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3* "This is what I live for. This is the purpose of living, for those who have no life". The fact that ADA says it with the same calm finality with which she says everything else, adding only a small pause, makes it so resigned and sad.
4* Idolo: Radam and Dolly's '[[DissonantSerenity wedding]]'.
5* The '''entire''' shown character of Viola in Idolo. She gets diagnosed with a '''VERY''' dangerous dosage of space radiation quite early on when she was just a child, making her condition as a Martian even more precarious than most are, lost the rest of her family by the time she was older, but that didn't stop her from joining BAHRAM to take the fight against the corrupt sect of the UNSF [[KickTheDog who mistreat the Martians every chance they get, even though they're just adding more fuel to BAHRAM's fire to fight them.]] She falls deeply in love with Radam, but unfortunately he ends up already having a girlfriend by the name of Dolores. Needless to say, by the end of it, if you [[TearJerker aren't crying heavily]], then you simply are inhuman. Another is shown beautifully in the Delores season finale episode where Rebecca (shown mentally as Viola herself), shows up at Radam and [[PsychologicalProjection fake-Delores]]' wedding in his mental realm, and is then brutally shot in the heart as she attempts to get closer to him, as if her ungodly trauma/sadness wasn't bad enough, she gets shot by her own Beloved...
6* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'': Dolores, I. ''The whole freaking half of the last episode.''
7** Also to a lesser extent: when Radam said: "No... I can't turn back now. It's too late."
8** Mr.Raptor's [[HeroicSacrifice death]].
9** When Noel finally [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan hit]] [[CallingTheOldManOut her mother]] for being a jerk. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Then they finally forgive each other.]] [[MoodWhiplash Then Dolores and Mr.Raptor]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments want a hug, too....]]
10** When [[TykeBomb Rebecca]] [[DespairEventHorizon realizes]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy how screwed up his father]] [[MoralEventHorizon actually is]]. Then [[SaveTheVillain Dolores saves her.]]
11--->'''Rebecca:''' Why...? Why you do this...?
12--->'''Dolores:''' Why'd you ask? [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Because we're friends.]]
13** Dolores: AI. Artificial intelligence, but in Japanese, it means "Love"...
14* The first game has a bad ending that's really hard to achieve by normal means unless you go out of your way to do so but definitely qualifies as a TearJerker nonetheless. Fail all the SOS missions, and Thunderheart will be brutally and abruptly killed by an explosion as he's talking to Leo. ADA will confirm that what caused the explosion was Jehuty destroying the colony shaft; in doing so, it hit one of the colony's underground lifelines. Cut to a grim The End screen, with a destroyed city in the background, and the game returning to the title screen. ADA's BrutalHonesty and Leo's reaction set the deal, as ADA doesn't just sound like she's berating Leo; she also sounds like she's berating ''you'', the player, for screwing up this badly, if not outright going out of your way to cause this.
15-->'''ADA''': In other words, you killed him.
16-->'''Leo''': But, I didn't mean... *''cut to The End screen''*
17-->'''ADA:''' [[WhatTheHellPlayer Are you]] [[YouBastard happy now?]]
18-->'''Leo''': [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall I was... just playing...]]

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