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* Ruth's poor grandmother. She's bundled into a basement, frightened and confused, the city gets bombed and she suffers the indignity of [[PottyFailure soiling herself]], all the while sobbing about how she feels embarrassed and like a baby. [[FromBadToWorse And then she dies.]] The last we see of her, some looters walk past her rotting corpse complaining about the smell, and it's very strongly implied the rats will eat her - she suffers the gruesome indignity of unburied death.

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* Ruth's poor grandmother. She's bundled into a basement, frightened and confused, the city gets bombed and she suffers the indignity of [[PottyFailure soiling herself]], all the while sobbing about how she feels embarrassed and like a baby. [[FromBadToWorse And then she dies.]] The last we see of her, some looters walk past her rotting corpse complaining about the smell, and it's very strongly implied the rats will eat her - she suffers the gruesome indignity of unburied death.
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* Jimmy's father, seen dealing with the early stages of radiation sickness, is shown sitting under a statue several days after the attack, staring at Michael's handheld videogame console and breaking down the last time the audience sees him.

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* Jimmy's father, seen dealing with the early stages of radiation sickness, is shown sitting under a statue several days after the attack, staring at Michael's handheld videogame console and breaking down down. And this is the last time the audience sees him.
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** As Ruth's poor parents hastily cover up the grandmother's body, Ruth flees the house in terror, leading her mother to break down in sobs at the door.

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* Jimmy's father sitting, staring at Michael's handheld videogame console.
* Ruth finding, and holding onto Jimmy's book until her death.

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* Jimmy's father sitting, father, seen dealing with the early stages of radiation sickness, is shown sitting under a statue several days after the attack, staring at Michael's handheld videogame console.
console and breaking down the last time the audience sees him.
* As shown in the page image, Ruth's walk through the ruins of Sheffield is utterly devoid of music and set against difficult images -- people in the midst of shock, an man whose head is covered in bandages, having a breakdown, and a woman holding the corpse of her child in her arms, looking at Ruth with a ThousandYardStare. And worse yet, this incident causes Ruth to suffer from a HeroicBSOD -- she barely speaks for the rest of the film, being so traumatized by what she saw that she resorts to near-animalistic behavior ''just to survive''.
* Ruth finding, and holding onto onto, Jimmy's book until her death.death 13 years later. Worse yet, Jane doesn't understand the significance of it, and leaves it behind, instead opting to take a hairbrush and scarf as she leaves.
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* The childlike awe with which Bob, Jimmy's friend, reacts to the mushroom cloud over RAF Finningley. He genuinely seems broken by the sight of it.
--> '''Bob:''' Jesus ''Christ'', they've done it. ''[quietly, [[StillSucksThumb holding his thumb to his mouth]]]'' They've done it...

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* Ruth's poor grandmother. She's bundled into a basement, frightened and confused, the city gets bombed and she suffers the indignity of [[PottyFailure soiling herself]], all the while sobbing about how she feels embarrassed and like a baby. [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse And then she dies.]] The last we see of her, some looters walk past her rotting corpse complaining about the smell, and it's very strongly implied the rats will eat her - she suffers the gruesome indignity of unburied death.]]

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* Ruth's poor grandmother. She's bundled into a basement, frightened and confused, the city gets bombed and she suffers the indignity of [[PottyFailure soiling herself]], all the while sobbing about how she feels embarrassed and like a baby. [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse [[FromBadToWorse And then she dies.]] The last we see of her, some looters walk past her rotting corpse complaining about the smell, and it's very strongly implied the rats will eat her - she suffers the gruesome indignity of unburied death.]]



* Might be a good idea to have a box of tissues going in.
* A meta example is that seven years after the film came out Victoria O'Keefe who played Jane (the only main character still alive by the end of the film) died in a car crash at the tragically young age of 21.
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* A meta example is that seven years after the film came out Victoria O'Keefe who played Jane (the only main character still alive by the end of the film) died in a car crash at the tragically young age of 21.
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* Jimmy's father sitting, staring at Michael's handheld videogame.

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* Jimmy's father sitting, staring at Michael's handheld videogame.videogame console.
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* Ruth's poor grandmother. She's bundled into a basement, frightened and confused, the city gets bombed and she suffers the indignity of [[PottyFailure soiling herself]], all the while sobbing about how she feels embarrassed and like a baby. [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse And then she dies.]]]] The last we see of her, some looters walk past her rotting corpse complaining about the smell, and it's very strongly implied the rats will eat her - she suffers the gruesome indignity of unburied death.

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* Ruth's poor grandmother. She's bundled into a basement, frightened and confused, the city gets bombed and she suffers the indignity of [[PottyFailure soiling herself]], all the while sobbing about how she feels embarrassed and like a baby. [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse And then she dies.]]]] ]] The last we see of her, some looters walk past her rotting corpse complaining about the smell, and it's very strongly implied the rats will eat her - she suffers the gruesome indignity of unburied death.]]
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* Ruth's poor grandmother. She's bundled into a basement, frightened and confused, the city gets bombed and she suffers the indignity of [[PottyFailure soiling herself]], all the while sobbing about how she feels embarrassed and like a baby. [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse And then she dies.]]]] The last we see of her, some looters walk past her rotting corpse complaining about the smell, and it's very strongly implied the rats will eat her - she suffers the gruesome indignity of unburied death.
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[[caption-width-right:340: A woman, who has just survived a nuclear bomb, holding her child, [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable who hasn't.]]]]
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* It's really damn hard to not feel terribly at the woman who's so terrified, she wets herself.
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* Similarly, Ruth holding onto one of Jimmy's books as she looks for him in his family's house.

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* Similarly, Ruth finding, and holding onto one of Jimmy's books as she looks for him in his family's house.book until her death.
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* Similarly, Ruth holding onto one of Jimmy's books as she looks for him in his family's house.
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* Might be a good idea to have a box of tissues going in.

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* Most of the entries in the movie's [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Threads}} High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] entry also double as TearJerker.

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* Most of the entries in the movie's [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Threads}} High Octane [[NightmareFuel/{{Threads}} Nightmare Fuel]] entry also double as TearJerker.TearJerker.
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* Jimmy's father sitting, staring at Michael's handheld videogame. Oh, God ...

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* Jimmy's father sitting, staring at Michael's handheld videogame. Oh, God ...
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* Jimmy's father sitting, staring at Michael's handheld videogame. Oh, God ...

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* Jimmy's father sitting, staring at Michael's handheld videogame. Oh, God ...God ...
* Most of the entries in the movie's [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Threads}} High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] entry also double as TearJerker.
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& Jimmy's father sitting, staring at Michael's handheld videogame. Oh, God ...

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& * Jimmy's father sitting, staring at Michael's handheld videogame. Oh, God ...

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