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* Mari's resigned response if you [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential refuse to help them]] [[NonstandardGameOver at the beginning of the game]]
-->'''Mari:''' Then I guess it's all over...
* The death of the Mayor at the hands of Wilfre. [[ControllableHelplessness You are helpless to watch him laying on the ground before rescuing Dr. Cure]], and by the time the villagers notice his body on the ground, it's [[YouAreTooLate too late]] to save him.
-->'''Mari:''' Dad! No... [[WhatTheHellHero You should have protected him! You're useless, Hero!]]
* The ending scene, where Jowee left Mari to sail the world like he had always dreamed. A truly touching song played over this while Mari walked around the village, remembering everything they had been through before he left. Of course, he comes back. And to top it all off, your character and the ghost of Mari's father are watching in the distance when Jowee comes back.

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[[folder: Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter ]]

* Mayor Rose of Watersong being willing to sacrifice her life so that her son can be the next Mayor, feeling she paid too high a price for her vanity. And since she's an opera singer, her last song is conveyed through [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxKyzy2M8bo an actual song.]]
* Jowee's reaction to Mari's betrayal. Even more so when he later finds out she's NotBrainwashed.
* The Next Chapter on DS reveals the entire world of Raposa has been a dream of the kid Mike, in the real world, in a life-threatening coma. When he finally wakes up because of your efforts, all of the Raposa vanish while Mike, the in-universe one, is watching, and asking why it is all happening in a panic. Now this in of itself is somewhat heart-rending. Then you get into actually interpreting what everything that happened in the series actually meant. All of Wilfre's schemes, in all 3 games? They were meant to perpetuate the existence of the dream world... by killing the real Mike. The spreading darkness in the first game? Symbolic of Death. And now this game, the loss of color in the world is symbolic of, what else, death. Not only that, but in the end credits, you see that Mike's parents died in the car crash that sent him into a coma and his sister was horrifically injured.
** The game starts by having you answer three questions and sketching a picture (introducing you to the drawing mechanic of the game), but you have little idea what the significance is, and Heather makes an appearance speaking in gibberish. It turns out that this was a [[BookEnds Book End]]. The questions were asked by a police officer, interviewing Heather of the events leading to the crash, your sketch is Heather's sketch of what happened, and Heather's gibberish finally comes through to Mike as he wakes up - it's a prayer for Mike to wake from his coma.
** All this is shown during a very sad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF89OSVPdt0 song.]]
** 5th Cell themselves even thought the ending to the sequel was too depressing, and actually went as far to change the ending to The Next Chapter in the CompilationRerelease [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TMl8queV_k into something much gentler]] than the ending described above. Instead Mike falls from a tree trying to catch fireflies so Heather's face is shown as just fine and uninjured. The art in the changed ending also looks similar to the Scribblenaut's official game artwork.

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[[folder: Drawn To Life: Two Realms ]]

* ''Two Realms'' is LighterAndSofter than its predecessor by margins, but even in retconning [[AllJustADream the darker aspects]] of [[EverybodyDiesEnding the previous ending]], the story takes place entirely around and doesn't shy away from the traumatic impact this has had on Mike and Heather. Mike is [[StepfordSmiler clearly depressed underneath his happy exterior]], blames himself for the accident and for the ripple it had on Belleview's community, and can't help himself from shutting himself out from and occasionally lashing out at his own sister. Though he's clearly on the road to recovery by the end, having even forgiven the man who accidentally killed his parents, it's no less painful seeing what Mike has to go through.
* Deputy Snider remorse over accidentally killing Mike and Heather's parents in the car crash, to the point of being deprived of sleep for years, unable to forgive himself for causing the accident and accepting that Mike and Heather will never forgive him for his involvement in it. For a children's game, Snider's grief is nothing but pure, realistic adult fear.
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