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== Crossovers ==
* The gigantic [[Star Wars]]/[[Star Trek]] crossover ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120217205646/http://www.sfdebris.com/unity.asp Unity] has quite a few, the most powerful is Seven of Nine being trapped in the Borg hive mind when it reboots unexpectedly early as she tries to shut it down. Back in the real world she sings the ending of Puff the Magic Dragon (which she mentioned a few times as a song her mother always sang to her) and falls into a coma.
* A combined [[Tear Jerker]] and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] occurs during chapter 26 of the ''[[Terminator]]/[[Sailor Moon]]/[[Ranma ½]]'' crossover fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/979911/1/Sailor_Ranko_Tunnel_Vision Tunnel Vision]'' when {{spoiler|Ryouga}} makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to take down Sky Net. As always though, {{spoiler|the [[Status Quo Is God]] and the [[Reset Button]] is hit hard by the end of the story}}
* Even if a lot of the slash stories between Steve Rogers and Tony Stark are sad, there's one that had me bawling all over my pc the first time I read it. Even so, it stills make me cry every time. It's an Avengers/Sandman crossover and it's the biggest [[Tear Jerker]] I've faced in my life. [http://aliana-iskassa.livejournal.com/40678.html#cutid1 ''"The Sound of Wings - Aliana Iskassa"''] You've been warned.
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** Adding to the tear-jerking is towards the end, the fact that 1, [[Jerkass|of]] ''[[Jerkass|all]]'' [[Jerkass|people]], {{spoiler|suggests praying for 4, and is apparently having trouble speaking himself.}}
* [http://movie9.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fsa&action=display&thread=55397 Bleak But Hopeful] is a fanfic for 9, written before the movie was released and back when people thought the feature film would end in a similar way the short did. It's told sort of through the point of view of the Fabrication Machine (known as 114-DOM in the story) as 9 comes to it and basically talks to it about what has happened.
** Bleak, But Hopeful is in an archive, and you have to be a member of the forum to access it. But if you want to read the fic without having to register there, [http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VZMHTK28 here's a PDF file for you.]{{Dead link}}
** Yet another fic written pre-movie, when everyone was under this belief, is [http://movie9.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ffs&action=display&thread=2173 Daybreak's Light]. The fic actually begins with 9, all alone, wandering the desolate wasteland in mourning of his friends, {{spoiler|and later collapsing in exhaustion. He believes himself to be hallucinating the other Stitchpunks, but is actually dying. The part where he finally dies and is reunited with the others in Paradise manages to give one tears of sadness then happiness within ten seconds.}}
* [http://lilweirdomokyn.livejournal.com/40516.html Delirium], a fanfic for 9, has one part where we follow the memory of a little boy shortly before the machine rebellion, and then him as an adult. The transitioning paragraph says this:
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=== [[All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (OVA)|All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku]] ===
* The penultimate installment of Richard Lawson's seminal ''Nuku Nuku'' fic cycle from the late 1990s, ''[https://www.sanjiyan.co.uk/showthread.php?s=3dbab5b8a6c2185e4de41e582373e199&t=31838 Transitions]{{Dead link}}''. In it, after achieving everything she'd hoped for through the previous three parts -- acceptance of her true nature by her friends, a young man who loves and wants to marry her, a purpose in life and more -- a minuscule difference from the expected results of a routine upgrade to Atsuko/Nuku-Nuku's systems reveals a terrible truth that everyone, including herself, has overlooked for years: that while her cyborg body may be immortal, her cat brain is not. And she's already older than most cats ever get to be. The story of how she comes to terms with her impending death, and tries to help her family do so as well, is both heartbreaking and inspiring.
** The final installment of Lawson's cycle, ''[https://www.sanjiyan.co.uk/showthread.php?t=29712 No Longer Than Thy Love]{{Dead link}}'', has a truly tear-inducing moment as its climax, when Atsuko's little brother -- now grown up and with a son of his own -- discovers that what he thought was a dangerous rogue AI just might be another miracle like the one that created the sister he loves and still mourns a decade after her death.
=== [[Animaniacs]] ===
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=== [[Buffy Verse]] ===
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** Oh, and {{spoiler|Anya's}} [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in "The Offering". Especially how Xander keeps talking before he realises she's dead. Ow.
** ''And'', Willow's speech to {{spoiler|Kennedy's Grave}} in "Buried", finally admitting {{spoiler|she truly did love Kennedy, but never really told her because it felt like a betrayal to Tara - and now it's too late}}
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=== [[Looking for Group]] ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110908031027/http://forums.lfgcomic.com/index.php?s=2e777c54fbc467c693852792fe59a147&showtopic=4663 Warlocks and Witches] has a particularly tear-jerking moment when {{spoiler|Cale dies in a particularly sudden and tragic manner}}.
=== [[Lyrical Nanoha]] ===
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* They have yet to be reposted anywhere else, but one ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' thread on /co/ had an Anon ask "Which character makes you feel the most sympathetic when they cry?" Someone answered "Pinkie Pie. [[Tempting Fate|Can you even imagine,]] [[Fun Personified|someone as constantly happy and upbeat as her,]] [[Break the Cutie|being reduced to tears?]]" [http://arch.413chan.net/co22819270.html#22820488 Two writers rose to the challenge.]<ref>Keep in mind the [[Fanon|fan interpretation]] that Pinkie Pie has [[Medium Awareness]].</ref> My body wasn't ready.
** I may be overthinking this, but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAPMsEweLQg this] AMV is both sad and heartwarming. It just seems to be about all the cynical adults who watch this innocent, adorable show about ponies and feel like kids again. "[[Growing Up Sucks|I'm never growing up.]]"
** The background character known as Derpy Hooves seems to attract [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RgkrBTryVCfmAARA5ZCMTY4nTa2ta2-mhmdpxvipEoA/edit?hl=en&pli=1#%20 a] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131212210515/http://arch.413chan.net/MyMuffinDerpyDoesn%27tgotoSchool-%28n1296572189692%29.png lot] [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xy28CF7zMdwfbmRnBnIXygJxnHR7UZqgSdjt7YX0dBA/edit?hl=en# of] sadfics. (Read these three in order for maximum effect.)
* ''Growing Up''. Just the fact that Spike is [[We Are as Mayflies|outliving all his friends]], and has seen the deaths of many of them, including Fluttershy, Big Macintosh, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, and Rainbow Dash. The descriptions of their deaths make things even worse. Moreover, it's implied that most of the other cast members are dead, including the Mayor, Zecora, the current Wonderbolts, Hoity Toity, Photo Finish, and Braeburn, just to name a few.
* ''Forever is Forever''. Applejack {{spoiler|in heaven,}} period.
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=== [[The West Wing]] ===
* The West Wing fic [https://web.archive.org/web/20110916070952/http://fwf.healthyinterest.net/sa/background.html Background] is still the only fic that's ever made me cry.
=== [[With Strings Attached]] ===
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** That would be [http://sir-talen.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d8dbvp Good Landing] by Royce Day (Sir-Talen on [[Deviant ART]]. Well, myself actually.) Thank you kindly for the ref.
*** It's a true artistic [[Tear Jerker]]. You're welcome.
** I didn't see it on Deviant Art, but Google showed it in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130602034842/http://www.sabledrake.com/2003/0305_good_landing.shtml Sabledrake Magazine.] Sent chills up my spine.
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3649754/1/Amiss This wrestling fic] swings hard between this, [[Paranoia Fuel]], and [[Nightmare Fuel]], but the current newest chapter, 18, where {{spoiler|Kane has convinced Rey Mysterio that he has died and is in Hell}} and Rey's begging and pleading reaction after all he's been put through {{spoiler|apparently bouncing between two crappy realities}}...especially while {{spoiler|Kane is STILL torturing him during it}}...just holy crap.
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3649754/19/Amiss Chapter 19] is up...apparently the final chapter and major downer ending...{{spoiler|Rey puts a comment from his friend Batista from earlier together with what's happening, and thinks he's caused the damnation of him as well, and completely gives up, just waiting to fall sleep in the hospital bed which will send him back to be tortured by Kane.}} A sequel is promised with a title that implies things may not stay so bleak though.
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