History TearJerker / Cloverfield

* Jason's death, as well as Rob being called by his mom thus having to tell her the news.
** The immediate aftermath, as the protagonists leave the bridge and regroup on a street corner. Lily is hysterical and Rob is nearly catatonic as Hud tries to get them to move someplace safer, but but they're barely able to acknowledge him.
* While walking through the subway, Rob sadly tells Lily that the [[PartingWordsRegret the last thing he said to Beth]] was SlutShaming her for bringing another guy to the party after ''he'' blew her off. Lily sympathises, remembering several things she regrets saying to Jason.
* Beth spends most of the night trapped in her apartment with no clue of what's going on. She's not even aware of the monster until the others come for her. All she could probably hear was the bombing and screaming from outside.
* Marlena's death and Hud's reaction to it. Especially with him freaking out ''off-camera''. Rob worries he might not be able to continue with them, but Hud tries to pull himself together.

** The [[SarcasmMode best part?]] According to WordOfGod, it ''dies'', presumably by the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Hammerdown Protocol]]. Meaning, it never sees its mother again.

* Hud's death; after surviving almost everything including numerous encounters with Clover, its parasites, the army and a helicopter crash, witnessing his friend Jason and his crush Marlena die while still managing to film the entire monster attack in New York, he suffers one of the most gruesome deaths in the film, being torn in half by Clover while Rob and Beth tearfully watch in horror.
* The movie ends with almost all the protagonists dying in horrible ways. [[ShootTheShaggyDog There was no winner in the story, no great rescue, just God-knows-how-many innocents dead in monstrous ways, Hud getting eaten and torn in half by Clover]] [[DownerEnding and the two main lovers dying after a bridge literally crushes them.]]
** Rob and Beth's mounting panic under the bridge as the hopelessness of their situation sets in. Rob, on hearing the air raid sirens, shakes his head in despair and briefly drops the camera before filming his final testimony, speaking faster and faster as he goes on. Beth can barely keep it together, and breaks down as she says they'll "wait here until it passes", knowing that it won't.

* Hud's death since after surviving almost everything including numerous encounters with Clover, its parasites, the army and a helicopter crash and witnessing his friend Jason and his crush Marlena die while still managing to film the entire monster attack in New York he suffers one of the most gruesome deaths in the film, being torn in half by Clover while Rob and Beth tearfully watch in horror.

* The movie ends with almost [[KillEmAll all the protagonists dying in horrible ways]]. [[ShootTheShaggyDog There was no winner in the story, no great rescue, just God-knows-how-many innocents dead in monstrous ways, Hud getting eaten and torn in half by Clover]] [[DownerEnding and the two main lovers dying after a bridge literally crushes them.]]

** The [[SarcasmMode best part?]] According to WordOfGod, it ''dies'', presumably by the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Hammerdown Protocol]]. Meaning, it never sees its mother again. *sniff*
** Baby or not, it killed a lot of people in its attack of NYC. Would ants grieve over a human infant they bit to death after it'd ravaged their anthill?

** The [[SarcasmMode best part?]] According to WordOfGod, it ''dies'', presumably by the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Hammerdown Protocol]]. Meaning, it never sees its mother again. [[MonsterSobStory *sniff*]]