Superman: The Animated Series/Tear Jerker

""Not another one!" "No. The last one.""
 * As early as the first episode, with Krypton's destruction, which is made even sadder and poignant by the beautiful soundtrack.

""Good-bye, old friend. In the end, the world didn't need a Superman...just a brave one.""
 * "I'M NOT A FREAK!"
 * The reactions to Clark being dead in "The Late Mr. Kent".
 * The ending to "Apokolips...Now!" has Superman crying within the episode. Not that the ending wasn't such for the viewers as well...
 * When . It's just so freakin' senseless, petty, and above all completely out of nowhere.

""The boy moved from foster home to foster home, like a toy that nobody wanted.""
 * The otherwise nightmare-inducing Toyman's pop-up book, which details how his innocent, kind-hearted father was tricked into being arrested for mob activity, forcing his son to live a ruined and lonely childhood.

""You never knew how I felt about you. I didn't know... until you were gone.""
 * The alternate-Superman in "Brave New Metropolis" in his interactions with Lois.

"Bizarro: Me not Superman. You Superman... Superman...save...Lois...
 * The first episode featuring Bizarro ends with him sacrificing himself to hold up Luthors collapsing clone lab long enough for Superman to save Lois Lane. While he didnt stay dead, it was certainly a powerful moment, especially since it meant Bizarro accepting that he wasnt the real Superman.

(after the escape)Superman: In the end, he really was a hero..."


 * Superman discovering the unimaginable magnitude of Brainiac's crimes, and collapsing to his knees in a hologram of one of the dozens of worlds he's destroyed, complete with a powerful circling camera effect.
 * The end of the whole series, with Thank god the DCAU continued so this didn't become the actual ending for this version of him.