History TearJerker / Polandball

* The whole ''Depression Month'' contest that was hosted on Reddit's /r/polandball board, culminating in [[http://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/1dchqh/contest_thread_depression_month_grand_finale_cast/even more edgy depression]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/m01tmlw.png The 1976 Soweto Uprising]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/Zv3bUQK.png None is Too Many]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/cOGOY46.png The "sorry" for this one took 43 years]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/l7ICS8l.png France's Senseless War]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/EhLA4ml.png The Family Breaks]].
* 'Depression Month' was popular enough to have a sequel, and the community delivered - if anything, [[http://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/2uixy6/contest_thread_depression_month_ii/ the second contest]] is even more distilled TearJerker than the first.
** [[http://i.imgur.com/i1cR5XC.png The Wrong Side of History]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/PD4EyvC.png The Last Resort]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/7q35tU7.png Education]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/9bg7KBT.png Brother Against Brother]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/WaqS4jh.png Intentions]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/BJYY9ZN.png 3 Steps]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/TvRU0vS.png The Price of Our Knowledge]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/HevPt6e.png Empty Seats in the Classroom]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/s3H5LqW.png Sense of Emptiness]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/LqeCFv6.png The Third Partition]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/Va2Mrqi.png Mother Russia Knows Best]].
* 'Depression Month' recently had another sequel and this time, The comic doesn't have to be about a depressing moment from any country's history. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/6ff176/contest_thread_depression_month_iii/]]

* [[http://i.imgur.com/CmlnQRc.png The War Children]].
* [[http://i.imgur.com/zTTw63s.png Ongoing Fatalities in 2013]].
* [[http://i.imgur.com/Tr35vOD.jpg Blood Brothers]].
* [[http://i.imgur.com/HT4cvzT.png Our worst enemy...]]
* [[http://i.imgur.com/wvCV1Az.png Sins of the Son]].
* [[http://i.imgur.com/douBRZe.png Shooting Order]].
* [[http://i.imgur.com/EGGhF7c.png "In the jungle, the mighty jungle..."]]
* [[http://i.imgur.com/v4c33uw.png The Dark side of Canada]].
* [[http://i.imgur.com/GiTnvms.png "So easy, even children can be usings."]]
* [[http://i.imgur.com/PxynZMm.png To the 20th Century!]]
* [[http://i.imgur.com/fvWBL33.png Kaisertum Years]].
* [[https://i.imgur.com/QEcZfNY.jpg The Ideological Impasse]]
* [[http://i.imgur.com/R7A4rJ8.png Together Forever]].
* [[http://i.imgur.com/KKjXeVw.jpg Golden Dreams]]
* [[http://i.imgur.com/3EOWtc0.png Senghenydd]].
** [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=45VcJ8X878c The animated adaptation]] makes the ending a lot more SugarWiki/{{heartwarming|Moments}}.
* [[http://i.imgur.com/OiRzLkq.png The M/S Estonia sinking]].
* It's hard not to feel sorry for Denmark [[http://i.imgur.com/qzB9XN1.png in this comic]].

* [[http://i.imgur.com/sGeEdi1.png The day Germanwings flight 9525 went down.]]
* [[https://i.imgur.com/0somQzS.png Belgium's end]]. In spite of the dickishness at the end, it's still a fairly valid Tear Jerker.
* [[http://i.imgur.com/NCk6t7u.png Divine Wind]].
* [[http://i.imgur.com/A6XtmTP.png Poor Ukraine...]]
* [[https://i.imgur.com/eQFTf9Q.png Brotherly Memories]].
* [[http://i.imgur.com/7nTuW3T.png The UK remembers 7/7]].
* [[http://i.imgur.com/idPg1rw.png The Seeds of Hope.]]
* [[http://i.imgur.com/2uGGBCp.png England and America eat Ireland's potatoes]] Poor Ireland...
* [[http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/groups/1/3/2933/thumb_620x2000/kSxNUzJ.png This is another version of the comic above where England with the others, making a joke at Ireland's expense!]] This version of the strip above is even sadder, and both strips are much sadder if you know that England took away Ireland's food DELIBERATELY! It's saddest that way because it basically means England made a joke at Ireland's expense, while STARVING them! Saddest of all, those two are based on real events, [[Usefulnotes/IrishPotatoFamine The Potato Famine.]]
* [[http://i.imgur.com/UTMgNrB.png the measure of a man]]
* [[http://i.imgur.com/qTu7YOc.png A letter to UN]]
* [[http://country-balls.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/country-balls-kimjongilia.png Kimjoingilia]]
* [[http://i.imgur.com/Pr5DGYT.png On Japanese ultranationalism and continued war crimes denial.]]

* [[http://i.imgur.com/OB0GgZD.png Fill your sky with stars]] is incredibly touching.

* [[https://i.imgur.com/ydP2Z4Z.png Merciless Massacre]].
* [[http://i.imgur.com/jC5ya3n.png What the world looks like through England's monocle.]]
* [[https://i.redd.it/hachceff424z.png Tibet wants to be a real country]].

* [[http://i.imgur.com/eMbS6DD.png Hong Kong the unlucky]].

* An example from the Polandball community: brain4breakfast, one of the more prolific artists on the [=/r/Polandball=] Reddit subreddit, passed away in February 2019. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWfur-7GJbU This video contains several prominent members of the community reacting to the news]].

* [[https://m.imgur.com/45fKeCz The UN crying while imagining the world in peace]], which is impossible to become a reality at this point.
** Cue Israel and Palestine hanging out together at the third panel, both feeling happy and content with each other. It is probably the ''only'' moment in any Polandball comics where they are not fighting or hating each other.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unhusk.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350: The sad fact is, this is somewhat TruthInTelevision [[note]][[https://i.imgur.com/qTu7YOc.png Source]][[/note]].]]

* [[http://country-balls.com/kimjongilia/ Kimjoingilia]]

[[caption-width-right:350: The sad fact is, this is somewhat TruthInTelevision.]]

* [[https://imgur.com/gallery/oWl4uZY Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds]], which shows America's [[MyGodWhatIHaveIDone regret]] over having created nuclear weapons, and even compares himself negatively to [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Death the Horseman]].

* [[https://imgur.com/gallery/oWl4uZY America is not as proud]] of his past [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone as he seems]].

* An example from the Polandball community: brain4breakfast, one of the more prolific artists on the [=/r/Polandball=] Reddit subreddit, passed away in February 2019. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWfur-7GJbU This video contains several prominent members of the community reacting to the news]].

* It's hard not to feel sorry for Spain when he grieves for his long-lost empire in [[https://m.imgur.com/9UzE43d?r this comic]]. DrowningMySorrows at its finest, and it also shows that UK is NotSoDifferent from him, despite their Gibraltar dispute.

No. the commie deserved it.

* [[http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/groups/1/3/2933/thumb_620x2000/kSxNUzJ.png This is another version of the comic above where England with the others, making a joke at Ireland's expense!]] This version of the strip above is even sadder, and both strips are much sadder if you know that England took away Ireland's food DELIBERATELY! It's saddest that way because it basically means England made a joke at Ireland's expense, while STARVING them! Saddest of all, those two are based on real events, [[Usefulnotes/IrishPotatoFamine]]

* [[http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/groups/1/3/2933/thumb_620x2000/kSxNUzJ.png This is another version of the comic above where England with the others, making a joke at Ireland's expense!]] This version of the strip above is even sadder, and both strips are much sadder if you know that England took away Ireland's food DELIBERATELY! It's saddest that way because it basically means England made a joke at Ireland's expense, while STARVING them! Saddest of all, those two are based on real events, Useful notes/IrishPotatoFamine.

* [[http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/groups/1/3/2933/thumb_620x2000/kSxNUzJ.png This is another version of the comic above where England with the others, making a joke at Ireland's expense!]] This version of the strip above is even sadder, and both strips are much sadder if you know that England took away Ireland's food DELIBERATELY! It's saddest that way because it basically means England made a joke at Ireland's expense, while STARVING them! Saddest of all, those two are based on real events, IrishPotatoFamine.

* [[http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/groups/1/3/2933/thumb_620x2000/kSxNUzJ.png This is another version of the comic above where England with the others, making a joke at Ireland's expense!]] This version of the strip above is even sadder, and both strips are much sadder if you believe that England took away Ireland's food DELIBERATELY! It's saddest that way because it basically means England made a joke at Ireland's expense, while STARVING them! Saddest of all, those two are realistic, expect for the potatoes part, the potatoes were blighted, it was WHEAT England stole and sold away from Ireland!

-->'''Reichtangle''': [[spoiler: Ich am useless, no friends, no family, only anschluss... [[GoodbyeCruelWorld Ist goodbye time]].]]

** [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=45VcJ8X878c The animated adaptation]] makes the ending a lot more [[HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]].

** Cue Israel and Palestine hanging out together at the third panel, both feeling happy and content with each other. It is probably the ''only'' moment in any Polandball comics where they are not fighting or hating each other.

* It's hard not to feel sorry for Spain when he grieves for his long-lost empire in [[https://m.imgur.com/9UzE43d?r this comic]]. DrowningMySorrows at its finest.

* [[http://i.imgur.com/X3HBl1k.png Crimes against humanity]] and its [[http://i.imgur.com/Yo3oUZH.png bouns panel]], [[MoodWhiplash apart from]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the ending]].

* [[https://m.imgur.com/9UzE43d?r It's a bit hard to see Spain grieving over his long-lost empire.]] DrowningMySorrows at its finest.

* [[http://i.imgur.com/qTu7YOc.png A sick and weak Liberia writes a letter to a cardboard cutout of the UN]].

* [[http://i.imgur.com/qTu7YOc.png A sick and weak Liberia writes a letter to an unresponsive and shattered UN]].

* [[http://i.imgur.com/CgHLjX6.png The neverending cycle of slaughter in WW1]].

* [[http://i.imgur.com/X3HBl1k.png Crimes against humanity]], [[MoodWhiplash apart from]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the ending]].

* [[http://i.imgur.com/Pr5DGYT.png On Japanese revisionist historians]]