This isn't tragic or anything, but it made a character who was specifically designed from the outset to be an obnoxious arsehole sympathetic, if only for a moment. So it definitely qualifies.
The ending to 30 Rock (my favorite recent sitcom) was kinda bittersweet. The ending song was actually a reference to a much earlier joke, and they kept it funny right up until the very end.
In the first arc of JoJo?s Bizarre Adventure, Jonathan Joestar?s
death. A poignant sequence of scenes for this newlywed gentleman hero who remained optimistic despite the hardships he?d suffered in his life because of his jealous and vindictive stepbrother Dio. It?s too bad Araki later spoiled it by creating a plothole in which Dio somehow survived the incident, stole Jonathan?s body, and stole his Stand too?
Pretty much all of Fullmetal Alchemist (the original manga and Brotherhood version; nothing against the first anime, but I just don?t like how it seemed to try too hard to tug at my tearducts and ended up with major Jump-the-Shark syndrome by the final episode).
My favourite episode of Family Guy: when Brian and Stewie are locked in a vault, and Brian eventually admits to Stewie that he keeps said gun in the vault in case he ever finds it too difficult and commits suicide. And then Stewie persuades him otherwise by saying that he?s the only one he considers a friend and he wouldn?t know what to do without him. Those two work so well together, and Brian is pretty much the best character in that hit-and-miss show, so I refuse to believe that they?re not reviving him from the dead.
The final parts of the final episode of Scrubs (season 8, that is). Scrubs really is my favourite sitcom, because it can make you laugh and it can make you almost cry for all the stuff the characters go through (even the dickish ones, like Dr. Cox & Kelso).
The scene in Alan Moore?s Lost Girls where Wendy confronts the paedophilic Captain with his fear of growing older, and then later, their innocence destroyed by said Captain, sees Peter as a hardened hustler. Remember, this is pornography I?m talking about. The majority of the book is just Rule 34 versions of The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, and Alice in Wonderland, but the most ?Oh, let?s get back to real-life and how sex without boundaries, like incest and child abuse, can fuck up relationships? moments happen towards the conclusions of the three protagonists? backstories.
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