Tear Jerkers That Actually Make You Cry

Steins;Gate, Ep 22, but thats just me.

Pretty much only Evangelion.

To this day, the only work of fiction that's truly made me tear up is the ending of Boy Meets World. It's not even sad, atleast I don't interpret that way, it's just so well acted and realistic, it really does feel like you're saying goodbye and about to make a huge change. I normally don't connect emotionally to stuff like that, but something about that show was just perfect in every way to me, especially as a kid.

The new Malaysian tourism ad in honor of MH 17 for this year has a haunting, beautiful female voice singing "Malaysia, Truly Asia" almost made me go into tears.

Stand by me, that shit made me cry every time

I get misty-eyed horribly easily during movies, cartoons and novels, including moments that would actually be registered as Heartwarming or Awesome moments, even if I seldom actually cry (you know, with sobs).

An example that stands off is the ending of Les Misérables with the death of Jean Valjean. It always had me when I was younger, and I actually liked that.

A notable much more recent example was the ending of the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas episode.

The part in Inuyasha when Kagome realizes the tree in her back yard is the same one that Inuyasha was stuck to for half a century, and then she tearfully runs into her mother's arms. It gets me every time.

Weird one for me is Aragog's death in Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince. Especially in the movie.

Bunch more to add for the Homestuck ones. For a webcomic about KIDS AND FUN it can be really sad.

And agreed with Nova on The Body. Especially Anya not understanding what's happening. And I need to stop thinking about that episode now because I'm at work and I need to not be crying at work.

Parks And Recreation finale.

Gantz, Ep 20-21.

Just... damn.

Beatrice's death in the 5th game

edited 13th Mar '15 5:04:57 PM by higurashimerlin

I cry really easy to lots of stuff, but one thing that I think doesn't make people other than me cry is Frankenstein (the original novel). I know the monster is a petty, vengeful murderer, but god, every time he starts monologuing about how much his life sucks I tear up. I just feel so bad for him.

Not a lot makes me legitimately cry these days. I don't think I can remember the last time something made me cry out of emotion.

I have felt really emotional about some songs fairly recently. There's a live version of "Round Here" by Counting Crows where the singer screams out "Why?" a few times at the end, with each of them getting rawer and more frantic. I think it's the "Round Here/Raining in Baltimore" version from the August and Everything After live album from 2011.

There's also a band called The Weakerthans who've made some really sad songs. One that stands out is a song called "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure", which is a sequel to an earlier song where the titular cat is lost and seeks out its owner. But by the end of the song, the cat begins to forget its owner, and it moves on - after the previous song had been based around the cat wishing for their owner not to be depressed, it ends up somewhere in the wild with vanishing memories of its previous owner.

"for Paul" - Fast and Furious 7

I cried during the D ending of Nie R and was left in "post-media depression" for a day, as I like to call it.

I dunno if it's been said yet, but the ending of Armageddon.

My father laughed at me when I admitted that I cried when I watched that one scene from Highlander. The "Who Wants to Live Forever?" scene.

I got bored 15 minutes into Highlander and turned it off.

Fiction rarely makes me cry in any aspect. I think I just have too little suspension of disbelief to give a rat's ass about the characters. They're only characters being portrayed by an actor, and they're only doing so because some writer(s) said they would, and that's that.

And I hate that I think that way. Hate it.

Eh, screw him. Most people get affected by that scene. And, if it's related to Men Don't Cry, screw the people who believe in and endorse that trope in general.

The biggest ones coming to mind at the moment are Mufasa's death from The Lion King and the tributes to Jim Henson, notably the song "A Boy and His Frog" where Kermit sings a goodbye to Jim, (I'll never regret/And I'll never forget/What we had/I'll miss you dad/This frog and his boy) or the tribute episode the Muppets did for him just after his death, where none of them except Kermit knew who he was or that he had died until the end of the episode.

The death of Dream in The Sandman, among other moments from that series.

One mixed with a heartwarming moment too comes in The Order of the Stick, when Roy dies and reunites with his little brother that died as a child in the afterlife.

There's a lot of music that can get me going, especially when I get into one of my depressive mood. Listing it all would take far too much space and time.

edited 11th May '15 6:58:26 AM by TheWanderer

Sorry for the double post, just wanted to add the animation video Kiwi. 9 years later and it still brings a Single Tear to the eye.

edited 12th May '15 6:10:25 AM by TheWanderer

I think I cry too easily with movies. I try not to, I get embarrassed by it.

The opening sequence of "Up" * was making me cry when I saw it and I kept turning my face away from my fiancee' because I was embarrassed that it was getting to me.

Another one that didn't make me cry but made me go !!! and want to make sure people with me weren't crying was the opening sequence to Guardians Of The Galaxy. I saw it with my guy and his adult nephew. Now, you see, the nephew is his via his sister, who is deceased. Said sister / the nephew's mother died when the kid was young/in high school from a liver disease for which she had a transplant and everything, but it didn't take. I never knew her, but knowing about her and about the hospital visits and how the nephew essentially went through the same thing that Quill went through with his mom in that opening sequence... I was all quietly panicking and looking over to make sure both my "boys" were alright.

When the nephew visits, if we watch Guardians - and he does love that movie, he has to look away/skip that opening sequence. It's too hard on him, given his life-experience.

• Not sure what the markup for that is, Western Animation, Disney , Pixar or what. Forget it.

edited 12th May '15 12:01:34 PM by Shadsie

For some reason, the final episode of Arbyn The Chief hit me right in the feels.

edited 12th May '15 12:06:10 PM by GigantusInPantus

I don't think I have been hit right in the feels for a while.

I am not even sure if I still can. I remember during The Bucket List a while back, my two closest female friends were bawling their eyes out after the two terminally ill cancer patients die, and I was like "Meh, Saw it coming"

edited 12th May '15 12:12:18 PM by ElRigo

I don't cry easily at all when watching stuff - which is really strange, considering how much of a crybaby I used to be before and during puberty.

But I remember one instance. The scene in the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime when we learn that a little girl and her dog was turned into a monster by her own dad (and that he had done the same to his wife a year back). Right then, I was more disgusted and sad than I have ever been watching anything, whether anime, western animation, CGI or live-action - period.

EDIT: But disgusted in a good way, I should point out.

edited 13th May '15 1:01:17 PM by Kardavnil

Yeah, that was a good one. And speaking of FMA, the funeral of Maes Hughes, especially from the dub of the original FMA, is a quite a blow to the viewer.

edited 13th May '15 8:34:02 PM by TheWanderer