History TearJerker / Hellsing

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** The OVA managed to ramp it UpToEleven with Alucard looking, for once in the whole series, very human. He lost all the LargeHam he and other characters had been exploding with, and seemed to genuinely be pleading with Anderson to not become like him.

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* The death of [[spoiler:Pip Bernadotte.]] Your only consolation is the immediate SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome that follows as [[spoiler:Seras]] [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], and the UnstoppableRage commences. The OVA somehow managed to make this even more tragic, with the [[spoiler:blind Seras desperately trying to find him, and pathetically grasping at the wall when he slips to the ground, dead]].
** And [[spoiler:the kiss. Pip kisses Seras as he dies. [[GoOutWithASmile And then teases her]].]]
** Then there’s the credits sequence for that episode, which is [[spoiler:a slideshow of Pip's life alongside music that is clearly sung from his perspective, and which ends with a shot of Seras cradling Pip's mangled body.]]
** [[spoiler: Studying the pictures from Pip's childhood makes you even sadder as you realize that those kids with him are the other Wild Geese, they've been together since they were children-- the classical definition of TrueCompanions-- and then one of their own is killed in front of their eyes and they're powerless to do a thing about it.]]

** [[spoiler:Pip's speech to his men. It was impossibly badass, yes, but it was clear that they knew they were going to die.]]
* [[spoiler:Father Anderson's death is ''painful''. Even Alucard is taking it hard, having to be chided for crying by the dying priest, and Iscariot members, some of whom he probably even ''raised'', are visibly falling apart, especially Yumie. Then Walter, having officially gone evil, has to come in and ruin the moment, driving Yumie into full berserker rage and killing her without a care just seconds after he ground what was left of Anderson's ashes under his boot.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Anderson:''' "I can hear them. The children...they're all playing. I should go. They're all waiting. Is...is that really you, Maxwell? You mustn't cry children... Say your prayers...before you sleep... Amen, children..."]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Alucard:''' "...Amen."]]

* When Alucard [[spoiler:absorbs Schrödinger and begins to fade from existence. Emphasized even further when he [[GoOutWithASmile smiles warmly at his master Integra who orders him not to leave before he goes ''poof'', the only thing left behind is the Hellsing pentacle.]]]]

* The manga chapter [[ShoutOut "Castlevania."]] It made [[spoiler:'''''Alucard''''']] TheWoobie, for Christ's sake. Also, Integra having to [[spoiler:give the order for Walter's execution]] was brutal. So much so that even ''she'' started crying!
** Realizing that [[spoiler:the real Vlad the Impaler]] probably wasn't that different from his ''Hellsing'' version is worse. As is asserting that in spite of everything [[spoiler:he did for his people and for Christianity (seriously, the guy was a martyr, if a crazed fanatic)]] today he remains [[spoiler:mostly remembered as a monster]].
* Rip Van Winkle's death. The fact that she ''knew'' that Alucard would tear her to shreds and actively tried to run from him made her death so depressing. Her being AffablyEvil made her interesting, but to see that she had enough common sense to realize that she stood no chance against Alucard made it hard to watch him pretty much rape her (or at least act like it) as he killed her.
* In episode 10 of the TV version, when [[spoiler:Ferguson]] dies.

* The credits of OVA 8 show Anderson with the very young Heinkel, Yumie, and Enrico Maxwell. Yumie and Heinkel seemed to be examining their weapons for the first time. Enrico was simply reading from the Bible, possibly under Anderson's instruction. They all looked fairly happy, like a group of friends. [[TearJerker Tear Jerking]] because, earlier in that OVA [[spoiler:Maxwell had been killed by his own teacher and surrogate father. Said teacher then became a monster while his students Yumie and Heinkel had to watch. Also, later in the manga, Yumie and Anderson would both die in front of Heinkel. Which would leave her all alone.]] Yikes.
** Despite the fact that Maxwell was a {{jerkass}} in the finest degree, his [[spoiler: death scene, in which he pleads for Anderson to help him, and then extends his hands to the sky muttering "Jesus..." is nearly certain to make someone's throat lumpy.]]

* After [[spoiler: the reveal of Walter's betrayal]], Integra gives the order to Alucard to kill him. In the final panel of the order, she looks absolutely ''crushed.''
** And then just before the fight, [[spoiler: Seras thanks him for everything he's done for her, and just for a brief moment Walter actually looks like he might be regretting his decision.]]
* Almost all the protagonists have had, both in the past and in the present, their downhill moments. The winners, however, are arguably [[spoiler: Walter]] followed by [[spoiler:Anderson]].
* [[spoiler: Walter's death]] is just one long train wreck of tearjerking sorrow. From the moment he snaps out of his single-minded determination to slay (or at least defeat) Alucard after [[spoiler: the latter [[CessationOfExistence disappears]]]], he seems to realize just how blind he was for accepting a superpower from Millennium and casting aside his comrades, to the point where he just sits there and allows Heinkel to shoot him, even goading her into doing it.

* When Seras' backstory is [[ShockingSwerve revealed]], and Alucard [[spoiler: disappears]].

* The death of [[spoiler:Pip Bernadotte.]] Your only consolation is the immediate SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome that follows as [[spoiler:Seras]] [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], and the UnstoppableRage commences. The OVA somehow managed to make this even more tragic, with the [[spoiler:blind Seras desperately trying to find him, and pathetically grasping at the wall when he slips to the ground, dead]].

* The manga chapter [[ShoutOut "Castlevania."]] It made [[spoiler:'''''Alucard''''']] TheWoobie, for Christ's sake. Also, Integra having to [[spoiler:give the order for Walter's execution]] was brutal.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[DarkestHour Oh god... the captain is dead?]][[note]]This is right before Seras [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] and [[CurbStompBattle eliminates Zorin's remaining forces]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[BreakTheCutie Oh god... the captain is dead?]][[note]]This is right before Seras [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] and [[CurbStompBattle eliminates Zorin's remaining forces]].[[/note]]]]

--->'''Alucard:''' A monster like me, a weak monster that could not go on being human... ''must be defeated by a human!'' Don't do it, human. Don't become a monster.... A monster like ''me''.
** The sheer look on Alucard's face when he finally kills Anderson. While Alucard has gotten angry a few times, this was the one and only time he was literally reduced to a [[UnstoppableRage screaming rage]] and attacking someone without any of the sadistic joy he usually did. Right before breaking down in front of everyone, crying and cursing Anderson and even himself for their mistakes. He even begins sobbing at the end

*** In the OVA's dub, it's translated that he "wanted to give Alucard a proper send-off." Considering what he sooner talked about Alucard's coping of his extended life, one wonders if underneath the envy and insecurity, he wanted to end his friend's suffering.

--->[[spoiler:'''Anderson:''' "I can hear them. The children...they're all playing. I should go. They're all waiting. Is...is that really you, Maxwell? You mustn't cry children... Say your prayers...before you sleep... Amen, children."]]

** [[spoiler:"I can hear the children... they're playing. I should go."]]

** To add to Penwood's TearJerker SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, all of his men at the command center refusing to leave certainly qualify. Despite his insistence that they leave and not throw away their lives, they ALL volunteer to stay with him to assist him in what they can clearly see is a doomed effort, in part because he couldn't possibly do all the tasks required alone (despite him saying so, establishing a chain of command is complicated and requires at the very least a handful of people to effectively accomplish), and in part because they obviously take their duty just as seriously as he takes his (even if he is, as he honestly puts it, a man who "gets nervous."). It's not just the fact that they decide to stay and die with him--it's the fact that they obviously respected him enough to do so in the first place. The worse thing they say, and only out of honesty, is that if he doesn't stay at his chair in the command center, he might get in the way of various duties being performed, hinting that they still consider him their commanding officer (however reliant on them), and a man worth dying alongside, in spite of (and probably in part because of) his immediate admittance that most of his position is owed to money and heritage than anything else shortly before accepting that he could very well die performing his honor-bound duties, and then proceeding to commit to them. Not so much a FatherToHisMen moment as it is Sons To Their Commander, but tear-jerking no less on their part.

** Realizing that [[spoiler:the real Vlad the Impaler]] probably wasn't that different from his ''Hellsing'' version is worse. As is asserting that in spite of everything [[spoiler:he did for his people and for Christianity (seriously, the guy was a martyr)]] today he remains [[spoiler:mostly remembered as a monster]].

** Despite the fact that Maxwell was a {{jerkass}} in the finest degree, his [[spoiler: death scene, in which he pleads for Anderson to help him, and then extends his hands to sky muttering "Jesus..." is nearly certain to make someone's throat lumpy.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Oh god... the captain is dead?]]

* The death of [[spoiler:Pip Bernadotte.]] Your only consolation is the immediate SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome that follows as [[spoiler:Seras]] [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], and the UnstoppableRage commences. The OVA somehow managed to make this even more tragic, with the [[spoiler:blind Seras desperately trying to find him, and pathetically grasping at the wall when he slips to the ground, dead]].

** To add to Penwood's TearJerker SugarWiki/MomentofAwesome, all of his men at the command center refusing to leave certainly qualify. Despite his insistence that they leave and not throw away their lives, they ALL volunteer to stay with him to assist him in what they can clearly see is a doomed effort, in part because he couldn't possibly do all the tasks required alone (despite him saying so, establishing a chain of command is complicated and requires at the very least a handful of people to effectively accomplish), and in part because they obviously take their duty just as seriously as he takes his (even if he is, as he honestly puts it, a man who "gets nervous."). It's not just the fact that they decide to stay and die with him--it's the fact that they obviously respected him enough to do so in the first place. The worse thing they say, and only out of honesty, is that if he doesn't stay at his chair in the command center, he might get in the way of various duties being performed, hinting that they still consider him their commanding officer (however reliant on them), and a man worth dying alongside, in spite of (and probably in part because of) his immediate admittance that most of his position is owed to money and heritage than anything else shortly before accepting that he could very well die performing his honor-bound duties, and then proceeding to commit to them. Not so much a FatherToHisMen moment as it is Sons To Their Commander, but tear-jerking no less on their part.

* The death of [[spoiler:Pip Bernadotte.]] Your only consolation is the immediate CrowningMomentOfAwesome that follows as [[spoiler:Seras]] [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], and the UnstoppableRage commences. The OVA somehow managed to make this even more tragic, with the [[spoiler:blind Seras desperately trying to find him, and pathetically grasping at the wall when he slips to the ground, dead]].

** To add to Penwood's TearJerker CrowningMomentofAwesome, all of his men at the command center refusing to leave certainly qualify. Despite his insistence that they leave and not throw away their lives, they ALL volunteer to stay with him to assist him in what they can clearly see is a doomed effort, in part because he couldn't possibly do all the tasks required alone (despite him saying so, establishing a chain of command is complicated and requires at the very least a handful of people to effectively accomplish), and in part because they obviously take their duty just as seriously as he takes his (even if he is, as he honestly puts it, a man who "gets nervous."). It's not just the fact that they decide to stay and die with him--it's the fact that they obviously respected him enough to do so in the first place. The worse thing they say, and only out of honesty, is that if he doesn't stay at his chair in the command center, he might get in the way of various duties being performed, hinting that they still consider him their commanding officer (however reliant on them), and a man worth dying alongside, in spite of (and probably in part because of) his immediate admittance that most of his position is owed to money and heritage than anything else shortly before accepting that he could very well die performing his honor-bound duties, and then proceeding to commit to them. Not so much a FatherToHisMen moment as it is Sons To Their Commander, but tear-jerking no less on their part.