History TearJerker / StarWarsLegends

** The prologue, with the dispirited populace and the children saying "Skywalker and Kenobi will come". Also meta because if you're geeky enough to be reading the novelization, you know what's coming later and the entire section talking about what their brotherhood means to everyone is all the more powerful. Doubles as heartwarming and awesome (when they actually do come)... and awesome even more because this is the moment when you know the novel is going to be as awesome or better than the movie.

* ''ComicBook/{{Legacy}}'' is just...painful. 137 years after a farm boy blew up a super weapon to bring freedom and peace to the galaxy, and even after all that time, there could be no peace for the galaxy, and in time his last living descendant even rejected the force.

* Proof that there can be unintentional tearjerkers; in one of the old ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'' annuals, Darth Vader finds a rebel wannabe that found his mother's dead body, which is tearjerking enough. Vader walks up to him and sympathizes, telling him that he himself was once in that position. What makes this unintentional is that we're meant to think Vader's lying to gain his trust...but after ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' came out, it looks more like he's reliving the horrible memories of his mother dying in his arms, and he really ''does'' feel his pain after all...

* Chewbacca's death and Han's ensuing HeroicBSOD. He refuses to believe, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that Chewie's lasts thoughts weren't of hatred towards him. ItWasHisSled applies.

[[caption-width-right:350:I have failed you Chewie]]

* ''Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - Redemption'' issue 5. You're really going to cry when Ulic dies.

* Proof that there can be unintentional tearjerkers; in one of the old ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'' annuals, Darth Vader finds a rebel wannabe that found his mother's dead body, which is tearjerking enough. Vader walks up to him and sympathizes, telling him that he himself was once in that position. What makes this unintentional is that we're meant to think Vader's lying to gain his trust...but after ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' came out, it looks more like he's reliving the horrible memories of his mother dying in his arms, and he really ''does'' feel his pain after all...

** Let that sink in. In both timelines, TheGrimReaper has broken up the dream team.

* Chewbacca's death and Han's ensuing HeroicBSOD. ItWasHisSled applies.

** Somehow made HarsherInHindsight post-retcon, as the ''exact inverse'' happens in Film/TheForceAwakens.

* The first issue of ''Age of Resistance: General Hux'' has Hux and Kylo stranded in a planet. There, they encounter Bylsma, a former Alderaan Imperial Guard who has survived the destruction of his former planet and had secluded himself for decades to prevent the loss of another home. Hux managed to win Bylsma's trust by presenting Kylo Ren as the son of Alderaan's Princess Leia, and used Bylsma's communications array to call for help. The "help" arrives in the form of Phasma and a group of Stormtroopers, who proceed to kill Bylsma's animal companions and disable his communications array. As Hux and his pary begin to leave, the general announces his intention to use Bylsma's new planet as a target practice for Starkiller Base. Bylsma's utterly bewildered look as he watches this betrayal is heartbreaking, to say the least.

* ''Literature/XWingSeries'':
** The death of Ton Phanan in ''Iron Fist''. Creator/AaronAllston is really good both at funny and tears. The author said on [[http://www.aaronallston.com/faq.html his site]]: "Although he feared death, although he struggled against it, Ton Phanan, deep down, didn't want to live." Also, a little earlier, when he is confessing to Face that he feels like his EmergencyTransformation [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul ate his future]], and he's getting farther and farther from who he once was.
** Also, Tycho's Return monologue at the ruins of Alderaan.
--->'''Tycho:''' I am Tycho Celchu, son of Alderaan, now orphan of the galaxy. I have come to this place of my birth to pay homage to who I was and those I knew. And those I loved and love still. It is my wish that when life abandons me, I am returned here to be among you, so that for eternity we may be together as we should have been in life. These gifts are but insufficient tokens of the love for you all that still burns within me. This fighter is another. It bears the colors of the Alderaanian Guard and transmits their code. It is my pledge to you, not of vengeance, but of vigilance. I hope you rest well knowing you will rest alone, because it is my life's work to see to it that no one else suffers as you have. I won't rest until this quest is complete. Rest easy. I miss you all.

* ''StarWars: Tales of the Jedi - Redemption'' issue 5. You're really going to cry when Ulic dies.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[spoiler: I have failed you Chewie]]]]

** Somehow made HarsherInHindsight post-retcon, as [[spoiler: the ''exact inverse'' happens in Film/TheForceAwakens]].

* [[spoiler:Anakin Solo's death]] in ''New Jedi Order: Star by Star''. [[spoiler:Leia's [[HeroicBSOD shutting down emotionally]] and Han's anger]] especially.

** The death of [[spoiler: Ton Phanan]] in ''Iron Fist''. Creator/AaronAllston is really good both at funny and tears. The author said on [[http://www.aaronallston.com/faq.html his site]]: "Although he feared death, although he struggled against it, [[spoiler: Ton Phanan]], deep down, didn't want to live." Also, a little earlier, when he is confessing to Face that he feels like his EmergencyTransformation [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul ate his future]], and he's getting farther and farther from who he once was.

* ''The Cestus Deception'', in which a clone is given a real name, learns to think of himself as more than just part of the army, then [[spoiler:gives up his newly valued life to save millions, leaving behind the woman he'd fallen in love with, with a message including the following: "Know that more than anything else in the world, I was a soldier. And know that you, and no one else in the galaxy, held this soldier's heart in your hands."]]

* ''Order 66'', which is amazing considering it's the sequel to a series about ''Mandalorians''. The bit just after [[spoiler: Etain dies after being cut down accidentally by a panicking Jedi Padawan who then falls victim to Skirata going berserk with rage]], when everyone's dealing with what happened and trying not to break down completly. Darman's reaction and Skirata torturing himself afterwards with how badly he treated her.

* In the young adult series ''Jedi Apprentice'', set before ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Qui-Gon Jinn and Tahl, a Jedi that he grew up with, finally admit their love for each other after years of close friendship. [[spoiler:Immediately afterwards, she gets captured and tortured to death, nearly bringing Qui-Gon to the Dark Side in his [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge grief-stricken rage]]]].

* ''StarWars: Tales of the Jedi - Redemption'' issue 5. You're really going to cry when [[spoiler:Ulic dies]].

* Chewbacca's tribute comic is a combination of [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]], [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Crowning Moments of Heartwarming]], even [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moments of Funny]], and {{TearJerker}}s. But there are two back to back instances that stand out the most for the Tear Jerkers.

--->"I am Tycho Celchu, son of Alderaan, now orphan of the galaxy. I have come to this place of my birth to pay homage to who I was and those I knew. And those I loved and love still. It is my wish that when life abandons me, I am returned here to be among you, so that for eternity we may be together as we should have been in life. These gifts are but insufficient tokens of the love for you all that still burns within me. This fighter is another. It bears the colors of the Alderaanian Guard and transmits their code. It is my pledge to you, not of vengeance, but of vigilance. I hope you rest well knowing you will rest alone, because it is my life's work to see to it that no one else suffers as you have. I won't rest until this quest is complete. Rest easy. I miss you all."

-->'''Pellaeon:''' Thrawn wasn't human, you know, no matter how human he might have looked. He was an alien, with alien thoughts and purposes and agendas. Perhaps I was never more to him than just one more tool he could use in reaching his goal."
-->'''Ardiff:''' * hesitates, reaches out and touches Pellaeon's arm* "It's been a long road, sir. Long and hard and discouraging. For all of us, but mostly for you. If there's anything I can do..."

** The young Jedi [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tallisibeth_Enwandung-Esterhazy Scout]] from ''Yoda: Dark Rendezvous'' wasn't strong in the Force, but she believed in her cause and tried to make up for it in other ways. Being a Jedi - everything about her boiled down to that. ''Order 66'' tells us that after her culture was annihilated/driven underground she got sent off to the Agricultural Corps (where weak-with-the-Force, failed Jedi go). Once rescued by the Mandalorians and brought to Mandalore, Scout was offered the chance to become a Mandalorians if she wanted to and she '''''turned them down'''''.
-->'''Scout''':"''Oh, thanks, but I'm a Jedi. I can still be a Jedi, can't I? It's all I ever wanted to be.''"
-->'''Mij Gilamar (Mandalorian)''':"''Of course you can.''"

* There's a quiet one in ''Literature/{{Allegiance}}'', when the Emperor's Hand Mara Jade "buries" her companion, a smuggler she was working with and had promised a pardon to, out in space as he'd requested. He'd come to trust her. Typically of Zahn, it briefly and economically hints at her character, emotional state, and her hidden awareness that Palpatine is bad, for all that she thinks of him as a "[[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter good and wise man]]" in his presence.
---> The Emperor had little patience with memorials, Mara knew, with extra contempt for the practice of saying words over the fallen. Mara said a few words anyway, half remembered ones from her childhood, before consigning Tannis's body to the emptiness of space.
* The end of the novelization of ''Revenge of the Sith''. Starting from "This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever," until the end.
-->And then in one blazing moment you realise that there was no dragon. There was no Vader. That there was only you. Only Anakin Skywalker. That it was all you. Is you. You did it. You killed her. ... It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith...
-->Because now your''self'' is all you will ever have.

-->Yes, there...he felt a raindrop on his lips. He licked the delicate droplet...but wait, it wasn't sweetwater, it was salty, it was...a teardrop. He focused on Luke once again, and saw his son was crying. Yes, that was it, he was tasting his boy's grief-because he looked so horrible; because he ''was'' so horrible. But he wanted to make it all right for Luke, he wanted Luke to know he wasn't really ugly like this, not deep inside, not all together...

* ''Star Wars Empire: In the Shadows of their Fathers'' has Luke, just a few months after ANH, visit Jabiim to try to support their anti-Imperial forces and bring them over to the Rebel side. But when he tells them who he is and who his father is, they all but lynch him - Anakin Skywalker had led Republic forces there during the Clone Wars and gave the order to abandon the planet at the worst possible time, so the resistance movement still hates him with a passion. Luke is rescued before they can beat him to death, but it's the first time he'd heard his Jedi father described like this, and [[http://images.plurk.com/86f3f3cf9a763ef796975a1465e95115.jpg when he asks about it]]... You know that he must have gone through worse after ESB, but without someone sympathetic to try and paint it in a slightly better light.

* The final book of the Dark Emperor series. While Palpatine is the '''LAST''' person in the universe [[spoiler:worthy of redemption]], the sheer emotion involved, and TheReveal that [[spoiler:he didn't particularly AIM to be the Dark Lord Of The Sith, but was captured by agents of Darth Plagueis in his infancy]]. While ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' tells [[EnfantTerrible a different story]], this series puts into perspective WhatCouldHaveBeen, for both [[spoiler:Sate Pestage AND Anakin Skywalker]].