History TearJerker / FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor

** The worst part? They ''do'' all end up [[KillEmAll disappearing]].

* [[spoiler: Shouko's HeroicSacrifice.]] Especially since it immediately segues into the end credits, which close on an image of other Fafner pilots crying, and the singer going (in translation): "Please God, give me just a little more time".
** This is made all the worse in the Light Novel, where the reader isn't even SHOWN [[spoiler: the sacrifice,]] and is only treated to the visit to [[spoiler: the grave.]]
* Kazuki admitting that all he ever wanted was to apologize to Soushi for [[spoiler: taking his eye out]]. When he is made to choose to either live or disappear he doesn't really pick one; all he basically says is "I want to really talk to him one last time," which saves him. The way he crumples over the console at the thought that his most important person hates him is utterly heartbreaking.

* The scene where [[spoiler:Kouyou bids his friends one last farewell before turning into a Master Festum to defend the island.]]
* [[spoiler: Sakura being assimilated, while being [[MindRape mind raped and losing herself all alone]] and struggling desperately to remember Kenji]].
* After Soushi is [[spoiler: trapped by an incredibly strong Festum and starts to exhibit signs of disorientation, Kazuki begins to shed tears of distress, [[BreakTheCutie shaking Shoushi's 'prison cocoon' and crying his name.]]]] This soon evolves into [[UnstoppableRage all-out rage]] and desperation when [[spoiler: the Festum kidnaps Soushi. Kazuki propels himself high into Earth's atmosphere in pursuit, screaming:]]
--> '''Kazuki''': [[spoiler: GIVE HIM '''BACK'''! GIVE ME BACK '''SOUSHI'''!]]
** Worse? Kazuki doesn't know that [[spoiler: Soushi is alive]]. In the next episode we learn from Fumihiko that he wants to [[spoiler: go and avenge Soushi, not rescue him]]. If he did that he'd definitely die, [[spoiler: given how advanced his assimilation is]]. Kazuki wants to go on a suicide mission [[spoiler: to destroy the ones that took Soushi away from him.]] Wow.
** Double worse if you listen to the Gone/Arrive drama CD. Kazuki and his father have a major fight over [[spoiler: Kazuki asking to go to the North Pole on said suicide mission]] and Kazuki breaks down in tears and screams like one wouldn't expect from him of all people. He compares [[spoiler: losing Soushi]] to Fumihiko's feelings after losing Akane. Even Fumihiko can't say no when faced with so much ''despair'' coming from his son and allows what we would later know as [[spoiler: Operation Soukyuu/Azure]].
* [[spoiler: Mamoru's]] death. It happens quickly compared to [[spoiler: Shouko's]] death and [[spoiler: Kouyou's assimilation]], but somehow that makes it more powerful, especially his [[spoiler: vision of Sakura and Kenji holding hands right before he dies.]]

* [[spoiler: Soushi]] disappearing at the end of the season, and Kazuki's reaction to it. It's the end of a TraumaCongaLine that leads him into being a BrokenBird in ''Heaven and Earth''.

* Just saying "pretty much the whole special" should suffice, but special mention must go to [[spoiler:the deaths of main characters, Ryo and Yumi]].
--> [[spoiler:"Good Boy. You went straight to your master's side, didn't you?"]]
* The graffti: "Everyone will be gone anyway". A few words that [[HeroicBSOD says a lot]].
** The worst part? [[spoiler: They ''do'' all ended up [[KillEmAll disappearing]].]]
* The real kicker of the OVA is that, the executives of Tatsumiyajima are actually [[spoiler:forced to put up the L Plan in order to save the island......''with the hope of everyone coming back alive'' (the hidden submarine is big enough to carry everyone away)]]. Instead [[spoiler:they unwittingly send the children to their destruction]]; the result is ''[[{{Understatement}} longlasting]]''. Just watch ''every Alvis staff'' break down near the end.

* Just when we thought that with the end of Heaven & Earth Kazuki might catch a break, Exodus reveals that [[spoiler: he only has about three years left to live before the assimilation phenomenon takes his life. Not to mention that Soushi is desperate to save him, and actually chose his career path in hopes of finding a cure.]]

* There's a room/shrine dedicated to the people who have lost their lives in the war against the Festum. The walls are covered with pictures, and among them we see [[spoiler: Ryo, Yumi, Shouko, Michio, and Mamoru]].
* Although it appears at first as though he's accepted it, Kazuki [[spoiler: doesn't want to die]]. This is something he hasn't told anyone, and one can only imagine how long he's kept this bottled up.
** The thing he wrote on his wish talisman before crumpling it up and saying he hadn't decided yet? [[spoiler: "I want to live."]]

* When [[spoiler: Yumiko]] gets crushed by the collapsing building, [[spoiler: Miwa]] attempts to climb up to reach her, even though all that's left is a hand protruding from underneath the rubble. Then you realize that [[spoiler: she's literally a 4 year old in an adolescent body and probably doesn't realize that her mom is dead.]]
* Akira attempts to save a bus full of innocent civilians from a Festum attack. [[spoiler: Despite the fact that he gets there in time, everyone gets assimilated anyways and he's left holding what's left of their bloody clothing and a few assimilation crystals.]] This kicks him into a HeroicBSOD, followed by BrokenTears and a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Watching and listening to him have a breakdown, especially over the comm as Hiroto is subjected to, is awful. The fact that he is voiced by Creator/YuukiKaji, a voice actor who does not hold anything back when it comes to emotions, doesn't help.

* The first episode of the Second Season ended in the most brutal way possible. [[spoiler:Hiroto was shot in the cockpit by [[UnfriendlyFire Human Army's new Fafner]] and all others around felt someone [[KilledOffForReal dropped out of the Crossing System]]]]. The fact that [[spoiler:Hiroto is ''waving'' at the reinforcements]] only made it more tragic.
* In episode 2, while the pilots still have hope [[spoiler: that Hiroto is still alive, the viewers are "treated" to a conversation between Dustin and Keith about what to do with his remains.]] Said [[spoiler: remains]] fit inside a very small cooler. If there was any hope left for us it was brutally crushed.
** The human army [[spoiler: dropping bombs on unarmed civilians that have already ''surrendered'']] and [[spoiler:Maya being forced to shoot down the Human Army bomber]] certainly counts.
** The decision to travel through Festum infested wasteland is met with [[spoiler: whole families commiting suicide]]. Audiences with keen eyes can link back [[spoiler:their happy faces in the last few episodes......and then they went through utter despair and killing themselves]].
* In an attempt to save [[spoiler: Olga]] from her suicide attack on Walker, Sui attempts to teleport her into his cockpit...[[spoiler: only to have her slam up against the wall, re-opening her wounds and ultimately killing her]]. As if his life didn't already suck enough, this traumatizes him so much that he can barely eat.
* Episode 17 gives us [[spoiler:[[DyingAlone Canon's]] [[FadeToWhite disappearance]]]]. Long story short, [[spoiler:she spends her last drop of life (literally) in the episode, finding the best future for themselves, only failed and, to avoid the BadFuture altogether, she chooses to give up her life, even if it means ''[[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy she gives up the chance to live on together with Kazuki, the one she loves]]'']]. All these happens during the annual festival [[spoiler:with her dressed in Shouko's outfit]]. angela's new Ending Theme just speed up the tears.
** What got this Troper's waterworks going was that [[spoiler: after that scene, we were treated to Chocolat sensing Canon's passing and proceeds to '''[[HowlOfSorrow howl into the night.]]''' This happens while Ms Hazama looks confusingly at Chocolat, unaware of what has just happened]]
* [[spoiler:Walter's HeroicSacrifice]]. Just when he finally makes a sort-of peace with [[spoiler:Akira for bombing Tatsumiyajima in the past, and even Akira offers him to go to the island for sorting them out]], by the end of Episode 21 [[spoiler:he sacrifices himself attempting to save Maya and Akira from being captured by Human Army]]. [[spoiler:Akira's]] scream really stings it.
* Akira ''again'' in episode 23 when he sobs over a handful of rice, unable to eat without remembering [[spoiler:the thousands of people who starved to death during the exodus.]]
* And ''again'' for Akira in episode 24. [[spoiler: He sacrifices himself to keep the enemy Festum from assimilating the new island's core. Before he disappears he's reunited with Walter, Hiroto, and others who were killed during the exodus, and breaks down into tears while saying that he knew Hiroto was dead the entire time but couldn't bear to admit it to himself.]]
* Episode 25. What might've been a heartwarming moment when [[spoiler:Seri welcomes Maya back turns to this when she looks at Soushi's solemn expression. After a few seconds, her face turns to horror when she realizes that it must mean that Hiroto was dead.]]
* The very last episode ends with [[spoiler:Soushi becoming one with Festum. This is a pretty way of saying KilledOffForReal.]] Sure, he's [[spoiler: reborn]] but put yourself in Kazuki's shoes. This makes it a total of four times that he's [[spoiler: lost Soushi in some way. First after their friendship hit the rocks after the whole eye incident, then he gets kidnapped with everyone thinking he was killed, ''then'' he actually does get assimilated and ''then'' he dies.]] And poor Kazuki now has to - probably voluntarily - raise a child that looks just like [[spoiler: the person that meant more to him than anyone else]]. Let that sink in. Not to mention that the moment he realises what's happening he ''tries to follow Soushi [[spoiler: into death]] without hesitation''.
** Unlike other Operation Azure initiated before the finale, this one becomes the most brutal one for the Tatsumiyajima side: [[spoiler:Kiyomi [[GoingDownWithTheShip stays behind in the sinking Alvis]] (Sakura's heartwrenching scream included), Yumiko disappears when Miwa finally accepts she's DeadAllAlong, Maya breaks down near the end after going through a long TraumaCongaLine, Soushi's "death" mentioned above]], and of course, [[spoiler:Tatsumiyajima, home for most the cast for years, has to sink into the bottom of the sea]]. But the one who suffered most is [[spoiler:Rina]]: [[spoiler:Hiroto was dead early in the Second Season, Akira was recently killed in Episode 24, and with Seri throws herself into DeepSleep to stay with Orihime in the finale, she is now effectively the SoleSurvivor of her generation]].