she was going to scare them, but she begins to straight up murder them when she finds a girl amongst them, eyes dead, and demeanor unmoving. She grabs the girl and runs out, before being shot [[spoiler: the bullet goes through her back and into the girl's heart killing her.]] Ursula's main thought was how her eyes didn't change throughout the process [[spoiler: assuming she's been "dead" for a long time.]] When Ursula is rescued from the church by Hollis, her first thought is for the child [[spoiler: which Mason tells her is dead.]]
** When she was shot, she mentions that the girl is fading from her, just like a flickering light, the following panel has a simplified Ursula and the girl as part of a light bulb, with the girl falling away from the center. [[spoiler: The flickering light bulb and near death experience could be foreshadowing for her own death, which we find out is in the very next issue.]]

** Silhouette [[spoiler: [[BuryYourGays killed]].]] You knew it was coming, and the event was foreshadowed, but when it finally happens, [[spoiler: she's hunted down, and brutally sliced and stabbed to death when trying to protect her partner Gretchen]].
** The issue has a number of points for her, from when her backstory is revealed [[spoiler: losing her sister to the sadistic Rolf Mueler, and fleeing with Gretchen to America "running from a past they never could escape."]]

** Eddie of all people shows he has some empathy when he comes to [[spoiler: the graveyard to pay his respects]] and talks to Sally about his time in the Pacific. His unit was all killed, save himself and another man named Greg. A native woman found him, and she and Greg took him to her home, where she patched him up. When the two leave, Eddie even gives her son his helmet. [[spoiler: The GeneralRipper in charge orders the area shelled when he gets back. Eddie tries to warn her, but comes to late, finding her badly burnt, with her sun a fried husk fused to her side. The General shoots her in the head to put her out of her misery.]]

** [[spoiler: Dollar Bill's]] death, we knew he was DoomedByCanon, but here, we just see him lying on the ground, propped up, with a longing expression on his face. Hollis mentions that yes [[spoiler: getting one's cape caught in a door and being shot]] can be funny, but he also states that [[spoiler: Bill]] was his friend, and he's sad to see him go.
** Bluecoat and Scout's backstory. [[spoiler: They're a Japanese father and son who're trying to stop Scout's grandfather from blowing up the statue of Liberty. They, and many of the terrorists, were victims of the U.S. internment camps, where Bluecoat lost his wife and Scout's mother. Upon trying to stop the plot, Bluecoat is killed, and Scout saves the statue, by preventing the radiation bomb from going off, however he takes a full blast of it to the face, and dies an agonizing 5 day stay in the hospital, horribly disfigured by tumors.]] Their act of Heroism was covered up by the Government because they didn't want to look bad.

** When Hollis gets his BerserkButton tripped leading to the above incident, his thoughts go to Moe Vernon's song, Ride of the Valkyries, which he played when he committed suicide after finding his wife was having an Affair. He also sees [[spoiler: Silhouette's NiceHat, laying upside down next to her blood soaked bed.]]

** Silhouette storms a meeting of Pedophiles watching Child Pornography. Originally she was going to scare them, but she begins to straight up murder them when she finds a girl amongst them, eyes dead, and demeanor unmoving. She grabs the girl and runs out, before being shot [[spoiler: the bullet goes through her back and into the girl's heart killing her.]] Ursula's main thought was how her eyes didn't change throughout the process [[spoiler: assuming she's been "dead" for a long time.]] When Ursula is rescued from the church by Hollis, her first thought is for the child [[spoiler: which Mason tells her is dead.]]

** There's all the implications surrounding Hooded Justice [[spoiler: we never see his face outside of shadow, and he's implied to be the boy from issue 4, taken by Rolf Mueler to live a life under the sadistic Nazi pedophile.]] It's implied the Hood stays on to prevent him from showing his face [[spoiler: something possibly do to the sexual assaults.]]
** Byron's gift. After all the years and throughout the issues, he's been degrading under paranoia and alcoholism, to the point where issue 3 has established that in the "present" he's catatonic. Hollis reveals that he was the one who bought him the Garage he now works in, and fixed the place up, Hollis hugs him because he knows that this last act is his Good-bye, as his last act of clarity before breakdown.

** [[spoiler: Dollar Bill's]] death, we knew he was DoomedByCanon, but here, we just see him lying on the ground, propped up, with a longing expression on his face. Hollis mentions that yes [[spoiler: getting one's cape caught in a door and being shot]] can be funny, but he also states that [[Bill]] was his friend, and he's sad to see him go.

** Then there's [[spoiler: Justice's]] funeral. Nelson blows up his base, the place where they all hung out, and plotted to rid the city of crime, their own hangout, and the building he was so proud of [[spoiler: to cover up evidence, or honor Justice's death, Mason doesn't know which]]. Nelson can just bee seen there, holding his hat to his chest, crying.

* Minutemen 4: Silhouette [[spoiler: [[BuryYourGays killed]].]] You knew it was coming, and the event was foreshadowed, but when it finally happens, [[spoiler: she's hunted down, and brutally sliced and stabbed to death when trying to protect her partner Gretchen]]. The issue has a number of points for her, from when her backstory is revealed [[spoiler: losing her sister to the sadistic Rolf Mueler, and fleeing with Gretchen to America "running from a past they never could escape."]] As well as the point where she's outed, and kicked off the team despite Mothman and Nite-Owl's best efforts. [[spoiler: She doesn't even get a proper funeral, just buried with Gretchen with two unmarked stones, with Byron and Hollis the only ones in attendance, though Sally and Eddie come later.]]

** When Hollis gets his BerserkButton tripped leading to the above incident, his thoughts go to Moe Vernon's song, Ride of the Valkyries, which he played when he committed suicde after finding his wife