Line #10 TearJerker/Cloverfield


1	* Jason's death, as well as Rob being called by his mom, thus having to tell her the news.
2	** The immediate aftermath, as the protagonists leave the bridge and regroup on a street corner. Lily is hysterical and Rob is nearly catatonic as Hud tries to get them to move someplace safer, but they're barely able to acknowledge him.
3	* While walking through the subway, Rob sadly tells Lily that [[PartingWordsRegret the last thing he said to Beth]] was SlutShaming her for bringing another guy to the party after ''he'' blew her off. Lily sympathizes, remembering several things she regrets saying to Jason.
4	* Beth spends most of the night trapped in her apartment with no clue of what's going on. She's not even aware of the monster until Rob, Hud, and Lily come for her. All she could probably hear was the bombing and screaming from outside.
5	* Marlena's death, and Hud's reaction to it. Especially with him freaking out ''off-camera''. Rob worries he might not be able to continue with them, but Hud tries to pull himself together.
6	** Marlena spends her final moments in agony, tearfully screaming and calling out to Hud while Hud tearfully tries his damnedest to save her and figure out what's going on. All in all, heartbreaking.
7	* The fact that both Jason and Marlena don't get to see Beth.
8	* The ''adagio'' towards the end of "Roar!", the music that plays over the end credits, which would have played under the scene where Marlena dies had the movie had a regular music score.
9	* Think of everything from Clovie's point of view; [[AmbiguousGender it's]] a baby. It's lost, it's terrified, it's infested with painful parasites, and it misses its mother. And to top it all off, a bunch of small creatures are trying to kill it. No wonder it was rampaging through New York!
10	** The [[SarcasmMode best part]]? According to WordOfGod, it ''dies'', presumably by the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Hammerdown Protocol]]. Meaning it never sees its mother again.
11	* Lily being evacuated on the helicopter. It's a massive HopeSpot, with Lily being helped into a helicopter and her friends preparing to join her...only for the military man to tell them that there's no more room and that they have to go to the next chopper. The last we see of her is her scared and saddened face in the chopper's window as her friends assure her that they'll be right behind her. And then Clover swats their chopper out of the air. It's implied that because of this, Lily is the only one of the group who's still alive.
12	* Hud's death. After surviving almost everything (numerous encounters with Clover, its parasites, the army, and a helicopter crash), witnessing his friend Jason and his crush Marlena die while still managing to film the entire monster attack in New York, he suffers one of the most gruesome deaths in the film, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe being torn in half by Clover]] while Rob and Beth tearfully watch in horror.
13	* The movie ends with almost all the protagonists dying in horrible ways. [[ShootTheShaggyDog There was no winner in the story, no great rescue, just God-knows-how-many innocents dead in monstrous ways, Hud getting eaten and torn in half by Clover]] [[DownerEnding and the two main lovers dying after a bridge literally crushes them]].
14	** Rob and Beth's mounting panic under the bridge as the hopelessness of their situation sets in. Rob, on hearing the air raid sirens, shakes his head in despair and briefly drops the camera before filming his final testimony, speaking faster and faster as he goes on. Beth can barely keep it together, and she breaks down as she says they'll "wait here until it passes", knowing that it won't.
15	** Oh, and also, considering we still don't know anything about the fate of the monster's mother, chances are, another big catastrophe such as this is going to happen again.
16	** And if Lily's still alive, then imagine how she's going to react when she sees the footage of what happened to her friends...
17	** Alternate endings imply that Beth and Rob could have survived the bombing. Even so, they'll be alone in the middle of the rubble with almost no way of contacting anyone.
18	* A minor example compared to most, but the horse that Hud sees wandering down a random street. It's strapped into a carriage, but there's no one with it, and the blinkers covering its eyes mean that it can hardly see the danger. Hud just stops to record it for a few seconds, while the horse seems to not even realize how much danger it's in. Just one microcosm of the sheer terror and helplessness of the entire situation.

Context TearJerker / Cloverfield