History TearJerker / MetalGearSolid

** To make things worse, try playing the game and attempting to resist the torture, but having to surrender because you haven't saved for half of the game, and death there brings instant game over.

* There have been many sad moments in video games before and after. And sometimes there have been vilains that got a bit of sympathy. But how often do you stay with an enemy you just shot, as she bleeds to death in the snow, in a dark and cold winter night. Well, you do for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-xUbqcVc0 Sniper Wolf]], and it's one of the saddest moments in the entire game. That day, Snake was the only one who was not crying, and only because he had no tears left. But we all knew that he also did inside.

---> '''Otacon:''' (''Snake starts walking away from Sniper Wolf's body'') Snake! What was she fighting for? What am ''I'' fighting for? What are '''''you''''' fighting for?!
---> '''Snake:''' (''turns to face Otacon'') If we make it through this, I'll tell you!

--->'''Gray Fox:''' Snake... We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing... The ''only thing'' I was good at... But at least I always fought for what I believed in. Snake... Farewell.

--->'''Naomi:''' I was [[NobleDemon partly]] wrong about you.

--->'''Naomi:''' Was it true, Snake? Was Big Boss really your father?
--->'''Snake:''' That's all he said, and that's all I know.
--->'''Naomi:''' And you killed him knowing that?
--->'''Snake:''' [[BluntYes Yup]].
--->'''Naomi:''' Why?
--->'''Snake:''' [[DeathSeeker It's what he wanted]]. It's what I wanted, too.
--->'''Naomi:''' [[SelfMadeOrphan That's patricide!]]
--->'''Snake:''' Yup.

-->Snake: Forgive me... ''Damn!'' I gave in to my fear! I gave in to my pain! I sold your life to save my own... I'm a loser! I'm not the hero you thought I was! '''I'm nothing!''' Meryl... I'm sorry... Forgive me.

-->Psycho Mantis: This is the first time I've ever used my power to help someone. It's strange... it feels... kind of... nice...

* In the bad ending, which happens if you give up during the torture, Snake finds out that Meryl had died. In sheer badassery and manliness, he punches the floor over the fact that he can't protect anyone, and wherever he goes, people around him die. He failed, and his broken voice really makes it sound like he's crying.

[[caption-width-right:350:Rest easy now, proud wolf.]]

** It gets sadder. You know how Campbell tells Meryl for most of the game that she's his niece? If you get the bad ending, he actually reveals that [[spoiler: she's his ''daughter'']].

* Snake's matter-of-fact re-telling of killing Big Boss, including TheReveal that Big Boss said he was his father. [[HeroicBSOD It shook Snake enough to leave Foxfound altogether]].

** It gets sadder. You know how Campbell tells Meryl for most of the game that she's his niece? If you get the bad ending, he actually reveals that she's his ''daughter''.

* Naomi was so obsessed avenging her brother, and yet she regrets injecting Snake with FOXDIE. Snake doesn't even deny she has a right to revenge, but he puts the mission first and says he has to destroy Metal Gear REX before he goes.

* The bad ending has Snake, in sheer badassery and manliness breaking down in tears and punching the floor over the fact that he can't protect anyone, and wherever he goes, people around him die.

* The final scene of the game, where Snake tells Naomi that Frank wanted Snake to tell her that he wanted her to move on, and that he'd always love her, while refraining from telling her that Frank killed her parents, knowing fully well what the knowledge would do to her.

* While many of the '"Snake! SNAAAAKE!"' screams you get from the cast when you die border on [[{{Narm}} narm]] and have since almost become [[MemeticMutation a joke unto themselves]], Meryl's screams are gut-wrenching to say the least. They're the kind of helpless, anguished and heartbroken howls you'd expect from a woman who just watched her husband or child get shot dead.

* Those who entered the game with little idea that [[spoiler:there was a bad scenario, when you fail to restrain yourself from the torture, you realize you just killed Meryl. Many played the rest of the game in a depression that they just killed Snake's love interest.]]
** To make things worse, try playing the game and [[spoiler:attempting to resist the torture, but having to surrender because you haven't saved for half of the game, and death there brings instant game over.]]

** It gets sadder. You know how Campbell tells [[spoiler:Meryl]] for most of the game that [[spoiler:she's his niece?]] If you get the bad ending, he actually reveals that [[spoiler:she's his ''daughter'']].

* Gray Fox's [[spoiler:death under the foot of Metal Gear]]. A combination of [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice and RedemptionEqualsDeath.]]
** [[spoiler: His death]] is made even more sad by [[spoiler:Snake finding himself unable to [[MercyKill put him out of his misery]] when he's being held against the wall by Metal Gear]]: [[ControllableHelplessness "It's no good! I can't do it!"]] The line is even better in the original PSX version. [[spoiler: The way Snake says it is out of sheer exasperation and defeat. He wants to end it, but can't bring himself to fire and kill his friend too.]]
*** Right before said scene, Snake sees [[spoiler: Fox trapped on the wall by Metal Gear]] and he cries out Fox's name. But the way Snake cries out his name, it sounds like he can barely keep himself together and is ''holding back tears'' at this point, realizing his best friend is about [[spoiler: to be killed for real]].
* The final scene of the game, where Snake [[spoiler:tells Naomi that Frank wanted Snake to tell her that he wanted her to move on, and that he'd always love her, while refraining from telling her that Frank killed her parents, knowing fully well what the knowledge would do to her]].
* The bad ending has Snake, in sheer badassery and manliness [[spoiler: breaking down in tears and punching the floor over the fact that he can't protect anyone, and wherever he goes, people around him die.]]
** And Otacon consoles him by saying that [[spoiler: he and Sniper Wolf will meet up again in Heaven, so Dave and Meryl will, too.]] Such simple faith, after all the crap that Hal's been through. Such simple faith that people do go on to a better place, and that Snake is good enough to have a happily ever after.

* During Snake's HeroicBSOD over Meryl getting shot and captured, Master Miller tells him during a Codec call, "Stop attacking yourself for things that happened in the past! That road leads to madness. Believe me." Given that Miller [[spoiler: is really Liquid]], it sounds as though [[spoiler: Liquid]] is perfectly aware that what he's doing is wrong, and is voluntarily looking for someone else to blame.

[[caption-width-right:350:[-Rest now, proud wolf. You [[TragicVillain lived a tragic life]] and [[WorthyOpponent died a gallant death]].-]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[-Rest now, proud wolf. You lived a tragic life and [[WorthyOpponent died a gallant death]].-]]]

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* The final scene of the game, where Snake [[spoiler:tells Naomi that Gray Fox told her to move on, while refraining from telling her that Frank killed her parents, knowing fully well what the knowledge would do to her]].

* The final scene of the game, where Snake [[spoiler:tells Naomi that her brother told her to move on and doesn't tell her that Frank killed her parents]].