History Main / TheMourningAfter

* Zihark of ''FireEmblem'' outright admits that he probably won't ever fall in love with another woman after he broke up with his [[InterspeciesRomance laguz girlfriend]]. True to his words, he later turns down [[HopelessSuitor Meg]]'s [[AccidentalMarriage marriage proposal]], and pretty much stays single for the entirety of ''Path of Radiance'' and its sequel.

->Oh, dear, what can I do
->Baby's in black, and I'm feeling blue
->Tell me, oh, what can I do
->She thinks of him
->And so she dreses in black
->And though he'll never come back
->She's dressed in black
->Oh, how long will it take
->Till she sees the mistake she has made?
-->--''Baby's In Black'', '''TheBeatles'''

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* Mashiro's Uncle in ''Bakuman''.

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* mashiro's Uncle in ''Bakuman''

* Van of ''GunXSword'' is still "head over heels in love" with his murdered fiancé, Elena, three years after her death, and isn't interested in other women. However, [[spoiler: the final episode hints that he may be moving on to SecondLove]].

** Yoko also [[spoiler:goes through this with Kamina. With the possible exception of kissing Kittan goodbye, she never loved another man after Kamina's death.]]

* Babylon5: "Every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up"

* In ''{{Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}'', it turns out [[spoiler:Severus Snape]] was [[spoiler:Lily Evans]]'s UnluckyChildhoodFriend, and the guilt and grief he felt over her death motivated him for the rest of his life.

* [[GunXSword Van]] refuses to love anyone else after his fiancé, Elena, was killed by The Claw.

* Zihark of ''FireEmblem'' outright admits that he probably won't ever fall in love with another woman after he broke up with his [[InterspeciesRomance laguz girlfriend]]. True to his words, he later turns down [[HopelessSuitor Meg]]'s [[AccidentalMarriage marriage proposal]], and pretty much stays single for the entirety of ''Path of Radiance'' and its sequel. Nevertheless, Zihark's ending claims that he settles in Gallia at some point, suggesting that he may have been looking to mend things with his ex.

* "Baby's In Black" by TheBeatles. [[spolier:possibly written about pre-fame member, the late Stu Sutcliffe's mourning girlfriend in Germany, Astrid Kircherr.]]

* Tywin Lannister from ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' is hardened by his wife's death to the extent that he never smiles again. Also Robert Baratheon, who never stopped loving Lyanna. Even when he married Cersei Lannister, he called her "Lyanna" in bed on their wedding night.

* In the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, there was the Medstar Duology by MichaelReaves and StevePerry, a pair of books taking place during the Clone Wars and featuring several just-off-the-battlefield surgeons and a Jedi healer, among others. The Jedi healer made friends with several other mains, and died not more than a few years after those books. Twenty in-universe years later on the Death Star (in a novel called ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Death Star]]''), it turns out that one of those surgeons, having been [[YouCanNeverLeave coerced into continuous service]] is still around and was very attached to that Jedi. He does state that he doesn't know if it was love or not, but he thinks of her often, particularly when trying to navigate ethical dilemmas.

* Sesshomaru does this for Kagura in ''[[InuYasha Inuyasha]]''-while he does not ''cry'', he attacks Moroyumaru and puts his own life in danger, but most notably afterwards, he internally sulks thinking about it and then Totosai comes to him, saying that Tenseiga called out to him because of a change in Sesshomaru's heart (and Sesshomaru immediately thinks of Kagura). When he receives the finished sword, he thinks of her again and accepts it because "whether her death was in vain or not is for me to decide".

* In TengenToppaGurrenLagaan [spoiler: Simon vows to never forget his late wife, Nia, and spends the rest of his life WalkingTheEarth in order to fulfill her last wish to make the world bloom with flowers.]

* A major character point for [[Rocky]] in [[Rocky Balboa]]. With characteristic eloquence, Sylvester Stallone says of Adrian: