History TearJerker / DetroitBecomeHuman

** Alternatively, should the player pick the wrong name, Hank will shoot the real Connor, believing him to be the impostor. [[SmugSnake Impostor!Connor]] will then smugly rub it in Hank's face before walking off while Hank is [[HeroicBSOD so devastated by his mistake that he can't even bring himself to shoot the impostor]], which (as pointed out) wouldn't make any difference anyway.

* Hank grills Connor about killing the deviants at the brothel and tries to provoke some sort of human reaction from his partner. If Connor's relations with Hank at this point are still hostile by the final choice after Hank pulls out his revolver, he will outright shoot Connor in the head, not even getting any satisfaction from it. The somber tone when Connor doubts there's such a thing as android heaven is especially haunting.

* A meta-example: in Bryan Dechart's playthrough, he makes the wrong choice in "Crossroads"[[note]]Specifically, when Kara and Alice were fleeing the soldiers to Jericho's exit, he chose to get up, causing a soldier to shoot Kara's leg, then chose to crawl, causing the same soldier to shoot (and kill) Alice, then Kara. (You're supposed to play dead until the soldiers leave, doing otherwise would either get Kara and Alice killed or captured)[[/note]] and unintentionally gets Kara and Alice killed. Both his and Amelia's reactions are ''somber'', with Amelia breaking down in tears and Bryan lowering his face in shame before hugging his fiance for comfort. Bryan even contemplates resetting the chapter, but decides against it because he planned to play the game completely blind - Amelia is also against it, saying "[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge we have to kill everyone now]]" while still sobbing. Then when the chapter ends, the couple still hasn't completely regained their composure.
* Another meta-example, during their Red Connor playthrough, when they reach the part where Hank commits suicide, Amelia jumps when the gunshot is heard.

* Hank grills Connor about killing the deviants at the brothel and tries to provoke some sort of human reaction from his partner. If Connor coldly insists that he's a machine, Hank gets upset and shoots him, not even getting any satisfaction from it. The somber tone when Connor doubts there's such a thing as android heaven is especially haunting.

--> '''Connor:''' Cole! His name was Cole, and he just turned six at the time of the accident, it wasn't your fault Lieutenant. A truck skidded on a sheet of ice and your car rolled over, Cole needed emergency surgery but no human was available to do it... so an android had to take care of him. Cole didn't make it. That's why you hate androids. You think one of us is responsible for your son's death.
--> '''Hank:''' Cole died because a human surgeon was too high on red ice to operate, he was the one who took my son from me, him and this world where the only way people can find comfort is with a fist full of powder...

-->'''Hank:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My god... What have I done ?]]

* In the alternative scene to the above, Kara and Alice try to cross a river. Things happen (the border guard unloads on their boat) and if Luther is still alive, he dies no matter what you do, but depending on your choice, one or both of Alice and Kara can die as well; the massive tearjerker comes from Alice's last words if she got shot. Kara can then give up on living right after the below line, too.

* At the recycling plant, Kara has to drag away an android corpse to a dump truck and has to be temporarily separated from Alice to do so, so she promises Alice that she'll be right back. You can escape the plant on the dump truck, and when it's Alice's turn to get decommissioned, she whispers to herself for Kara to come save her. If Markus's revolution succeeded, in a TimeSkip later, Kara walks the streets of Detroit and stops dead in her tracks when she sees a pamphlet for a [=YK500=] android model, the same one Alice was. As popular [=YouTube=] consensus puts it, "you have no soul if you chose this route".

* The end of the Markus trailer has him revert to his android colors, the expression on his face clearly distraught.

--> '''Connor:''' Of course I'm a machine, Lieutenant. What did you think I was?

* A meta-example: in Bryan Dechart's playthrough, he makes the wrong choice in "Crossroads" and unintentionally gets Kara and Alice killed. Both his and Amelia's reactions are ''somber'', with Amelia breaking down in tears and Bryan lowering his face in shame before hugging his fiance for comfort. Bryan even contemplates resetting the chapter, but decides against it because he planned to play the game completely blind - Amelia is also against it, saying "[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge we have to kill everyone now]]" while still sobbing. Then when the chapter ends, the couple still hasn't completely regained their composure.

* If Kara and Alice try to run while being shot at by the FBI, Kara tries to get up after being wounded the first time, and continues to crawl along after being shot a second time, Alice gets shot and killed while trying to carry Kara along. For a few agonizing seconds, we get to see Kara's tear-soaked face helplessly staring up at the FBI agent who killed Alice before she, too, is executed with a shot through the chest.

* In the alternative scene to the above, Kara and Alice try to cross a river. Things happen (the border guard unloads on their boat) and if Luther is still alive, he dies no matter what you do, but depending on your choice, one or both of Alice and Kara can die as well; the massive tearjerker comes from Alice's FamousLastWords if she got shot. Kara can then give up on living right after the below line, too.

* Have Connor stay with [=CyberLife=] and succeed at killing Markus, which results in the resistance failing and Connor killing Hank. When you meet with Amanda, she will reveal to you that you're obsolete and you're being replaced by a newer model. Hey, I mean, you just wanted to complete the mission, right? [[RealityEnsues You've done your part, and the mission goes on without you]]. [[EarnYourBadEnding What did you expect, a pat on the back?]]

* Have Connor stay with [=CyberLife=] and succeed at killing Markus, which results in the resistance failing and Connor killing Hank. When you meet with Amanda, she will reveal to you that you're obsolete and you're being replaced by a newer model. Hey, I mean, you just wanted to complete the mission, right? You've done your part, and the mission goes on without you. What did you expect, a pat on the back?

* A meta-example: in Bryan Dechart's playthrough, he makes the wrong choice in "Crossroads" and unintentionally gets Kara and Alice killed. Both his and Amelia's reactions are ''somber'', with Amelia breaking down in tears and Bryan lowering his face in shame before hugging his fiance for comfort. Bryan even contemplates resetting the chapter, but decides against it because he planned to play the game completely blind. Then when the chapter ends, the couple still hasn't completely regained their composure.

* If Markus let the guard John from the heist level join Jericho, he will [[TakingTheBullet take the bullet]] [[HeroicSacrifice for Markus]] if Markus chooses to sacrifice himself at the beginning of the freedom march.

--> '''Hank:''' [[YouBastard You're a lowlife.]] You don't feel a thing, do you? A machine, that's what you are! You're just a fucking machine...

--> '''Hank:''' Every time you died and came back... I thought about Cole. I'd have done anything to bring him back too, to hold him in my arms just one more time. But human's don't come back, do they?