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*** Also, [[spoiler: Chalk's death]] from the same. A thirteen year old rape victim, fighting so that no one else has to go through that, [[spoiler: gets shot through the stomach and keeps shooting. No one notices her fatal wound until they're about to leave.]]
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*** Also, [[spoiler: Chalk's death]] from the same. A thirteen year old rape victim, fighting so that no one else has to go through that, [[spoiler: gets shot through the stomach and keeps shooting. No one notices her fatal wound until they're about to leave.leave and she is in the process of ''actually dying''; she has to draw their attention to herself because she took the bullet without a sound.]]
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*** Oh god. That entire ''passage''.
-->And then in one blazing moment you realise that there was no dragon. There was no Vader. That there was only you. Only Anakin Skywalker. That it was all you. Is you. You did it. You killed her. ... It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith...
-->Because now your''self'' is all you will ever have.
-->And then in one blazing moment you realise that there was no dragon. There was no Vader. That there was only you. Only Anakin Skywalker. That it was all you. Is you. You did it. You killed her. ... It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith...
-->Because now your''self'' is all you will ever have.
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**** All the more heartbreaking if you've read some backstory on that guy. His name is Ki Adi Mundi. He had adventures with a RagtagBunchOfMisfits type crew of droids. He's got a family. He's got ''kids.''
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*** Face it, if you don't drip tears all through the last twenty-odd minutes of ''Return of the Jedi'' you must be a droid.
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** How has no one mentioned when Anakin is lying broken after his battle with Obi-Wan, screaming "I hate you!" in a barely recognizable voice, only to have Obi-Wan, who is barely holding in his sorrow, whisper "And whispers, "You were my brother, Anakin; I loved you."
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*** [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic KOTOR]] adds FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror to the whole Clone Wars scenario. Try listening to Carth and Canderous's argument about warriors and soldiers, then realize that the Republic's "Grand Army" is not made of citizen-soldiers like Carth...but of a band of slaves cloned from and trained as Mandalorians...
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* For some, finding the things built up by so many of the Expanded Universe books, the YoungJediKnights saga in particular, brutally crushed for shock value a la ''CryForJustice'' by the New Jedi Order, and the massive {{Character Derailment}}s of heroes like Luke and Jacen, induces tears of both sorrow and rage. There are those of us who are trying to get the whole damn thing disavowed.
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** [[ItGetsWorse One could go further than that]]; to Luke, the rancor was a dangerous creature who needed to be killed; to the rancor keeper it was a pet. [[FridgeBrilliance Such differences in attitudes towards the rancor echo those towards real-life pets, such as between someone who was attacked by a dog and the owner of said dog.]]
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** [[ItGetsWorse One could go further than that]]; to Luke, the rancor was a dangerous creature who needed to be killed; to the rancor keeper it was a pet. [[FridgeBrilliance Such differences in attitudes towards the rancor echo those towards real-life pets, such as between someone who was attacked by a dog and the owner of said dog.]]
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*** Not quite. As Jolee Bindo points out, every era has its tyrants and its heroes, and while one side may gain the upper hand, at some point, the other will regain momentum. Tyrants like Malak needed to be fought, but their coming didn't herald the end of all things. Palpatine's empire was just the latest victory by the Dark Side, and it was comparatively short lived.
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** Anakin's utterly broken plea of "Stay with me, mom." Anyone who has ever lost a parent will know his sorrow.
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**** The scene of Anakin after killing the Separatists where it shows him standing alone, weeping in complete and total self-hatred. He knows full well what he's become but feels he's beyond redemption already.
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* In the young adult series ''Jedi Apprentice'', set before ''ThePhantomMenace'', Qui-Gon Jinn and Tahl, a Jedi that he grew up with, finally admit their love for each other after years of close friendship. [[spoiler: Immediately afterwards, she gets captured and tortured to death, nearly bringing Qui-Gon to the Dark Side in his [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge grief-stricken rage]]]].
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** No, Anakin's death at the end of RotJ. This troper still cannot read it without bawling.
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* [[spoiler:Anakin Solo's]] death.
* I don't know why, it just gets me every time, when Wicket hugs R2 at the end of ReturnOfTheJedi, I start crying.
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* [[spoiler:Anakin Solo's death]] in ''New Jedi Order: Star by Star''. [[spoiler:Leia's [[HeroicBSOD shutting down emotionally]] and Han's anger]] especially pulled at this troper's heartstrings.
** No one's mentioned [[spoiler:Chewbacca's death]] as it's own example yet? I couldn't bring myself to keep reading the book for a good two weeks after that.
*** [[spoiler:The funeral of Chewbacca...]] I, I need to go...
* Another StarWars example: [[XWingSeries X-wing: Iron Fist]]. The death of [[spoiler: Ton Phanan]]. AaronAllston is really good both at funny and tears. The author said on [[http://www.aaronallston.com/faq.html his site]]: "Although he feared death, although he struggled against it, [[spoiler: Ton Phanan]], deep down, didn't want to live." Also, a little earlier, when he is confessing to Face that he feels like his EmergencyTransformation [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul ate his future]], and he's getting farther and farther from who he once was.
** Come on! That's all you could find from Star Wars? To writ: Corran dies in ''Wedge's Gamble'' (he gets better); in ''The Krytos Trap'' it's Mirax (who also gets better) and [[spoiler:Diric]] (who doesn't) that tear people up. Also, Tycho's Return monologue at the ruins of Alderaan.
--->"I am Tycho Celchu, son of Alderaan, now orphan of the galaxy. I have come to this place of my birth to pay homage to who I was and those I knew. And those I loved and love still. It is my wish that when life abandons me, I am returned here to be among you, so that for eternity we may be together as we should have been in life. These gifts are but insufficient tokens of the love for you all that still burns within me. This fighter is another. It bears the colors of the Alderaanian Guard and transmits their code. It is my pledge to you—not of vengeance but of vigilance. I hope you rest well knowing you will rest alone, because it is my life's work to see to it that no one else suffers as you have. I won't rest until this quest is complete. Rest easy. I miss you all."
** Jesmin's death in ''Wraith Squadron'', and also [[spoiler:Falynn's]] for its effect on [[spoiler:Donos]]. Same book, Kell bugging out of a fight, returning only because of [[LoveRedeems Tyria]]. As noted above, [[spoiler:Phanan dying]] in ''Iron Fist'', but also Dia's meltdown when she [[spoiler:shoots Castin (who's ''probably'' already dead)]]. Donos/Lara's and Gavin/Asyr's "resolutions" in ''Solo Command'' and ''Isard's Revenge'' respectively (both got more resolution later. One was better. One... wasn't). Wedge's speeches, including all of them in ''Starfighters of Adumar'', but especially the one to Iella about the "two reasons nothing's going to happen to [him]". [[spoiler:Chewie dying]] in ''Vector Prime'', Karrde's fight for Yavin IV (including an in-universe example, when he thinks [[spoiler:Shada is dead]]). Order 66 redux, when the Vong start Jedi-hunting. The fall of Coruscant, complete with [[RousingSpeech impassioned speech]] from Leia. Wedge's supposed-to-be-suicidal stand at Borleias, when it almost become truly suicidal for him. Anakin dying. Jacen dying, Jacen coming back. Oh, and Pellaeon giving Han and Leia the painting at the end of ''The Unifying Force''.
*** So, long story short: Star Wars? Good at emotions in any media.
** Also, ''The Cestus Deception'', in which a clone is given a real name, learns to think of himself as more than just part of the army, then [[spoiler:gives up his newly valued life to save millions, leaving behind the woman he'd fallen in love with, with a message including the following: "Know that more than anything else in the world, I was a soldier. And know that you, and no one else in the galaxy, held this soldier's heart in your hands."]]
** The last few chapters of ''[[LegacyOfTheForce Legacy of the Force]]'': ''Sacrifice''. Oh god. Let's see...[[spoiler:for starters, Mara's death (especially her final words, proving ''why'' she's MamaBear incarnate), both Ben and Luke's reactions (Ben suddenly breaking down into tears when he [[TheEmpath feels]] his mother's death really hits home for me, as does Luke feeling the [[MindlinkMates mindlink]] he and his wife shared shatter), and Luke realizing that his revenge killing was for nothing, whereupon he loses it completely and utterly.]] Cue the {{fangirl}} tears and bawling.
** "[[TheThrawnTrilogy But, it was so artistically done]]...." Cue tears.
*** Hell, that's not a tearjerker, it's a crime.
** There's this exchange in the ''HandOfThrawn'' duology that always makes this troper want to give [[WorthyOpponent Pellaeon]] [[TheWoobie a hug]]:
-->'''Pellaeon:''' Thrawn wasn't human, you know, no matter how human he might have looked. He was an alien, with alien thoughts and purposes and agendas. Perhaps I was never more to him than just one more tool he could use in reaching his goal."
-->'''Ardiff:''' * hesitates, reaches out and touches Pellaeon's arm* "It's been a long road, sir. Long and hard and discouraging. For all of us, but mostly for you. If there's anything I can do..."
** [[DarthBane Zannah's]] [[BreakTheCutie ordeal with the death of Laa]]. Made almost worse by the fact that the Jedi she immediately kills were only trying to protect her. And that they killed pretty much the only sane Bouncer left on Ruusan.
** 'Order 66', which is amazing considering it's the sequel to a series about ''Mandalorians''. The bit just after [[spoiler: Etain dies after being cut down accidently by a panicking Jedi Padawan who then falls victim to Skitira going berserk with rage]] , when everyone's dealing with what happened and trying not to break down completly. This troper bawled like a baby at Darman's reaction and Skitira torturing himself afterwards with how badly he treated her.
*** This troper grew to love the young Jedi [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tallisibeth_Enwandung-Esterhazy Scout]] from "Yoda: Dark Rendezvous"; she wasn't strong in the Force, but she believed in her cause and tried to make up for it in other ways. Being a Jedi - everything about her boiled down to that, and Yoda's little speech about not giving up on one who burns so brightly could qualify for this trope. "Order 66" tells us that after her culture was annihilated/driven underground she got scooped up and most likely converted by the Mandalorians, who ''hate'' Jedi and are antithetical to them... well, she's not Scout after that. She's just another smug Mandalorian; the core of her being is gone. Sure, it's never stated that she got converted, and it can be hoped that she found other Jedi and left. But it's so sad to think of Scout losing herself and being another ProudWarriorRaceGuy - the line referring to her implies that she thinks the Jedi thought she was of little value so she was rejecting them, and that ''was not true.'' Don't write her anymore, Traviss. I love Scout. Don't do that to her.
*** Except that '''none''' of that happened. Aside from Yoda and her master, Jai Maruk, she really ''wasn't'' very well liked by the Jedi, and Mace Windu suggested sending her off to the Agricultural Corps (where weak-with-the-Force, failed Jedi go). She was pretty much telling the truth. And once rescued by the Mandalorians and brought to Mandalore, Scout was offered the chance to become a Mandalorians if she wanted to and she '''''turned them down'''''.
-->'''Scout''':"''Oh, thanks, but I'm a Jedi. I can still be a Jedi, can't I? It's all I ever wanted to be.''"
-->'''Mij Gilamar (Mandalorian)''':"''Of course you can.''"
**** And in Traviss' notes for the now canceled Imperial Commando 2, she stated that Scout would have remained a Jedi with Jedi Master Djinn Altis' sect of Jedi in-hiding. The ''only'' thing that would have changed is Scout being adopted by the aformentioned Mij Gilamar as his daughter, and not a problem in Altis' family-friendly Jedi sect.
*** As near as I can tell, some people hate Karen Traviss's Republic Commando series and some people love them. I love them, and the whole damn series was full of tearjerkers. I LIKE her version of the clones, and they're wildly tearjerking. Especially Skirata's boys. And their backstory. Even if they are psychopaths.
*** Not quite the same with me. Yes, I like the fact that the Mandos get detailed into something more than "Scary Mercenary Hellbent on Conquering the Galaxy" and that the clones are more than just "copy that, sir" or "<insert Wilhelm Scream when shot>", but the sheer character derailment that everyone else undergoes in order to fit Traviss's little Mando fetish is a little frustrating to say the least...
** More examples are probably redundant - yes, ''Star Wars'' rocks at this - but this editor would like to add the farewell and attempted suicide of Depa Billaba at the end of ''Shatterpoint'' in a brief moment of sanity after the war broke her to pieces, as well as Mace Windu's monologue at the end; the death of Jai Maruk in ''Yoda: Dark Rendezvous'' as well as Yoda's speech about loss: "Do you think Yoda's wisdom comes at no cost?"
*** Another from Shatterpoint. Mace has to order some of his clone troopers to fly cover for him in unarmed transports - a suicide mission:
---->'''Mace''': Detail your best pilots - wait. Ask for volunteers.\\
'''Commander''': It would make no difference, sir.\\
'''Mace''': What?\\
'''Commander''': We always volunteer, sir. All of us. It's who we are.
*** Also, [[spoiler: Chalk's death]] from the same. A thirteen year old rape victim, fighting so that no one else has to go through that, [[spoiler: gets shot through the stomach and keeps shooting. No one notices her fatal wound until they're about to leave.]]
** The ending of OutboundFlight. Lorana and Thrass die to save the last survivors, and [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold no one ever knows what they did]].
** There's a quiet one in ''{{StarWars/Allegiance}}'', when the Emperor's Hand Mara Jade "buries" her companion, a smuggler she was working with and had promised a pardon to, out in space as he'd requested. He'd come to trust her. Typically of Zahn, it briefly and economically hints at her character, emotional state, and her hidden awareness that Palpatine is bad, for all that she thinks of him as a "[[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter good and wise man]]" in his presence.
---> The Emperor had little patience with memorials, Mara knew, with extra contempt for the practice of saying words over the fallen. Mara said a few words anyway, half remembered ones from her childhood, before consigning Tannis's body to the emptiness of space.
** The end of the novelization of ''Revenge of the Sith''. Starting from "This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever," until the end.
** No, Anakin's death at the end of RotJ. This troper still cannot read it without bawling.
** In ''DeathStar'', you get into the mind of the gunner that destroyed Alderaan. Turns out, he hated himself for not having the guts to say no to such a massive atrocity. He died delaying the Death Star from firing. Gives new meaning to the phrase "Stand by".
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**** I always tear up in that scene in Coruscant with Padme standing on the balcony, talking to Anakin about how she wants to go back to the lake country and raise their kids kid (at this point they don't know it's twins yet) in peace, in a room by the garden, having a nursery done up, and you know that is isn't going to happenhappen.
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*** The whole funeral procession scene, really - even Jar Jar looking solemn for once. It's very sad seeing Padme's parents and family walk behind the casket, but especially so after watching some of the deleted scenes included in the Episode II DVD - one subplot that was cut was of Padme bringing Anakin home to meet her lovely parents and family, as her mother remarks that this was the first "boyfriend" she had ever brought home.
*** The whole funeral procession scene, really - even Jar Jar looking solemn for once. It's very sad seeing Padme's parents and family walk behind the casket, but especially so after watching some of the deleted scenes included in the Episode II DVD - one subplot that was cut was of Padme bringing Anakin home to meet her lovely parents and family, as her mother remarks that this was the first "boyfriend" she had ever brought home.
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*** For some reason, the montage of free people partying all over the galaxy while the CrowningMusicOfAwesome plays makes this troper want to cry. (Maybe it's because [[AwesomenessWithdrawal the saga's over]].) She can fight it, but it's hard.
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**** This male Troper remembers [[ManlyTears crying]] when the Big No happened. The fact that it was such a badass character must have [[NarmCharm made it work for me]]. In fact I only really luagh at it when it pops up in {{YouTube Poop}}s.
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*** And it's even ''[[ItGotWorse worse]]'' if you remember all of the EU games that take place before the movies, specifically the [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic KOTOR]] games. You save the Republic from annihilation by the Sith ''twice''...and see everything you fought for come to nothing.
