History TearJerker / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles

-->'''Splinter:''' All fathers care for their sons. (He trails off, clearly thinking about the turtles.)

* The ending to "New Friend, old Enemy"

* The fate of Master Splinter's owner Yoshi, poor sap.''

** And when they return to April's, for once they really do seem like lost, scared teenage boys who need someone to turn to.

* Seeing the guys cry after getting a message via AstralProjection from Splinter.

** Given a gut-wrenching ShoutOut in the CGI film when Leo and Raph have their showdown on the rooftop. Raph nearly ''kills'' Leo before [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing what he almost did]] and runs off in tears. Leo is immediately captured after that, Raph returning just after he is taken. Raph is the most adamant about recovering Leo, and the reconciliation between the two is a prime source of ManlyTears.

-->'''Splinter:''' [[SoProudOfYou I am proud of you, my sons.]] Tonight you have learned the final and greatest truth of the Ninja: that ultimate mastery comes not from the body, but from the mind. Together, there is nothing your four minds cannot accomplish. Help each other, draw upon one another, and always remember the power that binds you. The same is what brought me here tonight, that which I gladly return with my final words: I love you all, my sons.

-->'''Danny:''' My dad could care less about me.

-->'''Splinter:''' All fathers care for their sons.(He trails off, clearly thinking about the turtles.)

** As if that weren't enough we see a pre-mutated Splinter holding his dead master's hand in grief. Any other rat in his situation would simply eat the corpse, but this one loved him.

* The fate of Master Splinter's owner Yoshi, poor sap.

* When they learn the truth of their origin in the second movie: they are essentially 4 orphans who have made a family with their adopted father, and upon learning the truth of where they came from are told quite bluntly by the equivalent of their biological father that they were accidents and were never supposed to have existed in the first place. Ouch.

* When they learn the truth of their origin in the second movie: they are essentially 4 orphans who have made a family with their adopted father, and upon learning the truth of where they came from are told quite bluntly by the equivilent of their biological father that they were accidents and were never supposed to have existed in the first place. Ouch.

* Spilnter's flashback to the death of Tang Shen and his loss of Miwa.

** Given a gut-wrenching ShoutOut in the CGI film when Leo and Raph have their showdown on the rooftop. Raph nearly ''kills'' Leo before [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing what he almost did]] and runs off in tears. Leo is immediately captured after that, Raph returning just after he is taken. Raph is hte most adamant about recovering Leo, and the reconciliation between the two is a prime source of ManlyTears.

** Given a gut-wrenching ShoutOut in the CGI film when Leo and Raph have their showdown on the rooftop. Raph nearly ''kills' Leo before [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing what he almost did]] and runs off in tears. Leo is immediately captured after that, Raph returning just after he is taken. Raph is hte most adamant about recovering Leo, and the reconciliation between the two is a prime source of ManlyTears.

* Leo and Raph's argument. It seems to be a RunningGag since Donnie and Mikey head straight for the kitchen. However it becomes less comical after Raph is knocked unconscious and Leo is fending the foot off long enough so they escape to a hideout. As they hide, Leo stays by Raph's side until he wakes up. It doubles as heartwarming but you can feel the guilt Leo is going through since his brother almost died after their fight. When Raph wakes up he is most overjoyed.

[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 The Nickelodeon Cartoon]]

* The ending to "The Gauntlet"

* The fate of Master Splinters' owner Yoshi, poor sap.

* Seeing the guy's cry after getting a meassage via AstralProjection from Splinter.

'''[[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles The Mirage Comics]]'''

'''[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'''

* [[LastofHisKind Sons Of the Silent Age]], full stop. It takes place shortly after the Shredders death, with the Turtles feeling restless and aimless, not to mention having the Foot swearing revenge against them, which would continue to haunt them for some time. While on a rafting trip down a river with Casey and April, [[spoiler: they encounter a dying fishlike humanoid covered in radiation burns from the nearby nuclear plant, who communicates mentally with April, and reveals that she is the last female of her kind. The other four remaining humanoids, four males, soon show up and fight the Turtles, thinking they are hurting the female, but the fight fizzles out after she dies. The four takes her body back with them to the waters, doomed to extinction.]] The End.
** And thats not even mentioning the comparison the story draws between the four remaining humanoids, and the Turtles, both doomed to extinction.

* The liveaction movie Shredder really likes to twist the knife in the wound whenever he gets an opportunity. It don't matter who, as long as he gets the chance.

** And thats not even mentioning the comparison the story draws between the four remaining humanoids, and the Turtles, both doomed to extinction.

* Dark Shadows. Full stop. It's set in a BadFuture with Casey Jones' adopted daughter Shadow as a scarred, hardened warrior on a flooded earth. She seeks out Raphael, her apparent ninjutsu instructor, in an attempt to unleash her rage on him and almost kill him, and Raphael expounds that what ultimately drove the family apart was something SHADOW did to Donatello (it isn't explained what), and she takes out his eye before choosing to spare him. [[spoiler:Then it shows that this is all a vision shown to present day Raph by Time Mistress Renet - as the GOOD outcome. If Raphael doesn't train her in ninjutsu and set her down this path, she'll die at the age of 23 at the hands of The Foot. Raph makes the decision to train her.]]