History TearJerker / HisDarkMaterials

* The penultimate episode features [[spoiler: Marisa and Asriel's]] DyingMomentOfAwesome as they [[HeroicSacrifice tackle]][[BigBad Metatron]] into the abyss, but this leads into tearjerker territory as going into the abyss essentially means they will never move on to the afterlife. [[spoiler:The golden monkey]] reaching out to Lyra as he fades away is particularly sad, as it lets her know that [[spoiler:her mother]] has died.

* The penultimate episode features [[spoiler: Marisa and Asriel's]] DyingMomentOfAwesome as they [[HeroicSacrifice tackle the]][[Big Bad]] into the abyss, but this leads into tearjerker territory as going into the abyss essentially means they will never move on to the afterlife. [[spoiler:The golden monkey]] reaching out to Lyra as he fades away is particularly sad, as it lets her know that [[spoiler:her mother]] has died.

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--> We got it wrong, though, Pan. We got it all wrong about Roger. We thought we were ''helping'' him.

** [[spoiler: Lee's death. He holds the pursuers while Jopari continues to find the knife bearer. He accumulates the wounds during the fight, and is finally shot in the chest. The last conversation between him and Hester as well as her turning to Dust is heartwrenching to see.]]
** [[spoiler: John Parry's death. Unlike in the book, he's killed by a Magisterium soldier that managed to get through the Lee's HoldTheLine, by the shot that would likely kill his son (with whom he just met after 10 years) if he didn't take the bullet. His daemon even kills the soldier's one before he succumbs to his wounds.]]

** His killer doesn't get it better either: [[spoiler: it was a witch named Juta Kamainen who swore vengeance on him for being rejected. Once she gets her death and is confronted by the son of the man she killed, she feels empty and finished. All she can say to Will is that she loved him, and that pretty much explains it all, and then she kills herself.]]

*** Think about what this is implying; if they open any other doors through Will's knife, they will put the world in danger once again. [[BeingGoodSucks Being good really ''does'' suck]].

** [[spoiler: Lee's death. He holds the pursuers while Jopari continues to find the knife bearer. He accumulates the wounds during the fight, and is finally shot in the chest. The last conversation between him and Heather as well as her turning to Dust is heartwrenching to see.]]

** [[spoiler: Lee's death. He holds the pursuers while Jopari continues to find the knife bearer. He accumulates the wounds during the fight, and is finally shot in the chest. The last conversation between him and Heather as well as her turning to Dust is more heartwrenching.]]

** Lyra and Will realize that the Dust is flowing out of the universe because of all the open holes in between worlds, left by the subtle knife. The angel they are talking to says that, if they work their entire lives to promote good, there will be enough Dust regenerated to leave open one door. They are desperately in love and, because neither can live in the other's world for long (and because neither wants the other to sacrifice their lifespan just for ten years together, especially since they would keep living after that), they desperately want to leave one open between their worlds. There is almost the mother of all happy endings until they realize they can't shut the one that prevents departed souls from being trapped in the Underworld for eternity. The story afterward just becomes an incarnate tearjerker.

*** The part where Lyra suggests that they

* The scene where Lyra and Will realize that the Dust is flowing out of the universe because of all the open holes in between worlds, left by the subtle knife. The angel they are talking to says that, if they work their entire lives to promote good, there will be enough Dust regenerated to leave open one door. They are desperately in love and, because neither can live in the other's world for long (and because neither wants the other to sacrifice their lifespan just for ten years together, especially since they would keep living after that), they desperately want to leave one open between their worlds. There is almost the mother of all happy endings until they realize they can't shut the one that prevents departed souls from being trapped in the Underworld for eternity. The story afterward is just one tearful good
** What makes it especially sad is that the love between Will and Lyra doesn't really fully blossom until shortly before they find out that they have to part.
* The shattering of the subtle knife: Will's thoughts about his mother are unable to break the knife like the first time, so Will channels his grief over his final separation from Lyra, touching the teardrop she's left on his face and he shatters the only tool to connect their worlds.
* Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter's suicide gambit against the Metatron, especially "I lied and lied, Asriel... I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.", followed by Marisa's choice to use her own weight to drag Metatron down into the abyss, and preventing him from throwing Asriel off and escaping.
** It gets worse to think about - the abyss doesn't let the Dust that forms their souls or their daemons escape. While every other being who dies in any universe is allowed the freedom granted by the window left by Lyra and Will, Marisa and Asriel are left in the abyss, forever. Whether they're conscious of falling forever or the Dust that was once them is unable to be set free in the universe, they are the only beings in the multiverse to not become one with the universe again. What a DownerEnding for those two.
* Balthamos pulling off a simultaneous tear jerker, CMOA and CMOH when he/she saves Will and Lyra by killing the priest stalking them with a scoped rifle, performing one final sacrifice before disintegrating from sheer grief at the death of Baruch.
* Pantalaimon's abandonment in the Land of The Dead. He becomes the textbook example of heartrending woobyishness.

* A lot of this book (between Lyra and Pan's separation and [[BittersweetEnding the finale]]) will shoot you in the brain.
* The scene where Lyra and Will realize that the Dust is flowing out of the universe because of all the open holes in between worlds, left by the subtle knife. The angel they are talking to says that, if they work their entire lives to promote good, there will be enough Dust regenerated to leave open one door. They are desperately in love and, because neither can live in the other's world for long (and because neither wants the other to sacrifice their lifespan just for ten years together, especially since they would keep living after that), they desperately want to leave one open between their worlds. There is almost the mother of all happy endings until they realize they can't shut the one that prevents departed souls from being trapped in the Underworld for eternity. Cue a sob-fest that lasts until nearly the end of the book -- at least twenty pages.