History TearJerker / MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy

* Marsh. Just...''everything'' about [[TheWoobie Marsh.]] To summarize: Sees the woman he's in love with choose his younger brother over him, loses faith in LaResistance and leaves it, both his brother and the woman he's in love with get shipped off to the most brutal place in the Empire where the woman dies, his brother comes back and [[spoiler: also dies, but not before leading LaResistance to defeat the Lord Ruler while Marsh himself gets turned into a horrifically inhuman thing in what is implied to be a very traumatic experience, gets slowly driven insane by the evil god trying to destroy the world, basically becomes a MeatPuppet with ''just'' enough willpower to [[AndIMustScream remain aware of the atrocities he's committing]], and suffers an enormous amount of pain [[DrivenToSuicide trying to get himself killed]] so it will just all ''end''.]] [[spoiler: [[ThrowTheDogABone He ultimately survives the next 300 years, and works alongside [[PhysicalGod Harmony]] to protect Scadrial]].]]

* Marsh. Just...''everything'' about [[TheWoobie Marsh.]] To summarize: Sees the woman he's in love with choose his younger brother over him, loses faith in LaResistance and leaves it, both his brother and the woman he's in love with get shipped off to the most brutal place in the Empire where the woman dies, his brother comes back and [[spoiler: also dies, but not before leading LaResistance to defeat the Lord Ruler while Marsh himself gets turned into a horrifically inhuman thing in what is implied to be a very traumatic experience, gets slowly driven insane by the evil god trying to destroy the world, basically becomes a MeatPuppet with ''just'' enough willpower to [[AndIMustScream remain aware of the atrocities he's committing]], and suffers an enormous amount of pain [[DrivenToSuicide trying to get himself killed]] so it will just all ''end''.]] [[spoiler: [[ThrowTheDogABone He ultimately survives the next 300 years, and works alongside [[PhysicalGod Harmony]] to protect Scadrial]].

* Marsh. Just...''everything'' about [[TheWoobie Marsh.]] To summarize: Sees the woman he's in love with choose his younger brother over him, loses faith in LaResistance and leaves it, both his brother and the woman he's in love with get shipped off to the most brutal place in the Empire where the woman dies, his brother comes back and [[spoiler: also dies, but not before leading LaResistance to defeat the Lord Ruler while Marsh himself gets turned into a horrifically inhuman thing in what is implied to be a very traumatic experience, gets slowly driven insane by the evil god trying to destroy the world, basically becomes a MeatPuppet with ''just'' enough willpower to [[AndIMustScream remain aware of the atrocities he's committing]], and suffers an enormous amount of pain [[DrivenToSuicide trying to get himself killed]] so it will just all ''end''.]]

** [[spoiler: That's not the saddest part. The saddest part is that Secret History reveals that Sazed could have brought them back if Elend had waited just a bit longer to go Beyond. He can't bring people back from beyond, but he can bring people who haven't gone yet. As a Lerasium-derived allomancer, Elend could wait for about ten minutes, and as a fullblown Shardholder Vin could stick around for as long as she wanted. If Elend had waited a bit longer, they could have had their happily ever after on Scandrial.]]
* During Book Four of ''Well of Ascension'', the older members of the thieving crew have decided that [[spoiler:The siege of Luthadel]] is doomed to failure as [[spoiler:Lord Cett's]] army retreats and [[spoiler:the Koloss]] approach, and make a plan to [[LastStand preserve the lives of the younger members of the crew]] by distracting [[spoiler:Lord Straff]] for long enough. It's a very bittersweet moment as Kelsier's handpicked resign themselves to death, and yet stand by their honor to the last.

** [[spoiler: That's not the saddest part. The saddest part is that Secret History reveals that Sazed could have brought them back if Elend had waited just a bit longer to go Beyond. He can't bring people back from beyond, but he can bring people who haven't gone yet. As a Lerasium-derived allomancer, Elend could wait for about ten minutes, and as a fullblown Shardholder Vin could stick around for as long as long as she wanted. If Elend had waited a bit longer, they could have had their happily ever after on Scandrial.]]

* During Book Four of ''Well of Ascension'', the older members of the thieving crew have decided that [[spoiler:The siege of Luthadel]] is doomed to failure as [[spoiler:Lord Cett's]] army retreats and [[spoiler:the Koloss]] approach, and make a plan to [[LastStand preserve the lives of the younger members of the crew]] by distracting [[spoiler:Lord Straff]] for long enough. It's a very bittersweet moment as Kelsier's handpicked resign themselves to death, and yet stand by their honor to the last.

* Also heartwarming, but in the epilogue of ''Hero of Ages'', Spook discovering the bodies of [[spoiler:Vin and Elend]], their hands clasped together. Bonus points to Sazed, who [[spoiler:tried to bring them back, but found that even the powers of Godhood couldn't do that]].
* During Book Four of ''Well of Ascension'', the older members of the thieving crew have decided that [[spoiler:The siege of Luthadel]] is doomed to failure as [[spoiler:Lord Cett's]] army retreats and [[spoiler:the Koloss]] approach, and make a plan to [[LastStand preserve the lives of the younger members of the crew]] by distracting [[spoiler:Lord Straff]] for long enough. It's a very bittersweet moment as Kelseir's handpicked resign themselves to death, and yet stand by their honor to the last.

* During Book Four of ''Well of Ascension'', the older members of the thieving crew have decided that [[spiler:The siege of Luthadel]] is doomed to failure as [[spoilter:Lord Cett's]] army retreats and [[spoiler:the Koloss]] approach, and make a plan to preserve the lives of the younger members of the crew by [[LastStand distracting [[spoiler:Lord Straff]] for long enough]]. It's a very bittersweet moment as Kelseir's handpicked resign themselves to death, and yet stand by their honor to the last.

* Also heartwarming, but in the epilogue of ''Hero of Ages'', Spook discovering the bodies of [[spoiler:Vin and Elend]], their hands clasped together. Bonus points to Sazed, who [[spoiler:tried to bring them back, but found that even the powers of Godhood couldn't do that]].

* Also heartwarming, but in the epilogue of ''Hero of Ages'', Spook discovers the bodies of [[spoiler:Vin and Elend]], their hands clasped together. Bonus points to Sazed, who [[spoiler:tried to bring them back, but found that even the powers of Godhood couldn't do that]].