Tear Jerker / Flashpoint (DC Comics)

• Project: Superman:
  • Subject 2. Poor Krypto.
  • After Kal-El and Lois Lane meet as children in Project: Superman #2, and after General Sam Lane and Subject Zero are sent into the Phantom Zone, General Adam puts Kal in a tiny cell and basically tells him that he has to agree to be a living weapon or he will be kept there forever. As if that weren't heartwrenching enough, the final scene of the issue is Kal-El carving a little scribble of Lois into the cell wall with his heat vision, knowing very well he will never see her again. And when he actually does, years later, she dies in his arms.
• Dick Grayson losing his mother, then his father, in the aftermath of an Amazon strike-force sent to get the Helmet Of Nabu.
• Batman: Knight of Vengeance:
  • The entire dynamic between Batman and the Joker is chilling and tragic. Both parents survived the shooting, but young Bruce didn’t, and Thomas, as Batman, has to fight his own wife, who went mad and became the Joker after Bruce's death. This probably goes a long way toward explaining Thomas' brutality.
  • Batman asking the Joker whether he should help the Flash rewrite their timeline and restore the true one. Thomas Wayne is asking his wife whether they should sacrifice their lives to save their son. In a touching and intimate moment, where Martha acts temporarily sane, she agrees. But when Thomas has to admit to Martha that Bruce will become Batman, she runs off crying and screaming while Thomas is trying to catch her. She throws herself into the Batcave to die in the fall because she can't live with that knowledge.
• To restore the timeline, Barry must let his mother die again.
• Barry taking a letter from Bruce's father to Bruce in the 'normal' timeline. While Bruce is initially dressed in full costume, he takes the cowl off and reads the letter as Bruce, not Batman.
• Booster Gold losing his memory of Alexandra when the timeline is restored.
• The end of Kid Flash Lost. Bart makes the ultimate sacrifice, and no one will ever know that he did.
• Roy Harper's counterpart in this timeline getting Killed Mid-Sentence when telling Oliver Queen about his potential to do good.
  Roy Harper: You're the one always emphasizing thinking bigger. Well, I've been your chief of security for five years. I know you. You're more than some guy who makes missiles. Mark my words— —You have it in you to do something inspiring, Ollie, and I'm going to watch you do it. (gets shot with an arrow)
  Oliver Queen: R-Roy...?
• Animal Man's fate as detailed in the Legion of Doom miniseries is rather tragic. He's incarcerated for the murder of his family and is implied to be framed, but Heatwave sees to it that he doesn't live to have the opportunity to clear his name.

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