Tear Jerker / Avengers: Infinite Wars

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• No matter their own continued optimism, each Avenger has a bit of horror and sadness upon finding out they've been transported millions of miles from Earth, with no way of knowing how to get back.
  • Also, the ones that get together continue to feel concerned for the members that are still missing; even after the twelve displaced heroes are all reunited on Coruscant, they still express regret that the remaining four known members of the team (Tony, Clint, Bruce and Thor) can't be with them, even when Peter, Matt and T'Challa never met Bruce and Thor themselves.
• Peter for his part is particularly horrified at being sent to another Galaxy, leaving his friends and his aunt without a trace of where he's gone.
• Cap's overwhelming guilt that Ultron has returned, since the Avengers were supposed to have stopped him for good in the Battle of Sokovia. It was hard enough to ask for the Jedi's kindness all these months, but to then bring their greatest enemy to date along with them? Not a great situation.
• Back on Earth, Celeste Morne is particularly shaken as she realises she's potentially centuries from home and in a completely different galaxy, even if Bucky and her other new friends help her find something to live for.
  • Her backstory with the Muur Talisman and Rakghoul Plague during the Mandalorian Wars, especially being used and mind-controlled by a Sith spirit (including her time spent in stasis in the oubliette), is both tragic and horrifying. Bucky is quick to recognise her Death Seeker mindset and do his best to help her get past this based on his own experiences with such horrible memories.
• The Ancient One's final goodbye to Strange, Celeste and Mordo as she is about to die, which includes the revelation that she joined the Order during the Black Death after it claimed her family. While her words help Mordo find a willingness to compromise that he lacked in canon and Celeste and Strange are clearly grateful for their time with her, all parties express regret that they had so little time to be her students, Celeste in particular thanking the Ancient One for giving her a new home on this unfamiliar world.
• Bruce Banner’s backstory , as told by his cousin Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk.
• Pietro works as hard as he can to keep Ima-gun Di alive on Ryloth... only to then lose him to the blades of General Grievous during the Battle of Kamino. Something he deeply grieves at his funeral afterwards, cursing not being able to react fast enough.
• Steve Rogers supporting Pietro & Riyo relationship, while doubting he himself will ever have rock or pillar in relationship, despite having team mates and friends.

  "I don't know if I'll ever have something like that ever again."

• While Anakin and T’Challa look for Peter and Ahsoka in the Son’s domain, T’Challa experiences a vision of the night his father killed N’Jobu. The revelation visibly shakes him.
• As penance for Arishem reimprisoning the Mother, the Father sacrifices himself,to the horror of both the Son and the Daughter. Based on the Daughter's words, they where once a loving family. Even when the Son attempts to get his sister to join, the Daughter tells her brother that she will not pursue vengeance. It is like a family being forced to let go of their sibling who keeps getting in trouble with the law.
• Making a return visit to Tatooine, Anakin is saddened to learn that Cliegg Lars died a few weeks after the start of the Clone Wars. Addressing his step-father's grave, Anakin expresses regret that they didn't have time to get to know each other, but affirms that he is grateful to Cliegg for giving Shmi all the love and kindness he could while Anakin was away.
• Chapter 78 opens with Bucky attending Peggy Carter's funeral, still feeling so guilty about his actions as the Winter Soldier that he wonders if she and someone else (unnamed, but almost certainly Howard Stark) would ever forgive him for what he did while under their control, even though he would never have done any of that on his own accord.
• Chapter 84:
  • Barriss' breakdown during the therapy session as she talks about having to kill her friends after Ultron turned them into his pawns.
  • The fact Wrecker, The Bad Batch's resident fun personified, is in attendance. As are several other recurring clones, including Lucky, Cameron and Flash.
  • The Jedi now suspect Ultron is behind the disappearances of around thirty Jedi, mostly Padawans, and seven hundred clones.
• Chapter 85:
  • Anakin and Ahsoka talk about their experiences on Mortis, namely Ahsoka's brief death. After she leaves Anakin hears Vader's breathing and hallucinates that he's there.
  • It's not just Jedi and Clones disappearing, missing persons have also increased on Jeddha and Kashyyk with several from the Wookiee clan allied with T'Challa.
• Mantis is fully aware that she is Peter Quill's half-sister through Ego, but she feels that she cannot tell him about their relationship as she is ashamed about her role in the deaths of their other siblings.
• Chapter 87:
  • Having been given away by her mother when she was just a toddler, Asajj utilizes her new ability of Force Phantoms to summon the spirit of her mother, bursting into tears after a few moments when hearing how much Ilsijj loved her.
• Peter and Barriss' reactions upon Ahsoka's disappearance: after both of them tries to call the Togruta padawan in the comms with increasing desperation, Spidey enters the Onderonian jungle, screaming his girlfriend's name, while Barriss falls on her knees, with a single tear falling from her eyes, after unsuccessfully trying to reach her girlfriend through their Force Bond.
• Kalifa's fate in the Trandoshan moon: she is possessed by Ultron and converted into one of his drones… at least, until she manages to override the A.I.'s control and beg her friends to kill her, only to have Ultron crushing her heart and killing her instantly, leaving only her possessed corpse.
• Ultron's extermination of Geonosis. They may have been responsible for building the droid army, but even the clones agree that no race deserves extinction.
• Darth Vader acknowledging how Ahsoka's and Padme's fates played a part in his Fall to the Dark Side. Much like in Obi-Wan Kenobi, it's tempting to consider that Vader said this because the part of him that is still Anakin, even as he openly taunts his younger self, wants him to avoid that fate and protect those that Vader couldn't save himself.
• Even amid the joy as the displaced Avengers are reunited with their friends and loved ones back on Earth, Celeste Morne is still briefly overwhelmed to take in the scale of how long it has been since she entered stasis to try and contain Karness Muur.
• Steve's sorrow over Peggy's death and regret over not being able to attend her funeral.
• A relatively small example in the grand scheme, but when Obi-Wan and Anakin meet an alternate version of Peter Parker who has been trained as a Jedi, Obi-Wan is clearly shocked when Peter mentions that Siri Tachi is Obi-Wan's wife in his reality, as Siri has been dead since the start of the Clone Wars.
  • Likewise, the alternate Peter is shocked to see Barriss in this reality; it's later confirmed that he and his Barriss were involved in his reality before she was killed.
• Jedi!Peter's backstory is a huge Tear Jerker by itself: he lost his uncle and aunt when he was a very small kid to gangsters, fought in the Clone Wars (that lasted six years in his universe) and lost his first love, Barriss, during the conflict. No surprise that he fights so ruthlessly in comparison to the rest of the Spider-Gang.
• It's brief, but Spider-Man Noir sounds a little horrified when Avenger!Peter mentions the Second World War.
  Noir: Oh Christ, you're telling me another one is on the way?
  • On that note, Jedi!Peter is clearly saddened to learn his "Uncle Dooku," one of his first Masters, is a Sith Lord in another universe.
• During the fight at the Collider, Wilson sees various versions of his family who all hate him. The circumstances may be different, such as one where Richard blames him for Vanessa's death, or Vanessa is horrified by the fact Richard witnessed Kingpin commit his crime. Ultimately, it paints a picture that every iteration of Kingpin will always drive away his family because of the decisions he makes.
• Chapter 105 ends in Ultron achieving a major blow to the Republic, mainly through the complete destruction of Kamino and Cato Nemoidia, along with the death/conversion of 99 and the forced evacuation of Tipoca City.
  • What's worse is Ultron made sure that the changing of 99 was seen by all as he projected this event across the galaxy, further demoralizing and striking right at the heart of all the Clone Troopers.
• Chapter 106:
  • Echo’s reaction to Fall of Kamino, cyberization of his brothers, and death of 99.
  • The estimated loss of Clones is somewhere between seven to eight hundred million.
  • When Dehlia Blue finds Rex, the captain has been taking pistols apart and putting them back together on loop occasionally hitting them.
  • Omega has been hugging Lula and Wrecker's arm since the fall of her home world, all four Batchers are clearly concerned about her.
  • Celeste lamenting that basically her native Galaxy didn’t change much in past 4.000 years and comparing Ultron’s War with Mandalorian Wars, with first being WAY WORST than previous conflicts.
• Chapter 107:
  • Seeing the results of Ultron's experiments reminds Rocket of his own "childhood" as part of the experiments of the High Evolutionary.
• Chapter 108:
  • The Bad Batch are forced to kill 99 after he's "reanimated" as one of Ultron's new servants, each of them sickened at how Ultron has corrupted their favourite brother while fully aware 99 wouldn't want to continue in his current state.
  • Identity reveal of "Whiskers" = Admiral Wullf Yularen!!
    • Also Nightmare Fuel with Body Horror
• Chapter 113:
  • Statues in honor of 99 is revealed in front of the Jedi Temple and the Senate building, remembering his sacrifice and immortalizing him in the eyes of the galaxy.
• Chapter 115:
  • May feels torn when she looks at Peter, seeing how much he's grown up in such a short amount of time, close to crying as she thinks about what her nephew had endured and how he has changed with a more mature and wary look in his eyes that no teenager should have.
  • T'Challa's reunion with his father takes a bittersweet turn when he reveals that he met the spirit of his uncle N'Jobu on Mortis. While most of that discussion is calling out the King for not using Wakanda's strengths to help the rest of the world, it turns to heartbreak when T'Challa asks why his father never took their cousin home with him after N'Jobu died. T'Chaka can't even look his son in the eye over this, implicitly accepting that his son is right to be mad at him.

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