Mega Man Star Force/Tear Jerker

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  • Mega Man Star Force had the anime episode where Wolf Woods is hiding from Mega Man and the police, so takes on the form of a household dog and sneaks into a house...not knowing a little girl is there. He decides to keep playing up the role of a pet dog to keep hiding, at first hating it, but becoming attached to the girl, and decides to stay with her. This works out until Omega-Xis finds him out at a dog show, and Mega Man battles Wolf Woods, eventually triggering his unstoppable rage, and leaves the girl. He decides that he is too much of a monster to be with her, and gives her an actual pet dog (well, digital one). During the season one finale, when the FM-ians are trying to enjoy their last day on Earth, Wolf Woods goes to visit the little girl...until Gemini kills him for energy. Quite a literal version of Kick the Dog.
  • Pat Sprigs is easily the most tragic character in the series. His parents abandoned him at a goddamned dump as a BABY for God's sake, which really, really messed up the poor kid's mind and turned him into the mentally-ill, unhinged individual that he is today. What's even sadder is the poor guy can never find true happiness, as his other personality Rey lives to sabotage any friendships that he makes, and the series ends without him and Geo reforming their Brotherband and truly reconciling.
  • Sonia's plight in the first game is quite depressing: her beloved mother recently passed away from a terrible illness, and that combined with her cold-hearted, greedy asshole of a manager essentially pimping out her music has left her depressed and lacking any kind of desire for music. Thankfully, things get better for her once she meets Geo.
  • There's the postgame Alternate Future from Star Force 2. It's an incredibly bleak, dead version of the main game's world where everything is cast in a permanent grayscale, and the only living beings are the destructive Apollo Flame, his power-crazed minions, a couple of sinister merchants, and a few Mr. Hertzes with rather depressing dialogue. Even worse is the music. Dear god, the music: it sounds like pure despair and hopelessness compressed in audio form. The object that unlocks a portal to that Alternate Future is even described as "Bringing a tear to your eye."
    • The really bad thing about the Alternate Future is that it doesn't even feel like you accomplish much when you've finally trounced Apollo Flame and his minions: the world is still a despair-filled shithole while Apollo Flame and friends will always be hanging around for rematches. But at the very least, he seems incapable of harming the main universe after his first defeat.
  • The ending of Star Force 3 can be heartwrenching. Kevin Stellar's speech asking Earth to save his son's life would be heartwarming enough, but then you see Hope break down in tears from hearing her husband's voice for the first time in years.
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