History TearJerker / Redwall

* "Whurr be moi ol' nuncle Burrley? Burrhurrhurrhurr..."
** The quote itself is from when Drooney, a baby mole, cries for his Uncle Burrley, who had just passed away. Thurggan comforts the poor thing, saying his uncle had to leave but will return some sunny season. D'awww.

** Also, think about it: Polleekin ''knew''. She said that a bad fate would befall them if they were to return to Marshank, but she refused to say what [[FatalFlaw in case she was wrong]]. Still, they left with every intention of going back there, and that makes Rose's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ69JvYgUVI last song to Polleekin]] especially sad.

** Worse; what if she ''did'' know she was right and Rose would definitely die, but also knew the horrors that would happen in Mossflower if Martin never left to found Redwall?

* Finbarr sails off on the calm sea...

* Skarlath's death. For bonus points, there's the build-up as Nightshade prepares to shoot him.

** To drive the point home, the recorder of Redwall in the story, Rollo, orders St. Ninian's Church to be burned down because it was reduced to a hovel of evil by previous villains, mainly Cluny and Slagar. The latter of whom was responsible for his mother's death in ''Mattimeo''.

* Russa's death. Especially Tammo's reaction.

* The deaths of Fleetscut and Jukka, having finally made up with each other only to abruptly die defending the cellars of Salamandastron. It hits especially hard since Fleetscut had been a main character up to this point.

* Rillflag's death and Deyna's kidnapping. This was just outright tragic. Imagine you just met your baby brother, your father takes him into the woods. Never returns, you assume both are dead (For the equivalent of 15 years) The fact that Mhera and Filorn cried for a week straight. You would have to have a heart made of solid ice not to cry reading those chapters.

* The death of Methuselah, particularly in the TV series.

* Log-a-Log's death, espicially in the animated series.

** All of this is summed up at the end, when Luke returns home and finds that his clan has been attacked and taken into slavery. The man ran out in a captured boat with no nautical experience in his quest for revenge, and now he's been taken as an oar slave and has lost his entire family without him there to defend them.

* Felldoh's death. He goes down fighting, beating Badrang up first, and then after Badrang calls upon a dozen of his horde to help, Felldoh takes several with him. After he dies, his friends honor him yet at the same time admit what he did was foolish. Though if Badrang had kept his promise to fight him one-on-one, Felldoh would have easily killed him and ended the book 10 chapters early.

* Abbot Mortimer's death. He's basically been Matthias' ParentalSubstitute and it leave the victory with a bittersweet tinge.

* Spriggat the hedgehog's death. Especially his last words about going to find a green forest filed with flying insects.

** Shortly after he dies, Sunflash grabs a leaf and blows on it to make the whistling sound that was always their call to meet before dropping it in the river. At that point you just wanna jump in the book and give the guy a big hug...

[[AC: The Long Patrol]]

* Russa's death. Especially Tammo's reaction.

* The slaughter of Luke's tribe, including his wife, happens ''two days'' after Martin was born. He lost his mother that young.

[[AC:Marlfox]]
* When the tapestry is stolen, Rusvul lights into his son Dann and accuses him both of shirking his duty by playing games, and cowardice. Dann, who was already suffering from a pretty bad case of WellDoneSonGuy, is devastated.

* Cregga's death, especially coupled with the dying visions she has of her old Long Patrol and the song of a triumphant, long-gone battle that's being sung at the time.

* The passing mention of the map being from the "ancient time" of Matthias. Two books ago, the story of how Matthias killed Cluny was common knowledge. Now, one realizes that Matthias, and by extension, everyone in the every book set prior to it, has faded into legend, and may be almost entirely forgotten.

* There's a subdued one in this book where Martin and company find a dead, elderly searat near his camp on the beach. Their first response is to speak to him respectfully while trying to help him; after they realize he's gone, they give him a proper burial before making use of his shelter and supplies. This is very sad in its own right, but when one takes into account the later books' stock response to a vermin death, "Save your tears, that one won't be hurting anyone else", it's absolutely heartwrenching.

** Note the wound on Gingivere's head. Gingivere has shown to be an ActualPacifist, so it's very unlikely that he would have put up a fight when he was being arrested. It's unclear whether Tsarmina or one of her underlings injured him, but whoever it was, it could only have been [[KickTheDog for the sake of cruelty]].

* Verdauga's death and Gingivere's subsequent imprisonment. As if losing his father wasn't traumatic enough, Gingivere is framed for killing him by his own sister, Tsarmina. Tsarmina has her troops march Gingivere down to a cell deep in the dungeon where no one can talk to him. Martin (who was imprisoned by Verdauga, but treated fairly well while in the dungeon) watches as Gingivere is carried away, leading to this harrowing scene:
-->"Led by Tsarmina, a mob of soldiers carrying torches marched down the corridor, Ashleg and Fortunata visible among them. As they passed the cell door, Martin glimpsed the stunned face of the gentle wildcat Gingivere. He was bound in chains. Blood trickled from a wound on his head. Their eyes met for a second, then he was swept by in the surge of angry soldiers, their faces distorted in the flickering torchlight as they chanted 'Murderer, murderer! Kill the murderer!'"