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Tear Jerker / Frankenweenie

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  • Sparky's death, especially the second time, when Victor very nearly accepts his loss.
    • Persephone sadly lying next to the hole in the fence through which Sparky would roll his ball.
  • After Sparky's death, when Victor's mom talks with her son. Anyone who's lost a pet (or whose pet has a terminal illness) knows what that's like
    • Even sadder when Victor breaks down crying.
  • The scene where Sparky wanders alone through the graveyard, lost and confused. In particular, the part where he sees a car driving and cringes away in terror from it.
  • Elsa having to live with her Jerkass uncle, Mr. Burgermeister. You can't help but pity the poor girl.
    • Especially after her uncle practically abandons her when the monsters attack.
  • Victor's disappointment when it looks like his attempt to resurrect Sparky was a failure.
  • Mr. Rzykruski being fired because he cannot fully explain himself and the adults (apart from the Frankensteins) being closed-minded and afraid of science. Being an immigrant, he cannot properly explain what he means in a way that the parents can understand, and things are lost in translation. He describes the parents as "ignorant" and says that he is trying to broaden the children's minds, and that he wishes to "crack open their heads." The fact that he was the teacher who fully supported Victor as a scientist (and helped him come up with the experiment to bring Sparky back and understand why Edgar's fish disappeared) makes it all the more tragic, as he never saw what Victor accomplished. And he never returns to the school, deciding to go off to better things.
  • When Victor's parents discover Sparky is alive, the pup flees into the night, and Edward speaks to Victor about how he crossed the line between the living and the dead. Victor's response(through tears)?
    Victor: I just wanted my dog back.
  • Weird Girl accidentally electrocuting Mr. Whiskers. Despite the popular fan interpretation that he is pure evil, imagine what Weird Girl must have been thinking upon realizing her beloved cat may very well be dead, and then imagine her reaction to watching her once-fluffy friend mutate into a hideous beast and fly out the window while clawing and hissing at her. And then refusing to come back to her when she pleads for him to. Criminy.
    • Really, any of the kids who truly loved their pets seem broken up when they have to be put down a second time. Nassor is shocked when Colossus is stomped by Shelley. Toshiaki, after Shelley is zapped and shrinks back to normal size, sadly picks up the shell of his dead friend and says "Shelley?"


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