Call of Duty/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

** I found it much worse when Sgt Roebuck dies. I saw him get grabbed by that soldier and just couldn't save him. I just kept thinking that "it wasn't my fault, I couldn't save him". It doesn't help that later I found out that you could let Polonsky die instead, but I don't want to play that level again.

*** The emotional feel of the game is ruined for This Troper if you let Roebuck live, even though he is a total badass and Polonsky is a whiny twit, although he matures when Roebuck is killed.

** In the same game, the ending, when Reznov helps you up to plant the flag on the Reichstag.

** I cried when Reznov helped me, but they weren't tears of sadness. They were tears of happiness, because Reznov loves Dimitri enough to brutally murder the Nazi who attacked him and help him up to claim the honor he deserves.

* Call of Duty: Black Ops has {{spoiler|the death of Dimitri Petrenko in ''Project Nova.'' Long story short, the antagonist, Soviet General Dragovich, decides to test his newly acquired Nova 6 gas on his own men. Unlike the aforementioned Shepherd, he doesn't even have the excuse of tying up loose ends - he just does it because he has something against Reznov. It's not even a quick death - you watch him suffocate and vomit as his skin burns, while he's banging uselessly on the glass door between your cells. The fact that the usually hamtastic Reznov is recounting this in a completely downbeat, despairing tone does not help. Indeed, Dimitri - 'You should have died in Berlin.'}}

** The ending of Vorkuta makes this troper, a veteran of World At War, start ''sobbing'' every. Single. Time.

'''Reznov:''' [[Heroic Sacrifice|For you, Mason! Not for me!]] }}

** One of the sadder moments of the game comes in a bombed-out garage in the Hue City level. It's not even a cinematic, but if you glance around at the dead Vietnamese, you'll see a man kneeling by one of the corpses, attempting to perform CPR. After about ten seconds of this, he sits up and sobs hopelessly into his hands before trying desperately to revive his dead friend once more. And you can't even comfort the poor guy.

* Black Ops seems to end in a high note. Mason shrugs off the brainwashing, the attack on America was stopped, and the bad guys are all punished. Then you read the unlocked intel pages, only to find that {{spoiler|Mason never fully recovered, and because of that he was finally considered a threat to national security by the CIA and marked for termination, along with Hudson and Weaver. They escape to South Africa, and the last thing we know is that joint operation between the CIA and [[MI 6]] is being prepared in order to assasinate the three heroes that saved America. This is extra sad considering Reznov's words on being betrayed by your own.}} This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be {{spoiler|1=Captain Price or MacMillan, two of the most popular characters from the Modern Warfare series.}} Talk about your conflicts of interest.

* The "Blood Brothers" mission from ''[[Modern Warfare]] 3'' is a [[Wham! Episode]] combined with a massive [[Tear Jerker]]. {{spoiler|First, Makarov reveals he had Kamarov in his pocket, and knows you're there, then tries to kill Soap, Price and Yuri by blowing up a few bombs. They all make it, but Soap's bleeding out. When they finally get Soap to safety, he tells Price that Makarov knows Yuri before dying. Price's anguished screams are heartbreaking enough, but it's when Price sets down the pistol Soap returned to him that the tears really start coming.}}

** In case you had any doubt about the [[Undying Loyalty]] the two had for each other, the very next scene is {{spoiler|Price punching Yuri down a flight of stairs}}, following by holding a gun to his head. You can tell he's just barely holding himself back from pulling the trigger.

** The background music doesn't help. It's slow tempo after you {{spoiler|put Soap on table}} then becomes really slow after {{spoiler|Soap dies}}. If you can get through this part without even feeling like shedding a tear, then there is something wrong with you.

** And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlvFwwvn2Tk here] is that music. ''You're welcome.''

** I almost forgot, the intro for the next level is also very sad:

'''Baseplate''': Is there anything I could do for you, son? }}

** In case anyone was wondering, Baseplate is really {{spoiler|Captain Macmillan}}, and Price sounds like he's tearing up when he says that line. What doesn't help is the song that plays when {{spoiler|Soap dies}} is also playing in the background.

** That moment served as this England-based troper's motivation for the rest of the game

* MW3 just seems to churn out these kinds of moments one right after another post-"Blood Brothers". The next one comes at the end of "Down the Rabbit Hole"; after undertaking great pains to infiltrate the Siberian diamond mine and rescue President Vorshevsky and his daughter, the joint TF141-Delta Force unit finds itself pinned down by a huge contingent of enemy forces just as their rescue chopper arrives. The mine has become unstable, and it becomes clear that if they don't get the hell out of there ''now'', no one will make it...so, {{spoiler|Sandman, Truck, and Grinch decide to stay behind and hold off the enemy while Price, Yuri, and the others escape.}} Yuri, injured, can only watch helplessly as he's dragged back to the helo, while they gradually run out of ammo, taking glancing hits and striking back with their sidearms and knives as Makarov's men slowly overtake them. Finally, the helicopter takes off, and an anguished Price screams {{spoiler|Sandman's}} name into his radio as they fly away, having just watched one of his last living friends die mere hours after they reunited.

'''Price''': ''Don't even think about it'', mate! We're in this together! }}

* The fate of the Czech people in MW3. Think about it; they overcame decades of Soviet oppression, including the Warsaw Pact invasion in '68, and barely managed to come out okay in the end. Then, long after the fall of the USSR, Makarov comes along and launches his invasion of Europe, which manages to brutalise the Czechs worse in a few days than the whole damn Soviet occupation did the first time around. It's not hard to imagine being an older citizen and breaking down in tears at the sight of [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111117132842/callofduty/images/f/ff/Praha.png a Soviet banner] once again flying over Prague. This, coupled with the more obvious sights of the Ultranationalists brutally murdering civilians left and right in the Prague missions, really makes you feel for the Resistance.