Drop shrugs.
— Season 2 Episode 38
Season 1
- Anne has a dream of a puppy running away from her into the forest and disappearing after Jayne has died, but before Anne has been told.Anne: Puppy, I love you, come back !
Season 2
- After fighting the living trees, Drop has a brief moment of depression (or, well, worse depression) after nearly losing all his friends again, especially since he'd gotten used to the idea of someone sticking around for once. This comes back with a vengeance in episode 14, as he freaks out when Violet blows their cover in the orc camp, and at the end of that same episode, we learn that the death surrounding Drop exists as an exchange for his own life. Hello, survivor's guilt.Drop: I have to protect my home.
- Jem's defeat, even if she was working against the squad's goals. Drop forcing her to admit that she doesn't want to die and blankly refusing to give her the death she asks for is intense. When she collapses, crying and spitting venom at the playable characters, it's incredibly pitiful.Jem: Nobody has ever given me a chance, Drop.
- Alias tearfully admitting to Cyldiel that he thinks he's going to die - which hits hard as he's usually a logic driven character rather than demonstrably emotional - followed by her comforting him and praising the good job he's done with everything.
- Hunter sacrificing himself for the party with a smile on his face, just happy that he gets to save both Vinnie and Mother.
- The finale. Drop is erased from existence, the Blackhearts are murdered permanently by the modron, and Lavinia Two the Dryad never existed. And all consent to this for the greater good of Lorelei.
Season 3
- Zoey's reaction to the fear spell cast by Veltari: she comes very close to shooting her own friends with a fireball, and when she wakes, can only quietly walk off to be alone, and resolve that she must kill Lady Nim.
- Rolen gets put through the ringer. He finds one of few friends he has in the world as a shambling stalker, and has to bury him. Then he has a vision of all he'd ever worked for at the Order of the Merciful Sword falling to ruins. And finally, learns that most of the order has been turned into vampires by Count Danto.
- In episode 22, Rolen gives away the sword bequeathed to him by Nynson Chapel as a token of trust to Veltari. She is so caught off guard by the show of support and confidence that she tears up, and from the rest of the episode, it appears she has become unwilling to hide things from him. This show of kindness directly leads to her changing alignment.
- It's bitter as is that Mardis was locked up fifty years for an assault performed under the belief that his uncle had been abducted, but it's worse when you know Alias waited for his son to come back home and he never did.
- Claudia and Robin obtain an hour of Polymorph, and spend that hour holding each other as they haven't been able to in years, in complete silence, knowing that it'll end in the blink of an eye.
- Episode 30 is a hard one on the feelings. First, we hear Zoey's message to Winnie, in which she asks him to move in with Claire and take care of her. It's clear that she doesn't think she'll live to be there for the both of them. Then, there's Robin's explanation that Dora is in a toxic relationship with Ghaunadaur, illustrated by the scene of Ghaunadaur regaining his warlock's trust by throwing her scraps of praise and affection to couch the threats and alienation he sends her way. While Dora is an adult five thousand times over and is responsible for her own actions, seeing her persuaded that she doesn't have anything else to live for is hard.
- The death of Asriel. Both because of how horrific it is, but because of the accidental symbolism of turtle!Asriel being dissolved by Robin. As Austin points out, the Avant Guardes flag was of Theodora's pet turtle.Quinn: I feel like I need to turn off the Sonic The Hedgehog Crush 40 music now, 'cause it doesn't feel nearly as heroic and appropriate.
- At the end of it all, Dora is faced with being forced to kill Ghaunadaur, the one thing she cares about in this world. Incapable of controlling her actions, she can only beg Ghaunadaur to kill her before she hurts him. He does almost pulverizing her with over 5000 points of damage, but in her last moment she strikes with the dragon bone staff.Lauren: I say "I'm sorry. I love you." And then I die.
Season 4
- Once Algernon's facade cracks in Episode 10, it quickly becomes apparent that, deep down, he's desperate for approval in whatever form he can get it, stemming from losing his mother at a young age and being raised by a father who he doesn't get along with in the slightest.
- By the end of Episode 12, the once proud and arrogant Graves is a shell of his former self, stemming in no small part by how frequently and how easily the party has defeated him over the course of the season up to that point. He's so depressed that, when Catarina reveals to him that they discovered proof that his boss is planning on having him assassinated for his failures, he debates whether or not his family would be better off without him, since they would be looked after by his life insurance policy.
- Episode 17:
- By killing Nucky, who seemed willing to act as a fence for selling the stolen computer equipment from the start of the season and solving the party's financial woes, in the previous episode, Catarina alienates the rest of the party. Frank, who had resigned himself to being stuck in "the game" and likely never seeing his family again, is particularly furious, as he planned on using his cut of the loot to make sure his family was safe and financially secure. He's so angry at Catarina that he almost leaves the party entirely out of disgust. And to drive home how fractured the party is going forward, while Lenora manages to talk him into staying by begging him to stay as she sees him as a surrogate dad, Catarina tries to get one last hit in at both of their expense.
Catarina: That's cool. Your kid's a drug addict. - Episode 27 reveals that Reese is still grieving heavily over Catarina's death, to the point where she conjures a Major Image of her to have a conversation with her in order to work up the courage to infiltrate Beatrice's office.
- In Episode 28, it's shown that Graves has continued to suffer a Trauma Conga Line since the Time Skip. He lost his job for his role in Catarina's rampage (which he reveals that his boss helped to orchestrate in the first place), he's unable to get a job in Valentine because of Solomon's influence, his family left him, and he's been living out of a booby-trapped wrecked airship in the middle of the desert, perpetually drunk, living in his own filth, and waiting to be hunted down and killed on Solomon's orders, having lost all hope. By the end of the episode, he's assassinated by an unknown assailant via a harpoon through the skull while Reese tries in vain to heal him. To top it off, Austin reveals that, since the death of the gods in Season 3, resurrection magic no longer works, meaning that there's no way to revive him.
- In the finale, the sheer extent of how utterly broken Reese has become from the events of the season becomes crystal clear. After ditching the party before the final heist, she leaves Valentine as soon as she possibly can despite not knowing where she'll go. She's revealed to have started seeing and hearing hallucinations of Catarina beyond the use of Major Image, and when Skel calls the party to warn them of a new threat to the world in The Stinger, she's not only one of only two characters to refuse to get involved, but unlike Frank, she doesn't even answer the phone.
Season 5
- Dr. Adler blames herself for the death of the bionoid she stabilized in Episode 12. Dregg has a chance to lift her burden by telling her the truth in the next downtime therapy session, but lets her live with the crushing guilt of her failure, which may contribute to her self-destructive behavior throughout the season.
- Episode 31:
- Big Star comes face to face with the soul of a former war buddy (all but stated to also be his lover) from his time with Invicta who was damned to an eternity on the Infernal Battlefield of Acheron. The party, after debating their options, decide to Mercy Kill him and the rest of the soldiers in his makeshift platoon and put them to rest as Big Star does everything he can to comfort him.
- Doctor Olivia Adler is found dead, having succumbed to the injuries that she had suffered from her attempt to kill Cassius. Upon discovering her body, Quinn notes that she had been dead for several days, meaning that the rescue mission was doomed from the start. In her dying message (recorded onto Stevedave), she stresses how much the Bastards meant to her, apologizes to Courage for how short their time together ended up being, and notes the irony that she's dying in the same way as her mentor, before asking Stevedave to play something to help her drift off to sleep, which overrides the standard outro theme.
