History TearJerker / YuGiOh

** Bonus points for it being the first time anything like that ever happening to poor Yugi, though not the last.
** Extra points for it being the first time we get to see Yami so heartbroken, though it won't be the last time we see that either.

''Kaiba:''' Hmpf! "Eternal"... "spirit"... Religion and superstition are built from people wishing those things were true. But meanwhile, science and technology prove that they don’t exist. ''There are no such thing as miracles!'' Well, Ishizu... I lent him a hand, as you wished… but all this will prove is that ''miracles don't happen''. If Yugi loses... If your brother Marik cannot be saved... Will you sink to the depths of despair? Mheh heh heh...\\

* In the end, all Pegasus wanted was Kaiba Corp's more advanced hologram technology to revive Cyndia. The manga emphasizes just how futile it is. Pegasus wants his loved one back, but he can't get her back. He tries anyway, and in the end, he is only chasing after an illusion. Pegasus doesn't know what he truly wants anymore.
* After telling Yugi his back-story, one may think he's finally redeemed and was let go from receiving the Penalty Game from Yugi... But then [[spoiler:Dark Bakura steals his Millennium Eye while mocking him by leaving a replica of it behind, leaving Pegasus to die, but allowing him to reunite with Cyndia again.]]
* Ryuji's backstory: his father, Mr. Clown, was abusive and revenge obsessed. The only reason for Ryuji's existence was to exact revenge on Yugi for his father, and was raised to hate him. When Ryuji realizes that his hatred for Yugi is non-existent and renounces it, Mr. Clown not only hammers in that now Ryuji is now worthless, he reveals that he plans on killing him as well.

* Right after the [[spoiler:Yugi vs. possessed Jounouchi]] duel: [[spoiler: Tea, Tristan, and Serenity catch up to Yugi and Joey right after the incident, with Joey, rather than being happy to see his sister, being deeply ashamed of himself that he almost killed his best friend. After Mai attempts to slap him out of it (no pun intended), Serenity takes off her bandages after explaining how Mai told her about everything Joey did for her in Duelist Kingdom, and finally getting the courage to open her eyes and her vision gradually fades in to see Joey.]]

** An understated tearjerking moment from Ishizu is when she goes to comfort Serenity as they watch over Joey's body.

!!Yu-Gi-Oh Manga and Anime

!!Manga Only

!!Anime Only

* The final duel of the series, in the anime, has a moment from Seto Kaiba. After choking Yugi to the point of leaving him gasping for air when he wanted to duel the Pharaoh, and almost walking out on the duel when he was losing, Kaiba is left completely stunned when Yugi destroys the Egyptian God Cards after spending an episode repelling them.

* In the anime, just as the door to the afterlife starts to close, Tea runs forward in tears, but Joey silently holds her back and shakes his head.

* Honda's DisneyDeath saving Yugi from the falling blocks in Death-T. Though he ultimately survives, no one knows that. His speech before the exit is blocked

* The part in the final battle of Battle City where a part of Malik/Marik's soul appears by the side of an unconscious Rishid/Odion. Malik fully expects that it'll be the last time he can say anything to Rishid, because his own soul will disappear if Dark Malik is defeated. He recalls that Rishid had been always loyal to Malik, sharing the pain and making a choice to live in darkness with him. Then Malik tells Rishid that he doesn't have to suffer anymore, he wants him to head towards the light, and thanks him before disappearing.

* Yugi's reaction to the above. He has an epic HeroicBSOD as he realizes that what happened to Honda and his grandpa are his fault. His self deprecation turns into seething hatred toward Kaiba. He then realizes that Dark Yugi is trying to take over and ''stops reacting to anything''. In short, Yugi pretty much has a nervous breakdown. Not helped by his DuelEyesOfUnhappiness do not help at all.

* Honda's DisneyDeath saving Yugi from the falling blocks in Death-T. Though he ultimately survives, no one knows that.
* Yugi's reaction to the above. He has an epic HeroicBSOD as he tries to keep Dark Yugi from taking over.
* All of this leads to him confessing Dark Yugi's existence to the others, revealing that the reason why he didn't reveal him sooner is because he didn't want to worry or creep out his new friends.

* Yami Yugi's backstory, when you think about it. Not only does he die at a young age, he's ''annihilated'' - he gets trapped in the puzzle with no memories and no knowledge of why he's there, and nearly all references to who he was and how he died are wiped out, so to the generation after Seto's as pharaoh, he's essentially a mystery. In addition to this, his body was lost. It saved him from the process of mummification, but it also reduces him to a roaming spirit. Then he had to stay in the puzzle, with the creator implying he was conscious, either completely alone or trapped in a kind of dark magic environment for centuries. This is the reason he was so violent on release--he's been stuck surviving in his own hostile maze-mind for millennia. Not only this, but there's never so much as a panel flashback to how it happened or how painful was--it's up to fanon as to how violent his death was.

* The manga has Ryou writing letters to his deceased sister Amane, who died with their mother in a car crash.

** In the same bit, you have the conclusion to the Yami/Anzu/Yugi love triangle sub-plot. Tea goes to Yugi's room so she can have one last talk with Yami, and it's obvious that she's intending to confess her love to Yami before the duel that decides whether he stays in the modern world or goes to the after-life. She asks Yugi if he's heard Yami say anything, and she's about to ask him if he can make the Other Yugi come out... but she ends up not being able to do it and leaves the room, having given up her last chance to tell him. Just after she leaves, you see Yugi think to himself "I know how you feel about him, Tea...", so he knows exactly what she wanted to do... but despite that, he's not jealous because [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he wants her to be happy.]]

* During the memory world arc, [[spoiler: seeing Thief King Bakura's past is insanely sad. When it show the entire massacre, and then the small child Bakura hiding and seeing it all. And then later on, when he is turned to sand, and is shown to be nothing more than a pawn for Yami Bakura's game.]]
** It gets worse when, after wondering how on Earth the spirit of the Ring could have someone as kind and gentle as Ryou as a reincarnation/destined vessel/half of a soul, you realize that it's because Bakura was the same, at least until tragedy struck and marked him forever.

* Kaiba and Mokuba's childhood. They grew up in an orphanage after Seto's parents died and their relatives spent all their inheritance. Seto was determined to find a way out, so he got Gozaburo Kaiba to adopt him and Mokuba by beating him in chess via cheating. Gozaburo turned out to by a monster, who abused Seto and shaped his worldview considerably, teaching him that losing equals death when Seto usurped his power. By the time he lost to Yugi, Mokuba hadn't seen Seto truly smile since the orphanage days.

* The part in the final battle of Battle City where a part of Malik/Marik's soul appears by the side of an unconscious Rishid/Odion. Malik fully expects that it'll be the last time he can say anything to Rishid, because his own soul will disappear if Dark Malik is defeated. He recalls that Rishid had been always loyal to Malik, sharing the pain and making a choice to live in darkness with him. Then Malik tells Rishid that he doesn't have to suffer anymore, he wants him to head towards the light, and thanks him before disappearing.
* Kaiba's HeroicBSOD when he begins losing his duel to Yami Yugi in Duelist Kingdom and imagines Mokuba being eaten away inside his decaying Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon while he can just helplessly watch.

* After Battle City, Kaiba compares dealing with his grudge against Gozaburo to playing a Shadow Game and wonders what he'll do once his past is buried, staring at his locket of Mokuba while remembering his wish to build amusement parks as a child. While sad enough on its own, it's made worse with ''The Darkside of Dimensions'' having Kaiba regress to obsessive levels in his desire to defeat the Pharaoh, his dreams for the future forgotten.

* When Atem is about to walk into the afterlife, his friends attempt to talk him out of it. Tristan says Atem can't come in, change their lives forever and then just walk away; Yugi says that they just don't want to say goodbye and Téa says it's not fair Atem has to leave just when he and his friends learned who he really is and what he was meant to do. Joey, showing far he has come, tells them they don't have to understand what's going on, they just have to accept it. As happy as they are that Atem is fulfilling his destiny, it doesn't make it any less painful to see him go.

* While they are recovering from their injuries, there's a scene where Atem says that he wants to be with Yugi forever, and Yugi offers to give Atem all his own memories in exchange for the ones he lost. It becomes hard to watch after seeing the whole show because you ''know'' Atem can't stay, and how this is all going to end up.

** [[spoiler:"Joey...You're my best friend..."]] Both the anime and the manga (which survived in Viz's English print) had this in (though the 4Kids dub removes the line, perhaps due to its context), and sets it up for [[spoiler:Yugi's final move of the duel]].

* The Yugi vs. Marik duel, where Yugi has to find a way to defeat Yami Marik without killing Marik.

* And the kicker? Just as it seems that he's found out what he's done wrong, Dark Bakura kills him and takes his Millennium Eye.

** After the duel, Yugi and Yami Yugi reflect on the match. Yugi thinks about how while they make a good team, it's reassuring to know he can handle things on his own if he needs to. The look on Yami Yugi's face suggests that he knows what ''has'' to happen sooner or later.

* In episode 51, the Puzzle has been stolen, chained to a wall, and broken into pieces and now the whole building is on fire. Yugi refuses to abandon Yami and the Puzzle and stays in the burning building to complete the Puzzle and try to free it from the chains. Even when he passes out he still protectively clutches the Puzzle and refuses to let go.
* There's a scene in episode 52 where Atem says that he wants to be with Yugi forever, and Yugi offers to give Atem all his own memories in exchange for the ones he lost. It becomes hard to watch after seeing the whole show because you ''know'' Atem can't stay, and how this is all going to end up.

* Kisara and the priest in the last season. It gave a lot more meaning to Seto's actions. These scenes were particularly heartbreaking because, despite their obvious feelings, [[spoiler: Kisara and Seto get barely five minutes to talk before she dies.]] It's worse in the manga, where she's attacked and killed almost immediately after meeting him.
* Pegasus's backstory is rather depressing, especially in the manga. [[spoiler:He lost the love of his life that was presumably his only friend at the same time. Looking at him curled up, sitting in a fetal position among the paintings of Cyndia with a blank face is totally gut-wrenching. He even mentions he "stared at the blank canvas of his heart". He goes to Egypt in order to reunite with her in some way, but he only gets to witness a poor man getting burned to death by an ancient artifact ''in front of his eyes''. And that's right before ''his'' turn, he even begs Shadi to let him go. The latter convinces him he'd meet his love again if the Eye accepted him. Thinking this is his chance (not that he had much of a choice in the matter), he has his left eye replaced for the Eye. He gets to meet Cyndia, but only for a fleeting moment. He reaches out for her while having tears and blood rolling down his cheek, but then she disappears, leaving him one eye less and with all his pain, breaking him even more.]] Even Yugi's friends felt sorry for what the man went through. Also, Pegasus kept referring to the Toon Monsters as "a perfect life form" and how they can never die. [[spoiler:The death of his beloved hit him so hard]] he actually ''stepped back into childhood and denied death''. After telling Yugi his back-story, one may think he's finally redeemed and was let go from receiving the Penalty Game from Yugi... But then [[spoiler:Dark Bakura steals his Millennium Eye while mocking him by leaving a replica of it behind, leaving Pegasus to die, but allowing him to reunite with Cyndia again.]]

* In the anime, Seto had quite a prominent role, even after the Battle City arc. He was present during the Memories Arc, and during the final duel between [[spoiler: Atem and Yugi]]. However, in the manga, he wasn't present during the final duel. On the penultimate page, though, he arrived ''too late'', and saw the tomb collapsing.

* [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljgekknvdn1qiacjeo1_1280.jpg This page from the manga.]] It's the night before Atem leaves, and it's about how Yugi wishes he could talk to him, but he's too busy getting ready to fight him.
** In the same bit, you have the conclusion to the Yami/Anzu/Yugi love triangle sub-plot. Tea goes to Yugi's room so she can have one last talk with Yami, and it's obvious that she's intending to confess her love to Yami before the duel that decides whether he stays in the modern world or goes to the after-life. She asks Yugi if he's heard Yami say anything, and she's about to ask him if he can make the Other Yugi come out... but she ends up not being able to do it and leaves the room, having given up her last chance to tell him. Just after she leaves, you see Yugi think to himself "I know how you feel about him, Tea...", so he knows exactly what she wanted to do... but despite that, he's not jealous because [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he wants her to be happy.]]
* The manga has Ryou writing letters to his deceased sister Amane, who died with their mother in a car crash.
* In the Digital Pets chapter of the manga, we see Yugi saying good-bye to his at the end of that story. He's so upset over it dying in the morning that he sleeps next to it in bed the previous night.

* The aftermath of Joey's duel with Yami Marik. Despite being ''seconds'' away from victory, Joey passed out before he could call the attack, went into a coma, and everyone, ''especially'' Serenity, Yugi, and Tristan, is devastated.

* In episode 11, Joey and Tristan are having a fight, which gets worse when they punch/shove one another and run off. Still sore about losing to Joey, Mai sics dinosaur duelist Rex Raptor on him, with the added condition that Yugi can't help him out of this one. Joey agrees, feeling that he doesn't need to be babied or rescued all the time and must rely on himself so he can teach Serenity how to rely on herself. Meanwhile, Yugi goes to see Tristan and convinces him that while Joey may not need ''help'', he could still use their ''support''. At the same time, Joey realizes that Tristan was always there for him not because he thought he needed help, but because he was a true friend.
* Pegasus' anti-friendship monologue in the dub, which foreshadows his reasons for holding the tournament and the fate of his wife Cecelia.
--> '''Pegasus:''' That's the way life goes, Joey. Never as you planned! The world is a very arbitrary place, isn't it? It's a place where you can be locked in battle with your dearest friend for stakes neither can afford to lose. Oh, I know you'd like to think that your friendship would be enough to sustain you through any mishap or misfortune... but that's not the way the world works.\\
No, the world is a place where fate intervenes when you least expect it, with consequences that can turn your world upside down. Just when you think you've etched the perfect portrait of your future, and your life couldn't get any better. Just when you let down your guard at last and open your heart--when, against all odds, you've found that one special person in all the world that fills your heart with joy! The person you know you're destined to spend the rest of your life with...\\
That's when tragedy strikes. When fate hits you with the cold slap of reality and shows you who's boss. Yes, the world has taught me that only the strong and the ruthless survive. In memory of all I have lost, I fight on with all I possess--and I intend to ''win''!
* Yugi completely breaks down after Yami Yugi almost kills Kaiba to win the match.

* During Yugi's duel against Mai, in the dub, he holds Yami Yugi back from dueling at his best, still shaken over the lengths he went to beat Kaiba. When Yami Yugi asks him to trust him so they can win, promising not to go against his wishes again, Yugi's response is heartwrenching.
-->'''Yugi:''' How can I ''believe'' you?
** Yami's response in the dub that he had only been trying to help is sad too - he felt responsible enough for Grandpa that he was willing to potentially [[NeverSayDie hurt Kaiba for it]], and it almost borders on Kaiba logic of 'to lose means to die'. It's made clearer in the manga, but that kind of stake is what Yami is acclimated to. Bonus points in the dub that this is the first time there's been a real hint that Yami and Yugi are separate people - and it hits Yugi hard.

* The duel between Yugi and the Marik-possessed Joey. Specifically when [[spoiler: Yugi smiles and tells the now depossessed Joey what happened with tears rolling down his face, then Joey starts screaming in panic when he realizes Yugi has pretty much set himself up for death...]]

** Also right after that in the manga: [[spoiler: Tea, Tristan, and Serenity catch up to Yugi and Joey right after the incident, with Joey, rather than being happy to see his sister, being deeply ashamed of himself that he almost killed his best friend. After Mai attempts to slap him out of it (no pun intended), Serenity takes off her bandages after explaining how Mai told her about everything Joey did for her in Duelist Kingdom, and finally getting the courage to open her eyes and her vision gradually fades in to see Joey.]]
** After the duel, Yugi and Yami Yugi reflect on the match. Yugi thinks about how while they make a good team, it's reassuring to know he can handle things on his own if he needs to. The look on Yami Yugi's face suggests that he knows what ''has'' to happen sooner or later.
* The episode where Yugi has to find a way to defeat Yami Marik without killing Marik.
* At end of the series, [[spoiler: Atem finally goes to the afterlife and says goodbye to Yugi & co.]]
* The episode in which Jonouchi ''brings himself out of a coma'' just to go watch Yugi dueling. Especially when Honda had him by the neck and was shaking him, telling him he had to wake up because Yugi, ''their'' Yugi, was fighting, and Jonouchi had to be there.
* When [[spoiler:Yugi chose to let himself be taken by the soul-stealing Seal of the Orichalcos instead of Atem during the Doma filler arc? The fact that ''Atem himself breaks down into tears'' and poor Anzu telling him "Pharaoh, please... he's gone..." just makes it worse and worse.]]
** [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse]] when [[spoiler: Atem later battles against Yugi's imprisoned soul in a cursed area -with Yugi yelling accusations at him and turning Yami's earlier, heartless tactics against him, proving that yes, [[BewareTheNiceOnes he does, actually, have a mean bone in his body]]. Turns out [[JerkassFacade it was being cruel to be kind]] as only by seeing the depth of his errors and defeating Yugi could Yami finally move on. Then seeing Yami run to him and cradle him in his arms, with Yugi ''still'' smiling, even as he vanishes for a second time, opens the floodgates. ]]
** Towards the end of the duel against Dartz, Yami is facing down a seemingly indestructible monster. Dartz tried to convince him to surrender, and almost succeeded. Right when the Orichalcos encircles him, Yami sheds a tear, and gives the best friendship speech and "It's my turn! I draw!" line in the franchise.
* Mai, coming out of her brain controlled craze just in time to run across the arena and catch a defeated Jonouchi in her arms, and realise [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone what she's done]].

* The scene right before Pegasus and Kaiba's duel in Duelist Kingdom where Yugi and friends learn ''exactly'' why Kaiba was willing to die to win. [[spoiler: Mokuba is Pegasus' prisoner]]. And how do they find out? [[spoiler: Because the one who brings Pegasus his deck is... ''a Mokuba who has been turned into an EmptyShell'', as his soul has been stolen by Pegasus's Millenium Eye just like it happened to Grandpa Muto.]] The kids are understandably ''horrified'' at the sight, and Yugi almost cries as it sinks in.

* Whhen [[spoiler:Yugi chose to let himself be taken by the soul-stealing Seal of the Orichalcos instead of Atem during the Doma filler arc? The fact that ''Atem himself breaks down into tears'' and poor Anzu telling him "Pharaoh, please... he's gone..." just makes it worse and worse.]]

* During the memory world arc, [[spoiler: seeing Thief King Bakura's past is insanely sad. When it show the entire massacre, and then the small child Bakura hiding and seeing it all. And then later on, when he is turned to sand, and is shown to be nothing more than a pawn for Yami no Bakura's game.]]

That's when tragedy strikes. When fate hits you with the cold slap of reality and shows you who's boss. Yes, the world has taught me that only the strong and the ruthless survive. In memory of all I have lost, I fight on with all I possess--and I intend to win!

* Yami Yugi's backstory, when you think about it. Not only does he die at a young age, he's ''annihilated'' - he gets trapped in the puzzle with no memories and no knowledge of why he's there, and nearly all references to who he was and how he died are wiped out, so to the generation after Seto's as pharaoh, he's essentially a mystery. In addition to this, his body was lost - sure it saved him from the ... delightful process of mummification (in the eyes of a modern audience), but it also reduces him to a roaming spirit. Then he had to stay in the puzzle, with the creator implying he was conscious, either completely alone or trapped in a kind of dark magic environment for centuries. And Word of God implies this is the reason he was at first so violent on release - he's been stuck surviving in his own hostile maze-mind for millennia! Granted, the explanation is there to make the shift from anti-hero to hero as the focus of the series changed makes sense, but it's still horrific to think about. Not only this, but there's never so much as a panel flashback to how it happened or how painful was - it's up to fanon as to how violent his death was...
** In addition to this, he had to leave two sets of people he loved prematurely for the sake of duty: his court when he died, and his modern day friends when he left for the afterlife. And he ''never'' [[IDidWhatIHadToDo complains about it]]. He died at the age of ''fifteen''. For extra tears, think how many people in Ancient Egypt would have died even younger than Atem did - from disease or a higher infant mortality rate.

* The ending of Noah's arc. [[spoiler: Noah finds out that his father is also in the Virtual World, and is happy to see that his dad really loves him. But reality crushes him when his father says he was a disappointment and basically called him useless. Mokuba sees this and shows pity for his never known foster brother (even though said brother [[MindRape Mind Raped]] him for most of the season). At first Noah tries to get advantage of this to use Mokuba's body and escape to the real world; but in the middle of the plan he notices that he really ''does'' love his "brother" Mokuba and doesn't want him to die. He then gives Mokuba his body back, says goodbye and stays with his father in the Virtual World while it is destroyed. And in the end of the whole thing, Mokuba gives his brother a quick funeral, while Noah's voiceover goes saying that he is not a machine, but a human.]] Why did the dub cut this...?

* Pegasus's back-story is rather depressing, especially in the manga. [[spoiler:He lost the love of his life that was presumably his only friend at the same time. Looking at him curled up, sitting in a fetal position among the paintings of Cyndia with a blank face is totally gut-wrenching. He even mentions he "stared at the blank canvas of his heart". He goes to Egypt in order to reunite with her in some way, but he only gets to witness a poor man getting burned to death by an ancient artifact ''in front of his eyes''. And that's right before ''his'' turn, he even begs Shadi to let him go. The latter convinces him he'd meet his love again if the Eye accepted him. Thinking this is his chance (not that he had much of a choice in the matter), he has his left eye replaced for the Eye. He gets to meet Cyndia, but only for a fleeting moment. He reaches out for her while having tears and blood rolling down his cheek, but then she disappears, leaving him one eye less and with all his pain, breaking him even more.]] Even Yugi's friends felt sorry for what the man went through. Also, Pegasus kept referring to the Toon Monsters as "a perfect life form" and how they can never die. [[spoiler:The death of his beloved hit him so hard]] he actually ''stepped back into childhood and denied death''. After telling Yugi his back-story, one may think he's finally redeemed and was let go from receiving the Penalty Game from Yugi... But then [[spoiler:Dark Bakura steals his Millennium Eye while mocking him by leaving a replica of it behind, leaving Pegasus to die, but allowing him to reunite with Cyndia again.]]

* The the episode in which Jonouchi ''brings himself out of a coma'' just to go watch Yugi dueling. Especially when Honda had him by the neck and was shaking him, telling him he had to wake up because Yugi -''their'' Yugi- was fighting, and Jonouchi had to be there.
* What about when [[spoiler:Yugi chose to let himself be taken by the soul-stealing Seal of the Orichalcos instead of Atem during the Doma filler arc? The fact that ''Atem himself breaks down into tears'' and poor Anzu telling him "Pharaoh, please... he's gone..." just makes it worse and worse. *sniff*]]

* In episode 51, the Puzzle has been stolen, chained to a wall, and broken into pieces and now the whole building is on fire. Yugi refuses to abandon Yami and the Puzzle and stays in the burning building to complete the Puzzle and try to free it from the chains. Even when he passes out he still protectively clutches the Puzzle and refuses to let go.

* Joey's fight with Tristan early on in Duelist Kingdom over feeling like everyone was babying him and coming to his rescue. Joey felt that he needed to win by himself to teach Serenity how to help herself, and while Yugi agreed that he didn't need ''help'', his friends could still ''support'' him.

* Kaiba and Mokuba's childhood.

* In the anime, just as the door to the afterlife starts to close, Tea runs forward, but Joey silently holds her back and shakes his head.

** In the same bit, you have the conclusion to the Yami/Anzu/Yugi love triangle sub-plot: Tea goes to Yugi's room so she can have one last talk with Yami, and it's obvious that she's intending to confess her love to Yami before the duel that decides whether he stays in the modern world or goes to the after-life. She asks Yugi if he's heard Yami say anything, and she's about to ask him if he can make the Other Yugi come out...but she ends up not being able to do it and leaves the room, having given up her last chance to tell him. Just after she leaves, you see Yugi think to himself "I know how you feel about him, Tea...", so he knows EXACTLY what she wanted to do...but despite that, he's not jealous because [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he wants her to be happy.]] SOB.

* The final duel between Yugi and Yami Yugi, especially the goodbye scene afterwards.
** When Atem is about to walk into the afterlife, his friends attempt to talk him out of it. Tristan says Atem can't come in, change their lives forever and then just walk away; Yugi doesn't want to say goodbye and Téa says it's not fair Atem has to leave just when he and his friends learned who he really is and what he was meant to do. Joey, [[CharacterDevelopment showing far he has come]], tells them they don't have to understand what's going on, they just have to accept it. As happy as they are that Atem is fulfilling his destiny, it doesn't make it any less painful to see him go.

* The end of Yami's duel Vs. Weevil during the DOMA arc, but only in japanese though. [[spoiler: Weevil had promised to tell Yami where Yugi's soul is after he'd lose the duel, knowing full well he couldn't keep the promise. After his soul has been taken Yami runs up and keeps shouting in his face "HAGAAA! You promised! I won! Tell me where Yugi is! Where is my partner?!". Tea even points out, much to Yami's dismay how Weevil never intended to keep his promise, sending the poor guy into even more sadness.]]
** Yami just sort of...stares at his hands afterwards, like he wonders what he's just been doing or has even unnerved himself with his freakout against Haga.

* When Yugi and his friends attempt to find the Pharaoh's name, they learn [[spoiler:the wish made on the Puzzle must be returned to it in order to pass--meaning Yugi's friends must fall into the abyss]]. Thankfully, everyone manages to survive, but Yugi's anguish when he tells them that ''they'' were his wish really hurts to see.

!!Yu-Gi-Oh

* Yugi completely breaks down after Yami Yugi almost kills Kaiba to win the match. [[TheWoobie Poor kid]]

* Similarly, some of the lyrics from Kaiba's ImageSong 'You're Not Me' carry a bit of this.
--> ''Please/Take me as I am/This isn't what I planned/I guess I don't expect that/You would understand.''