History TearJerker / SteinsGate

** [[spoiler: Mayuri's ending may be the most bittersweet. Okabe accepts that he cannot save both Kurisu and Mayuri, and has to make a decision to sacrifice one of them. Mayuri realizes what is happening at the last minute and rushes to the train station, where she tearfully begs Kurisu not to leave because she knows it's the last time she'll ever see her. Kurisu leaves anyways. Doubles as a heartwarming moment, though, since Mayuri [[LoveConfession declares her love for Okabe]] in both worlds and Okabe declares he never wants to be apart from her.]]

** [[spoiler: Mayuri's ending may be the most bittersweet. Okabe accepts that he cannot save both Kurisu and Mayuri, and has to make a decision to sacrifice one of them. Mayuri realizes what is happening at the last minute and rushes to the train station, where she tearfully begs Kurisu not to leave because she knows it's the last time she'll ever see her. Kurisu leaves anyways. Doubles as a heartwarming moment, though, since Mayuri [[DeclarationOfLove declares her love for Okabe]] in both worlds and Okabe declares he never wants to be apart from her.]]

* Finding out [[spoiler: Suzuha's fate after she goes to 1975.]]

** [[spoiler: Mayuri's ending may be the most bittersweet. Okabe accepts that he cannot save both Kurisu and Mayuri, and has to make a decision to sacrifice one of them. Mayuri realizes what is happening at the last minute and rushes to the train station, where she tearfully begs Kurisu not to leave because she knows it's the last time she'll ever see her. Kurisu leaves anyways. Doubles as a heartwarming moment, though, since Mayuri declares her love for Okabe in both worlds and Okabe declares he never wants to be apart from her.]]

* Ruka [[spoiler: being forced to give up her feelings for Okabe in order to save Mayuri.]]

*** [[spoiler:And, recreating the scene in episode 22, Kurisu runs back to say she loves him, just as he disappears. She starts openly weeping, and it takes all her will to even remember his name.]]
* In both the VisualNovel and the anime, Ruka [[spoiler: being forced to give up her feelings for Okabe in order to save Mayuri.]]

* All of the alternate endings. These range from bittersweet to plain downer endings, but it does make the true ending that much sweeter.
* From TheMovie. Oh boy, where to start with this:

** First of all, there's the entire premise, which is [[spoiler:Okabe disappearing from the world and nobody remembering him.]]

*** [[spoiler:Shippai shita, Shippai shita, Shippai shita, Shippai shita! And the line scrawled down the page at the end.]] That got this troper good.

* Before the first half ended, Okabe revealed that he only created the Lab because he couldn't make friends, and that now, he has a lot of friends. Just a little tinge at my eyes, promise.

* All of the alternate endings. These range from bittersweet to plain downer endings, but it does make the true ending that much sweeter.

** His own nickname, and calling Mayuri his "hostage"? [[spoiler:Both were inspired by watching a TV show as a child with Mayuri.]] His mad scientist persona? [[spoiler:He created it subconsciously to entertain Mayuri. Literally every action we see him do in the game and anime are all for the closest and longest-lasting friend he ever had, and she dies! .... more than once, to him!!! God...]]

* Before the first half ended, Okabe revealed that he only created the Lab because he couldn't make friends, and that now, he has a lot of friends. Just a little tinge at my eyes, promise.

** [[RousingSpeech "The battle of Ragnarok is now over!]] [[LargeHam I, the mad scientist, Hououin Kyouma, faced with assaults mounted by the Organisation]] ''[[LargeHam and]]'' [[LargeHam CERN, have achieved complete victory by manipulating time and space itself!]] [[BadassBoast The world's power structure has been reset, and a future of chaos awaits!]] '[[PyrrhicVictory 'This]]'' [[BreakTheCutie is the choice of Steins;Gate!"]]

* Near the end of episode 22. Okabe has [[spoiler:saved Mayuri]]. However, this means that [[spoiler:Kurisu, who had just admitted her love for him after he admitted his love for her, is dead]]. He tries to announce that the operation is finished, and that he is the great [[LargeHam mad scientist Hououin Kyouma]], but his voice shakes, and you can ''see'' the overwhelming despair in him…Good God, I'm crying ''with'' you, Okabe!

* The first part of episode 23. Okabe has [[spoiler:saved Mayuri]]. However, this means that [[spoiler:Kurisu, who had just admitted her love for him after he admitted his love for her, is dead]]. He tries to announce that the operation is finished, and that he is the great [[LargeHam mad scientist Hououin Kyouma]], but his voice shakes, and you can ''see'' the overwhelming despair in him…Good God, I'm crying ''with'' you, Okabe!

* Another example overlapping with a CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming is the last scene of episode 25. [[spoiler:"Close your eyes". Cut to black.]]

*** Also, while at her grandmother's grave, [[spoiler: when it is revealed she can hazily recall each time she's been killed.]]

* Episode 13. You won't be able to hold all your emotions.
* Episode 17 when we find out just what Rumiho sent in her D-mail.
* Episode 21 where [[spoiler:Rinatro tries to prevent Mayuri's death without returning to the original timeline only for her to die again when she prevents his death. As she dies in his arms yet again, she reaches up to the stars and says she's glad she was able to be useful to him.]]
** Also, while at her grandmother's grave, [[spoiler: when it is revealed she can hazily recall each time she's been killed.]]

** Also, while at her grandmother's grave, when it is revealed she can hazily recall each time she's been killed.

** How about a few episodes later when [[spoiler: Okabe realises that to save Mayuri, he has to undo the D-mail that prevented Kurisu from dying? He spends the next couple of episodes (and a few more time loops where Mayuri dies) trying to TakeAThirdOption - and ultimately failing. The ultimate TearJerker comes when, having during this spilled the entire story to Kurisu herself, the two of them conclude that the only way to save Mayuri is to delete the D-mail; before contacting Daru to crack SERN's database and do just that, Okabe finally confess that he loves Kurisu, who responds by kissing him. Kurisu then apparently leaves on the train so as to avoid having to say goodbye to any of the others... only to run back to the lab and confess that she loves Okabe in return just as they are deleting the D-mail.]] ManlyTears all round.

** Episode 13. You won't be able to hold all your emotions.

* TearJerker: The second half of episode 16 delivers them one after another: