History TearJerker / InsideOut

* The "Joy Alone" DeletedScene, in which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Joy is separated from the others]] and travels through a massive glowing cavern at the bottom of a dark sea. She emerges in a desolate landscape with a single house but finds a warmly lit room where a young Riley asks Joy to dance with her. Joy goes from being utterly hopeless to utterly delighted, but when "Riley" asks her to stay, Joy's face slowly falls and she gently explains that she can't. This is the moment when Joy realizes that her journey has changed her, just as Riley's changed, and she can't stay with this "dream" Riley when the real one needs her.

[[caption-width-right:350:TearsOfJoy [[LiteralMinded just took on]] [[BreakTheCutie a whole new meaning]].]]

* Just 33 seconds after Riley's birth and Joy first appears, Sadness appears, slumped gloomily on the control pylon as she introduces herself to Joy, who had been enjoying the, well, ''joy'' that she had been creating in newborn Riley. She's even visibly annoyed by the fact that Sadness is making Riley cry and politely tries to push Sadness aside, after which Riley begins giggling again. Neither Joy or Sadness understand yet that Sadness is just doing her job in signaling to Riley's parents their baby needs something.

*** There's nothing to indicate that Riley or her emotional cohort are particularly unusual, as children or their Headquarters' staff go, which rather implies that the ostracism ''this'' Sadness goes through is typical of '''most''' young peoples' emotions.

** To add, it's not just that Joy doesn't recognize Sadness' purpose. She is also obsessed with having all core memories (and most other ones) Joyful, because core memories power personality islands, which make Riley Riley- so much so that she cannot suffer Sadness getting her own core memory.
* Riley crying in the middle of class while introducing herself and remembering her past home, since Sadness tainted that memory mid-speech then took over the console while the others were trying to remove it.

* Bing Bong seeing Preschool Land destroyed, along with his wagon being tossed into the memory dump with the other forgotten memories. It's just the way when realization hits that Riley has moved on without him and he just sits there in slumped defeat, which makes it even sadder considering [[KilledOffForReal what happens to him]] later on in the film.

** During all of this, Bing Bong's eyes are visibly welling up with tears. Thing is, Bing Bong cries candy. While this was initially funny, in this context, it's ''heartbreaking''. It makes it all the more heartwarming when Sadness gives him a cuddle and candy goes cascading over her shoulder.

** Each island's crumble gets accompanied by a sad, slow piano tune along with [[SadTimesMontage flashes back at the times when Riley formed, used or strengthened those personality islands]]. In those moments, you realize that Riley's personality is being quite brutally deconstructed and she is [[GrowingUpSucks losing the little girl she used to be.]]

* The scene with [[LongLastLook Riley looking back into her house before leaving with a backpack]], after deciding to run away from home. Just seeing it is enough to provoke a tearjerker reaction.

** In some FridgeBrilliance, the reason that Sadness says that it's her favorite memory because Riley's sadness became joy when her parents and her team came to comfort her; Sadness wanted to help Riley become happy again.

* In the art book, there's a picture of what Joy's room looks like, and there's pictures on the wall, presumably drawings done by Joy herself. Along with a picture of Disneyland, herself doing ballet, and others, there's a picture of Joy being hugged by an older woman with a similar bang in the middle of her forehead just as Joy has. [[MissingMom The picture is labeled "Me & Mom".]] It gives the WMG that Joy secretly [[BecomeARealBoy wants to be human]] a ''lot'' more weight.
* The "Joy Alone" DeletedScene, in which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Joy is separated from the others]] and travels through a massive glowing cavern at the bottom of a dark sea. She emerges in a desolate landscape with a single house, but finds a warmly lit room where a young Riley asks Joy to dance with her. Joy goes from being utterly hopeless to utterly delighted, but when "Riley" asks her to stay, Joy's face slowly falls and she gently explains that she can't. This is the moment when Joy realizes that her journey has changed her, just as Riley's changed, and she can't stay with this "dream" Riley when the real one needs her.