Tear Jerker / Infinity Crisis

• The opening of the story, where all the heroes can only helplessly watch as their loved ones are being Dusted right in front of them.
  • The aftermath isn't really better, as trauma starts to settle in - Lucifer had to comfort a hysterical Chloe Decker and stop her from eating her gun after losing her daughter. Also, there's the way Kara and Scott Lang outright refuse to think about their families being potentially Snapped - they have to be okay, they have to, and yes, they can't be contacted right now, but that's just because phone lines aren't working, right?
• On a mission for information to Vorimir, the team finds Gamora's corpse. Nebula gives a small gasp and then sheds a Single Tear on the confirmation that her sister is indeed dead.
• Earth-51 Deathstroke is completely cool and confident until his Arrowverse counterpart asks him if he ever had children. Earth-51 Deathstroke falters, barely able to admit it "went badly".
• DC Animated Universe Batman meeting his Earth-99 counterpart - the one who finally lost it and started to kill criminals and potential dangers right and left... after Joker took Tim from him.
  • On a lesser note, Earth-99 Batman gloating that his Alternate Self forgot to disable one access code: Cassandra's birthday... only for Earth-1992 Batman to ask who Cassandra is. A small and dismaying reminder of the fact this Bruce Wayne never met her, and never had the opportunity to love and adopt her.^note However, she actually made a Continuity Cameo as a member of Batman's resistance in a dystopian timeline in the Justice League episode "Savage Time".
• Thor's heartache when his Earth-8096 counterpart informs him this reality's Asgard still stands, and later shows it to him. It looks so much like his home, but it's not the same.
  • Odinson's reaction of Stunned Silence when Thor reveals his Asgard is gone, alongside his parents and brother. Even if Odinson is quarreling with his family, he cannot imagine his life without them.
  • And then it comes to pass when Odin sacrifices to permanently seal away Surtur.
  • Odinson noting the Be Careful What You Wish For circumstances of him assuming the throne of Asgard; while he may have wanted it constantly in his youth, to prove himself a better king than his father, now the responsibility makes him want to run back to Earth.
• Chapter 5 of Tomorrow's Guardians ends with the Orville only able to witness the destruction of Moclus, arriving too late to stop the Kaylon and only able to offer some aid to the refugees, the usually stoic Bortus visibly shaken to witness the destruction of his planet.
• Oliver's realization in Salvation Run that the Felicity Smoak he thought he loved and married has been a Skrull imposter since before their first time together.
  • For all her crimes, Lyja becomes a bit pathetic with The Reveal that she genuinely fell in love with Oliver, but knew he would never love her back with the same intensity as he loved Laurel. Then she's unmasked and ends up Taking the Bullet for the man she married, pleading him to believe she wasn't lying about that. Yet Oliver ultimately feels too angry and violated to forgive her.
  • As much as she hates to do it, Nora has to make her parents, and everyone else, completely forget she was ever in the past to maintain the timeline.
• The Earth-8107 Spider-Man was spared from the "Snap" but died helping the Blue Marvel save people before Firestar and Iceman could be restored. The two still dearly miss their Amazing Friend.
• In Of Mice and Mojo, Buttercup almost reunites with her family, but Him spoils it.
  • Ms. Keane was spared from Thanos's Snap, but had to watch helplessly as some of the children she was teaching turned to dust. It led to her retirement and the kindergarten shutting down.
  • In fact, let's go a step further: the entire arc of the Powerpuff Girls, so far, has just been tragic. The family got separated from Buttercup, who got brainwashed by Radioactive Man before having his memory wiped (and the last thing before that was an argument with Blossom), Ace decided to erase his own memories because seeing all his friends being killed shook him that badly... even the Masters of Evil, in a way, are pitiable (except for Chen Lu). They came out of retirement because they believed the Next Avengers would expose them if they saw them (despite them having no proof of it) and it ended with the Melter dying and the lives they builded in Townsville being destroyed for nothing. When one of your enemies decide to hug you because you just saw your friend dying... yeah.
• In Glimpses, losing the love of her life, Logan, along with half her friends has transformed Quinn Pensky from the bright, chipper inventor into a cold-hearted, ruthless businesswoman obsessed with power.
  • The Big Bad of chapter five has been abducting creatures that are extinct, like a saber-tooth tiger, from a parallel world. Said tiger clearly only wants to return home and be free.
  • Ms. Jeepers left Bailey after the snap, and although the Bailey School Kids gang manages to track her down, it's brief and Carole outright says that they'll never see her again.
  • Gwen Tennyson learning that her cousin allowed himself to be erased from existence in order to protect their reality from the Skrull incursions, and then even she forgets he ever existed.
    • In addition, it's implied that something bad happened to Julie in the reality pre-Cosmic Retcon. We don't get to see it, but from what Gwen briefly remembers of it, it was apparently pretty awful.
    • Even though Mystical Conference revealed that Ben Tennyson is still alive on Earth-199596, he can't return to his home universe. Even if he could, he would not recognize any of his old friends and family due to the cosmic retcon of Earth-192 deaging them.
  • Vince is clearly deeply affected by being unable to stop Daniel and save his friends.
  • Heatmonger is in denial that she and Blind Faith would likely have been killed in Nazi Germany for being crippled, and it's implied that Backlash is deliberately being selective about their knowledge and keeping her ignorant to manipulate her.
• Generation Gaps
  • The tale of Isaiah Bradley is rough but also Steve talking of how it felt learning of the Japanese-American internment camps and how his country was doing exactly the sort of thing he went to war to fight.
  • The fact that Scott missed out on six years of his daughter growing up with her adjusting to how it was only half an hour on Earth.
• Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Batman Family:
  • Helena and Terry remembering the Dusting and how their loved ones disintegrated right before their eyes.
  • The Doctor managed to rescue Captain Carter and Steve Rogers from their reality (who were reunited due to the temporal weirdness), but everything else was destroyed by an anti-matter wave.
• Distant Cousins
  • Carol Danvers noting how helpless she feels with her best friend Maria suffering from cancer.
  • The version of Peter Parker from Supergirl's world is seriously injured protecting a little girl from the collateral damage of the fight with Doomsday.
• Therapy Session: Wanda admitting that she had felt a sense of relief at getting Dusted due to the despair she felt at seeing Vision get brutally killed in front of her and losing her brother just barely a couple of years prior. She also admits that as happy as she is to get a second chance at life and have them both back, she's still terrified that she could lose them a second time (and possibly permanently too).
• The Last Archer reveals that the Fugitive Doctor has assembled a small TARDIS crew of her own, which all consist of the sole survivors of their realities; Clint Barton and Jubilee are shown in particular mourning their lost families, admitting that they don't know what they'll do with themselves if they manage to defeat the source of the antimatter wave destroying universes.
• When the anti-matter wave strikes Earth-7598, the Charmed Ones only have time to embrace each other before their deaths, having been informed that there's nothing they can do to stop this latest threat despite their powers.
  • The follow-up in Visions of Magic has Maggie realizing she's just a remanent of her reality, not even a ghost, as "there's nothing left to haunt."
• Chapter 11 of Counterpart Conferences has Felicity revealing she's still not over her captivity. She now has gone back to her natural black hair.
  Felicity: I tried to go back to blonde. But when I looked at my reflection...I saw Lyja staring back at me.

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