Star Wars: The Clone Wars/Tear Jerker

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• That poor Zillo Beast...
• Hevy's Heroic Sacrifice in "Rookies". Doubly so in the season three premiere. During training, Hevy befriended a clone assigned to maintenance duty named 99. When his teammates end up back on Kamino, they have to tell 99 that he died.
• The last stand of the Republic in "Supply Lines". Especially crushing is Gun-Di's last stand with Captain Keeli, and his last words "The Twi'leks will live to fight another day" as he's finally overwhelmed.
• When Kamino is attacked, 99 does everything he can to help them survive, eventually getting gunned down while trying to get more grenades in the middle of a firefight.
• Mina Bonteri (A member of the CIS civilian government and Padme's friend) getting killed off for advocating peace. Just another of the senseless sacrifices of war. One has to wonder what happened to her teenage son after her death...
  • We find out in "A Friend in Need", where he leaves the Seperatists and wants revenge on Count Dooku.
• Count Dooku being forced to have Asajj Ventress killed in "Nightsisters". And the reveal of Ventress's full backstory is just as bad.
  • It's worse in "Massacre", when her home planet is, well, massacred.
• Anakin seeing his mother again in "Overlord", when it turns out to be someone impersonating her.
• Every time you watch an episode, keep in mind the events that we know are going to happened in the future: Anakin will become Darth Vader and Obi Wan, Padme, and Windu will all die by his hands, the Jedi will be mostly exterminated (meaning that every single Jedi character we see in the show will most likely be victims of Order 66), the 501st Legion will become Vader's personal hit squad, Yoda will be forced into exile for the rest of his life, Palpatine will turn the Republic in to an oppressive dictatorship, etc. This make all the 'happy' episodes (Every time Anakin and Padme reunite, the future 501st Legion soldiers in training, Yoda giving words of encouragement to the clones) much harder to watch.
  • On that note, there's the vision the Son gives Anakin of what he's going to become in "Ghosts of Moris." It's a rapid succession of scenes from the third movie, ending in an image of Darth Vader and the destruction of what is probably Alderaan. This is all bad enough, but then there's Anakin's reaction - he's horrified that this might possibly come true, and he's desperate to prevent it. This, combined with Dramatic Irony, just makes the whole thing even worse.
• Echo's death in the Citadel arc. It's even more tragic when you realize that Fives is now the only surviving member of Domino squad. He's lost everyone he's grown up with.
• The death of Captain Tarpals.
• The Umbara rolls these out one after another in the latter two episodes.
  • The death of Waxer. Made all the more tragic because he was killed by his own brothers as a result of Krell manipulating two squads of clones into fighting each other. As a final jab, there's a smiling picture of Numa painted on the side of his helmet.
  • Hardcase's Heroic Sacrifice.

Live to fight another day, boys! Live to fight another day...

• Obi-Wan's "funeral", especially Satine's reaction. While any Genre Savvy viewer (or anyone who's seen Episode III) would realise that Obi-Wan isn't actually dead, Satine genuinely believes that the man she loves is dead, and seeing her break down crying, particularly after she has spent every other episode she appeared in keeping up a strong, unflappable appearance, is heartbreaking.
  • Also a bit earlier seeing Ahsoka barely holding her tears, and at them same time hearing Anakin's desperately calling out Obi-Wan's name, trying to wake him.
• Anakin vs. Rako Hardeen, who is actually Obi-Wan in disguise in "Friends and Enemies"