->'''Daniel [=LaRusso=]:''' What do you want to hear?\\
'''Lucille [=LaRusso=]:''' The truth!\\
'''Daniel:''' No, all you want to hear is how great it is here! Maybe for you, but it sucks for me. I hate this place! I hate it, I want to go home! Why can't we just go back home?
-->-- ''Film/TheKarateKid1984''
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* ''TearJerker/TheKarateKid2010''
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!''Film/TheKarateKid1984''
* The torment Daniel goes through: he is beaten up by Johnny at a beach party, losing the friends he just made. Then he has to go to his first day of school with a black eye, where he's banned from soccer after being tripped by one of Johnny's gang and daring to strike back. Then Johnny's gang run him off a steep hill on his bike. It culminates in a savage beating from Johnny and his friends that may well have ended up killing Daniel if Miyagi hadn't intervened.
* Mr Miyagi's entire backstory, from abandoning the one he loved to leave a death fight with his former best friend, to marrying but forced to go to war thanks to racial prejudices, only to lose his wife and unborn baby to childbirth while in combat. A fact made worse that because they were effectively stripped of their citizenship and forced into internment camps, she was denied the medical treatment to save her life:
-->'''Miyagi:''' ''[[[DrowningMySorrows sobbing]]]'' No doctor came. [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream Land of free, home of brave]] ...No doctor came.
* As much of a Jerkass the Cobra Kai guys were throughout the movie and during the All Valley Karate Tournament, Bobby is distraught after hurting Daniel when Kreese orders him to disable Daniel with an illegal attack to the knee. Bobby's basically screaming that he's sorry to Daniel, almost to the point of tears. In a DeletedScene included in the novelization, Bobby suffers such a case of BrokenPedestal concerning Kreese and Cobra Kai as a whole that he immediately throws his belt on the floor and walks away from the group.
-->'''Bobby:''' Daniel, Daniel, I'm sorry! I'm sorry, man, I didn't mean it!
!''Film/TheKarateKidPartII''
* Daniel and Ali's OffscreenBreakup, as they were such a wholesome couple to root for. It's even more tearjerking when you learn in ''Cobra Kai'' that she broke up with him over a mere misunderstanding, when he thought she was falling for a friend who was visiting from UCLA. Even though they have both since moved on and ultimately make amends with each other in the series, parting ways as friends, it's still heartbreaking to think of what could have been, had it not been for that misunderstanding.
* Yukie explaining to Miyagi that she never married after he left Okinawa.
* The death scene of Miyagi's father. The last thing he wants from both Miyagi and Sato is for them to not fight each other. And Sato, who is a massive {{Jerkass}}, ''can't bring himself to say no''. Yet his answer is no all the same, for after the father dies, he gives Miyagi three days to mourn before Miyagi should "prepare to join him".
* After his father's death, Mr. Miyagi sits, watching the beach. Daniel arrives and tells him about the day his own father died. During this story, look at Mr. Miyagi's eyes. They keep getting watery with every minute, and by the time Daniel puts his arm around Mr. Miyagi's shoulder, his lip ''trembles''.
-->''"You know... When my father died, I spent a lot of time thinking maybe I wasn't such a great son. It seemed to me like I could have listened to him a little more, spent some more time with him... I felt so guilty, you know, like he did everything for me, and I didn't do anything for him. Then one day it occurred to me... that I did the greatest thing of all for him just before he died: I was there with him, and I held his hand, and I said goodbye."''
* Miyagi trying to make peace with Sato. He asks an ArmorPiercingQuestion to his old friend when he ruthlessly rebuffs attempts. It's a powerful tear jerker because you can see both Miyagi's concern and Sato's pain from his long-held belief that his old friend betrayed him. It is also the first and only time Miyagi talks to anyone without his trademark [[YouNoTakeCandle broken English]] or referring to himself in third person.
--> '''Miyagi:''' What has happened to you?!
!''Film/TheKarateKidPartIII''
* Daniel and Mr. Miyagi arrive home, only to find that the apartment that Daniel and his mother lived at is now being demolished, thus leaving Daniel homeless, and Mr. Miyagi out of a job as a maintenance man. It's even more heartbreaking, considering how excited his mother was to move into the complex in the first film.
* Miyagi takes out a picture of himself and Daniel, who has drifted away from him and has confessed that he feels 'confused'. Miyagi looks at the photo and softly utters two lines:
-->'''Miyagi:''' Hope confusion end soon, Daniel-san. Miyagi heart empty without you.
!''Film/TheNextKarateKid''
* Julie's entire situation: embittered by the death of her parents and then of her loving grandfather, she lashes out at everyone including her grandmother and struggles to bond with Miyagi and warm up to her love interest, Eric because of it.
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