Tear Jerker / Jane the Virgin

• Jane's breaking up with Michael. He was in the wrong, but he realized it before she even knew, tried to mend it and was excited to have a romantic date.
• Those who thought they could never sympathize with Petra might change their mind after seeing the Flashback to her Backstory and the several revaltions before and after.
  • Like Jane, she grew up with a single mom, although unlike Jane's (initially) her dad really wanted her. He just happened to be stuck on the other side of the Cold War. He died just weeks before the borders opened, and she never got to meet him.
  • Years later, after breaking up with her abusive mobster boyfriend, he took revenge by throwing acid at her mother's face as they walked in the street, and she stumbled and got hit by a car, which is how she ended up in a wheelchair. Petra was later contacted by a rival mobster who agreed to give her a fake identity in the as a way to start over with her mother in the United States, at the cost of a lot of money. That she doesn't have. Unless she stays married to Rafael. Hence (most of) the bitchiness.
  • To top it off, despite having married Rafael for his money, she ended up falling sincerely in love with him, staying at his side through her miscarriage and his cancer. Only for him to realize he didn't love her after all, and slowly abandon her. When she starts an affair with Roman Zazo mostly out of loneliness, Rafael understandably sees it as a good reason to leave her without second thoughts.
  • Oh! And don't forget about that time that her long-lost twin sister, Anezka, paralyzed her for three months and took her place while pretending Petra was Anezka... and no one knew. In addition, she was paralyzed right after she began to bond with her daughters, thus making it so, when she was finally mobile and all again, they didn't know her and cried when she held them. Also, she developed a difficulty in distinguishing what's real and what isn't. Fun times all around!
• Rose pretending that Luisa is harassing her, invented their affair, and is delusional, right when she's trying to mend her life.
• All references to Luisa's mental state and Luisa's mother become this once it's revealed what actually happened to her.
• Rafael's meeting with his mother might make you teary-eyed, but not because she rushes back in his arms and rejoices to find him again. She's just a cold, unscrupulous woman who gave up her child for a lot of money, and doesn't show any real remorse. Talk about a Freudian Excuse.
• In the aftermath, Jane criticizing Rafael's father's obsession with work at the cost of family life is understandable, but Rafael's defence of the man who at least always supported him financially and somewhat cared even moreso. Made even sadder because he can never mend their broken relationship.
• The speech Jane makes at Mateo's baptism, the same that Xo made at Jane's and Alba made at Xo's, is the happy kind of Tear Jerker.
• Rafael's breakup with Jane makes you feel bad for everyone.
• Alba, probably the wisest and most loving character on the show, and probably the most pious character in television, reveals the reason she has pushed chastity on her daughter and grand-daughter is because she had slipped up when she was young and foolish, and had sex before marriage. In return she was ostracized by her friends and family, and ultimately her Church, she doesn't want the same to happen to the ones she loves.
  • Then when Xo finds out a few episodes later, she goes ballistic at her mother, having treated her horribly for being a young woman who enjoys sex, when her sanctimonious mother, in her opinion, had felt the same. And Jane agrees.
• In Chapter Thirty-Two, Petra had driven off two nurses and Rafael confronts her about. She tearfully admits that they kept saying it was fine, but it wasn't fine the last time she was pregnant. It's clear the miscarriage still haunts her.
• In Chapter Thirty-eight, Petra struggles to bond with her daughters and its suspected that she may have Postpartum Depression. She tries to talk to Magda about, who told her that she should just leave. And she does.
• Chapter Thirty-Nine, has Jane tearing into Xo after she has another bender at her bachelorette party and ends up making out with Lina's date
  Jane: Enough with all the excuses and the apologies! At this point you are just a cautionary tale!
• In one of his biggest Jerkass moments to date, Rafael prying a crying Mateo out of Jane's arms, just because it was his day.
• The constant blackmailing and sexual abuse that Rogelio is subjected to while under Lola's captivity. It's shown afterwards how traumatised he was by the whole experience.
• The entirety of Michael's stay in the hospital in Season 3's premier. With Jane barely able to keep it together the entire time, specifically running to another floor's waiting room to allow her to be able to completely fall apart.
  • Thankfully, Michael survives his procedure, making it Heartwarming.
• Michael and Jane are disciplining Mateo for his biting. However what starts as a constructive moment of child rearing ends with Michael sobbing, finally confronting his mortality and the fact that he almost died from his gunshot wounds.
• After spending the first half of Season 3 wanting nothing more than to go back to work, Michael finds out he didn't pass his physical. The look on his face as he hangs up the phone is devastating.
• Chapter 54, Michael dies, just after finishing the LSAT, of complications from being shot. Jane screaming as she collapses into Rafael's arms is absolutely heartwrenching to see.
• In Chapter 60, Rogelio admits to Xo that he still considers Michael to be his best friend, and misses him terrible. Even after three years, Ro still thinks of him every day. But he doesn't want to talk about it because he doesn't want to burden Jane.
• Chapter 66, Rogellio and Fabian's behind the scenes feud has gotten the point where the producers have to kill off one of their characters, and their fate lies in the hands of a focus group Rogelio infiltrates the focus group disguised in drag and is able to convince the women to have Rogelio's character stay on the show. Later, Rogelio's agent calls him telling him that he's staying, and Fabian's agent calls to tell him the bad news. Fabian is devastated, while Rogelio mocks him. What a true What the Hell, Hero? moment.
• Xiomara learning she has breast cancer. This takes a huge toll on Jane, Alba, and Rogelio.
• Petra's Manipulative Bastard tendencies coming back to bite her hurts when J.R. realizes that Petra was lying about the circumstances around the case she just got acquited for, which J.R. had to ruin her career for. The thing is, none of it was meant to happen this way. Anezka and Magda really were going to try to kill her, but Petra got into a fight with Anezka and unintentionally knocked her off the broken balcony first. It looked so bad for her that she would never be believed, so going for 'innocent but falsely accused' was her only defense, but instead it just looks to J.R. like Petra lied to her and used her to get away with murder. Seeing the normally unflappable Petra break down, because she's genuinely in love with J.R., is heartbreaking.
  • The circumstances also make Chapter 74 even harder to watch on retrospective. Petra knows that she really did kill Anezka in a bit more than self-defense, but she had no idea that the balcony had been tampered with by her mother. Her own mother wanted her sister to murder her, and it hits her like a brick.
    • For the most part, Petra is okay with the realization that her mother tampered with the balcony. Then the maintenance man casually notes that the twins were with Magda when she picked up the wrench to do it with, and she realizes that her mother was willing to set Petra up to die while her daughters were with their grandmother.
• Chapter Eighty-Two reveals just how Michael is still alive, and it's a doozy. Rose faked his death and electrocuted him until he forgot literally everything about his life, including Jane. The first thing he remembers is waking up in a field in Montana. Jane is quietly devastated when she's told his story.
• Chapter Ninety-Six sees Petra's mom, Magda, wind up on life support. What makes this so somber isn't Magda's plug about to be pulled, rather Petra telling Jane that the reason she was upset wasn't because her mother was dying, but because she didn't feel any sorrow about it. Jane tells her she doesn't have to cry for Magda, but she's allowed to cry for herself.