History TearJerker / ResidentEvil7Biohazard

* ''Videogame/ResidentEvilVillage'' makes it even worse and retroactively explains her psychopathic and deranged behavior. The reason why she even exists is because she's a clone of and potential vessel for her genetic mother Miranda's daughter Eva, only to be discarded for being "defective" in Miranda's eyes. When she couldn't satisfy her "mother", she was tossed away like trash.

--> '''Marguerite:''' I'm so sorry, I don't know what is wrong with me.
--> '''Marguerite:''' (to Eveline) Stay away! Don't touch her! Don't hurt my family!

--> '''Zoe:''' Don't worry, Mama. I'll go get help.

* Then, for the final dose of sadness, we have the very last DLC of the game: ''End of Zoe''. Making the Good Ending path canon, it's revealed that Eveline [[FateWorseThanDeath calcified Zoe]] and left her to die in the swamp before she was herself destroyed. ''End of Zoe'' canonically starts ''weeks later'', with Zoe ''still'' being trapped inside of her own crystallized flesh. By the DLC's climax, Zoe has been restored and reunited with her uncle Joe... but she's the last of her family. Her mom's been dead since Ethan killed her, Chris Redfield killed her brother Lucas, and Joe himself had to kill Zoe's father, Jack, after he managed to come back from the MindHive, but only as a deformed and horrific Molded.

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[[folder: Ethan]]

* Honestly, Ethan's entire existence as a RE protag is one huge TearJerker. Unlike most of the other protagonists of the series, Ethan was a normal civilian whose choice of wife and being insanely loyal to those he loves leads to him suffering horribly and [[spoiler: eventually dying, TWICE]].

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[[folder: The Baker family]]

[[folder: Eveline (E-001)]]

* "Why does everyone hate me?" She just seems so genuinely clueless and upset about it that it really drives home that this is all Eveline knows--she thinks she's creating the family she's always wanted, and doesn't understand that it's something horrifying. All of her violence and cruelty are the acts of a very young child responding to constant rejection, starting with the discovery that her “Mommy” was only pretending to love her and wants to abandon her.

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** You feel less sad for Lucas when it's revealed he was freed but kept up the illusion so he could keep his HealingFactor powers and kill people because [[BecomingTheMask he'd come]] to [[EvilFeelsGood enjoy it]]. Still its possible in another scenario, Lucas could've potentially been given the mental help needed for his psychosis.

* "[[FamousLastWords Why does everyone hate me]]?" She just seems so genuinely clueless and upset about it that it really drives home that this is all Eveline knows--she thinks she's creating the family she's always wanted, and doesn't understand that it's something horrifying. All of her violence and cruelty are the acts of a very young child responding to constant rejection, starting with the discovery that her “Mommy” was only pretending to love her and wants to abandon her.

* In both ''Daughters'' and ''End of Zoe'', it's possible to find an art project depicting Jack, Marguerite, and Lucas & Zoe as children. The back of it shows it was made by a young Zoe for a 4th grade project. [[DoomedByCanon All four of the people are smiling happily and holding hands.]]

* "[[FamousLastWords Why does everyone hate me]]?" She just seems so genuinely clueless and upset about it that it really drives home that this is all Eveline knows--she thinks she's creating the family she's always wanted, and doesn't understand that it's something horrifying.

* Eveline herself also counts, fitting the TragicMonster trope to a tee. She was genetically engineered since she was a fetus as a living bio-weapon, and had her aging accelerated so that she could effectively pose as the ultimate subversion agent: a young girl with the ability to infect people with a special fungus that she emits and controls, allowing her to subsequently brainwash her victims. Unfortunately, in the eyes of [[MadScientist her creators]], she wasn't even human, and received no love of any kind. All she wanted was to be a normal girl with a normal family, but due to her nature as a WalkingWasteland, it's [[TragicDream the one thing]] that she cannot ever have. Eventually, she escaped confinement, but that eventually robbed her of the one thing keeping her young: the medicine that keeps the accelerated aging in check. Her true form is the mysterious elderly woman who appears throughout the game.

* "Why does everyone hate me?" She just seems so genuinely clueless and upset about it that it really drives home that this is all Eveline knows--she thinks she's creating the family she's always wanted, and doesn't understand that it's something horrifying.

* The SadisticChoice when forced to either cure Mia or cure Zoe. On one hand, Ethan came to the place and got wrapped up in the series of events to save his wife, and curing her is the 'good ending' path. On the other hand, Zoe was the one that helped Ethan get just the right situations to be able to both evade and fight off her own family, turning against them with hopes of escaping one day and even creating said cure herself. Unfortunately no matter what you choose, Zoe is calcified by Eveline; she appears later in the HiveMind if you cured Mia but is rescued by Joe and Blue Umbrella after Ethan contacted the latter. If you cured Zoe, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Eveline kills her shortly afterwards for betraying the family,]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog while Mia eventually is killed by Ethan herself.]]]]

* Then, for the final dose of sadness, we have the very last DLC of the game: ''End of Zoe''. Making the Good Ending path canon, it's revealed that Eveline [[FateWorseThanDeath]] calcified Zoe and left her to die in the swamp before she was herself destroyed. ''End of Zoe'' canonically starts ''weeks later'', with Zoe ''still'' being trapped inside of her own crystallized flesh. By the DLC's climax, Zoe has been restored and reunited with her uncle Joe... but she's the last of her family. Her mom's been dead since Ethan killed her, Chris Redfield killed her brother Lucas, and Joe himself had to kill Zoe's father, Jack, after he managed to come back from the MindHive, but only as a deformed and horrific Molded.