What's your never-ending tear-jerker?

The very end of Odd Thomas makes me cry. It just pulls until I can't take any more, definitely Dean Koontz's best relationship.

^^ Little Foot's mom will never, ever, neverevernever stop being sad. I blubber like a baby.

Others: I don't full-out cry, but whenever I see the end of "Hereafter" part 2, where former villain Vandal Savage and the crapsack world he created fade away as a new, happy future appears, I tear up.

The entire last third of Doomsday Book, pretty much. Especially the little girls dying. And Dr. Ahrens' Heroic Sacrifice trying to stop the flu in the future. And Father Roche's Heroic Sacrifice trying to stop the plague in the past, and Kivrin trying everything to save him... excuse me, I just have some HEARTBREAK in my eyes!

edited 19th Aug '11 9:47:53 AM by Ronka87

I can't hardly watch Land Before Time anymore, after finding out what happened to Judith Barsi a few years ago.

iTunes shuffle just reminded me of another one for myself this afternoon: "Becoming Who You Are" by Mainstay. It's been a while, but I realized I could probably also add C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce.

Seeing as this doesn't seem to be limited to literature anymore, I nominate the first Pokemon movie, when Ash gets petrified and all the Pokemon cry him back to life. I don't know of a single soul that hasn't shed at least a tear on that scene.

Lady Fuchsia drowning in Gormenghast.

The final scenes of Cyrano de Bergerac. I have never yet made it through him reading "Christian's" final letter without weeping.

It's "Alen and Cerl" from the first Breath Of Fire game. I start tearing up every time I hear it play.

I have read Bleak House half a dozen times and I STILL tear up every single time I get to the chapter where Jo dies. Richard's death usually gets me, too.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - pretty much all the deaths in that make me cry so much ( and the movie - I cried for about half-an-hour in the cinema). The LOTR films when faramir and his men ride out and denethor DOESN'T CARE. Plus the music is beautiful in that scene. And Torchwood - Children of Earth, the entire final episode makes me cry.

Three words....Little Soldier Boy.

Avatar: the Last Airbender. You know the episode.

A few months ago I decided to watch the entire series by renting from Netflix. I got to the DVD with this episode, and so I knew it was coming up. It had been such a long time, that I thought I might not even get teary-eyed from this scene anymore. After all, I was younger back then.

So I'm watching it, and this kid starts crying, and that's when he firsts plays the song. Like a fucking punch to the gut, the tears start coming. I could hardly believe it, its not even the sad part and I'm bout to break down for christ sake.

Needless to say, the second time he sings it, I was royally fucked. That's what I get for watching this show with my dad in the same room xD

edited 25th Aug '11 3:03:57 AM by ViralLamb

The doctor's death in Pan's labyrinth.

The ending of A farewell to arms

The ending of Blackadder goes forth. A comedy series ending on such a sad note, it hits kind of hard.

edited 27th Aug '11 2:03:57 PM by honorius

Huh, I never got teary eyed or anything at his death. Can't say the same about the end death though.

It's more like a bittersweet crowning moment of awesome though.

I'm with Chalkos on this one. When Rachel ages backwards to the point she's so young she no longer remembers the response to the game she and her dad had played for forty-something years.

I'm in agreement with the Hyperion tearjerker and how undeniably heartbreaking it is. Sol and Rachel had a special little thing between them which was just lost so quickly - it makes it worse too that by this time Sol has lost his wife too, so when Rachel ends up forgetting "later alligator/while crocodile" he is totally alone.

The Scholar's Tale was the most heartrending (although Brawne Lamia's is close) out of all the tales the pilgrims told to each other in Hyperion. :(

Anyone else agree with me that Brawne Lamia's story was a tearjerker too? I mean, I do realise it was more a tearjerker romance, but that story and her life with the cybrid Johnny Keats has always brought me close to tears as well. And her daughter Aenea's life story and that of her life with Raul nearly makes me cry too - but it's mainly because of just how beautiful the last parts of the Rise of Endymion are and then the succeeding book just piles on the angst but has such a gloriously goosebumpy tearjerker happy ending.

(Now I need to go read these books again...)

edited 31st Aug '11 12:54:48 PM by CrystalBlue

In Deathly Hallows, the description of Luna's painting on the ceiling of her bedroom, and what it meant to her:

Another moment I found really tearjerking is Ms Flitworth's last dance in Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man. Actually, I don't quite know why.

And since others have mentioned Futurama, Jurassic Bark is not alone in its 'tearjerkiness': The Luck of the Fryrish and The Late Philip J. Fry also come to mind.

edited 31st Aug '11 11:34:01 AM by Angelikfire

Margaret Edson's play "Wit" (sometimes written as "W;t"), from start to finish. Absolutely devastating.

Absolutely every time I read the end of Mostly Harmless, I get very depressed.

edited 2nd Sep '11 2:46:16 PM by Quantumawsome

^ Quantum, I found Mostly Harmless too depressing and entirely unlike the other four books of the trilogy. I've read it once and that's enough. The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul, on the other hand, is both emotional and funny.

The Last Unicorn and its sequel, Two Hearts.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, not only because of all the dying but because my childhood is over.

The Lord Of The Rings.

The end of Sabriel and Abhorsen.

I wouldn't have said Harry's sacrifice in Deathly Hallows before I listened to "Open At The Close" by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls. Now I doubt I could bear to go back and read it. Other than that, the battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin in the novelisation of Revenge of the Sith, specifically:

"This was not Sith against Jedi. This was not light against dark or good against evil; it had nothing to do with duty or philosophy, religion or morals.

It was Anakin versus Obi-Wan.

Personally.

Just the two of them, and the damage they had done to each other."

edited 17th Sep '11 3:13:23 PM by everyfloatingcat

Somebody already mentioned Le Petit Prince and Les Miserables, which I nth like mad. I still cry at those. Every. Damn. Time.

All Quiet On The Western Front okay, technically the whole thing but, "Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear." That one? Gah.

And we come to Discworld. Let me count the ways:

• Feet of Clay. Lots of this one too, but the line WORDS OF THE HEART CANNOT BE BROKEN always gets me, now matter how much Mood Whiplash comes after. And also the golems putting words in people's mouths to try and bring them back to life.
• Night Watch has the lilacs at the end and the song; All the little angels rise up high! How do they rise up, rise up, rise up... My friend once asked me why I keep rereading it since it makes sob like a small child at the end.
• Thud has the death of the four mining dwarves.

And leaving behind literature for a moment. With Titanic, it's not Jack's completely stupid death, but it's the old couple in bed and the Irish mother putting her kids to bed, telling them "The Children of Lir", all while knowing what is going to happen . Just thinking about it makes my eyes water.

Cabaret has the main song's reprise. Made especially heartbreaking if you've seen the versions where, when the MC returns to sing the song, he's wearing a concentration camp uniform, bearing a yellow star and a pink triangle.

And last (I promise) is the episode "Journey's End" from Doctor Who. There are so many Doctor Who moments that count as tear jerkers, but that one stands out to me.

...I am more sappy than I thought, it seems.

edited 17th Sep '11 3:23:41 PM by AwayLaughing

This:

In Memoriam

by Ewart Alan Mackintosh

• So you were David’s father,
• And he was your only son,
• And the new-cut peats are rotting
• And the work is left undone,
• Because of an old man weeping,
• Just an old man in pain,
• For David, his son David,
• That will not come again.

• Oh, the letters he wrote you,
• And I can see them still,
• Not a word of the fighting,
• But just the sheep on the hill
• And how you should get the crops in
• Ere the year get stormier,
• And the Bosches have got his body,
• And I was his officer.

• You were only David’s father,
• But I had fifty sons
• When we went up in the evening
• Under the arch of the guns,
• And we came back at twilight -
• O God! I heard them call
• To me for help and pity
• That could not help at all.

• Oh, never will I forget you,
• My men that trusted me,
• More my sons than your fathers’,
• For they could only see
• The little helpless babies
• And the young men in their pride.
• They could not see you dying,
• And hold you while you died.

• Happy and young and gallant,
• They saw their first-born go,
• But not the strong limbs broken
• And the beautiful men brought low,
• The piteous writhing bodies,
• They screamed “Don’t leave me, sir”,
• For they were only your fathers
• But I was your officer.

edited 18th Sep '11 9:00:46 AM by InverurieJones

Oh man, Inverurie. That's a killer.