Tear Jerker / Star Wars Rebels Magazine

• Kallus status as the Villain Protagonist in "Kallus' Hunt" allows us to see The Empire though his eyes. The fact that he sees the Empire as a benevolent force for good makes him a surprisingly sympathetic and tragic character.
  Kallus: I don't feel I can call you "friend" anymore.
  Jovan: After all I did for you and for all we went through together, that's a very short-sighted choice. It's a shame you can't see what I've seen.
  Kallus: I'll tell you what I see; a man who's betrayed everything he worked for and everyone who ever knew him. Because he felt he was better than that.
  Jovan: You simply misunderstand me, Kallus. I merely learned the system and played it to my advantage. Isn't that what the Empire is about - gaining wealth and power to secure one's own future?
  Kallus: The Empire is about protecting the galaxy from chaos and tyranny by bringing order to the masses!
  • The same thing happens in "No Sympathy", this time with his disillusioned student that's trying to join the Rebellion. It sounds like Kallus might only see rebels as almost barbaric and fighting with no purpose despite the odds stacked against them, almost certainly because he's seen firsthand what the worst of the Rebellion is; the Onderon Partisans.
  Kallus: You were one of the brighter prospects I saw and now you've squandered everything. And for what? A life of ultimate misery. I don't see the attraction.
  Swain: That's hardly a surprise, is it? After everything I saw happen on Lothal when Tarkin arrived, there was hardly any choice. Ordinary citizens were being punished for the things they hadn't done. That's not an organization I wanted to serve and protect, and I still can't believe you still do.
  (after defeating her and the other rebel sympathizers)
  Kallus: This is why the rebels won't win. A lack of resolve and an unwillingness to give everything to win. There can never be any sympathy for them.
  • What's even worse is that both of these comics become Harsher in Hindsight / Dramatic Irony thanks to Season 3 of Rebels. Kallus will forever live with the guilt of having arrested them (and probably executed by the Empire, which he probably doesn't know about either until Season 3) and that Kallus will never get to reconcile with them after having parted ways with them on negative terms.
• The ending of "The fake Jedi", as Yeleb lays dying, he explains to Kanan that he only wanted to help people by posing as a Jedi.
  Yeleb: I brought this... upon myself. Please forgive me... I only wanted... to do good...
  Kanan: You did good, and your actions were worthy of any Jedi.
  Yeleb: Thank you... (dies)
• Ketsu beating up Jarret in front of his family and revealing the Awful Truth to them, with him, his wife, and their son begging her to spare him. She goes through with it, only because reconciling with Sabine has taught her that she is better than she lets on and that she should keep that mentality.
• "Sons of the Sky" is about not only Wedge and Hobbie dealing with Rake's death... but also how Rake's family is dealing with their eldest son's death.
• Sabine and Mart mourning Sato and paying their respects to him at his grave on Yavin 4, while Sabine remembers how Sato told her of his own Dark and Troubled Past, which helped teach her to seek closure with her loved ones because he couldn't.
• The Downer Ending of "The Ballad of 264", poor 264 turns on the Empire and tries to join the Ghost crew of his own accord. Only for the little droid to end up left behind. Though Zeb did give him one last look before he escaped, so there's some hope he might be rescued eventually.

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