History TearJerker / GodZilla

* [[http://fav.me/d1lo7b4 This memorial to Aaron Jones Smith.]]
* [[http://fav.me/d5tb8qq Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of worlds.]]

* One scene in ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'' (1991): A Japanese WWII veteran turned mega business mogul comes face to face with Godzilla, who had saved his troops from an American Attack during WWII before he was even Godzilla. As the sad music starts to swell, you can see the recognition in Godzilla's Eyes amid the flashbacks to said time in the past. It looked as if Godzilla was cherishing said memories. And then, after the businessman nods, as if saying "yes, it's me", Godzilla roars (mournfully?) and [[spoiler:promptly blasts the man into oblivion with his breath weapon]]. Alternatively, this scene can be interpreted in two ways:

** Godzilla is, well, still pretty damn pissed off. He destroys stuff and buildings with loads of people still inside, who either die by radiation poisoning, burned to death or crushed by rubble or suffocate under the debris. He's also angry at humanity for making him into a mutated monster via a nuclear sub. But he sees the general and becomes sentimental because ''somewhere'', under all that anger, there's the heart of a sad and suffering animal. He knows the man means him no harm as he remembers how they respected him after his HeroicSacrifice. He then becomes confused, as he hates humanity but likes this guy. So, in the end, [[spoiler: he decides to give the general a quick and relatively painless death]] rather than the potential suffering he gave to millions of others.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYRnw3FENNs ESPECIALLY the music]]! *sniff*

** WordofGod explains it this way: Shindo was responsible for Godzilla's creation (or so he thought, not knowing that Godzilla already existed and his submarine had nothing to do with it). HE had turned his savior into this destructive monster-- the bane of his homeland, and so he asks Godzilla to kill him (the nod at the end of the scene) because he could not bear to live with this. Godzilla complies.

* TwoWords: "Goodbye, Yoshido." ([[spoiler:This is what Kiryu (aka the 3rd [=MechaGodzilla=]) says to one of the main characters right before sacrificing himself to save Godzilla from death at the end of ''Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS''.]])

* Even the Americanized version of Godzilla includes a few. The whole reason Steve Martin was in Japan to begin with was because he was on his way to Cairo, and decided to stay a few days because e wanted to spend time with his college friend, Dr. Serizawa. This decision leads him to witness untold death and destruction. And the ending, as he watches his friend Dr. Serizawa sacrifice himself, he does so with a glazed, empty look in his eyes. It's impossible to tell if it's because of the head injury he received, or because he's in the beginning stages of PTSD.

** [[spoiler: The death of Mothra]].

* [[http://fav.me/d6mnq4l "I was the last of my kind... and you turned me into the first."]]

** I guess it's safer to say the whole original cut of the film is full of it, from the utter and total decimation of Tokyo to the horrific death of Godzilla, the film never pulls its punches. Godzilla's own roars sound unnatural and horrific, his skin is totally scarred and disfigured by the bombings and in general he looks less like the goofy hero most people are familiar with and more like a [[TruthInTelevision mutated, horribly scarred, disfigured abomination of a creature]].

* One scene in ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'' (1991): A Japanese WWII veteran turned mega business mogul comes face to face with Godzilla, who had saved his troops from an American Attack during WWII before he was even Godzilla. As the sad music starts to swell, you can see the recognition in Godzilla's Eyes amid the flashbacks to said time in the past. It looked as if Godzilla was cherishing said memories. And then, after the businessman nods, as if saying "yes, it's me", Godzilla roars (mournfully?) and [[spoiler:promptly blasts the man into oblivion with his breath weapon]].
** Milage may very at that one, but whats the breath weapon is used...it was kind of crowning moment of darkly funny for me....sorry.
** This troper always interpreted that scene as Godzilla being tormented by those memories rather than cherishing them. Note how the flashback isn't about how Godzilla fought off the American soldiers, but rather about how [[spoiler:the Japanese soldiers left him to die.]] He remembered the veteran alright, but not as an old friend, as the human who abandoned him. [[StartOfDarkness Maybe that was the moment that cemented Godzilla's hatred of humans.]]
** And ''this'' troper interpreted it as this: Godzilla is, well, still pretty damn pissed off. He destroys stuff and buildings with loads of people still inside, who either die by radiation poisoning, burned to death or crushed by rubble or suffocate under the debris. He's also angry at humanity for making him into a mutated monster via a nuclear sub. But he sees the general and becomes sentimental because ''somewhere'', under all that anger, there's the heart of a sad and suffering animal. He knows the man means him no harm as he remembers how they respected him after his HeroicSacrifice. He then becomes confused, as he hates humanity but likes this guy. So, in the end, [[spoiler: he decides to give the general a quick and relatively painless death]] rather than the potential suffering he gave to millions of others.

* ''Film/RebirthOfMothra'' trilogy: The death of Mothra Leo's mother is very tear-inducing. What gets me is Mothra Leo putting his head under her wing, crooning for her not to leave him and trying to prevent her from drowning. He fails and she sinks into the ocean with very sad music. Every a reviewer who picked on the film at Million Monkey's Theator said it was an emotionally draining scene for two models made out of rubber and styrofoam.

* Asuza Gojo saying good-bye to Baby Godzilla in ''Film/GodzillaVSMechagodzillaII'' and Baby trying to go with her. This troper cries his eyes out every time Baby grabs onto his foster mother's coat and he starts crying.

** WordofGod explains it this way: Shindo was responsible for Godzilla's creation (or so he thought, not knowing that Godzilla already existed and his submarine had nothing to do with it). HE had turned his savior into this destructive monster-- the bane of his homeland, and so he asks Godzilla to kill him (the nod at the end of the scene). Godzilla complies.

* One scene in ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'' (1992): A Japanese WWII veteran turned mega business mogul comes face to face with Godzilla, who had saved his troops from an American Attack during WWII before he was even Godzilla. As the sad music starts to swell, you can see the recognition in Godzilla's Eyes amid the flashbacks to said time in the past. It looked as if Godzilla was cherishing said memories. And then, after the businessman nods, as if saying "yes, it's me", Godzilla roars (mournfully?) and [[spoiler:promptly blasts the man into oblivion with his breath weapon]].

** And ''this'' troper interpreted it as this: Godzilla is, well, still pretty damn pissed off. He destroys stuff and buildings with loads of people still inside, who either die by radiation poisoning, burned to death or crushed by rubble or suffocate under the debris. He's also angry at humanity for making him into a mutated monster via a nuclear sub. But he sees the general and becomes sentimental because ''somewhere'', under all that anger, there's the heart of a sad and suffering animal. He knows the man means him no harm as he remembers how they respected him after his HeroicSacrifice. He then becomes confused, as he hates humanity but likes this guy. So, in the end, he decides to give the general a quick and relatively painless death rather than the potential suffering he gave to millions of others.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'', there's the death of [[spoiler: both Godzilla's mate and their unborn child]], and his mournful roars that follow.
* In issue 2 of Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters, there is a [[spoiler: father who has lost his children to Godzilla in issue one]]. He spends the first half of the issue questioning why this monster would take away his [[spoiler: children]]. It ends with him [[spoiler:strapping explosives to his body and throwing himself at Godzilla, detonating them and only giving the King of the Monsters a nose itch]].

--> Alien 1: *crushed under wreckage*: Kabuto!

*** A good portion of the original ''Gojira'' can bring you to tears. The children crying in the hospital, the leveled landscape of Tokyo, the mother and her children on the side of the street before they're overcome with flames, the school children singing 'Oh Peace Oh Light Return', and finally ([[spoiler:Serizawa's heroic sacrifice and last words]]).

* One scene in ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'' (1992): A Japanese WWII veteran turned mega business mogul comes face to face with Godzilla, who had saved his troops from an American Attack during WWII before he was even Godzilla. As the sad music starts to swell, you can see the recognition in Godzilla's Eyes amid the flashbacks to said time in the past. It looked as if Godzilla was cherishing said memories. And then, after the businessman nods, as if saying "yes, it's me", Godzilla roars (mournfully?) and ([[spoiler:promptly blasts the man into oblivion with his breath weapon]]).

** What also doesn't help is how heartbroken Asuza really is. Even in the English dub, the voice actress for her sounds like she's giving her waterworks overtime.

* Try watching the original ''Film/{{Gojira}}'' and not crying after learning that it's inspired by two horrific tragedies in Japan's history (the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the Lucky Dragon 5 incident). Go ahead, try.

** I guess it's safer to say the whole original cut of the film is full of it, from the utter and total decimation of Tokyo to the horrific death of Godzilla, the film never pulls it's punches. Godzilla's own roars sound practically inhuman and horrific, his skin is totally scarred and disfigured by the bombings and in general he looks less like the goofy hero most people are familiar with and more like a [[TruthInTelevision mutated, horribly scarred and disfigured, abomanation of a creature]].
* Why is there not even one mention of [[spoiler: Godzilla plunging into Mt. Mihara]] at the end of "Godzilla 1985," followed by Raymond Burr's ending monologue?

* TwoWords: "Goodbye, Yoshido." ([[spoiler:This is what Kiryu (aka the 3rd [=MechaGodzilla=]) says to one of the main characters right before sacrificing himself to save Godzilla from death at the end of Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS.]])