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== Works that need pages ==
== ''[[CSI]]'' franchise ==
* [[CSI]]. "Goodbye and Good Luck". 'Nuff said.
=== ''[[Un gars, une fille]]'' ===
** Also, {{spoiler|Warrick's apparent death}} in "For Gedda".
* This otherwise hilarious French-Canadian series got a few brilliant tear-jerker moments, all delivered by Sylvie Leonard. The first of the two most notable happens at the end of the episode in which Sylvie's mother dies. She gives a beautiful speech to her mother's grave, and asks her to give her a sign if she heard her. At this point, a pigeon poops on Guy's, her boyfriend, shoulder, turning it into a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
*** {{spoiler|The horrible confirmation of all the rumors in "For Warrick". When he died in Grissom's arms.}}
* The second happens during the final episode. After going all the way to Vietnam to adopt a little girl, Sylvie suddenly collapses in the street and wakes up in hospital. Weak and afraid she might die, she tells Guy how much she wanted to see their new child grow up and how much she loves him. The doctor arrives seconds later to inform them that Sylvie is actually pregnant, turning the scene into a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
*** {{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.


== Documentaries ==
=== ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka (live-action series)]]'' ===
* 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 live action ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'' episode where Tomoko pours her heart out during the public speaking part of the competition.
* 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...


=== ''[[Hell Girl (live-action series)]]'' ===
== ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' franchise ==
* In episode 2 of the live-action ''[[Hell Girl]]'' series, Enma Ai's client is a [[Hikikomori]] whose father has been murdered. There's a heartbreaking flashback sequence in which we see all the times his father talked to him through the door of his room, patiently trying again and again to reach his son. They love each other, but whatever sorrow has taken hold of the boy won't let go. And now it's too late -- he'll never see his dad again, never get to make things right. You'll need to hug someone you love after watching this.

=== ''[[Kasou Taishou]]'' ===
* ''Kasou Taishou'', the show that brought you the famous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dcmDscwEcI Matrix Ping Pong] brings you a tear-inducing number called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njgvEX-JtUc Friend in the Graffiti].

=== ''[[Los Archivos del Cardenal]]'' ===
* The Chilean TV series "Los Archivos del Cardenal" ("The Files of the Cardinal"), narrating the struggle of the "Vicaria de la Solidaridad" ("Vicary of Solidarity") during the terrible Chilean dictatorship, is the perfect mix of [[Tear Jerker]] and [[Nightmare Fuel]]. Maybe the names and some circumstances were changed to protect sensibilities of the victims and their families, but the emotional impact is devastating.

== Lists that need to be split into individual works ==
=== [[Kamen Rider]] ===
* Given its [[Anyone Can Die]] policy, [[Kamen Rider Ryuki]], unsurprisingly, has a fair number of these moments.
* 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.
** {{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.
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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.}}
** 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]] ==
== Lists that need to be integrated into existing Tear Jerker pages ==
* 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.
=== [[Glee/Tear Jerker]] ===
* [[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.
* When Will leaves Glee to go become an accountant and then returns after hearing the Glee kids singing "Don't Stop Believing".
** Course he won anyway...[[Fan Nickname|Stupid Booger...]]
* When Quinn found out about her pregnancy.
* 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.
* The club performing "Keep Holding On" in Throwdown in support of Quinn, particularly when she lets out one sob at the very end just before the credits start up.
* 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.
* "Wheels".
** 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"
* When Quinn's parents kicked her out of the house in Ballad.
* Kurt's sad face/crying is enough to induce this.
* Will finding out about Terri's fake pregnancy.
* The entire "Smile" montage. The looks on Will and the club members' faces combined with the beautiful, yet sad music make it impossible to keep from crying.
* Finn finding out he's not the father of Quinn's baby.
* That scene at the "wedding" in Sectionals.
* The whole episode, "Home". Especially when Kurt sang "A House is Not a Home", coupled with his broken expression at the end.
* Kurt singing "Rose's Turn" in Laryngitis.
* Rachel and {{spoiler|her real mom}} singing "I Dreamed A Dream" in Dream On.
* Everything involving Artie in the episode Dream On.
* "To Sir With Love" from Journey. Yeah. If you were not at least choking up you have no heart.
* When New Directions came in {{spoiler|last place}} at regionals. We've all been there at one point or another.
* Kurt singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" in Grilled Cheesus.
** The scene where Jean asks Sue if she wanted her to pray for her and she accepts.
** And the part with {{spoiler|Kurt's dad holding his hand after waking up from his heart-attack coma}}.
*** "I don't believe in God, Dad. But I believe in you, and I believe in us. ''That's'' what's sacred to me."
*** "Dad, I'm here. I'm not going ''anywhere''."
* The wedding speeches of Burt and Carole.
* Kurt announcing his transfer, and giving Mercedes one sorrowful look before he walks out of the room.
* "You said you'd NEVER breakup with me!" "... I never thought you'd make me feel like this."
* Finn's speech to Rachel at the Christmas tree lot. Poor guy.
* How distraught Karofsky looks after he kisses Kurt breaks my heart.
* Santana finally working up the nerve to tell Brittany that she loved her, only to be turned down in favor of Artie. A case of [[Alas, Poor Villain|alas poor]] [[Alpha Bitch]].
* Quinn telling Rachel that she is the one that Finn is going to chose. It is the sadest "I am going to win"-speech ever.
{{quote|'''Quinn:''' Do you want to know how this story plays out? I get Finn, you get heart-broken. And then Finn and I stay here and start a family. I'll become a successful real estate agent, and Finn will take over Kurt's dads tire shop. You don't belong here Rachel, and you can't hate me for helping to send you on your way.
'''Rachel:''' [[Comically Missing the Point|I am not giving up on Finn. It is not ov...]]<br />
'''Quinn:''' Yes it is! You are so frustrating! And that is why you can't write a good song; because you live in this little school girl fantasy of life. Rachel, if you keep looking for that happy ending, then you are ''never'' going to get it right! }}
** ''Especially'' when you consider her determination to get out of Lima and do something great with her life, even during the pregnancy plot. She went through absolute hell to get her life back, and just when things were looking up, a new wave of drama came up. And now, here she is, [[Ice Queen|Quinn Fabray]], finally battered and broken to the point where she has finally given up all her ambitions and is resigned to the fact that she's not going to amount to anything particularly great in life.Quinn has spent quite a bit of time being a bitch this season, but...
* Will talking to Emma in "Rumors" about how he doesn't want to leave the kids and her behind because they've done so much for him and he needs them as much as they need him, but then saying how ''badly'' he wants to go with April. There's something about the idea that Will's dreams and opportunities are passing him by, but he wouldn't even consider going because the glee club means so much to him. It's both heartwarming and heartbreaking.
* Kurt {{spoiler|getting voted ''Prom Queen'' with Karofsky as King}} as a humiliating, sadistic joke. Eventually he refuses to let it get him down and turns it into a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], but still--teens are [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] ''[[Teens Are Monsters|monsters.]]'' And the worst part? Prior to this, the fandom absolutely ''[[Funny Aneurysm Moment|loved]]'' the idea of {{spoiler|Kurt and Blaine}} being voted Prom King/Queen as a gesture of acceptance. [[Tear Jerker|Ryan Murphy, you bastard.]]
* Karofsky's tearful apology and {{spoiler|saying 'I can't' softly to Kurt at Prom and walking away.}}
* {{spoiler|Jean's funeral}} because of the scene's multitude of similarities to the deaths and funerals of people he cared about just as much as {{spoiler|Sue cares about Jean.}}
* The performance of Fix You in Asian F is a tearjerker and [[Heartwarming Moment|heartwarming]] especially the image of Emma as a girl praying.
* Bieste... just... Bieste. And in "Props," when her douchecanoe husband says "Who's going to love you now?" She says "Me." Crowning Moment of Awesome, indeed.

=== [[Gossip Girl/Tear Jerker]] ===
* Blair reading the letter she wrote to Serena.
* Chuck coming to Blair to break apart in her arms and perhaps get some comfort after the death of {{spoiler|his father}}. Also the scene earlier in the episode when Blair finally tells him she loves him, and he just drives off.
** In the following episode when Chuck has mocked Blair for her love for him (this after he's left her in the middle of the night and disappeared for a month) and she breaks down crying in front of her mirror.
* Blair confessing her love for Chuck once again in the season two finale, and him just walking away.
* The hospital scene in ''The Debarted'' when Chuck has to deal with his emotions after his father's death (and Blair has to help him stand).
* Chuck finally going to see Lily after she's been {{spoiler|diagnosed with cancer}}.
* Eric telling his father that he doesn't want him in his life.
* Blair breaking apart crying alone in her room after Chuck {{spoiler|traded her to Jack for the Empire hotel}}.
* Chuck letting Blair go in the season four finale. Their entire conversation was heartbreaking and the look on his face as she walks away was just too sad for words.
* After months of not being able to feel anything, neither physical nor emotional, Chuck finds out {{spoiler|that Blair is pregnant and that Louis is the father. The episode ends with Chuck crying on his bed, comforted by the dog he got in the same episode.}} The writers cried, some of the actors cried...
* Chuck visiting Lily after Dan's book has been released, lamenting his loneliness and saying he doesn't want to end up like Charlie Trout, his character in the book.
* Everything after the accident in Season 5. Blair losing the baby, praying just for Chuck to be alive, and eventually deciding that she can't be with Chuck if there's any chance he'll be the one punished for it. Chuck's confusion as he desperately searches for a reason why she abandoned him and her constantly-about-to-break-down expression just breaks your heart.

=== [[Homicide: Life on the Street/Tear Jerker]] ===
* Giardello's speech at the end of "Partners and Other Strangers".
* The scene in "Every Mother's Son" when the mothers of a murdered child and the boy who did the killing meet unaware of who the other is.
* The scene in "Crosetti" when Lewis realizes that his partner and friend committed suicide.
* "A Doll's Eyes" when the parents have to take their son off life support.
Charles S. Dutton's performance in "Prison Riot" especially his line "I'm in here forever, Detective. Forever."
* The end of "Betrayal" in which Bayliss reveals why He takes cases with Murdered Children so hard
* Lewis talking Kellerman out of suicide in "Have A Conscience" with a Heartbreaking invoking of Crosetti
* "Bop Gun" is one long Tear Jerker with Robin Williams as a man who just saw His wife Murdered.Highlights include Him becoming furious after hearing the Detectives humourously banter about the Murder and the investigation and the final moments in which He says He is now a member of a "Special club where only the initiated can recognize the other members"]]

=== [[House (TV series)/Tear Jerker]] ===
* The season 4 finale.
** When {{spoiler|House talks to Amber in the Limbo-bus. " I don't want him (Wilson) to hate me"}}
*** {{spoiler|"Because...because it doesn't hurt here. I don't want to be in pain. I don't want to be miserable. And I don't want him to hate me."}}
*** It didn't help that the music selection used as the bed for that scene was Iron & Wine's "Passing Afternoon", which is a haunting song.
** Both {{spoiler|"I don't want him to hate me""}} and {{spoiler|Taub clinging to his wife}}.
** {{spoiler|Wilson finally going back home to try and sleep and finding Amber's last note.}}
** The scene where {{spoiler|Amber dies in Wilson's arms, after having him to pull the plug on the machine keeping her alive}}.
** And, God, the dialogue from the above scene, especially, {{spoiler|Wilson: "Just a little longer." Amber: "We're always going to want just a little longer."}} and {{spoiler|Wilson: "It's not okay. Why is it okay with you? Why aren't you angry?" Amber: "That's not the last feeling I want to experience." - and Wilson kissing her so that it isn't.}}
*** Just the fact that it was {{spoiler|Wilson}} showing such raw emotion when he's usually cast as the straight man is what did it for me. {{spoiler|Wilson}}'s breakdown left me absolutely speechless.
** House's recovered memory of what happened. The part when {{spoiler|he realizes that by taking the pills Amber has sealed her fate is heartbreaking. And having to explain to Wilson that there is nothing to be done...}}
** The ending. The bit where all the team comes to say goodbye, the bit where they were clinging to each other and having their last conversation, the bit where Thirteen's Huntington's test shows positive, and the bit where Wilson reads Amber's last note.
** The look on Cuddy's face when House wakes up in the Season 4 finale.
*** When Wilson looked at House who had just woken up after having possible brain-damage, and just walked away without a word too. And the beginning of the first season when he told House they'd never been friends? Hugh Laurie makes House look like a kicked puppy at times.
* Because House is usually such a [[Jerkass]], the moments when he's vulnerable/human. Take, for instance, the scene in ''Skin Deep'' where he's asking Cuddy for some morphine. He drops his trousers and cane, shows her the ugly scar and says, near tears, "I could swear I remember a thigh muscle being here".
** The end of ''Honeymoon''.
* The episode with the idiot savant concert pianist {{spoiler|who gets half his brain removed. "Are you happy?"}}
* The end of ''House Training''. Foreman has just managed to kill a patient (she died of a fricking bra infection!) and goes home to his mentally ill mother for some reassurance. It's all going along swimmingly as she seems to recognize him but then she says "I had a little boy named Eric." His face crumpled about the same time mine did.
* The episode "Histories", where a homeless woman sent to the hospital after collapsing. At the end {{spoiler|after they find out she has rabies so advanced there's no hope for survival, Foreman and Wilson go to investigate her past using her comics as a guide. They find out this 'James' she kept talking about was her son, who died in a car accident that also killed her husband, and that she felt guilty ever since.}}
* The two-parter "Euphoria", especially the second half. For so many reasons.
* ''Three Stories''... just ''Three Stories''. Especially this piece of heartbreaking conversation in one of the flashbacks:
{{quote|'''Stacy''': We've got to let him cut the leg off.
'''House''': (in massive amounts of pain) It's my leg. It's my life.
'''Stacy''': Would you give up your leg to save my life?
'''House''': Of course I would.
'''Stacy''': Then why do you think your life is worth less than mine? If this were any other patient, what would you tell them to do?
'''House''': I would say it's their choice.
'''Stacy''': What? not a chance! You'd browbeat them until they made the choice you knew was right. You'd shove it in their face that it's just a damn leg! You don't think you deserve to live? You don't think you deserve to be happy? Not let them cut off your leg? (They're both near tears.)
'''House''': I can't, I can't, I'm sorry. }}
* The treadmill scene in ''Cane and Able''. He suffers from chronic pain himself and to see House like that - close to crying because of all the pain he's in but still running anyway - is just too painful to see.
* Soon after the beginning of the Season Five episode ''Simple Explanation'', {{spoiler|Kutner is found dead in his apartment, having committed suicide for no known reason.}} The biggest [[Tear Jerker]] comes at the end of the episode, {{spoiler|where a montage depicting Kutner's funeral is shown, including a shot of Taub breaking down as he sits alone in one of the hospital corridors. As if that weren't enough, the montage ends with a black screen showing contact details for mental health organisations and an "If you are thinking of suicide..." message.}}
** Using Pete Yorn's ''Lose You'' as background music for the funeral adds to the heartbreak. "when I can't stand / up in this cage I'm not regretting // I don't need a better thing / I'd settle for less / it's another thing for me / I just have to wander through this world / alone". ''Ow''.
* Hugh Laurie, ''why'' did you have to make "Under My Skin" so painful? ''Why?!''
* The last 10 or so minutes of the season five finale, especially the very end, {{spoiler|when Wilson drops House off at the psychiatric hospital.}}
* The end of "Son of a Coma Guy."
* The season 2 finale, "No Reason." Four words: "You're miserable for ''nothing''."
* "Wilson? My dad's dead."
** House starting to crack when he's speaking at the funeral.
* The scene in the Wilson episode where {{spoiler|Wilson asks House if he'll be there for his liver surgery}}:
{{quote|'''Wilson''':The operation is in two hours and I'd like you to be there.
'''House''': No.
'''Wilson''': ...why?
'''House''': Because if you die, I'm alone. }}
* The season 1 episode "Babies and Bathwater" features two successive impossible choices for a pregant mother and her husband. {{spoiler|The team struggled to save the mother and child...and failed. The baby's cries at the end are}} the epitome of the tear jerker.
** It gets even worse in "Forever". {{spoiler|The mother's cancer caused her to kill her child and the father is so traumatized as well that he doesn't even try to convince her not to let herself die}}. If you wanted to slit your wrists at that, then we won't blame you.
* The episode ''Maternity'', because it featured the first paitient to actually die on the show {{spoiler|a NEWBORN BABY}}. Then there's the scene right afterwards, when {{spoiler|Cameron and Wilson go to tell the parents that their baby has died, the sight of them breaking down in each other's arms is only made worse by the lack of audible dialogue}}.
* There are a few moments in the episode ''One Day, One Room'' but the one that really did me in is at the end when House says, "It was true."
* "Lockdown" got me when House's would-be patient calls his daughter and leaves his message.
* "Joy" when after all the stuff Cuddy went through {{spoiler|she still doesn't get the baby.}}
* In the season 5 episode, "Emancipation," when the poor girl reunites with her parents.

=== [[How I Met Your Mother/Tear Jerker]] ===
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother|HIMYM]]'' is usually one of the happiest shows around... but dammit, it can [[Tear Jerker|make you cry like a baby]]:
** The ending of ''Come On''. Seeing Ted arriving home so happy only to find Marshall sitting on their building's doorsteps, in the rain, holding Lily's engagement ring.
* Lily telling Ted she's having doubts about marrying Marshall and telling him why she wants to go to San Francisco in ''Milk''. Aly's acting in that scene is perfectly heartbreaking.
* Near the end of season 3 there was a subplot: Ted decides to "dump" Barney and Neil Patrick Harris decides to break our hearts for the next 3 episodes. Finally resolved with a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], but terrible while it lasts.
* The ending of ''Benefits''. That is all. Damn you NPH!
{{quote|'''Robin''': He can't separate the physical from the emotional. He's all like...
'''Barney''': I love you.
'''Robin''': (misunderstands him and thinks he's talking about Ted) ... exactly! He's not like you, you know? }}
** ''Definitely'' seconded. Just the look on his face while Robin remains oblivious...
* Ted and Lily's extremely tense screaming match in "The Front Porch" after Ted realizes that Lily broke him and Robin up. Even though everything's forgiven in the end, it was like watching your parents fighting and threatening divorce.
* Ted's speech to Stella in ''As Fast As She Can'', about how he wants what Stella and Tony and Lily and Marshall have, but is tired of looking and waiting.
{{quote|'''Ted''': Okay, I'm gonna say something out loud that I've been doing a pretty good job of not saying out loud lately... what you and Tony have... what I thought for a second that you and I had... what I ''know'' that Marshall and Lily have... I want that! I do. I keep waiting for it to happen and waiting for it to happen, and... I guess I'm just, uh... I'm tired of waiting. And that's all I'm willing to say on that subject.
'''Stella''': (...) I know that you're tired of waiting and... you may have to wait a little while more, but... she's on her way, Ted! And she's getting here ''as fast as she can''.
'''Ted''': (smiling softly) Goodbye, Stella.
'''Stella''': (near whisper) Goodbye, Ted. }}
* The ending of "Bad News" where {{spoiler|Marshall learns that his dad had a fatal heart attack.}} The look on Lilly's face ''alone'' was enough to make you cry. Then you notice that Marshell is trying to be strong and failing.
{{quote|'''Marshall''': (breaking down in Lily's arms) I'm not ready for this.}}
** Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan both REALLY sold this scene. It's [[Mood Whiplash|very]] [[Truth in Television|sudden]], and it hits hard.
* Marshall's breakdown {{spoiler|outside of his father's funeral}} in "Last Words." Brings out all the emotions that run through a person in that circumstance.
* Barney's emotional meltdown at the basketball hoop in the end of 'Legendaddy'. He has very recently had his father (who abandoned him when he was six) come back into his life and try to reconnect with him. Barney was hoping his father, Jerry, would be a hard-partying roadie who wasn't capable of being a father, since this would justify him abandoning Barney. However, Jerry has turned out to be a loving dad with two children, including a boy named 'Jerome Junior'. Barney can't handle this, and it culminates into him trying to yank JJ's basketball hoop off the garage so he could have at least some souvenir of a childhood he never got to have. Particularly heartbreaking is this exchange:
{{quote|'''Barney''': You're ''lame'', okay? You're just some lame suburban dad.
'''Jerry''': Why does that make you so mad?!
'''Barney''': (finally losing it) ''Because if you were gonna be some lame suburban dad, why couldn't you have been that for me?!?'' }}
* At the end of 'Change of Heart', when Lily has finally convinced that Barney has actual feelings for Nora, he shows up where she is having brunch with her parents, and the scene goes on to show him going inside, apologizing for telling her he wasn't interested, and being introduced to her parents. Alas, it's just an imagination spot, and the look on his face when it pans back to him standing out there and giving up is just heartcrushing. To top it off, just after he walks away, Nora looks up and has missed him, also with a look as if she wished he were in there.
* In "The Exploding Meatball Sub", when Lily is about to head off to Spain because supporting Marshall through his oblivious insistence on quitting his job and taking up ridiculous projects while volunteering for the NRDC is driving her crazy. Ted is rightly appalled, furious, and clearly terrified (for although he doesn't mention it, the memory of Lily breaking for San Fransisco is clearly in the forefront of both his and the audience's minds), until in the middle of Lily's rant, she breaks down into tears and confesses that she's afraid that Marshall doesn't want to have a baby with her anymore. Ted's demeanor immediately dissolves into tenderness with a soft "Oh ''Lil''..."
* At the end of 'Tick, Tick, Tick...'
{{quote|'''Future Ted''':...for Barney, the second that would never end was this one..."}}
** {{spoiler|After realising that Robin has chosen Kevin}} the look on Barney's face is absolutely '''heartbreaking'''. Then the icing on the cake? {{spoiler|Watching him clean up the bedroom he had decorated with rose petals and candles.}}
* In 'Symphony of Illumination' {{spoiler|Robin is narrating the episode to her and Barney's future kids. Until she finds out she can't ever have children. "So I can't have kids. Big deal. This way, there's no one to hold me back in life. No one to keep me from travelling where I wanna travel, no one getting in the way of my career. If you wanna know the truth of it, I'm glad you guys aren't real." And the kids fade away.}}

=== [[Inspector Lynley/Tear Jerker]] ===
* When {{spoiler|Barbara Havers is shot in the abdomen, throwing herself in front of a bullet to save someone else}}. Even though [[Like You Would Really Do It|you know they wouldn't really do it]], ''Lynley'' doesn't know, and his reaction is absolutely heartbreaking.
* {{spoiler|Helen's death}}, Lynley's face, and Barbara doing her level best to save her. Just... ouch.

=== [[Kenan and Kel/Tear Jerker]] ===
* The first half of the episode where Kenan has to move away. It's the slowed down theme music that does it. Also, in the 2nd half of that two-parter, [[Catch Phrase|"... Kel loves orange soda."]]



=== [[Leverage/Tear Jerker]] ===
== ''[[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]]}}.
* The flashbacks to the death of Nate's son, slowly parceled out throughout the first season.
* ''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.
* Parker's fear for the orphans in "The Stork Job":
* {{spoiler|Burai}}'s death in ''[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]]''.
{{quote|"You put these kids in the system, and odds are, they're gonna, they're gonna...they're gonna turn out like me."}}
* In episode 12 of ''Gokaiger'', we have Joe's desperate attempt to get Barizorg to remember his humanity as {{spoiler|Sid Bamick.}}
* "The Future Job": A fraudulent psychic uncovers a secret Parker has never told anyone: that she witnessed (and blames herself for) the death of her brother when they were children. Made worse by the fact that Parker has [[No Social Skills]] -- she can't interpret ''normal'' nonverbal cues, and thus has a hard time understanding cold reading.
* "The Maltese Falcon Job." The season two finale, Nate after spiraling further and further out of control after the loss of Sophie. Finds himself at the mercy of his rival Sterling who wants to exchange a Gun Smuggler his after and Nate's team in exchange for Nate's freedom . Because Nate is not like them. In the end Nate has captured the Gun Smuggler and in a gambit leveraged his way to exchange his capture for his teammates freedom. While the team escapes a FBI mooks asks "Who is this guy?" Nate, bleeding and exhausted. Who for the last two years prided himself for being above his team laughs and says, "I'm a thief."
* The [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] backstory in "The Van Gogh Job".


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CSI franchise

  • CSI. "Goodbye and Good Luck". 'Nuff said.
    • Also, Warrick's apparent death in "For Gedda".
      • The horrible confirmation of all the rumors in "For Warrick". When he died in Grissom's arms.
      • 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
        • And when Grissom breaks down reading the eulogy at his funeral.
      • 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 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.

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 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 (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.

Documentaries

  • 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 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) 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" 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 [1]Hungarian who'd survived a concentration camp - made even sadder by the speakers almost completely emotionless narrative.

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.
    • 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.

Mitsuru Sano/Kamen Rider Imperer: Why did something like this happen? All I wanted was to be happy.

    • Shinji's death in the penultimate episode. Lethally wounded by a Raydragoon, he drives off an army of Monsters before succumbing to his wounds. It's only made worse in one of the first scenes of the final episode, as Ren regretfully walks away, leaving Shinji's corpse as one more casaulty in the day's massacre.

Kido Shinji/Kamen Rider Ryuki: I just realized that I do want to close the Mirror World. I'm sure it will cause alot of pain, but I still want it to end. I don't know if it's right or wrong but as a Rider, I have a wish I want fulfilled, and this is it.

    • Asakura Takeshi/Kamen Rider Ouja and Kitaoka Shuichi/Kamen Rider Zolda have had bones to pick with each other since the former's debut. When the time comes to finally settle things between them, Asakura is victorious. However, as Zolda's armor breaks away, Asakura realizes that it is Kitaoka's manservant, Yura Goro, not Kitaoka himself that he had just killed. As for Kitaoka himself, the audience is taken to his mansion, his body resting peacefully on a couch, having finally succumbed to the illness that threatened his life.
    • As the victor of the Rider War, Akiyama Ren finally succeeds in saving Ogawa Eri, but at the price of his life. Crawling all the way to her hospital room, he leaves the memento he'd kept of her, a pair of rings, in her hands before taking his final rest.

Ogawa Eri: Ren, if you sit there, you'll catch a cold.

    • Realizing that his sister, Yui, would always reject his offer to save her, Kanzaki Shiro, in a moment of despair destroys Kamen Rider Odin, and thus forfeits the final prize of the Rider War. However, unwilling to accept his sister's death, Shiro threatens to restart the Rider War in spite of her pleas. Then the camera pulls back, and we see Shiro for what he really is beyond the stoic malevolence; a young man tortured by the fear of a world without his sister. As the younger version of his sister pleads with him one last time, the camera pulls to a sentimental gaze of the older Shiro as he rewinds time, revealing that now, both versions of the Kanzaki siblings live in their own version of the Mirror World, populated not with the Monsters they created but with the drawings of happy times between them. As the ending credits roll, we return to the Atori, and pull in on a picture of the Kanzaki siblings, a younger version of them as opposed to the older versions, implying that the two died in the new timeline Shiro created.
  • Kamen Rider Kiva was always a serious show that could tug at the heartstrings, but when Mio died, my eyes definitely watered for her. The ending of the episode was horribly sad when she shattered in Wataru's arms. Even more heart wrenching is how she died. Originally, it appeared that she had done a Diving Save to save her husband, Taiga. Later on, Bishop revealed he killed her, seeing Mio as a hindrance.
  • Kamen Rider Double isn't as serious as Kiva or Blade. It doesn't matter though, as it can deliver several sad moments. At the end of the A arc, the poor little girl. And Kirihiko's death. As his hankerchief blew away,
    • The Puppeteer Dopant. You have to feel sorry for him, since his daughter died a few months prior to obtaining his Gaia Memory.
    • Phillip's death, with an acoustic version of Cyclone Effect playing in the background. It takes an upbeat song and makes the line "We've got nothing else" tragic in context. Yes, he's brought back to life the next episode but the preview is entirely melancholic for the next episode. Shoutaro himself is in tears cause he is technically the one to kill Phillip by deactivating the transformation.
    • A Bitter Sweet moment: 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.
  • 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

  • Mikoto's death in Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger, made all the more amazing by the fact that 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.
  • 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 Sid Bamick.
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