Tear Jerker / Tekka Dread

• The Nirvana mutiny that rediscriminated the men on board had dashed Slade’s building hope of finally having a place to belong and was forced to flee. Then the massacre of the Melanos fleet dashed his hopes again. He went into a blind rage and slaughtered any Harvester ship in his path until he passed out from exhaustion.
• Slade returning to the Nirvana after the Melanos massacre completely devoid of life an emotion, seeming to have given up on humanity’s survival because of the petty feud going on.
• Slade’s first death left a heavy impact on the ship, especially to the three Dread Pilots.
• Just like in canon, Shirley’s death at only 9 years old was very tragic. Bart even begged Slade if he could revive her with his Tekkaman powers, but not even he had power over life and death.
• Duero's near Heroic Sacrifice when he puts Barnette into the last escape pod, much to her horror, just when she started to develop feelings for him. Luckily, Slade saved him before the desert planet exploded.
• The normally aloof Jura getting emotional with Magno as she asks the captain why she was having these strange feelings inside her when it concerned Slade. She was adamant in having a child with Slade and no one else. These feelings scared Jura as it was just foreign to her and just couldn’t stop thinking about it. Magno simply tells Jura that what she’s feeling is natural, because she’s fallen in love with Slade.
• Jura gets mortally injured in the fight against the clone Nirvana with Slade carrying her body in, begging Duero to save her.
  • It gets worse. Duero's diagnostic showed that Jura suffered injuries to her ovaries which made her infertile. Jura didn't take the news well as she saw it as a Fate Worse than Death to the point she nearly becomes suicidal. Having children with Slade was her dream since she discovered beforehand to her surprise that she was truly in love with Slade. Thankfully this gets reversed once she, Dita, and Meia became Tekkamen.
• Slade informs Duero that he knows why he's trying to ground him from fighting because he was dying. He seemed to accept his fate that he can't be cured but promises to kill as many of the Radam as he can before dying in battle.
• Dita’s Dying Declaration of Love to a dying Slade, she even referred to him by name.
• Meia, who's usually a cold and stoic person, breaks down in front of Magno, cursing her own powerlessness. Despite getting her own Tekkaman powers alongside Dita and Jura, she still can't help save Slade. Meia could only cry in Magno's arms how unfair it was she can't do anything for the one she cares about.
• Jura spent some time crying in her room about Slade's dying condition and cursed fate for what is happening to him. She mentally asked was it so wrong that she had fallen in love with a man that fate had to cruelly take him away.
• Dita, Jura, and Meia undergo a dangerous medical process in a desperate attempt to save Slade, but then get attacked by the Radam. They became devastated when they discovered Slade was dead because of the interference. As a result, the three go into an Unstoppable Rage and fly out to kill as many Radam as they could for causing Slade's death.
• Dita trying to get an amnesiac Slade to remember who she is as well as himself by offering him a huge platter of brownies. When Slade awkwardly refers to himself as “Mr. Alien”, Dita was so shocked, the platter fell out of her hands.
• Once Slade rediscovers his lost past as Ranma Saotome, he gets the bomb dropped on him that Magno is his long lost mother, Nodoka. However, Slade had nothing but anger at her for supposedly abandoning him to Genma and not being there when he needed her the most. He effectively disowns Magno as his mother and states he will leave her and the Nirvana for good once the Radam has been dealt with.
  • Magno was left heartbroken that Slade had been giving her the cold shoulder and wanted desperately to reconnect with her son before dealing with the Radam as she couldn't take losing him again.
  • Slade himself unknowingly sheds tears of regret for his harsh treatment of Magno and felt he may have gone too far in his anger at her.
• When Slade and Saber were once again facing off, Magno could only feel anguish at seeing her two sons trying to kill each other. No matter who wins, she’ll lose a son or both.
  Magno: My sons… MY SONS!!!