Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.
- In the prologue, when Snow White brings the injured bird to her mother, the queen is already being looked at by a doctor, and the viewer knows she's not long for this world.
- William discovering that Snow White is alive. The rebellious badass breaks for a moment and his voice shakes as he says "she lives?", and it's apparent that he's kicking himself for not trying harder to go back and rescue her after all these years.
- Gus taking an arrow for Snow White and dying in her arms is very moving, as is his funeral."I won't leave you, miss."
- The Huntsman's speech over Snow White's comatose body moved many viewers to tears."But you'll be a queen in heaven now and sit among the angels."
- It's also incredibly sad in light of the sequel, where it's revealed that Sara is alive and he'd just been tricked into thinking she was dead. All these years, he'd been destroyed with grief over nothing.
- On the opposite side of the line, Ravenna's obvious grief over her brother's death left some viewers teary-eyed as well. Evil people they may have been, they were all each other had.
- She also cries when remembering the last time she saw her mother, who cried out "avenge us!" as she was taken from her village.
- Bob Hoskins' role as the old, infirm elder statesman of the dwarves kind of packs an emotional wallop in light of his retirement from acting due to his diagnosis with Parkinson's very shortly after the film's release, and his death two years later.
