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== ''[[CSI]]'' franchise ==
* [[CSI]]. "Goodbye and Good Luck". 'Nuff said.
** Also, {{spoiler|Warrick's apparent death}} in "For Gedda".
*** {{spoiler|The horrible confirmation of all the rumors in "For Warrick". When he died in Grissom's arms.}}
*** {{spoiler|It wasn't even so much the confirmation that Warrick was dead. It was Grissom completely losing it while holding Warrick in his arms. Grissom spent the entire series beforehand showing two emotions: indifference, and occasional happiness. Watching him fall apart as his friend and colleague dies in his arms as well}}
**** {{spoiler|And when Grissom breaks down reading the eulogy at his funeral.}}
*** {{spoiler|Warrick was a father who was looking to gain custody of his son when he died. There is a video of how he considers Grissom to be a father figure when he didn't have one himself.}}
** Just mentioning the episodes "Dead Doll" and "Living Doll".
** "Grave Danger" when they found Nick. Warrick pleading with him to drop the gun and Grissom using his father's nickname for him to keep him from going hysterical again.
** "Feeling the Heat". Namely the ending, where {{spoiler|Catherine tells the Winstons, who killed their baby because they thought he was going to die of Tay-Sachs anyway, that the tests for the kid came back negative.}}
** ''Miami'' had "Wannabe", an episode where a CSI wannabe fanboy witnesses a crime. After retrieving evidence the fanboy "borrowed" from his apartment, Speed starts making friends with him. Then he dies horribly. Evidence can't link the suspect to the fanboy's murder, but he does go down for the original. Then Speed finds out the kid was mentally disturbed, and actually killed ''himself''.
{{quote|'''Speed''': What do I do?
'''Caine''': You go home, get some rest, and you come back tomorrow. }}
** The last 5 minutes of "One to Go" reduced her to a blubbering pile of mush.
* The ''CSI:NY'' season 5 finale "Pay Up" when {{spoiler|Detective Jessica Angell was shot and killed. First of all, she's on the phone with her boyfriend, Detective Don Flack, when the bad guys drive a truck into the diner she's in. His panic makes you tear up. Then, later on in the episode, we find out that she died through Flack's quiet, stressed, "She's gone..." before he breaks down. The fact that Flack was the last person many fans expected to see cry on the show makes it worse. Flack's expression through the rest of the episode, especially when he gives her police badge to her former-cop father, is heartbreaking.}}
** The show hasn't been the same since, and more's the pity for that.
* The fate of Cassie and Ashley James. Two sisters, both of them beautiful and outgoing, drawn into the modelling world. One of them ends up dead of eating disorders and self-neglect, the other crazy and homeless, wandering the streets of Vegas with her shopping cart...
* "A Thousand Days on Earth" - a little girl is found in a box, abandoned, only to be recognized by her father, who is in prison. The whole episode is said, but seeing her father ([[Hey, It's That Guy!|played by the same actor who plays Det. Sanchez on The Closer]]), a hardened criminal, break down in tears of anguish and impotent rage when he sees her picture on the news is ... wow.
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* One section of the PBS documentary ''Carrier'' as the sailors stand on the deck while pulling into Pearl Harbor. The combination of Five For Fighting's "World" in the background and the sheer beauty of the execution of the scene sent her into a blubbering mess.
* The documentary series "Secrets of the Dead" also had one incredibly tear-jerking episode. The scientists were trying to identify several anonymous corpses recovered in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, nearly a century after they had been buried. When they exhumed the bodies however, they found to their horror that most of the graves had been filled with water and there was almost no DNA left they could use for identification. Only one grave wasn't flooded - the grave reserved at the top of the hill for the body of an unidentified baby boy. Incredibly, they found a tiny bone fragment that hadn't decomposed yet, and it contained just enough DNA so that they could finally identify the boy. The scientist who performed the identification was so moved that he seemed to be holding back tears, and could only say that "Someone wanted us to know who this child is."
** There's more. IIRC the reason why the bone fragment had been preserved was because of a copper plaque reading "Our Babe" that had been bought for the no-expense-spared funeral arranged by the men who found the body. These were big, tough men who had done the dangerous work of laying telegraph cables in the Atlantic; and because they were so moved by their discovery of the Unknown Child, and honoured him with that plaque, it was finally possible ninety years later to find out his identity.
** The episode ends with another incredibly tear-jerking scene. It was found that the boy had surviving relatives in Finland, they flew all the way to Halifax, Canada to visit his grave. They found that there were already flowers on his grave. It was then that they realized that ever since the baby died, the people of Halifax had been taking care of the boy as one of their own. It took nine decades and the love of countless strangers so that a baby boy could finally have a name.
*** Worse still, they spoke to a lady whose mother met the boy's mother, recalling seeing her panicking in the flooding stairwell, lamenting to God, 'Do they all have to die by water?!' Yes, it seems just months before, Our Babe's older sister had drowned in a pond.
* One episode of ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]'' featured the last flight of a male Ornithocheirus (a [[Giant Flyer|massive flying reptile]] ) on his way to the mating grounds: it ends with the male dying alone on a deserted beach over the course of several agonizing hours. Everything about the scene, from the heartwrenching music to the sight of the creature trying desperately to rise ''one last time.''
** In the sequel series ''Walking With Beasts'', when the young indricothere (a giant giraffe-like rhino) [[The Unfavourite|was violently abandoned by its own mother as she got a new baby]]. RL is such a [[Crapsack World]]...
*** What gets me every time isn't so much the [[Parental Abandonment]] itself; that was strongly foreshadowed earlier on in the episode. Instead, it's the scene where the young indricothere is injured while on his own, prompting him to return to his mother -- except, now that she's suckling her new baby, she sees the previous one as nothing but a threat, and drives him away. It's worth noting that this practice occurs among modern-day rhinos as well.
* ''The Alzheimer's Project'' - just reading an article about it was enough to induce tears.
* ''China's Unnatural Disaster'' - The 2008 earthquake in China. All those children, almost all of them ''only'' children.... One mom: "I have no tears left" {{spoiler|and later you see her neighbors berating her for protesting the Communist Party. They just want some answers, dammit!}}
* CBS did a miniseries of the life of George Washington. At the end of the Revolution, just before Washington resigns his command of the Continental Army to go home, he has a meeting with all of his principal commanders and staff. After a short speech Washington asked that each one of them to come up so he can shake their hand before he leaves. These men had fought a war that lasted eight years, fought in tremendous battles and suffered great deprivation and as they passed Washington both he and them (and the viewers) were so overwhelmed with emotion that no one was capable of speech and wept unashamed as Washington embraced each one of them. This was also [[Truth in Television]].
** In the History Channel's ''The Revolution'' series, the show mentions that after the Revolutionary War, many of the American generals and officers were unhappy with Congress refusing to pay them, and began considering a military coup to seize power from Congress. Washington, horrified at the idea, confronts his officers. He gathers them all in the room and prepares to give a speech, but before doing so, ''puts on a pair of glasses''. The officers are shocked, as they had never seen Washington wear glasses, and Washington explains that he had lost his vision over the course of the war. Realizing how much Washington had sacrificed to win the war, every single officer in the room breaks down in tears and the crisis is averted.
* [[The World At War]] is full of heartbreaking stories from various eyewitness accounts, but the speech from a [https://web.archive.org/web/20081028223523/http://http/%3A//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_%28The_World_at_War_episode%29%5C]Hungarian who'd survived a concentration camp - made even sadder by the speakers almost completely emotionless narrative.
{{quote|You could say today I'm 27 years old. I was reborn when I left the camp. The years before didn't matter.}}
* The documentary ''Mayday! Bering Sea'' on the sinking of the ''Alaska Ranger'', during Ed Cook talking about finding that his brother had died.
* History Cold Case is a programme which goes back in time and analyses dead bodies, finding out their history. One episode involved a Victorian prostitute, originally thought to be in her late 20s, racked with non-congenital, tertiary syphilis and likely to be utterly destitute, living in one of the most deprived areas of the country. That depressing enough for you? Then its revealed that the girls is in her late teens. This means that she would have had to have got her syphilis as a child, possibly when she was six/seven.
* One episode of ''Nova'' documented a six-year attempt to identify a World War II-era submarine that had been found off the coast of New Jersey. It was finally identified as ''U-869''. The filmmakers found that one of the crewmembers' sisters had emigrated to the United States after the war and had settled in Maryland, a few hours from the New Jersey coast. She had been told that her brother's U-boat was presumed lost off Gibraltar. The filmmakers went to her home and filmed the moment that she was told that her brother was much closer than she had believed...
== ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' franchise ==
* Given its [[Anyone Can Die]] policy, [[Kamen Rider Ryuki]], unsurprisingly, has a fair number of these moments.
** {{spoiler|Kamen Rider Imperer}}'s final moments are particularly painful. Betrayed and left for dead in the Mirror World without his armor for protection, he spends his last seconds alive in the rain, gazing at the lone figure of a woman who may have represented everything he wanted in a life, as his body slowly dissolves into nothingness.
{{quote|''' {{spoiler|Mitsuru Sano/Kamen Rider Imperer}}:''' Why did something like this happen? All I wanted was to be happy.}}
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** A [[Bitter Sweet]] moment: {{spoiler|The Sonozaki family reuniting peacefully in death. After having spent the entire series fighting and backstabbing each other, Wakana and Saeko are seen embracing while Ryubee tells Philip they'll be watching over him.}}
== [[Reality TV]] ==
* Several people have actually ''committed suicide'' after being contestants on a reality TV show. Cheryl Kosewicz from the show ''Pirate Master'' was found dead during the show's run on TV (after filming) and someone{{who}} from ''Paradise Hotel'' also did the same.
* [[Big Brother]]: All Stars had a small tear jerker when Dr. Will and Boogie, Chilltown, were put up on the block against each other and they chose to evict Dr. Will. Throughout the game, they played around in the diary room and pretended to call each other on the telephone. After Dr. Will was evicted, Boogie had one of those where he had the phone-hand to his head and asked "Hello? Hello?" and there was no answer.
** Course he won anyway...[[Fan Nickname|Stupid Booger...]]
* The Israeli version’s third season (not including the celebrity season) has Ram Preiß Siton who came out on television. His parents had been told not that long before he came in, so the only ones who knew were his family, production (he had told them he might come out during the show), presumably some of his friends, and his boyfriend, known only by his nickname ‘Smiley’ (''Kiyukhi'' חִיּוּכִי). The really tear-jerking moment came later on, when one of the two hosts, Asi ‘Azar, who is also gay, came in to talk to Ram about it. Bar Refaeli was sitting at the same table as they were, and was moved to tears by the scene.
* Michael from ''[[Survivor]]: The Australian Outback'' being evacuated. He was going to be perhaps one of the best players ever (Tina admitted that he could have beaten her) but then passed out in the fire and ran into the water in pain, fingers burned together. They then showed him being evacuated and saying "Bye!" to everyone.
** A few ''other'' people being evacuated. There were a few people where it wasn't really that big of an impact and was sort of a relief to see that they got treatment. (Like say, Bruce in ''Panama'' or Jonathan Penner & James in ''Micronesia'') But some others were odd...Kathleen quit the game in ''Micronesia'' and was having a ''mental breakdown'', but the most recent was in ''Samoa'' where Mike and Russell S. both had extremely low blood pressure and Russell S. was saying "No no let me get back into the game"
== ''[[Super Sentai]]'' franchise ==
* {{spoiler|Mikoto}}'s death in ''[[Super Sentai|Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger]]'', made all the more amazing by the fact that {{spoiler|for most of the series he had been the resident [[Magnificent Bastard]]}}.
* ''Any'' episode of ''any'' Super Sentai series where the rangers befriend a [[Monster of the Week]] that doesn't want to hurt people or cause trouble ''never'' ends well for the heroes.
* {{spoiler|Burai}}'s death in ''[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]]''.
* In episode 12 of ''Gokaiger'', we have Joe's desperate attempt to get Barizorg to remember his humanity as {{spoiler|Sid Bamick.}}
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