History TearJerker / TheUmbrellaAcademy2019

* Klaus finding out to his horror that Dave is enlisting earlier than before, and even though he tries his hardest to dissuade him from throwing his life away, Dave tells Klaus that dying for his country is the greatest honor he could have before leaving and coldly telling Klaus to keep his sob story for another recruit.
** Klaus is so affected by this that even one of his cult followers meekly walks up to him with Reginald's invitation, and Klaus' hands continue to shake as he takes it and opens the letter.

* Klaus confronting Dave in front of his homophobic uncle who tells him to "punch the queer". After that happens, Klaus quietly walks outside and nearly breaks down in the car. He then falls off the wagon after three years of sobriety and goes on a drinking spree.

* Ben realizing Klaus came back to see a younger but alive Dave, and while he calls his brother out on his stalking and selfish desires, he quietly asks him to promise him that no matter what, he will not spiral down into a depression. Klaus pauses for a bit before [[TemptingFate assuring Ben he'll be okay]]. A few episodes later, and he isn't...

--> '''Ben:''' Can I ask you a weird favor?
--> '''Vanya:''' Anything.
--> '''Ben:''' [[StayWithMeUntilIDie ...Can you hug me as I go?]] It's been a long time since-- (''cuts off on his talk as Vanya obliges him, and returns her embrace.'')

* The two remaining Swedes mourning the death of their brother via a [[VikingFuneral Viking funeral.]] While the accompanying music (a Swedish cover of Adele's "Hello") makes the scene double as {{Narm}}, it's the first time they've shown any emotion all season, and it's clear how much they care about their own.

* Reginald absolutely decimates and eviscerates Diego's psyche and motivations throughout the first and second seasons, and Diego, in tears, can only meekly stutter, "You're wr-wrong." While others have made note of and joked of his "daddy issues", you can tell Diego himself is extremely effected by hearing it straight from the man himself to the point that he falls back into his childhood SpeechImpediment. His siblings who have been snarking at each other up until that point go dead silent and give each other worried looks.
* Elliot's death. He was an innocent man that accidentally got wrapped up in the Hagreeve's business, and is brutally tortured and murdered by the Swede's who think it's Diego's fault their brother was dead. Luther and Diego's reactions when they find Elliot's corpse is to wince.

* Allison Rumoring the older brother, "I heard a rumor, that you killed your brother." Once he comes back to himself after doing the deed, he lets out a horrified wail as he then runs out of the house.

--> '''Ben:''' [[StaywithMeUntilIDie ...Can you hug me as I go?]] It's been a long time since-- (''cuts off on his talk as Vanya obliges him, and returns her embrace.'')

--> '''Ben (to Vanya):''' [[StaywithMeUntilIDie ...Can you hug me as I go?]] It's been a long time since-- ''(cuts off on his talk as Vanya obliges him. He returns her embrace.)''

* Allison Rumoring the older brother, "I heard a rumor, that you killed your brother." Then he strangles his brother to death, and once he comes back to himself, he lets out a horrified wail as he then runs out of the house.

* Harlan's first word is him calling for Vanya has her powers start to affect him as well.
* Ben sacrificing himself in order to save Vanya. Especially them [[FinalFirstHug embracing for the first time in decades]] as he slowly fades away.
--> '''Ben (to Vanya):''' [[StaywithMeUntilIDie ...Can you hug me as I go?]]

[[folder: Valhalla]]
* As his siblings walk out to go about their business, Ben is sitting alone on one of the chair saying, "I missed you all, so much." However, it's clear he's deflated and feels alone since his siblings hardly acknowledged this existence as a ghost.
* The two remaining Swedes mourning the death of their brother via a [[VikingFuneral Viking funeral.]] While the accompanying music (a Swedish cover of Adele's "Hello") makes the scene double as {{Narm}}, it's the first time they've shown any emotion all season, and it's clear how much they care about their own.

[[folder: A Light Supper]]
* Reginald absolutely decimates and eviscerates Diego's psyche and motivations throughout the first and second seasons, and Diego, in tears, can only meekly stutter, "You're wr-wrong." While others have made note of and joked of his "daddy issues", you can tell Diego himself is extremely effected by hearing it straight from the man himself to the point that he falls back into his childhood SpeechImpediment. His siblings who have been snarking at each other up until that point go dead silent and give each other worried looks.

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* Ben sacrificing himself in order to save Vanya. Especially them [[FinalFirstHug embracing for the first time in decades]] as he slowly fades away.
--> '''Ben (to Vanya):''' [[StaywithMeUntilIDie ...Can you hug me as I go?]]
* It's a brief moment, but when Luther pretends he's going to shoot Five (so that he can [[ItMakesSenseInContext catch the old Five off guard and knock him out instead]]), Five just sits there and takes it, not even trying to defend himself. For all of Five's abrasiveness, it's clear he values his siblings' lives above his own, and could never bring himself to intentionally harm one of them.

* Five watching his entire family die in front of him for a ''third'' time in the barn (before he figures out he can rewind time to save them).

* Reginald absolutely decimates and eviscerates Diego's psyche and motivations throughout the first and second seasons. While others have made note of and joked of his "daddy issues", you can tell Diego himself is extremely effected by hearing it straight from the man himself to the point that he [[SpeechImpediment stutters]]. His siblings who have been snarking at each other up until that point go dead silent and give each other worried looks.

* The flashback to the children sans Vanya getting their tattoos. Allison and Klaus have already gotten them and are crying in each other's arms. Diego is in the chair, whimpering and wincing at the pain but refusing to take Grace's offered reassuring hand. Luther, Five, and Ben are sitting and waiting their turn. Luther is trying to keep a stoic expression but the camera lingers on him anxiously clawing at his sleeve. Ben's forehead is sweaty and his lower lip is quivering. Five visibly swallows a lump in his throat. Meanwhile, Vanya, watching from the stairs, draws herself a tattoo in marker, jealous of something that's traumatizing for her siblings just because it's yet another thing she's left out of. It's a horrible moment for all of them!

--> '''Allison:''' (''tiredly'') And there goes Ben's statue.

--> '''Diego:''' Good luck on your next film. Hopefully it turns out better than your marriage.

* We see how Number Five discovers the Bad Future, including the burnt-out ruins of the Academy and his siblings lying dead in the rubble. Especially bad because at that point, he's not a world-weary 58-year-old trapped in a child's body, but actually a child.

* Vanya has the smallest room.

* Not just Patch's death, but Diego's reaction to it. The music, his heartbroken expression, his desperate scolding, all of it.
* Child Klaus in the Mausoleum. He’s a terrified kid, and he’s locked with these demonic ghosts, screaming to be left alone, and when his father finally shows up, it’s only to tell him he has to stay another three hours. If you’re paying attention to the child actors, it’s a younger child than is normally shown.
* Klaus does not consider it a possibility that his family could even realize that he’s gone. Worse - he's ''right''.

* Not exactly played for tears, but the {{Fridge Horror}} of Five growing up from a thirteen year old boy to a world weary old man in the apocalypse over decades, having no one but a mannequin for companionship.
* Klaus returning to the present grieving Dave’s death. He’s clearly traumatized, his fingers are coated in blood, and he just stares ahead blankly, with tears in his eyes. The music sells it.

* Luther finding out that he was sent to the moon for four years just because his father pitied him and didn't want him around is heartbreaking. Luther was the only member of the Academy to always have faith in their father, but that was thrown back in his face.

* As sweet as Allison and Luther's dance in the park is, there's some fridge tearjerker to be found: while a Doylist reading for why Luther is normal-size for the dance as opposed to his ape-body would be because Tom Hopper probably can't dance very well in all that padding, a Watsonian reading is that Luther feels so out of place in his ape-body he doesn't - or can't - consider it his 'real' body. And he's lived with it for four years. Imagine the body dysmorphia he must be suffering, on top of his four-year isolation, and Luther's behavior - while not excusable - becomes more understandable.

* The mere comparison to where the characters were at the end of this episode to where they were at the end of last episode. Klaus gets to see [[AbusiveParents his father]] instead of Dave, Diego gets arrested for his best friend’s murder, and Vanya is destined to learn the dirty details of her powers in... less than ideal circumstances.
* The flashback to Harold’s childhood at the beginning. As sociopathic as he is an adult, it’s still sad to him as an {{Adorkable}} child being raised with an [[AbusiveParent Abusive Parent]] over a situation he had no control over, and sent away and laughed at when he tries to meet with his childhood heroes. What’s even sadder is the look of adoration his father gives him at his birth before his mother dies.

** When the rest of the Hargreeves find Allison at the house, Klaus and Luther's reactions are also pretty sad.

* Luther locking Vanya up. Her other brothers want to let her go and argue with Luther. When Luther refuses even Allison, you can see how upset both Allison and Vanya are with his decision.

* After she embraces her White Violin persona, Vanya revisits painful memories of being rejected by her siblings as she destroys each of the bedrooms and the whole house. She truly believed her siblings hated her whole life and the revelation that Sir Reginald hid her powers from her and had ostracized her didn’t help.
* Vanya confronting and murdering Pogo after he tells her he knew about her powers all along. Pogo was basically a father figure to the siblings and Vanya, and he had good intentions, but Vanya, already angered and out for blood, wasn’t about to listen to reason anymore.
* Diego desperately calling out and attempting to go back inside to save Grace from being taken down with the Academy. As he’s being pulled away by Klaus, all he can do is watch the mother he just got back wave sadly from the window as she’s about to die again.

* Diego seeing Grace having sewn through her arm and realizing that Luther and Allison were right that something was wrong with her, and thus disabling her. Her DissonantSerenity as they talk through this is especially heartbreaking because he reverts to his childhood stutter and she repeats her guidance to get him through what he wants to say.

* Unlike the rest of her siblings, Vanya has the smallest room in comparison.

* Diego is preparing to leave the mansion, saying how they'd probably see each other again in ten years for Pogo's funeral. Allison snipes that's only if Diego doesn't get killed first, and while Diego says "love you too, sis" he adds in these words that are intentionally there to hurt Allison.

--> '''Allison:''' (''tiredly'') And, there goes Ben's statue.

* Klaus returning to the present grieving Dave’s death. He’s clearly traumatized, his fingers are coaxed in blood, and he just stares ahead blankly, with tears in his eyes. The music sells it.

* Almost everything relating to Klaus after he comes back from the trip to the past, but especially his desire to get sober so he can use his powers because he's that desperate to see Dave again. Made worse by the fact that, in "The Day That Wasn't", he managed to succeed at seeing Dave again but as the day is rewound and erased, he doesn't manage it a second time. Instead, when he unlocks his powers he gets Reginald while expecting Dave.

* As sweet as Allison and Luther's dance in the park is, there's some fridge tearjerker to be found: while a Doylist reading for why Luther is normal-size for the dance as opposed to his ape-body would be cause Tom Hopper probably can't dance very well in all that padding, a Watsonian reading is that Luther feels so out of place in his ape-body he doesn't - or can't - consider it his 'real' body. And he's lived with it for four years. Imagine the body dysmorphia he must be suffering, on top of his four-year isolation, and Luther's behavior - while not excusable - becomes more understandable.

* The conversation between Allison and Vanya leading up to their confrontation about the latter's powers, while heartwarming, is ultimately quite one-sided. With the timeline changed in "The Day That Wasn't" and the years they've been distant from each other, Vanya is still practically unwilling to let Allison into her life as her sister or go with her to hear her out about Leonard since she's still processing her TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening from the previous night. And when Allison realizes and reveals that she had been complicit in manipulating Vanya into believing the latter was inferior for being "ordinary"... [[SuddenlyShouting no wonder]] [[PowerIncontinence the argument]] [[SlashedThroat went down badly.]]

* Vanya confronting and murdering Pogo after he tells her he knew about her powers all along. Pogo was basically a father figure to the siblings and Vanya, and he had good intentions but Vanya, already angered and out for blood, wasn’t about to listen to reason anymore.