Girl Genius/Tear Jerker

" : I...I'm not Tarvek: ....no. : But then- what am I? Tarvek: ....a very good first try."
 * From Girl Genius, there is the surprisingly poignant death scene of, who normally acted quite the Manipulative Bitch beforehand.

"Ognian: Ve haff missed you! Please, please be real! Agatha: Shh. I... I am."
 * Gil's face in panel 4 could make every Memetic Badass named on this wiki, Klaus included, cry. Even without context.
 * And then there's that of.
 * "A Heterodyne girl.... Heh. An ordinary guy like me... never had a chance..."
 * And the background went all grey and misty... sniff...
 * It was worse when
 * A subtle one for me, but when Agatha stumbled onto Dr. Dimitri's teddy bear stash, and he's begging her not to tell..."He doesn't know! It's my last secret! He's taken all the others, but not them! I've kept them safe!" Seeing the scars on his head, and then finding out that makes it particularly sad to this troper...
 * What makes it even worse is imagining what would happen if Wulfenbach found out about the stuffed bears. No matter what Klaus' reaction would be (either to let him keep them or take them away) it would be heartrending.
 * Gets worse in the novelization - when they're escaping Castle Wulfenbach, Krosp drags Agatha and Theo off to find him. When they do, Vapnoople reveals that the bears are supposed to be his new army, but though he still acts like a Spark, he isn't one anymore, and they're forced to leave without him.
 * Krosp calls Vapnoople Papa.
 * How about in "Agatha vs the Jägers"? Seeing a superhuman immortal hunter monster collapse into tears because he found the Mistress he loves and swore to obey, plus gets to go home? Their cause was literally hopeless...


 * Othar's Twitter, of all places, has one of the sweetest and saddest relationships ever.
 * As the expression on his face must be seen to be believed (second to last panel). Not to mention Agatha's in the first panel.
 * And let's remember this is
 * And just on that page.  is whimpering.  is WHIMPERING. That is sad all on its own.
 * I don't think that's whimpering. I think that's a desperate attempt to breathe. Considering where  stuck that sword, a lung-puncture is very possible.
 * of all people breaking down and crying like a little girl over the death of.
 * These two pages, as . Made even worse by the fact that, who freaks out even , is crying. And that young Agatha seems to be just as intelligent as she should be, rationalizing Barry's statement of "it's science" to "Ah. You mean you'll explain when I have a sufficiently advanced background education." Necessary or not, what Barry did to Agatha was horrible.