Tear Jerker / Marvel Anime: X-Men

• The 2011 anime kicks off with its own version of Jean Grey's death. All before the opening credits even start rolling. She goes all Dark Phoenix due to Mastermind's mental tampering, and suffers a super powered meltdown.
• When Emma allows Xavier to see her memories in episode 5, we see the reason she left the Inner Circle. After she once used her powers to manipulate a wealthy man into giving her his entire fortune, he committed suicide shortly after. That and her being shunned by everyone for most of her life, especially bad for her since she knew what they were all really thinking of her thanks to her powers. With the way people treated her, it's no wonder she started using her powers to get back at the people who ostracized her.
• Poor Takeo's entire backstory, never got the chance to know his own father, super powerful (and dangerous) mutant powers manifest at a young age, forced to erase the memories of himself from all his school friends before being hidden away from the world by his mother. The kid never had it easy.
  • Which accumulates into his eventual death by Super-Power Meltdown. Which by the way, happened when he was about sixteen years old.
• Episode 10, Kōichi and Riko murdered by the Inner Circle, and just after they'd been cured of the virus no less.

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