Cyborg 009/Tear Jerker

• 007's backstory in the last Cyborg 009 series is an absolute Tear Jerker. So is the episode with Joe and his dog, the one with Albert and his dead girlfriend, the deals with poor 0013, and poor 0011.,Cynthia Finder and the conflict with her father, Joe's time jump with Arisu and his wish to see his dead mother... not knowing that the person he's telling that is his mom as a little girl, the end of the Psychic Assassins arc, and the whole last Pu'awak episode, which has the deaths of the five sisters (Viina's is the worst, in Alber's arms just like it happened to him and Sylvia) and Joe and Jet's almost deaths in the atmosphere.
• Oh let's not forget the 2001 arc when Joe finds several of his friends from childhood... Who have been kidnapped and made into cyborgs and blame him. They all live and work together and try to kill him together but Joe keeps trying to tell them to join the cyborgs. Unfortunately they don't listen and tell him to go away, because they were made into living BOMBS. They instantly say "Bye!" as the huddle and die, the house they all share burns down RIGHT in front of him. Doesn't help another Tear Jerker and Nightmare Fuel arc begins right after that. This troper then even cried when the Psychic Assassins arc ended... and the kid dies of premature aging, 001's father dies, Lena and Kain vanish into The Labyrinth and only Mai escapes. Then she's watching the burning lair and suddenly she starts to vanish, saying "Well we've changed the past."
• Episode #2 of the 1968 series...You actually would be quite surprised.
• And the episode of the 1968 series where Albert befriends this German girl named Leena, who is actually a Robot Girl, whom her father/creator wants to use as a Soul Jar for the soul of Adolf Hitler. Holy shit, the end is sad.
• In the 2001 series, the Whole-Episode Flashback detailing the history of the 00-Project. Particularly when the first four cyborgs meet for the first time... because they've all been thrown into a combat test without warning. Not only poor 003 has a Freak-Out due to her overloaded senses, but 004's body starts malfunctioning and he collapses in pain, with the other three unable to help
  • The same episode combines this with High Octane Nightmare Fuel by showing the other cyborgs being modified and experimented on, along with the revelation that part of what prompted Dr. Gilmore's Heel Face Turn was being ignored when he protested Geronimo's heart being replaced by an inferior model.