History TearJerker / Battlefield1

* Danny's cry of anguish as he witnesses his first battlefield loss, [[spoiler:Finch, the only person in the tank crew genuinely nice to him.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Edwards''': '''''FINCH IS GOOOONE!''''']]

* As Germans swarm the tank, [[spoiler:Townsend fights them off with his Webley revolver, but is already mortally wounded and almost out of ammo. He focuses momentarily on the [[ChekhovsGun patched fuel line]] and realizes [[HeroicSacrifice what he must do]] to prevent Black Bess from falling into enemy hands and give Edwards and [=McManus=] the best chance to escape. Then he grits his teeth and whispers, ''"Sorry, Bess."'']]

* Wilson, bleeding out in No Man's Land, accusing Blackburn of going back on his word. For all his banter and carefree attitude, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he actually has no comeback this time.]] [[spoiler: Even worse, if you choose to believe he really did leave Wilson for dead...]]

* Despite fighting through what could be described from anyone as a literal hell on earth, the campaign ends with [[spoiler:Luca finding the corpse of his brother Matteo and then collapsing from sheer despair.]]
** In a meta sense, how many real life soldiers people have had similiar ending to their stories? How many were unable to save loved ones?

* The final scene. [[spoiler: [[KnightInSourArmor Bishop]] has made his one-man attack on the fort to divert the Turks away from the retreating [=ANZACs=]. Now he's badly wounded and can't possibly get out of the naval artillery's impact zone. He drags himself to the parapet, then gives a weary smile as he sees the flare signaling that his boys are safe. Then the battleships in the distance [[NoKillLikeOverkill light the fort up with the wrath of God]].]]
** And despite everything, there's the ForegoneConclusion that the ANZAC still lose at Gallipoli.

* The final narration is a real kicker in a meta sense. The narrator of all the war stories expresses hopes for the future that even if everything about the war fades away; the men, the destruction, the machines. He hopes that if even a sliver survives, stories will be told of the war, of each and every single man who fought in it. In the end, his words are all directed to ''you'', the player. With you playing this game, you get to see the stories of a few of the millions of people who lived, fought, and died in the war. And with the game and these soldiers, the narrator hopes that you, the player, will continue the tales of World War I for eons so that no one in the war will be forgotten.
** And note that this game came out about 100 years after World War I (1914-1918). All of the soldiers who participated in the war are already dead, and the people born during the war are going to follow them soon. World War I was disappearing from the public mind, [[ItWillNeverCatchOn something even lampshaded by EA]] during the game's production. With this game's announcement and release, many World War I-related works [[ColbertBump took a big increase in interest]], from Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront to Youtube channels. That's right, with this game, World War I will continue to be etched in our memories, so we do not forget the sacrifices the men and boys took at the time for the "War to End All Wars", who went into a hideous grinding machine filled with dreams of glory and bravery, to be lashed by barbed wire, shredded by shrapnel and mowed down by machine guns for a seemingly meaningless conflict.
** And of course, if you believe that the mainline Battlefield games (2, 3, 4, Hardline, the Bad Company series) all take place in one timeline, then a lot of those sacrificed their lives in "The War to End all Wars"...to help further plunge the Earth into almost endless conflict with anyone and everyone, with better guns and bigger bombs and sheer madmen at every helm.