First found out reading the sports section over a bowl of cereal. You could have drowned me in half an inch of cold milk and Captain Crunch, I was catatonic.

2. When I left my plastic case containing an almost-complete set of Marvel Series II trading cards on the bus after a school trip and realized I'd never get it back. That one hurt, definitely the worst self-inflicted wound of my childhood.

3. The end of "The Incredible Journey" (the book, not the movie)

4. The parents dying in "The Land Before Time"

5. Optimus Prime's final moments. He had the touch. He had the power . . .