History TearJerker / GirlGenius

--->"Except of course, when they ''do'' manage to kill themselves. My cousin, Zoniax, she was so much faster than I'll ''ever'' be. But they gave her... they let her..." She broke down sobbing. Before she knew what she was doing, Agatha found herself cradling the crying girl in her arms.

* ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheVoiceOfTheCastle'':
** The novelization manages to make Carson's tale of the attack on Castle Heterodyne ''more'' depressing than it already was. At one point, the Jägermonsters are mentioned to be ''crying''. Jägers. Crying. The narration notes they don't cry when their Heterodyne cries. But the death of Klaus Barry Heterodyne is enough to make them weep. After arriving at the castle, and once he calms down enough to say ''anything'', Bill's reaction is harsh. He ''exiles'' the Jäger generals, who don't even argue. They just nod and accept the judgement of their Heterodyne.

!!First Journey:

!!Second Journey:

* One of the final chapters of ''Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess'' begins with a song called "The Heterodynes will Return". The first verse is cheerful, and hopeful, talking about how Bill and Barry will come back, bringing wonders with them, and Make Things Right Again. The second?
-->''But I think the Heterodynes -\\

* ''Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle'' manages to make Carson's tale of the attack on Castle Heterodyne ''more'' depressing than it already was. At one point, the Jägermonsters are mentioned to be ''crying''. Jägers. Crying. The narration notes they don't cry when their Heterodyne cries. But the death of Klaus Barry Heterodyne is enough to make them weep.
** After arriving at the castle, and once he calms down enough to say ''anything'', Bill's reaction is harsh. He ''exiles'' the Jäger generals, who don't even argue. They just nod and accept the judgement of their Heterodyne.
* During her travels with the circus in ''Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess'', Agatha, during her training with Zeetha, [[GenreSavvy recognizes that the day's exercise is supposed to end with her realizing how unprepared she is for Quata'ara swords]], and says she'll pass. Surprisingly, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Zeetha gets uncharacteristically angry]], and pushes her harder than usual - only stopping when Dimo helps Agatha when she stumbles. Later that night, Zeetha admits that she overdid it - and explains that the normal result happened pretty regularly, to the point where trainees sometimes get themselves killed.
-->"Except of course, when they ''do'' manage to kill themselves. My cousin, Zoniax, she was so much faster than I'll ''ever'' be. But they gave her... they let her..." She broke down sobbing. Before she knew what she was doing, Agatha found herself cradling the crying girl in her arms.
* This line from Lars's death:
-->Agatha waited for Lars to finish, and then saw that he had.

** The novels manage to make it worse. In the comics, Tarvek soldiers on with what he was doing. In the novel, he openly cries for a few minutes, before getting back to work.

* The Master of Paris just looks so tired when he explains that the end of the Shining Coalition was not as simple as history tells it (with the Storm King getting lost in a hedge maze) but instead the rest of the coalition having to "put down" Andronicus, whom he describes as having become a "corrupted shell" by that time. It's brutal to see that very same [[TheGoodKing Andronicus,]] [[TheHeart hailed as the heart and soul of their Coalition]] [[FallenHero be turned into a wretched corrupted remnant of himself]], forcing his friends to fight him to preserve what he helped create. We see in flashback one of the Coalition members was sobbing and another had collapsed on the ground after the Storm King's defeat. The realization that his friend was not buried but merely placed in stasis right under his nose doesn't help. The Master is also the last member of the Shining Coalition left alive (bar Albia) and thus the only one left who could put an end to the monster that was once his close friend.

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** It was worse when Maxim gave his hat to Abner. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070209 "So when you bury him, make sure he gots a hat."]] And then he gives him ''his''. Hats are [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100521 serious, serious business]] among the Jaeger. It shows how much they admire the HeroicSacrifice.

** The Heterodyne Boy's reaction to the attack. Bill goes insane with grief at his son's death and his wife's disappearance, so insane even the Jaeger generals couldn't restrain him. And then, after several hours of private discussion, the Boys packed up what they could, left Mechanicsburg... and never came back.

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* It's brief, but Prende looks absolutely devastated when it looks like Andronicus is going to abandon her in favor of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Thankfully, Agatha manages to convince him to take her with him.
* Dimo revealing that the Jägers used to discretly follow around the Heterodyne boys on their adventures. Barry eventually noticed and Bill ordered them to not follow them on their next adventure, basically because it's hard to make it as a hero when you're being protected by the minions of your notoriously evil ancestors. That adventure is the one during which they vanished.

* Tarvek has a meltdown when the Smoke Knight reveals they're going to take him back to his family. His attempts to fight the Knight off are desperate as they are unsuccessful, and he screams that he doesn't want to go back.

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* Trelawney sobbing and crying over the death of Wooster is this and no doubt the audience was the same. In the name of Her Majesty the Queen of England and for his friends, he [[FaceDeathWithDignity faced death with diginity]] [[DefiantToTheEnd and defiance against Lucreiza/The Other.]]

"We brought you years, but you've done nothing\\

* ''Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle'' manages to make Carson's tale of the attack on Castle Heterodyne ''more'' depressing than it already was. At one point, the Jaegermonsters are mentioned to be ''crying''. Jaegers. Crying. The narration notes they don't cry when their Heterodyne cries. But the death of Klaus Barry Heterodyne is enough to make them weep.
** After arriving at the castle, and once he calms down enough to say ''anything'', Bill's reaction is harsh. He ''exiles'' the Jaeger generals, who don't even argue. They just nod and accept the judgement of their Heterodyne.

* Though he kinda dug his own grave, Martellus starts telling Krosp that he genuinely is attracted to Agatha and admires her. Krosp points out it will never work because she hates him. Martellus expressions shows just how much he regrets treating Agatha and how he can never make it up to her.

** The picture of Carson's reaction to seeing his dead son's body clinging to the corpse of Klaus Barry is... [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070813#.Yj6O0icpCSY distressing]] especially since the way they died would make an open casket funeral impossible. In the same vein, Agatha realizing that [[spoiler:her mother (intentionally?) murdered her own son, Agatha's older brother.]]

* Thought he kinda dug his own grave, Martellus starts telling Krosp that he genuinely is attracted to Agatha and admires her. Krosp points out it will never work because she hates him. Martellus expressions shows just how much he regrets treating Agatha and how he can never make it up to her.

** [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200626#.YMoQAflKiUk There's also the way]] Agatha asks Zeetha if she ever wishes that they could've just stayed with the circus, rather than having to deal with everything that's happened since then. It's clear that at least a part of Agatha misses the relatively simple life she had before the burden of responsibility from being "The Heterodyne" was put on her shoulders.

* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031119 These]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031121 two]] pages, as [[spoiler:Barry gives Agatha her locket]]. Made even worse by the fact that [[spoiler:Barry Heterodyne]], who freaks out even [[spoiler:Lucrezia Mongfish, the OTHER]], is crying. And that young Agatha seems to be just as intelligent as she should be, rationalizing Barry's statement of "it's science" to "Ah. You mean you'll explain when I have a sufficiently advanced background education." Necessary or not, what Barry did to Agatha was horrible.

* When Agatha [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031210 stumbled onto Dr. Dimitri's teddy bear stash]], and he's begging her not to tell... "He doesn't know! It's my last secret! He's taken all the others, but not them! I've kept them safe!" Seeing the scars on his head, and then finding out that [[spoiler:Baron Wulfenbach has been lobotomizing Sparks to see how to deactivate them]] makes it particularly sad.

* The [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060913 surprisingly poignant death scene]] of [[spoiler:Anevka Sturmvoraus]], who normally acted quite the Manipulative Bitch beforehand.
-->'''[[spoiler: Anveka]]''': I... I'm ''not'' [[spoiler: your sister?]]
-->'''Tarvek''': ... no.
-->'''[[spoiler: Anveka]]''': But then- what ''am'' I?
-->'''Tarvek''': ... a very good first try.

* And then there's that of [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061215 Lars]]]].

*** And the background went all [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061216 grey and misty]]... sniff...

** It was worse when [[spoiler: Maxim gave his hat to Abner. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070209 "So when you bury him, make sure he gots a hat."]] And then he gives him ''his''. Hats are [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100521 serious, serious business]] among the Jaeger. It shows how much they admire the HeroicSacrifice.]]

* The reveal of why Carson's so sceptical of Agatha's claim: [[spoiler:"Klaus Barry Heterodyne". Agatha had an older brother she never knew about.]]
** [[spoiler:The Heterodyne Boy's reaction to the attack. Bill goes insane with grief at his son's death and his wife's disappearance, so insane even the Jaeger generals couldn't restrain him. And then, after several hours of private discussion, the Boys packed up what they could, left Mechanicsburg... and never came back.]]

* As [[spoiler:Higgs is cradling Zeetha's stabbed and presumably dying body]] the expression on his face [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101018 must be seen to be believed (second to last panel).]] Not to mention Agatha's in the first panel.
** And let's remember this is [[spoiler: ''[[TheStoic Higgs]]'', who barely ever shows any emotion. B-bawwww.....]]
** And just [[spoiler:Zeetha herself]] on that page. [[spoiler:She]] is whimpering. [[spoiler:[[IAmXSonOfY Zeetha, Daughter of Chump]] and [[BoisterousBruiser Boisterous Bruisette Extraordinaire]]]] is ''WHIMPERING'' with the effort to breathe. That is sad all on its own.

* [[spoiler: Bangladesh Du Pree]] of all people [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120118 breaking down and crying like a little girl]] over the death of [[spoiler: Klaus Wulfenbach]].

* It's brief, but [[spoiler:Prende looks absolutely devastated when it looks like Andronicus is going to abandon her in favor of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Thankfully, Agatha manages to convince him to take her with him.]]

* The Master of Paris just looks so tired when he explains that the end of the Shining Coalition was not as simple as history tells it (with the Storm King getting lost in a hedge maze) but instead the rest of the coalition having to "put down" Andronicus, whom he describes as having become a "corrupted shell" by that time. It's brutal to see that very same [[TheGoodKing Andronicus,]] [[TheHeart hailed as the heart and soul of their Coalition]] [[FallenHero be turned into a wretched corrupted remnant of himself]], forcing his friends to fight him to preserve what he helped create. We see in flashback one of the Coalition members was sobbing and another had collapsed on the ground after the Storm King's defeat. [[spoiler: The realization that his friend was not buried but merely placed in stasis right under his nose doesn't help.]] The Master is also the last member of the Shining Coalition left alive (bar Albia) and thus the only one left who could put an end to the monster that was once his close friend.
--> '''The Master of Paris''': May I be strong enough to ''finish'' this.
* [[spoiler:When Andronicus finally is killed, he dies believing that he's finally found Euphrosynia.]]
* [[spoiler: The Master of Paris saves his city one last time, only to die at the hands of a (literally) backstabbing traitor.]]

** And then [[LateToTheRealization she suddenly remembers the identity of the assailant]] - namely [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181223 Lucrezia Mongfish, Agatha's mother, aka The Other]]]].
* The look on Tarvek's face when Krosp tells him that [[spoiler:Violetta is probably dead.]] Although at this point they [[NeverFoundTheBody haven't found the body]], it's a heartbreaking reminder that for all their [[VitriolicBestBuds vitriol]], they're [[spoiler:family]] and they [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther really do love each other.]]
** Tarvek even admits the reason they were together was [[spoiler:he specifically asked for her to be assigned to him to keep her safe from the rest of the scheming family.]]
* After [[spoiler: the outsider restores Dr. Dim's mind and megalomania]] Krosp clearly realizes he may have to choose between Agatha, his subject he considers totally under his protection, and his beloved "poppa." Sure enough, a few pages later, he does. [[spoiler: And Dim is furious he chose Agatha.]]
* Trelawney sobbing and crying over the death [[spoiler:of Wooster is this and no doubt the audience was the same. In the name of Her Majesty the Queen of England and for his friends, he [[FaceDeathWithDignity faced death with diginity]] [[DefiantToTheEnd and defiance against Lucreiza/The Other.]]]]

* ''Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle'' manages to make Carson's tale of the attack on Castle Heterodyne ''more'' depressing than it already was. At one point, the Jaegermonsters are mentioned to be ''crying''. Jaegers. Crying. The narration notes they don't cry when their Heterodyne cries. But the death of [[spoiler:Klaus Barry Heterodyne]] is enough to make them weep.
** [[spoiler:After arriving at the castle, and once he calms down enough to say ''anything'', Bill's reaction is harsh. He ''exiles'' the Jaeger generals, who don't even argue. They just nod and accept the judgement of their Heterodyne.]]

* This line from [[spoiler:Lars's death]]:
-->Agatha waited for [[spoiler:Lars]] to finish, and then saw that [[spoiler:he]] had.

* When the group gets back, Albia leads a somber ceremony in which she proclaims the full names and ranks of the fallen (starting with Wooster). Why? Doing so etches their names in the memory of everyone who heard her for life, assuring they won't be forgotten.

* Oggie tells Zeetha about his [[MayflyDecemberRomance long dead wife]]. She was a badass wandering bard who impressed both the then-current Heterodyne and the Jägers, and she took a shine to a pre-Jäger Oggie. She left the night he took the draft, taking nothing with her. [[TheOneThatGotAway He didn't see her again for ten years,]] when he found out that [[DisappearedDad she had his son]]. After that they were together until she died, sixty-four years later. This time, she left him something: a family. Crosses over with Heartwarming.

* Trelawney sobbing and crying over the death [[spoiler:of Wooster is this and likely the audience. In the name of Her Majesty the Queen of England and for his friends, he [[FaceDeathWithDignity faced death with diginity]][[DefiantToTheEnd and defiance against Lucreiza/The Other.]]]]

* Trelawney sobbing and crying over the death [[spoiler:of Wooster is this and likely the audience. In the name of Her Majesty the Queen of England and for his friends, he [[FaceDeathWithDignity faced death with diginity]][[DefiantToTheEnd and defiance against Lucreiza/The Other.]]

* Gil and Trelawney's visit to the Queen's memories [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181219#.XQfmJxZKird gets rather sad]] when she relates how the mirrors stopped working, as well as the fate of her "sister" Queens.
** And then [[LateToTheRealization she suddenly remembers the identity of the assailant]] - namely [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181223#.XQfmahZKirc Lucrezia Mongfish, Agatha's mother, aka The Other]]]].

* When Agatha [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031210 stumbled onto Dr. Dimitri's teddy bear stash]], and he's begging her not to tell... "He doesn't know! It's my last secret! He's taken all the others, but not them! I've kept them safe!" Seeing the scars on his head, and then finding out that [[spoiler:Baron Wulfenbach has been lobotomizing Sparks to see how to deactivate them]] makes it particularly sad to this troper...