History TearJerker / Shortpacked

* For long-time readers, there's what comes after Mike and Amber's wedding: [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/happy-ending Do I not get a happy ending?]] Oh, Joe...
* [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/dad "Dad."]] It hurts more after you read the arc where Amber's dad dies.
-> '''Amber:''' Of course the "dad of Faz" or whatever will be happy to learn of your triumph.
-> '''Faz:''' Yes, he would be, if Faz had ever met him.
-> '''Amber:''' Interesting.
-> '''Faz:''' [[WhamLine Sometimes I wish I had a father.]]

* For long-time readers, there's what comes after Mike and Amber's wedding: [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/happy-ending Do I not get a happy ending?]] Oh, Joe...

** That comes back to bite her in the ass later, when she [[spoiler: goes on another Cadbury egg cereal bender and manages to achieve world peace... by walking out on Leslie, having sex with Jacob Manley, filming it, and accidentally setting it to "public" when she puts it on Website/YouTube for herself to see.]] The list was what set everything in motion [[spoiler:because she decided she needed inner peace before trying for world peace, which meant completing the list, which meant doing the one thing she hadn't done yet: 'bang a dude'.]]

* {[[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/joke I don't know much about you.]] [[FlatCharacter After all, what's there to know?]] [[SatelliteLoveInterest You're Robin's hanger-on. It's the ONLY interesting thing about you.]] But you can't have her, so you throw yourself at me recklessly. [[HeroicSacrifice No regard for your own life.]] Because you don't have one. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech And the only possible reasons I can imagine as to why I'm allowed to beat you so mercilessly is that either the Drama Tag is close enough to being pulled that its rules scarcely apply, or that this universe agrees with me that your life is a joke.]]}

* [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1178 This Shortpacked! strip]] where Robin realizes that every one of the goals she made for the future when she was little never came true. With Amber and Mike moving out she has to cross "Live in a big house with all my friends forever" off (made worse by the fact that she was the one who told Amber to leave).

* If you've ever lost a pet, then [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1450 seeing Amber get all wibbly over the realization that her hamsters are nearing the end of their lives]] will probably make you tear up a little.
** [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1533 If that made you sad, this entire arc is going to kill you.]]
** [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1547 ...Damn you Willis...]] Sure when you think about it it's kind of {{Squick}} but it's so sad it doesn't matter.
* Leslie's [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1611 speech]] about why [[ItMakesSenseInContext she wants to punch Jesus]]

* {[[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1796 I don't know much about you.]] [[FlatCharacter After all, what's there to know?]] [[SatelliteLoveInterest You're Robin's hanger-on. It's the ONLY interesting thing about you.]] But you can't have her, so you throw yourself at me recklessly. [[HeroicSacrifice No regard for your own life.]] Because you don't have one. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech And the only possible reasons I can imagine as to why I'm allowed to beat you so mercilessly is that either the Drama Tag is close enough to being pulled that its rules scarcely apply, or that this universe agrees with me that your life is a joke.]]}
* The [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1806 flashback]] to Galasso burning the Drama Tag, and the flashback he himself experienced at the time, after TheReveal. No words used, no words needed.
* For long-time readers, there's what comes after Mike and Amber's wedding: [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1724 Do I not get a happy ending?]] Oh, Joe...

** That comes back to bite her in the ass later, when she [[spoiler: goes on another Cadbury egg cereal bender and manages to achieve world peace... by walking out on Leslie, having sex with Jacob Manley, filming it, and accidentally setting it to "public" when she puts it on Website/YouTube for herself to see.]] The list was what set everything in motion [[spoiler:because she decided she needed inner peace before trying for world peace, which meant completing the list, which meant doing the one thing she hadn't done yet: 'bang a dude'.

** That comes back to bite her in the ass later, when she [[spoiler: goes on another Cadbury egg cereal bender and manages to achieve world peace... by walking out on Leslie, having sex with Jacob Manley, filming it, and accidentally setting it to "public" when she puts it on Website/YouTube for herself to see.]] The list was what set everything in motion.

* The [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1806 flashback]] to Galasso burning the Drama Tag, and the flashback he himself experienced at the time, after TheReveal. No words used, no words needed.

* [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-11/02-the-relationshipocalypse/list/ This Shortpacked! strip]] where Robin realizes that every one of the goals she made for the future when she was little never came true. With Amber and Mike moving out she has to cross "Live in a big house with all my friends forever" off (made worse by the fact that she was the one who told Amber to leave).

* If you've ever lost a pet, then [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/03-fishin-chicks/lifespan seeing Amber get all wibbly over the realization that her hamsters are nearing the end of their lives]] will probably make you tear up a little.
** [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-of-snkrs/mom-3/ If that made you sad, this entire arc is going to kill you.]]
** [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-of-snkrs/death/ ...Damn you Willis...]] Sure when you think about it it's kind of {{Squick}} but it's so sad it doesn't matter.
* Leslie's [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2012/comic/book-13/09-the-secondish-coming/always/ speech]] about why [[ItMakesSenseInContext she wants to punch Jesus]]

* {[[http://www.shortpacked.com/2013/comic/book-14/09-same-planet-different-dimentia/joke/ I don't know much about you.]] [[FlatCharacter After all, what's there to know?]] [[SatelliteLoveInterest You're Robin's hanger-on. It's the ONLY interesting thing about you.]] But you can't have her, so you throw yourself at me recklessly. [[HeroicSacrifice No regard for your own life.]] Because you don't have one. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech And the only possible reasons I can imagine as to why I'm allowed to beat you so mercilessly is that either the Drama Tag is close enough to being pulled that its rules scarcely apply, or that this universe agrees with me that your life is a joke.]]}
* The [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2013/comic/book-14/09-same-planet-different-dimentia/prologue/ flashback]] to Galasso burning the Drama Tag, and the flashback he himself experienced at the time, after TheReveal. No words used, no words needed.

* {[[http://www.shortpacked.com/2013/comic/book-14/09-same-planet-different-dimentia/joke/ I don't know much about you.]] [[FlatCharacter After all, what's there to know?]] [[SatelliteLoveInterest You're Robin's hanger-on. It's the ONLY interesting thing about you.]] But you can't have her, so you throw yourself at me recklessly. [[HeroicSacrifice No regard for your own life.]] Because you don't have one. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech And the only possible reasons I can imagine as to why I'm allowed to beat you so mercilessly is that either the Drama Tag is close enough to being pulled that its rules scarcely apply, or that this universe agrees with me that your life is a joke.]]}

* [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2013/comic/book-14/09-same-planet-different-dimentia/joke/ {I don't know much about you.]] [[FlatCharacter After all, what's there to know?]] [[SatilliteLoveInterest You're Robin's hanger-on. It's the ONLY interesting thing about you.]] But you can't have her, so you throw yourself at me recklessly. [[HeroicSacrifice No regard for your own life.]] Because you don't have one. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech And the only possible reasons I can imagine as to why I'm allowed to beat you so mercilessly is that either the Drama Tag is close enough to being pulled that its rules scarcely apply, or that this universe agrees with me that your life is a joke.}]]

* The storyline where Amber's [[AbusiveParents dad]] dies is absolutely tragic. Makes you cry for [[SmugSnake Faz]], of all people. The little sleaze is human after all, it seems...

* The storyline where Amber's [[CompleteMonster dad]] dies is absolutely tragic. Makes you cry for [[SmugSnake Faz]], of all people. The little sleaze is human after all, it seems...

** That comes back to bite her in the ass later, when she [[spoiler: goes on another Cadbury egg cereal bender and manages to achieve world peace... by walking out on Leslie, having sex with Jacob Manley, filming it, and accidentally setting it to "public" when she puts it on YouTube for herself to see.]] The list was what set everything in motion.

* The storyline where Amber's [[CompleteMonster dad]] dies is absolutely tragic. Makes you cry for [[SmugSnake Fazz]], of all people. The little sleaze is human after all, it seems...

* The storyline where Amber's [[CompleteMonster dad]] dies is absolutely tragic. Makes you cry for [[SmugSnake Fazz]], of all people. The little sleaze is human, after all, it seems...

--> Well, maybe I want to be ''allowed'' to be angry! Maybe I want to be the one who ''gets to punch things''! Maybe I want to have ''the things that I want''! Like a ''mom'' and a ''dad'' and a ''family''. And a ''partner''. Or a ''wife''.

** [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-of-snkrs/death/ ...Damn you Willis...]] Sure when you think about it it's kind of {{Squick}} but it's so sad it doesn't matter.

** [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-of-snkrs/mom-3/?replytocom=56189#respond If that made you sad, this entire arc is going to kill you.]]

* If you've ever lost a pet, then [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/03-fishin-chicks/lifespan seeing Amber get all wibbly over the realization that her hamsters are nearing the end of their lives]] will probably make you tear up a little.

** That comes back to bite her in the ass later, when she [[spoiler: goes on another Cadbury egg cereal bender and manages to achieve world peace... by walking out on Leslie, having sex with Jacob Manley, filming it, and accidentally setting it to "public" when she puts it on YouTube for herself to see.]] The list was what set everything in motion.