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1* Misa and Hikaru realizing that the devastated planet they're marooned on is actually Earth.
2** Misa had Hikaru bring her to Alaska Base, where her father was. When they only found pools of lava she reached the DespairEventHorizon.
3* The backstory of the Protoculture colony of Altira: its builders were people who refused the battle between genders that had caused the war between Zentraedi and Meltrandi and had seeked refuge on Earth, and temporarily left to protect the planet when the war arrived in the Sol system... But they never returned, and the city remained underwater for 20,000 years until the Zentraedi arrived and the computer mistook them for the returning colonists.
4* When Hikaru and Misa return to the ''Macross'', Claudia asks them about [[spoiler:Roy, and if he died fighting]]. They answer yes, and she looks at them with both sadness and a little bit of relief ([[spoiler:knowing his death wasn't senseless]]) and merely says "Thank you." [[TearJerker Cue waterworks.]]
5* The resolution of the love triangle. Especially because of ''how'' Minmay finds out she's too late.
6* Minmay singing "Ai Oboete Imasuka" (aka "Do You Remember Love?"), the Zentradi realizing there's more in life than just being soldiers and fighting, and then Breetai and Exedol allying with the ''Macross'' to destroy Bodolza. And the scene finishes with Zentradi, Meltrandi, and everyone else crying out loud when the song is over. It's both epic and sad, in many ways, to think that they had been fighting for such a long time, and it all ended in such a fast way, after that much suffering and devastation. In the Exedol and Breetai exchange that follows, it's implied that the universe is filled with the grief of Zentradi and Meltrandi [[ForeverWar fighting each other forever]], and they glimpse a ray of hope with Minmay's song.

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