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  • The reason why Matt was able to stumble upon Peter at court? The boy had to come because of the trial for the drunk driver who killed his adoptive parents, along with Uncle Ben.
  • Matt's utter anguish right after realizing he has unwittingly left his own son growing up without him. And even after finding Peter, he still can't bring himself to show his face to the kid, as he believes he would only drag an innocent child into his problems and wants for Peter to escape "the Murdock curse" of having the Devil inside.
  • The Reveal that Jessica never wanted to give Peter away, but was mind-controlled by Kilgrave into doing so, just because the guy loathed kids and couldn't stand the idea of Jessica loving someone else than him. Even after freeing herself, Jess was such a mess she never tried to ask for custody back and still feels Peter deserves someone stable and safe as his parent.
  • Barely two years after being widowed, May Parker falls sick and dies. And her seven-year-old nephew is left all alone, again.
  • In spite of having been Happily Adopted by the Parkers, Peter still wondered why his birth mother didn't keep him. His relief when Jessica and Matt assure him they never intended for him to be given away is heartwrenching, as Peter sincerely believed something was wrong with him, for being abandoned at birth.
  • Jessica having to inform Peter that no, he won't get to meet her family because they died. She's especially bitter regarding Alisa, as her mother was about to go to prison and even there, she would have had a chance of a relationship with her grandson, but was killed by Trish instead. And because of that, Jessica refuses to consider her as family — as Peter's aunt.
  • Malcolm was very aware that Jessica was pregnant when she rescued him, putting herself on Kilgrave's radar. He also was aware she wasn't pregnant anymore when they met again, but there wasn't a child with her either. When Trish confirmed that yes, her sister was deprived of the happy future she was planning for, Malcolm then drags the guilt of ruining Jessica and her unborn baby's lives for almost four years on his own. Learning Jess managed to find and have her son back barely helps.
    • Trish visibly on the verge of crying while she explains the situation. Combined with Jessica remembering her sister weeping while she helped to dismantle the nursery, it's obvious that Trish wanted to become an Auntie just as much as Jessica was looking forwards to be a Mommy. In one fell swoop, Kilgrave impacted four lives.
  • All of Matt and Jessica's efforts to let their son think they're normal cruelly backfiring, as Peter already started to unlock his powers and now he just believes he's a freak of nature, too ashamed of not being normal to talk about his abilities.
    • And he's keeping quiet out of fear that his parents are going to reject him if they were to understand he's not really an ordinary boy. It would already be bad with any kid growing in a healthy family, but for Peter who already lost two sets of parents and is clinging to the ones who came back for him, the birth parents he was sure he had disappointed for deserving to be thrown away and who look too much of a dream for Peter "Loser" Parker? It's heartrending.
  • A girl decides to buy a pet dog, but when she realizes her brand-new puppy is blind and as such defective, she lets her big brother throw the helpless animal into the streets, not even bothering with the pound or a vet. And when good-intentioned people - meaning Jess and her son - try to bring the "lost" pet to her owners, the guy bluntly tells them to not bother. Poor Peter is stunned speechless in front of the guy's careless cruelty.
  • The confrontation between Dorothy and Jessica. Dorothy is sincerely panicking about Trish disappearing while snooping around a Serial Killer, but Jessica ultimately refuses to hear her, having been too badly burned by her and wanting to keep her as far as possible from her sweet, eager-to-please, influencable son.
  • Trish's genuine hurt when she finally learns Jessica found her son and managed to win his custody back yet had no intention whatsoever for Aunt Trish to be part of Peter's life.
  • A hysterical Karen calls Matt to inform that Salinger just kidnapped Peter right in front of her, and she couldn't act because the man would have shot her godson otherwise.
  • Peter doesn't get why Salinger calls Jessica a cheater and wants to hurt her, he just wants to go home with his mom. And his mood actually plummets further when the TV releashes the neighbourhood alert for his disparition, with an interview of Matt begging for his son to be found alive.
  • Even after Peter's rescued by the Punisher, Frank unintentionally makes things worse when he tells Peter that the man who made Jessica give Peter up had powers; based on Frank's misunderstanding the meaning of his questions, Peter ends up concerned that his parents will hate him because of his own abilities.
  • Bucky tries to break through his conditioning and can only remember fragments of his former life. This reduced him to tears as Peter tries to comfort him.
    • Becomes even sadder when Steve talks with Bucky and realises that the woman Bucky's been 'remembering' as his mother is actually Steve's mother (to say nothing of the fact that Bucky's own mother died in the seventies anyway).

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