Saddest TV Breakups

Love is beautiful, wonderful, dizzying, blissful … it's just the best. Until it's not. Then it's just the worst as you go through the pain of breaking up. The most epic of love stories often end in the most epic of splits. Click through this slideshow to take a look back at the 15 saddest TV breakups that broke our hearts. — Kelly Woo, Yahoo! TV

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Photo By 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection Sat, Feb 9, 2013 6:00 PM PST

Buffy and Angel, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

No fade-out here. After her boyfriend turned into the evil version of himself, Angelus, Buffy had to kill him to close a vortex into hell. Sure, he went back to normal just seconds before, so she kissed him, but she still stabbed him and pushed him in. The world needed saving, after all. You'd think that would be the end for them, but their relationship continued later after he returned from hell. Their... more
Buffy and Angel, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

No fade-out here. After her boyfriend turned into the evil version of himself, Angelus, Buffy had to kill him to close a vortex into hell. Sure, he went back to normal just seconds before, so she kissed him, but she still stabbed him and pushed him in. The world needed saving, after all. You'd think that would be the end for them, but their relationship continued later after he returned from hell. Their second breakup, at her prom, was less murder-y but even more devastating. less