History Tearjerker / Carrie

* The very end of the song "Epilogue." After Sue sings the last lyric, it fades into a soft reprise of Carrie's {{Leitmotif}}, which we've heard multiple times throughout the show. At first the song is triumphant, then it's terrifying on prom night, and at the end, as Carrie lays dead, it's just ''heartbreaking''.

-->''Maybe I do things that I can't explain,

-->''let the shadows descend like a knife.''

-->'''Margaret:''' I love you, Carrie. ''Baby, don't cry now...''

* Also from TheMusical, "Evening Prayers." In this version, Margaret ''genuinely loves Carrie'', and is much more of a WellIntentionedExtremist than the other versions, though she's still the antagonist. She sincerely apologizes to Carrie for causing her so much pain, and assures her that she will always love her. It's heartbreaking, especially if you know what happens in the end.

* Carrie getting stabbed by her mother in the movie. We have Carrie, who just calmed down from her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, washing the blood off of her body before redressing herself. At her most sad and scared, she seeks her mother for comfort. Margaret seems to actually have felt sympathy for her for the first time and gets her to share a prayer with her. It seems like a heartwarming moment, but then, while Carrie's busy hugging her during the prayer, Margaret stabs her in the back with a butcher knife she kept hidden. Carrie is bleeding to death and when she struggles to go down the stairs and escape from her mother, her mother even takes her sweet time to walk down, knowing Carrie can't go to far from the stab wound. The music itself adds both a mix of terror and sadness. Even after [[spoiler:Carrie kills her]], she feels guilty about it. To make matters even worse, her [[spoiler: powers over do it and cause the house to collapse. The last thing she does before succumbing to her fatal injuries is drag her mother into the prayer closet with her so she wouldn't die alone.]]

** Actually, Margaret's parents, at least in the book, were nice, normal people. It's never really explained where Margaret's psychotic fanaticism came from.

-->''[[DarkReprise Once you see]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone you can't unsee]]...''

* Just think about the story for a moment. Carrie was just a sweet, shy girl who never wanted anything more than to be liked and cared for by people and to feel like someone, anyone, would love her in the way that her horrible mother never did. Carrie went through her whole life never harming a soul but being made to feel like something was inherently wrong with her and that she didn't deserve to be loved in the way that other people were. Then she finally meets people who actually want her to be happy and feels for just a moment that she has been accepted only to have it all ripped away in the cruelest manner imaginable. All Carrie ever wanted was to feel like she deserved to be happy and all she ever got was cruelty and suffering until it just became too much for her to bear. The most heartbreaking fact of all is that there are thousands, millions even, of people like that in real life who will someday snap because the world never gave Them the kind of care that They needed.

* The fact that after everything that happened, someone went out of their way to put "Carrie White Burns In Hell" on Carrie's grave marker. [[spoiler: It's all [[AllJustADream all part of a dream sequence]] in the 1976 version]], but it's real in the 2013 version. [[TheFundamentalist Margaret]] may have jumped off the religious deep end, but she had a point about one thing: This town suffered from a serious lack of common decency.

** Even [[spoiler: in the dream]] it's a sad image, and the fact that it was on a real estate sign, not even on her actual grave, makes it arguably more petty and desperate for the last word against her.

* The fact that after everything that happened, someone went out of their way to put "Carrie White Burns In Hell" on Carrie's grave marker. [[spoiler: It's all [[AllJustADream all part of a dream sequence]] in the 1976 version]], but it's real in the 2013 version. [[TheFundamentalist Margaret]] may have jumped off the religious deep end, but she had a point about one thing: This town suffered from a serious lack of common decency.

* In any version, watching Carrie endure Margaret's abusive behavior, especially when you realize that despite everything, Carrie ''still loves Margaret'' and wants nothing more than for them to have a healthy mother-daughter relationship. (See how she seeks out Margaret for comfort and security after her rampage.) The worst part of all of it is that Margaret genuinely wants what's best for Carrie, but her idea of "what's best" is warped far beyond anything that could be called "good parenting". [[FridgeHorror Kinda makes you wonder]] [[FreudianExcuse what kind of parents]] ''[[FreudianExcuse she]]'' [[FreudianExcuse had growing up.]]

* In the 2013 version, when Carrie walks into her house, crying out "Mama?" It's at that point when she becomes a scared little girl and just wants to be safe and loved.

* From the 2013 version: [[spoiler:"It's a girl."]]

* In the 2013 remake, Carrie [[spoiler:after killing her mother. Her regret along with her saying she wants her mum back just adds to the depressing situation.]]

* The death of [[spoiler:Tommy, especially in the 2013 film. He's shown as being genuinely nice to Carrie, not simply because Sue asked him to. After the bucket falls on his head and kills him, Carrie cradles his head on her lap and weeps when she realizes he's dead.]]

** Later [[spoiler: Jesse has a dream about Rachel visiting him and they kiss, before she explodes into dust.]] Doubles as NightmareFuel.

* From a trailer in the 2013 version, the song ''Will You Still Love Me Tommorow ?'' is playing. Espically sad if you know what's coming.

* In the climax ''TheRageCarrie2'' [[spoiler: Rachel uses the last of her powers to save Jesse's life.]]

* From a trailer in the 2013 version, the song ''Will you still love me tommrow ?'' is playing. Espically sad if you know what's coming.

--->'''Witness:''' There's one thing no one seems to understand. She wasn't some monster- [[UsedToBeASweetKid she was just...]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes a girl.]]

** It perhaps shouldn't come as a surprise that a common premise for ''Carrie'' fanfic is the FixFic in which the prom disaster never happens.

* Carrie getting stabbed by her mother in the movie. We have Carrie who just calmed down from her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, she washes the blood off her body before redressing herself. At her most sad and scared she seeks her mother for comfort. Margaret seems to actually have felt sympathy for her for the first time and gets her to share a prayer with her. It seems like a heart warming moment, but then while Carries busy hugging her during the prayer she stabs her in the back with a butcher knife she kept hidden. Carrie is bleeding to death and when she struggles to go down the stairs and escape from her mother, her mother even takes her sweet time to walk down knowing she can't go to far from the stab wound. The music itself while it's going on adds both a mix of terror and sadness. Even after Carrie [[spoiler: kills her.]] she feels guilty about it. To make matters even worse her [[spoiler: powers over do it and cause the house to collapse. The last thing she does before succumbing to her fatal injuries is drag her mother into the prayer closet with her so she wouldn't die alone.]]
* Just the sheer implications of the entire novel. The prom prank didn't need to have gone as horribly as it did. It's explicitly stated in the novel by a survivor (and one of the girls who scorned Carrie, nonetheless) that everybody started laughing because there was literally nothing else they could do (think of how many times you've felt a giggle come out during the most inappropriate times.) They weren't laughing ''at'' Carrie, they were laughing because they couldn't process what had just happened. Had Carrie had the proper self-esteem and perspective, she could have laughed it off as well and turned it into a joke ''involving'' her instead of being at her expense. It could have very well been her rite of passage. But Carrie doesn't have this opportunity. She has been the butt of every single joke since starting school as a child. She has been abused, bullied, and scorned for as long as she can remember. What makes it so horrible is that this is the first time Carrie has ever been ''happy.'' She finally gets a taste of happiness and acceptance and then is made the laughingstock once again. She can't think rationally, this one prank is what finally pushes her over the edge and makes her snap. People like Carrie have been broken to the point that one wrongdoing makes them go off the deep end. Thinking of what could have been is truly heartrending.

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* Carrie getting stabbed by her mother in the movie. We have Carrie who just calmed down from her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, she washes the blood off her body before redressing herself. At her most sad and scared she seeks her mother for comfort. Margaret seems to actually have felt sympathy for her for the first time and gets her to share a prayer with her. It seems like a heart warming moment, but then while Carries busy hugging her during the prayer she stabs her in the back with a butcher knife she kept hidden. Carrie is bleeding to death and when she struggles to go down the stairs and escape from her mother, her mother even takes her sweet time to walk down knowing she can't go to far from the stab wound. The music itself while it's going on adds both a mix of terror and sadness. Even after Carrie [[spoiler; kills her.]] she feels guilty about it. To make matters even worse her [[spoiler: powers over do it and cause the house to collapse. The last thing she does before succumbing to her fatal injuries is drag her mother into the prayer closet with her so she wouldn't die alone.]]