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7* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05fxAOCVeWE&feature=feedu Both]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIi_XzAJEyg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL parts]] of the second part of of Video Game Addiction. [[IronWoobie Poor James]]... While James eventually made it out of his crisis, his friend didn't.
8* A noteworthy case is when they depict sadism in an episode talking about it (Due to the game Hatred gaining a lot of attention at the time), the way that they draw how vulnerable the victims are in the picture and what happens to them can be upsetting, in fact they warn viewers beforehand about this.
9* Extra Credits does not shy away from how some people can ruin games and gaming for other people, and the effects are shown. The episodes on toxicity show the hurtful things said to other people without censorship. In the local multiplayer episode, a cartoon of a man is reduced to tears when his partner is raging.
10* MJ's story for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_1Xiw6Rwvc "Because Games Matter"]] describing how video games brought him and his brother together, then his father and mother (who was handicapped and needed a cane to walk) laughing at trying a Wii Fit Balance Board/Kinect combo...to [[MoodWhiplash learning that his mom died with cancer]].
11* Talking about melancholy in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grZ5jjoQ7EA Eulogy for Quintet]]. Watch it.
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14* The Lost Izalith episode is just a bummer all around. Dan first meets Solaire, when the latter is [[HeroicBSOD having an existential crisis over not finding his personal sun]], and later Siegmeyer (aka. Onion Knight), who [[spoiler: dies from exhaustion after fighting the Chaos Eaters, even though he arguably fared better then Dan against them]]. ''Dark Souls'' veterans may also note that [[spoiler:Dan unknowingly passed the point-of-no-return to save Solaire, too, so he's not going to last much longer, either.]]
15** The start of the next episode really rubs it in. [[spoiler:Dan is still mourning Siegmeyer and almost immediately finds Solaire who, as was already known, has gone insane, forcing Dan to kill him. These two deaths in quick succession really hit Dan hard and he begins to mournfully wonder who else is going to die before it's all over, while sad piano music plays.]]
16-->'''Dan:''' Who is still around? Who is still alive? Who still likes me?
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20* Dan's description of UsefulNotes/HannibalBarca being recalled to Carthage near the end of the Second Punic War can make one truly pity the man who brought terror to Rome.
21--> '''Dan:''' Imagine what it must have been like to be Hannibal at this moment. [[AllForNothing His entire life for nothing]]. All those years, all those sacrifices, the loss of his brother, the loss of his eye, made worthless in a moment. Knowing, in your heart of hearts that the one thing you strove for, the one thing you dedicated yourself to, that you swore to do in your oath, would never come to pass. ''That'' is the Hannibal that boarded those ships to return his army home.
22* Extra History - World War 1: [[ThisIsGonnaSuck The Seminal Tragedy]] - Chapter 2: One Fateful Day in June. The last words of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It's Daniel's delivery that does it.
23-->'''Daniel Floyd:''' The Archduke looks over, barely noticing the gendarmes wrestling the young man by the car to the ground. His only sight is for his wife, lying quietly on the floor of the car. He reaches out with a hand weak and heavy. Something is wrong with his neck. He can't quite think straight. He sees her and he utters one last wish "Sophie, Sophie, don't die! Live for our children." A man leans over and asks if he's badly hurt. He thinks he says "It's nothing, it's nothing..." He repeats the phrase, each time a little more quietly, and neither of them live through the hour.
24* If the war itself is the seminal catastrophe, the weeks leading to the war is the seminal ''tragedy'', and they're not kidding. So many [[ForWantOfANail nails of fate]], coincidences and miscommunication, that if it was a movie, it would break the audience's SuspensionOfDisbelief due to the sheer amount of {{Contrived Coincidence}}s. One historian even comments that there are multiple times the war is about to be averted, but ''something'' happened and steered it back to course, as if an invisible force behind the scene is ''[[YouCantFightFate forcing]]'' this war to happen.
25* The final flurry of messages between Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas II. These two men, ostensibly the leaders of two mighty nations, are talking to one another as nothing but men. More than that, they're speaking as ''family'', trying to hold off a war that will topple empires. They do not write to each other as Kaiser and Tsar, they do not write to each other as Wilhelm and Nicholas. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy-Nicky_correspondence They write to one another as Willy and Nicky]]. And they fail.
26** There was a moment where Nicholas II was considering pulling back mobilization, only for a random aide to remark on how difficult the decision was for the Tsar, [[InnocentlyInsensitive unwittingly wounding the tsar's pride]], and pushing him to launch mobilization. The tsar destroyed himself and his nation over an accidental slight on his ability.
27* The ending montage in Extra History - World War 1: The Seminal Tragedy - Chapter 4: The Final Act. No narration--just "In Flanders Fields" and images of the scars left behind by the war.
28** The fact that the poor German ambassador was pretty much on his hands and knees begging his Russian counterpart to call off the mobilization. What did he get? Just one word, "No." And just like that, the very thing he was desperately trying to avoid happens. The only heartwarming moment to come from this is that his Russian counterpart did [[PetTheDog at least offer to help him pack his things to go back to Germany]].
29** Again, it's Daniel's delivery.
30-->'''Daniel Floyd:''' Then Pourtalés rises to his feet, and takes the piece of paper from his pocket, and says "In that case, sir, I have the honour to inform you that...we're at war." He's still struggling to collect himself, saying "''*sighs*'' I never thought I'd be leaving Russia like this. I don't know how I'll be able to pack." ''*opening piano notes to [[TearJerker/{{Music}} In Flanders Fields]] start to play*'' Sazonov kindly offers to send somebody to help gather his things. And a month later, [[AMillionIsAStatistic a million men are dead]]. The Seminal Catastrophe has begun.
31** For a bunch of cartoon characters with no arms and sticks for legs, they can get ''remarkably'' expressive.
32** The entire Seminal Tragedy series, as we all know [[ForegoneConclusion what is going to happen]]. We keep seeing [[HopeSpot opportunities]] where maybe, just maybe the tragedy would be averted, [[YankTheDogsChain but we know they won't]], and the show misses no opportunities to remind us just how tragic the events are.
33* Anyone who knows of the full tale of Justinian's reign knows that his successful campaign to retake Rome wouldn't do much good in the long haul...should they return to his story, it won't end on a happy note.
34** Spare a penny for Belisarius.
35** Let's not forget the African campaign would also amount to little after the Arabs convinced the Berbers to help them conquer the region.
36* The way everything in the Byzantine Empire seems to fall apart following the Plague: a quarter of Constantinople's population is dead, with most buried in mass graves or stuffed into the city's walls, war resumes with Persia forcing Belisarius leave Italy to defend the homeland again, leading to Rome being lost to the Ostrogoths yet again; and compounding all this is Theodora dying to cancer which destroys Justinian emotionally.
37** What makes it somehow worse is that Justinian still worked hard to get his empire back in order. He never failed to remember his duty, to rule the empire that he worked hard to maintain. As Daniel says, most men would have given up and let the empire slide, but Justinian kept carried on even though he had lost some of his passion and joy for life.
38* Daniel's last words on Justinian's life, his death, his possible last thought and what might have been.
39* The way they portray Suleiman the Magnificent's later years, guilt ridden over his murder of his friend and two sons and the death of his wife and favorite son. The worst part is the final moments of his life, imagining that everybody is still alive and talking to him before his death.
40** His sympathy for the leader of The Knights of Rhodes, kicked out of his home and banished.
41** The death of the child king of Hungary.
42** How his life is paralleled with Justinian.
43* The First Crusade. The one that's considered the ''successful'' one no less. So. Many. Lives. ''Wasted''. To think that this was only the ''first''.
44** Appalled by the slaughter, Tancred gives his banner to a group of Muslims to show they are under his protection. It doesn't work and he comes back to find them all dead.
45** Perhaps it's worth saying that the First Crusade accomplished a much more noble goal beyond conquering the Holy Land: helping the Byzantines get back on their feet after being the bulwark of Europe against the Arabs and the Turks for centuries and being in the receiving end of Norman hostilities...all for it to amount to '''nothing''' after the infamous Fourth Crusade ravaged the Empire and left behind a husk of the guardian of Europe against the invaders of the East.
46* The sheer amount of ''bullshit'' Admiral Yi goes through to protect Korea despite the actions of corrupt and/or cowardly men who did just about everything to hamper him short of swearing loyalty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. At one point busting him all the way down to Grunt after refusing to fall for an obvious trap, only to have an incompetent waste all the resources and technology he had built for the war on another trap.
47** Even better, that was the second time he'd been demoted to the rank of a common soldier, and the third time he'd been demoted overall due to corrupt officials being more interested in petty grudges than the good of the nation.
48* The end of Admiral Yi's life. He dies to a stray bullet trying to avenge his fallen countrymen, but immediately has his descendants take up his mantle to finish the battle. The Chinese Admiral who he'd repeatedly saved wanted to celebrate with him, but broke down when he realised what had happened.
49-->'''Daniel Floyd:''' Korea was free, but Yi would never see it. Thousands turned out to see his body returned to his small home village. People lined the road and wailed at the passing of a man they may never have met. The Chinese Admiral wrote for him a eulogy, and even the court and the king tried to make their recompense. And so passed the man so ill-treated in life; so often demoted and accused. The man who would forever be known as [[UndyingLoyalty the Martial Lord of Loyalty]].
50* The "Lies" segment of Admiral Yi says that James was only able to find one critical work of Admiral Yi's life... Yi's ''own autobiography''. In spite of everything he did, he still did not think himself worthy. Fortunately, history was a lot more forgiving.
51* Charles XII's death. The king who had pushed Sweden onwards, and had done so [[FrontlineGeneral leading them himself]], who the men could look to as inspiration. Who ''even after becoming lame in one leg'' still continued onwards. Shot while looking out of a trench his men were digging.
52** Further, this had been after a French officer had warned him of this exact possibility.
53* The followup to the Odenathus episode, where James talks about one of the world's oldest heritage site being ripped apart. Goddammit, ISIL...
54* The death of [[spoiler:Tiberus Gracchus and ThePurge of his supporters. He had the best interests of Rome at heart, and tried to restore an old agrarian law that had gone unenforced and his reward for that is a shockingly brutal death]]. His famous speech quoted by Daniel is also quite sad in its eloquent observation about how the state exploits its citizens:
55--> '''Tiberius Gracchus''': ''"The savage beasts in Italy have their particular dens, they have their places of repose and refuge; but the men who bear arms, and expose their lives for the safety of their country, enjoy in the meantime nothing more in it but the air and the light.They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and wealth of other men. They were styled the masters of the world, but in the meantime had not one foot of ground which they could call their own."''
56** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-k1PKbt5fI video]] montage for the Gracchi Brothers video is incredibly sad, the music is emotive and the images showing the rise and fall of the brothers is heartbreaking, including the awesome legendary statues at the end.
57** And the name of the ending music, the music that plays at the end of all the episodes for a given series: ''Air and Light''.
58* Despite how much he fought and try, Simon Bolivar's Gran Colombia dream of a United South America failed due to distrust, corruption, a lack of unity, bankruptcy between all of the former Spanish colonies and even his own prior actions. Simon died a sick man who saw his dream as a failure.
59* For all her successes, Catherine the Great failed to settle her succession. Her son Paul became similar to the husband she hated and he always felt distant from her. Despite his decent qualities being spotted on his tour of Europe, Catherine refused to let him get involved in government or give him any responsibility, effectively treating him as she had been treated as a child. It's hard not to feel sorry for Paul for always feeling insecure about himself and never getting to reveal his talents, just like Catherine when she was younger.
60* The tragedy of Ned Kelly. Tried to live an honest life after briefly tasting bushranging. ForcedIntoEvil after the law got on his case incorrectly, tried to be a noble gentleman thief in his work. Took up the outfit of a knight for his epic showdown, and then defeated, lead away to the gallows only saying, "[[GracefulLoser Such is life]]."
61* The death of Robert Kennedy and his last words in the Cuban Missile Crisis video and in a way Daniels closing words as well.
62-->'''Daniel Floyd:''' He stopped to shake hands with a hotel employee who brought meals up to his room. An assassin shot him three times; the handshake turned into an embrace. The young man kept the Kennedy's head off the floor and put a Rosary in his hand. "Is everybody okay?" Kennedy asked, one of his eyes closed; his leg was twitching. He tried to comfort the man who held him. [[HarsherInHindsight "Everything is]] going to be okay." [[FalseReassurance The Cold War continued for another 23 years.]] [[HistoryRepeats As of 2018,]] [[DoomsdayClock the clock is at two minutes to midnight.]]
63* The BolivianArmyEnding of "Saragarhi - The Last Stand". Most commenters admitted to being misty and finally tearing when the last man, the heliographic communication's officer Gurmukh Singh, requested permission to pick up his rifle, killing 12 men who gave up trying to invade his post and merely set it on fire. Singh [[DefiantToTheEnd repeatedly called out the Sikh battle cry]] "Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal!" ("One will be blessed eternally, who says that God is the ultimate truth!") before succumbing.
64* The Defense of Poland is largely a series of DefiantToTheEnd accomplishments on part of the Polish military when faced with nigh-impossible odds. However, a real gut-punch to the poor sods had to be when [[TheCavalry the Soviets]] arrived from the East, and, contrary to the expectations of the soldiers, [[CavalryBetrayal came as part of a secret protocol in the Molotov-Ribbentroff Pact]] that allowed Germany and Russia to carve up Poland as they saw fit. Imagine how those poor soldiers must've felt at their situation. Desperate for aid, knowing their comrades on the other front are desperately holding out, [[HopeSpot only for another of the massive military powers, one whom was expected to be on THEIR side, began suddenly gunning their friends down.]]
65* [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu The 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak]]. The closest the Earth has ever come to a Doomsday Pandemic. It spread and slaughtered millions all over the world no matter what they did to cure or avoid it. In many places, they not only ran out of coffins to bury the dead, they ran out of wood to make any more!
66** One particularly harrowing story involved a Coast Guard group checking in on an isolated indigenous village in Alaska. Nobody comes to greet them. They enter. Still nothing. One Ensign looks into a house and '''immediately''' slams the door shut. He demands a rifle, breaks open a window, and fires into the house several times. Then has the entire house doused with kerosene and burned to the ground. What did he see in there? Three starving sled dogs fighting over the bones of their owners.
67** At an American military training camp for soldiers fighting in the First World War, the camp's doctor warns the commandant that he is violating health regulations to contain the flu by overcrowding the soldiers in the barracks and trains heading out of the camp. The commandant rebuffed the doctor's warnings, telling him that the overcrowding was necessary to ensure recruits could be sent to Europe as quickly as possible. Two weeks later, the doctor came back to report that 500 soldiers had died of the flu, the last troop train had turned into a plague train spreading the flu even further, more than a quarter of the recruits had to be hospitalized, and the camp had run out of coffins to bury the dead. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Realizing what he had done]], the commandant orders the doctor to leave his office before [[DrivenToSuicide proceeding to draw his pistol...]]
68** Surgeon general William Gorgas's desperate pleas to his superiors to cancel the training of new soldiers, fearing that so many in so close proximity would spread the virus. The superiors don't listen, and send out the new wave of drafts. Gorgas does eventually convince them that it would be futile, as the soldiers would only be stuck in a sick camp, but it is already too late. Even though the draft is cancelled, military camps are already filled, and its officers are ignoring safety measures for the sake of the war effort.
69* The destruction of the ''Bismarck''. It is the closest the British have ever gotten to the ''Bismarck''. As the ship is destroyed, UK sailors are able to see the enemy flee for their lives. A British naval chaplain begs the Admiral to show mercy but is refused. After the ship is sunk, the British rescue as many German sailors as possible but the appearance of a U-boat forces them to flee, leaving the rest of the ''Bismarck'''s crew to die.
70** The British lose the ''Bismarck'' at one point, but are able to track it down again in part because of a radio exchange with a worried father whose son is serving aboard. That father might well have accidentally doomed his son.
71* From their series on the UsefulNotes/IrishPotatoFamine
72** The first video setting the tone, pointing out the lives lost to hunger, disease and immigration.
73*** That same video describing all the ways [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishQuestion the system was against the Irish Catholics]].
74*** That video again, mentioning children being so desperate they ate grass until their mouths and teeth were green and mothers with infants going so hungry the breastmilk stopped and the babies died of hunger too.
75** The third video in the series on the covers "Black '47", a year in which the famine levels in Ireland got so bad that even ''slaves and Native Americans'' were sending donations to the Irish, and one particularly unnerving conversation had a pair of young women calmly debate [[YourDaysAreNumbered how many more days they'd live]] while talking to a visiting American. The town of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibbereen#Famine Skibbereen]] was particularly hard hit, to the point that the dead went unburied because the remaining residents literally didn't have the energy to bury them.
76*** Pretty much the whole part of the video describing Trevelyan's deeds. He purposefully undercut and botched relief attempts, partly because he didn't believe the problem warranted anything extreme, partly because he was a firm believer of non-interference, and partly because he saw the famine as a chance to create an anglicized Ireland, free of the old, Catholic values and patterns.
77** The fourth video describes (with superb delivery) an "American wake", a goodbye party for two Irish sisters who have saved enough money to go to America, leaving behind the village they've lived in their whole lives. Their mother (who cradles them and cries, and is always drawn as if her mouth is quivering, seconds away from breaking out in sobs) will likely never see them again, which is especially painful since photography and telephones don't exist at this time. Accentuated by the drawing: the shadows of her daughters sitting next to the mother as the mother holds a lock of hair of one of them - the only thing she has left of her girls.
78** The fifth video starts with the funeral of Daniel O'Connell, champion of Catholic emancipation, and after describing the public grieving, it calls this reaction proof that the Irish have forgiven O'Connell - for, as much as he has done for their legal emancipation, his efforts or attempts to help the hunger crisis were left wanting.
79** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzuygbp6toA A Warmer Place - Rowan's Jig]] is a heart wrenching tune that slowly builds up in tempo, ultimately hopeful.
80* The series on the Hundred Years War is filled with mostly funny and lightheartedly informative moments, but one standout is the tragedy that is Edward III's court. Imagine yourself as king of a less-than-noteworthy nation, your people regarded as lesser than the ones over the channel that separates you from them, under their king, who has power over your realm. Now suddenly, you hear that this king is taking the last province that you inherited by your birthright from your family, and one that happens to be very profitable, if not outright necessary for the survival of your nation. Couple this with the fact that said king is trying to put a chokehold on your most valuable resource, equally important to your nation. Now imagine going to war with this king, and ''winning'' extensively, surrounded by a court full of valued friends, commanders, and the love of your life. Now imagine a plague coming into the scene and taking practically all of those people away from you. [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen You're now ruling alone, and your mind is decaying from old age]]. And finally, your pride and joy, your son, dies before you. And after all of this, you join them a year later in your old age, as your household slowly abandons you to be [[DyingAlone alone]]. [[KickTheDog Then your mistress steals your rings off your limp fingers]]. Poor Edward...
81** During the saddening narration of how Edward's household fell apart in his later years, there's a particularly poignant shot of Edward and his son the Black Prince tearfully looking at Queen Phillipa's empty throne. That, coupled with the English people's furious reaction to seeing Edward taking a mistress, really drives home just how loved Phillipa was by her family and her people.
82* The series on Joan of Arc starts with a delusional/paranoid episode of the French king... and ends with Joan's execution then describing Joan storming the Pearly Gates of Heaven.
83* The senseless, needless destruction unleashed by the Nazis in the aftermath of the Warsaw uprising. Leveling an entire city, irreplaceable historic architecture, countless dead, [[EvilIsPetty all because of hurt pride]].
84* The suffering of Haitian slaves under French rule.
85* The third century crisis:
86** Aurelian being murdered by his own men, simply because a man had forged their execution orders. A further one in that they ''believed it.'' Summed up by the narration, which while PlayedForLaughs, does highlight how ignoble an end it was for such an important historical figure.
87--> That's history for you. It has it's Julius Ceasars, people who die in great tragedies of betrayal and clashing ideals, stabbed on the floor of the Senate by his peers to prevent him from becoming a tyrant. Then history has its Aurelians; a guy who saved the Empire multiple times, [[ShaggyDogStory and then was murdered for petty reasons while trying to take a leak.]]
88** The persecution of Christians, specifically Romanus.
89* The bigotry the Harlem Hellfighters ended up facing, where despite all their heroism and accomplishments, most of them ended up destitute, with the leader of the band within the Hellfighters dying from a stab wound to the neck.
90* Cleopatra:
91** The second episode ends on a rather somber note for those who know their history. Cleopatra is riding high, having a lasting alliance and a happy relationship with the most powerful man in Rome. Everything is looking up for her, both on the political and the personal front. [[ForegoneConclusion It's the 15th of March]].
92** On a similarly somber note, Cleopatra manages to build herself up again quickly after the death of Caesar, getting into an equally happy and politically stable alliance with Marcus Antonius (aka Marc Antony). Matt even ends the video by saying that they live happily ever after... Right? In the background, the historical consultants of the show are giving him a somber look.
93* In 1963, Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot outside his own home by Klansman Byron de la Beckwith, ultimately succumbing to his wounds after the local hospital refused to admit him for treatment due to his race. Medgar himself had often considered the possibility of his death due to the enemies he had made with his civil rights work, and had to teach his family safety drills for that eventuality. To add insult to injury, [[KarmaHoudini Beckwith was acquitted by an all-white jury despite clear evidence implicating him thanks to the support of the state governor and local police, and was even thrown a parade after his acquittal]]. Despite this, Medgar’s wife Myrlie continued to pursue justice for her husband’s murder, and was able to reopen Medgar’s case in 1993. This time, [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Beckwith was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison]]. Upon hearing the verdict, Myrlie was seen by reporters looking at the sky with tears in her eyes, simply saying [[BittersweetEnding “We did it, Medgar.”]]
94* While discussing Redlining and how the police disproportionately target black neighbourhoods, they drive the points home by pointing out how only one of the four people who worked on the episode has ever been stopped and frisked by the police. Surprise surprise, it's Steven van Patten, the only black guy.
95* While Rasputin is portrayed as a deeply flawed person, it is clear he was largely the victim of a horrible smear campaign by jealous rivals trying to get cheap fame. His excesses are arguably the result of the stress he endured from all the nasty accusations against him and nearly being murdered by a woman he was trying to help.
96* John VI of Portugal tending to his mentally ill mother Queen Maria, who was rendered near-catatonic after the deaths of her husband and eldest son. He sadly wipes her messy hair out of her face as she sits frozen in a chair, and Matt narrates that in her deterioration, she could barely understand what was going on around her.
97** Pedro I's rather cruel treatment of his wife Maria Leopoldina during his affair with Domitila de Castro. He gave her lofty titles, legitimized their children, and generally flaunted the relationship whenever he could. Then he made Domitila a lady-in-waiting in Maria's household, forcing Maria to endure the humiliation of being accompanied by her husband's mistress, and kept her in isolation in the palace. Pedro wasn't even there by her side as she lay on her deathbed from complications following a miscarriage, and her lavish state funeral only served as a reminder to Pedro that [[LovedByAll Maria Leopoldina was universally beloved by the people]], and his abominable treatment of her would [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone haunt him for the rest of his life.]]
98* Billy Holliday spent her entire life wanting to make music, but addiction, failed relationships, and persecution from a racist official slowly wore her down, and she died after being deliberately denied medical treatment by several government agents.
99* Eleanor of Aquitaine being forced to leave her two daughters behind with Louis VII after their divorce. After all she'd endured over the course of the unhappy union, Eleanor wasn't even allowed to take the only good things that came from the marriage with her, and can do nothing but walk away with tears in her eyes as Marie and Alix watch their mother leave.
100* The Pearl Harbor series shows there were many Japanese diplomats who wanted peace but were undermined by the militarists and their arrogant belief in total victory. The mostly honest Admiral Nomura, Japan’s ambassador in Washington, wasn’t told about the Pearl Harbor and has to bear the brunt of Cordell Hull’s rage over the attack without knowing why.
101* Frederick the Great’s horrible abuse at the hands of his cruel father is shown in grisly detail, but the cherry on top was Frederick being ForcedToWatch his companion and possible lover Katte being executed for treason. The young prince tearfully calls out to his dear friend, begging him for forgiveness in their preferred language of French. And as he furiously struggles against the bars, trying desperately to avoid seeing the axe, two soldiers press the young prince against the window to force him to look. Mercifully, he faints before the killing blow is struck.
102-->'''Frederick:''' Please forgive me, dear Katte! In God's name, forgive me! [[labelnote: French]] Veuillez pardonner mon cher Katte, au nom de Dieu, pardonne-moi!" [[/labelnote]]
103-->'''Katte:''' ([[GoOutWithASmile smiling]]) There is nothing to forgive. [[DyingDeclarationOfLove I die for you with joy in my heart.]] [[labelnote: French]] Il n'y a rien à pardonner, je meurs pour toi avec joie dans mon cœur. [[/labelnote]]
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107* La Llorona, who needs a trigger warning, and her eternal cry of four words:
108--> "'''''¿¡¡¡¡DONDE ESTAN MIS HIJOS?!!!!'''''" ('''''WHERE ARE MY SONS?!!!!''''')[[/folder]]
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