History TearJerker / DigimonTamers

* Really, the final episode of Tamers from about 4 minutes to about 4 seconds before the ending credits was a TearJerker. Watching the Tamer's partners de-digivolve and then disappear into the Digital World, Henry's father's guilt-ridden reaction as he reveals ''why'' they're going away, yet Jianglian still manages to smile at him and then Mr. Lee weeps, and Takato thinking that he'll never be able to keep his promise to Guilmon.

---> ''Mr. Katou:'' Now I see the consequences of ''my'' actions.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[TraumaCongaLine Poor Jeri's strapped in for the long haul...]]]]

* Episode 13, the death of the [=DarkLizardmon=] Yamaki had captured.
* Impmon trying to hug Ai and Mako when The Dog Deva, Caturamon, tricks him into thinking he was back at their house. And then watching his heart sink as he sees Ai and Mako fighting over a new puppy just like they did with him...
* Impmon's DealWithTheDevil [[FromNobodyToNightmare to become Beelzemon]] is designed to be as painful and terrifying as possible. Beelzemon isn't some random cartoon villain trying to take over the world; The audience ''knew'' Impmon. They watched his struggles, watched ''the kids'' try to befriend him. And now he's suddenly ''trying to murder them all''. Watching these kids recounting their memories of ''playing with him'' in a desperate plea for him to see reason, while he doesn't give a rats ass about their feelings and is 100% out for their blood, is absolutely heartbreaking.

** Jeri specifically recounts how after her mother died, she was cold to her step-mother despite recognizing that her stepmom was a good person and only doing her best. Jeri sees this as evidence that she's an awful person who doesn't deserve to be happy. This is a little girl who just lost her partner in a horrific manner, and now the audience is dealt an extra blow in learning that all this time, she was already struggling with dealing with the loss of one of her parents.

** It's even more explicit in the original script where it's way more understandable why it's a breaking speech for Mr. Katou. ''It's hammering his daughter's crippling fatalist mindset into him''!

*** And then Jeri starts to just [[CreepyMonotone emotionlessly list off]] the nutritional information on her meal, completely oblivious to Takato's anguished pleas, it's equal parts heartbreaking and creepy as all hell...

** It's even more explicit in the original script where the Palates head drones:

** It might not seem much by today's standards considering the absolutely insane DarkerAndEdgier shift the franchise undergoes much later on and she does get better, but Jeri's funk is exceptionally remarkable because it's the first time the series does a darker take and the children watching at that time likely aren't expecting such a ''stark'' wake-up call. It's very traumatizing to young children and especially when they are not prepared for something this brutal.

** Taken UpToEleven in the manga adaptation, which excises the portal from the ending, implying this might indeed be the last time the kids and their Digimon see each other.

* In the midst of all the hell breaking lose after Beelzemon attacks the children in the digital world, Janyu gets into a fight with his wife in the real world, who is understandably [[AdultFear freaking out over the fact that not only is Henry gone, but Suzie has suddenly disappeared too]]. Meanwhile, Janyu refuses to properly explain ''anything'' to her, leaving her a sobbing wreck, fearing the worst for her missing son and daughter and wondering if their other two kids might vanish next.

** In the Japanese dub the scene is, for the most part silent apart from character dialogue, as the music score stops playing. This is powerful and effective, but no where near as emotionally manipulating as the score that plays during this scene in the English dub and it cements this scene as one of the English Dubs finest moments.

* A smaller example, but in the dub, Calumon's reaction to Makuramon trying to kidnap him implies that he has a ''lot'' of trauma associated with his time in the Digital World...

** And when after all that Impmon remains alive, he's left to stew in the guilt he feels, wondering why the heroes bother to rescue someone as horrible as him and feeling like he doesn't belong anywhere.
* Episode 45, Dobermon's sacrifice to allow the main three to merge with their partners in the Real World and unleash their Megas. No matter if Alice is alive or a ghost she's heartbroken to lose her friend, and the tiny HopeSpot where the remains of his data become his head once more is shattered as the data completely vanishes.
** And then the following scenes as the news reports on the three Megas fighting the D-Reaper. All of their watching family and friends are ''terrified'' because they're watching their children fight a terrible menace but they're the only people who ''can'' fight it.
* Episode 45 "The D-Reaper's Disguise". When Takato confesses his feelings to Jeri, not realizing yet that it's not really Jeri he's talking to.

** Jeri specifically recounts how after her mother died, she was cold to her step-mother despite recognizing that her stepmom was a good person and only doing her best. Jeri sees this as evidence that she's an awful person who doesn't deserve to be happy. This is a little girl who just lost her partner in a horrific manner, she doesn't deserve any of this!

* In the midst of all the hell breaking lose after Beelzemon attacks the children in the digital world, Janyu gets into a fight with his wife in the real world, who is understandably [[AdultFear freaking out over the fact that not only is Henry gone, but Suzie has suddenly disappeared too]]. Meanwhile, [[PoorCommunicationKills Janyu refuses to properly explain ''anything'' to her]], leaving her a sobbing wreck, fearing the worst for her missing son and daughter and wondering if their other two kids might vanish next.

* In the midst of all the hell breaking lose after Beelzemon attacks the children in the digital world, Janyu gets into a fight with his wife in the real world, who is understandably freaking out over the fact that not only is Henry gone, but Suzie has suddenly disappeared too. Meanwhile, Janyu refuses to properly explain ''anything'' to her, leaving her a sobbing wreck, fearing the worst for her missing son and daughter and wondering if their other two kids might vanish next.

* The story of [[CanonImmigrant Ryo Akiyama]], once you take a look at [[Recap/DigimonWonderSwanSeries his home series]]. To put it shortly: [[DependingOnTheWriter whether he hails from the Adventure or Tamers universes]], he initially didn't actually have a partner to call his own, being accompanied by either [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Tai's Agumon]] or [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 the Veemon that would later belong to Davis]]. After plenty of traumatizing situations in [[VideoGame/DigimonAdventureAnodeCathodeTamer his first adventure]], [[VideoGame/DigimonAdventure02TagTamers his friend Ken Ichijouji eventually becoming the Digimon Emperor]], [[VideoGame/DigimonAdventure02D1Tamers feeling used by the Digimon Sovereigns of his world and the DigiDestined]], and being sent to this timeline by [[ArchEnemy Millenniummon]], [[ThrowTheDogABone he finally finds a partner in Monodramon]], finds out that Millenniummon was his partner the whole time, and the former forces a DNA Digivolution with the latter to become a Digi-Egg that would later hatch into his "true" partner, [[TheBerserker Cyberdramon]], which Ryo went into the Tamers universe to learn how to control properly. The training went on for ''ten months'', during which he wasn't able to get back home until it was all finished. Once he returns to the real world in this timeline, Cyberdramon manages to revert back to Monodramon, undoing his berserker tendencies, and the two even gain the means to Biomerge... [[YankTheDogsChain only for them to have to say goodbye with all the rest of the Tamers and their Digimon]]. [[IronWoobie The poor guy just can't catch a break, can he?]]