StarCraft/Tear Jerker

"Raynor: Sarah? Is that really you? Kerrigan: It was."
 * 's Heroic Sacrifice at the end of Starcraft combines this with Crowning Moment of Awesome.
 * Also, the end of Brood War was . This troper wanted to cry at what was done to
 * Bonus missions from the N64 version are canon by Word of God, and thus
 * Or the part where . Especially in the novelization, after
 * This is made even worse via a cinematic in Starcraft II, where we see If this wasn't Arcturus's Moral Event Horizon moment before, it certainly is now.
 * Or, just this:


 * Pylo the Pylon...
 * The entirety of the Refugee mission chain in Wings Of Liberty, involving the Koprulu Sector's unluckiest bunch of colonists and your efforts to save them from the Zerg - up to and including picking a fight with a Protoss purification fleet if you choose to do so. At the end,.
 * The semi-secret Starcraft II mission "In Utter Darkness", which is a playable peek into a Bad Future . Basically,.
 * The ending of Wing's of Liberty, for untraditional reasons. After all the pain and suffering Raynor has endured for four years, he has finally managed to make a real difference for the better in the galaxy, and he managed to save the woman he loved from the zerg, and in doing so can now finally forgive himself for his failures. Even though there is a long way to go, the fact that Raynor walked away with a real victory for the first time in three games is pretty damn touching.
 * The end of the novel Speed of Darkness
 * Fenix's death in Brood War. This troper is not ashamed to admit to having cried at that scene. That just felt too cruel.

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