History TearJerker / FinalFantasyVIIRemake

-->'''[[BreakThemByTalking You have failed again I see.]]'''

* Sephiroth rubbing it in that he murdered Cloud's mother.

* During the confrontation with President Shinra's hologram at the reactor, Shinra gloats to Cloud that he may die soon anyway due to PowerDegeneration, as Tifa turns to Cloud and lets out a little gasp in horror.

* Biggs' death. He does not actually die, but neither the characters, nor the audience know that at this point in the story. Biggs shows a surprising amount of warmth and kindness to Cloud. It's at this point that it becomes clear that Biggs has seen through Cloud's facade, comparing him to the orphans in Sector 5 before tenderly touching Cloud's head. Cloud is genuinely moved by the gesture, looking as if he is close to crying. Cloud himself shows a massive amount of character development, going as far as to (depending on your dialogue choice) offer words of comfort, and holds Biggs' hand. By the end, Cloud is struggling to keep his composure before moving on and leaving Biggs behind.

* Jessie's death. Calmly accepting her fate as karma for the lives her bombs supposedly took, she asks Cloud and Tifa not to mourn for her despite them doing otherwise.

* The fall and aftermath of the Sector 7 plate is treated with much more seriousness than in 1997. After the group comes to, they look around to what used to be a bustling place full of people, now crumbled and reduced to rubble. Tifa begins to blame the transpiring events on herself, and Barret holds her to assure her everything that happened earlier was all Shinra's doing. She agrees, but doesn't look convinced.

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* Sephiroth rubbing it in that he murdered Cloud's mother.
* During the confrontation with President Shinra's hologram at the reactor, Shinra gloats to Cloud that he may die soon anyway due to PowerDegeneration, as Tifa turns to Cloud and lets out a little gasp in horror.

* Near the end of chapter four after Cloud escorts Wedge home, you can find a lone child at the same Sector 7 playground where you meet Betty. While Cloud never interacts directly with her, wait long enough and the little girl will talk to him and ask if he's there to play too. She tells Cloud that she is sick and sneaks out to play at night. Thinking that Cloud is all alone with no friends, she says she has no friends either in a forlorn tone. The lonely little girl will eventually ask if Cloud wants to be her friend.
* When Cloud and Aerith meet up on the passage to Sector 6, Cloud has another one of his vision-induced headaches triggered as he watches Aerith walking ahead of him. Unlike in his earlier episodes, the vision is not shown. However, the framing and music that accompany the scene call back to the original game, heavily implying that Cloud experienced a brief glimpse of Aerith's destined fate. Cloud is caught off guard when [[ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy he finds himself shedding a tear]], leaving him in pained confusion; unable to understand what it was he just saw, or why he suddenly cried, except that it triggered something deep within his subconsciousness. When a concerned Aerith comes back to check on him, Cloud can only insist that nothing's wrong, quickly turning away to hide his face from view.
** Pay attention to the narrowly framed walkway, the greenish-tint of the dim lighting, and the soft tune she's humming as she walks off. The view looks uncannily similar to the forest leading to the Forgotten City, and Aerith is humming the theme of the Temple of the Ancients (albeit at a slower pace than the original track)[[note]][[WordOfSaintPaul Briana White]], Aerith's VA, said it was just a random tune she came up on the spot, although that doesn't exclude her having heard of that track before.[[/note]], which was the last time you got to use her as a party member in the original game. All this adds up to why Cloud had his vision at this moment.
* A flashback of young Aerith playing hide-and-seek, trying to look for her mother. When she gets no response, she soon falls to her knees and breaks down crying, which present-day Aerith does as well.

-->'''Yuffie:''' ''This is just wrong!''

Most people know all of the sad and heartbreaking moments from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII the original game]], but now the remake makes them hit even harder, and even adds some entirely new moments that rip your heart to shreds.

* The end of the Intermission DLC. After having seemingly defeated Nero, Sonon and Yuffie attempt to leave the facility. However, Nero, still alive, attempts to kill them again prompting Sonon to cover Yuffie with his body. Yuffie can only watch as Sonon is stabbed right in front of her, telling her to escape without him. He pushes her into an elevator and she has to watch the doors slowly close on him, with blood and tears on her face. With the doors closed, she presses herself against it wailing in sorrow. As he is alone, he sees a hallucination of his sister, and in final moments imagines himself holding her, before Nero whisks him away. Then, after escaping, Yuffie runs away crying, just in time to see the Sector 7 plate fall. Needless to say, this was not a good day for the young ninja.

* It can be heartrending to see just how terrified of Sephiroth Cloud really is. His first instinct is usually to go on the offensive. Cloud very nearly kills his neighbor in a panic when he believes he has found Sephiroth in the room next door in chapter three. Later on, in chapter eight, he runs into a Sephiroth clone in the children's hideout, who grabs him and shows him a vision of Sephiroth musing about the Reunion. He finds himself trembling and only finally calms when Aerith holds his hand. Then, everything comes to a head in chapter fourteen. Sephiroth appears once again, this time to mock Cloud over his failures. Cloud has just watched two friends die, failed to prevent the Sector 7 plate from falling, and Aerith has been taken captive by Shinra. As [[TheDreaded Sephiroth]] approaches him, Cloud backs away a few steps before freezing in place. Cloud ends up reduced to ''whimpering'' in childlike terror, nearly in tears. It quickly becomes obvious that Cloud is close to his breaking point.

* The fall and aftermath of the Sector 7 plate. After the group comes to, they look around to what used to be a bustling place full of people, now crumbled and reduced to rubble. Tifa begins to blame the transpiring events on herself, and Barret holds her to assure her everything that happened earlier was all Shinra's doing. She agrees, but doesn't look convinced.

* It can be heartrending to see just how terrified of Sephiroth Cloud really is. His first instinct is usually to go on the offensive. Cloud very nearly kills his neighbor in a panic when he believes he has found Sephiroth in the room next door in chapter three. Later on, in chapter eight, he runs into a Sephiroth clone in the children's hideout, who grabs him and shows him a vision of Sephiroth musing about the Reunion. He finds himself trembling and only finally calms when Aerith holds his hand. Then, everything comes to a head in chapter fourteen. Sephiroth appears once again, this time to mock Cloud over his failures. Cloud has just watched two friends die, failed to prevent the Sector 7 plate from falling, and Aerith has been taken captive by Shinra. As Sephiroth approaches him, Cloud backs away a few steps before freezing in place. Cloud ends up reduced to ''whimpering'' in childlike terror, nearly in tears. It quickly becomes obvious that Cloud is close to his breaking point.

** In a meta fashion, simply seeing Aerith back, twenty years after having experienced her death, is enough to have put this troper to tears. Contained in the Chapter 2 encounter, freed during the rooftop walk which is deliberately paced and timed to give the player the time to face the two decades of grief for a character who might not have been the most fleshed of the series, who might not have been the best-written, but whose death was carried by millions anyway. The game on its entirety is a tear-jerker just for this, for the notion of a second chance that comes way after the entire grief cycle was finished, something rarely seen in media of any kind: there was closure, this is done, and then you get her smile thrown at you, and all the grief process is shattered with a flower handed to you.

* Although [[DramaticIrony the audience, Cloud and Tifa know that Marlene is safe]], it's still terrifying to hear Barret scream for his daughter, believing he had lost his little girl. Considering this is a man who pushed Cloud away for [[PapaWolf just accidentally scaring his daughter]], it's an AdultFear that no parent wants to even consider: OutlivingOnesOffspring.

** Pay attention to the narrowly framed walkway, the greenish-tint of the dim lighting, and the soft tune she's humming as she walks off. The view looks uncannily similar to the forest leading to the Forgotten City, and Aerith is humming the theme of the Temple of the Ancients (albeit at a slower pace than the original track), which was the last time you got to use her as a party member in the original game. All this adds up to why Cloud had his vision at this moment.

* Meanwhile, if your relationship with Tifa is maxed, you get a cutscene with Cloud and Tifa. It's only after they save Wedge and get him back to Elmyra's place does Tifa finally start to let her grief sink in. After she realizes the flower Cloud gave that was from Aerith's garden was now buried underneath their home and everything else. She slowly walks up to Cloud, leans onto his shoulder and begins to break down crying as she holds onto him tightly. Cloud can't offer anything else but a hug as he lets Tifa grieve.

** Jessie does express one regret, however. She wishes that everyone could have enjoyed her mother's cooking again.

-->'''Yuffie:''' ''This is just wrong!''
* The final scene where Zack, having survived his LastStand this time around, psychs himself up to meet Aerith again and enters her church, only to find her not there.

-->'''Yuffie:''' ''This is just wrong!''

* The Avalanche helicopter that came to extract Cloud and company gets unceremoniously shot down (presumably killing everyone in the crash) so that the player has to fight Rufus. The Arbiters of Fate don't even show up to personally enforce storyline continuity and they still get their way, screwing the helicopter crew in the process.

** Seeing the fall of Sector 7 from Yuffie's perspective in Intergrade is just as tearjerking. After her mission falls apart, she runs outside and witnesses the plate's fiery collapse with her own eyes. All she could do is let out a [[SkywardScream heartwrenching scream]] in anguish, sobbing at the sheer brutality. This after everything she goes through in her side-story, the poor girl has to then witness the senseless deaths of countless people as sector 7 burns to rubble.