Nuzlocke Comics/Tear Jerker

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Since Nuzlocke revolves around the concept of Pokémon getting Killed Off for Real, it's only natural that it would be filled with these moments.

Main Series:

  • The finale of Season One.
    • To elaborate, Steven is down to his last Pokemon, Metagross. Ruby commands Absol to use Perish Song, as he knows that none of his remaining Pokemon can take Metagross one on one. On that same turn Absol is KO'd by a Meteor Mash, 3 Perish Song counters remaining. Ruby follows with Katie, and she is easily disposed by an Earthquake from Metagross, 2 Perish Song counters remaining. Now Ruby is down to his last Pokemon, Sceptile, and as a Hope Spot arrives he is reminded of all the Pokemon he lost to get there, and that everything was for a reason; he just had to survive until the end of the turn for the Perish Song to take effect.
    • Then Metagross used Hyper Beam. And everything faded to white.
  • Gulliver's death.
  • Pony's death definitely qualifies.
  • Episode 29. Buddy, Doakes, Blamo. You shall be missed.
    • Buddy's line: "Right... just one turn." as he grins is particularly heart-wrenching.
  • Season 2, Episode 19 is probably the most heartbreaking non-death strip in the whole series. It details the end of Charmander and Squirtle's friendship, caused by Ruby's challenge.
  • "You have to remind it what's important."
  • The What is the Nuzlocke Challenge? page.

Emerald Comic - A Shoeless Adventure

  • Chapters 10 and 11. Each Pokémon gets a well-developed character, and when they die, it hits hard.

Freddy's Nuzlocke Adventures:

  • Towards the end of his first run comes this. The music does not help.

landwalker's nuzlocke

  • Rikishi's Heroic Sacrifice during the Champion battle. Complete with a flashback.
  • In Landwalker's Yellow run, the death of Blue's Raticate, trampled by evacuees when the SS Anne burns/sinks. Complete with shots of Blue desperately screaming and searching for it. Just, God in Heaven, my heart goes out to that boy.

A Petty Nuzlocke Challenge:

  • Lavender Tower.
  • Part 25 cements Gary as a Jerkass Woobie with extra emphasis on the Jerkass. More painfully-well applied music follows.
  • The battle against Lorelei has a wham moment that hits hard. A mere one episode after joining, Vinny the Magneton- already shaping up to be a fan favorite- is killed by Lapras' critical Surf. Good night, sweet prince.
  • Petty's formspring makes an earlier event much harsher. Remember when James tossed Gary out of the S.S.Anne? His Raticate died saving him
  • The final battle with Gary. Nadine going down after a stray Future Sight gave Gary's Charizard enough of an edge to finish her off. Made worse in the comments for the page, where Petty describes how she simply didn't have any choice but to let Nadine die due to Charizard's speed outclassing anything else on her team.
    • On top of this, immediately following the battle, Oak arrives and coldly shuts down Gary's protests, driving home the very same favoritism towards Locke that messed up Gary so badly in the first place.

Gary: But Gramps! I WON! I was Champion! I was actually SOMETHING until she--
Oak: GARY. Go home. (He then proudly embraces Locke, ignoring and turning his back on his grandson) Come with me, Locke. We'll enter you into the Hall of Champions.

      • YMMV. This troper's seen Gary as a Complete Monster ever since he took such joy in murdering Rick, and possibly even outright trying to murder Locke herself in Silph and quite frankly wanted to see the remaining team members tear him apart like he tried to have his team do to Locke back in Silph Co. for what he did to James, Rick, and now Nadine.
  • A rare tearjerker induced by a happy scene. Spuds and Barb adopt an egg.
  • The grand finale.

NyaChan's Nuzlocke

  • The end of the Pearl run. Downer Ending doesn't even begin to cover it...

Kynim's Diamond Nuzlocke:

Kynim's White Nuzlocke:

  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Kiki the Patrat was caught in one route and almost immediately killed by a Youngster's Lillipup.
  • Walter's backstory He stayed with his former owner, who had dementia, until he passed away.
    • Made all the worse when he performs a Heroic Sacrifice along with Freddie and a newly-caught Pidove in Pinwheel Forrest.

wizard898's Moemon: Hard Mode:

  • A heartwarming picnic takes on a bittersweet air when Saya goes to help clean off her master's mouth and he rebuffs her.
  • Ruru's Heroic Sacrifice, especially as her Static kicking in proves key to their victory. The expression poor Chu makes as it sinks in just makes it worse.
  • Chapter 21: Volt's death. Just to see a poor sweet little girl implied to be beaten to death...that just sucks. Doubles as a You Bastard moment for Team Aqua.
  • 22 rubs salt in the wound, as Tooh blames their trainer for what happened, calling him weak and refusing to follow him any longer. Umpa joins her.

Nonparael's Moemon LG:

  • The three-part Episode 10 combines this with Wham! Episode: first, Gale Oak reveals he knows what the heroine is trying to accomplish, calling her cause 'crazy'. Then he forces Sienna's charmander friend Allie to kill Sienna, followed up by Tia's death. The heroine reveals herself as a moemon Weepingbell, but Gale has her pokeball, and Nail performs a Heroic Sacrifice. To rub it all in, Gale mocks her afterwards.

Bruce Wayne's Platinum Nuzlocke.

  • The death of Barbara against Jupiter's Skuntank. The reactions from the rest of the team only serve to make it all the more tragic and heartrending.

Mike's Crystal Nuzlocke

Lenni's White Run

  • It's like watching your dog die. No, literally. To make matters worse his body shows up in later pages during the rest of the battle.

Aouli's "The Meek" LG

  • The death of Kat the Raticate in Rock Tunnel. The author's description of her own reaction as it happened qualifies too.

Ara Black Run

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