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*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47mODMsenyE&feature=PlayList&p=9C099386C6D117CD&index=63 The music from that scene] doesn't really help matters.
*** And the fact that Kairi reaches Sora just as he dissolves into pieces... sniff... and Sora's line about falling into darkness... WAHHH!
*** Sora, you DO NOT grin like everything's going to be alright before ''stabbing yourself in the chest with a sword''! It's just not right...
* Not to mention {{spoiler|Roxas}} suddenly learning that he's the [[Tomato in the Mirror]]. "Sora... You're lucky. Looks like my summer vacation ...is over."
** The music that goes with it, {{spoiler|Roxas' Theme}}. Just ''thinking'' about that melody tears this troper up, and [[Men Don't Cry|I don't even remember the last time I cried.]] It just hits you that hard.
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* The ending scene of ''Chain of Memories'' didn't really affect this troper that badly the first time around, but after the second game and realizing [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|the extent of what Naminé was and what she was giving up]], it really broke her heart. To add insult to injury, {{spoiler|1=Jiminy literally wrote a reminder to 'Thank Naminé', but when Sora woke up, he completely forgot who she was, and the thank you never happened. Not to mention in the final cutscene of CoM, if you watch closely, a tear runs down her cheek.}}
** ''[[Limited Special Collectors Ultimate Edition|Final Mix+]]'' actually ''added'' more heartwrench. Go watch the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a85MGfTDIKA&feature=player_embedded dream meeting of Roxas and Axel] (warning: HEAVY spoilers). See them say "See you later". Cry when you realize {{spoiler|they're just trying to cheer each other up, since Axel is going to disappear into absolute nothingness, and Roxas will be subsumed by Sora's personality}}.
*** Not helping matters is when you see the scene in a better quality, you'll notice that {{spoiler|Axel is crying as he says goodbye. This Troper joined him.}}
* This Troper could never be counted among the game's fans, but when playing the second game through to the end out of a sense of completeness, he came upon an area referred to in the menu as 'Proof of Existence'... a graveyard for all the Organization members Sora has killed. Because they don't leave bodies when they die, so... ''Proof'' of ''Existence''... *sob*
** It actually goes a little deeper than that... Consider this for a second: How do we, in this world, prove the existence of someone who no longer exists? {{spoiler|We raise a grave for them.}}
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*** Roxas's line "Who will I have ice cream with?" may seem like [[Narm]] until a Fridge Tear Jerker kicks in -- {{spoiler|he doesn't know any better, he associates his friendship with Xion with their moments on the clock tower eating ice cream together. He lacks the emotional capacity to fully realize what she means to him or him to her, that line is the only way he knows to express himself to her.}}
** The same thing happens when fighting Riku. A cutscene plays showing Riku's memories of her blurring and disappearing. He even tells Roxas, "It's a struggle just to remember the name now, isn't it?"
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJAcZMWqPvc Xion's Theme] is an incredibly emotional piece of music and it nearly threatens you to cry again because it was played during her last moments.
** Also from ''358/2 Days'' is Roxas's final line about how maybe today they'll hit the beach... both because it harkens back to an early conversation and because you know that he never does.
*** Oh, it's worse than that. His real final line in that "hitting the beach" scene are "Only seven days to go... and then ''my summer vacation is over.''" Knowing how that last bit gets [[Ironic Echo|repeated]] at the end of KH2's [[Prolonged Prologue]], it's very depressing.
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* Also from Roxas' diary. The thing that apparently frightened him most was the possibility of losing Axel or Xion; that anything could take away the time they'd spent together. {{spoiler|Which is exactly what happened.}}
* [[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep|Birth By Sleep]], [[Doomed by Canon|Birth By Sleep]], [[Downer Ending|Birth By Sleep]], [[Say My Name|Birth By Sleep]]...
** At least the Birth By Sleep people have hope of a happy ending at some point in a future installment.
** The scene where Ventus asks to be erased has been re-done, now in the Keyblade Graveyard. And it's about 10x more heartwrenching than the original, thanks to Ven's [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]. Just ''try'' watching it, and tell me you didn't want to give the poor little guy a [[The Woobie|hug.]]
** It isn't just what he's asking that's the tear-jerker. No, it's the way Terra puts his hand on the kid's shoulder, saying they're his friends and will make sure nothing bad will happen to him, and Aqua bends down to look at Ven and cup his face gently in her palm. And then Ven says he may still have to go through with everything, slowly moving Terra and Aqua's hands off him, knowing that his friends can't help him this time, no matter how much they may want to.
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*** Yeah, even if you knew Goofy was going to be okay, it still kind of hurts seeing him get hurt, especially if he was your favorite growing up.
* In Kingdom Hearts 2 as well, this trooper still feels sad for Tron when he goes to leave Sora and co after defeating the Master Control Program by jumping into the big pit thing. {{spoiler|Turns out he wasn't really gone...}}
* Another case of [[Your Mileage May Vary]], watch the interaction between Lea and Isa in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep|Birth By Sleep]]'', and then go and watch their interactions in the [[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
** ''Yes.'' This Troper sniffled at the end of the scene, because she thought they were going to the Castle to, I don't know, become Nobodies or something! {{spoiler|And then I laughed like a nut when the credits showed them just being thrown out.}} But just seeing them as kids and knowing who they grew up to be was a quiet tearjerker.
** Lea's wish to be "immortal" was what did it for this troper. Knowing how he went out... *sniff*
** This troper was brought to tears when she saw how close they were. Poor Axel had to suffer with his best friend becoming a completely different person.
** The Secret Reports in ''Days'' makes it even worse, driving it home how that dorky kid and his snarky best friend are effectively dead, and how much their relationship has deteriorated over the last ten years.
{{quote|'''Axel:''' Talking to Roxas and Xion always brings back memories of my human life, back when I was a kid. It's a weird sensation. I ought to be able to share all this with Saïx, but I just don't feel like it anymore. It's strange, but I'm content with just missing what's gone. I'm not the one who changed. You did.
'''Saïx:''' ...What were you really after, Lea? We joined the Organization at the same time, and formulated our plan. At this point, it's just an idle fantasy. Everything changed. You, and me. }}
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*** I'm going with the mass resurrection theory, because it fits the Christian allegory that is laced throughout the plot. First comes Armageddon, and then comes the Resurrection.
* Honestly, the only part of this series that literally brought tears to my eyes happens before you even start playing the first game. If you put the disc in and don't select anything on the menu, it will go to the orchestral version of Hikari after a few minutes, accompanied by Kairi's letter to Sora, "Thinking of you, wherever you are..." Those words paired with that music is so unbelievably moving.
* This troper might get made fun of for it, but she's a very, very big Organization fangirl; yes, to all of them, I to XIII. And she can't go and replay the games anymore for exactly that reason. She was ''sobbing'' around the time {{spoiler|Axel came to beg Roxas to come home}} and hasn't touched it since. But, oh, the worst has to be Vexen. I just can't even think about it without almost getting physically ill and moved to tears. It was ''horrifying,'' and considering I like him quite a bit...it really, really hurt. Not to say that watching the rest of them die wasn't agonizing, but Vexen ''did not deserve that'' which just made it ''worse.''
*** "[A]ll of them, I to XIII"? [[Hilarious in Hindsight|You forgot]] [[Ret-Gone|Xion]].
** It's okay. This troper broke down in tears at everyone's death. It's hard not to.
** What makes it especially bad is how it is simultaneously deserved and unfair, seeing in Birth By Sleep how with their hearts they're nice people all 'round, and then seeing the apathetic and amoral stuff they did as Organization members that made killing them necessary. Not to mention the fact that they were literally kamikaze-ing and moral event horizon for a ''lie'', that Kingdom Hearts would give them hearts, rather than the truth that it was to give Xemnas power and memory. You feel bad that they die, and at the same time also bad that you're not paying enough attention to the innocents who suffered, and also bad for the Organization for the fact that most of 'em were hurting innocents over a lie Xemnas and Xigbar were telling, and so on. No matter what perspective you take on them (and there are several dozen possible perspectives), it leaves the viewer depressed.
** Putting it simple, everyone in Organization XIII deserves a huge, comforting hug. After they get their hearts back and/or are informed of having been deceived, obviously, if you did it before they'd just take it as an opening to knock your heart out and/or use you as a weapon against their enemies.
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* While it builds up [[Kingdom Hearts 3D/Awesome|a group shot of made pure awesome]], there's a moment during [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1QdUQl6krA this cutscene] that is one of the few tearjerkers able to punch players in the gut with ''one word'':
{{quote|'''Sora:''' ''[[The Woobie|"Wait...!"]]''}}
* Sora's saved the worlds twice, successfully derailed every attempt to hurt him or his friends, even new ones. He's given up at least a year of his life fighting against evils no one else could match. He pulled Riku back from the darkness despite the fact that Riku was actively trying to kill him without once giving up hope. He's been abandoned, hurt, and just generally screwed with in ways a kid his age doesn't deserve, yet has never once even thought of turning to darkness unlike Riku who fell essentially because he was bored. {{spoiler|Then he gets his heart literally shattered and forced into darkness by someone with at least a century on him with access to time travel, and he's not considered worthy to be a Master, while aforementioned attempted murderer best friend does because he pulled Sora out of the fire this once.}} Sora takes it fine, but it's still pretty depressing to see Sora's accomplishments be considered 'not good enough', despite doing more in a year to fight back the darkness than anyone, aided or not.
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