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Tear Jerkers in Wolf 359 include:
- "Gas Me Twice": Though the crew is able to stop Hilbert's mutiny, he tears out Hera's personality core when Eiffel and Minkowski corner him, essentially lobotomizing her. Eiffel is horrified, and desperately tries to get Hera - who has now reverted to little more than an automated, mindless machine - to recognize him.
- "The Kumbaya Approach": The usually stoic and put-together Minkowski breaks down under pressure and starts blaming herself for everything that's happened to the crew in the past few episodes. It quickly shifts into Heartwarming territory when Eiffel reassures her and even manages to make her laugh.
- The ending of "Who's There?". Lovelace is left severely injured by shrapnel while saving Minkowski's life and is in critical condition, while Eiffel - who had been piloting Lovelace's escape pod to help stop the Hephaestus from falling into Wolf 359 and being incinerated- finds the shuttle has run out of fuel and that he can't return to the station. Minkowski desperately tries to reassure him that she can rescue him while breaking down in tears as Eiffel slowly drifts into deep space, until finally he drifts entirely out of range.
- Eiffel's gradual emotional breakdown in "Mayday" as he spends weeks on end trapped in Lovelace's damaged escape pod hurtling through space, culminating in him crossing the Despair Event Horizon when he believes he's going to die alone out in deep space in spite of his best efforts.
- Hera's breakdown at the end of "Let's Kill Hilbert" over the trauma of Hilbert's lobotomy of her and the damage he did to her systems that has left her increasingly glitchy and which she is bitterly aware of.
- In "Lame-O Superhero Origin Story", Hilbert reveals why he's so motivated to perfect the decima virus; he had to watch his entire family die of radiation poisoning because they had the misfortune of living nearby a nuclear power plant that melted down. His fury over how medicine hadn't advanced enough to properly treat them in spite of how much technology had advanced has driven him to try and bridge the gap on his own to make sure no one has to suffer through what his family did again, no matter the cost. It deeply humanizes him and makes him rather pitiable, even if he's still undeniably a monster.
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