After failing to stop the robots from destroying Sweet Justice, each member of the team other than Diana and Barbara leaves, giving up on being heroes. And after Diana is forced to go back to her homeland by her mother, Barbara is left alone among the wreckage. As pictured and quoted right, Barbara then takes off her mask and sadly calls her father to ask for a ride home.
Karen: Face it. We were never meant to be heroes. Especially me. Babs: Bumblebee, wait. Zee: Well, I for one concur with Karen. I never wanted to do this in the first place. Babs: No! You guys! Come on... Jessica: I knew this stupid ring would lead to violence and destruction. Kara: Like I said, trying to be a hero is for chumps.
The reveal in "#HateTriangle" that Hal broke up with Star Sapphire by text makes you feel sorry for her. As clinging and scary as she is, she really loved him and just wanted him back. The realization that Hal doesn't reciprocate made it all the worse to watch. And how does Jess defeat her while sticking to her principles of nonviolence? By depressing her into backing down. She pulls Carol into a hug and firmly tells her that Hal doesn't love her, which starts to send Carol into a fury. Jess then sympathizes with her but insists that her feelings for Hal aren't mutual. This drives Carol into tears, which Jess then comforts her through.
On the other hand, Hal isn't entirely without pity in this situation either. Hal Jordan has enough Willpower to operate a device capable of faster-than-light travel and is considered one of the most powerful weapons in the universe. Carol Ferris just being around him is enough to terrify him to the point he can't use the Ring. And we see in other instances that she's willing to manipulate others to make Hal jealous.
"#ShockItToMe" in its entirety. And not just from the humiliating videos Livewire keeps posting.
The Superhero Girls, except for Wonder Woman, being humiliated in their battles against Livewire leave them unwilling to even fight. Babs, in particular, was reduced to tears when Livewire displays the humiliation in front of her "fans".
The ending of the first part of "#DCSuperHeroBoys" gave us a flashback on the destruction of Krypton when Kara was only a child.
"#Frenemies": Barbara's fallout with her friends. Her friends were reluctant to tell her how they really felt about Harleen, but Barbara forced them to via the Lasso of Truth. Once she sees that Kara, whose truth was more elaborate than the others, wasn't even bound by the Lasso, she gives up.
Part two starts with a resolute Diana trying to make things right, while the fact everything that can go wrong for does Played for Laughs at first, it gets depressing by the climax where Diana grimy realizes she's lost everything and her seemingly final actions may have been in vain.
"#Scrambled Eggs": When Kara and Harleen lose the egg they were supposed to take care of during the weekend, they react by clinging onto each other, sobbing hysterically. It's brief, but it still doesn't make it any less sad.
"#Living The Nightmare": Karen's public speaking nightmare has her being humiliated wearing a bunny outfit, leaving her a mess that's sucking her thumb.
"#AllAboutZee":
Casey Krinksky's motivation for trying to steal Zee's life and later the rest of the team's looks and powers was motivated purely by intense self-loathing. She doesn't like herself and her every theft of others' looks and powers was an attempt to become less and less of the unnoticeable, friendless girl she used to be.
She may have turned out to be a villain, but it's hard to not feel at least a little bad for Casey, especially when she cries the second time.
"#HousePest":
Diana's rough living situation, in the whole time she's been in Man's World she's been living out of a tree. Her friends try to give her somewhere to stay but for one reason or another she's just incompatible with all of them.
Amazons accepting exposure in the absence of hospitality is one thing. A separate issue is that Diana wasn't just accepting but perfectly happy until she was told it was she specifically who could be doing better. 4/5ths of the cases where her friends kicked her out were understandable, but Diana was now too embarrassed to resume a perfectly fine living situation for her, to the point she was willing to reject her heritage to better fit in. The Paragon of at least one tribe was so shamed for doing exactly what she taught as the most worthy representative of her culture that she was willing to throw it away. She was so shamed by people trying to help, people who never did come to recognize what they had messed up with their good intentions.
Diana mentions that a nightly ritual back in Themiscyra was her mother berating her in front of everyone about her flaws and deficiencies. To "help" her. And Diana thinks this is totally normal. Jeez.
"#TheBirdAndTheBee": After defeating Hath-Set, Karen encourages Carter to be with Shiera. But then he decides to stand her up to keep her safe.
"#SchoolGhoul": Silver Banshee was the spirit of Siobhan McDougal, who was made the leader of Clan McDougal. But the ancestor of the Headmaster of McDougal Academy murdered Siobhan by pushing her off of a high tower into the ocean. Her spirit then searched the Academy for what was rightfully hers. When her spirit possesses the Headmaster, he learns her story, and gives back to her the stickpin that was the sign of leadership of the Clan.
"#TheFreshPrincessOfRenFaire": Zatanna's attempts at being a fairy tale-esque princess for a day are repeatedly ruined by Diana, who keeps insisting that a "real" princess would never act in such a way. After having enough of it, Zatanna goes off to sulk.
Zatanna:(Depressed) Just one day, that's all I wanted.
"#HappyBirthdayZee":
It is revealed that when Zee was five, her mother deserted her family after a heated argument.
While attempting to break the dark spell she accidentally put on her friends, the manifestation of Zee’s negative thoughts almost completely overwhelm her, with three heartbreaking questions almost endlessly repeating;
“Why did my mom leave me?” “Is something wrong with me?” “What if my friends leave me, too?”
"#NightmareInGotham":
Diana finally has to break it to Barbara that her best friend Harleen is actually Harley Quinn. The look on her face is one of complete devastation and it's enough to form tears in her eyes. She refuses to accept it and immediately runs away.
The scene following where Babs looks over her memories of Harleen via her phone. Once she zooms in on a picture of her and Diana, she starts to put the pieces together, and with a broken voice, accepts that her best friend is actually her worst enemy.
Barbara unmasking herself before Harley can detonate the bomb that's supposed to destroy Gotham. Harley already had hesitant thoughts about it, but after this, she can't bring herself to do it. What Barbara has to say to her almost certainly breaks her.
Seemingly, after that heartfelt display, Harley activates the bomb anyways. Barbara's reaction to this is one of heartbreak, causing Diana to profusely apologize before urging her to remember the stakes at hand. Fortunately, as it turns out Harley switched off the bomb, proving that even as Harley Quinn, she still loves Barbara.
Shorts
The short "#KaraCare" had a brief one where after a battle with Metallo, Diana sees Kara severely weakened, and unable to move on her own. Once Barbara tells everyone Kara suffered massive Kryptonite overexposure, Diana realizes she'd put Kara in that spot, admitting with tears in her eyes, It's All My Fault.
