History Tearjerker / ReturnToOz

* The simple visual of the yellow brick road being torn to pieces. Such an icon of the original movie suddenly uprooted and broken apart to the point that 'follow the yellow brick road' has just become a common phrase and left as nothing more than a heap of dusty old pale-yellow bricks. Just compare the colour of the bricks alone to those in the original film. They look completely different, almost bleached of their vibrancy, as if the very happiness they carried has been sucked away forever.

* And just when this couldn’t get worse, just to twist the knife deeper, the scene with Toto running after Dorothy and barking desperately as he watches his best friend get wheeled away, and the way he just lays down with his little head between his paws and whimpers a bit once she’s too far away and says goodbye to him as well. It’s bad enough all of this is happening to a little girl but to show TOTO’S reaction??? You can’t help but cry!

* Jack Pumpkinhead's entire situation. He's little more than a young and innocent child, who misses his mother dearly and got his limbs torn off. Then he finds someone he can pretend is his mom even for just a few minutes, but then immediately gets swept up in events beyond his control that almost ''kill'' him.

* And just when this couldn’t get worse, just to twist the knife deeper, the scene with Toto running after Dorothy and barking desperately as he watches his best friend get wheeled away, and the way he just lays down with his little head between his paws and whimpers a bit once she’s too far away. It’s bad enough all of this is happening to a little girl but to show TOTO’S reaction??? You can’t help but cry!

* The whole movie has a melancholy feel to it, even with the happy ending.

** Though in the {{Novelization}} we're told that he doesn't really ''feel'' sorry for Dorothy, he just knows she hurts and wants [[FauxAffablyEvil to make it]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk worse with false sympathy]].

* Jack Pumpkinhead's entire situation. He's little more than a young and innocent child, who misses his mother dearly and got his limbs torn off. Then he finds someone he can pretend is his mom even for just a few minutes, but then immediately gets swept up in events beyond his control that almost ''kills'' him.
** Just the simple, sincere way he asks, "Dorothy? May I call you 'Mom'? Even if it isn't so?" He ''knows'' Dorothy's not his mother, but he loves her anyway and still wants to call her his mother, despite only having just met her. It's sweet, but also pretty damn sad.

* The simple visual of the yellow brick road being torn to pieces. Such an icon of the original movie, to the point that 'follow the yellow brick road' has just become a common phrase, suddenly uprooted and broken apart, left as nothing more than a heap of dusty old pale-yellow bricks. Just compare the colour of the bricks alone to those in the original film, they look completely different, almost bleached of their vibrancy, as if the very happiness they carried has been sucked away forever

* The close up of Dorothy's eye as she lays in the twigs and mud saying goodbye to everyone.

-->''Now, now, don't cry. Poor, poor Dorothy Gale from Kansas...''

** Just the simple, sincere way he asks, "Dorothy? May I call you 'Mom'? Even if it isn't so?" He ''knows'' Dorothy's not his mother, but he loves her anyway, and still wants to call her his mother, despite only having just met her. It's sweet, but also pretty damn sad.

* Dorothy having to say goodbye to everyone again. The kicker is the last person she says goodbye to is the Scarecrow. At this point, she starts to lose her composure and grabs his hand, choking out "[[PlatonicDeclarationOfLove I love you so much]]!"

* The simple visual of the yellow brick road being torn to pieces. Such an icon of the original movie, to the point that 'follow the yellow brick road' has just become a common phrase, suddenly uprooted and broken apart, left as nothing more than a heap of dusty old pale-yellow bricks. Just compare the colour of the bricks alone to the those in the original film, they look completely different, almost bleached of their vibrancy, as if the very happiness they carried has been sucked away forever

** Though in the {{Novelization}} we're told that he doesn't really ''feel'' sorry for Dorothy, he just knows she hurts and wants to make it worse with false sympathy.

-->''Poor, poor Dorothy Gale from Kansas...''

* Dorothy having to say goodbye to everyone again. The kicker is the last person she says goodbye to is the Scarecrow. At this point, she starts to lose her composure and grabs his hand, choking out "I love you so much!"

* The novelization includes a scene of her remembering Toto, who hadn't crossed her mind during the adventure. She's then described as having her eyes "brim over with tears of guilt and grief, as she thought of him, pining for her, in lonely, distant Kansas." ''Ouch.''

* Eve though Dorothy can see Ozma and her friends in the mirror, she still has to hide it from her aunt and uncle.

** Though in the {{Novelization}} we're told that he doesn't really ''feel'' sorry for Dorothy, he just knows she hurts and wants to make it worse with false sympathy

* Dorothy weeping over the loss of the Scarecrow. The poor kid's been scared and confused the entire film, finally comes across somebody she knows, and he's suddenly taken away from her. Even the Gnome King felt sorry for her!