History Tearjerker / OverlySarcasticProductions

--->'''Red:''' ''Last night, I had the strangest dream, I ever dreamed before. I dreamed that all the world had all agreed to put an end to war. I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said, they'd never fight again. And when the papers all were signed and million copies made, they all joined hands and bowed their heads, and grateful prayers were said. And the people in the street below were dancing round and round, and guns and swords and uniforms were scattered on the ground. Last night I had the strangest dream I ever dreamed before, I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war.

** Not long after, Tokoyo happening upon the priest who is ''pained'' to sacrifice his own daughter (who is screaming her poor little head off) to the titular sea serpent just to save their island.

* In "The Animal Brides", there's something sobering about the selkie going through HappyEndingOverride. One would think she had heard the last of her "husband" after escaping him and moving on with her life with her selkie boyfriend. But years later, that new life is negated by her ex-husband shamelessly [[KickTheDog killing her now-mate]] [[UpToEleven and pups]]. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma she gets back at him]] shortly after, but it's still to the extent of cursing him ''[[DisproportionateRetribution and]]'' everyone else on the island who wasn't responsible for his actions.

** Achilles' reaction to the death of Patroclus is given a much more heartbreaking edge here. In "The Illiad", while his reaction was played tragically it was also primarily PlayedForLaughs. Here, the second Patroclus is slain, Achilles ''immediately'' comes careening across the battlefield, [[BeserkerTears tears of rage and sorrow streaming down his face]] as he drives his sword through Hector. For all the humor that [[HoYay their relationship]] has been played for over the years, it's unavoidably clear that the death of his beloved companion was a breaking point for Achilles.

* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Medea]]. Where to begin? Imagine being her and falling in love with [[{{Jerkass}} Jason]] (because of the Powers that Be) and being convinced by him to sacrifice everything you hold dear and betray and/or murder your family for him. [[HopeSpot One world-winning adventure later, you two finally earn your fairy tale happily ever after, complete with two children]]. ...Except years later, despite his promises to stay with you, he falls in love ''with another woman'' (assuming he wasn't just a GoldDigger after kingship). And [[UngratefulBastard he isn't even grateful for all the help you lent him during his great adventures]]. On top of [[KickTheDog calling you a "barbarian princess", calling your home country "that icky place", and says to your face"[he doesn't] need [you] anymore"]]. '''''OUCH'''''! On so many levels is this all tragic. First, it always hurts to experience betrayal from infidelity. Second, Medea's personal fears of betraying her family and kingdom for a stranger who didn't care about her [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished came true after all]]. Lastly, they had a ''[[WeUsedToBeFriends really good]]'' [[HappilyMarried relationship]] (both as adventurers and a married couple), and as Red put it, it's surreally poignant to read their adventures knowing [[ForegoneConclusion it would all end badly with Jason breaking his vows to Medea]]. As Red points out, they could've been life-long friends and lovers ''if only Jason had loved Medea more than'' ''[[FatalFlaw his ambition to be king]]''.

** Hel being cast into [[NamesTheSame Hel]] for the crime of having a prophecy about her. While the dialogue is [[PlayedForLaughs comedic]], seeing an infant alone in such a gloomy place with only ghosts for company would make any parent [[AdultFear upset]].

* The folklore of "The Sun Maiden and the Crescent Moon" is a rather brutal story from beginning to end. The [[DownerBeginning beginning]] has a brother and sister orphaned as young children, forced to look out for each other for survival. Although they manage to [[HopeSpot get their lives together]], that all changes when (while the brother is visiting his new girlfriend the Sun Maiden) the sister is eaten and subsumed by Hossiadam. Despite the gifts the Sun Maiden gave to him to keep him safe, [[ShaggyDogStory something bad still happens to her boyfriend]] as the ultimate outcome has him split in two by the tug 'o' war between her and Hossiadam. ''But it just gets better''... Although the Sun Maiden is able to use her magic to revive her boyfriend, she only got the half missing a heart, dooming him to die after a few days of being revived. She tries to find solutions and substitutes for his missing heart, but to no avail. One of the saddest images is of the Sun Maiden sobbing miserably as she clutches her dying love, who looks on with a sad, tired and defeated look in his face. And so, she [[DownerEnding banishes him to the night sky]] to spare the heartache of watching him die, their only [[BittersweetEnding consolation]] being that the Sun Maiden and her Crescent Moon Lover shall reunite on the longest day of the year.

-->'''Red:''' (singing) "Once upon a time, I was falling in love, [[StarCrossedLovers now I'm only falling apart]]. ''There's nothing I can do'', a total Eclipse of the Heart..."

** Red singing "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is not only appropriate, but surprisingly poignant-sounding. It drives home the tragedy of the Sun Maiden's helplessness at permanently bringing her beloved back to life.

** Ironically, had the brother known his sister was already dead by Hossiadam's hands, he might've stayed in the heavens [[HappyEnding where he would've been safe and with his beloved Sun Maiden]]. ...But that's not what happens. Instead, he's forced to live a half life in the sky, away from his beloved.

-->'''Red:''' (singing) "Once upon a time, I was falling in love, [[StarCrossedLovers now I'm only falling apart]].
''There's nothing I can do'', a total Eclipse of the Heart..."

** Ironically, had the brother known his sister was already dead by Hossiadam's hands, he might've stayed in the heavens [[HappyEnding where he would've been safe and with his beloved Sun Maiden]]. ...But that's not what happens.
Instead, he's forced to live a half life in the sky, away from his beloved.

* In "Frankenstein", there's the rendition of how [[BreakTheCutie broken]] and [[HeroicBSOD depressed]] poor Elizabeth looks after Justine is unjustly found guilty and sentenced to death, because (to quote Red) "she can no longer see beauty in a world that let her [[HappilyAdopted basically-sister]] [[MiscarriageOfJustice die so cruelly]]." Helped by the more than apt background music.
** The illustration of Victor (selfabsorbed and jerkish though he may be at times) steadily gaining stark white hair instead of pitchblack, starting with a whisp of white locks due to the strain of allnighters during the Creature's creation and each tragedy adding more and more white to his hair.

** The children also suffer tragedy as they get caught up in their parents' drama. For one, their mother Medea makes the heavy-hearted decision to have them murdered, in the hope that their deaths would [[RevengeByProxy hurt their jerk father Jason]] in the slightest. Second, it's ironic their mother plans their deaths because she always loved them in a way Jason never did. Throughout the story, Jason refers calling them as "her" kids. And it's only once they're dead that he calls them "his" kids, making a tragic point that he took his and Medea's children for granted until he lost them. The cherry on this TearJerker sundae is Red's illustration of Medea's face ''dripping'' with '''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regret]]''' at having set in motion her children's doom, while they share a ([[OblivousGuiltSlinging last]]) hug together.

** The children also suffer tragedy as they get caught up in their parents' drama. For one, their mother Medea makes the heavy-hearted decision to have them murdered, in the hope that their deaths would [[RevengeByProxy hurt their jerk father Jason]] in the slightest. Second, it's ironic their mother plans their deaths because she always loved them in a way Jason never did. Throughout the story, Jason refers calling them as "her" kids. And it's only once they're dead that he calls them "his" kids, making a tragic point that he took his and Medea's children for granted until he lost them. The cherry on this TearJerker sundae is Red's illustration of Medea's face ''dripping'' with '''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regret]]''' at having set in motion her children's doom, while they share a (last) hug together.

* In "The Animal Brides", there's something sobering about the selkie escaping her "husband" and moving on with her life with her selkie boyfriend when, years later, he new life is [[HappyEndingOverride negated]] by her ex-husband shamelessly [[KickTheDog killing her mate]] [[UpToEleven and pups]]. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma she gets back at him]] shortly after, but it's still to the extent of cursing him ''[[DisproportionateRetribution and]]'' everyone else on the island who wasn't responsible for his actions.

* In "The Animal Brides", there's something sobering about the selkie escaping her "husband" and moving on with her life with her selkie boyfriend when, years later, he new life is [[HappyEndingOverride negated]] by her ex-husband shamelessly [[KickTheDog killing her mate]] [[UpToEleven and pups]]. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma she gets back at him]] shortly after, but it's still to the extent of cursing him ''[[DisproportionateRetribution and]]'' everyone else on the island who wasn't responsible for his actions.

* In Red's Halloween talk about "Werewolves", there's something [[HarsherInHindsight sobering and painful]] about Red teaching that the heinous practice of witch-hunts was born because [[FromNobodyToNightmare one misogynistic little man named Heinrich Kramer]] badgered everybody into persecuting innocent woman who were just different. Even when the church kicked him out, he just wrote stories about how [[ValuesDissonance women are witches who deserve torture and death]]. And even when the church discredited that his writings would lead to countless bloodshed, [[YouCannotKillAnIdea it happened [[YouCantFightFate all the same]].

* In Red's Halloween talk about "Werewolves", there's something sobering about Red voicing how [[HarsherInHindsight painful]] it is to learn that witch-hunts were born because [[FromNobodyToNightmare one misogynistic little man named Heinrich Kramer]] badgered everybody into persecuting innocent woman who were just different. Even when people foresaw that his writings would lead to countless bloodshed, [[YouCantFightFate it happened all the same]].

* In Red's Halloween talk about "Werewolves", there's something sobering about Red voicing how [[HarsherInHindsight painful]] it is to learn that witch-hunts were born because [[FromNobodyToNightmare one misogynistic little man]] badgered everybody into persecuting innocent woman who were just different. Even when people foresaw that his writings would lead to countless bloodshed, [[YouCantFightFate it happened all the same]].