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** The possible [[Heroic Sacrifice]] of {{spoiler|Visas Marr}} would count as a [[Tear Jerker]]. If it wasn't the player's choice to do so. You monster.
** The intended version would have been much, much worse, with the Exile's companions confronting {{spoiler|Kreia}} on their own only to be beaten down and imprisoned in order to force the Exile to choose between freeing them and making the final boss fight harder, or allowing them to die for an easier boss fight. Meanwhile, Atton manages to escape capture only to sacrifice himself in a one-on-one battle with Darth Sion - and if he loses, Sion tortures him and leaves him, broken and dying, for the Exile to find. The audio file for Atton's death exists in the game's files, and it is ''heart-rending.''
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*** Oh, ''god'', that one file had me sobbing. I always loved Atton's character; when KOTOR2 goes [[Darker and Edgier]], Atton is a consummate [[Deadpan Snarker]], always making the situation funnier with his humor, yet never appearing to be outright comic relief. Then, you get to this, and he's just sitting there, dying, and when he laughs, trying to ignore the pain, it comes back a thousandfold. DAMN YOU, SION!!!
*** Considering Atton's back story as a {{spoiler|former Sith assassin}}, it would also be a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and [[Redemption Equals Death]] moment if he has been turned to Light Side via the Exile's influence.
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* Might not be in the game, but the ending of Destroyer certainly qualifies. Zayne finds out that Chantique lied to him, and turns to try and make amends....only to see that Jarael is gone.
* My eyes were brimming with tears in the middle of the following conversation with Hanharr in KOTOR II:
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'''Hanharr:''' Because I was the stronger. She was prey. Because she saved my life, and she would not let me take hers. So I tore it from her.
'''Exile:''' So she saved your life once?
'''Hanharr:''' She showed me mercy, and that I could not bear. To feel such, from prey. She had my life in her hands, her weapon pointed at me as I lay wounded in my own traps, and she did not kill me. And I saw her eyes. And I saw she felt... mercy.
'''Exile:''' So you would rather she have killed you?
'''Hanharr:''' It is the way of the hunt. When one lies broken before you, you end them. There is no mercy in such things - there is death. That is the price for the failure of the hunt, and she denied me that death. And that is what I could not bear. Yet I could no longer kill her, for it meant I owed her... owed my life to a human. Humans who broke all of my people with slavery - she did what they had done, to my people, to me. And that is why she had to die.
'''Exile:''' She did not make you a slave - instead, she denied you freedom, death.
'''Hanharr:''' You are wrong, human - those are not my words, nor the truth.
'''Exile:''' I think you wanted her to kill you, to break you. To end your life.
'''Hanharr:''' I do not chase death, I chase prey.
'''Exile:''' You have spoken of your tribe, Hanharr, and I think you wished to join them.
'''Hanharr:''' My tribe is no more - my people are no more, because of humans!
'''Exile:''' But you said they exist, but not here. And you wished to join them.
'''Hanharr:''' I... I see your eyes... hear your words, human. And your words echo within me. Perhaps I wished to die at her hands. And walk the Shadowlands no longer. Yet she spared me, and to continue living... I could not bear it. I wish to go where my tribe went, where I sent them, where they are finally free. Where they may forgive me. I do not wish to walk in the Shadowlands any longer. When I die, I want to walk on top of the trees of my homeworld, to hear the voices of my people again.
'''Exile:''' If you wish to die, then let it be done in a way that matters - saving others.
'''Hanharr:''' That is the only pledge I have heard from a human that I will accept. I will walk with you, human, and my strength shall be yours. I shall break our enemies. And when death comes, do not turn it aside - and I will do the same for you.
'''Exile:''' I swear the same - for now, until the end of our journey.
'''Hanharr:''' Then it is done - we die together, our lives as one, or not at all. }}
* Juhani's distress and sadness at having killed her mentor always brings a tear. {{spoiler|It's nice when she finds out she ''didn't'' kill her - it was all a character test.}}
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