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== [[Mobile Suit Gundam]] (original) ==

* {{spoiler|Michelle Ratockie}}'s death. And even more, {{spoiler|her ghost telling Kai Shiden that, as much as she wanted to help the White Base, she also wanted to be with him, and Kai says it's not fair that she had to die for him anyway. And her siblings... those poor kids!}} T-T

* Who could forget when {{spoiler|Lalah dies protecting Char. I mean, [[Foregone Conclusion|everybody saw it coming a mile away]] when it happened, but my god when it did you felt so bad about it. She was protecting the man who saved her and whom she loved, and Amuro killed the woman ''he'' loved.}} 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: {{spoiler|after his bittersweet victory over his rival Char, Amuro was losing his will to live. Then he finally realized how much his shipmates cared for him; he escaped from the enemy fortress and battle, and found said shipmates, as he tearfully reunited with his adopted family.}}

* For some reason, {{spoiler|the destruction of ''White Base'': That ship was their home from the destruction of the first colony. No matter how fierce the battle, whether it was in space or on Earth, and what comrades they lost, they always returned there. To see them floating outside and watch it break into fiery pieces... well}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Lady of War|Emma Sheen's]] death.}} Which came right after {{spoiler|the sacrifice of the Radish and [[Gentle Giant|Henken Beckener's]] demise?}}

** {{spoiler|I think the saddest part of her death was how Kamille lingered in the room with her. You could really see his hesitance in leaving her body there and the way he turned back to her as he opened the door was the saddest thing in all of Zeta Gundam and is perhaps the saddest launch announcement ever.}}

 

== [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|Gundam ZZ]] ==

* The biggest one is {{spoiler|When Amuro died trying to stop Axis from hitting Earth, and the ''Redshirt Grunts'' on both sides tried to help. They succeed, but many lives are lost in the process, and Amuro (along with Char) disappeared (the record being that they're both KIA.}}

* I'm definitely in the minority here, but {{spoiler|Quess's death hits me pretty hard. She was just a troubled girl from a dysfunctional family who got played like a piano by Char. That alone strikes a pretty personal nerve in me, but to see her story end like makes me feel like getting stabbed in the gut. All the bashing she gets doesn't help it either.}}

 

* I don't know about anyone else but {{spoiler|the death of Ghinius Sakhalin}}.

** More than the death itself, {{spoiler|his exchange with his sister Aina, where he mentions [[Parental Abandonment|how their mother walked out on them]] and Aina asks him if he designed the Apsalus as a sort of metallic womb to replace their [[Missing Mom]].}}

* The scene in Episode 8 of ''08th MS Team'', during Shiro Amada's proving grounds recon mission {{spoiler|which would serve the purpose of proving he was not a traitor. He ended the mission firing a bazooka into a Zaku cockpit, killing the pilot inside, who had previously been established as a conscientious and more-or-less friendly person. Even though both she and Shiro were forced into the situation due to extenuating circumstances, it was the despair on Shiro's face before he fired the bazooka that was the real hit: due to his growing relationship with Aina Sahalin and his understanding that one's side was not related to one's humanity, he had promised himself that he wouldn't kill anyone. In the end, he found himself personally pulling the trigger, betraying the promise he had made, and all to end the life of someone who really didn't deserve it.}}

 

* The final episode, when {{spoiler|Bernie dies trying to save the colony from a nuke that's already been stopped, fighting against his romantic interest Christina without either of them knowing it, and almost manages to win the duel despite being hopelessly outclassed piloting a repaired and poorly armed Zaku against her new [[Super Prototype]] Gundam, with his death unfolding right in front of Al, a boy who had looked up to him like a kid brother. Then there's Bernie's last video, and the new school ceremony}}--the whole of episode 6, in short.

 

* What about the death of {{spoiler|Master Asia}}? {{spoiler|After a very last, gruelling battle, Domon tops his Master out, only to find out that he wasn't really as much as an SOB that he thought he was, he was misguided by his mistake to be absorbed in Gundam Fights that ravaged the Planet Earth and that everyone only cared about the Fights, not the planet. And then, Master reveals that he still retained his honor, not infecting himself with the DG Cells. Finally, for one last time, master and disciple recite the motto of School of Touhou Fuhai (''Look, the East is burning REEEEDDD!!!''), and Master Asia finally perishes after finishing the reciting, followed with a very crushing cry of Domon... ''[[Say My Name|"SHISHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"]]''}}

* And {{spoiler|Domon crying the epithome of [[Manly Tears]] as he's forced to kill [[Cain and Abel|his once-hated, now-again-beloved older brother Kyouji]] to [[Shoot the Dog|free him (and his clone, Schwarz Bruder) from the Devil Gundam...]] Once it sinks that Kyouji ''never'' was really to blame since he was [[Brainwashed and Crazy]], and that he used his last bits of sanity to create Schwarz Bruder and [[Must Make Amends|try fixing whar went so utterly wrong]]... the ''"NIIIIIISAAAAAAAAN!"'' is a slap to the face for both Domon ''and'' us watchers.}}

* Don't forget the death of {{spoiler|Dr Mikamura, killed for becoming [[The Atoner]] after realizing [[My God, What Have I Done?|how all of his sins destroyed the Kasshu family and made his little girl Rain suffer as well]].}} 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 [[Narm Charm|hilarious scene.]] At the very least it is very impressive, when {{spoiler|Domon saves Rain and they use the Love-Love Sekiha Tenkyoken together}}

* Trowa being forced to {{spoiler|destroy Deathscythe, or else blow his cover. Duo freaking out was bad enough, but Trowa's shock as he notices his own tears floating around him was so}} '' {{spoiler|sad}}.''

* {{spoiler|Heero}}'s [[World of Cardboard Speech]] to {{spoiler|Wufei}} in ''Endless Waltz'' made me tear up. Specially when {{spoiler|in a small and soft voice, almost a whisper, he asks Wufei "how many times will I have [[Dead Little Sister|to kill that girl and her dog]] ''again''?}} Heero isn't my favorite character, but that endeared me to him a ''lot''.

** Also, her reaction when her mom is about to tell her the truth about {{spoiler|her heritage as the Princess of the Sanc Kingdom}}:

* I can't be the only one who cried at {{spoiler|Otto}}'s death, huh? "LONG LIFE {{spoiler|KING ZECHS}}!", 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...!"

* Witz's [[The Dutiful Son|conflict with his family]].

 

* While this series doesn't have too many tearjerker moments, what with the death toll being kept low by ''Gundam'' standards, {{spoiler|Sochie's}} fate might be one.

** For an actual death, try {{spoiler|the King of Adeska}}, though it may overlap with a [[Moment of Awesome]].

* Banagher's vision of {{spoiler|Marida's past}}.

* {{spoiler|Daguza}} and {{spoiler|Gilboa's}} [[Heroic Sacrifice|Heroic Sacrifices]].

{{spoiler|'''Gilboa'''}}: {{spoiler|Tikva}}... Just look after the family for me... }}

* {{spoiler|Cardeas'}} death.

* {{spoiler|Loni's}} death.

 

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