History Tearjerker / X23

** Laura's confrontation with [[Franchise/{{Wolverine}} Logan]] at the end of ''Target X''. She has been so beaten down and broken by everything she has been put through that she's decided the ''only'' way out is that she and Logan ''both'' must die. And as she explains why, Logan just resigns himself to death for his complicity in the Weapon X program, but pleads with her not to throw her own life away because her lack of choice makes her innocent.

[[folder: ''Target X'']]

''[[folder:Target X]]''
* After they discovered that her sensei was being kind to her and treating her like a human instead of a weapon, Tanaka's weapons were tainted with the trigger scene, causing her to go into an UnstoppableRage and kill him. Her confused reaction as she sits beside his body afterwards is heartbreaking.
* The second flashback in ''Target X''. There is something inherently heartbreaking about a thirteen year old girl weeping in the snow besides her mother's body, it is magnified by the realization that said girl killed her in a chemically induced UnstoppableRage (and knows it), but what manages to combine the sadness of the moment with the horror that was her life to that point is what she whimpers to Sarah's cooling corpse:

** Doubling as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, Laura's goodbye to Megan in ''Target X''. Just before they depart, Megan gives her a locket containing pictures of herself and her slain mother.
** Laura's confrontation with [[{{Wolverine}} Logan]] at the end of ''Target X''. She has been so beaten down and broken by everything she has been put through that she's decided the ''only'' way out is that she and Logan ''both'' must die. And as she explains why, Logan just resigns himself to death for his complicity in the Weapon X program, but pleads with her not to throw her own life away because her lack of choice makes her innocent.

* In her 2010 one-shot, Laura briefly reunites with [[Comicbook/{{NYX}} Kiden Nixon]], which by itself is a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. What pushes it into outright TearJerker is Laura's response when Kiden asks if she even remembers them. Laura just collapses into her arms and says, "I remember."

* The climax of X-23's debut episode in [[WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution Evolution]], and her confrontation with [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Logan]]. After everything that'd happened, all the poor girl could do was cry in his arms.
** During a flashback in her debut episode, we see one of the more ''benign'' forms of training she endured involved having large sandbags thrown at her from several directions till she couldn't stand anymore.
** Watching X-23 as a baby in a crib, being forced to endure zero physical contact.
** When the former Hydra scientist who came to S.H.I.E.L.D. reveals X-23 went through the same Weapon-X procedure as Logan, at the age of twelve years old. Logan, very understandably, snaps at her.
--> '''Logan''': ENOUGH! She's a child, not a weapon! How do you sleep at night?
--> '''Hydra Scientist''': I ''don't''.
* Just ''watching'' all the things the Facility put her through:
** Constant physical abuse and torture.
** Denying her any sort of emotional human connection.
** Having her HealingFactor forcibly activated by nearly killing her with lethal doses of radiation ''at age seven.''
** Having her claws surgically removed, coated in adamantium, and reimplanted one by one at the same age ''without anasthesia.''
** Being forced [[ShootTheDog to kill a puppy she was given because it was felt she still had too much empathy]].
** Murdering her sensei, one of two people at the Facility who showed her any love and kindness, while under the effects of the trigger scent.
*** And all of this being done to a ''child''. Even worse, Zander Rice is doing all of this not because the project requires it, but as RevengeByProxy on ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} for killing his father while escaping from Alkali Lake. Laura's only crime is being created using Logan's genetic material. The pain and suffering she endured at the Facility is utterly heartbreaking.
** While not as graphic, the flashback scenes in her debut episode count. Nothing like watching a little girl ''cry'' as she's being mercilessly trained into a killing machine.
* The climax of ''ComicBook/InnocenceLost''. "You are not a weapon. You are a child. You are ''my'' child..." *sniff* The repetition of the same words in the sequel, ''X-23: Target X'', has a similar effect, especially when you realize that Laura never got to read the letter the first time around...
* The second flashback in ''Target X'' almost trumps the letter itself. There is something inherently heartbreaking about a thirteen year old girl weeping in the snow besides her mother's body, it is magnified by the realization that said girl killed her in a chemically induced UnstoppableRage (and knows it), but what manages to combine the sadness of the moment with the horror that was her life to that point is what she whimpers to Dr. Kenney's cooling corpse:
---> "[[PleaseWakeUp What]]... [[TykeBomb what's my mission?]]"
** Even worse is what she says during this scene in ''Innocence Lost'' as for a moment, Laura stops being a weapon and is just a little girl again in need of her mother:
---> "Please don't leave me."

* ''The Killing Dream'': Laura's encounter with her inner self during her BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind while trying to prove to the demon tempting her that she ''does'' have a soul. Not only are we revisited with the horrible things done to her by the Facility, we learn that despite all of this, Laura was ''never'' fully broken. One small act of mercy, sparing Martin Sutter's ([[spoiler: actually Zander Rice's]]) son when Rice sent her to murder the whole family, allows her to defeat the demon and escape his influence.
* Doubling as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, Laura's goodbye to Megan in ''Target X''. Just before they depart, Megan gives her a locket containing pictures of herself and her slain mother.
* Laura's confrontation with [[{{Wolverine}} Logan]] at the end of ''Target X''. She has been so beaten down and broken by everything she has been put through that she's decided the ''only'' way out is that she and Logan ''both'' must die. And as she explains why, Logan just resigns himself to death for his complicity in the Weapon X program, but pleads with her not to throw her own life away because her lack of choice makes her innocent.
* Her dismissal from X-Force at the end of ''Second Coming''. First, her immediate thought is that Wolverine is punishing her. Second, Laura's entire life up to that point had been defined by having someone to issue her orders -- to the point that Wolverine notes early in the series that he suspects Laura was ''incapable'' of recognizing Cyclops's invitation as a choice and not a command. She is completely and utterly lost at the thought of having to find her own way, to the point that she is ''pleading and begging'' Logan to give her an order to follow. It's utterly heartbreaking to see her facade of strength crack and break down, and is a painful reminder just how truly damaged she is.
* Laura's frustrated breakdown in ''All-New X-Men'' #35. She tries so hard to find something to believe and hope in, something ''better'' than the terrible things she's seen, done and ''had'' done to her. And then she gets dumped into the CrapsackWorld that is Comicbook/UltimateMarvel, reinforcing to her that it never gets any better. The fact this is set before Wolverine's death but was released ''after'', with the reader knowing that she's soon going to lose one of her central points of guidance and direction doesn't help. However perhaps the worst part of the scene is no matter how much he wants to do ''something'', all Warren ''can'' do is stand back and let her vent her rage and heartbreak ''and not be able do a thing to help her'' because she still struggles with letting people in.

* [[spoiler: Zelda's death in ''All-New Wolverine'' #5. She's gunned down distracting Mooney from hurting Gabby, and with her dying breath begs Laura to cut loose and punish Alchemax for what they've done to them.]]
* [[spoiler: When Bellona says goodbye to Gabby, the latter asks the former whether she'll see her again. Bellona replies that Gabby will once she grows up and forgets to smile while looking in the mirror, subtly driving home the point that no, Gabby will likely never see Bellona again.]]

* [[spoiler: When Bellona says goodbye to Gabby, the latter asks. whether she'll see her again. Bellona replies that Gabby will once she grows up and forgets to smile when looking in the mirror, subtly driving home the point that no, Gabby will likely never see Bellona again.]]

* The climax of ''ComicBook/{{X 23}}: Innocence Lost''. "You are not a weapon. You are a child. You are ''my'' child..." *sniff* The repetition of the same words in the sequel, ''X-23: Target X'', has a similar effect, especially when you realize that Laura never got to read the letter the first time around...

* The climax of ''{{X23}}: Innocence Lost''. "You are not a weapon. You are a child. You are ''my'' child..." *sniff* The repetition of the same words in the sequel, ''X-23: Target X'', has a similar effect, especially when you realize that Laura never got to read the letter the first time around...

* The climax of X-23's debut episode in [[WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution Evolution]], and her confrontation with [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Logan]]. After everything that'd happened, all the poor girl could do was cry in his arms.

* Claudine Renko/Miss Sinister went through a lot of crap in her short time in the series. She was created simply as a backup body for MR.Sinister, injured by Daken which leads to her being taken over by Sinister periodically, then is mortally wounded while trying to take over X-23's body permanently, which was done only to prevent the same thing from happening to her. It's revealed in the end that she's alive, but barely, and under her truly evil male counterpart's supervision.