History TearJerker / BioshockInfinite

** Or a terrible case of {{Fridge Horror}} when you realize she may have jumped and [i]not[/i] made it onto the barge.

*** Subverted by the fact that Elizabeth was just using Sally to get revenge, meaning Comstock was the only one trying to help her.
*** [[spoiler:Worse still, Elizabeth watches with contempt as Booker is violently gutted by a Big Daddy from behind and doesn't even flinch when his blood splatters her face. A testament showing she has completely lost her innocence and in some ways as become as bad as Comstock himself.
** The scene when [[spoiler:Elizabeth and the Luteces are desperately persuading Comstock to not take Booker's beloved daughter, who is the only thing that makes him happy, away. It makes it even worse when you realize that [[FridgeHorror Booker might have gone mad with grief.]]]]

* [[spoiler:Elizabeth turns out to be right that she'll be killing Comstock. And it's a HeroicSacrifice, since killing her father ''wipes herself from existence'', as each version of her vanishes.]]

* One of the most somber and sad moments in the game comes at the end of the "Frozen world" part after songbird takes Elizabeth. You fight all they to the end, then an old woman has you join her on a ruined platform, revealing to booker that he's Many years in the future, and an old and weary Elizabeth is burning new york to the ground. After giving booker a card to give to Elizabeth, he asked her what it is, and she called it Advice. When he askes her on what, her answer is one of the most haunting and surrendered lines in the game
"It's advice, on how not to become me."
She then sends him back to an earlier time to save Elizabeth one last time.

** [[spoiler:One thing people tend to miss is when Elizabeth asks the projection of Booker to "just humor her", it did not. It just keeps reminding her regretfully that is not booker.]]

** A Fridge TearJerker in that, while you presumably wanted the girl to wipe away a debt [[spoiler:there is no debt but to yourselves. You were going to take her to New York only because that's where you live and you wanted her to live with/near you, but you forgot about it and mistook that desire for a external order.]]

** A Fridge TearJerker in that, while you presumably wanted the girl to wipe away a debt [[spoiler:there is no debt but to yourselves. You were going to take her to New York only because that's where you live, and you wanted her to live with/near you, but you forgot about it and mistook that desire for a external order.]]

** A Fridge TearJerker in that [[spoiler:there is no debt but to yourselves. You wanted to take her to New York only because that's where you live, and you wanted her to live with/near you, even if you ended forgetting it and mistaking that desire for a external order.]]

** A Fridge TearJerker in that [[spoiler:there is no debt but to yourselves. You wanted to take her to New York only because that's where you live, and you wanted her to live with/near you, even if you forgot it and eventually mistook that desire for a external order.]]

---> I don't know if she was dangerous...or just insane.

** A Fridge TearJerker in that [[spoiler:there is no debt but to yourself. You wanted to take her to New York only because that's where you live, and you wanted her to live with/near you, even if you forgot it and eventually mistook that desire for a external order.]]

* [[spoiler:The Songbird's death should count. Being drowned at the bottom of the sea, whilst Elizabeth looks on, sadly telling it to let go, while it screams in agony and tries to reach her. Sure, it was built to be an abusive partner, but it obviously loved her in its own twisted way, and she cared for it too.]]
** [[spoiler:The Songbird's eyes finally switch to green just before dying, indicating it's in a peaceful mood, having decided to FaceDeathWithDignity.]]
** [[spoiler:Oh, and did you notice the Little Sister crying over a dead Big Daddy in the background, just after Songbird's death? That's how Elizabeth could've been.]]
** [[spoiler:Arguably made just a litle bit sadder, once you've played the Burial DLC, and see just what Songbird went through, and how it pair bonded with Elizabeth in the first place.]]

* The song "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" becomes a massive TearJerker after you finish the game, by the virtue of both reflecting the intrinsically tragic plot of the game and in its standalone right, being a song about accepting the mortality of your loved ones and family members. And if that's not enough to make you bawl, listen to the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F1l6xXLSI0 OST version]] of the song -- you don't need to listen very closely to hear that Courtnee Draper is basically fighting back tears herself by the end.
** And in that same vein, the first song that plays over the end credits, after witnessing the end and knowing what you know now - the already-sombre barbershop quartet version of "God Only Knows."
** Burial At Sea, Episode 2. [[spoiler: Events come full circle for the Franchise, to the first titles Good Ending with Jack and the little sisters. At great cost to Elizabeth. What she did will never be known.]]

* Hearing Elizabeth [[spoiler:be tortured through the tears in the Asylum, begging for mercy and desperately saying she'll be "Comstock's Daughter"]] is just gutwrenching. Worse is the obvious panic in Booker's voice every time he says anything during that portion of the game.
* The announcement you hear in the projection room in Comstock House. Coupled with the music that plays, it ''is'' rather tragic if you think about it.

* Lady Comstock's audio recordings are increasingly difficult to listen to, as the woman becomes more and more disillusioned by her husband's actions, but feels she can't call him out on them because she once considered herself beyond redemption too, but Comstock offered it anyway. And when she does finally break and decides to confront her husband... [[spoiler:he kills her in cold blood, using her as a martyr to further his own goals.]] And that's not even talking about that time when he [[spoiler:forcibly resurrects her and treats her to a FateWorseThanDeath, so he could use her to kill Booker, and get Elizabeth.]]

* In ''Infinite'', this [[http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Apology Voxophone]], recorded by the Booker who became a martyr for the Vox.

* It's a bit of a small one, but there's a hidden area in Comstock House after the Vox take Columbia, in which the music stops and you hear the radio announcer ask for help. The tone of fear in his voice is just unnerving. Also, doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming in that he's still broadcasting music even in the midst of all-out warfare.

* When you get to Emporia for the first time, the residents are attempting to flee the area in fear of the Vox Populi. You pass a barge attempting to escort people away and a hear a husband trying to convince his wife to jump so she doesn't get left behind. The wife is crying hysterically that she's too terrified to jump. The voice acting of the distraught woman will rip your heart out. The moment loses some of its gravitas when you look back to see the barge leaving and no one is left on the ledge (implying that she and the others there made it after all) but it's still heart wrenching to see.
* There is a brief segment between Port Prosperity and Emporia, where during a lull in the action, Elizabeth somberly regards the dozens of dead civilians left lying around in the wake of the Vox uprising, [[http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577888220382825409/B8684CA800162C01B033DDCF6EEF8D7129EB2666/ kneeling near]] a dead man and saying, "Look at this one... do you think he wanted any of this?". She then folds his arms in a dignified pose and places a rose in his hands before hurrying along with Booker to their next destination.

* Hindsight example. At the beginning of the game, you see a Handyman on display before a large crowd; far from being proud of his new body, he's hunched, cowering, trying to cover his face and jerking in alarm at every camera flash. Learning a little more about the Handymen makes this scene really depressing: before being made into a cyborg, this guy had a life of his own, likely a family; then, after suffering debilitating injuries or terminal illness, he was given a chance to survive and possibly even live forever... only to end up getting permanently grafted to a huge, awkward and decidedly ugly body. And then, as if losing any chance at a normal life wasn't bad enough, the Founders demanded services in return: he was put to work ''killing people'' (even worse if the Handyman was a civilian beforehand), making him even more feared by his fellow citizens. And on fair-day, this poor bastard was pushed out onto a stage and told to sit there while everyone in Colombia gawked at him. Let's face it, the Handymen have it just as bad as the Big Daddies, if not worse: Mr Bubbles and co were brainwashed and effectively mindless by the time of Jack's arrival, so they didn't have to cope with seeing their entire lives slip through their fingers; and at least the Big Daddies had friends and companions in the form of the Little Sisters. The Handymen have lost ''everything.''
** There's a part where you find an audio diary of a woman whose husband suffered injuries and was turned into a handy man. Later in the game, you find two Vox soldiers posing in front of a dead Handyman, getting their picture and giving thumbs up like hunters with a kill. The Handyman is holding an audio diary from the same woman, a recording of herself telling him to listen to her voice when his rages come, because she will always stand by him, and promises to meet him again where they'll both be whole - at the gates of Heaven. She ends by saying, "I love you. I love you. ''I love you.''"
** Buried in the Handyman's various combat quotes is a phrase that makes their suffering all the more worse-- "Comstock took my body away...wasn't even sick!" That's right, there may be Handymen who were simply abducted from their families, gutted like fish, and bolted into a walking iron lung just because Comstock and Fink wanted more workers.

* In ''Infinite'', this [[http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Apology Voxophone]], recorded by the Booker who became a martyr for the Vox.

* Booker doesn't immediately tell Elizabeth that she's actually a package he was sent to retrieve, and he even tells her that he'll take her to Paris when they escape Columbia. When Elizabeth finally realizes the truth after all of her excitement, she doesn't respond. She just breaks down in tears for the longest time, utterly crushed. [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash And then]] it turns out she was faking it so she could whack Booker in the face a wrench.]]

* The fact that, given that Irrational is downsizing and being restructured into a smaller company, this may be the last ''Franchise/BioShock'' game that the studio may make.

* The announcement you hear in the projection room in Comstock house. Coupled with the music that plays, it ''is'' rather tragic if you think about it.

* There is a brief segment between Port Prosperity and Emporia, where during a lull in the action, Elizabeth somberly regards the dozens of dead civilians left lying around in the wake of the Vox uprising, [[http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577888220382825409/B8684CA800162C01B033DDCF6EEF8D7129EB2666/ kneeling near]] a dead man and saying, "Look at this one...do you think he wanted any of this?". She then folds his arms in a dignified pose and places a rose in his hands before hurrying along with Booker to their next destination.

* The entire sorry state of affairs, the building of Columbia and all its ills, Elizabeth's [[spoiler:dimensional kidnapping, lifelong imprisonment, and later emotional and physical torture]] ALL of it traces back to the fact that [[spoiler:Rosalind Lutece managed to contact her male alternate dimensional counterpart, fell in love with him, and made a deal with the devil (Comstock) to fund building a gate to reach him.]] Without her Comstock would just be another crazy small time cult leader.

* Booker was only ''eighteen'' when he had Elizabeth. Robert Lutece and Comstock manipulated a PTSD-filled veteran ''child'' with crushing debts into selling his child.

** There's a part where you find an audio diary of a woman whose husband suffered injuries and was turned into a handy man. Later in the game, you find two Vox soldiers posing in front of a dead Handyman, [[http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/469799292322027022/B7D6DC745A379B2ABA8854DEA5B54B57625130C3/ getting their picture taken]] and giving thumbs up like hunters with a kill. The Handyman is holding an audio diary from the same woman, a recording of herself telling him to listen to her voice when his rages come, because she will always stand by him, and promises to meet him again where they'll both be whole - at the gates of Heaven. She ends by saying, "I love you. I love you. ''I love you.''"