Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?/Tear Jerker

"Hm, everything, him go dark...Hello, Superman. Hello."
 * The death of.
 * The death of.

"Superman: You... you grew up beautiful, Kara!... Right now, Supergirl... Supergirl is in the past."
 * This has got to be one of the saddest character deaths ever. Compounded by the fact that clearly has no idea what is happening.
 * Supergirl came from the future with the Legion of Super-Heroes, before her eventual death.

"Lana: We're only second-stringers, Jimmy, but we'll show 'em. Nobody loved him better than us. Nobody!"
 * Lois: "He never told me exactly what happened that night before the siege began, but as soon as I saw him the next morning, I knew something had upset him. He looked funny. He looked as if he'd been crying."
 * The cover of Action #583, which had the added layer of three DC Comics personalities waving bye to him as well.
 * Lana Lang, after hearing from Superman's own lips (thanks to newly-gained super hearing) that he loves Lois and not her, flies off with Jimmy Olsen in an attempt to end the villains' attack on his fortress.


 * Vartox, who was, in pre-Crisis chronology, engaged in a romantic relationship with Lana Lang,  The man who is too powerful for Superman to contend with. This is a character whose earliest two appearances involved the loss of first his wife, and then his homeworld. When the first Crisis wiped out his existence, this poor bastard was probably grateful. ..
 * For what little it's worth, he's alive in the post-Crisis DC 'verse, and much, much happier on the whole.