Line #22 TearJerker/Skullgirls


1	-> ''Are you crying?! THERE'S NO CRYING IN FIGHTING GAMES!!''
2	-->-- '''Soviet Announcer'''
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5	!!Video game
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7	* Painwheel's whole existence probably counts. Once just a normal girl, she was kidnapped and turned into a [[MindControl mind controlled]], Anti-Skullgirl monster. Things go downhill from there. She seems to have regained control at the end of her story mode and attempts to go home, but her parents reject her and call her a monster. Not only that, but it is revealed that she is still without freedom, as the Skull Heart somehow took control of her, turning her into the new Skullgirl. The DarkReprise of her Leitmotif, ''The Lives We Tried To Reclaim'', playing in her ending does nothing to help with the sadness factor at all.
8	* Peacock's ending shows that she and Marie were once good friends. Marie reveals that she became the Skullgirl in order to rid the world of evil people like Peacock's slave traders and the Medici family. She does not wish to harm Peacock, who she calls Patricia, and asks her to go away, but Peacock decides to free her from the Skull Heart's misery. After listening to Marie's last words, Peacock decides to continue Marie's goal of destroying the Medici Family.
9	** Before that, there's the destruction of the Anti-Skullgirls Lab. Peacock's on the verge of tears seeing how her friends and her father figure Dr. Avian was dying after Valentine wrecked the place.
10	** There's also her win quote after defeating Marie in her story mode. The fact that Peacock dumps all her insanity and wacky mannerisms and [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness takes it completely seriously]] is both sad and unnerving.
11	--->'''Peacock:''' ''Show's over…friend.''
12	* Squigly's story mode is already sad enough from beginning to end, but the post-credits scene of Filia standing at her grave drives it all home.
13	** "Here lie Sienna 'Squigly' Contiello & Leviathan. May they rest peace until we meet again".
14	** Has maybe the slightest tinge of Heartwarming, when you consider that Squigly will be coming back when the Skull Heart reappears. Not "Goodbye", so much as "See You In A Few Years".
15	* In Valentine's ending, you can see Painwheel's absolutely lost look upon descending into the bowels of the chapel and discovering no Skullgirl but instead Valentine's discarded bonesaw.
16	* In Beowulf's story, it turns out that the Beowulf/Grendel title fight was rigged. The Canopian Kingdom commissioned the Medici mafia to drug Grendel before his fight to stack the odds in Beowulf's favor to make him seem like a great warrior and keep wartime morale up. Unfortunately, this had the side effect of Grendel dying in the fight, causing his mother to freak out and attack the audience, subsequently leading to her death when Beowulf had to take drastic measures. The Medicis basically forced Beowulf into unwittingly killing two people in cold blood, all in the name of patriotism. Especially heartbreaking when you take into account that Beowulf and Grendel actually had great mutual respect of each other outside of the ring.
17	* When Robo Fortune decides to deliver the Skull Heart but not before the Skull Heart asks how she knows if delivering it to Brain Drain won't result in a bigger tragedy. She simply states that she going to deliver it matter-of-factly, and without any of her usual zingers.
18	* While Parasoul's ending is saddening on it's own, the original plan was for the game to have MultipleEndings, and both of Parasoul's were [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet at best]]. Umbrella is on the verge of becoming the Skullgirl, giving Parasoul a SadisticChoice between destroying the Skull Heart and catching her little sister in the blast or wishing on it to prevent her sister's transformation, at the cost of eventually becoming the Skullgirl herself. If you took the former, Umbrella dies in her sister's arms, while if you took the latter, Parasoul dooms herself [[FateWorseThanDeath to something even worse to save her life]]. Had the MultipleEndings system made it into the final game, players going through Parasoul's story [[MortonsFork would be greeted with a lose-lose situation]]. Perhaps the only character who would have gotten it worse than Parasoul was Painwheel; as already mentioned above, her life's already a living hell- and this isn't remedied in [[DownerEnding either of her endings]]. No matter which one them you would have chosen, Carol not only doesn't get her life back, but winds up becoming the Skullgirl. To elaborate, in her deleted ending, she wishes on the Skull Heart for her freedom- [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor and is then "freed" of any and all humanity that she had left, becoming a Skullgirl of pure rage]]. In her canon ending, Painwheel destroys the Skull Heart and tries to return to her family, only for them to not recognize her and call her a monster. Brain Drain has her return, only to reveal that, even with the Skull Heart's destruction, Painwheel is bound to become a Skullgirl anyway- implied to be due to the Skullgirl-blood experiments conducted on her.
19	* Cerebella may be [[BaseBreakingCharacter base-breaking]] [[TheScrappy among fans]], but there's little denying how disheartening her Story Mode's ending is. Having successfully lured Ms. Fortune to her with the Skull Heart, Cerebella sees that the only way to retrieve the Gem is to crush her to death. [[MomentOfWeakness Blinded by loyalty to the Medicis to the point of setting aside her morals, if only for that moment]], she goes through with it and returns the Gem as ordered. It's only when Vitale praises her for it [[HeelRealization that the reality of what she did hits home]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and she can only look away shamefully]].
20	* Just look at Marie's poster; it's full of stuff like 'Goodbye friends' and 'This is the end'. It is kind of sad to think that this is the last we'll see of Skullgirls, given Mike's and Alex's stated intent to move onto new projects, and also [[WhatCouldHaveBeen all the ideas that never got to see the light of day.]] Although with the announcement that Annie is being added as a playable character after all these years, this is alleviated significantly.
21	* During the near end of her story mode, Annie has Double on the ropes. Then Double performs a BreakThemByTalking via shapeshifting into her mother (both as the Skullgirl and when she was human) and remarking about how despite her effort, it seems that people will succumb to the temptation of using the Skull Heart, even using the aforementioned mother form to mournfully say that she despised what ''Annabella'' has become.
22	* Poor Umbrella goes through a ''lot'' during her story mode: after being separated from Parasoul when the Egrets spot Marie, Umbrella is rather bluntly informed of the terrible things her parents did (namely her father starting a war and her mother transforming into one of the most dangerous Skullgirls ever), and then gets into a big fight with Parasoul that ends with Umbrella angrily wishing the two weren't sisters, then storming off. She admits right after that she was too mean and worries that Parasoul won't want to see her again. The two thankfully patch things up, but it's still heartbreaking to watch.
23	* On the topic of the Renoirs, Parasoul's Origin Story "No Shelter" shows the days leading up to and just after her mother Queen Nancy transforming into the Skullgirl, and ''man'' is it rough on everyone involved. The reason Parasoul formed the Black Egrets and dedicated herself to stopping the Skullgirl whenever she comes about? It's because she witnessed her mother's painful transformation and learnt first-hand that no matter how seemingly selfless the Skullgirl's wish is, the Skull Heart will ultimately bring about nothing but pain, death and misery to her and her loved ones. And she was a ''[[HarmfulToMinors high-schooler]]'' when all of this went down!
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25	!!Webcomic
26	* In Episode 12, Peacock and her gang are out at the river, and while her gang is enjoying the overall sight, Peacock is looking at her reflection in the water- and clearly does not like what she sees. This is a stark reminder that underneath all that power and wild attitude is a broken girl lashing out at the world.
27	-->'''Tommy:''' The river's so beautiful at night. Don't you think, boss?\
28	'''Peacock:''' Yeah. Beautiful.
29	* Episode 17 has us see Filia's life before getting Samson. And not all is well.
30	-->'''Filia:''' We, uh... We got a new student today, and she... She took Carol's old desk.
31	* Episode 24 was a tearjerker for quite a few characters.
32	** Nadia is now taking refuge at the docks, still mourning her fallen fishbone friends. She even requests a refill when her glass is still full. She's that lost in grieving.
33	** After surviving the skullgirl attack, Filia's family are visited by Vitale who orders to have them all killed. Vitale kills Filia's parents himself while Filia gets beaten within an inch of her life by Ottomo. Even the dog gets beaten down.

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