Suburban Knights/Tear Jerker

• Ma-Ti's death.
  • Critic's small, whimpery "no" when Ma-Ti... leaves. Even more heartbreaking 'cos you expect an hilarious, melodramatic Big No to break up the sad.
  • Also when he comes back into his house at the end and sees the coffee Ma-Ti fetched him sitting on the counter. The look on his face just breaks your heart.
  • Even moreso during the ending montage where 'everyone was reviewing like usual', cut to Spoony trying to review Final Fantasy XIII... and stops just to scream "MA-TIIIIII!!!!" with the most heart-wrenching face he could muster.
  • Critic sitting by Ma-Ti's body, his glasses off, his tie gone and looking completely and crushed.
    • He also rips off his tie before running over. Out-of-universe Doug forgot to wear the tie so that was why, but he also said there was an in-verse reason which he didn't divulge. Seeing as how the tie and the glasses were the last two "Critic" identifiers left, maybe it's another way of showing that he (Critic) really hates himself.
    • Seconded. If you sympathized with the Critic at the end of Kickassia, he was at least still wearing his glasses (albeit broken) and snarking, and you could take comfort in the knowledge that he wasn't fully broken. Here, he's completely vulnerable.
    • It might sound weird, but the fact that he's still sitting in a kinda girly way just makes it worse.
  • Also serving as a heartwarming moment, Critic kissing the Quaker Oats can at the funeral. Fuck how he treated Ma-Ti earlier, boy desperately needed a hug.
  • At the funeral, Sage has tears in his eyes. Let me say that again: Sage--the only person who can scare Ask That Guy--is crying. Sage even said in the commentary that he got into a bad place so he could make the tears real.
  • Ma-Ti still got the Critic his coffee. Why is my screen going swimmy?
    • Even Lewis and Liz say in their commentary it's like a final stab in the gut.
  • Critic lying on his bed alone, having no energy to do anything or even go back to his usual clothes. (Giving more credence to the "It's All My Fault so I don't want to wear my Memetic Outfit" theory up above.)
  • "Linkara...do you ever think we'll see Ma-Ti again?" God...he sounds so hopeful, almost like a little kid (and coming from such a broken, cynical guy, that's really saying something).
  • In part five, Ma-Ti sadly leaving for the Critic's coffee (which will come back to bite the Critic later). The depressing music and the way he just opens the door with his head don't help.
• Even though he gets saved both times, Critic being willing to let Jaffers kill him when he still had ample opportunity to run away (unlike Kickassia where he was trapped against a fridge) just doesn't sit right.
• And if you thought the theme song and music video would offer lulzy relief, you'd be wrong.
  • The rockiness just fades out into something sadder and slower, mirroring the story.
• In Benzaie's VLog, Doug's speech thanking everyone for getting through the shoot and convincing him not to cancel it. Heartwarming because he cares so much for them (and vice versa), Tear Jerker because hearing Doug Walker struggling not to cry is unsettling.
• The DVD making-of featurette shows the whole meeting between Doug, Rob, and Mike Michaud as they realize the film will very likely not be completed, and they should just do a Lost in La Mancha style documentary about their attempts to make it. Even knowing everything turned out fine, it's very hard to watch as they decide to scrap their labor of love.
  • Doug revealing that he got so miserable by the middle of the shoot that he spent a day in bed making calls - not even eating, showering or brushing his teeth - was pretty woobie-ish too.
    • And when he's recalling this (still sounding actually kinda upset), you see a sad little lump in the middle of his bed. Poor boy.
• We get more Jerkass Woobie-dom from the Critic in the search for the Necronomicon. While he needs a slap for how he treats Chester, it's made incredibly clear that there's no way he's moving on from Ma-Ti's death.
  • And if you've ever tried to give up something addictive, you'll know (despite his looking around in a haunted house) how Chester is feeling when he's forced to be sober and is telling Critic he's in a world of hell.