History TearJerker / LegendsOfTomorrow

-->'''Nate''': You're going for the superior thing again? You know, you don't want to listen to me or understand me. You just you just want to be better than me.

'''Nate''': Because it's the same lesson over and over again. You want me to be more like you, Hank. But guess what. I'm not like you. I don't like televised golf or Tom Clancy books or '70s folk rock. I don't know if you happened to notice, but I'm a grown-ass superhero who's just trying to play the lute for a Minotaur.\\

-->'''Nate''': You aren't gonna miss any of those things. Because you're not going to remember them.
-->'''Amaya''': I don't want to forget 'cause if I do, I would have lost the only part of you that I'm allowed to keep.
* A happy tears variety - thanks to Amaya enabling her daughter to save Zambesi in the previous episode, Kuasa didn't suffer in the war and now shares the totem with Mari, and appears as a hero and an ally to the Legends.

* We finally get to meet Nate's parents. His mom in absolute peach, while his dad is a distant macho man, who clearly sees his son a disappointment; both that Nate couldn't join the military like he did because of his hemophilia (which is not Nate's fault) and has nothing but scorn for his son's chosen profession.
* A deleted scene from the episode focuses on Mick telling Nate to deal with his issues with his dad (bringing up how Nate forced him to do the same in Vietnam), after Nate tries to avoid it, Mick tears into him and orders Nate to just do it before his tone softens considerably as he adds that it's the only way things will ever change.
* Constantine refusing Sara's offer to join the Legends believing he'll only bring the team misery. When Sara presses him about this he doesn't answer, but since he never talks about Chas or Zed the implications are obvious.
* Zari taking Ray to a playground and shows her younger self and her mom playing before the country went to hell under ARGUS, bitter lamenting how she desperately wants to tell her to move out of the USA before the BadFuture happens, but per the laws of time travel, ''can't''.
--> '''Zari:''' ''[crying]'' It would be so easy, Ray to just walk over there and tell her to get her family and go to Canada before everything changes; before this country that she worked so hard to become a citizen of betrays her. Look at her Ray! [[RealitySubtext How could anybody be afraid of her?]]

* Constantine goes to a pub in Liverpool owned by his mother, Mary Anne, where she first met his father, and tries to essentially commit suicide by giving his father a "back alley vasectomy" (kicking him in the junk,) only to be stopped by a TimeParadox, as Zari explains. Constantine has never been a cheery person, but to see him hit this low is heartbreaking.

--> '''Mary Anne:''' I never want to see your face again!
--> '''Constantine:''' You won't.

* Nate spots Charlie, and happily tells Sara that he knew Amaya would come back, and hugs her, only to be punched in the face.

-->'''Hank''': Well, you're one to talk about listening. You've ignored every lesson I've ever tried to teach you.
-->'''Nate''': Because it's the same lesson over and over again. You want me to be more like you, Hank. But guess what. I'm not like you. I don't like televised golf or Tom Clancy books or '70s folk rock. I don't know if you happened to notice, but I'm a grown-ass superhero who's just trying to play the lute for a Minotaur.

** Also sad GeniusBonus here Fairy Godmothers attached themselves to lost kids more specially lost souls. Knowing Mick background it's no wonder why he was easily swayed to her.

** Zari openly sobs over his body, Ray completely stalls in processing what happened when he gets his body back because he's return to his body right beside Nate's dead body, and Mick angrily demands that Constantine brings Nate back to life.

** The scene is sad enough when it doesn't stick, but Phil Klemmer mentioned in an interview shortly before the episode aired that the death was originally planned to be for real.
** Nate finally gets a better relationship with his father, with Hank even telling him that while his death was awful, his faith in Nate and the Legends helped him get through it...Except that Hank is dead and, unlike with Nate, there's no bringing him back.

* In a way, the fact that the ream realizes that being beloved public heroes is just hurting their mission and making it impossible to save history. So, they put out the story they're total frauds who faked their adventures, giving up the love of the public to be heroes in secret.

* While Gideon is scrubbing her memory banks, she discovers a glitch at Heyworld which briefly shows Zari in Behrad's place. Then Gideon finds a message from Zari that has Zari tearfully telling Nate that they changed her future at Heyworld and telling him to find her. Followed by Gideon announcing that the wipe is complete.

* Overall, the situation with Zari's family is heartbreaking. The previous version of Zari was very close to her family and to her brother, and desperately wanted them back, while the current version has a living family but didn't get those relationships back.

* During the dinner, Zari excitedly tells her mother about the new launch that's happening the next day, only for her mother to shrug her off in favor of asking about Behrad's love life. While she quickly begins rolling her eyes as her mother keeps questioning her brother, there's a short part of the scene where she looks genuinely dejected, as if this is a regular thing that happens.
* Ava is taking the closing of the Time Bureau particularly hard. She tells Mick while they drink undercover that she had to move out of her apartment, making her homeless. Sara seems to be aware as she sees her sing horribly while being a drunken mess and lets out a smile, telling Mick to let her finish and not give her a hard time about it.

* Zari and Behrad have it out with Zari snapping that their parents would easily just hand Behrad the Totem as they let him get away with anything. She snaps on how "you do nothing and you're some kind of hero" as he snaps about what he's done in secret. It reaches a height of him teasing her on being "a void" and she responds "I'm a business!" clearly wishing she could be more.
* Rory finding one of the victims is a former classmate he blew off for prom. Seeing her die before his eyes clearly affects him.
* Nora tearfully pleading with Freddy not to go down a darker path as "I've given in to my inner demons" and doesn't want to see him do the same.

** Ali mentions that she tried to find Mick after she found out that she was pregnant, but that he was in jail at the time. And not for the first time.

** And then Ray's still there!!
* Mick tells Mona that he's not hiding from Lita, he's protecting her, and when Mona asks what he could be protecting her from, Mick shows Mona the burn scars on one of his arms and tells her that nurturing fathers don't run in his family.
** Mona disagrees, pointing out that her life is better because Mick was in it, and assuring him that Lita's will be as well.

* The first Zari's tearful happiness when she discovers that her parents and her brother are alive, then when she's told that Behrad is a Legend, she says that she wishes she could see that.
** There's some DramaticIrony and YankTheDogsChain moment near the end of the two Zaris' conversation. While they are chatting inside Zari's mind, Behrad is being killed by Atropos trying to defend both the Loom and his sister from her. Up until the conversation ends, the original Zari believes that Behrad is and will continue to be alive.
* While the second Zari is in the totem talking to the first, Behrad is murdered by Atropos in front of a horrified Charlie and Sara. When she comes back, she's excited to tell Behrad everything that she learned. And then she learns what happened.

* Astra being forced to relieve a potential future for her mother were she is to be resurrected: she has to see Natalie succumb to terminal illness, therefore rendering her resurrection [[AllForNothing pointless]]. Hits hard to viewers who have experiences taking care of their loved ones on their deathbed.
* When the Legends inquire their wishes if they have their hold on the Loom, Zari wishes that Behrad is still alive, while Constantine, after joking a bit, admits that he only wants to make things right with Astra and her mother.

* Gumball being strapped down and tortured by the MenInBlack.

* Just as it seems Konane will be able to leave and live his life in Hawaii, he is killed by a Bureau agent while Mona watches. This causes her to turn into a Kaupe and kills the agent. Her line to Mick sums it all up:
-->''' Mona''': You were right......there's no such thing as happily ever after.

* Hank talks about his childhood and how his mom raised him alone, with Nate and viewers knowing that Henry was killed in Moonshot making sure that the Legends got back to Earth safely.

* John struggling with his addiction throughout the episode. First he is tormented by his own inner self, then he lies to Zari ''again''. When she finally confronts him with the truth and asks him to choose between her and the Scarlet Lady, he immediately grabs the flask, only to also immediately regret it and breaking down in tears. Then he decides to go ColdTurkey with the help of Zari, confessing his love to her, only to relapse when she leaves to get a tea for him, succumbing to his darker side after Bishop's offer.

* The death of Mick's rat Axl.
** Ray holds a funeral for the rat and, despite Mick and Sara thinking that it's ridiculous, they stay after Ray points out that they need this, strongly implying that the funeral is for the people they care about who are no longer with them but whose funerals the characters were either unable to attend (Laurel) or unable to hold in the first place (Snart.)
** Half meta, half canon - the funeral is attended by the only three remaining members of the Legends' original line-up. Snart and Stein are dead, Kendra left with Carter's reincarnation to have a chance at a decent life this time, Rip is now part of the Time Bureau, and Jax left. Sara, Ray, and Mick are the only ones left.

*** And even after Sara is brought back and goes to stop Jax, he's still too far gone to let Rip live; he has to be talked down (by being reminded [[DoTheyKnowItsChristmasTime of what day it is]]).

** Also, The reveal that he has been doing this even when interacting with the Legends, pointing out that he ''died'' and came back, and never talked about how that affected him.

** Also, the reveal that he has been doing this even when interacting with the Legends, pointing out that he ''died'' and came back, and never talked about how that affected him.

* Stein not remembering Ray may have been intended to be funny, but it's a further reinforcement of Ray's belief that he isn't important. Whether Stein taught him when Ray was an undergrad or a grad student, high level physics classes have relatively few students, and it's hard to imagine someone as [[SmartGuy brilliant]] and [[NiceGuy outgoing]] as Ray being overlooked.

* Rip finding out everything he's done was scripted by the Time Masters, and they had his family murdered so he would react as they wanted. This revelation nearly ''destroys'' him. When he's led back to his cell, you can see the fight has gone completely out of him, his spirit broken.

* Original Zari having to return to the Air Totem's dimension because her presence is causing Behrad's death from her timeline start to reestablish itself, leading to tearful goodbyes to Nate and the rest of the team.