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--> [[spoiler:'''Price:''' Soap]] trusted you! I thought I could, too! So why, ''in the Bloody Hell,'' '''''DOES [[spoiler:MAKAROV]] KNOW YOU?!'''''
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** That moment served as this England-based troper's motivation for the rest of the game
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* The fate of the Czech people in [=MW3=]. Think about it; they overcame decades of Soviet oppression, including the Warsaw Pact invasion in '68, and barely managed to come out okay in the end. Then, long after the fall of the USSR, Makarov comes along and launches his invasion of Europe, which manages to brutalise the Czechs worse in a few days than the whole damn Soviet occupation did the first time around. It's not hard to imagine being an older citizen and breaking down in tears at the sight of [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111117132842/callofduty/images/f/ff/Praha.png a Soviet banner]] once again flying over Prague. This, coupled with the more obvious sights of the Ultranationalists brutally murdering civilians left and right in the Prague missions, really makes you feel for the Resistance.

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**** On the Call of Duty 4 level "Aftermath", if you go to the playground you can ghost children. It's heartbreaking if you think about it for a second, ghost noises of kids, maybe some of Jacksons own kids, whispering after you are hit by a nuke, and what makes it worse is that you're the only sirvivor of the crash, then you die 120 seconds in. Also, while in Prypiat you can hear kids talking and teddy bears, considering that Prypiat was evacuated because of a nuclear problem.
** For this troper, one of the missions in Modern Warfare 2 had you maning the gun turret in a helicopter and killing the Russians in the World War 2 memorial made a few tears come out of his eyes. When you think about, the memorial was dedicated to the soldiers who fought and died to make sure their country and the world was safe, and it is being stained by the blood of men who successfully invaded the U.S.

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**** On the Call of Duty 4 level "Aftermath", if you go to the playground you can ghost children. It's heartbreaking if you think about it for a second, ghost noises of kids, maybe some of Jacksons own kids, whispering after you are hit by a nuke, and what makes it worse is that you're the only sirvivor survivor of the crash, then you die 120 seconds in. Also, while in Prypiat you can hear kids talking and teddy bears, considering that Prypiat was evacuated because of a nuclear problem.
** For this troper, one of the missions in Modern Warfare 2 had you maning manning the gun turret in a helicopter and killing the Russians in the World War 2 memorial made a few tears come out of his eyes. When you think about, the memorial was dedicated to the soldiers who fought and died to make sure their country and the world was safe, and it is being stained by the blood of men who successfully invaded the U.S.




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--> '''[[spoiler:Sandman]]''': Price! You gotta go! Make sure the president gets out!
--> '''Price''': ''Don't even think about it'', mate! We're in this together!

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** Incase anyone was wondering, Baseplate is really [[spoiler:Captain Macmillian]], and Price sounds like he's tearing up when he says that line. What doesn't help is the song that plays when [[spoiler: Soap dies]] is also playing in the background.

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** Incase In case anyone was wondering, Baseplate is really [[spoiler:Captain Macmillian]], Macmillan]], and Price sounds like he's tearing up when he says that line. What doesn't help is the song that plays when [[spoiler: Soap dies]] is also playing in the background.


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* [=MW3=] just seems to churn out these kinds of moments one right after another post-"Blood Brothers". The next one comes at the end of "Down the Rabbit Hole"; after undertaking great pains to infiltrate the Siberian diamond mine and rescue President Vorshevsky and his daughter, the joint [=TF141=]-Delta Force unit finds itself pinned down by a huge contingent of enemy forces just as their rescue chopper arrives. The mine has become unstable, and it becomes clear that if they don't get the hell out of there ''now'', no one will make it...so, [[spoiler:Sandman, Truck, and Grinch decide to stay behind and hold off the enemy while Price, Yuri, and the others escape.]] Yuri, injured, can only watch helplessly as he's dragged back to the helo, while they gradually run out of ammo, taking glancing hits and striking back with their sidearms and knives as Makarov's men slowly overtake them. Finally, the helicopter takes off, and an anguished Price screams [[spoiler:Sandman's]] name into his radio as they fly away, having just watched one of his last living friends die mere hours after they reunited.
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* Black Ops seems to end in a high note. Mason shrugs off the brainwashing, the attack on America was stopped, and the bad guys are all punished. Then you read the unlocked intel pages, only to find that [[spoiler: Mason never fully recovered, and because of that he was finally considered a threat to national security by the CIA and marked for termination, along with Hudson and Weaver. They escape to South Africa, and the last thing we know is that joint operation between the CIA and MI6 is being prepared in order to assasinate the three heroes that saved America. This is extra sad considering Reznov's words on being betrayed by your own.]] This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spoiler: Captain Price or [[=MacMillan=]], two of the most popular characters from the Modern Warfare series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.

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* Black Ops seems to end in a high note. Mason shrugs off the brainwashing, the attack on America was stopped, and the bad guys are all punished. Then you read the unlocked intel pages, only to find that [[spoiler: Mason never fully recovered, and because of that he was finally considered a threat to national security by the CIA and marked for termination, along with Hudson and Weaver. They escape to South Africa, and the last thing we know is that joint operation between the CIA and MI6 is being prepared in order to assasinate the three heroes that saved America. This is extra sad considering Reznov's words on being betrayed by your own.]] This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spoiler: Captain Price or [[=MacMillan=]], [=MacMillan=], two of the most popular characters from the Modern Warfare series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.

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** Incase anyone was wondering, Baseplate is really [[spoiler:Captain Macmillian]], and Price sounds like he's tearing up when he says that line. What doesn't help is the song that plays when [[spoiler: Soap dies]] is also playing in the background.

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** Incase anyone was wondering, Baseplate is really [[spoiler:Captain Macmillian]], and Price sounds like he's tearing up when he says that line. What doesn't help is the song that plays when [[spoiler: Soap dies]] is also playing in the background. background.
** Speaking of the intro, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvxk9SZGS4 here's]] the opening. (well, the first 1:30 are the opening)

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** I almost forgot, the intro for the next level is also very sad, for the opening after Price says a speech:

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** I almost forgot, the intro for the next level is also very sad, for sad:
--> '''Price''':There's a clocktower in Hereford where
the opening after Price says a speech:names of the dead are inscribed. We try to honor their deeds even as their faces fade from our memory. Those memories are all that's left, when the bastards have taken everything else.



--> '''Price''': He killed [[spoiler:Soap]] Mac. He's gone

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--> '''Price''': He killed [[spoiler:Soap]] Mac. [[spoiler:Soap]]. He's gonegone, Mac.
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**I almost forgot, the intro for the next level is also very sad, for the opening after Price says a speech:
--> '''Baseplate''': What happened?
--> '''Price''': He killed [[spoiler:Soap]] Mac. He's gone
--> '''Baseplate''': Is there anything I could do for you, son?
** Incase anyone was wondering, Baseplate is really [[spoiler:Captain Macmillian]], and Price sounds like he's tearing up when he says that line. What doesn't help is the song that plays when [[spoiler: Soap dies]] is also playing in the background.
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** And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlvFwwvn2Tk here]] is that music. ''You're welcome.''
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** The background music doesn't help. It's slow tempo after you [[spoiler:put Soap on table]] then becomes really slow after [[spoiler:Soap dies]]. If you can get through this part without even feeling like shedding a tear, then there is something wrong with you.
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* The most tear-jerking mission in the game is "Davis Family Vacation". If you can watch the titular family [[spoiler: die from an exploding truck]] without being the slightest bit horrified or saddened, you're a braver person then [[Tropers/AbraCadavre this troper.]]
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* The "Blood Brothers" mission from ''ModernWarfare 3'' is a WhamEpisode combined with a massive TearJerker. [[spoiler:First, Makarov reveals he had Kamarov in his pocket, and knows you're there, then tries to kill Soap, Price and Yuri by blowing up a few bombs. They all make it, but Soap's bleeding out. When they finally get Soap to safety, he tells Price that Makarov knows Yuri before dying. Price's anguished screams are heartbreaking enough, but it's when Price sets down the pistol Soap returned to him that the tears really start coming.]]
--> '''Price:''' I'm sorry.
** In case you had any doubt about the UndyingLoyalty the two had for each other, the very next scene is [[spoiler:Price punching Yuri down a flight of stairs]], following by holding a gun to his head. You can tell he's just barely holding himself back from pulling the trigger.
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* [[TheBigGuy Vic]]'s death in Big Red One. If you've played this game, you'll know why.

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* Black Ops seems to end in a high note. Mason shrugs off the brainwashing, the attack on America was stopped, and the bad guys are all punished. Then you read the unlocked intel pages, only to find that [[spoiler: Mason never fully recovered, and because of that he was finally considered a threat to national security by the CIA and marked for termination, along with Hudson and Weaver. They escape to South Africa, and the last thing we know is that joint operation between the CIA and MI6 is being prepared in order to assasinate the three heroes that saved America. This is extra sad considering Reznov's words on being betrayed by your own.]]
** This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spoiler: Captain Price, one of the most popular characters from the Modern Warfare series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.

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* Black Ops seems to end in a high note. Mason shrugs off the brainwashing, the attack on America was stopped, and the bad guys are all punished. Then you read the unlocked intel pages, only to find that [[spoiler: Mason never fully recovered, and because of that he was finally considered a threat to national security by the CIA and marked for termination, along with Hudson and Weaver. They escape to South Africa, and the last thing we know is that joint operation between the CIA and MI6 is being prepared in order to assasinate the three heroes that saved America. This is extra sad considering Reznov's words on being betrayed by your own.]]
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]] This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spoiler: Captain Price, one Price or [[=MacMillan=]], two of the most popular characters from the Modern Warfare series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.
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*** It's worse if you live in DC or have seen the landmarks before you play the game. HeyItsThatPlace...on fire...surrounded by VDV...
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** This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spoiler: Captain Price or MacMillan two of the most popular characters from the Modern Warfare series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.

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** This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spoiler: Captain Price or MacMillan two Price, one of the most popular characters from the Modern Warfare series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.
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** This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spoiler: Captain Price or MacMillan two of the most popular characters from the [[Modern Warfare]] series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.

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** This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spoiler: Captain Price or MacMillan two of the most popular characters from the [[Modern Warfare]] Modern Warfare series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.
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** This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spoiler: Captain Price or MacMillan, two of the most popular characters from the [[Modern Warfare]] series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.

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** This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spoiler: Captain Price or MacMillan, MacMillan two of the most popular characters from the [[Modern Warfare]] series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.
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** This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spolier: Captain Price or MacMillan, two of the most popular characters from the [[Modern Warfare]] series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.

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** This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spolier: [[spoiler: Captain Price or MacMillan, two of the most popular characters from the [[Modern Warfare]] series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.
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** This is made even worse by the fact that one of the "betrayers" might be [[spolier: Captain Price or MacMillan, two of the most popular characters from the [[Modern Warfare]] series.]] Talk about your conflicts of interest.
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* Black Ops seems to end in a high note. Mason shrugs off the brainwashing, the attack on America was stopped, and the bad guys are all punished. Then you read the unlocked intel pages, only to find that [[spoiler: Mason never fully recovered, and because of that he was finally considered a threat to national security by the CIA and marked for termination, along with Hudson and Weaver. They escape to South Africa, and the last thing we know is that joint operation between the CIA and MI6 is being prepared in order to assasinate the three heroes that saved America. This is extra sad considering Reznov's words on being betrayed by your own.]]
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** The ending of Vorkuta makes this troper, a veteran of World At War, start ''sobbing'' [[ThisIsSparta every. Single. Time.]]
--> '''Mason:''' Step Eight, Reznov: [[spoiler: Freedom!]]
--> '''Reznov:''' [[HeroicSacrifice For you, Mason! Not for me!]]
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** One of the sadder moments of the game comes in a bombed-out garage in the Hue City level. It's not even a cinematic, but if you glance around at the dead Vietnamese, you'll see a man kneeling by one of the corpses, attempting to perform CPR. After about ten seconds of this, he sits up and sobs hopelessly into his hands before trying desperately to revive his dead friend once more. And you can't even comfort the poor guy.
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--> '''Polonsky:''' "Those fucking animals, they killed him! You're all going straight to hell, ya hear me? Straight to fucking hell!"
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** I cried when Reznov helped me, but they weren't tears of sadness. They were tears of happiness, because Reznov loves Dimitri enough to brutally murder the Nazi who attacked him and help him up to claim the honor he deserves.
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*In Nazi Zombies map Zombie Verrückt, on the German side there is this chair. Pressing "Action" on a certain part makes a drill sound with a man crying and screaming. Also throughout the map you'll hear people screaming and crying, [[spoiler:Babies]] and woman. It makes you feel sorry for these people who where tortured and killed at the asylum. For such an awsome game mode, this map makes me wanna cry.
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* Call of Duty: Black Ops has [[spoiler:the death of Dmitri Petrenko in ''Project Nova.'' Long story short, the antagonist, Soviet General Dragovich, decides to test his newly acquired Nova 6 gas on his own men. Unlike the aforementioned Shepherd, he doesn't even have the excuse of tying up loose ends - he just does it because he has something against Reznov. It's not even a quick death - you watch him suffocate and vomit as his skin burns, while he's banging uselessly on the glass door between your cells. The fact that the usually hamtastic Reznov is recounting this in a completely downbeat, despairing tone does not help. Indeed, Dmitri - 'You should have died in Berlin.']]

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* Call of Duty: Black Ops has [[spoiler:the death of Dmitri Dimitri Petrenko in ''Project Nova.'' Long story short, the antagonist, Soviet General Dragovich, decides to test his newly acquired Nova 6 gas on his own men. Unlike the aforementioned Shepherd, he doesn't even have the excuse of tying up loose ends - he just does it because he has something against Reznov. It's not even a quick death - you watch him suffocate and vomit as his skin burns, while he's banging uselessly on the glass door between your cells. The fact that the usually hamtastic Reznov is recounting this in a completely downbeat, despairing tone does not help. Indeed, Dmitri Dimitri - 'You should have died in Berlin.']]
*In World at War, The opening of "Vendetta" the first Russian mission in the game. What happens is [[spoiler:you're laying in the Red fountain, watching as you're follow comrades are being killed by Nazi soldiers.]] The Music doesn't help whatsoever.
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**** On the Call of Duty 4 level "Aftermath", if you go to the playground you can ghost children. It's heartbreaking if you think about it for a second, ghost noises of kids, maybe some of Jacksons own kids, whispering after you are hit by a nuke, and what makes it worse is that you're the only sirvivor of the crash, then you die 120 seconds in. Also, while in Prypiat you can hear kids talking and teddy bears, considering that Prypiat was evacuated because of a nuclear problem.
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* Call of Duty: Black Ops has [[spoiler:the death of Dmitri Petrenko in ''Project Nova.'' Long story short, the antagonist, Soviet General Dragovich, decides to test his newly aquired Nova 6 gas on his own men. Unlike the afformentioned Shepherd, he doesn't even have the excuse of tying up loose ends - he just does it because he has something against Reznov. It's not even a quick death - you watch him suffocate and vomit as his skin burns, while he's banging uselessly on the glass door between your cells. The fact that the usually hamtastic Reznov is recounting this in a completely downbeat, disparing tone does not help. Indeed, Dmitri - 'You should have died in Berlin.']]

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* Call of Duty: Black Ops has [[spoiler:the death of Dmitri Petrenko in ''Project Nova.'' Long story short, the antagonist, Soviet General Dragovich, decides to test his newly aquired acquired Nova 6 gas on his own men. Unlike the afformentioned aforementioned Shepherd, he doesn't even have the excuse of tying up loose ends - he just does it because he has something against Reznov. It's not even a quick death - you watch him suffocate and vomit as his skin burns, while he's banging uselessly on the glass door between your cells. The fact that the usually hamtastic Reznov is recounting this in a completely downbeat, disparing despairing tone does not help. Indeed, Dmitri - 'You should have died in Berlin.']]

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