Pokémon Special/Tear Jerker

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• Red getting the living crap beaten out of him while Pika could do nothing but watch and cry "Piiiiiiiiii!" was incredibly heart-wrenching.
• We see a peek of Lance's past, and as a little kid, he sees a bunch of Pokemon dying in industrial waste. As he desparately hugs a Dratini to his chest, crying, his Viridian powers let him feel just how much it's suffering. The experience was so bad that even after his defeat, he didn't perform a Heel Face Turn, not exactly. He still held the same views that Humans Are Bastards; he just knows that he'll fail if he tries to Kill All Humans again because Yellow will stop him.
• Janine's reaction, after forfeiting her match to Falkner to pursue the man she thought was her father, only to realize that it wasn't Koga, made this troper seriously wibble. Her words to Falkner, after he catches up to her, don't help at all.

Janine: You mentioned that you'd follow your father's footsteps and become a leader. It seems that I have fought a similar oppenent again... I guess this is my fate.

• The end of the Gold/Silver/Crystal chapter of Special, when we find out Pryce's reasons for wanting to be able to travel through time, and we hear the song, "A Boy and his Lapras". Not a total villain, after all; just really misguided.
  • This Troper lost it when we see Gold, eyes closed, seemingly lost in time. He isn't. It's still sad, however.
• A minor detail that speaks volumes if you think about it. With Wallace is getting the crap beaten out of him, Norman's corpse is being burned, Winona is unconscious from being strangled, and Ruby barely staying conscious in her arms, Sapphire looks ready to break down. People important to her are getting hurt and she can't do anything about it, just like how it was during the Salamance incident.
• Toward the end of the RS arc...

Ruby: Because of me, you sacrificed your dream, your honor... everything!

• Also, when Mimi came back to Ruby, after everything he'd done. Ruby's speech, along with the fact that he's crying too...*sniff*.
• Blue and her parents. Just Blue and her parents. The first time she sees them in twelve years, they're sucked into a big black hole (No wonder she went near-comatose afterward). Then when she finally gets to talk to them, she has to leave them behind because, as she says through her own tears, "it's her destiny to fight evil." Godspeed, Blue. Godspeed.
• The near end of the FRLG arc when Giovanni saves Silver from flames. Silver still rejected him after that, but was given a talk by Green. Then he cried.
  • This troper has seen people who've cried over this scene.
• Emerald's back story.
• Diamond and Pearl arc- when all three protagonists wake up the first morning after separating to defend each of the lakes, each of them is reflecting on the morning routine they shared with each other for the last month, only to realize that now they suddenly feel very alone without the other two. And then all three of them start crying, and it's just a heartbreaking moment.
• N reveals to White that Gigi has always wanted to battle instead of just performing. When White tries to jump out of the Ferris Wheel and urges Gigi to do the same...Gigi abandons her, deciding to stay with N. White slips and falls, and she's left as a sobbing, broken wreck on the ground. Jesus, how many plots do you have of a Pokemon abandoning its trainer and the trainer being heartbroken as a result?