History Tearjerker / RebuildOfEvangelion

* The whole Goddamn ending! Many viewers will already know the Zeruel Event from the original series, so all the changes can be jarring. First, there was the big, fat HopeSpot that was [[spoiler:Mari's badass intervention and her subsequent CrowningMomentOfAwesome when she fought in Beast-Mode. She got back up several times and helped Rei out with the Bomb, even with her EVA seriously damaged and a freaking Hole in her side! And then, it ends up failing anyway and Rei pays the price]].

* "[[Music/UtadaHikaru Sakura]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Nagashi]]", the ending song of ''3.0.'' The melody is sad enough, but the lyrics make it even worse, especially since they can easily be applied to the movie's events:

** Also, just the fact that [[spoiler: despite [[HeroicBSOD being severely emotionally messed up]] at the moment, Shinji still '''tried to take the SDAT player Kaworu fixed for him with him'''. He latches on it, clings to the only thing left of the only person who had ever treated him with love and affection at the time, yet Asuka (unintentionally at that, which is even more heartbreaking) ''makes him drop it''. Let's just hope that Rei!Q picked it up even if no one ordered her to do it.]]

* "[[UtadaHikaru Sakura]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Nagashi]]", the ending song of ''3.0.'' The melody is sad enough, but the lyrics make it even worse, especially since they can easily be applied to the movie's events:

* [[spoiler: The curse of Eva; it locks the pilots to be perpetual teenagers, which not only means they have a harder chance of ever finding a partner, this also means that they a part of them will never mature since the process of growing up is both physical and psychological]].

* Shinji playing piano with Kowaru, going with the flow of events instead of asking questions. Despite the soundtrack, it's depressing to see Shinji deciding to shut himself off from the outside world.

* Pretty much all of 3.0. The movie is depressing all the way through. [[spoiler:It feels horribly lonely and claustrophobic, like some terrifying homage to IAmLegend. Shinji has basically committed near-total omnicide and ''everyone hates him'', as we've already stressed. He is reduced to complete uselessness. This movie is literally Shinji's hell. As Asuka notes, Shinji's introverted nature makes him tend towards egotism - he thinks only of himself. He knows this. He ''hates himself for it''. Shinji also has a breakdown about two thirds into the movie which doubles as [[NightmareFuel/RebuildOfEvangelion Nightmare Fuel]] and while 1.0 and 2.0 had some [[Funny/RebuildOfEvangelion comic relief]], there is ''no'' comic relief in 3.0. At all. Notice how early on [[ShooOutTheClowns Pen-Pen]] has been dropped from the cast? It's going to take some clever writing or an ''enormous'' AssPull to give this anything other than at ''most'' a BittersweetEnding.]]

* The Evangelion 3.0 OST "Famously . . ." I'm not even going to explain further - the song speaks for itself.

* The whole Goddamn ending! Many viewers will already know the Zeruel Event from the original series, so all the changes can be jarring. First, there was the big, fat HopeSpot that was [[spoiler:Mari's BadAss intervention and her subsequent CrowningMomentOfAwesome when she fought in Beast-Mode. She got back up several times and helped Rei out with the Bomb, even with her EVA seriously damaged and a freaking Hole in her side! And then, it ends up failing anyway and Rei pays the price]].

* Shinji playing piano with Kowaru, deciding to go with the flow of events instead of prying answers he should know. It represent a depressing point where Shinji silently takes it all in and shut himself off from the world...

** The lack of proper treatment prompted Shinji to trust Kaworu, ''a complete stranger'', instead of [[spoiler:anyone at WILLE or his father]]. Then the ending [[spoiler:take the only person in the entire world who treated Shinji as a human away from him...]]

** The lack of proper treatment prompted Shinji to trust Kaworu, ''a complete stranger'', instead of [[spoiler:anyone at WILLE or his father]]. Then the ending [[spoiler:completely crushes his already broken psyche]]...

** The lack of proper treatment prompted Shinji to trust Kaworu, ''a complete stranger'', instead of anyone at WILLE or his father...

** After Shinji arrives at [[spoiler:what remains of NERV]], he is given a clean set of shirt. [[spoiler:Said shirt has Toji's name stitched inside and patched over]]...

* Pretty much all of 3.0. The movie is depressing all the way through. [[spoiler:It feels horribly lonely and claustrophobic, like some terrifying homage to IAmLegend. Shinji has basically committed genocide and ''everyone hates him'', as we've already stressed. He is reduced to complete uselessness. This movie is literally Shinji's hell. As Asuka notes, Shinji's introverted nature makes him tend towards egotism - he thinks only of himself. He knows this. He ''hates himself for it''. Shinji also has a breakdown about two thirds into the movie which doubles as [[NightmareFuel/RebuildOfEvangelion Nightmare Fuel]] and while 1.0 and 2.0 had some [[Funny/RebuildOfEvangelion comic relief]], there is ''no'' comic relief in 3.0. At all. Notice how early on [[ShooOutTheClowns Pen-Pen]] has been dropped from the cast? It's going to take some clever writing or an ''enormous'' AssPull to give this anything other than at ''most'' a BittersweetEnding.]]

* [[spoiler: The curse of Eva, it locks the pilots to be perpetual teenagers, which not only means they have a harder chance of ever finding a partner, this also means that they a part of them will never mature since the process of growing up is both physical and psycological]].

* Pretty much all of 3.0. The movie is depressing all the way through. [[spoiler:It feels horribly lonely and claustrophobic, like some terrifying homage to IAmLegend. Shinji has basically committed genocide and ''everyone hates him'', as we've already stressed. He is reduced to complete uselessness. This movie is literally Shinji's hell. As Asuka notes, Shinji's introverted nature makes him tend towards egotism - he thinks only of himself. He knows this. He ''hates himself for it''. Shinji also has a breakdown about two thirds into the movie which doubles as [[NightmareFuel/RebuildOfEvangelion Nightmare Fuel]] And while 1.0 and 2.0 had some [[Funny/RebuildOfEvangelion comic relief]], there is ''no'' comic relief in 3.0. At all. Notice how early on [[ShooOutTheClowns Pen-Pen]] has been dropped from the cast? It's going to take some clever writing or an ''enormous'' AssPull to give this anything other than at ''most'' a BittersweetEnding.]]

* In 3.0, [[spoiler: Shinji unconsciously awakened Eva-01 to help Asuka before she was killed.]], his reward? [[spoiler: WILLE puts him an ExplosiveLeash in case he loses control [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt again]]]]

* [[spoiler:Asuka's "death" in ''2.0''. You know it's coming, but still...and that Goddamn song playing when it's happening just makes it worse]].

* "[[UtadaHikaru Sakura]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Nagashi]]", the ending song of ''3.0.'' The melody is sad enough, but [[http://www.sakuranagashi.jp/lyrics_e.html the lyrics]] make it even worse, especially since they can easily be applied to the movie's events:

** [[spoiler: Not to mention that it acts as a dark inversion of the hand-holding motif that the movies have shown. Rather than being shown as an act that provides Shinji hope, it is instead shown as Shinji being forced to confront a world without anyone caring about his soul or mental state, as the loss of his SDAT player symbolizes.

* But of course, the biggest TearJerker of all was [[spoiler:Shinji's fight with Zeruel. Just like in the original series, just when he seems to have grown some guts, his power runs out. In the series, he starts to whine at this part, begging the EVA to move so no one can blame him for the world's end. What does he do in ''Rebuild''? He demands Rei back, [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl even if it means the end of the world!]] Then, as the Third Impact is about to begin, he holds her tenderly and thanks her for her efforts to resolve his family issues. It may not have been the most ''reasonable'' decision, but it was clearly one of the most touching moments in ''Rebuild'' thus far.]]