History TearJerker / Metroid

* ''MetroidPrime 3: Corruption'' has one of the greatest ones. It's bad enough that you're forced to kill your three fellow bounty hunters, but Rundas' fight is especially bad because of the music that plays. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nMFLquJeCc Try to listen to it without a few tears wetting your eyes.]]

** one can only imagine what is going through Samus' mind during the events of Echoes. she only came to Aether to rescue a stranded unit of GF troopers only to find them all dead, and or turned into zombies. U-Mos tells her to go to Agon Wastes and the ruins look similar to the Chozo Riuns on Talon IV. It's possible to interpret this as Samus being reminded of her own people. She couldn't save the chozo but she'll be damned if she lets anyone else suffer the same fate.

The ''{{Metroid}}'' series indeed has its [[TearJerker moments of sadness.]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCozG1RXkCI The last moments of Adam Malcovich.]] That last conversation between Samus and Adam...

* ''Prime 2'' has couple in the form of logs, but one always stood out for me; a not-even-logged scan of a female Luminoth dead near a gate. The scan indicates she died of malnutrition, adding the note "She remained at her post even though she was starving to death."

** During the final battle with Mother Brain, Samus is nearly killed by its penultimate attack, injured to the point where she can't even stand upright. As Mother Brain prepares to finish her off, the Giant Metroid bursts into the room and grabs it, sucking the life out of it to save its mother. It then settles onto Samus, restoring her health... at which point the NotQuiteDead Mother Brain gets up and attacks, as the metroid takes the blows. Gamers find themselves [[PlayerPunch heartbroken]] by the death of an alien jellyfish... and relieved when the resulting MamaBear moment from Samus lets them make Mother Brain pay [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome by blowing its head off of its neck.]] With [[EleventhHourSuperpower a weapon so powerful]] that Mother Brain's remains crumble to dust before your eyes.

* Even a boss gets a Tear Jerk moment. After beating the Draygon, she'll drop to the floor and her three children will mournfully bury her. Samus had inadvertantly orphaned three innocent sea creatures. NiceJobBreakingItHero.
** "Innocent"? Their siblings have tried to kill you throughout Miridia.

*** [[spoiler:This scene was recreated ''in full [=3D=] graphics complete with Samus's horrified expression'' in the introduction of ''Metroid: Other M'' as a flashback sequence. It also adds in her ''reaching out to the baby as it's mortally wounded in a futile attempt to do anything.]]

** Ghor's death is also sad, due to the fact that Samus is ''shooting away at Dark Samus in a futile attempt to save him.''

** Which leads into Gandrayda's death. Gandrayda staggers back, [[ShapeshifterSwanSong losing control of her shapeshifting]], and eventually settles into ''Samus''s form. When Dark Samus appears, Samus doesn't even try to shoot Dark Samus this time. She knows that there's absolutely ''nothing'' she can do to save Gandrayda. All Samus can do is stand there, with a fist clenched in silent fury as Gandrayda dies.

* In ''Metroid Fusion'', this troper cries when Samus proposes her plan to stop the GovernmentConspiracy from abusing the [[TheVirus X Parasites]] and the [[EvilTwin SA-X]], by ColonyDrop-ing the Biologic Space Labs. With herself still aboard.

** This troper always thought the penultimate conversation with the AI Adam was an even bigger Tear Jerker:

* ''MetroidPrime 3: Corruption'' has one of the greatest ones for this Troper. It's bad enough that you're forced to kill your three fellow bounty hunters, but Rundas' fight is especially bad because of the music that plays. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nMFLquJeCc&feature=related Try to listen to it without a few tears wetting your eyes.]] I actually never heard the music the first couple of times I fought him, but when I heard the music by itself and then played the battle, I had to pause the game because of how much I was crying. His death was also tragic, as he seemed to regain his senses for a few moments and recognize Samus, but before he says anything he is impaled through his own icicles, crying out in pain, and Dark Samus comes to absorb his body.

* The final log of the GFS ''Tyr'' always gets this troper. They're damaged but manage a landing, everything's going fine, and then... "''INCOMING!!'' They're closing in fast... I need backup... ''I need backup!!''" Followed by fifteen seconds of horror as an army of Dark Splinters proceed to rip the Marines limb from limb. The true Tear Jerker comes at the end, though; as the log ends, Samus looks out at the crash site, shaking her head at the futility of their deaths, and then kneels next to Captain Exeter's body and [[DiesWideOpen closes his eyes]] through his broken visor.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCozG1RXkCI The last moments of Adam Malcovich.]] I'd sat through the darkest moment of WesternAnimation/ToyStory3, but while I'd felt fear, sadness, etc., it didn't pull hard enough. But that last conversation between Samus and Adam... It came close.

* This troper always gets saddened when he remembers the fate of Bryyo, especially the last Science Lord, who realized the damage they had done to their planet and desperately attempted to merge magic and technology and find an heir to keep the newfound technology alive and trying to keep the rest of the planet from dying...then the rest of those who practiced the old ways found him.
** This troper playd Metroid Prime 1 for the first time at the age of eleven. Learning of the fate of the Chozo made him cry, then swear vengeance for the cruel fate they really, ''really'' didn't deserve. He played ''Corruption'' four years later, and even if the reaction was more contained, he was still saddened from the fate of the Bryyonians and the Elysians. The saddest thing about those three peoples is that they were actually happy civilizations, who (especially the Chozo) had learned to live in harmony with the environment '''and''' among themselves. THEN, THAD DAMNED PHAZON CAME AND RUINED EVERYTHING! So, frying Metroid Prime at the end of the first game, and destroying [[spoiler:Phaaze]] at the end of the third felt very, ''very'' satisfying to him.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCozG1RXkCI The last moments of Adam Malcovich.]] I'd sat through the darkest moment of WesternAnimation/ToyStory 3, but while I'd felt fear, sadness, etc., it didn't pull hard enough. But that last conversation between Samus and Adam... It came close.

** This troper playd Metroid Prime 1 for the first time at the age of eleven. Learning of the fate of the Chozo made him cry, then swear vengeance for the cruel fate they really, ''really'' didn't deserve. He played ''Corruption'' four years later, and even if the reaction was more contained, he was still saddened from the fate of the Bryyonians and the Elysians. The saddest thing about those three peoples is that they were actually happy civilizations, who (especially the Chozo) had learned to live in harmony with the environment '''and''' among themselves. THEN, THAD DAMNED PHAZON CAME AND RUINED EVERYTHING!

* ''Super Metroid'' has several, mostly dealing with the Giant Metroid (the adult form of the baby Metroid that imprinted on Samus in ''Metroid II'').
** The first time we see it, it swoops out of nowhere in Tourian, latches onto Samus, drains almost her entire energy reserve... and then lets go and floats away. As it does so, it lets out several confused sounds, and you realize that its cries mean something very close to "Mommy?"
*** The part that does it is that the Metroid only lets go when Samus' low-health alarm starts beeping. Remember Ridley's assault on the research lab? The ''last'' thing the baby Metroid remembers about Samus is Ridley attacking her [[FridgeBrilliance and setting off her low-health alarm]] (unless you're a preternaturally good player, but still.)
** During the final battle with Mother Brain, Samus is nearly killed by its penultimate attack, injured to the point where she can't even stand upright. As Mother Brain prepares to finish her off, the Giant Metroid bursts into the room and grabs it, sucking the life out of it to save its mother. It then settles onto Samus, restoring her health... at which point the NotQuiteDead Mother Brain gets up and attacks, as the metroid takes the blows. Gamers find themselves [[PlayerPunch heartbroken]] by the death of an alien jellyfish... and relieved when the resulting MamaBear moment from Samus lets them make Mother Brain pay [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome by blowing its head off of its neck.]] With [[EleventhHourSuperpower a weapon so powerful]] that Mother Brain's remains crumble to dust before your eyes.
*** [[spoiler:This scene was recreated ''in full [=3D=] graphics complete with Samus's horrified expression'' in the introduction of ''Metroid: Other M'' as a flashback sequence. It also adds in her ''reaching out to the baby as it's mortally wounded in a futile attempt to do anything.]]
* In ''Metroid Fusion'', this troper cries when Samus proposes her plan to stop the GovernmentConspiracy from abusing the [[TheVirus X Parasites]] and the [[EvilTwin SA-X]], by ColonyDrop-ing the Biologic Space Labs. With herself still aboard.

** This troper always thought the penultimate conversation with the AI Adam was an even bigger Tear Jerker:

* ''MetroidPrime 3: Corruption'' has one of the greatest ones for this Troper. It's bad enough that you're forced to kill your three fellow bounty hunters, but Rundas' fight is especially bad because of the music that plays. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nMFLquJeCc&feature=related Try to listen to it without a few tears wetting your eyes.]] I actually never heard the music the first couple of times I fought him, but when I heard the music by itself and then played the battle, I had to pause the game because of how much I was crying. His death was also tragic, as he seemed to regain his senses for a few moments and recognize Samus, but before he says anything he is impaled through his own icicles, crying out in pain, and Dark Samus comes to absorb his body.
** Also, the 75% ending of Corruption is incredibly sad, with the usual "Samus takes off her helmet" scene, but instead being triumphant, it shows Samus sitting all alone in Skytown, reminiscing about all of the other hunters she was forced to kill, and gazing off into the horizon, looking very wistful and unhappy.

* ''Prime 2'' has couple in the form of logs, but one always stood out for me; a not-even-logged scan of a female Luminoth dead near a gate. The scan indicates she died of malnutrition, adding the note "She remained at her post even though she was starving to death."
* The final log of the GFS ''Tyr'' always gets this troper. They're damaged but manage a landing, everything's going fine, and then... "''INCOMING!!'' They're closing in fast... I need backup... ''I need backup!!''" Followed by fifteen seconds of horror as an army of Dark Splinters proceed to rip the Marines limb from limb. The true Tear Jerker comes at the end, though; as the log ends, Samus looks out at the crash site, shaking her head at the futility of their deaths, and then kneels next to Captain Exeter's body and [[DiesWideOpen closes his eyes]] through his broken visor.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCozG1RXkCI The last moments of Adam Malcovich.]] I'd sat through the darkest moment of ToyStory 3, but while I'd felt fear, sadness, etc., it didn't pull hard enough. But that last conversation between Samus and Adam... It came close.

* The final log of the GFS ''Tyr'' always gets this troper. They're damaged but manage a landing, everything's going fine, and then... "''INCOMING!!'' They're closing in fast... I need backup... ''I need backup!!''" Followed by fifteen seconds of horror as an army of Dark Splinters proceed to rip the Marines limb from limb. The true Tear Jerker comes at the end, though; as the log ends, Samus looks out at the crash site, shaking her head at the futility of their deaths, and then kneels next to Captain Exeter's body and [[DiesWideShut closes his eyes]] through his broken visor.

*** [[spoiler:This scene was recreated ''in full [=3D=] graphics complete with Samus's horrified expression'' in the introduction of ''Metroid: Other M'' as a flashback sequence.]]

** YourMileageMayVary

** In ''Metroid Fusion'', this troper cries when Samus proposes her plan to stop the GovernmentConspiracy from abusing the [[TheVirus X Parasites]] and the [[EvilTwin SA-X]], by ColonyDrop-ing the Biologic Space Labs. With herself still aboard.
--->'''Samus:''' The X must not escape this station. I must send them all to oblivion. Them, the station... [[HeroicSacrifice and myself...]] [[TakingYouWithMe if I have to.]]
*** This troper always thought the penultimate conversation with the AI Adam was an even bigger Tear Jerker:
---->[[spoiler:'''Adam:''' Did this "Adam" care for you? Would he sit in a safe command room somewhere and order you to die?]]
---->[[spoiler:'''Samus:''' He would understand that some must live and some must die... He knew what it meant. He made that sacrifice, once.]]
---->[[spoiler:'''Adam:''' So he chose life for you? Our fair warrior? Your Adam gave his life so that you might keep yours... for the sake of the universe...]]
---->[[spoiler:'''Samus:''' (long pause)]]
---->...Leading up to [[TheReveal the big reveal]]:
---->[[spoiler:'''Adam:''' Samus, this is your last mission. Go to the Operations Room and alter the station's orbit path to intercept [=SR388=]. Set the self-destruct, return to your ship and escape. Move quickly, and stay alive... ''[[AsYouWish Any objections, Lady?]]'']]
** ''MetroidPrime 3: Corruption'' has one of the greatest ones for this Troper. It's bad enough that you're forced to kill your three fellow bounty hunters, but Rundas' fight is especially bad because of the music that plays. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nMFLquJeCc&feature=related Try to listen to it without a few tears wetting your eyes.]] I actually never heard the music the first couple of times I fought him, but when I heard the music by itself and then played the battle, I had to pause the game because of how much I was crying. His death was also tragic, as he seemed to regain his senses for a few moments and recognize Samus, but before he says anything he is impaled through his own icicles, crying out in pain, and Dark Samus comes to absorb his body.
*** Also, the 75% ending of Corruption is incredibly sad, with the usual "Samus takes off her helmet" scene, but instead being triumphant, it shows Samus sitting all alone in Skytown, reminiscing about all of the other hunters she was forced to kill, and gazing off into the horizon, looking very wistful and unhappy.
** ''Prime 2'' has couple in the form of logs, but one always stood out for me; a not-even-logged scan of a female Luminoth dead near a gate. The scan indicates she died of malnutrition, adding the note "She remained at her post even though she was starving to death."
** The final log of the GFS ''Tyr'' always gets this troper. They're damaged but manage a landing, everything's going fine, and then... "''INCOMING!!'' They're closing in fast... I need backup... ''I need backup!!''" Followed by fifteen seconds of horror as an army of Dark Splinters proceed to rip the Marines limb from limb. The true Tear Jerker comes at the end, though; as the log ends, Samus looks out at the crash site, shaking her head at the futility of their deaths, and then kneels next to Captain Exeter's body and [[DiesWideShut closes his eyes]] through his broken visor.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCozG1RXkCI The last moments of Adam Malcovich.]] I'd sat through the darkest moment of ToyStory 3, but while I'd felt fear, sadness, etc., it didn't pull hard enough. But that last conversation between Samus and Adam... It came close.
*** Or the playable epilogue. You go back through the ship to retrieve an item that "cannot be replaced." It turns out to be Adam's helmet. Samus picks it up, and then reminisces of Adam in the control room watching her as she plans to go to Sector Zero. Adam is like "No! Samus!" with a pained and worried expression on his usually neutral face, and runs off to go to intercept her, leaving his helmet behind. After this, it cuts back to Samus, who then ''hugs'' the helmet. Then out of nowhere, it's time for the escape sequence! This is all done with NO monologue either. And the music...

* ''[[{{Metroid}} Super Metroid]]'' has several, mostly dealing with the Giant Metroid (the adult form of the baby Metroid that imprinted on Samus in ''Metroid II'').

*** This troper, moved to tears by that scene, was always miffed at the AdaptationDecay in the Nintendo Power comic, which had a side-character created exclusively for the comic (and the freaking ''comic relief'' no less!) accidentally kill it and completely gut the entire emotional response. Samus ''still'' used its death as motivation, but she wasn't in any trouble and it's not like it was even personal. If anything, this troper always wished she'd have taken a Hyper Beam to the idiot that really did it.
*** [[spoiler:According to leaked videos, this scene will be recreated ''in full 3D graphics complete with Samus's horrified expression'' in the introduction of ''Metroid: Other M'' as a flashback sequence. Just try imagining this scene with some of the best graphics the Wii is capable of putting out, and ''oh god''...]]

** ''MetroidPrime3: Corruption'' has one of the greatest ones for this Troper. It's bad enough that you're forced to kill your three fellow bounty hunters, but Rundas' fight is especially bad because of the music that plays. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nMFLquJeCc&feature=related Try to listen to it without a few tears wetting your eyes.]] I actually never heard the music the first couple of times I fought him, but when I heard the music by itself and then played the battle, I had to pause the game because of how much I was crying. His death was also tragic, as he seemed to regain his senses for a few moments and recognize Samus, but before he says anything he is impaled through his own icicles, crying out in pain, and Dark Samus comes to absorb his body.