Line #236 TearJerker/OKKOLetsBeHeroes


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6	[[folder: Season One]]
7	[[AC: "Let's Be Heroes"]]
8	* K.O. learning the hard way on how to become a hero. When Darrell attacks the plaza, K.O. jumps in to fight him. While it looks like K.O. is winning against Darrell, it was AllJustADream. It didn't help K.O.'s self-esteem that A Real Magic Skeleton recorded his blunder and showed it to him.
9
10	[[AC: "Let's Be Friends"]]
11	* Lord Boxman manipulating K.O. into believing that Rad and Enid hate him after K.O.'s attempts to impress them made a large mess of the Bodega.
12
13	%%[[AC: "You're Everybody's Sidekick"]]
14
15	%%[[AC: "We Messed Up"]]
16
17	[[AC: "Jethro's All Yours"]]
18	* K.O. being offended by Rad's comment on him being simple like Jethro. K.O. tries to convince Rad that he and Jethro both have depth but is disappointed that when Mega-Jethro is attacking the plaza he is simply defeated by just switching lever that makes him go forward or reverse. When Rad sees how hurt K.O. is by his comment, he ensures K.O. he has a lot more to offer than Jethro.
19
20	%%[[AC: "You're Level 100!"]]
21
22	%%[[AC: "Sibling Rivalry"]]
23
24	[[AC: "I am Dendy"]]
25	* K.O being trapped inside a robot's mouth while Dendy just waits outside. She doesn't do anything to help him and only uses this moment to study K.O. while he tries desperately to punch his way out of the robot. She only decides to help him when he mentions that he collects Pow Cards. She apparently feels guilty about putting him danger.
26
27	%%[[AC: "Do You Have Any More in the Back?"]]
28
29	[[AC: "My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad"]]
30	* K.O. looks genuinely hurt and upset when Chameleon Jr. mentions having a powerful dad while he doesn't have a dad at all. You can tell by Rad and Beardo's ReactionShot that even they feel bad for him about it.
31	* When K.O. tells Carol why he dragged her into a fight, Carol looks sad and assures K.O. that his father was a great hero. This further hints that K.O.'s father is no longer alive.
32	** When we learn that K.O.'s father is [[spoiler:Professor Venomous]], this episode takes on a different sad tinge.
33
34	%%[[AC: "You Get Me"]]
35
36	%%[[AC: "You Are Rad"]]
37
38	%%[[AC: "Just Be a Pebble"]]
39
40	%%[[AC: "Presenting Joe Cuppa"]]
41
42	%%[[AC: "We've Got Pests"]]
43
44	%%[[AC: "Legends of Mr. Gar"]]
45
46	%%[[AC: "Know Your Mom"]]
47
48	%%[[AC: "We're Captured!"]]
49
50	%%[[AC: "Face Your Fears"]]
51
52	%%[[AC:"Everybody Likes Rad?"]]
53
54	[[AC:"You Have to Care"]]
55	* Everything about Enid's flashback about how Elodie and her were friends. It's especially heartbreaking to see how Elodie stabbed Enid in the back just to win the contest to enter the P.O.I.N.T. Academy. No wonder Enid has so many emotional issues.
56	** What make this worst is the fact that despite Enid showing mercy to Elodie, who later backstabbed her in front of everyone, the audience still cheers for Elodie and she still got her entrance to P.O.I.N.T. Academy.
57	* When Enid starts hallucinating everyone with Elodie's head, getting more and more stressed from seeing her face, she reaches her breaking point once she perceives someone fully as Elodie and impulsively moves to punch them. That person is ''K.O...'' Once she realizes that and snaps out of it, though it's brief, the [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the guilt on her face]] from knowing she could have just seriously hurt her best friend is heartbreaking.
58
59	%%[[AC:"Plaza Prom"]]
60
61	[[AC:"Second First Date"]]
62	* When Enid almost falls to her death during the date battle, she sounds resigned to her fate and gives a short monologue;
63	-->''Enid'': Well, I guess this is it. I'm gonna go the way I live; giving chances to jerks who don't deserve it.
64	* That in itself is a tearjerker, because it can mean that her death would finally give Enid peace, and that she views Rad and Elodie as people who she should have never befriended.
65
66	[[AC: "T.K.O."]]
67	* Seeing K.O. break down in tears after Shadowy Figure tells him that his friends do not respect him and see him as a weakling. Just the fact that the happy little kid we know from the first episode is breaking down so much was heart-wrenching.
68	** When his initial anger doesn't work, K.O. is even more furious at himself. He comes close to quitting his dream of being a hero.
69	* T.K.O attacking his friends and mother when they try to snap him out of his EmoTeen attitude, especially his reaction when he breaks free of his darker side.
70	* Does Radicles get angry after being punched into orbit and crash landing into the parking lot? Does he get right back up and start throwing punches? Not immediately--he's so badly hurt, both physically ''and emotionally'', he can only whimper pathetically for a few minutes as he lies in the impact crater. He's visibly struggling and back in the fight a few minutes later, but it's hard to see someone who's usually so tough brought so low and by someone he knows and trusts as a friend.
71
72	%%[[AC:"Stop Attacking the Plaza"]]
73
74	%%[[AC:"We've Got Fleas"]]
75
76	[[AC:"No More Pow Cards"]]
77	* When K.O and Dendy were about to drop their Pow Card collection in a volcano due to believing they were bad.
78	** Doubles when you realize that they liked Pow Cards their whole lives. It's almost like having to drop something you liked your whole life in a volcano.
79	** Also doubles as [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Heartwarming Moment]] with this:
80	---> '''K.O.''': DENDY, I CAN'T DO IT! These cards are important to me! Ah! I know they're bad, but... I still like them. I'm sorry, Dendy. ''[Sniffs]''\
81	'''Dendy''': K.O, I-- ''[Shakily]'' I don't want to throw them away, either.\
82	'''K.O.''': ''[Gasps]''\
83	'''Dendy''': I can't explain why, but I just don't. I don't know how I can still feel attached to something that I know is bad.\
84	'''K.O.''': Maybe... Maybe, we're bad...\
85	'''Dendy''': Or maybe we can appreciate what's good about Pow Cards while still recognizing their faults! K.O, we don't have to volcano our Pow Cards. We can like them for what they mean to us.\
86	'''K.O''': I'm so glad this is all solved now.
87	* The look on poor Dendy's face while she listens to Mr. Cardsley's speech about how Kappas could never be real heroes. It looks like her optimism gradually gives way to depression and acceptance that she can't change the way things are.
88
89	%%[[AC:"Plazalympics"]]
90
91	[[AC:"A Hero's Fate"]]
92	* Knowing that Hero left his group from ''Webcomic/RPGWorld'' is sad enough as it is, but that he left them for a long period of times is even harder since most of the fans of KO were a fan of this group.
93	* After K.O. breakdown and told Hero that he wanted to do other things besides leveling up and asked Hero if he ever wanted to do anything else with someone else. Hero gives a sad reaction, showing that he realized he left behind so many people he cared about for even more power. Luckily, he learned his lesson and went back, even ends up having a family with Chery.
94	** K.O. rants is similar to Ian Jones Quartey rants about the RPG World. Despite loving his work and writing, he still want to try anything else and wants a break which was hard for him.
95
96	[[AC:"Let's Have A Stakeout"]]
97	* Seeing K.O. bother Mr. Gar with so many questions? Hillarious. This line? [[MoodWhiplash Not so much]].
98	---> '''K.O.''': Sorry, Mr. Gar. It's just...I am not used to having a big guy around to ask questions.
99	** This really shows how lonely K.O. is and how much he wants a father figure despite having a wonderful mother.
100	* K.O. realizing that [[BatmanGambit he let Shadowy Figure into the area he wanted to break in]] and that he failed Mr. Gar by disobeying orders. He even gets close to turning back into Turbo!
101	* Mr. Gar finds K.O. and scolds him for leaving his post until he sees K.O. break down in tears and go on about how much he messed up and how sorry he is. Mr. Gar stops right away and comforts him in his own gruff way.
102	* Mr. Gar reaction when K.O. asked him why he left P.O.I.N.T., it was clear that Mr. Gar made a huge mistake during the [[NoodleIncident Sandwich Incident]]. Despite Carol seemingly forgiving him, Mr. Gar still hasn't forgiven himself.
103
104
105	[[AC: "Rad Likes Robots"]]
106	* When Shannon gets her circuits damaged during a thunderstorm fight with the Bodega Crew, she begins a romantic relationship with Rad, who reciprocates. Everyone's against them hooking up, but especially Shannon's brothers. When they learn that Rad and Shannon were running away together, they try to kill Rad before Lord Boxman destroys her and only stop once Shannon breaks up with him and reboots to her original factory settings. Rad is so crestfallen, he swears that Shannon meant nothing to him Shannon actually faked her rebooting to be with Rad and to get her brothers off her back, but overhearing Rad's rejection of her, reboots for real and goes back to her usual self.
107	** It's visually heartbreaking too, quite literally. Shannon falling in love is shown by the gem in her chest and her inner circuitry going from a green glow to a pink one. When she overhears Rad's rejection, she clutches her chest in pain, and we see the light go DEAD rather than change color, and her chest panel seemingly opening on its own before she presses the reboot button without any hesitation.
108	** Even worse is the [[MortonsFork logistics]] of it, Shannon's ''family'' (as opposed to Rad's best friends) relentlessly try an make her reboot in order to ''erase an unintentionally made, but ultimately good side of herself,'' or else she'll be destroyed by Boxman. If she decides to go with Rad, Boxman would probably destroy her for good, which considering how he punishes his robots, is a very real possibility. No matter which way one looks at it, her family doesn't respect her decision to be happy and she ultimately gives in to making herself "normal" while Rad is still not entirely over her.
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110	%%[[AC:"K.O.'s Video Channel]]
111
112	[[AC:"The Power is Yours"]]
113	* A very depressing example of HappyEndingOverride occurs in this episode. Captain Planet and Kwame elaborate on how the environmentalist messages they were spreading reached few or none, how corporate greed has made pollution so much worse now, and that the rest of the Planeteers (Wheeler, Linka, Gi, and Ma-Ti) broke off the team due to finding "real jobs", meaning no one could summon Captain Planet for years to help people.
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115	[[AC:"Glory Days"]]
116	* During the Junior P.O.I.N.T. member's induction ceremony, the team shares a group hug and Laserblast cheerfully says that they'll always be together. While in the present, [[spoiler:Laserblast became Professor Venomous after faking his death,]] Carol and Gar have left the team, and Gar has trouble even being in Carol's vicinity.
117	** Made even worse after "P.O.I.N.T to the Plaza" where Foxtail and Gar outright hate each other and it's implied the rest of P.O.I.N.T hates him as well, you gotta feel for Laserblast who could never know that his disappearance would destroy the team completely.
118
119	%%[[AC:"Plazalympics"]]
120
121	%%[[AC:"We Got Hacked"]]
122
123	%%[[AC:"Parents Day"]]
124
125	[[AC:"Back in Red Action"]]
126	* When Red Action invites Enid to hang out with her, Enid wasn't sure what to make of it. When K.O. points out to Enid that Red wants to hang out with her, Enid still has her doubts and thinks Red is just messing with her. Considering her past friendship with Elodie ended badly, it's understandable why Enid would be wary and not immediately take up Red's invitation, no matter how much she admires her.
127	* The fall out of Red and her previous team, the Hue Troop. After she accidentally destroyed the Prism Crystal and decided to run away, her team believed she was a traitor and started hunting her down. It seems that after deserting her team, she lost all respect for them after realizing how cheesy they are. When her team confronts her, Red has no problem hurting them and is more than happy to fight them, shocking her former friends. After replacing the Prism Crystal and her team forgives her and invites her back to the future, she chooses to stay in 201X.
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129	[[AC:"Let's Take a Moment"]]
130	* After being kept in the dark for so long, we're ''finally'' given the full story behind the mysterious [[NoodleIncident "Sandwich Incident"]] and why Gar to this day has a crippling fear of being around Carol. It isn't just because of his crush on her. Turns out while staying lookout during a mission they were both with Laserblast during their P.O.I.N.T. days, Gar trying to express his feelings to Carol by comparing their relationship to a sandwich ends up getting Laserblast [[UncertainDoom killed, shrunk, sucked into a black hole, or some combination of at least two of those.]] Carol blamed Gar for losing her at-the-time boyfriend and Gar has felt immensely guilty for it ever since. Gar's hysteric crying at the sight of Silver Spark in "Face Your Fears" was almost funny, but absolutely ''not'' after this episode. Even after apologizing to Carol in the present, he's just bawling. ''[[WhamEpisode Damn.]]'' Imagine confessing your love to your crush (who you already have a cherishable friendship with), only for her to not only [[JustFriends see you as just a friend]], [[YankTheDogsChain but for tragedy to strike because of it and you're condemned by her for it.]] Gar has been holding some serious emotional weight since long before the start of the show.
131	** Even worse, in "Face Your Fears" before Silver Spark shows up, a giant Laserblast head hovers over Gar telling him '''"It was all your fault."''' It's hard to even imagine what it was like for Gar to relive an exaggerated version of [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]] in that machine...
132	** Even worse? [[KickTheDog Foxtail goes out of her way to remind him of it and rub salt in the wound later.]]
133	** And after certain revelations in Season 3, this ''entire episode'' becomes ''ridiculously'' HarsherInHindsight.
134	* In the beginning Doctor Greyman loses his abilities. It's treated rather seriously and the episode doesn't say if he got them back or not.
135
136	%%[[AC: "Villains' Night Out"]]
137
138	[[AC: "Villains' Night In"]]
139	* The look into the lives of the Boxmore robots when not antagonising the Plaza is really hard to see, Shannon and Darrell have mentalities of young teenagers and are treated miserably by Lord Boxman who uses very emotionally manipulative tools to maintain their loyalties.
140
141	[[AC:"Let's Watch the Pilot"]]
142	* Even though a lot of it is PlayedForLaughs, Rad being mocked for needing a stunt double and both Rad and Enid resenting KO for being, in their eyes, a SpoiledBrat while he genuinely admires and looks up to them is kinda sad as is the big fight the trio get into.
143
144	[[AC:"Mystery Science Fair 201X"]]
145
146	* Dendy coldly experiments on K.O. when she realizes his SuperpoweredEvilSide T.K.O. activates in response to feeling powerless by giving him a simulation where he is given a SadisticChoice. Enid, Rad, and Mr. Gar are all trapped in a burning building, and he must only save one of them. Even though it's obviously fake, K.O. looks visibly distressed by the thought of seeing his friends die, whimpering helplessly as he goes into panic mode. It can be hard to watch seeing him reduced to tears, and Dendy [[LackOfEmpathy unemotionally]] [[WhatTheHellHero pushing him to do it for her own selfish gain]], even if she does eventually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realize what she's been putting him through]] once T.K.O. goes berserk and does the same to her.
147
148	[[AC:"Lad and Logic"]]
149	* Mr. Logic's backstory. He was Lord Boxman's first creation and the two were best friends, with Logic helping Boxman found his factory. But when Mr. Gar began building the plaza, Boxman [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence became utterly obsessed with it]], abandoning all his ambitions in favor of trying to destroy the plaza. When Mr. Logic realized both how pointless this was and that creating things was better than destroying, he tried to get Boxman to grow up and let go of his petty hatred of the plaza. Instead, Boxman was so enraged over his creation "betraying" him that he kicked Logic out and designed the current Boxmore robots to basically act like slaves. In the present, Mr. Logic bluntly says that Boxman completely destroyed their friendship for the sake of his pointless vendetta.
150
151	[[AC:"You're in control"]]
152	* Once Darrel realizes that he was running nearly all of Boxmore on his own he says that he finally gets to be the [[WellDoneSonGuy favorite,]] implying that he's usually overlooked in favor of whichever robot at Boxmore has recently impressed [[AbusiveParents Boxman,]] only to have his hopes shot down when Boxman jr. came into the picture
153	[[/folder]]
154
155	[[folder: Season Two]]
156	[[AC:"Lord Cowboy Darrel"]]
157	* Despite the fact that Boxman brought losing his factory on himself, it's hard not to feel bad to see his [[HumiliationConga Humiliation Conga Line]]
158	* After Lord Cowboy Darrel sent Lord Boxman to attack the plaza, he muttered "See how you like it" implying that the only reason he ever did that was to gain [[AbusiveParents Boxman's]] [[WellDoneSonGuy approval]]
159
160	[[AC:"Your World Is An Illusion"]]
161	* K.O. goes through a horrific existential crisis upon Illusion Jane introducing to him the idea that the universe is fictional. One moment that stands out in particular is that he couldn't even properly hug his own mother for comfort from his situation, because his "frames" [[NoticingtheFourthWall were outside of the fourth wall of the scenery Carol was in]]. Even though they could still see each other, they could not actually ''feel'' each other. This confused Carol, but ''devastated'' K.O. to tears.
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163	[[AC:Point to the Plaza]]
164	* Though Mr. Gar is still on good terms with Carol, he seems to have completely lost faith in P.O.I.N.T.; for Foxtail, the feeling seems to be mutual. When Foxtail is explaining how destructive the Gloops are and that they ruin people's lives, she tells Gar "Looks like you two have something in common," obviously referring to what happened to Laserblast. ''Ouch.''
165	** Especially harsh because Foxtail is the one who recruited Gar for P.O.I.N.T. in the first place because he impressed her with his skills in the ring. It's pretty clear neither has any good feelings towards the other anymore all because of a single bad choice.
166
167	[[AC:Red Action to the Future]]
168	* While Enid is happy hanging out with Red Action, she's saddened when she's reminded that Red is from the future and she knows that eventually she has to return to the future. When K.O. tells them he has a new favorite flavored chip, Enid tells him to not get too attached, believing those chips are probably a limited edition, which is how she feels about her friendship with Red.
169	* Enid having trouble trying to tell Red Action to stay in the present. She's afraid that if she tells her to stay then Red will think she's too clingy and she won't want to hang out with her anymore. Enid tells Red that it's okay for her to go to the future while pretending she doesn't care. When Enid finds out that Red has been in the future for months, she worried that Red will grow up and forget about her. Enid realizes that allowing Red to go to the future defeats the whole purpose of what she was trying to prevent since she's not hanging out with her now and she immediately regrets not being honest with Red.
170	* What Red Action goes through in the future. Red goes to the future believing that they can end the "ultimate battle for the universe" as soon as possible, but the battle becomes a war and it drags on for months, then years, and then they were finally able to end the war in a decade or so. The longer she was in the future, she fully embraced her role as a Hue Trooper and became more serious, compared to her present self. She even got a scar on her left eye. By the time the war ended, Red has become an adult and she had to miss out on her youth and spending time with Enid.
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172	[[AC:Bittersweet Rivals]]
173	* As it turns out, Dr. Greyman never got his powers back. In fact, he was ''crippled from the waist down'' by losing them and now seems like a shadow of his former self. He’s also obviously still hurting over it all, as a student making a snarky comment about his powerlessness nearly sends him into a rage. Worst of all, [[TokenGoodTeammate he might be one of the few teachers who isn’t in on Chip Damage’s honor student conspiracy]], but if so he can’t do anything about it because he doesn’t even know it’s happening...
174
175	[[AC:Mystery Sleepover]]
176	* Elodie verbally lashing KO for even showing interest into becoming a future student at Point Prep.
177
178	[[AC:Final Exams]]
179	* When Greyman tells Enid and Elodie the reason why he made Chip Damage, a flashback appears where the members of POINT (sans Gar), can be seen mourning Laserblast's apparent death, it's played dead seriously and there's no humor in it (aside from a bucket of lollipops in Laserblast's memoirs), it really shows how much the team was affected by the apparent death of their friend.
180	* Foxtail [[KickTheDog coldly firing Greyman]] when the latter refuses her WellIntentionedExtremist actions, with her telling him that "In POINT there's no place for the powerless", Greyman was [[WhatTheHellHero noticeably hurt]] by Foxtail being behind Chip Damage's actions, but this was bad enough that it caused him to storm out in anger and sorrow asking Foxtail to find another Head of Wisdom.
181	** To make things worse all it took for Foxtail to outright dissmiss her old friend, was Greyman opposing her actions, and she showed no remorse whatsoever for hurting him and firing him, it's clear that Laserblast's death affected her greatly and no longer is she the great hero she once was, now she's a shadow of her former self, willing to endanger the lives of allies and rivals alike, as well as dismiss former friends should they disagree with her.
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183	[[AC: Monster Party]]
184	* How about the fact that the Ghoul School gang have only vague memories of Shaggy and Scooby and no recollection of Scrappy at all? They've all but forgotten their beloved Coach and his companions.
185	* Just Enid being terrified about what her friends will think when they find out she's a ninja and not a witch like they assume, thanks to Rad instilling doubt in her. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Thankfully, their views on her don't change at all when she finally comes clean.]]
186	* A small one: While Wilhamena is joyfully watching her daughter and her friends have fun, Bernard is sitting on their bed in a fetal position, clearly disappointed that he cannot spend time with them too because he has to stay indoors away from the full moon.
187
188	[[AC: All in the Villainy]]
189	* Fink and Darrell's respective reactions to their favorite things being destroyed, while humorous with how it actually happens, are still pretty sad.
190	* When Fink saves Darrell from Enid and Rad, he tells her that nobody has ever saved him in battle before. Sure, we've seen them battle many times before and know for a fact that they've never jumped to rescue each other from harm, but it is still a sad thought when remembering they are basically siblings.
191
192	[[AC: Sidekick Scouts]]
193	* Combo Breaker running out of the store crying after K.O. becomes fed up with him and calls him a nuisance. It's especially painful since Combo is more or less K.O. at the beginning of the series pre- CharacterDevelopment and that Combo's overzealousness in trying to help is supposed to mirror his. What's worse is that K.O. in the beginning started thinking Enid and Rad thought of ''him'' as a nuisance even though they were always patient and never lost their temper with him, yet he's doing exactly that to Combo.
194
195	[[AC: Ok A.U.!]]
196	* After having gotten to know Rad, Enid and K.O., seeing their robot counterparts attack one another and be abused by Boxman can be pretty hard to watch.
197
198	[[/folder]]
199
200	[[folder: Season Three]]
201
202	[[AC:TKO Rules!]]
203	* The episode ends with K.O. officially giving up on rehabilitating T.K.O. after the latter proves just how unhinged he is. Having enough of his counterpart's destructive actions, K.O. proceeds to lock him in the deepest parts of his subconscious, giving him a ''blistering'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how he's done nothing but make K.O.'s life miserable since day one and how he was an idiot for ever thinking he could change. The final shot of the episode is T.K.O. breaking down in tears and [[BigNO screaming his head off.]]
204	** It gets even sadder when you remember that [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/eacb0f97d223bba0e43bc1cc1a944ac7/d1373e13af12cc4e-68/s640x960/dfa35eadbb6bdb9a9c0d5be0b02b21ecacfa9c4b.jpg one of the drawings]] we see of him implies that he does feel guilt over his destructive nature but he can't control himself.
205
206	[[AC: K.O. vs. Fink]]
207	* The whole episode revolves around Fink essentially bullying K.O. for being a momma's boy, bringing K.O. to levels of anger that would usually bring out T.K.O. With Fink pretty much being used as the episode's bully archetype, you'd think it would end with everything being hunky-dory after K.O. beats Fink with the power of friendship... but then things get sadder when we find out that all along, Fink just wanted attention from Venomous, who has been too busy to do anything besides work and give her gifts. It shows a great contrast to how gentle he treated her in Villains Night In, coddling her as she fell asleep in his arms. Not to mention that the episode [[DownerEnding just ends with Fink sulking into her room and flopping down on the floor.]]
208	* This also gets worse in hindsight after "Let's Get Shadowy", where we learn that the real reason for Venomous being tired and grumpy so often (which is what makes him more irritable with Fink) isn't just being overworked; it's because he has a SplitPersonality, Shadowy Figure, frequently taking over and exerting his body, leaving him exhausted when he returns to being himself again. What's more, Fink ''knows'' this, but is unable to tell Venomous because Shadowy threatened to [[SplitPersonalityTakeover steal his body for good]] if she does. She has to just deal with his crankiness and lack of attention whenever it may happen and is powerless to help, because the alternative is losing him forever. No wonder she's so crestfallen and unhappy.
209
210	[[AC:The K.O. Trap]]
211	* K.O.'s reaction to watching his friends "die" is nothing short of heart-breaking. He's led to believe that it's his fault, and [[BigNo his scream after Rad dies]] is simply awful.
212	* Then later, after he reunites Rad and Enid and they confront Venomous together, K.O. discovers that these versions of his friends are ''also'' clones, so he has to watch them die in front of him a '''second''' time, reducing him to more screaming and panicking.
213
214	[[AC:Big Reveal]]
215	* Put yourself in Laserblast's shoes for a second. You're a powerful hero, a vital member of your team, and you have a loving and supportive girlfriend, but all you can see yourself as is a useless weakling who can't keep up with the more powerful heroes around you. Then you [[BroughtDownToNormal lose your powers]], all your hard work towards potentially improving them goes down the drain in the process, and to top it off, you hear your girlfriend say something that makes it sound like she, too, considered you useless, and that all her encouragement otherwise was just her lying through your teeth (even though this isn't actually even true, and she just worded it poorly and you misunderstood her).
216	* K.O. and Carol's reactions to TheReveal are ''heartbreaking''; the former is upset at the idea that he has villain blood in him, while the latter finally gets to reunite with her former lover, only to find out that he's changed for the worse.
217	** It gets worse when you remember how badly Laserblast's disappearance affected everyone else in P.O.I.N.T. Mr. Gar lived with guilt over the "Sandwich Incident" [[ItsAllMyFault for years]] (affecting his relationship with Carol in the process), and Foxtail was [[CynicismCatalyst so embittered]] by the incident that she became a WellIntentionedExtremist who was willing to endanger her students and use the technology [[{{Hypocrite}} she had previously called Laserblast out on wanting to use]] in order not to lose her sense of control. Despite what Laserblast thought, the other members of P.O.I.N.T did care about him...but now, it's much too late for any of that to make a difference. [[FridgeHorror So how exactly are the other members of P.O.I.N.T going to react when they find out what really happened?]]
218	** You also have to remember how K.O. spent the whole series wishing he had a "daddy". After spending so long wanting a father figure, he learns who is father was, and is thrilled...but then finds out that said father is a FallenHero who has personally tormented him physically and emotionally numerous times throughout the series.
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220	[[AC:Let's Get Shadowy]]
221	* Professor Venomous is legitimately shaken by this season's ''other'' big reveal: he's Shadowy Figure, but even ''he'' didn't know that, since the latter is a SplitPersonality created when he was trying to get his powers back. Fink knew the truth, but Shadowy threatened to [[SplitPersonalityTakeover take over for good]] if she told anyone.
222	* This episode also gives another reveal: where did Foxtail get all those Glorbs she was using to power her students? Shadowy Figure. Not only had she been reduced to cooperating with a villain, but said villain was [[{{Irony}} the same teammate]] whose supposed death caused her StartOfDarkness in the first place...''and she had no idea''.
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224	[[AC:Carl]]
225	* K.O. crosses the DespairEventHorizon when he comes to the conclusion that all Professor Venomous wanted was to bring T.K.O. back out. Unfortunately, this gives T.K.O. the opening to banish K.O. and take over completely.
226	* The last shot of the episode: as T.K.O and Shadowy Venomous team up and begin laughing evilly, Lord Boxman sits alone in his office [[EvenEvilHasStandards with a very uncomfortable look on his face]], clearly struggling to make the right decision.
227	* For just a [[FreezeFrameBonus split second]], while opening the door for K.O. at the beginning of the episode, you can see Venomous flashing his son a PsychoticSmirk; complete with the CreepyShadowedUndereyes that characterizes Shadowy Figure. This heavily implies that Venomous was already [[SplitPersonalityTakeover long gone]] at this point and that Shadowy Figure was pulling a HydePlaysJekyll throughout the whole episode to get back at him and K.O. for the events of "Let's Get Shadowy". Doubles as NightmareFuel.
228
229	[[AC:Dendy's Video Channel]]
230	* Lord Boxman attempts to put his foot down and [[GetOut kick Shadowy Venomous out]] of his house; unfortunately, since Venomous now co-owns Boxmore, Shadowy immediately turns it around and kicks Boxman and the robots out instead. As a dejected Boxman leaves, the last thing he says is to Fink: "Take care of yourself, kid."
231	* Carol sobbing as she watches her son destroy the Plaza. It may be T.K.O., but it's still her child. She can't do anything to stop him, and she has to live with the knowledge that if she hadn't let him go to stay with Professor Venomous, he wouldn't be like this now.
232	* Jethro is gone. All the models of him have been destroyed. At least until the credits sequence has Boxman finding a colony of them that survived, led by Jethro 2.0.
233	* Boxman essentially [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything abandons his robot children]] and disappears again, much to their distress.
234	* Dendy's attempts to cheer up Enid, Rad, Carol, and Mr. Gar only make them even more upset, since they miss K.O. too much. It gets to the point where Carol and Mr. Gar just [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere straight-up leave]] because they can't take it anymore.
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236	[[AC: Let's Fight To The End]]
237	* Professor Venomous watching Fink sacrifice herself for him. Not only that, but it's only a few seconds after he becomes himself again and has just accepted that he's going to be blasted by T.K.O's draining beam and [[NeverSayDie (though it's not directly phrased this way in the show)]] killed. Instead, Professor Venomous--someone who hurt himself in his attempts to regain his powers (which involved draining the energy of others, to boot) after he lost them--has to watch the girl he raised as his own daughter get drained and killed and know it's his fault. He only has the chance to give a BigNo before he's then killed as well.
238	** A FreezeFrameBonus right before aforementioned BigNo has Venomous staring at Fink's body with [[{{VillainousBSOD}} a look of utter horror and despair]].
239	* ''None'' of K.O.'s friends' and family's efforts to restore him to normal from T.K.O. work. Rad and Enid go Turbo to battle with him, but lose anyway once he taps into the Lakewood Tree. Rad's and Enid's, Carol's and Gar's, and Dendy's efforts to invoke ThePowerOfLove don't make any difference, and T.K.O. just blasts them away from him.
240	** As Dendy is sent flying into Cool Sun by T.K.O., her last thoughts have her lamenting that she can no longer assist K.O., but nonetheless, he'll always be her friend and she'll always believe in him.
241	** Once T.K.O. starts draining (killing) everyone, he becomes more and more unhinged as K.O. plays Carol's recording from their childhood in his brain. Soon, only Carol, Gar, Enid, and Rad are left, and as they realize that T.K.O. isn't gonna spare them either, they can only huddle together in a GroupHug before he kills them too. Carol is crying, the others have tears in their eyes too, and T.K.O. ''himself'' is crying by the time he's finished blasting them. Although K.O. is successful in regaining control and escaping from his subconscious, by the time he returns, the Plaza is destroyed and EVERYONE he knows, both friend and foe, has already been killed by his alter-ego, leaving just him.
242
243	[[AC: Thank You for Watching the Show]]
244	* K.O. struggling to understand what's happening as time seems to be sped up, before realizing that he's been growing up fast and life has been flying by before he feels ready for it.
245	* A LeaningOnTheFourthWall example: when K.O. is upset by how fast things seem to be changing, he thinks "This isn't fair! We were supposed to have more adventures!", right as he's walking past promotional flyers for all the previous episodes.
246	[[/folder]]

Context TearJerker / OKKOLetsBeHeroes