Tear Jerkers

[Durxom]

I know some of use here might think or be the manliest of men, or just hard women, but sometimes, there are just moments in movies or gaming or whatever, that just get us all teary-eyed, or heart-wrenched. Express those feelings! Let them loose! Let's hear about something (movies, games, tv, book, or anime) that got your eyes a watering.

One of mine, was recently, I finished watching the Witchblade anime, and for a show with many happy moments it, the episodes leading up the end and the ending were down right depressing. The ending ending up being a bittersweet one, but I was still hoping it would end up being happy...but still...depressing T_T

 

[delet]

Spoiler: This list will likely spoil the series/movie in question. Mostly because they all make me cry for the same damned reason

Pan's Labyrinth
Real Time
Yu Yu Hakusho - when Yusuke dies. The second time.
Cowboy Bebop
FMA - When Hughes dies

That's pretty much all I can think of right now, methinks.

 

[Lambi]

The ending to Final Fantasy IX, mainly because of the song Memories of Life. It's also because...well, you'll have to play the game 'till the end to find out why it makes you cry. You can't just look up the ending on youtube or somewhere else. You have to play the game through to the end to understand why the ending is to beautiful and sad.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Am I allowed to say parts of The West Wing? I was nearly bawling when they lost that presidential decree.

In all seriousness, the ending of Red Dead Redemption was very emotional, for reasons those who have seen the ending of Red Dead Redemption would understand.

Also, the beginning of Up, and various bits in it. I love that film, and Ed Asner.

 

[KaiRai]

I welled up at the end of Green Mile. It was a powerful film. Then I punched the tears, went and got drunk and had sex. MEN DON'T CRY!

...Only the first part of that was true. Not full blown tears btw - just welling up. The injustice does hit home hard though.

 

[nunqual]

I once read a book that was about the romance between a black boy and a jewish girl. The black guy died at the end and my man-tears started flowing. I can't remember the title.

 

[IcyEvils]

Bridge to Terabithia (bawled like a baby), the ending of Pan's Labyrinth, and the final cutscene of FFXIII all made me jerk a tear. Toy Story 3 nearly got me.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I also agree with the ending of RDR, mainly because I found a true attachment to the main character in it moreso than any other Rockstar game.

Also, as Shepard emerges from the rubble at the end of the first Mass Effect. I always get a little emotional there because it's the unveiling of how much of a hero he/she really is.

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

The crow, i am sam and ghost world always get me a little teary.

 

[dicai]

IA, Click, Toy Story 3 and a part in The Simpsons from the episode where Bart steals the videogame...

I'm quite a man-tearer myself :.(

 

[Hurray Forums]

Makoto's path in Kanon just this morning . Still recovering at the moment.

 

[Hazy]

I'll paste a few posts from an archived /v/ thread. Vidya related, but very touching.
All of these have been copy/pasted from a thread titled "Emotional vidya stories." You can find it fairly easily with a google search.

Spoiler: Song of Storms

Spoiler: Half Life 2

Spoiler: Super Bass Hunter

My dad and I used to play Super Black Bass Fishing on the SNES when I was younger. I hated the damn game, because I hated fishing and the outdoors in general, but it was the only game he could really get into.

We used to have Saturday "fishing trips" where we'd lock ourselves in the den, make sure my mom and sister left us the fuck alone, and we'd play this game. I slowly started to enjoy it, because it's impossible to be mad at anything when you and your dad are drinking pop and beer (respectively), eating chips, swapping stories and the controller, and having fun.

My dad was more like a bro than a dad. He'd encourage me if I needed encouragement, put me in my place if I was a ****, and always had my back. As I grew older, I'd come home heartbroken from being dumped, and he'd tell me stories of some crazy ***** he'd been with in the sixties or whatever, and always make me feel better. He'd come to the bar with me, sing karaoke with me, and even once punched a guy in the mouth for trying to start a fight with me over, of all things, my t-shirt. That man was so great that, when I was ten, I saw Guns n' Roses in concert in Los Angeles with my cousin. I came home screaming about how I wanted to be Slash because he was so cool and I want to play guitar, so he went and sold one of the rifles my grandfather left him to buy me an electric guitar. I still have it, and when I played onstage for the first time with my guitar instructor in 2001, he was in the audience, crying and telling everyone "that's my boy!". Fuck, I'm tearing up. Back on-topic.

Anyways, he died in 2003, from heart problems. I miss him terribly, and just about a year ago I downloaded the Super Black Bass ROM and resolved to finish it for my pa. We had never beaten it.

I finally did and I don't think I have ever cried so hard in my life. It only took us about thirteen years, but we did it, Dad. I love you man.

Spoiler: Michael

Spoiler: Perfect Dark

My brother and I played Perfect Dark to death on Co-op.
Our favorite level was Chicago. Why? I never quite figured it out. The level just grew on us, the music, the setting, it felt right.

But I'd always play Counter Co-op with him on the map, and let him kill me until I spawned inside the stripper joint, just so I could let him in from the other side.

Mockingly, he'd start imitating an old British lady off an episode of Monty Python because the main character was British, and he'd continue shooting the dead bodies until they were painted in red or they disappeared.

He kept doing this while screaming in that whiny British voice "WHERE'S THE CREAM FILLING!?", me being an adolescent child, that filled me with laughter.

There were times where he'd force me to play with him, mainly because he had some trouble making friends, and the friends he did have were drug dealers and/or pure trouble. This continued into a downward spiral, until he finally started to get his act together and move on with his life. But I digress.

Very long story short, my Brother passed away a few years back.

Now here I am, years later, and everytime I boot up Perfect Dark once in a great while, I'd go straight to Chicago.

The rain and the music fills me with nostalgia.
And every time I meet that first detective guy, I shoot him until he's painted red all over.

But I always hear in the back of my mind
"WHERE'S THE CREAM FILLING!?"

Spoiler: Yoshi's Island

I was playing yoshi's island 2, I think it was the first world and fifth level. I was a purple yoshi and I was jumping over donut lifts; when my grandad came into the room. It was christmas, and me and my brother took deaths in turns because the game was pretty hard if you were seven. While I played, my grandpa sat down on the floor. Not the couch right behind us, on the floor with us. He asked me what we were doing. I remember turning to him. Don't really remember what I said, but I remember his smile.
My brother took a leap of faith to a falling platform, missed and fell. He died; and we were down to our last life.
My brother was dissapointed, he was so close to the finish.
My grandad just shook his head and said "that's the way it works sometimes." He scooped my brother in one arm and me in the other, hugging us both.

About a month later he died of lung cancer.

I discovered about a month after his funeral that he had recieved the diagnosis the day before he came over to my house.

My SNES was old and dusty by this stage; but I took it out from the attic, plugged it in. There were still some save files from when I was a little kid. I erased them, and started a new game.

Eventually; I got to the donut lifts stage. I jumped and ran and dived. At the end; I could see the circle of flowers waiting for me. I jumped into it... and passed the baby on. I had got a perfect score.

But the bonus didn't land on a flower.

I sobbed.

Sometimes that's just the way things work out.

I cannot read that thread without crying. Some of those stories really do touch me.

 

[Yagharek]

A few scenes from books. The Malzan books of the fallen have a few for one.

Also The Grave of the Fireflies. Just downright tragic.

 

[Skiff_Manchester]

Star Trek III (nerd aler and spoiler warning) when they destroy the Enterprise and watch it crash into the Genesis planet. I always get a little teary as Kirk, McCoy, and Scotty all watch the ship burn up in the atmosphere and then...

Kirk: My god Bones, what have I done.
McCoy: What you had to do. What you've always done. Turn death into a fighting chance to live.

As for games, the end of Final Fantasy X. The quick scene of Yuna whistling on the dock.

 

[Au Naturel.]

At the end of the first season of Jigoku Shoujo I was close to crying. Also, more recently, an arrangement of Border of Life by TAMusic almost made me cry. That song was all piano, and had no lyrics. And it blew my mind, it was so beautiful! That was probably one of the first times I had ever experienced something like that.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Spoiler: This list will likely spoil the series/movie in question. Mostly because they all make me cry for the same damned reason

Pan's Labyrinth
Real Time
Yu Yu Hakusho - when Yusuke dies. The second time.
Cowboy Bebop
FMA - When Hughes dies

That's pretty much all I can think of right now, methinks.

Spoiler

WHOA YUSKUKE DIES AGAIN????? But Yeah When Meas Hughes died....really sad.

Spoiler

Basically Nami's and Robin's childhood in One Piece. Movie's Der Untergang

 

[VanityGirl]

If you don't cry during Pursuit of Happyness, then I believe you may not have a soul. I have never cried so hard during a movie.

 

[Banana Phone Man]

Toy Story 3. I cried some tears (some really manly tears but tears none the less)

Also quite a few animes have made me cry although I can't really think of them right now (FMA maybe as well as others)

Spoiler: Half Life 2

That is the most sad related gameing story I have ever seen. It made me cry inside.

 

[delet]

Spoiler: This list will likely spoil the series/movie in question. Mostly because they all make me cry for the same damned reason

Pan's Labyrinth
Real Time
Yu Yu Hakusho - when Yusuke dies. The second time.
Cowboy Bebop
FMA - When Hughes dies

That's pretty much all I can think of right now, methinks.

Spoiler

WHOA YUSKUKE DIES AGAIN????? But Yeah When Meas Hughes died....really sad.

Spoiler

Basically Nami's and Robin's childhood in One Piece. Movie's Der Untergang

Spoiler: Spoiler, because if I did not label this otherwise, you wouldn't actually assume it to be a spoiler...

Yeah. At the end of the third arc, after Toguro and the tournament, he dies and Kuwabara just kicked the switch for me in that scene to bring tears to my eyes.

 

[HereForFreeFood]

Adaptation.

Spoiler

When Donald dying and they start singing the Turtle's "so happy together"

WHY GOD, WHY?!