History TearJerker / FalloutEquestria

* Everything having to do with how the Old World died. We are shown, in ''agonizing'' detail, exactly how everything went to hell, how the characters we've spent five seasons knowing and loving were completely ''broken'' by a war none of them wanted, and finally how their lives were completely destroyed by both the war and their own mistakes. The final fates of Pinkie, Twilight, Rarity and Luna are especially heartrending.

* In Chapter 35, after the massacre of Arbu, where Littlepip goes on a murderous rampage that leaves nearly everypony dead after realizing the inhabitants are all cannibals, Velvet Remedy and SteelHooves side with Littlepip's actions, Xenith is on the fence understanding that anypony in dire straits would do what they had to if it meant survival; but Calamity is torn, as he can't justify what the party has just done. When one of the settlement's last (and grateful) survivors tries to show him a ledger containing all of Arbu's victims, Calamity refuses to read it, insisting that Littlepip made the wrong decision... and then suddenly tearfully hugs her, well-aware that what she's done must be tormenting her, that she possesses a good heart, "an' if that heart cries out in pain an' rage an' fury, then Ah've got t' believe it's fer a good reason", admitting that he's lived long enough in the wasteland that such atrocities have left him jaded. His entire tearful response speaks volumes of how cruel the wasteland can be, and how it can wear down even the best, well-intentioned ponies like him, who face such atrocities to a numbing degree- perhaps made all the more painful since he's seeing his best friend suffer so severely from that cruelty.

* [[WhamEpisode Chapter 39.]] Let's see, the Pegasus Enclave come down and obliterate the Canterlot Ruins, killing all the Ghouls living there INCLUDING Twilight's mom, they pretty much begin a genocide campaign against Friendship City just to get to ONE Dashite, Steelhooves is DEAD, and Velvet Remedy left the party, disillusioned and heartbroken, finally reaching her limit from all the horrible things she's seen, done, and seen Little Pip do.
** What makes Velvet's breakdown is that, in the end, she's ''absolutely right''. Littlepip ''did'' slaughter thousands of children and other noncombatants just to kill the Goddess. She ''did'' cause the Enclave to invade by using the Megaspell. She ''did'' indirectly cause SteelHooves' death at the Hellhounds' hooves.

** After all the hell she's been put through -- largely on her own volition -- after going through so much trauma, after risking (and very, ''very'' nearly losing) her own life time and time again, Littlepip decides to make ''yet another'' sacrifice, permanently sealing herself within SPP mainframe, thus ensuring it will be used for good of all Equestria... at the cost of essentially giving up everything that she still had left and held dear. Most importantly, her friends whom she crew so close to. Not just Homage, but everybody else -- Calamity, Velvet Remedy, Xenith, Spike... she is never going to see them again. You can't put more "bitter" into BittersweetEnding than that.

* Littlepip's status as a [[HeroicSelfDeprecation hurting]] [[BeingGoodSucks hero]] in general can be pretty heartbreaking in itself. Although many of her actions are morally questionable, that does not change the fact that she is arguably the most kind-hearted and well-meaning character in entire setting. She is determined to make Equestria a better place regardless of all crap the world hurls at her and it appears she is widely regarded as a heroine by everyone... except herself. No matter how much good she does, no matter how much physical and emotiol trauma she goes through, she seems to be interested only in lambasting herself for every mistake and every evil deed she committed (usually to achieve greater good anyway) and at times, she even openly thinks of herself as a monster -- to the point of flat-out asking Xenith once whether the latter thought she was evil, fer crissakes. Sometimes -- actually, quite a lot of times -- you just want to hug her, wipe away her tears, tell her to stop tormenting herself and assure her she is a good person.

* Although many of Littlepip's actions are morally questionable, that does not change the fact that she is arguably the most kind-hearted and well-meaning character in entire setting. She is determined to make Equestria a better place regardless of all crap the world hurls at her and it appears she is widely regarded as a heroine by everyone except herself. No matter how much good she does, she seems to be more interested in lambasting herself for every mistake and every evil deed she committed ([[NecessaryEvil usually to achieve greater good anyway]]) and at times, she even openly thinks of herself as a monster (she flat-out asked Xenith whether the latter thought she was evil, fer crissakes...). Sometimes (actually, quite a lot of times) you just want to hug her, wipe away her tears, tell her to stop tormenting herself and assure her she is a good person.
* Chapter 45 sees us properly introduced to Princess Celestia trapped inside of the SPP Maneframe and ForcedToWatch the Equestrian Wasteland for the last two centuries that was the end result of her own actions that caused The Great War to escalate as far as it had. Littlepip tries to state that Celestia wasn't involved in causing the War, the Megaspells, and the aftermath, only for Celestia to state the simple facts that it was '''''[[ItsAllMyFault SHE]]''''' who chose for Luna's School to be built at Crescent Moon Canyon which was close to the border of the Zebra Nation for the sake of seeing Lunas' reaction when she told her little sister that she "was sending Luna's students to the moon", and that decision resulted in so much death and destruction immediately afterwards.
-->'''Princess Celestia''': I chose the site for Luna’s school. There were three sites equally suitable, but I chose Crescent Moon Canyon because it amused Me. Because I wanted to see My Sister’s face when I told Her I was sending Her students to the moon… [[BrokenTears I put those children there for a]] ''[[BrokenTears joke!]]''

* Littlepip's status as a HurtingHero, period. Although many of her actions are morally questionable, that does not change the fact that she is arguably the most kind-hearted and well-meaning character in entire setting. She is determined to make Equestria a better place regardless of all crap the world hurls at her and it appears she is widely regarded as a heroine by everyone except herself. No matter how much good she does, she seems to be more interested in lambasting herself for every mistake and every evil deed she committed ([[NecessaryEvil usually to achieve greater good anyway]]) and at times, she even openly thinks of herself as a monster (she flat-out asked Xenith whether the latter thought she was evil, fer crissakes...). Sometimes (actually, quite a lot of times) you just want to hug her, wipe away her tears, tell her to stop tormenting herself and assure her she is a good person.

* Littlepip's status as a HurtingHero, period. Although many of her actions are morally questionable, that does not change the fact that she is arguably the most kind-hearted and well-meaning character in entire setting. She is determined to make Equestria a better place regardless of all crap the world hurls at her and it appears she is widely regarded as a heroine by everyone except herself. No matter how much good she does, she seems to be more interested in lambasting herself for every mistake and every evil deed she committed ([[NecessaryEvil usually to achieve greated good anyway]]) and at times, she even openly thinks of herself as a monster (she flat-out asked Xenith whether the latter thought she was evil, fer crissakes...). Sometimes (actually, quite a lot of times) you just want to hug her, wipe away her tears, tell her to stop tormenting herself and assure her she is a good person.

* Littlepip's status as a HurtingHero, period. Although many of her actions are morally questionable at best, that does not change the fact that she is arguably the most kind-hearted and well-meaning character in entire setting. She is determined to make Equestria a better place regardless of all crap the world hurls at her and it appears she is widely regarded as a heroine by everyone except herself. No matter how good she does, she seems to be more interested in lambasting herself for every mistake and every evil deed she committed ([[NecessaryEvil usually to achieve greated good anyway]]) and at times, she even openly thinks of herself as a monster (she flat-out asked Xenith whether the latter thought she was evil, fer crissakes...). Sometimes (actually, quite a lot of times) you just want to hug her, wipe away her tears, tell her to stop tormenting herself and assure her she is a good person.

* IN the ruins of Manehattan, a corpse is discovered [[spoiler: in the Ministry of Morale's office clutching a Twilight Sparkle figurine]]. When a letter from a nearby computer gives context for what happened over 200 years ago... the full weight of the tragedy hits hard.
** Worse, [[spoiler:Pinkie was heartbreakingly close to having stopped the Manehattan bombing, her strike team halfway into the very building where the zebras had smuggled in the balefire bomb. Had she, a whole branch of her Ministry, and an entire large city survived, the Wasteland may well have been blunted severely in getting out of control.]]
** And when Littlepip delivers [[spoiler: Pinkie's last message to the Twilight!Alicorn, 200 years after it should have arrived.]] The waterworks come then as well.

* Steelhooves returns to [[spoiler: Canterlot, and while paired with Littlepip he comes across the very hoofprints he made where he ceased to "live" in the conventional sense]]. He begins to remember "the day Equestria died", recounts the details of the megaspell attack on Canterlot, his failing relationship with [[spoiler:Applejack]], his futile attempts to salvage it, the moment the two become separated after Cloudsdayle is hit and she leaves to check on her family- and it's then that, despite the fact that Steelhooves never takes off his helmet and despite the fact that his face is covered, Littlepip realizes that her adamantly stoic and expressionless companion is actually crying. It's deeply sad and horrifying to experience a calm yet emotional breakdown from someone that barely expresses any emotion whatsoever, and just like Littlepip, it's difficult not to have your heart go out to him. It's worse for Littlepip, as she has no idea what to do.

* In Chapter 35, after [[spoiler: the massacre of Arbu, where Littlepip goes on a murderous rampage that leaves nearly everypony dead after realizing the inhabitants are all cannibals]], Velvet Remedy and SteelHooves side with Littlepip's actions, Xenith is on the fence understanding that anypony in dire straits would do what they had to if it meant survival; but Calamity is torn, as he can't justify what the party has just done. [[spoiler:When one of the settlement's last (and grateful) survivors tries to show him a ledger containing all of Arbu's victims,]] Calamity refuses to read it, insisting that Littlepip made the wrong decision... [[spoiler:and then suddenly tearfully hugs her, well-aware that what she's done must be tormenting her, that she possesses a good heart, "an' if that heart cries out in pain an' rage an' fury, then Ah've got t' believe it's fer a good reason", admitting that he's lived long enough in the wasteland that such atrocities have left him jaded.]] His entire tearful response speaks volumes of how cruel the wasteland can be, and how it can wear down even the best, well-intentioned ponies like him, who face such atrocities to a numbing degree- perhaps made all the more painful since he's seeing his best friend suffer so severely from that cruelty.
* In Chapter 37 we find that [[spoiler: Rarity used the Black Book to have her soul cut into 43 pieces, 42 to the figurines featuring the mane six and 1 for herself. This is so that her friends would go back to being friends.]] [[spoiler: Its even sadder when one realizes that she might have been successful if the megaspells haven't fallen.]]
* [[WhamEpisode Chapter 39.]] [[spoiler: Let's see, the Pegasus Enclave come down and obliterate the Canterlot Ruins, killing all the Ghouls living there INCLUDING Twilight's mom, they pretty much begin a genocide campaign against Friendship City just to get to ONE Dashite, Steelhooves is DEAD, and Velvet Remedy left the party, disillusioned and heartbroken, finally reaching her limit from all the horrible things she's seen, done, and seen Little Pip do.]]
** What makes [[spoiler:Velvet's breakdown is that, in the end, she's ''absolutely right''. Littlepip ''did'' slaughter thousands of children and other noncombatants just to kill the Goddess. She ''did'' cause the Enclave to invade by using the Megaspell. She ''did'' indirectly cause SteelHooves' death at the Hellhounds' hooves.]]
** A specific scene in Friendship City- Enclave soldiers begin looking for the Dashite they've been ordered to locate and tell civilians they'll be rewarded if they help. One pony outright refuses with a solid ''"Fuck you!"'', which results in said pony and those who try to run being turned to ash. It gets worse when Littlepip spots a terrified filly hiding. Littlepip tries to approach to comfort the filly- the filly spots her, screams out "Hellmare" in terror and tries to run for it. She's turned to ash. It's made worse by the context in which the scene happens- the filly only ran from Littlepip because, by this point, she's gained infamy for [[spoiler:slaughtering almost the entire town of Arbu in a rage, after discovering the adults were cannibals that murdered other ponies and fed them to travelers]]- while many ponies don't blame her for her actions, a significant portion (particularly the survivors) does. The filly in question was an orphan ''from'' Arbu who saw Littlepip go berserk [[spoiler:and who probably even saw her kill her parents]]- if Littlepip had stayed away, she might've survived, and Littlepip ''knows this''. It affects her so badly that she gathers the poor filly's ashes, trying to find something to put them in; Calamity, who is barely able to keep together on his end as it is, has to physically slap her to bring her to her senses.

* Xenith being [[spoiler:forced to keep Silver Bell from getting near Ditzy Doo due to her absorbing an extremely large amount of radiation from the Maripony explosion, therefore becoming lethally poisonous to anypony that is near her for an extended period. She actually has to ''write Silver Bell a message telling her to stay away because she's poisonous.'' Silver Bell's cry of ''"Mommy!"'' doesn't help. AT ALL.]]

** Out of all the Mane Cast, Fluttershy comes across as one of the most tragic. [[spoiler: Especially with the implication she and Applejack were the only ones to truly survive the apocalypse. While Applejack had a peaceful ending, Fluttershy had to witness everything she cared and worked for get destroyed.]]

* The Memory Orb of [[spoiler:Pinkie Pie's last party]] shown in chapter 14. [[spoiler:It starts of rather upbeat, with Rainbow Dash and Applejack acting like their regular selves, everypony having a good time. Then we witness an argument between Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle. they too acting like their old selves. Until it's revealed to the readers that Pinkie was taking Party-Time mint-als, and wasn't really enjoying her own party. Twilight says that she's sick of lying to Celestia about Pinkie's condition. She then tells her that she wants the old Pinkie Pie back, and says that their friendship is over if she doesn't fess up. Pinkie Pie then reverts to Pinkamena as Twilight (and Rainbow Dash) leaves, but not before Twilight says the following:]]
--> [[spoiler:"If you decide to be my Pinkie Pie again...really do...and need help, you know where to call."]]
* Everything having to do with how the Old World died. We are shown, in ''agonizing'' detail, exactly how everything went to hell, how the characters we've spent five seasons knowing and loving were completely ''broken'' by a war none of them wanted, and finally how their lives were completely destroyed by both the war and their own mistakes. The final fates of [[spoiler:Pinkie, Twilight, Rarity and Luna]] are especially heartrending.
** Even [[spoiler: Applejack, the only one confirmed to have passed away of natural causes, doesn't get off easily. One of her closest friends is murdered in cold blood by her ''own lover'', who is completely unrepentent, forcing her to exile him. Her brother is killed in battle. Her sister dies of radiation poisoning. Even after she passes on, her legacy as a protector of Equestria is almost completely destroyed by the Steel Rangers' leadership who, in their opportunistic greed, spread lies about her painting her as an overly ambitious sellout and failure.]]
** [[spoiler: Rainbow Dash's fate is never revealed and she is LeftHanging. Ironic that the character who wanted to go down in history was completely forgotten. WordOfGod suggested Rainbow may have become a ghoul and lived on as a good samaritan, something which is adapted in ''Project Horizons''.]]
** Made worse for Rainbow Dash when you take into account [[spoiler: Pinkie asked her to put six special, important memory orbs within the Canterlot Ministry of Awesome hub. Taking the order of events into account, it is likely Pinkie died before the six memories were collected, and it was up to Rainbow to do it herself. She probably became aware of Rarity's sacrifice, the memory in question retrieved from Angel Bunny in the Everfree Forest. So does this mean Fluttershy had already been turned into a tree, and if this were the case, was Rainbow aware of it?]]

* Chapter 45 [[spoiler:sees us properly introduced to Princess Celestia trapped inside of the SPP Maneframe and ForcedToWatch the Equestrian Wasteland for the last two centuries that was the end result of her own actions that caused The Great War to escalate as far as it had. Littlepip tries to state that Celestia wasn't involved in causing the War, the Megaspells, and the aftermath, only for Celestia to state the simple facts that it was '''''[[ItsAllMyFault SHE]]''''' who chose for Luna's School to be built at Crescent Moon Canyon which was close to the boarder of the Zebra Nation for the sake of seeing Lunas' reaction when she told her little sister that she "was sending Luna's students to the moon", and that decision resulted in so much death and destruction immediately afterwards.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Princess Celestia]]''': [[spoiler:I chose the site for Luna’s school. There were three sites equally suitable, but I chose Crescent Moon Canyon because it amused Me. Because I wanted to see My Sister’s face when I told Her I was sending Her students to the moon… [[BrokenTears I put those children there for a]] ''[[BrokenTears joke!]]'']]

* Chapter 45 [[spoiler:sees us properly introduced to Princess Celestia trapped inside of the SPP Maneframe and ForcedToWatch the Equestrian Wasteland for the last two centuries that was the end result of her own actions that caused The Great War to escalate as far as it had. Littlepip tries to state that Celestia wasn't involved in causing the War, the Megaspells, and the aftermath, only for Celestia to state the simple facts that it was '''''[[ItsAllMyFault SHE]]''''' who chose for Luna's School to be built at Crescent Moon Canyon which was close to the boarder of the Zebra Nation for the sake of seeing Lunas' reaction when she told her little sister that she "was sending Luna's students to the moon".]]

* Littlepip's reunion with her neglectful, alcoholic mother after saving Stable #2 from the Steel Rangers. Her mother barely acknowledges her daughter, goes back to drinking and claims she has suffered from the invasion. Littlepip feels utterly small and invisible in her mother's presence til Velvet slaps her mother hard and shouts that she has suffered nothing.

* ''Spike''. Our favourite dragon goes to sleep for a while, as dragons are wont to do, only to wake up and find out he's lost ''everything''. If your heart doesn't break when he's talking to Littlepip about it, you have no soul.
** Plus there was the audio recording Littlepip is shown in the sealed off rooms of Tenpony Tower. The memory ends with Spike and Twilight having an argument, and Spike leaves it by basically saying "I'm gonna go take a nap! Come and find me when you're the [[IronicEcho Twilight I know and love!]] What makes it even worse is that ''that'' particular nap may very well have been the one he had been taking when the megaspells hit, making that possibly ''the last thing he said to Twilight.''

* Everything having to due with how the Old World died. We are shown, in ''agonizing'' detail, exactly how everything went to hell, how the characters we've spent five seasons knowing and loving were completely ''broken'' by a war none of them wanted, and finally how their lives were completely destroyed by both the war and their own mistakes. The final fates of [[spoiler:Pinkie, Twilight, Rarity and Luna]] are especially heartrending.

* [[WhamEpisode Chapter 39.]] [[spoiler: Let's see, the Pegasus Enclave come down and obliterate the Canterlot Ruins, killing all the Ghouls living there INCLUDING Twilight's mom, they pretty much begin a genocide campaign against Friendship City just to get to ONE Dashite, Steelhooves is DEAD, and Velvet Remedy left the party, disillusioned and heartbroken, finally reaching her limit from all the horrible things she's seen, done, and seen Little Pip do. Actually, this might qualify better as a WhamEpisode.]]

* Chapter 39. [[WhamEpisode Just... Chapter 39.]] [[spoiler: Let's see, the Pegasus Enclave come down and obliterate the Canterlot Ruins, killing all the Ghouls living there INCLUDING Twilight's mom, they pretty much begin a genocide campaign against Friendship City just to get to ONE Dashite, Steelhooves is DEAD, and Velvet Remedy left the party, disillusioned and heartbroken, finally reaching her limit from all the horrible things she's seen, done, and seen Little Pip do. Actually, this might qualify better as a WhamEpisode.]]

** Just think if you missed a shot in the beginning of Fallout 3.
*** I missed a lot of shots. It's my fault Stable 29 died.
* The last half of chapter 20.5(Technically Canon) had me bawling like a little girl.