History TearJerker / DigimonFrontier

* Oddly enough, [[spoiler: [[AlasPoorVillain Arbormon's]] death]] in episode 20, "From Dawn To Duskmon". While a ruthless enemy, seeing him in his last moments mercilessly killed by someone he considered a comrade is a bit sad.
--> '''[[spoiler: Arbormon:''' A friend in need is a friend indeed, [[VerbalTic right]]?]]

* [[spoiler: Ranamon]]'s death. Seeing Kazemon know that she actually had a good heart deep down and only was evil because she was lonely, and wanting only to purify her....*Sniff!*
** Becomes more HeartwarmingInHindsight when [[spoiler: it turns out Kazemon DID purify her data, and Ranamon gets a posthumous HeelFaceTurn toward the end of the show, ending with [[RedemptionEarnsLife her being resurrected]] along with the other Legendary Warriors' spirits (including the kids' ones.)]]
* In episode 27, when we find out what Kouji was doing on the day he went to the Digital World [[spoiler: buying flowers for his step-mother]] and what he had intended to do [[spoiler:call her "Mom" for the first time]].

* [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Kouichi]], considering all that happened to him during the course of the series, we find out that [[spoiler: unlike the other children, he is simply a spirit in the Digital World originally summoned by Cherubimon to do his bidding, and that he is near-death in the human world]].
** It's really the delivery that sells it. Episode 30 and 32 are pretty much the [[WhamEpisode Wham Episodes]] here as they basically amount to establishing that Duskmon, the villain who had scared the living daylights out of Takuya and given him hallucinations and had practically beaten the five every time he met them was actually [[spoiler:a lonely child who wanted very, very badly to meet the twin brother he never knew he had]].
** Not to mention that after [[spoiler: they manage to purify him, Kouichi spends an entire episode blaming himself for everything he did while corrupted and wondering why the other kids ''don't'' blame him.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Kouichi''': Why don't they hate me?]]
** [[spoiler: Kouichi's DisneyDeath in episode 48.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Kouichi''': My brother, I can't tell you what it means to me to have met you. I have no regrets, no regrets...]]
** Even better: [[spoiler: when the kids go back home, they realize that they went a bit back in time... just some minutes after his almost DeathByFallingOver. They go to the hospital and he's laying almost lifeless in the operation table. Cue to Kouji crying BerserkerTears and begging Kouichi to live... and Kouchi, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome pretty much out of ''sheer willpower'', forces himself back to the realm of the living.]]]] Cue the tears of both sadness and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming happiness]].

** Ophanimon [[spoiler: dying shortly after stealing back the kids D-Tectors from Cherubimon. The kids are devastated as they watch her Digi Egg fly into the air, knowing they couldn't do anything to save her.]]
* [[spoiler: Cherubimon's death in episode 37, when he becomes purified just before being deleted.]]

** Arbormon killing several harmless Pipismon, just so he can absorb they're data.

* In episode 45 "All Aboard The Tag Team Express", several powerful Digimon led by a Zanbamon have grown tired of making the Digidestined fight the Royal Knights all alone. So they attempt to attack the Dynasmon and Crusadermon as they approach the Autumn Leaf Fair. Sadly despite their best efforts, all but two of them are killed.

* The death of Nefertimon in episode 46. EmperorGreymon and MagnaGarurumon try to protect her but Dynasmon and Crusadermon manage to capture and kill her anyway.

* In episode 45 "All Aboard The Tag Team Express", several powerful Digimon led by a Zanbamon have grown tired of making the Legendary Warrior fight the Royal Knights alone. So they attempt to attack the Royal Knights as they approach the Autumn Leaf Fair. Sadly despite their best efforts, all but two of them are killed.

* The finale of Anime/DigimonFrontier. Say what you want about the series, the finale was well done, with the kids saving Kouichi at the last possible moment. And then the scenes of their lives afterwards, Takuya appreciating his family more, Kouji respecting his step-mother and giving her flowers for her birthday, Zoe/Izumi and JP/Junpei finding friendship, Tomoki/Tommy being friends with the boys who used to bully him, and Kouji meeting his birth mother again with Kouichi's help - not to mention all six friends in the ending shot promising to be friends forever...ugh. And to top it off, it looked like the franchise was done at time of the finale, so to see the animators pull of a great finale out of an uneven season was nothing short of amazing.

In episode 45 "All Aboard The Tag Team Express", several powerful Digimon led by a Zanbamon have grown tired of making the Legendary Warrior fight the Royal Knights alone. So they attempt to attack the Royal Knights as they approach the Autumn Leaf Fair. Sadly despite their best efforts, all but two of them are killed.

* [[spoiler: Cherubimon's death, when he becomes purified just before being deleted.]]

* The death of Oryxmon in episode 34. True he didn't do much other than guide the kids to where Ophanimon was being held prisoner. But [[LickedByTheDog Patamon]] liked him, proving he was a good natured Digimon.
** The scene were Cherubimon talks with Ophanimon.

--> '''Arbormon:''' A friend in need is a friend indeed, [[VerbalTic right?]]

* Even better: [[spoiler: when the kids go back home, they realize that they went a bit back in time... just some minutes after his almost DeathByFallingOver. They go to the hospital and he's laying almost lifeless in the operation table. Cue to Kouji crying BerserkerTears and begging Kouichi to live... and Kouchi, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome pretty much out of ''sheer willpower'', forces himself back to the realm of the living.]]]] Cue the tears of both sadness and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming happiness]].
* [[spoiler: Ranamon]]'s death. Seeing Kazemon know that she actually had a good heart deep down and only was evil because she was lonely, and wanting only to purify her....*Sniff!*
** Becomes more HeartwarmingInHindsight when [[spoiler: it turns out Kazemon DID purify her data, and Ranamon gets a posthumous HeelFaceTurn toward the end of the show, ending with [[RedemptionEarnsLife her being resurrected]] along with the other Legendary Warriors' spirits (including the kids' ones.)]]

* When we find out what Kouji was doing on the day he went to the Digital World [[spoiler: buying flowers for his step-mother]] and what he had intended to do [[spoiler:call her "Mom" for the first time]].

* The episode "Darkest Before Duskmon" ends with Duskmon defeating all Legendary Warriors despite their plan to ambush him and Koji is seriously hurt [[HeroicSacrifice shielding Takuya from a fatal blow]].
--> '''Agunimon''': Koji! Why?!

* The episode "Darkest Before Duskmon" ends with Duskmon defeating all Legendary Warriors despite their plan to ambush him and Koji is seriously hurt shielding Takuya from a fatal blow.

* AlasPoorVillain

* Oddly enough, [[spoiler: Arbormon's death]] in episode 20, "From Dawn To Duskmon". While a ruthless enemy, seeing him in his last moments mercilessly killed by someone he considered a comrade is a bit sad.

* [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Kouichi]], considering all that happened to him during the course of the series, we find out that [[spoiler:unlike the other children, he is simply a spirit in the Digital World originally summoned by Cherubimon to do his bidding, and that he is near-death in the human world]].

* A blink-and-you-miss-it example, but in one episode you can see a Gatomon in the background of the bazaar...and she's accompanied by a Wizardmon. [[TearJerker/DigimonAdventure Thanks for opening up old wounds, Frontier!]]

* The kids suffer their first major loss with the death of Seraphimon in episode 13, "Better An Egg Than An Egg Shell". The group had finally made it to the Forest Terminal and meet him and his servant Sorcerymon. Thinking that now have the combined strength to defeat Cherubimon and his evil Legendary Warriors. Only for the hope to be quickly snuffed out when Mercurymon defeats Seraphimon and steals his Fractal Code.

* Bokomon and Neemon's ''last scene.'' Yeah, the comic relief duo actually have a sad last scene with Bokomon, ''out of nowhere'', crying and begging the kids not to leave him so soon and ''Neemon'' for once pulling ''him'' back. Bokomon's final words are tearfully shouting out to the kids that he'll write down everything that they have done to save the Digital World so that generations of digimon will always know of them and all they went through as "the best friends a digimon could ever hope for." Aaaww...
* The finale of Anime/DigimonFrontier. Say what you want about the series, the finale was well done, with the kids saving Kouichi at the last possible moment. And then the scenes of their lives afterwards, Takuya appreciating his family more, Kouji respecting his step-mother and giving her flowers for her birthday, Zoe/Izumi and JP/Junpei finding friendship, Tomoki/Tommy being friends with the boys who used to bully him, and Kouji meeting his birth mother again with Kouichi's help - not to mention all six friends in the ending shot promising to be friends forever...ugh. And to top it off, it looked like the franchise was done at time of the finale, so to see the animators pull of a great finale out of an uneven season was nothing short of amazing.