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For tear jerkers from the SNES game titled Final Fantasy III in North America, see [[TearJerker/FinalFantasyVI this page.]]

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* The scene accompanied by "Aria: Maiden of Water". Better tears, happy tears (or, well, sad since the journey is over) likely accompany the post-game sequence (in the DS version, [[NoExportForYou at least]]).
* After getting the Earth Crystal jobs, the party decides to pay a visit to their good old friends and mentors, Dorga/Doga and Unne/Unei. When they arrive, Doga and Unei immediately challenge them to fight to the death. Luneth, Arc, Refia, and Ingus are all horrified at the notion and refuse to do such a terrible thing. The old mages simply tell the kids that if they refuse, they'll be killed. The boss battle with them is one of the toughest in the game as you're forced to first kill Doga and then Unei without so much as a breather. They really are sincere about ''killing the Warriors of Light'' if they hold back because if they can't, they have no hope against the enemies to come. After that nobody comes out and says MyGodWhatHaveIDone, but you can see it on the kids' faces as Doga and Unei go on to declare which light of virtue each holds before dying.
* If you return to Doga's house after his death, you will find all of his servant moogles mourning his death. It's made even worse by the fact that ''you'' killed him.
* As though the above with Doga and Unei wasn't bad enough, they make another HeroicSacrifice for the party by expending the energy of their souls, resigning themselves to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence in the process.
** The scene right beforehand of the Warriors of Light's allies [[PleaseWakeUp begging them not to die]] after their TotalPartyKill also deserves mention. The remake makes it even worse; Not only does the recontextualization of some of the relationships, such as Ingus and Sara's [[LadyAndKnight love for each other]] or how Alus [[BigBrotherInstinct looks up to Arc]] make their reactions more upsetting, but Cid [[VisibleSilence is silent]] where he [[SayMyName called out the name of the lead character]] in the other versions. Given that in this version he acted as a DotingGrandparent to the party at several points, [[StunnedSilence one can only imagine how he must have felt at that moment]].
* Zande/Xande's StartOfDarkness. You've spent your immortal life apprenticed to a master wizard - no doubt making close friends with the other two apprentices, by the way - and what is your reward for this dedication? One gets phenomenal cosmic powers and an entire continent, the other becomes the ruler of the world of dreams, and you get... mortality. And they call you evil when you want to keep things the way they were? Xande got painted into the villain corner, plain and simple.
** Basically, Doga and Unei outright killed him, though not before they essentially arranged for ''their'' deaths. What's Xande going to think when/if he finds that, essentially, Doga and Unei [[WhoWantsToLiveForever envied]] ''[[CursedWithAwesome his]]'' [[DeathSeeker mortality]]?
** On the flipside, think about it from Doga and Unei's perspective. There are hints throughout the game that Doga and Unei thought of, and still think of, Xande as [[EvilFormerFriend their friend]]. The remake in particular emphasizes it with Unei telling the party to ''save'' Xande. And while the games don't have Xande acknowledge Doga and Unei's assistance, the ''Memory of Heroes'' novelization shows us a bit of that resentment that led Xande to that point:
-->'''Xande''': "Doga... Unei... How long must they continue to interfere? Were their gifts not enough? Must they continue to deny me what is rightfully mine?!"
* King Gorn's death. For weeks, he's been [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-controlled]] by his EvilChancellor to set his soldiers against each other and to banish his ten-year-old son Alus from the castle. And the final act in Gigameth's plan? Have Gorn murder Alus in his bed--but the order is too much, and Gorn turns the knife on himself to save his son.
** Doubles as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. It takes [[{{Determinator}} sheer force of will]] and PowerOfLove to overcome a powerful spell like that.
* The whole "Boundless Ocean" sequence. First, you see a world that is shrouded in a strange, swirling ocean of darkness, with only two small pieces of land uncovered, accompanied by lovely but haunting overworld music. The kids save a young water priestess named Elia/Aria, who is sweetness incarnate and becomes particularly close to Luneth as they go to restore the Water Crystal. Just before they can, the Kraken fires an arrow at Luneth and Aria [[TakingTheBullet intercepts it]]. The arrow turns out to have been poisoned, and after the party is done killing Kraken it's too late to save her--she dies in Luneth's arms. Worse, they have no time to mourn, because the removal of the dark ocean starts a quake inside the cavern, forcing everyone to flee and leave her body there.
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