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* During the credits of ''Birth By Sleep'', {{spoiler|Mickey Mouse is so devastated over the fate of the three protagonists, he hands over both his starshard and his keyblade to Yen Sid. As he turns to leave, Yen Sid gives him back the keyblade. Between Yen Sid not approving of Mickey's training before, the events of the game, and what's to come, it was quite a gut punch.}}
* To This Troper, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cTJGEXiwRU&feature=channel Ventus's Theme] from Birth By Sleep ''alone'' can make me feel like crying. What gets me about the song is at about 0:39, where the melody restarts. It sounds about the same as the beginning for a second, but then, the string portion goes up an extra octave to repeat the melody from "The Other Promise." It may be just me, but that straining few notes always gave This troper the impression that ''the music itself is crying.'' It's just so melancholy I... *sniffle*
* Most of the character of Xemnas in Kingdom Hearts II is ''really, really'' depressing when you factor in BBS, some stuff in the [[All There in the Manual|ultimania guide]], and basic logical extrapolation. {{spoiler|Xemnas is basically an amnesiac Terra, whose only memories of emotion are of Xehanort's emotions. As a result, his faked emotions are... off- but by no fault of his own, and he probably knows it's not right, but the alternative is robot-like behavior. The reason he doesn't want to get his heart back like the others? He knows it's infected with the heart of another, and he's afraid that getting it back means [[Loss of Identity]]. His whole plan is about getting his memories back so he can become at least a
** Birth by Sleep also takes one of Xemnas's lines to a new height of sympathy, in light of what happens to {{spoiler|Terra.}}
{{quote| Xemnas: I need more rage. I need more hearts.<br />
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Xemnas: Unfortunately, [[Alas, Poor Villain|I don't.]] }}
** This also makes 358/2 Days ''[[Up to Eleven|even more depressing]]'', in light of what's really in the Room of Awakening, and the most probable reason he's so desperate to find it... {{spoiler|In all likelihood, he's trying, in his own futile partial-amnesia-addled and Xehanort's-darkness-clouded way, to save Ventus.}}
** While this is all very sad for Terra, sympathy for Xemnas himself is minimized once one recalls that the Nobodies of Organization XIII are the shells left behind of people who've lost their hearts, and who act based upon recollection of what it was like when they had their hearts before the split occurred. Ansem's apprentice Xehanort was confirmed to be Master Xehanort's heart completely commandeering Terra' body at the time of the split. So Xemnas is technically Terra's Nobody, but he acts upon the memories of Xehanort, explaining why he's so pure evil. His plan was actually to absorb Kingdom Hearts' power and become a God before casting all the worlds into nothingness so that he can recreate it in his image "one heart at a time" - an [[Evil Plan]] in line with Master Xehanort's. He did ''not'' want to get his memories back, because the possibility of Terra's persona taking dominance of Xemnas was something he wanted to ''avoid.'' It's true that he's afraid to regain his heart because he knows it's infected by the heart of another, but in his Xehanort-based perspective, the one "infecting" it is ''Terra.'' Also, the others didn't want to "get their hearts back" either: they just wanted hearts of their own - hearts that could make their Nobody selves complete, existent beings.
* Aqua. Her fate. My God. {{spoiler|When she sacrifices herself to save Terra, and those 3 words: "I'm with you!"}} Oh my gosh, I can't even. And then, when she's {{spoiler|wandering around in the Realm of Darkness and she sees Terra, and Ventus, and Eraqus, and everyone she met in every world...}} The tears just started again.
** {{spoiler|"Ven, I'm sorry. I won't make it back as soon as I thought. But I promise I'll be there one day to wake you up."}}
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** 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.
*** [[Captain Obvious|Except Xigbar, who deserves just as much of a kick to the 'nads then as he did twelve years before]]. And the size of the hug Xemnas deserves is directly proportional to how much of him is amnesiac hero Terra, and how much is
**** Most of him is Xehanort. This has been confirmed.
* You know what else is sad? The fact that King Mickey and Queen Minnie hasn't seen each other from a little before the beginning of the first KH to the credits of KH2! If anyone has been told to wait for someone for a fraction of that time would know the pain Minnie must of been going through. Talk about devotion.
* In coded, when {{spoiler|Data-Roxas merges with Data-Sora}}. All his hurt memories start flooding into Sora, and we're quickly reminded of the sadness that was ''Days''.
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