History TearJerker / Creepypasta

** Rottenbacher is first seen as a CardCarryingJerkass being a Nazi edge lord who nobody likes; he also wears a barbed cilice at all times which makes his life painful in every way; however he was dragged into the game years ago against his will the cilice is not his protective item, it was his swastika armband (everyone has to believe he is a Nazi sympathizer for it to work) and to make everything worse? He never cursed anyone else to save his own skin! (he even warned Stephanie about her not earning any more time), a genuinely good person has to suffer his whole life due to a game he didn't even want to play!

* Whilst ''[[https://creepypasta.org/s/2008/return-to-return-to-oz Return to Return to Oz]]'' heavily contains NightmareFuel (Especially because of [[Film/ReturnToOz the movie it discusses]]), the protagonist occasionally misremembers a scene in the movie with Dorothy falling in a lake, believing that she drowns (Which doesn't actually happen in the movie). We eventually find out during the ending that the narrator once had a younger sister whom, despite the narrator's efforts, drowned to death and that the narrator, now an adult had been trying to forget such a memory for so long. The kicker? His mother named the sister [[WhamLine "Dorothy".]]

* Whilst ''[https://creepypasta.org/s/2008/return-to-return-to-oz Return to Return to Oz]'' heavily contains NightmareFuel (Especially because of [[Film/ReturnToOz the movie it discusses]]), the protagonist occasionally misremembers a scene in the movie with Dorothy falling in a lake, believing that she drowns (Which doesn't actually happen in the movie). We eventually find out during the ending that the narrator once had a younger sister whom, despite the narrator's efforts, drowned to death and that the narrator, now an adult had been trying to forget such a memory for so long. The kicker? His mother named the sister [[WhamLine "Dorothy".]]

* Whilst "[[https://creepypasta.org/s/2008/return-to-return-to-oz Return to Return to Oz]]" heavily contains NightmareFuel (Especially because of [[Film/ReturnToOz the movie it discusses]]), the protagonist occasionally misremembers a scene in the movie with Dorothy falling in a lake, believing that she drowns (Which doesn't actually happen in the movie). We eventually find out during the ending that the narrator once had a younger sister whom, despite the narrator's efforts, drowned to death and that the narrator, now an adult had been trying to forget such a memory for so long. The kicker? His mother named the sister [[WhamLine "Dorothy".]]

* '' Need to Believe in Ghosts'': The narrator tells a story about getting out of an elevator on a dark, creepy night, to find a hollow-eyed, croaking, bloody creature creeping towards him. He barely gets away. Then comes the WhamLine at the end:

* ''[[WebOriginal/ImSoSorryPleaseForgiveMeDotMP4 I'm So Sorry, Please, Forgive Me.mp4]]'' is the story of a narrator who discovers a haunted video created by a boy who committed suicide. The boy in the video broke up with his girlfriend and did not have anyone to help him cope. The situation here was very real considering how serious suicide ''very much'' is.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Psychosis}}'' is a genuinely terrifying story about a man's descent into madness [[labelnote:note]] [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane or is it?]][[/labelnote]], but the ending where he pokes out his eyes, is confined to a mental hospital, and drives away his love interest with his (maybe) delusional fears is utterly heartbreaking, especially for those who have personal experience with mental illness, whether they've suffered from it or someone they love has.

* The entire ''WebOriginal/AbandonedByDisney'' saga is a hellish ride for the narrator. One day, he happens across an article about Treasure Island, and decides to pay a visit to a similar site not far from where he lives. It's at said visit that he realizes Disney is hiding some dark secret- one he encounters firsthand- and gets to work investigating it. Disney tries everything in their power to keep him on edge for the next two years to make sure he stays quiet, but he keeps posting about the strange occurrences surrounding the company thanks to the efforts of a few anonymous people. By the events of ''Corruptus'', he's lost his ISP, his phone's been bricked, he's being stalked, and he's fairly certain someone is out there using his identity to commit a crime that'll discredit him or get him committed. In a final act against Disney, he distributes thousands of copies of the information about Corruptus to as many people and places possible, lamenting that this'll probably be the last time he'll ever talk to any of his followers again. The saga ends with him wishing them all good luck, knowing he'll need the same from them, and thanking them.

Don't be spooked by its [[NightmareFuel/{{Creepypasta}} nightmarish tales]], Creepypastas also has the ability to feel readers [[TearJerker blue]].

* ''[[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cell_Phone_Game The Cell Phone Game]]'' Starts off as a generic "ritual game" story; until the rules of the game are revealed. Entering the game gives a two week death countdown, you have only two ways of delaying your death: The first is dragging somebody else into the countdown, but every time you do so the time bonus is halved and the second way is finding and wearing an object that will cause you incredible pain for the rest of your days.

* ''[[http://www.creepypasta.com/the-sandman/ The Sandman]]'' is equal parts NightmareFuel and this. Unlike most Creepypasta villains, the EldritchAbomination in this story seems to have good intentions. The protagonist is lonely and longs for a son, so the Sandman makes him one out of parts of its own body. [[BodyHorror But eventually it needs those parts back.]]
* The story ''Play With Me'' is depressing too. It's about a girl named Sally who is molested by [[CreepyUncle her uncle]], and the fact her parents [[AdultsAreUseless pass it of as a nightmare]] does nothing to stop her uncle from abducting, raping and killing her. What else is Sally's ghost doesn't become evil as a result, just a hurt ghost of an innocent little girl.

* ''[[https://www.creepypasta.com/i-found-a-letter-from-my-stalker/ I Found a Letter From My Stalker]]''. The "stalker" gave up his chance to live as a normal human to save the protagonist from a curse which makes everyone forget that someone exists. Because of his sacrifice, she regained her life, but forgot everything about him, as did everyone else on Earth, including his parents. The protagonist's ordeal before she was saved is this as well. Imagine waking up one day to find out that all records of your existence are gone and nobody recognizes you. You then spend the next ''three years'' with parents who do not know why they have an extra bedroom for a child they do not know exists.
* ''[[https://www.creepypasta.com/dont-let-them-in/ Don't Let Them In]]''. Good lord. Even if you can see the reveal from miles away, it doesn't make it any less heartbreaking. Also note that Emilie casually notes near the beginning that Anne moved to New York when she was eighteen and never contacted her again, while the story reveals that she once found Anne drunk on whiskey, after all the stress of keeping the family together. Put the two of this together and it becomes clear that addiction didn't just claim Mom's life.

* ''[[WebOriginal/ImSoSorryPleaseForgiveMeDotMP4 I'm So Sorry Please Forgive Me.mp4]]'' is the story of a narrator who discovers a haunted video created by a boy who committed suicide. The boy in the video broke up with his girlfriend, and did not have anyone to help him cope. The situation here was very real considering how serious suicide ''very much'' is.

* ''Laughing Jack'' is quite possibly the biggest case of Adult Fear in any Creepypasta ever. Long story short, Laughing Jack is an entity who horrifically kills children, and at the end of the story, he mutilates the narrator's child (who was ''still alive'' afterwards) and the titular Jack tricks the mother into killing her son, which results in her getting institutionalized. The prequel, ''The Origin of Laughing Jack'' is pretty heart wrenching as well. It turns out he was a cosmic entity sent by a guardian angel to be friends with a lonely boy named Issac, and was to adapt with Issac's personality. After accidentally killing the neighbors cat, Issac was sent to a boarding school, but promised to reunite with Jack one day. Jack spent years waiting for Issac, who had forgotten him, and in addition, became a SerialKiller. When Issac and Jack reunite, in a combination of resentment, and adapting to Issac's new love for violence, Jack tortures Issac before killing him.

* ''[[WebOriginal/ImSoSorryPleaseForgiveMe I'm So Sorry Please Forgive Me.mp4]]'' is the story of a narrator who discovers a haunted video created by a boy who committed suicide. The boy in the video broke up with his girlfriend, and did not have anyone to help him cope. The situation here was very real considering how serious suicide ''very much'' is.

** [[spoiler: Stephanie]] chooses to sacrifice around 9 of her friends, buying herself only 2 weeks in total, she ends up robbing Rottenbacher for his barbed cilice to save herself, knowing [[spoiler: or at least thinking]] it would doom him as well. [[spoiler: Stephanie]] ends up getting dragged off to hell anyway, [[UndignifiedDeath with her last words begging for her life]].
** Rottenbacher is first seen as a CardCarryingJerkass being a Nazi edge lord who nobody likes; he also wears a barbed cilice at all times which makes his life painful in every way; however he was dragged into the game years ago against his will [[spoiler: the cilice is not his protective item, it was his swastika armband (everyone has to believe he is a Nazi sympathizer for it to work) and to make everything worse? He never cursed anyone else to save his own skin! (he even warned Stephanie about her not earning any more time), a genuinely good person has to suffer his whole life due to a game he didn't even want to play!]]

--> That’s the worst part, the part I almost can’t handle. The thing comes to me, masquerading as Amy. Its recreation is perfect. It sounds exactly like Amy, feels exactly like her. It even produces a reasonable facsimile of tears that it makes me feel on its lifelike cheeks. When it first dragged me here, it told me all the things I wanted to hear. It told me that she loved me, that she had always loved me, that it didn’t understand why I did this, that we could still have a life together, if only I would stop insisting that I was being deceived. It wanted me to believe… no, it needed me to believe that she was real.

** [[spoiler: Stephanie]] chooses to sacrifice around 9 of her friends, buying herself only 2 weeks in total, she ends up robbing Rottenbacher for his barbed cilice to save herself, knowing [[spoiler: or at least thinking]] it would doom him as well. [[Spoiler: Stephanie]] ends up getting dragged off to hell anyway, [[UndignifiedDeath with her last words begging for her life]].

** [[spoiler: Stephanie]] chooses to sacrifice around 9 of her friends, buying herself only 2 weeks in total, she ends up attempting to kill another man to retrieve a painful item.
** [[spoiler Rottenbacher]] is first seen as a CardCarryingJerkass, being a Nazi edge lord who nobody likes; he also wears a cilice at all times which makes his life eternally miserable; however he was dragged into the game years ago against his will [[spoiler: the cilice is not his protective item, it's his swastika armband; to make the item cause extreme pain, everyone has to believe he is a Nazi sympathizer, meaning his whole life is effectively ruined and he has to forever torture himself with an ideology he hates to protect himself from a game he didn't even want to enter.]]

* ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/cokl1l/if_youre_armed_and_at_the_glenmont_metro_please/ If you're armed and at the Glenmont metro, please shoot me]].'' If the title wasn't a giveaway, [[DeathSeeker the narrator is asking to be put out of his misery]]. After taking an experimental drug that alters his perception of time, he finds that the novelty of it wears off pretty quickly and he tries to sleep it off with an Ambien, only for them to have a severe cross reaction: Not only does his perception of time slow to the point that ''blinking'' plunges him into years of darkness, but he has very little ability to control his body, which leads to him falling and dislocating his shoulder, and the drug has no impact on his sense of pain. While it's only been a few hours, from his perspective, he's spent thousands of years curled up beside a bench in the titular metro, enduring unfiltered pain and incomprehensible boredom, barely clinging onto his sanity. His options are either throwing himself under a train or begging for someone to euthanize him as quickly as possible.

* ''[[https://en.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/19fmjf/autopilot/ Autopilot]]'': a father takes his young daughter to daycare. There's nothing supernatural. The father isn't evil or abusive. It's just a normal, loving family, an innocent little girl, and one horrible real-life mistake--[[AdultFear he leaves her in the car by accident on a hot summer day because he wasn't paying enough attention]]. ''Autopilot'' is surprisingly one of the most grounded Creepypastas of its type, and as numerous [[https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/anyone-could-forget-kids-in-hot-car-forgotten-baby-syndrome-a3901940661/ real world studies]] have shown, this is a tragic scenario that could happen to almost anyone under the right conditions and with the right [[DisasterDominoes chain of events]] at play...

* While it's also prime NightmareFuel, ''FanFic/MaxAndRuby0004'' is also one of these, considering the fact that one of the images in it is Max and Ruby standing in front of their parents' grave. Considering the fact that on the show, we never do see their parents and [[PromotedToParent Ruby tends to act more adult than a girl her age should]]...

Don't be spooked by it's [[NightmareFuel/{{Creepypasta}} nightmarish tales]], Creepypastas also has the ability to feel readers [[TearJerker blue]].

* While the rest of it is pure distilled NightmareFuel, the opening to the ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}: "Chuckie's Mom]]'' LostEpisode pasta is heartbreaking. It shows Chuckie, sitting next to his mother on her hospital bed, as she pets his head and sings to him. She passes away shortly after.