Line #2 TearJerker/Disgaea


1	!Hour of Darkness
2	* Episode 8, the Red Moon episode. With "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFKmtgGjM8A Sorrowful Angel]]" as the main battle music in this chapter, a piece mainly used in emotionally tense scenes, this foreshadows TearJerker. [[spoiler:It revolves around the night of the Red Moon, when the Prinnies who have redeemed themselves are allowed to reincarnate at last. Not only do the Prinnies sing a haunting song called, simply, "Red Moon", but it is revealed that the red "Big Sis Prinny" is Laharl's mother in Prinny form, and now she too is allowed to reincarnate, which leads to some truly touching emotional moments involving Laharl ("But, if we are destined to part again, wouldn't it be better to watch from afar and leave without a single word?"). This chapter pretty much marks Laharl's [[CharacterDevelopment transition]] from JerkAss to JerkWithAHeartOfGold.]]
3	** As if all that weren't enough, the version in the anime adaptation ends with Laharl letting out an agonizing scream...
4	* "DID...THURSDAY...SERVE...HIS...PURPOSE...?"
5	* [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn Kurtis']] HeroicSacrifice.]]
6	* The anime's version of Kurtis' StartOfDarkness. [[spoiler:The anime shows the aftermath of the terrorist attack with Kurtis reeling in pain. Then, his eyes widen when he sees that the only thing left of his daughter is her soot-covered shoe and teddy bear.]]
7	* The scene before the final battle. After a HopeSpot that everything has worked out and all is well, [[spoiler:it turns out Flonne must be punished for her sins serving Laharl, and Lamington turns her into a flower, but agrees to honor her last request to spare Laharl and the other heroes. Flonne gives Laharl her pendant, which burns those with wicked hearts, and he can hold it safely, proving his CharacterDevelopment. However, after Flonne's transformation, Laharl angrily rejects love and friendship again if this is Flonne's idea of it, and declares he'll kill Lamington as the pendant begins to burst into light in his hand.]]
8	** The [[BittersweetEnding normal ending]]. [[spoiler:After Laharl realizes that by killing Lamington, he ended up killing Flonne as well, he takes his own life in the same way his mother did.]]
9	-->[[spoiler:'''Laharl:''' "You mean... you mean it's my fault she died? That she died... because... of me?"]]
10	-->[[spoiler:'''Laharl:''' "IF THERE IS A GOD, MAY HE HEAR MY PLEA! I, LAHARL, HAVE BUT ONE REQUEST: TAKE MY LIFE, IN EXCHANGE FOR FLONNE'S!"]]
11	* The ending to Etna mode from the PSP/DS port is another contender. [[spoiler:When Etna's memories finally return, she realizes that her big promise to Krichevskoy was to watch over Laharl, and she breaks down realizing that she failed to keep her promise. Sure, we find out that was Laharl was [[HeavySleeper alive all along]], but it's still a heart-wrenching scene.]]
12	** [[FridgeBrilliance This makes the Diary-Reading in the original game A LOT more meaningful.]] It basically [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] this TearJerker IN HER OWN WORDS!
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14	!Cursed Memories
15	* How about the worst ending for ''Disgaea 2''? [[spoiler:Not only does Adell kill Rozalin, he is then possessed and in the after-credits sequence... he ''eats his siblings as they beg him to stop''.]]
16	* A sort of FridgeHorror TearJerker, but when [[spoiler:Adell kills his parents. They were under partial mind control at the time, so they couldn't tell him, and nobody knew Zenon had brainwashed them, so he'll never find out. He was literally ''one step away'' from finding out the truth about his parents, his heritage, and getting his real family back, all he had to do was keep them paralyzed until Zenon's curse was broken... but he didn't know, and so he killed them. The fact that they were literally asking for it since they didn't have enough freedom to ask for him to break the curse makes it even worse.]]
17	* In the manga, Adell's explanation to Rozalin of why he wants to defeat Zenon is accompanied by a {{Flashback}} to his childhood. Adorable little Adell walks in on his parents right as they're being overwhelmed by demonic urges brought on by the curse. A [[EmpathyDollShot shot of his teddy bear]] [[GoryDiscretionShot torn apart and lying in a pool of blood]] follows. Then it shows his parents with their faces streaked with blood and tears, embracing their injured child...
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19	!Absence of Justice
20	* [[spoiler:Almaz']] death in general is a giant TearJerker [[spoiler:with him trying his best to stop Mao]]. However, if you go for the Human World ending, [[spoiler:Raspberyl, who also tries to stop Mao, ends up dying at the hands of Aurum and apologizes to Mao for not believing in him. [[MoralityChain Mao doesn't take it very well...]]]]
21	** [[spoiler:"And then, there was no one. No human world, no Netherworld, no Celestia. Everything disappeared and was gone..."]]
22	** Sapphire's reaction to [[spoiler:Almaz' death]]. Sapphire is frustrated that she can't shed a tear for him [[spoiler:even though she lost someone who truly cared about her. When she finally does shed tears, however, it's when he comes back to life, and they're TearsOfJoy.]]
23	* Mao's Japanese voice actor, Creator/HiromiHirata, can make him go from crazy Mad Scientist to walking TearJerker at a drop of a hat, especially in Episode 4 when you face [[spoiler:the Maos who says Dad]]. [[http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=MNZMCdO3KAs&t=4m48s It's hard not to tear up]] when you can hear the pain in Mao's voice. And then you actually have to ''fight'' them with all their voices [[spoiler:desperately calling out to Mao's dad]].
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25	!A Promise Unforgotten
26	* [[spoiler:Nemo's tearful, desperate MotiveRant right before the final battle, especially in the Japanese version. You can literally feel the sheer pain and sorrow in his voice.]]
27	* In the Fuka and Desco DLC, [[spoiler:Desco starts flipping out when she finds out that Fuka will lose everything, including her memories, once she reincarnates. It reaches a point where her sadness and desperation splits off and becomes another Desco called Torn Desco, and, after removing Axel from office, does everything in her power to convince Fuka to not reincarnate.]]
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29	!A Brighter Darkness
30	* For a game NISA is claiming to be LighterAndSofter (thus the subtitle ''A Brighter Darkness''), some of the bad endings can really break you down.
31	** In one ending, [[spoiler:Sicily (revealed to actually be Laharl's biological sister) [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices her life to protect her brother]]. [[HisStoryRepeatsItself Remember that his mother sacrificed herself to save Laharl from his disease and that in the first game, he nearly lost Flonne after she allowed herself to be punished by Lamington in order to prevent her friends from suffering the same fate.]] [[http://youtu.be/XEpuCdH-pKA?t=1m18s His heart-wrenching reaction should come as no surprise.]] And then...]]
32	-->[[spoiler:''Suffering from ultimate despair, Laharl never returned to the Overlord's Castle. Instead, he waited to die where Sicily disappeared...'']]
33	** In another, [[spoiler:Etna receives a sudden surge of demon energy after trying to defeat Xenolith, [[PhlebotinumOverload that ends up destroying her from the inside out.]] By the end, all that's left of Etna is her Elder Spear [[WeaponTombstone which has been planted into the ground.]]]]
34	** In yet another ending, [[spoiler:Laharl watches as his entire world gets consumed by a black hole. Especially heartbreaking is before he's consumed, he's forced to watch Etna, Flonne, and Sicily sucked in one by one. Then, there's his final words.]]
35	-->[[spoiler:'''Laharl''': D-DAMN IT! I couldn't protect my vassals! I couldn't protect the Netherworld! I'm sorry, old man!]]
36	* Heck, even the Normal Ending is capable of bring people to tears. [[spoiler:Etna desperately screaming for Xenolith to escape his fate of being dragged into the earth, telling him that if he truly loves his sister, he will live. He eventually succumbs, and Etna collapses and remains in a coma for who knows how long. Thankfully, a BittersweetEnding is averted with TheStinger, in which Etna eventually wakes up and has a conversation with someone at the castle gates who is implied to be Xenolith.]]
37	** [[spoiler:[[http://youtu.be/G5x5ua0Ev60?t=16m43s Just listen to Etna explode at Xenolith for being willing to let himself die]], especially when you consider that she brushed off the initial reveal that Xenolith was her brother.]]
38	-->[[spoiler:'''Etna:''' I'll be waiting...stupid...brother...]]
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40	!Alliance of Vengeance
41	* In the last level of Chapter 4, you have to defeat all enemies without attacking Usalia, who is in a beast mode due to not eating curry. If you defeat her, she ends up dying, and it breaks Killia's spirit so much that he quits the Rebel Army, which ends up falling apart without him, leaving [[TheBadGuyWins Void Dark to rule the Netherworlds unopposed forever]].
42	* Usalia's entire backstory is this; Majorita [[spoiler:enslaves her Netherworld and tortures the inhabitants just for kicks. She also curses Usalia so she needs to eat curry, a food she hates, or she'll turn into a rabid monster before dying. She even admits to acting like a brat about it and feels as if she caused her parents and people to hate her because she ran away and told her parents that the sweet curry they made was disgusting (even though she loved it)...and this ends up being the last thing she says to her parents before Majorita murders them for no reason at all.]]
43	* [[spoiler:Majorita's]] death. Yes, the [[spoiler:third-in-command big bad that kills people and uses their corpses to continue killing; who outright tortured Usalia and murdered her parents. The evil witch that she is... will elicit tears from you when Void Dark reveals he was just using her and kills her in cold blood after stealing her Overload.]] During the ending, it's even revealed [[spoiler:that the restored Toto Bunny has become the utopia for peaceful demons that Majorita wanted to build all along; just hammering that last tear-jerking nail home.]]
44	** On the positive side [[spoiler:in a post-ending story you find out she revived herself and now is forced to do nice things for Usalia; the person who hates her the most.]]

Context TearJerker / Disgaea