Tear Jerker / Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger

• Nine of the Eto Rangers' deaths. You normally wouldn't expect outside of Dragon Ball for almost every single main character to be slaughtered. The fact that they're all Funny Animals that you spend the entire series getting attached to in central roles arguably makes it worse. Of course, also like Dragon Ball, they all come back, but still.
  • Hols and Drago are the first to die, consumed by an inferno after the battle with Rouran. This alone makes 36 the biggest Wham Episode in the series.
  • Nyorori is shot point-blank by Nyanma's Death Ball while screaming at her, and even Jyuken is very clearly upset about it. Pakaracchi attempts to be a Human Shield for Souffle and Urii, but that fails when Nyanma's next attack detonates the entire house instead (although Pakaracchi's sacrifice does at least save Urii's life, as Urii isn't caught in the explosion because Nyorori's, Pakaracchi's, and Souffle's bodies shielded him).
  • Pochiro stands in front of Monk before he can be hit by another Death Ball. Monk tries to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, but fails.
  • Gaoh fights on even ground with Nyanma and almost wins, but he can't bear to finish off his old friend Chocolat and leaves himself open. He doesn't even get the dignity of a Death Ball, instead being thrown off of a cliff. Tart tries to grab his hand, but the ledge she's standing on crumbles, and she fell into Gaoh's arms as they both plummeted into the lava.
• Episode 3 ends on a bittersweet note. Souffle will likely never see George, a citizen of Cinderella's Novel World that she fell in love with, again, and she knows it. However, she drops her slipper in her rush to leave so she doesn't get sealed inside the world forever, and he admits that he does return her feelings when he picks it up and chases after her.
• Urii having to leave Little Red Riding Hood behind in Episode 8 because she couldn't remember him after her world was restored. Poor guy.
• A minor one is Nyorori's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Corrupted Peter Pan. After wanting to fly so badly that he risked his life trying and failing to build a personal flying machine, he takes it well when he finds out that Peter, who does have the gift of flight, wastes it because he's afraid of heights. It's even more of a tear jerker because Peter's fear of heights isn't really his fault, as it's the result of being hypnotized while he was sleeping by the Jyarei Monster disguised as his best friend Tinkerbell.
• Episode 16 in general, but particularly the part where Bakumaru is forced to throw the fight and let himself be publicly tortured by Geton, fully expecting to die slowly and painfully, in order to save Cream.
  Monk: What's he doing?!
  Drago: I think he's crying...
  Soufflé: Did something happen?... (cringes as Bakumaru is whipped again)
• In Episode 25, there is some conflict as to whether or not to restore The Little Mermaid Novel World to normal, since this is based off the original Hans Christian Andersen story, in which the mermaid dies at the end. Eventually the problem is solved when the mermaid herself, corrupted into a singer trying to make it in Broadway, decides to accept this outcome so the team can restore the world to normal.
• In Hols's Image Song, "Devilish Red", it's strongly implied that, while he's normally The Pollyanna, he can very easily be pushed into Stepford Smiler territory as his aversion to the color red puts him in constant agony.