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1!!Works with their own page
2* TearJerker/AChristmasCarol1984
3* TearJerker/AChristmasCarol2009
4* TearJerker/TheMuppetChristmasCarol
5* Tearjerker/MickeysChristmasCarol
6* TearJerker/Scrooge1951
7* TearJerker/Scrooge1970
8* Tearjerker/ScroogeAChristmasCarol
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10!!The novel
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12* Scrooge as a boy in the boarding school at Christmastime due to his bad relationship with his father.
13* Scrooge acknowledging how much the death of his sister, the only person who truly loved him, hurt him. When the Ghost of Christmas Past mentions how she had children before she died. Scrooge replies "My nephew.", implying he's [[HeelRealization realizing that he's become just like his father in pushing his kind-hearted nephew Fred away]] in the same way his own father did to him.
14* Scrooge forms a deep emotional bond with the Ghost of Christmas Present and his death at midnight of December 25th is an emotional turning point.
15** It's also this ghost who hits Scrooge with his own words about the "surplus population", and the old man is clearly ashamed of himself.
16* The entire sequence at the Cratchits' house in the BadFuture, showing their first Christmas after Tiny Tim's death. Both parents try to be cheerful for their surviving children's sake, with Mrs. Cratchit [[SandInMyEyes hiding her tears by claiming that sewing by candlelight hurts her eyes]] and Bob Cratchit describing how lovely and green Tim's pending gravesite is, but finally Bob can't control himself anymore and breaks down in tears, crying "My little, little child! My little child!" He then goes up to Tim's bed, and his body is still there, and he kisses his face.
17** The sequence in their home at present-day does have the family happy to be together, but it still includes abject poverty with the parents hiding their sadness/disappointment at only being able to give a meager Christmas to the children yet again.
18* The scene with the young future debtors has them celebrate Scrooge's death, relieved that they'll have an extension to pay off the large sum they owe.
19** There's also the reason why Scrooge is shown this. He asked the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come to show him someone who actually ''cared'' about his death.
20* The saddest thing about Jacob Marley is that he, unlike Scrooge, can't get a second chance to change. He's already dead at the start of the story and is doomed to an eternity of regret.
21** He does, though, get to influence the fate of his old business partner -- which must be ''some'' comfort given that the tormented ghosts, for the most part, have learned to feel remorse for their selfishness but can no longer help anyone on Earth.
22* Belle's leaving Scrooge because he's grown to care more about money than her.
23* The final vision of the past, on the night Jacob Marley died, shows Belle happy with the man she eventually did settle down with. She has a large family, and they're enjoying Christmas Eve together. Scrooge realizes at that point that he well and truly missed his chance to be the man in that vision rather than looking in from the outside, and is further saddened with the revelation that Belle still cares about him, feeling pity that he's shut himself up and won't visit his dying partner.
24-->"And now Scrooge looked on more attentively than ever, when the master of the house, having his daughter leaning fondly on him, sat down with her and her mother at his own fireside; and when he thought that such another creature, quite as graceful and as full of promise, might have called him father, and been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim indeed."
25* The passage of the spirits outside after Marley's ghost departs is scary, but also includes a tearjerking moment.
26-->''The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley's Ghost... Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives. He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step. The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.''
27** WordOfGod has it that this is the same man in a white waistcoat who, [[CanonWelding in another Dickens tale]], denies food or help to Literature/OliverTwist.
28* And of course, Scrooge's horrified reaction to his fate of DyingAlone with no one who loves or mourns him. Especially this line:
29-->'''Scrooge:''' Why show me this if [[BeyondRedemption I am past all hope?]]
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31!!Adaptations
32* Some film adaptations show Tiny Tim's body as the Cratchits grieve.
33* The 1954 "Shower of Stars" version has Scrooge go further in disbelieving Jacob Marley than most versions, using the "I'd heard you had no bowels" line and saying his appearance means ''nothing'' to him. Marley is despondent that he'd come all this way only to not be believed.
34-->'''Marley:''' Oh, God! Oh, God. These are hard hearts of this world, and the torment of years to come. I come out of torment, I come to help a soul avoid eternal misery, and I am not believed!
35* During one year's production for a Christmas Concert, the scene of Tiny Tim's death was scored with an orchestral version of "Asis's Death" from Edvard Grieg's ''Peer Gynt'' suite.
36* The Mr. Magoo adaptation has young Ebenezer singing "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7qOFB4IXA8 All Alone in the World]]".
37* Some adaptations show Jacob Marley's death, with Scrooge either not caring at all (as in ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol2009'', where he just says "Yes, quite dead... as a doornail," and then steals the coins that were placed on Marley's eyes to recompense himself for the undertaker's fee), or deeply caring, with his death being the last straw that fully hardened his heart (as in ''Film/AChristmasCarolTheMusical'', where the scene ends with Scrooge desolately [[PietaPlagiarism holding Marley's body in his arms]]). It's even worse in versions like ''Film/Scrooge1951'', where Marley realizes where they went wrong on his deathbed and tries to appeal to Scrooge to change, and he doesn't listen.
38* In one musical theater adaptation of ''A Christmas Carol'', the story is narrated by a young gentleman who walks with a limp and who retells the story that Scrooge himself told him years ago. During the scene with Christmas Yet To Come, there's the expected tear-jerker scene with the Cratchit family mourning Tiny Tim's death. They sing the appropriately-tear jerking "The Little Child" until they are too choked up to continue, at which point the song is finished by a verse sung by the narrator, which is the only time the narrator sings outside the opening and closing musical numbers. This verse becomes extra chilling in hindsight when, at the end of the story, it is revealed that the narrator is [[spoiler: Tiny Tim, all grown up and healthy thanks to Scrooge]]. Not only is Scrooge in-story witnessing the possible future of the death of a poor child, but also out-of-story the narrator is watching [[spoiler: his own family's reaction to his death in an alternate timeline]] and, much like Scrooge, he cannot comfort them. ''Chilling''.
39* In any version, when Scrooge's fiancée leaves him after seeing he values money more than he values her. Especially in the 1970 musical, the 1999 Patrick Stewart version, the 2001 animation, the 2004 musical, and the 2022 animated musical when old Scrooge is shouting at his younger self to go after her. It's sadder when you realize that he's spent ''years'' regretting the choice of letting her go.
40** Special mention goes to how the actors in the 1999 Patrick Stewart are able to convey emotions and thoughts of their characters with simple facial expressions. Young Scrooge in particular was well done, the shock and fear he feels when his fiancée releases him from the engagement is evident on his face with the prospect of losing someone he still cares deeply for. And when his fiancée leaves, he almost gets up to go after her, but you can see from his face how his thoughts are calculating the hard numbers of the decision before him, and the slowly hardening expression he makes when his choice is made is absolutely phenomenal acting. The fiancée also shows great emotion, especially how she looks back not only once but twice as she walks away; despite her words, it's clear she's very much hoping she's wrong. And the whole time, Patrick Stewart is being Patrick Stewart, portraying Scrooge's despair over what happened and begging his younger self to make the right choice, even though it's impossible.
41---> '''Old Scrooge:''' Go after her! ''(tearfully)'' Don't be afraid! GO AFTER HER!
42** Another really sad version is the 1978 animated [[Creator/RankinBassProductions Rankin Bass]] adaptation of the 1956 TV musical ''The Stingiest Man in Town''. As Belle leaves young Scrooge, they both sing "It Might Have Been", imagining their lives together if they had married and had children. The song is already heartbreaking enough, with Belle being performed by ''Music/ShelbyFlint'' who's already known for [[WesternAnimation/TheRescuers emotional]] [[WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome songs]] during the 1970s, but at the end of the song, it shows Belle as an elderly woman in the present, ''still wandering the streets alone''.
43* The BKN version changes it so the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come doesn't take Scrooge to a future where Tiny Tim died from his illness; rather he takes him to a future where Tim ''became exactly like Scrooge''. Scrooge is utterly horrified.
44* The novel ''The Life and Times of Bob Cratchit'' goes into extravagant detail about how much Bob's life sucks, but he knows others suffer worse, and he eventually forms an odd friendship with Jacob Marley that turns tragic when Marley promptly dies. His ghost begins to haunt him and make him perform good works in his stead as a form of release. Eventually, Bob tells him that ''he'' was responsible for what he did in life, and Marley collects himself before calmly saying how much his punishment ''hurts''.

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