History TearJerker / WolfensteinTheNewOrder

* One of the Letters the player can find tells the story of Father Erdmann, a German [[TheMissionary Christian Missionary]] sent to Peru to convert the locals, there he befriends the locals and learns the legend of Pishtaku, a white skinned murderer inspired by [[EvilColonialist the Conquistadors]], after a squad of Nazi Soldiers arrives and purges the tribe the priest has a HeroicBSoD due to the similarity between the legend and reality and decides to venture into the jungle in the hope of finding possible survivors from the tribe, despite the fact that by this point both the Nazis and the natives alike consider him a traitor and will both probably kill him on sight.

** Even the otherwise hilarious [[spoiler: [[NostalgiaLevel Nightmare level]]]] becomes this with BJ's intro line:

* [[spoiler: B.J's heartbreaking ThousandYardStare as he's ForcedToWatch either Fergus or Wyatt being vivisected by Deathshead after being [[SadisticChoice forced to choose which one for him]]. Much later (''fourteen'' years later) after B.J's rescues the survivor, they suffer a [[HeroicBSOD break]][[SurvivorGuilt down]], agonizes over mistakes made over fourteen years still fighting, [[TheChainsOfCommanding including the death of Prendergast]], and angrily tells B.J. he should have saved the ''other'' one. Wyatt feels Fergus could have led them better, and Fergus feels like Wyatt could have given the Circle a future that he can't due to his growing age.]]

* The entirety of Chapter 15. [[spoiler: HQ is in flames, Anya, Set, and Bombate have been captured by Frau Engel]]. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhUINujrrwY music]] doesn't help much matters either. Let's talk about what else happens, shall we?
** If Fergus was saved at the start: [[spoiler: Tekla's death. Thanks to her smarts, she's been able to calculate the exact time, date and how many Nazis she will take with her before her death. After B.J. meets up with her, he attempts to Tekla to come along but she declines because she feels that YouCantFightFate. But her last words are what really hurts]].
--> [[spoiler:'''Tekla''']]: I am glad. To have found a friend.
** If Wyatt was saved at the start: [[spoiler: J's death is a mix of this and awesome. He knows he's never to escape the horrors of the world and for all his life, he had to be quiet. But in his final moments, he decides to say "Screw it" and blare the Star Spangled Banner for all of Berlin to hear. It even makes the very concrete shake!]]
--> [[spoiler:'''J''']]: This moment. Right now. It's gonna be LOUD...
** The final letter you're able to find in the base [[spoiler: because it's being sacked]] is a weird cross between this and Funny - it's in Max's room, and simply has "MAX" repeated all over the page.
** The [[spoiler:immense amount of art collected and saved from the Nazi's that you see all over the HQ is lost. Burned to ashes.]]
** [[spoiler:Klaus meeting his end. Despite his less than picture perfect past and standoffish attitude towards B.J., [[https://youtu.be/N4ZPzA5JAyM his parting words to his adoptive son Max]] are ''heartbreaking''.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Klaus''']]: I wish ...you could see. The strength within you.
** [[spoiler: Made only worse when you listen to his last words, they are about how he is alone in the world, about how everyone is alone, and Max must fight now, use the strength he has to help change things, it gives the impression that Klaus [[NoPlaceForMeThere never figured he would be going towards a world free from the Nazis.]]]]

** Remember Milo, the man who you reunited with his wife after they escaped the Belica labor camp? [[spoiler:You can find their corpses on a mattress on the second floor of HQ, with a pistol by their side [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled suggesting they both took the easy way out]].]]
* B.J. and Anya's final moment together. [[spoiler:Even though they love each other, there's no way either of them can live normal, peaceful lives as long as there are Nazis to kill, and B.J. has all but accepted that he will likely die in the upcoming battle against Deathshead, and Anya will be [[TakeUpMySword taking up his knives]] in the war to come.]]

--> '''B.J.''': I believe so too. [[spoiler:But not for me and you.]]

* [[spoiler: The whole fight against Deathshead's prototype robot, which is piloted by the brain of whomever you sacrificed at the very beginning of the game, either Wyatt or Fergus.]]
-->[[spoiler: ''"[[ItHasBeenAnHonor Private, it was an honor. To serve by your side]]."'']]
-->[[spoiler: ''"I'll see you soon, Fergus. In a better place than this."'']]
** Oh, and just to add on to that, you'll get to hear these lines as [[spoiler: Deathshead's prototype robot fights you:]]
--->[[spoiler: ''"Captain Blazkowicz. Kill. Me. Please."'']]
--->[[spoiler: ''"I. Am. Sorry. Captain."'']]
*** [[spoiler: Finally, even B.J.'s journal conveys how desperate he is to [[MercyKill end Wyatt/Fergus' suffering]].]]
*** You also get to hear [[spoiler:a final line of dialogue from Fergus/Wyatt, directly before BJ's parting words.]]
-->'''BJ''': [[spoiler:Fergus/Wyatt...you in there?]]
-->'''Fergus''': [[spoiler:Blazkowicz. A nightmare, this. Trapped in this damned machine. Got no control of my actions. End this. Please. Let me die.]]
-->'''Wyatt''': [[spoiler:Captain. I tried. So sorry I shot at you. I have no control over my actions. Cannot live like this. You have to put an end to it.]]
* The ending of the game. [[spoiler: B.J. has finally trapped Deathshead, dragged him out of the wreckage of the Mech suit the villain was piloting and is stabbing the man when suddenly Deathshead detonates a hand grenade, ripping a chunk of B.J's leg off. Alone and with a rainstorm pouring down, B.J. drags himself to the edge of the roof to make sure that his friends have reached the escape helicopters]].

'''Fergus[=/=]Wyatt''': Blazko? Do you read?/Can you hear me Captain? [[spoiler: Am I clear to fire?\\
'''B.J.''': [[HeroicSacrifice You're clear]].]]
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiTn4j7gVvY song]] that plays during the credits will inspire [[ManlyTears man tears]] for some. [[spoiler: [[TheStinger And towards the ending]], one can hear the approaching sound of helicopter rotors, likely indicating that NoOneGetsLeftBehind.]]

* The diary entries read to us by Anya from the chapters in the Sewer/Weapons Depot onward increasingly become this as it [[spoiler:becomes more and more clear that these are actually ''Anya's'' entries and not those of a relative, as she claims. Some are [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome awesome]] as Anya details varying methods of killing Nazis, but others are utterly sad as she details the fall of her country to the Nazis and how people accept it. She even starts to loathe her parents and how they are powerless to do anything other than what the Nazis want, and feels desperately alone in her resistance, until B.J. comes along]].

* Deathshead trying to convince BJ that his experiments are all for the good, since he's trying to cure mental disabilities. He then immediately drops that down the stairs by letting slip that he finds disabled people repulsive and he has no compassion towards them. Such conditions ''can't'' be cured without-surprise!-invasive medical experimentation that we as a species have decided aren't worth performing exactly because of monstrous sociopaths just like Doctor Wilhelm "Totenkoph" Strausse using them as an excuse to torment society's most vulnerable members.

** The chatter between Fergus and the OSA Command on Wyatt's plane is no better. Upon realizing the murderous weight of the situation, Fergus demanded that the Allied Command should abort the operation given that the operation's forces have been easily slaughtered down by the Nazi forces. The response? ''The OSA Command demanded them to continue their attack despite the obvious losses'', stating that this was Allied Forces' last chance to take down Deathshead. The situation was desperate enough that even the Allied high command refused their own forces' demand to abort the operation.

** As he stands above the corpses of Anya's parents after he kills the Nazi that murdered them and the patients that happened to be in the room.

*** Before this, he watched Anya's father get forced into the same SadisticChoice repeatedly over the course of 14 years - either sign over patients to Deathshead, or he and his family would personally suffer the consequences.

** Even the otherwise hilarious [[spoiler: [[EmbeddedPrecursor Nightmare level]]]] becomes this with BJ's intro line:

* When B.J. and Anya first arrive at her grandparents house, B.J. drags Keller out of the trunk to receive a [[NeverMessWithGranny slap-down from Anya's grandma]]. While funny, this scene manages to be at the same time heartbreaking as you hear Olenka break down into some truly horrific sobs. You can really feel her despair and anger coming through due to some triple-A voice-acting.

-->'''Fergus''': [[spoiler:Blaskowicz. A nightmare, this. Trapped in this damned machine. Got no control of my actions. End this. Please. Let me die.]]

** The song itself states that the singer believes in all the good and pure things that make life worth it, but she can't have any of it. [[DespairEventHorizon Not even God listening to her prayers or so much as a beautiful day.]] Blascowitz feels much the same way.

-->[[spoiler: ''"Private, it was an honor. To serve by your side."'']]

-->'''B.J.''': (''Watching as Anya escorts the prisoners onto the helicopter'') A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name - Mother of Exiles. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me."\\

** Slightly helped by the fact that he'd have died anyways if he were that far gone, even if you had given him the medicune.

** Oh, and just to add on to that, you'll get to hear this line as [[spoiler: Deathshead's prototype robot fights you:]]

-->'''Wyatt''': [[spoiler:Captain. I tried. So sorry I shot at you. I have no control of my actions. Cannot live like this. You have to put an end to it.]]

* The woman in Belica who asks you to get medicine for her husband. No matter how quickly you get it and come back, it will always be too late. You come back to the barracks to see her crying beside his corpse. This part really hit me because it's the only time in the game when you really are helpless to stop or fix something. The correlation to real people dying just before they could be saved just makes it hurt even more.

* It's a small but significant moment in the campaign but while sneaking around the apartments in Berlin you can hear a mother talking to the local police. She caught her son trying on her makeup and fears he might be gay or otherwise. She fears what will happen to her and the rest of her family so much she wants to ''turn her own son into the authorities'' even if it will most likely lead to his torture and/or execution.

** The entire prologue mission counts as this. Being sent on the last desperate attempt from the Allied Forces to mount an aerial assault on Deathshead's compound, suffering ''immense casualties'' from left and right as they are being curb-stomped by the superior enemy...

---> "Dreaming. Strange dreams. The killing never stops. [[AndMilesToGoBeforeISleep 'Til I die]]."

---> No one should be made to die like ''this''.

'''B.J.''': [[TheNeedsOfTheMany You're clear]].]]

* The ending of the game. [[spoiler: B.J. has finally trapped Deathshead, dragged him out of the wreckage of the Mech suit the villain was piloting and is stabbing the man when suddenly Deathshead detonates a hand grenade, ripping a chunk of B.J's leg off. Alone and with a rainstorm pouring down, B.J. drags himself to the edge of the roof, makes sure that his friends have reached the escape helicopters and when he's asked whether to send the nuke in, he gives the affirmative as he slowly bleeds to death]].

* [[spoiler: B.J's heartbreaking ThousandYardStare as he's ForcedToWatch either Fergus or Wyatt being vivisected by Deathshead after being [[SadisticChoice forced to choose which one for him]]. Much later (''fourteen'' years later) after B.J's rescues the survivor, they suffer a [[HeroicBSOD break]][[SurvivorGuilt down]], agonises over mistakes made over fourteen years still fighting, [[TheChainsOfCommanding including the death of Prendergast]], and angrily tells B.J. he should have saved the ''other'' one. Wyatt feels Fergus could have led them better, and Fergus feels like Wyatt could have given the Circle a future that he can't due to his growing age.]]

--> '''Wyatt''': You made a '''stupid''' choice, yes you did! ''You put a boy in charge of a man's work!!!''

* [[spoiler: B.J's heartbreaking ThousandYardStare as he's ForcedToWatch either Fergus or Wyatt being vivisected by Deathshead after being [[SadisticChoice forced to choose which one for him]]. Much later (''fourteen'' years later) after B.J's rescues the survivor, they suffer a [[HeroicBSOD break]][[SurvivorGuilt down]], agonises over mistakes made over fourteen years still fighting, [[TheChainsOfCommanding including the death of Prendergast]], and angrily tells B.J. he should have saved the ''other'' one. Wyatt feels Fergus could have lead them better, and Fergus feels like Wyatt could have given the Circle a future that he can't due to his growing age.]]

* Going back to the hideout in Chapter 7 following Bobby's HeroicSacrifice has a letter he'd written to his (long-dead) wife and daughter tucked beneath his pillow. The next time you're at the hideout, you find the last letter he'd received from his wife.
* The entirety of Chapter 15. [[spoiler:HQ is in flames, Anya, Set and Bombate have been captured by Frau Engel]]. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhUINujrrwY music]] doesn't help much matters either. Let's talk about what else happens, shall we?
** If Fergus was saved at the start: [[spoiler:Tekla's death. Thanks to her smarts, she's been able to calculate the exact time, date and how many Nazis she will take with her before her death. After B.J. meets up with her, he attempts to Tekla to come along but she declines because she feels that YouCantFightFate. But her last words are what really hurts]].

** If Wyatt was saved at the start: [[spoiler:J's death is a mix of this and awesome. He knows he's never to escape the horrors of the world and for all his life, he had to be quiet. But in his final moments, he decides to say "Screw it" and blare the Star Spangled Banner for all of Berlin to hear. It even makes the very concrete shake!]]
--> [[spoiler:'''J''']]: This moment. Right now. It's gonna be LOUD....