History TearJerker / TheSecretOfNimh

** [[spoiler: [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Then, when the block ''does'' rise after being saved the amulet saves it, it shoots out and the instrumental version of ''Flying Dreams'' starts to play, and Mrs Brisby collapses out of sheer exhaustion.]]]]

* [[spoiler: The death of Nicodemus]] as well as Justin and Mr. Ages's reactions to it.
** Justin has a momentary HeroicBSOD, while Mr. Ages breaks down and seems to start crying as he tells Mrs. Brisby what happened. Ages has been rather crotchety in all his previous scenes, but his sorrow makes sense when you realize that he and [[spoiler: Nicodemus]] escaped NIMH together and must have been very old friends.

--> '''Teresa:''' Mother. ''Mother!''
--> '''Cynthia:''' What's all that black stuff?
** [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Then, when the block ''does'' rise after being saved the amulet saves it, it shoots out and the instrumental version of ''Flying Dreams'' starts to play, and Mrs Brisby collapses out of sheer exhaustion.]]]]

** Nicodemus explains to her why Jonathan couldn't tell her about NIMH: the experiments performed on him, Mr. Ages, Nicodemus, and the other rats slowed the aging process. You can see Mrs. Brisby wondering how Jonathan would have felt watching her grow old while he remained young. There's also the fact that her children would outlive her since they would have inherited their father's abnormal traits.

** Nicodemus explains to her why Jonathan couldn't tell her about NIMH: the experiments performed on him, Mr. Ages and the rats slowed the aging process. You can see Mrs. Brisby wondering how Jonathan would have felt watching her and their children grow old while he remained young.

** Hell, pretty much any time she's forced to remember her late husband or invoke his name for help there's a little catch in her voice. The wound is still very fresh.

** It's also a nasty bit of FridgeHorror when you realize Mrs. Brisby hadn't known until then just how her husband died. It's likely he just never came home one night and she was forced to assume the worst. If she had never visited the rats, it's likely she never would have gotten closure for what happened to Johnathan.

** Now imagine her entire time in the farmhouse, during her own attempt to drug Dragon. How many times must she have thought to herself, "This is how Johnathan died."
* Nicodemus's opening monologue as he laments Johnathan's death and wonders what will happen to his wife now:

*** If you pay attention to Teresa [[FreezeFrameBonus just as Cyntha finishes asking if Timmy will die]], she looks like she's trying to not start crying at the idea of her little brother dying.

* Martin's [[spoiler: torture and MindRape while at NIMH]] in the second film, crosses over into NightmareFuel.

* The part when Mrs. Brisby finds out what happened to her husband always made me very sad, as a kid. As well as [[NightmareFuel disturbed me]].
** It's that little hitch in her voice as she's reading from Nicodemus's journal that gets the tears flowing:

* Martin's [[spoiler: torture and MindRape while at NIMH]] in the second film, crosses over into NightmareFuel.

** The harshest part of this scene is the fact that NeverSayDie is ''strongly'' averted by children of all things. The children crowd around Timothy's bed, clearly worried, and ask their mother if he's going to die.

** This troper was scarred for life when (for some reason she can't remember) she couldn't continue watching the rest. At the part after their home was completely submerged in the mud. She bawled the entire time after this for a good hour, having never seen the closure that Mrs. Brisby's children turn out okay.
** To this troper it is actually no wonder, as this scene is exceptionally well handled, at least in terms of Mrs. Brisby' reaction. She has a ''very'' unforgivingly disturbed (and disturbing) wide-eyed expression, summarizing the horror and shock of a widow seeing her house with all her children and her best friend sink while the rescuers are just standing next to it, unable to do anything against it. Plus, they forcefully drag her away from said sinking house ''while she watches'', being all hysterical and quite possibly near breakdown. It is only moments later that there is ''any'' indication that this predicament would be resolved.

* You have to feel sorry for Jeremy near the end, after going through all sorts of hell to impress Mrs Brisby, he finally comes back enthusiastically with string in tow to lift her house out of the mud, only to realize he's missed the whole ordeal. Dejected he fails to see any other point for the string anymore ("What's a guy like me gonna do with a love nest anyway?") and slowly walks away slumped over. However, just then [[ThrowTheDogABone a klutzy female crow crashes into him...]]

** Justin has a momentary HeroicBSOD, while Mr. Ages breaks down and seems to start crying as he tells Mrs. Brisby what happened. Ages has been rather crotchety in all his previous scenes, but his sorrow makes sense when you realize that he and [[spoiler: Nicodemus]] escaped NIMH together and must have been very old friends.

** [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Then, when the block ''does'' rise after being saved the amulet saves it, it shoots out and the instrumental version of ''Flying Dreams'' starts to play, and Mrs Brisby collapses out of sheer exhaustion. ]]

** Justin has a momentary HeroicBSOD, while Mr. Ages breaks down and seems to start crying as he tells Mrs. Brisby what happened. Ages has been rather crotchety in all his previous scenes, but his sorrow makes sense when you remember that he and [[spoiler: Nicodemus]] escaped NIMH together and must have been very old friends.

** Justin has a momentary HeroicBSOD, while Mr. Ages breaks down and seems to start crying as he tells Mrs. Brisby what happened. Ages has been rather crotchety in all his previous scenes, but remember that he and [[spoiler: Nicodemus]] escaped NIMH together and must have been very old friends.

*** [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Then, when the block ''does'' rise after being saved the amulet saves it, it shoots out and the instrumental version of ''Flying Dreams'' starts to play, and Mrs Brisby collapses out of sheer exhaustion. ]]

-->'''Nicodemus''': Jonathan was a dear friend. I am lost, knowing how to help his widow. She knows nothing of us, or the Plan. Perhaps best that I do nothing at present. I shall miss him. Jonathan, wherever you are, your thoughts must comfort her tonight. [[TearJerker She'll be waiting, and you will not return.]] Farewell...my friend.

** It's also a nasty bit of FridgeHorror when you realize Mrs. Brisby hadn't known until then just how her husband died. It's likely he just never came home one night and she was forced to assume the worst. If she had never visited the rats, it's likely she never would have gotten closure for what happened to Johnathan.

*** Then, when the block ''does'' rise after being saved the amulet saves it, it shoots out and the instrumental version of ''Flying Dreams'' starts to play, and Mrs Brisby collapses out of sheer exhaustion.

* The part when Mrs. Brisby finds out what happened to her husband always made me very sad, as a kid. As well as [[NightmareFuel disturbed me]].

*** Then, when the block ''does'' rise after being saved the amulet saves it, it shoots out and the instrumental version of ''Flying Dreams'' starts to play, and Mrs Frisby collapses out of sheer exhaustion.


* The part when Mrs. Brisby finds out what happened to her husband always made me very sad, as
a kid. As well as [[NightmareFuel disturbed me]].

a kid. As well as [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel disturbed me]].

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* The part when Mrs. Brisby finds out what happened to her husband always made me very sad, as a kid. As well as [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel disturbed me]].