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* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has some sad moments for a bright, fun game of playing superhero (or [[City of Villains|supervillain]]).

** The Faultline arcs. They open in an area where hope is being reclaimed; an area of the city that had been devastated by a city-shattering earthquake by the crazed earth-controlling villain Faultline is slowly being rebuilt after the horrors of the Rikti Wars. You gain a cheerful, ditzy sidekick, Fusionette, for a while, and her more sombre, but still decidedly [[Kid Hero]]-ish boyfriend... Faultline? As you explore deeper into the past of the villain, the zone, and the hero named Faultline, cracks appear, and the mystery deepens. {{spoiler|1=Eventually, you discover that the first Faultline had been a ''hero'', one of the city's best and brightest. But one of his enemies, PsiCurse, had created the [[Ret Gone|Psychochronometron]], altering the timeline and making him into a villain to try and turn his foe into an ally. Unfortunately, PsiCurse' knowledge of Faultline was incomplete, and the resultant temporal stresses drove Faultline mad, making him lose control of his powers and killing both PsiCurse and Faultline's closest friend, and setting Faultline down the path that would orphan his young son, Jim Temblor, and leave him torn for much of his life, with two sets of memories in his head.}} Thankfully, you can get to the bottom of the mystery, and have it end {{spoiler|with Jim Temblor [[Legacy Character|taking up his father's mantle]] to make Faultline [[Bittersweet Ending|a hero's name again]]...}}

** The Faultline arcs. They open in an area where hope is being reclaimed; an area of the city that had been devastated by a city-shattering earthquake by the crazed earth-controlling villain Faultline is slowly being rebuilt after the horrors of the Rikti Wars. You gain a cheerful, ditzy sidekick, Fusionette, for a while, and her more sombre, but still decidedly [[Kid Hero]]-ish boyfriend... Faultline? As you explore deeper into the past of the villain, the zone, and the hero named Faultline, cracks appear, and the mystery deepens. {{spoiler|1=Eventually, you discover that the first Faultline had been a ''hero'', one of the city's best and brightest. But one of his enemies, PsiCurse, had created the [[Ret-Gone|Psychochronometron]], altering the timeline and making him into a villain to try and turn his foe into an ally. Unfortunately, PsiCurse' knowledge of Faultline was incomplete, and the resultant temporal stresses drove Faultline mad, making him lose control of his powers and killing both PsiCurse and Faultline's closest friend, and setting Faultline down the path that would orphan his young son, Jim Temblor, and leave him torn for much of his life, with two sets of memories in his head.}} Thankfully, you can get to the bottom of the mystery, and have it end {{spoiler|with Jim Temblor [[Legacy Character|taking up his father's mantle]] to make Faultline [[Bittersweet Ending|a hero's name again]]...}}

** The Dark Watcher's aptly named 'The Horrors Of War' arc. {{spoiler|mainly [[Player Punch|the death of Lt. Sefu]], but also the [[Moral Event Horizon|truth behind the origins of the Rikti War]].}}

** Seer Marino's arc, "Oh, Wretched Man!" She asks you to find out what happened in the operation that claimed the lives of her brother, Paolo, and their friend, Belladonna Vetrano, and you discover that Paolo survived but was horribly mutated, and Vetrano died and is now a ghost. {{spoiler|They're Wretch and Ghost Widow, respectively.}}