History TearJerker / TheVampireDiaries

*** [[spoiler: Matt's reaction when he sees Jeremy's body. He tries to help Elena see through her denial, and has to be strong for everyone else. It's only when he's alone that he falls to pieces.]]

** To elaborate: [[spoiler: Jeremy is killed, permanently this time. His ring won't bring him back again, since as a Hunter he counted as a supernatural creature. Elena is in denial for the whole episode, waiting and waiting for the one hope she has, that Bonnie will find a way to bring him back. And when that fails, Elena ''snaps'' as it dawns on her that her little brother - the only family she has left in the world - is gone for good. She asks Stefan to take his body downstairs, so that she can douse it - and the whole house - in lighter fuel so she can burn everything down.]]

--->'''[[spoiler: Elena]]''': [[spoiler: What else are we supposed to do with the body, Caroline?! I-I mean (blinks back tears), there's no room in the Gilbert family PLOT! (throws pictures to the ground, they shatter) Jenna and John took the last spots! (lights the match)

--->'''[[spoiler: Elena]]''': [[spoiler: There's nothing here for me anymore, Stefan! Every inch of this house is filled with memories of the people that I love that have died. (sobbing) My mom, my dad, Jeremy, and Jenna, and Alaric...John, even John! I mean, they're all dead! Everyone is dead! (matchstick burns perilously low, she ignores it) S-So how am I supposed to...I-I can't, I can't even, th-there's nothing left for me-Aaah! (drops matchstick, Damon catches and extinguishes it)

--->'''[[spoiler: Elena]]: [[spoiler: Why?! Because you want me to not be in denial? You want me to face the truth? This is the truth, Stefan! I don't wanna live here anymore! (continues to pour lighter fluid) I don't want these sketches! I don't want this X-Box! (brings out bourbon from the cabinet, smiles insanely) Not gonna need this bourbon anymore, right? (voice wavering) I mean, Alaric's not here to drink it, I mean...]][[spoiler: [[DeadpanSnarker unless you guys are willing to bring back every supernatural creature on the other side to get him back?]]

--->'''[[spoiler: Elena]]]: [[spoiler: Why?! Because you want me to not be in denial? You want me to face the truth? This is the truth, Stefan! ''I don't wanna live here anymore!'' (continues to pour lighter fluid) I don't want these sketches! I don't want this X-Box! (brings out bourbon from the cabinet, smiles insanely) Not gonna need this bourbon anymore, right? (voice wavering) I mean, Alaric's not here to drink it, I mean...[[Sarcasm unless you guys are willing to bring back every supernatural creature on the other side to get him back?]]

* He might be a ManipulativeBastard, but it's hard not to feel for Atticus Shane in the flashback when he sees his dead wife again. It's clear that he's doing what he's doing just to have his family back again, and the ''look'' on his face when she reaches out and touches his face...

* Tyler and Caroline's tearful goodbye after Klaus "mercifully" agrees to give Tyler a headstart before he starts hunting him down. "Until we find a way..."

** And in the next episode, [[spoiler: Damon eventually does revoke the sire bond with Elena. She's close to tears as she begs him not to.]] Even worse is that [[spoiler: at the same time that's happening, Stefan finds out that Damon lied to him about doing so earlier that day, and Caroline more or less tells him that he and Elena have slept together. His reaction is heartbreaking.]]

** And in the next episode, [[spoiler: Damon eventually does revoke the sire bond with Elena. She's close to tears as she begs him not to.]] Even worse is that [[spoiler: at the same time that's happening, Stefan finds out that Damon lied to him about doing so earlier that day, and Caroline more or less tells him that he and Elena have slept together. His reaction is heartbreaking.]]

* Damon finding out that [[spoiler: in order to break his sire bond with Elena, he has let her go and live her own life.]] Even Stefan - the person who stands the most to lose over this - feels sorry for him and what he has to do.

** Elena's reaction to the news, especially when she's told that [[spoiler: he's killing vampires so that they can find the cure for her vampirisim]]: "If regaining my humanity means that[[spoiler: Jeremy]] loses his, then I don't want this anymore."

* The entirety of "We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes". Whether it's Tyler and Hayley mourning their hybrid friends, Klaus saying that he was tormented by the hunter's ghosts for 52 years or [[spoiler: Elena's hallucinations, including her mother telling her to kill herself]], it causes much weeping.

* [[spoiler: Damon's goodbye to Elena as she and Matt drive back to Mystic Falls. Sobbing, she tells him that she's never fallen out of love with Stefan and that maybe if they'd met first...]] And then ItGetsWorse. [[spoiler: Damon actually did meet Elena first on the night her parents died. And he compelled her to forget about it.]]

** "Go right ahead. Laugh at the girl who loved too easily, but I would have rather lived my life than yours, Nik. No one will ever sat around a table telling stories about a man who couldn't love. Look me in the eyes and do it, coward. Do it!"

* "Katerina" shows the [[StartOfDarkness start of Katherine's descent into darkness]]. It was full of tearjerking moments, and portrayed Katherine (who previously had been seen as a [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bitch]] teetering into CompleteMonster) surprisingly [[JerkassWoobie sympathetically]].

"Go right ahead. Laugh at the girl who loved too easily, but I would have rather lived my life than yours, Nik. No one will ever sat around a table telling stories about a man who couldn't love. Look me in the eyes and do it, coward. Do it!"

** And unbeknownst to him, [[spoiler: Alaric's ghost is sitting right there, completely quiet throughout Damon's tirade about how he's left him to 'watch over the kids.' It's only when Damon leaves that Alaric speaks: "I miss you too, buddy."]]

* At the end of season 3/beginning of season 4, [[spoiler: Elena becomes a vampire. All that struggling to hold on to her humanity, in stark contrast to [[{{Twilight}} a certain other vampire-dating girl ]], we might add, and it's all for nothing.

* At the end of season 3/beginning of season 4, [[spoiler: Elena becomes a vampire. All that struggling to hold on to her humanity, in stark contrast to [[{{Twilight}} a certain other vampire-dating girl]], we might add, and it's all for nothing.

** And unbeknownst to him, [[spoiler: Alaric's ghost is sitting right there, completely quiet throughout Damon's tirade. It's only when Damon leaves that Alaric speaks: "I miss you too, buddy."]]