History TearJerker / Ultrakill

** With the new update of the arsenal, so did the entries of the new weapons. Near the thumper upgrade, in 7-2, there is a book where it is revealed that the Machines are indeed sentient. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone And they hate knowing they are powered by blood.]] What makes this worse is the fact that this is written from the perspective of a Gutterman, Machines who are specifically made to have a human inside their coffins to harvest their blood. To say that they are horrified of their own existence is an understatement and feel great pain of having to butcher people to live on.

** The secret weapon nearby is about as tragic: you get the Jackhammer from the dead, destroyed body of what appears to be some kind of construction robot buried beneath the building. A white flag with hand-written print reading "Vegter Vandie Volk" -- Afrikaans for "warrior of the people" -- stands out from its immobile body. This robot used to mean something to someone, and now it's a lifeless hunk of metal.

* '''''The Testaments.''''' Every secret level[[note]]with the exception of 2-S[[/note]] is capped with a lore terminal describing {{God}} trying and ''failing'' to make a human [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill without free will]], eventually deciding to create ''Hell'' as a suitable punishment, and going to the DespairEventHorizon. The 4th one in 5-S in particular, has an angel ask Him [[ArmorPiercingQuestion if eternal damnation is a suitable fate for sinners]]. Said angel just so happens to be ''[[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]'', and God casts him into Hell rather than face His own guilt. The fall of Lucifer wasn't an act of rebellion, it was a MomentOfWeakness [[GodIsFlawed on God's part]] that sends Him further into despair... To really drive it home, of the Testaments are accompanied by a [[NostalgicMusicBox melancholic music box version]] of "[[https://heavenpierceher.bandcamp.com/track/the-fire-is-gone-for-music-box The Fire is Gone]]".

** From a certain point of view, the death of the Earthmovers is a tragedy in and of itself. When the colossal robots caused the Long Night, an environmental calamity that killed all fauna and flora life on the surface due to lack of sunlight, humanity was forced to inhabit in the same machines that nearly destroyed their planet. During this time however, some people could have been attached to these towering steel behemoths since they gave them not just a home to live in, but possibly companionship, or at least comfort. But when the lack of sunlight caused the Earthmovers to slowly deactivate one by one, it is likely that people mourned for the death of these machines, not because the war couldn't continue without them, but rather the Earthmovers were their only place of salvation because living anywhere else on the planet could have killed them swiftly.

** Similarly, the fate of [[DeterminedDefeatist King Sisyphus]] and his uprising. King Sisyphus of the Greed Layer attempted to start a rebellion against Heaven and gain their freedom, but Sisyphus already knew that his rebellion was a failure from the very start. No matter how strong they becomed, they simply weren't match to Heaven's might, yet Sisyphus tried it anyways because he sees the mere act of rebellion as its own victory. When Gabriel decapitated him and [[DecapitationPresentation displayed his head to the Insurrectionists]], the morale of the rebels [[DespairEventHorizon dropped dead]], allowing Gabriel and his forces to mutilate them one-by-one before forcing them to continue their punishments with the knowledge that they were so close, yet so far away, to freedom. When V1 defeats Sisyphus, he reminisces his actions against the impossible before he truly dies. While he [[DieLaughing spends his last moment laughing triumphantly]] and [[FaceDeathWithDignity clearly satisfied of his death]], it is nonetheless very depressing to see him die like this. Even without regrets, watching a man as unbreakable as Sisyphus realizing it's irremediably, unquestionably ''over'' is always hard.

* The crossed-out Terminal entry for the 7-1 boss, [[TragicMonster the Minotaur]], reveals at the end that it struggles to [[TragicDream see the sky one last time]] after being thrown into the Garden of Forking Paths out of King Minos' disgust. Given that ''no other Demon'' is stated to possess anything resembling a capacity for personal desire like it, it's surprisingly heartbreaking...''especially'' given that you're forced to kill it to even get that Terminal entry in the first place, like you'd usually do with Terminal entries for other enemies and bosses. The Minotaur's fate becomes even more tragic when you realize the beast is so close to its dream after enduring a millennium of agony, only to have that dream [[YankTheDogsChain cruelly taken away]] by [[HopeCrusher Hell itself]]. This one ''[[MoralEventHorizon heinous act]]'' from Hell is both enraging and heartbreaking because it shows that the Demons, ''its own creations'', can be just as much of a victim as the sinners it torments, meaning Hell has no love towards what are essentially ''[[AbusiveParents its own children]]''.

* '''''The Testaments.''''' Every secret level[[note]]with the exception of 2-S[[/note]] is capped with a lore terminal describing {{God}} trying and ''failing'' to make a human [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill without free will]], eventually deciding to create ''Hell'' as a suitable punishment, and going to the DespairEventHorizon. The 4th one in 5-S in particular, has an angel ask Him [[ArmorPiercingQuestion if eternal damnation is a suitable fate for sinners]]. Said angel just so happens to be ''[[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]'', and God casts him into Hell rather than face His own guilt. The fall of Lucifer wasn't an act of rebellion, it was a MomentOfWeakness [[GodIsFlawed on God's part]] that sends Him further into despair... For further sorrow, all of the Testaments are accompanied by a [[NostalgicMusicBox melancholic music box version]] of "[[https://heavenpierceher.bandcamp.com/track/the-fire-is-gone-for-music-box The Fire is Gone]]".
* In general, ULTRAKILL seems destined to be heading towards a DownerEnding. Every remaining trace of humanity is being picked off by V1 or the army of machines that they opened the floodgates for, and Gabriel's speech in 6-2 makes it crystal clear that Hell itself is running on borrowed time. Once V1 reaches the depths of Treachery, [[SoWhatDoWeDoNow the only possible endings they could have]] are progressing to Heaven and slaughtering the divine, or just [[LivingOnBorrowedTime powering down there from lack of blood]], and the [[MortonsFork former would subsequently lead to the latter]], making V1's pursuit [[AllForNothing utterly fruitless in the long run]]. The soundtrack reflects this as the game progresses, though hints of tragedy are present as early as Lust, Heresy and Violence's [=OST=]s really emphasize the tragedy, with both "Altars of Apostasy" and "The World Looks Red" sounding like Hell's last gasps and cries as the Husks are decimated by the player's hand, just in case the game needs to remind you that you are [[VillainProtagonist not the hero]].

** To add more salt to all of this, when the humans died, a majority of them went to Hell for their bad deeds when they were still alive. Not only do they all had to go through a living Hell when they were still on Earth, now they have to suffer for eternity. While going to Hell means that those souls did something bad in life, Lucifer himself [[ArmorPiercingQuestion questioned]] God if [[DisproportionateRetribution eternal punishment was too much for them]], a question that made the once brightest angel being thrown by The Father out of Heaven and into Hell. It is even worse when you remember that King Minos turned the Lust Layer into a paradise because he though that people who loved one another shouldn’t be a crime worthy of eternal punishment, implying that the majority of the souls in Hell are actually just flawed or outright good people that ended up suffering because of a high standards that Heaven made. When the Machines invade Hell for blood and stay active as long as they can by killing all the Husks and Demons for the precious red fuel, [[MercyKill the souls of the sinners can finally rest in peace]].

** And to add more salt to all of this, when the humans died, a majority of them went to Hell for their bad deeds when they were still alive. Not only do they all had to go through a living Hell when they were still on Earth, now they have to suffer for eternity. While going to Hell means that those souls did something bad in life, Lucifer himself questioned God if eternal punishment was too much punishment on them, a question that made the once brightest angel being thrown by The Father out of Heaven and into Hell. It is even worse when you remember that King Minos turned the Lust Layer into a paradise because he though that people who loved one another shouldn’t be a crime worthy of eternal punishment, implying that the majority of the souls in Hell are actually just flawed or outright good persons that ended up suffering because of a high standards that Heaven made. At least, when the Machines comes to Hell for blood and stay active as long as they can and they kill the Husks for the precious red fuel, the souls of the sinners can finally rest in peace.

** And to add more salt to all of this, when the humans died, a majority of them went to Hell for their bad deeds when they were still alive. Not only do they all had to go through a living Hell when they were still on Earth, now they have to suffer for eternity. While going to Hell means that those souls did something bad in life, Lucifer himself questioned God if eternal punishment was too much punishment on them, a question that made the once brightest angel being thrown by God out of Heaven and into Hell. It is even worse when you remember that King Minos turned the Lust Layer into a paradise because he though that people who loved one another shouldn’t be a crime worthy of eternal punishment, implying that the majority of the souls in Hell are actually just flawed or outright good persons that ended up suffering because of a high standards that Heaven made. At least, when the Machines comes to Hell for blood and stay active as long as they can and they kill the Husks for the precious red fuel, the souls of the sinners can finally rest in peace.

** In a certain point of view, the death of the Earthmovers is this. When the colossal robots caused the Long Night, an environmental calamity that killed all fauna and flora life on the surface due to lack of sunlight, humanity was forced to inhabit in the same machines that nearly destroyed their planet. During this time however, some people could have been attached to these towering steel behemoths since they gave them not just a home to live in, but possibly companionship, or at least comfort. But when the lack of sunlight caused the Earthmovers to slowly deactivate one by one, it is likely that people mourned for the death of these machines, not because the war couldn’t continue without them, but rather the Earthmovers were their only place of salvation because living anywhere else on the planet could have killed them swiftly.

** In a certain point of view, the death of the Earthmovers is this. When the colossal robots caused the Long Night, an environmental calamity that killed all fauna and flora life on the surface due to lack of sunlight, humanity was forced to inhabit in the same machines that nearly destroyed their planet. During this time however, some people could have been attached to these towering steel towers since they gave them a home to live in. But when the lack of sunlight caused the Earthmovers to slowly deactivate one another, it is likely that people mourned for the death of these machines, not because the war couldn’t continue without them, but rather the Earthmovers were their only place of salvation because living anywhere else on the planet could have killed them swiftly.

** In a certain point of view, the death of the Earthmovers of Earth is this. When the pollution of the colossal robots started the Long Night that caused all fauna and flora to die due to lack of sunlight, humanity was forced to inhabit in the same machines that destroyed their planet. During this time, some people could have been attached to this towering steel towers, since they gave them a home to live on, when the lack of sunlight caused the Earthmovers to slowly deactivate one another, it is more likely that people mourned for the death of this machines, not because without them, the war couldn’t continue but because the Earthmovers gave them a home in them, whereas any place of the planet could have killed them swiftly.