The Last Unicorn (animation)/Tear Jerker

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  • The theme song.
  • Molly Grue's speech when she first lays eyes on the unicorn, especially her incredibly gut-wrenching, "Where have you been? DAMN YOU, where have you been?!" and "How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?!"
    • When I was little, it didn't bother me. Now that I'm all grown up, though, and understand what Molly means...
    • I didn't even notice that scene at four. Twenty years later, it sent me from zero to full-on sobbing in about half a second.
  • When Cully's band chases Robin and Marian and the Merry Men into the darkness. Something about that ragged bunch of bullies and cowards believing so hard that they'd follow transparent mirages into the woods gets me every time. Probably because I'm not a hero or a unicorn at all.

Brigand: "Robin! Mr. Hood, sir! Little John! Will! Wait for me!"

  • The sudden choke when Schmendrick rescues The Unicorn from The Red Bull by turning her into a mortal woman ... and being old enough to realize exactly what he had just done.
  • An odd one for those that are really empathic comes from King Haggard's speech, telling Amalthea just why he took the Unicorns. Though this might simply be another case of a magnificent combination of music and imagery.
    • It truly says something about the quality of the writing, the voice acting, and the animation that in this one scene Haggard is established as a Complete Monster who needs to be defeated -- and at the same time as a sad and utterly broken human being. Who, in their entire life, can not remember one moment of utter joy and bliss? And who would not do ANYTHING to make it happen again?
  • The end, where the heroes win the day and hundreds of unicorns, once thought to all but extinct outside the last one, appear out of the sea to reestablish their place in the world.
  • For me, the main unicorn having to leave the Prince and once again become a unicorn, and the end line about her being the only unicorn who will ever know regret.
    • Just the very thought that the unicorn would be alone having to endure human emotions is painful in itself.
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