History TearJerker / Markiplier

*** Mark eventually realizes that he wouldn't be able to bring the Cuddlefish along anyway, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome because the rocket doesn't have an aquarium or means of feeding it anyway]].

* A video simply entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnlPaCb6MpM "Markiplier is BACK!! (with plenty of feels)"]] is basically this. Mark describes his experience with meeting his friends again (including LetsPlay/{{Jack|SepticEye}} for the first time), and lamenting how he could spend more time with his friends and fans, all while also [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments feeling emotional at the fact everyone]] [[SoProudOfYou is proud of him]], his fans, his family (even mentioning again his late father), and ''even his own hometown'', the fact Mark hits this realization leaves him completely speechless and even breaking down into tears, even telling his fans he's proud of them as well.

** He's similarly stunned when Ethan speaks with Jack Baker inside Mia's hivemind, seeing him as the gentle man he was in life and solemnly begging for death.

* In his ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach: Ruin'' playthrough, he's visibly verklempt when Cassie is reunited with Roxy, who remembers Cassie and her birthday, and how Cassie has no choice but to shut Roxy down to deactivate the final node.

[[TearJerker Not everything]] that LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} encounters is chuckles and sunshine. Here are some examples.

* Mark playing ''VideoGame/GettingOverIt''. His reactions range from gut-bustlingly funny to tragically sad. In particular, the moment where the game deliberately screws up his attempt to climb up from a desk with an orange on it leaves Mark feeling mentally ''betrayed'' by the game for what it had just done to him. In Part 10, he finally climbed the mountain and cried TearsOfJoy, needing all of the credits before he could speak.

** At the end of the last stream, he once more goes into a small rant about how he would have loved the game, how he would have gone the Pacifist route, how the game even ''deserves'' to be loved. And that none of this was possible for him and felt nothing but a chore since the game had not only been majorly spoiled for him, but that he also had lost all motivation to even try with the Backseat Gaming he suffered. He even proceeds to state multiple times in a row that he will not do Genocide since he is absolutely annoyed of the game and its fandom in his comment section by now. His reaction when he refuses to go with Toriel at the end, only to hear from Ethan that the chat is losing its mind about that only shows how pissed off he is about being expected to make decisions that he can't relate to.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Off}}'', he finds the Judge in the now purified Zone 2, meowing and mourning his brother's death. Mark is somewhat hammy about it, but still seems genuinely sorry and sad about what happened.

* In his LetsPlay of VideoGame/UntilDawn, [[https://youtu.be/mCvXrGaMWsU?t=19m after he meet the wolf again]], Mark discovers the mutilated corpse of a wolf, making him much more quiet than usual for a moment.

* Part 6 of his playthrough of VideoGame/{{Oneshot}} ends off as one of these. Being forced to choose between returning the sun to the tower and sending Niko home has him torn so much that he has to pause and "de-stress a bit" by shouting away from his mic.

* His reaction to the shoe pit in VideoGame/LittleNightmares? StunnedSilence, and an immediate comparison to an exhibit at the Holocaust Museum. It's so out of nowhere compared to the rest of the playthrough, where even his screaming had been comical.

* While playing VideoGame/UnforgivingANorthernHymn Mark looks devastated after Lukas is crushed to death by boulders and becomes horrified after her sister gouges out his eye and tongue.

* Mark playing VideoGame/GettingOverIt. His reactions range from gut-bustlingly funny to tragically sad. In particular, the moment where the game deliberately screws up his attempt to climb up from a desk with an orange on it leaves Mark feeling mentally ''betrayed'' by the game for what it had just done to him. In Part 10, he finally climbed the mountain and cried TearsOfJoy, needing all of the credits before he could speak.

* Mark's legitimately sad reaction to losing his seamoth Bumblebutt in VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}.

* Mark's final stream and goodbyes to VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}.

* In ''{{VideoGame/Off}}'', he finds the Judge in the now purified Zone 2, meowing and mourning his brother's death. Mark is somewhat hammy about it, but still seems genuinely sorry and sad about what happened.

--> ''This is the most harrowing story I've ever been through... I can honestly say I've never played a game that affected me quite like this one did.''

--> '''"Just listen clo-"''' ''Gramophone!'' (StunnedSilence.) I hear it. God, Charlotte, I '''hear''' it! [[MadnessMantra Charlotte, I hear it! I hear it, Charlotte!]]

--> ''Friends I never met are gone. Friends I shouldn't have cared about, I really care about. Imaginary people that don't exist that I never saw are '''gone''' and I '''care.'''''

* A video simply entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnlPaCb6MpM "Markiplier is BACK!! (with plenty of feels)"]] is basically this. Mark describes his experience with meeting his friends again (including [[LetsPlay/JackSepticEye Jack]] for the first time), and lamenting how he could spend more time with his friends and fans, all while also [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments feeling emotional at the fact everyone]] [[SoProudOfYou is proud of him]], his fans, his family (even mentioning again his late father), and ''even his own hometown'', the fact Mark hits this realization leaves him completely speechless and even breaking down into tears, even telling his fans he's proud of them as well.
* His playthrough of ''Videogame/{{One Chance}}'' leaves him conflicted and distressed for the most part, but right at the end (after the daughter dies just as he finds the cure), Mark starts choking up and crying as he explains how he takes games like these very personally, and that if he had been in the protagonist's position, he'd have done anything to save his daughter. It's hard not to get teary eyed when his voice becomes hitched.

--> '''Mark:''' (crying) Damn it, I can't get through a single sentence!

--> '''Mark:''' (Sniffling) I would carry the burden! I would... (Struggles to even finish the sentence and just tries to keep his composure.)

** It's not just horror, it's absolute '''StunnedSilence'''. After he sees the protagonist have his head crushed by Fredbear, he only sits there, wide eyes and jaw dropped, as the game goes back to the title screen for an entire minute, before shouting "WAS THAT THE BITE OF '87?!".[[note]]On a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] and also [[TearJerker sad]] note, that phrase became a [[MemeticMutation meme]].[[/note]] And he simply just stares in horror and confusion...

--> '''Robin:''' I'm just not prepared.
--> '''Mark:''' [[RealitySubtext No one is.]] ''(pulls the plug)''

* Part 6 of his playthrough of VideoGame/OneShot ends off as one of these. Being forced to choose between returning the sun to the tower and sending Niko home has him torn so much that he has to pause and "de-stress a bit" by shouting away from his mic.
--> "WHAT DO I DO!!!? ''({{beat}})'' WHAT DO I DO!!!? [[ItMakesSenseInContext I JUST WANTED TO BE A SCREAMING GOD!]] AAAH! THE LIVES OF THE MANY OUTWEIGH THE LIVES OF THE FEW!"

--> "Okay, I am emotionally devastated. I need to go lie down."

-->'''Mark''': What? I just got a pang through my heart! Was that the end of ''everything?!'' Oh, my God...!
** There's also the little moment where all he can do is quietly say "[[Creator/ScottCawthon Scott..]]" with such a sad but [[SoProudOfYou proud]] tone.

---> '''Mark''': [[https://youtu.be/U26e4pyi_v8?t=2h31m19s I am a broken man! I am broken!]]

* On the January 10, 2022 episode of ''Distractible'', [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BWm3F6ozt9g Wade revealed]] that zombiemold, co-founder of the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} server Vox Populi (where Mark's Drunk Minecraft series took place) passed away from undisclosed causes on Christmas the year prior. For the sake of brevity, Wade doesn't dwell on the topic too much, but Mark and Bob nonetheless wistfully reminisce about those times, lightening the mood by talking about zombiemold's creativity and NotSoStoic shenanigans on Drunk Minecraft. Lastly, Bob somberly reminds their audience to always thank and appreciate loved ones.

--> ''Mark:'' I just wanna keep playing.

* On the January 10, 2022 episode of ''Distractible'', [[https://youtu.be/0hkimQ4EFG8?t=278 Wade revealed]] that zombiemold, co-founder of the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} server Vox Populi (where Mark's Drunk Minecraft series took place) passed away from undisclosed causes on Christmas the year prior. For the sake of brevity, Wade doesn't dwell on the topic too much, but Mark and Bob nonetheless wistfully reminisce about those times, lightening the mood by talking about zombiemold's creativity and NotSoStoic shenanigans on Drunk Minecraft. Lastly, Bob somberly reminds their audience to always thank and appreciate loved ones.

* During his playthrough of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' remake, when he reaches Robert Kendo's gun store he remains ''completely silent'' during what is arguably the most saddest cutscene in ''Resident Evil'' history.

* His reaction to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl7fz__6B-4 the Dreadhalls Oculus Rift game]]. He was so scared out of his mind he ''literally'' was in tears. The fact he was pretty much being angry throughout the video didn't help...

* In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', his reaction to when Sam turns, forcing Henry to kill him, who then kills himself. He covers his mouth and looks to be in genuine tears, sniffling. Having a brother himself, it's easy to see why the situation had him choked up.

** And later, when he finds the Critic Burnt in Zone 3. Mark enters the fight excited as ever, only to find the depressing life of the former Elsen changing his emotion in seconds. Even his outro for that video is [[NothingIsScarier devoid of any music]], with only [[HellIsThatNoise the breathing of the critic]] as he still [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone cries for help in the background]].

* His reaction to certain events in his playthrough of ''VideoGame/ToTheMoon''. More specifically, when Joey died and when River was supposedly erased from existence. Mark starts tearing up and sniffling, and is so conflicted of the outcome, questioning himself and what he would do in that scenario.
** This happened when Mark discovered that the reason that the old man wants to go to the moon is because of a promise made when he was a child he had forgotten to the girl who became his wife. The deuteragonist decides to erase all of the old man's memories of his wife and replace them with false memories of his dead twin brother so he could fulfill the promise. Mark is utterly torn up by the implications of stealing the old mans life with his love and the idea that he could have his brother back in his memories. Mark having a brother too and the idea of him dying hits him especially hard.
** At first Mark is genuinely happy when Johnny meets River at NASA, starts to date her, sees them living their life happily together while preparing to go to the moon. He gets really excited, is amused by the protagonists bickering, but then the heart beat is starting and his shocked face tears up as he starts crying the moment that Johnny dies just as the moon comes into view. Marks broken voice once the credits roll as he look in the camera really drives the point home that the scene broke his heart.

** Even at the end, when he gives his traditional departure, he simply gets up to turn off the camera, all while having a broken, damaged attitude.
** What sells the very end is the very solemn line he delivers to the camera before he does his outro.

* His playthrough of ''Videogame/{{One Chance}}'' had left him conflicted and distressed for the most part, but right at the end (after the daughter dies just as he finds the cure), Mark starts choking up and crying as he explains how he takes games like these very personally, and that if he had been in the protagonist's position, he'd had done anything to save his daughter. It's hard not to get teary eyed when his voice becomes hitched.
** It's a slightly older playthrough, having been made in January, but the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9zUbpU2dJo One Chance]] game is a gut-punch nonetheless. The video even warns that it's supposedly the "saddest game ever made", but it's not so much the game as Mark's reactions to it that brought most viewers to tears. Most of his reactions are a little bit hammy at first, right up until the player character comes home to find his wife having died in the bathtub while he was at work, causing Molly, the player character's very young daughter, to tag along for the rest of the game. Mark grows quickly attached to Molly, and his concern for her well-being in a game where the only option is a DownerEnding is ''heartbreaking.'' At the end of the video, Mark states that it wasn't so much the character of Molly but the fact that he was making every choice in the game by deciding what he would do in that situation, and therefore picturing Molly as his ''actual daughter.'' Knowing this, and watching the events play out, it's frankly hard to watch. As the player character and Molly leave the house after Mark is told he ''had'' one chance, implying the only option at this point is death, Mark goes into Molly's room and tries to get her a jacket and her teddy bear, which isn't even an option in the game itself, he's just that into the game at this point. They get to the lab, and Molly falls off Mark's back onto the floor. Mark calls her name repeatedly, sounding more and more distraught ("But I had her! She was on my back!"), and then, realizing he can do nothing, heads to the lab, finding that, at the last possible moment, the scientists found a cure. The game autonomously has the player character inject himself and Mark is distraught over this, stating he doesn't care about himself, he only meant to get the cure for Molly. He goes back into the hallway, and the game abruptly cuts to the player character and Molly, who, due to her eyes being closed, Mark believes to have died, sitting on a park bench. Mark, very ''very'' near tears, states that this image, a man sitting in the park as the last man on Earth with his daughter's body sitting next to him, is the saddest thing he's ever seen. He takes a moment to pull himself together, and then, sounding sadder than he's possibly ever sounded, asks "Is she...?", but can't finish the sentence without crying. Made even ''worse'' by the fact that, as many fans in the comments pointed out, Molly is no longer the greenish hue that the infected people are. The player character saved both himself and Molly, and Molly is perfectly fine. He did absolutely everything right and got the best ending possible, but due to the fact that Molly isn't actually shown being injected with the cure, Mark believes her to be dead. He thinks that he selfishly saved himself and let his daughter die. Seriously, the whole thing almost physically hurts to watch.
* Like with his ''Ripest of Fears'' let's play, his let's play of ''Dream.exe'' is pretty tearjerking, but heartwarming, especially his reaction to the developer's story on how much he dealt in his life and how Mark's videos pulled him out of those funks. Mark himself even tears up, cleaning his tears on his sleeves.

--> '''Mark:''' (sniffling) I would carry the burden! I would...(struggles to even finish the sentence and just tries to keep his composure)

** It's not just horror, it's absolute '''StunnedSilence'''. After he sees the protagonist have his head crushed by Fredbear, he only sits there, wide eyes and jaw dropped, as the game goes back to the title screen for an entire minute, before shouting "WAS THAT THE BITE OF '87?!".[[note]]On a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] and also [[TearJerker sad]] note, that phrase unfortunately became a [[MemeticMutation meme]].[[/note]] And he simply just stares in horror and confusion...

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sl-1X58ObY Draw My Life]]. While filled with normal goofy and happy moments, there are a lot of rather saddening parts: Mark mentions that in his childhood, his mother and father were forced to get a divorce, with them going to live with his father. Mark spent that time speaking about unhappy his father was, showing more concern for him than how he dealt with the divorce and growing up into teenhood. But the part most people were more heart broken by, was especially during the part where he talks about his father getting cancer and subsequently dying.

*** Mark eventually realizes that he wouldn't be able to bring the Cuddlefish along anyway, [[RealityEnsues because the rocket doesn't have an aquarium or means of feeding it anyway]].

* Markiplier's playthrough of ''That Dragon, Cancer'' is appropriately somber all the way through. It starts with him talking about the death of his father from cancer, and continues a sad mood throughout a two-hour long video. At the end, when Mark sees the photos of the photos of young Joel (whom the game was made for) and his family, Mark starts openly crying.

* While playing Unforgiving: A Northern Hymn Mark looks devastated after Lukas is crushed to death by boulders and becomes horrified after her sister gouges out his eye and tongue.

* Mark playing Getting Over It. His reactions range from gut-bustlingly funny to tragically sad. In particular, the moment where the game deliberately screws up his attempt to climb up from a desk with an orange on it leaves Mark feeling mentally ''betrayed'' by the game for what it had just done to him. In Part 10, he finally climbed the mountain and cried TearsOfJoy, needing all of the credits before he could speak.

** Markiplier plays most of the game for laughs, already knowing it was a horror game. Then he gets to Sayori's confession that she suffers depression, and Markiplier lets "Morp" confess love to her. He sounds like he's about to tear up when he says her lines: "Then why won't the rainclouds go away?"

* In his first video of the full game of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'', Mark is utterly shocked when a scripted event had Ethan Winters use a hatchel on Mia. He was completely silent when that happens and had no intention of fighting back.