Gundam/Tear Jerker

The entire Gundam franchise is full of moments that will have you reaching for the tissue box...

Note: Gundam SEED, Gundam 00 and Gundam AGE now have separate Tear Jerker pages. Use those pages to add examples from those series.

Mobile Suit Gundam (original)

 * The very first is sacrifice to protect White Base, even when he's badly injured. Though, in the TV series version, the aftermath is maybe a bit overdone with the whole crew standing at the end, all blaming themselves.
 * Dunno about you guys, but I felt real bad for
 * 's death. And even more, T-T
 * Who could forget when  It also add to the rivalry between Amuro and Char, which lasted 14 years and was finally resolved after two more wars in Char'sCounterattack.


 * The ending of the original series:
 * For some reason,.

Zeta Gundam

 * death in the episode "Forever Four", remembered as one of the best episodes of the Gundam franchise. In fact, a certain death scene in Gundam SEED Destiny was basically copied from this very scene.
 * Another tear jerker for this series is when
 * What really makes it hit home is.
 * The next to death was
 * Which came right after
 * Episode 45: Between  and Fa's talk with Emma after  ...
 * The final scene in the show hits home HARD. Fa finding Kamille alive, only to realize  Just seeing her expression sort of sums up the show...
 * The final scene in the show hits home HARD. Fa finding Kamille alive, only to realize  Just seeing her expression sort of sums up the show...

Gundam ZZ

 * Not even ZZ is free of tear jerkers, despite its beginnings.
 * Gundam Evolve has retconned 's death. Too bad
 * The pilot in Evolve is actually . Considering Gundam Unicorn features   too, and they weren't all shown to be destroyed at the end of ZZ.
 * Hell, even  is a little sad, considering it's.

Victory Gundam

 * This series is packed with the motherload of Gundam Tearjerker moments- the, the  , even
 * YMMV on that last one; something about the sudden "thunk" right before the commercial break just made it seem narmy to me.
 * The most outstanding one of all, though, is the final action of the Reinforce Jr. The ship's just been hit, disabling its left engine. Robert Gomez and the others know that they're not going to get out of their situation alive, but they also know the young members of the crew have to live on- he orders everyone except himself and the remaining old folk to evacuate the ship, and the evacuees can only look on in horror as the Reinforce Jr. advances towards the Zanscare fleet- while two of the old folk commandeer a heavily damaged mobile suit and use it as a turret to defend the ship, no less. The waterworks come, however, when, despite the ship being heavily damaged and everyone else dead, Gomez, with a grin on his face, And if that isn't tear-jerking enough, listen to the song that's playing.
 * Given her reputation, I may be the only one who feels this way, but honestly, Katejina at the end of the very last episode. Due to her brain damage, she doesn't remember any of the horrible stuff she's done; she's not raging at the main characters or herself for her current state. Heck, thinking of her adorable conversation with toddler Karlmann, she might as well not even be the same person. She's just a lonely, sad girl on her way to a town she doesn't remember isn't there any more.
 * There is a silver lining to this, though: if she has no memory of the horrible stuff she did and what an Ax Crazy monster she had become, then it might be better for her to live in ignorance. She has a clean slate and a chance to start her life over, to change for the better, to find some sort of peace without suffering from dementia anymore. People some times need second chances, and for Katejina, this is her opening towards one.
 * All of the Shrike Team girls' deaths were very sad, but the kicker is . She was such an adorable Cool Big Sis and seemed to understand Usso well, and then... things go like they did.
 * And since he was their leader,  is very sad too.

Chars Counterattack

 * There are at least two for this movie. The first is is when
 * The biggest one is
 * I'm definitely in the minority here, but

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

 * I don't know about anyone else but.
 * More than the death itself,
 * The scene in Episode 8 of 08th MS Team, during Shiro Amada's proving grounds recon mission

Gundam 0080

 * The final episode, when --the whole of episode 6, in short.

G Gundam

 * What about the death of ?
 * And
 * The worst part is right as  If you look closely,
 * Don't forget the death of  The guy's Famous Last Words don't help.
 * Also the very final episode is... depending on the viewer's opinion either a Tear Jerker or a hilarious scene. At the very least it is very impressive, when
 * The final moments of in G Gundam. The Kyoji moment may have help build it up. It only becomes even more poignant if you understand the true meaning of . Apparently,
 * A more subtle one: Chico and Gina Rodriguez's backstories. Yeah, the Tequila Gundam is very stereotypical, but the pilot and his Ill Girl sister's story of sickness, poverty and desolation is very sad.
 * Saette and Rain. That's all.
 * And when  decides to leave after learning the truth about   and thinking that, since   was involved in the whole fuck-up, she can't face   anymore? Seeing   try to desperately reach for her, only to fail, is heartbreaking.
 * A minor one, but deserves mention here: during Allenby and Rain's Designated Girl Fight, a Brainwashed and Crazy Allenby is rampaging and looking for Domon. To see the lonely and frightened side of her come completely to the forefront, frantically searching for the only one who can understand her can be heartrending.
 * The episode where Domon upgrades to the God Gundam - Rain remotely controls the nearly-totaled Shining Gundam to get Domon's battle data to the God Gundam. The scene is both heartwarming and sad, as Domon had been fighting alongside the Shining Gundam for almost a year...

Gundam Wing
"Relena: *hugs Mrs. Darlian* "Please, mother, don't say anything! Just... Don't stop being my mother!""
 * Dorothy, when she shreds her Magnificent Bitch facade and panics after decides . This is the first time that she ever shows raw and real emotions without bothering to restrain them (like when  died and she was shocked for a while, then recovered and ) and begs him to not do that, going as far as.
 * death got me misty eyed. The way he went down with such grace really had me about as emotionally tinged as
 * Trowa being forced to   .
 * 's World of Cardboard Speech to  in Endless Waltz made me tear up. Specially when   Heero isn't my favorite character, but that endeared me to him a lot.
 * Relena's brief Heroic BSOD when
 * Also, her reaction when her mom is about to tell her the truth about :


 * I can't be the only one who cried at 's death, huh? "LONG LIFE  !", indeed.
 * One from the beginning: the death of a young Oz cadet in Noin's arms, after the bedrooms are bombed by Wufei. "Milady, I'm sorry... I really wanted to go into space...!"
 * The mangas also have their share of sadness. I.e.:  (which is also a tear jerker in story as ,   backstory as a whole (specially  ), the passing of  ,  's confrontation with  , and.

After War Gundam X

 * Jamil's
 * When . Garrod literally
 * When
 * Roybea's visit to.
 * Witz's conflict with his family.
 * Witz's conflict with his family.

Turn a Gundam

 * While this series doesn't have too many tearjerker moments, what with the death toll being kept low by Gundam standards,  fate might be one.
 * For an actual death, try, though it may overlap with a Moment of Awesome.
 * And  in Episode 10.

MSIGLOO

 * Both the first and second series of this are filled with these. The first has one at the end of practically every episode, as, with Zeon sinking further and further into defeat. The kicker comes in the final episode, wherein, at the end,   Thankfully, however, simply put,
 * Oliver suceeded in making a CMOA out of it, none the less. He made the enemies think he's Char!
 * MS IGLOO 2, however, has so far dished these up in the same manner with no respite, and it's made worse by just how bad the Federation's situation is, at least in the first two episodes.  and  - quite freshly in the wake of the former telling his major that he collected the dog tags of as many fallen comrades as he could to make them live on in his memory, and also in the wake of him lamenting yet again that he was the only one who survived, and in the wake of the latter telling his tank driver that he has neither home nor family to return to- has made this series downright depressing, with some claiming that it's on V Gundam's level in that department.

Gundam Unicorn
": You are my hope. It's all up to you now, Banagher.
 * Banagher's vision of.
 * and Heroic Sacrifices.
 * ... Just look after the family for me..."

": Please forgive me. I wanted more... so much... ... My wish has finally come true... ..."
 * death.

":, isn't it sad?"
 * death.