Kingdom Come/Tear Jerker


 * Many, including the Heroic Sacrifice of but the book opens with a big one: The Golden Age Sandman dying of old age, with only a handful of people attending his funeral.
 * Dinah Queen is killed by stray gunfire during the final battle at the Gulag. This causes all the archers to stop fighting as her husband cradles her dead body and their daughter stands over, both crying.
 * Shortly thereafter the entire Queen family dies, to a person, in the bomb blast. Human adventurers trying to protect their metahuman friends die in an explosion meant to protect non-powered humans.