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- Mitzi refused to sell the pearl necklace that her late husband gave her, because it's all she has left of him. It is promptly broken as she desperately scrambles across the street trying to save it.
- And let's not forget about Zib, who realizes that Mitzi is no longer the young, sweet and innocent Mary Ellen he used to know back in the days.
- "I can put it back together!" Oh, Mitzi... If you ever needed any assurance that she really did love Atlas and wasn't just a Gold Digger, this is it.
- At a lunch with Asa, at one point she looks about to cry and he chastises her to 'not turn on the waterworks', as well as pointing out he had business deals with Atlas, not her and patronising her by suggesting she should go back to playing music at his hotel. In one fell swoop Mitzi has been left with nearly nothing and no way to rebuild it except her own determination and cunning. She's also forced to contend with the Marigold gang being hostile to her in a way its implied they weren't when Atlas was alive (assuming they weren't partly responsible for his murder), so her conversation with Asa and Mordecai, both of whom she used to be on friendly terms with, comes off more as a bittersweet goodbye.
- After Rocky is run over by the hearse, he calls Mitzi to let her know he and Ivy might have secured them a new supplier. We see Mitzi sitting in her office, miserably trying to restring her pearls with stacks of money she stole from Wick sitting on her desk. It's probably the lowest she's looked in the comic run so far, and even Rocky - in his injured state - can tell she sounds miserable over the phone.
- And in Lackadaisy Haymaker
, there's just something upsetting about the sight of Rocky with a massive gash in his head. For a character so prone to Amusing Injuries, seeing him take a blow played so deadly straight is pretty sad. - Rocky's aunt pointing out that just because Freckle is the only person in the world who still trusts him isn't a good reason for Rocky to abuse that trust. She even succeeds in wiping the smirk off Rocky's face for a split second.
- The reveal that Viktor has an estranged wife and daughter. Suddenly his over-protectiveness of Ivy makes a lot more sense.
- Rocky's mental condition after hitting his head is worrying, to say the least.
- Hell, his condition leadingup to the previous scene is rather heart-wrenching. His usual upbeat, dorky attitude is gone, replaced with a poor sullen man who knows how far in the world he has fallen, has nowhere to go, and no one to blame but himself for any of it.
- Earlier scenes hint towards his Hidden Depths as well; for example, after Freckle takes off in the car after his rampage against the Pig Farmers, Rocky just lays there on the ground with his eyes closed, knowing that he screwed up bad.
- Hell, his condition leading
- Serafine and Nico's backstory. They were orphaned (or possibly abandoned) as small children, and were sent to an orphanage run by nuns. Except the nuns said that boys and girls had to live separately, and Serafine couldn't bear the idea of being away from her brother, even saying she'd cut her hair and live as a boy for the rest of her life if it meant they could stay together. When the nuns refused, Nico and Serafine ran away, and nearly starved to death in the bayou until a local took pity on them.
- A flashback shows Mordecai as a young man, fleeing New York to escape men who wanted him dead. We see him as a frightened, disheveled young man on a train, writing a letter to his mother. He was so penniless that he had to beg other passengers for a stamp to mail the letter (a stamp that no one would give him).
- He was penniless because he'd left all his money behind, so his mother and sister could buy a nicer place to live.
- His leaving the Lackadaisy. He knew Mitzi, Viktor and any of the remaining old guard would assume it was a pragmatic move since the Marigold gang is faring better in the wake of Atlas' death, but he doubles down on this by kneecapping Viktor in an attempt to force his old partner to retire. In other words, his decision to try and get answers (possibly revenge) for Atlas' death costs him the few things he had left: his sort-of friendship with Viktor and the second home and family he had to leave behind, all of whom are left to think the worst of him. Mordecai behaves as though none of this bothers him, but gets noticeably prickly whenever anyone brings up Viktor and is extremely harsh to Mitzi over the issue of how keeping the Lackadaisy going is affecting Atlas' legacy. The first time he was forced to flee his home, the second time was a choice because the man who had essentially adopted and raised him as a triggerman died.
- He's at his most dishevelled and overwhelmed looking during his interrogation of Gracie, where he takes the risk of admitting he's been looking into Atlas' death to try and find out what he knows. This is during the same night where the scarification happened, so he still has blood on his shirt - and in a rare move, ditches his suit jacket also during the conversation, his wardrobe mirroring his less put together emotional state.
- All of "Lackadaisy Anodyne". Viktor's daughter has been writing to him for years, and while he keeps her letters, he could not work up the courage to read them until the present. He accidentally drops a photo of Alena, which falls through the floorboards, driving an anguished Viktor to walk down the basement stairs to retrieve it in spite of his bad knees. When Elsa phones him, his facial expression is one of pain, sorrow, and relief all at once.
- While being interrogated by Mordecai, Gracie Gromberg is clearly still heartbroken over having accidentally caused his uncle's death (he only meant to put him out of commission for a while, in order to take control of his business, but a broken bone quickly turned deadly) and the fact it was All for Nothing, as he hasn't been able to give the Feds anything they didn't already know. And Mordecai is clearly unsympathetic towards this revelation.
- The state of pretty much everyone in the comic who formed the original Lackadaisy crew. Mitzi is seemingly unable to move on, trying to rebuild some of what the speakeasy used to be while being fiercely protective of the pearls Atlas left her and is ambiguously involved/responsible for his death, the band are hangers-on seemingly just out of loyalty to Mitzi, Viktor lost his mentor and his partner when he was kneecapped and is forced into a bartending job he isn't really suited for and Mordecai has burnt bridges with everyone he had left in order to investigate Atlas' death further, risking his life to switch sides while simultaneously working with partners he can trust far less than he could Viktor. For all the flaws its hinted Atlas had, the Lackadaisy was something resembling a thriving family, but after his death the speakeasy is dying a slow death and absolutely no one is coping well.
- Virgil, just in general. He's homeless and suffering from some form of mental disability, which is sad enough, but it gets even worse if you do some poking around. There exists an image of Virgil on Patreon that shows him as a clean and healthy-looking football player, which makes how far he's fallen all the more striking. Plus there's his entry on the Discord list of character sexualities: Straight but 20$ is 20$.
Animated
- The state of Lackadaisy near the end of the pilot. The speakeasy is failing and Rocky and company have only managed to bring back three bottles of horrible liquor for all their trouble. Much as Mitzy tries to sugar-coat it, everyone understands that things aren't good. There's a special focus on Rocky, who's clearly disappointed at his failure, and Zib, whose earlier snark is thrown in sharp relief by his foreboding gloom.
- The Season 1 teaser video has Rocky coming back from his travels to St. Louis in winter. He gets thrown out of a car while trying to hitchhike and the house he's expecting to stay in is abandoned. Even worse, when he sees it's clearly deserted, he still raps on the window in the hopes that someone will magically appear to let him in. There are a few laughs to be had, but the overall mood is melancholy, fitting Rocky's attempts to persevere through his loneliness and sadness.
