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[[File:Mother_3_Embrace.jpg|frame|[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|This picture]] [[What Could Have Been|does not reflect]] [[Tear Jerker|how they end up in the game]].]]
 
When a game series' taglines are "[[MOTHER|No crying until the end]]", and "[[Mother 3|Strange, Funny, Heartrending]]", you know you have a series with immense Tear Jerkers on your hands.
 
'''SPOILERS AHEAD'''
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* The Eight Melodies. No matter how it's covered, be it 8-bit, rock, or orchestral, it expertly conveys the sense of childhood adventure. It subtly invokes fear, innocence, heartbreak, and hope, all at once. There's a reason so many professional covers exist.
** The idea of the Eight Melodies in the game in general. Think about it; A childhood antique doll that used to be played with a ton of times, a mother bird and aher child birdbaby separated by humans who didn't know any better, a monkey who's caged and locked up in a zoo, a dusty old piano that plays on its own, a lone cactus in an empty desert where a war happened and exterminated the rest of its friends, a dragon whosewho's been sleeping away its life, a robot companion who defends you from everything, and lastly, the tombstone of your dead and loving grandfather who built the robot companion knowing that you might need it someday.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzB_VPc-eFs Oh god I'm crying like my parents are being murdered in front of me].
* Queen Mary's final scene. Her story in general is tearjerkingtear-jerking.
** " {{spoiler|Giegue}}! I loved him..."
* Teddy's near-death at the hands of R7038.