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4* ''TearJerker/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries''
5* ''TearJerker/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle''
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8* As Alan is being sucked into the game, if you listen carefully, you can hear him desperately scream "[[SayMyName SARAH!]] ROLL THE DICE!"
9** What follows is poor Sarah being chased by the bats she previously rolled. The sad part is when she later tells Alan how [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome traumatized]] she was to be chased down the streets by the bats, when she was little more than a girl.
10* Judy and Peter being recently orphaned by the loss of their parents is subtle, but still very much sad. The junior novel delves deeper into the details of what it must've been like.
11--> ''Since their parents' deaths, Judy and Peter couldn't have possibly felt more rotten. Mom and Dad were supposed to have been gone only a week. A skiing trip in the Canadian Rockies. They'd called it their second honeymoon. [[HarsherInHindsight Judy's biggest worry was that Dad might break his leg on the slope]]. But a fatal car wreck? No kid was ever prepared to hear that.''
12** Except for Judy (and later Alan and Sarah), Peter hasn't spoken to anyone since his parents died.
13*** This exchange between Judy and Peter regarding that.
14---->'''Peter:''' Do you miss Mom and Dad?\
15'''Judy:''' [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty ...No]].\
16'''Peter:''' Liar. If you don't cut that out, they're gonna send you to a shrink.\
17'''Judy:''' Where do you think they're gonna send you if you don't start talking?
18* The part where Alan Parrish comes back out of the board game after being in an alternate jungle dimension for 26 years, and goes looking for his parents, only to discover they're dead '''''and''''' that his father, who he thought never loved him, gave up everything he had to try to find him.
19** Especially since he's really so childlike in that scene.
20--->''"...Where's my mom and dad?"''
21** Not to mention that one of his first reactions after seeing Judy and Peter for the first time is to excitedly ask them if they're his younger brother and sister. ''Oh God...''
22** Worse, when Alan returns to the abandoned shoe factory, he learns that his father [[DeathByDespair died of sorrow]], and everything essentially was ''Alan's fault''.
23** And without Parrish Shoes in business as the town's main source of income, the town has become a veritable ghost town by 1995. Not only did Alan's disappearance affect his family, their business and Sarah, but it basically destroyed the entire town.
24--->'''Alan:''' Do you know what happened to this shoe factory?\
25'''Old Man:''' Yeah, it folded up, like everything else in this town. It's pretty cold out there. How about some coffee?\
26'''Alan:''' Why would they close Parrish Shoes?\
27'''Old Man:''' Well, when his kid ran away, Sam put everything he had to find him - his time, his money, everything. After a while, he stopped coming to work. He just quit caring. I don't think anybody loved his boy more than Sam did.
28** Also on Alan's side, the careless accident where he left the sneaker on the conveyor belt in the factory, destroying his friend Carl's invention that would've unquestionably set him and the rest of the factory staff for life. Instead of taking responsibility for the mistake, he ducks out in a panic, leaving Carl to take the fall, all for ''Alan''. For this, he is fired and forced to make a living many years later as a police officer long after the factory shutters, constantly lamenting how he lost the opportunity of a lifetime.
29--->'''Alan:''' Hey Carl...I know it doesn't mean much after 26 years...But I want you to know I'm sorry.
30** This excerpt from the junior novel drives home how bitter (and unforgiving) Carl feels towards Alan:
31---> "Bentley spun around to get a closer look. A closer look at the man who had grown from the boy who had stolen his life."
32** On Alan's father's side, not only did he have to endure the sadness of losing his son and the PartingWordsRegret, but also he may have had to suffer the effects of [[WronglyAccused the stories that popped up]] [[NotProven about Alan's disappearance.]] Specifically, the one about him having killed Alan, chopping him up and spreading his remains around the house...
33* In the junior novel, we get this line from Alan upon seeing his parents' graves:
34--> '''Alan:''' I wish this family didn't exist!
35* "My dad could barely ''hug me'', let alone chop me into little pieces..." This paints a picture of how Alan grew up thinking his father didn't love him. It's especially heart-breaking given Alan's father gave up on his business and life once Alan went missing. He never got to give his son at least one hug...
36* Alan comes out with a really sad song that relays just how hard his life was: "In the jungle you must wait, until the dice read five or eight."
37** Although the sing-song tone he uses makes it a little funny, it's also a look at how embittered he feels towards Sarah for not finishing the game and basically abandoning him to the game's jungle. He's had 26 years to roil in his grudge towards her.
38*** Look at the top again. Not only did Sarah abandon Alan, she practically ignored his cries for help. You can also imagine the guilt that Sarah must have been carrying knowing those were the ''last words'' she heard Alan say as he disappeared.
39** Something that's hard to pick up on. Earlier, when Judy asks Alan what his intentions are now that he's back, ''[[ThatManIsDead he doesn't bring up Sarah at all,]]'' instead semi-seriously wondering if his old sixth-grade teacher is still around to bring him up to speed. That's before Alan sees that the game he and Sarah started in '69 is still in play and that he ''needs'' her. Just the way he croaks out her surname "Whittle..." gives away all the bitterness he's built up towards her over the course of over two and a half decades.
40*** And when he and the Shepards go to her house, all it takes for Alan to give up on finding Sarah is to see that a "Madam Serena" resides there now, figuring that she probably got together with Billy Jessup (the leader of the bullies that tormented Alan in his youth) at some point and "moved into a trailer park somewhere". Even though he's quickly proven wrong, Alan's loss of faith in their friendship was [[DespairEventHorizon so complete]] that he thought she abandoned him (again) for his childhood nemesis. The solemn way he jumps to this conclusion speaks volumes about how his survival experiences have numbed him.
41*** During an [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny otherwise amusing argument]] with Sarah later on, Alan brings up Jessup again and accuses her of [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys moving on with said bully]] [[SelfServingMemory while erasing the former from her psyche,]] which Sarah finds incredulous [[ButForMeItWasTuesday and doesn't think]] [[QuitYourWhining it's worth griping about.]] It isn't really expanded upon, but words like that do highlight how much Alan [[LonelyRichKid felt distanced from the people around him]] long before he was sucked into Jumanji and a solid indication that Jessup's attacks were very detrimental to his victim's self-esteem.
42* All that Sarah went through after Alan was sucked into the game. She got blown off by everyone in the town when she tried to tell them about the situation and visited several therapists during that time period.
43-->'''Sarah:''' Alan, please. Last time I played this game, it ruined my life.
44-->'''Alan:''' It ruined ''your'' life? "In the jungle you must wait, until the dice read five or eight!"
45-->'''Sarah:''' I was a little girl, Alan. You disappeared, and a bunch of bats surrounded me and chased me down the street. I was afraid. I'm sorry, Alan. No one believed me. I was all alone.
46-->'''Alan:''' So was I. For 26 years, Sarah.
47-->'''Sarah:''' Me too.
48** Even the part after she wakes up from her faint and leaves a message for her therapist is this, for while it's slightly PlayedForLaughs, she still has tears in her eyes and her voice breaks a little as she tells the doctor she "needs her dosage checked", that she was sitting in the living room of the boy she saw vanish, drinking lemonade, and that she'd "really like to know what you make of all this." [[TheWoobie It's enough to make you want to give her a hug]].
49* The junior novel only drives the point home of how sad it is for Alan to return basically a lost child, even after all his time in Jumanji:
50--> "Alan Parrish stared back, his face lined with confusion. Judy figured him to be about Aunt Nora's age, maybe older, but she could see the [[ManChild the soul of a boy]] behind his confused eyes."
51* Alan scolding Peter for trying to cheat at the game and his MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when he sees him cry.
52-->'''Alan:''' Twenty-six years buried in the deepest, darkest jungle, and I still became my father.
53* Peter's cheating in general. He tried to cheat not because he wanted to be the winner, but because he just wanted the game to ''end''. Unfortunately for him, Jumanji doesn't like it when people try to cheat...
54* As the game reaches its climax, the group faces their DarkestHour: Judy's been hit with the deadly venom from a plant's barbs, Alan is stuck in the floor with Sarah's arms also trapped around him, and Peter is barely holding off a group of massive spiders with an ax while trying to get to his sister. Sarah desperately rolls her turn in the hopes that she'll win but fails, and you can hear her voice absolutely ''breaking'' as she reads the rhyme (there's a quick shot of her eyes closing in anguish as she finishes it, suggesting that she's lost all hope). Bonnie Hunt even delivers the line quietly to contrast the utter chaos flying around her, and the result is all the sadder:
55-->'''Sarah''': You're almost there...with much at stake...but now the ground begins to quake...
56* Near the end of the film is another particularly heartrending moment; Judy dying in her little brother's arms from a plant's poisonous barb. Her last words that she gasps out? "I...wish that mom and dad were here."
57** Peter’s response? "So do I."
58** And then this little gem from Alan: "Her only chance is if we finish the game!"
59* Alan and Sam's reconciliation is this mixed with a Heartwarming moment.
60** Just these lines of dialogue:
61--->'''Sam:''' I thought you weren't going to talk to me ever again.\
62'''Alan:''' Dad... whatever I said earlier... I didn't mean it.\
63'''Sam:''' ''[looks a bit surprised, but hugs him back]''Oh... look, Alan... I was angry. I'm sorry too.
64** The Junior Novelization narrates how, when his father brings up the boarding school, it dredges up ugly memories for Alan on ''why'' they previously fought in the first place. Although the book doesn't dwell on it too long, it's sobering how his reunion with his father was soured by old wounds unwittingly being opened up.
65* After reconciling with his father when [[ResetButton he is sent back in time]], Alan suddenly remembers that Judy and Peter are upstairs. However, Sarah tells him that since they're kids again in 1969, Judy and Peter don't exist yet and have been erased from time. Even more heartbreaking is when Sarah gives Alan their game pieces.
66-->'''Alan:''' Holy smokes! Judy and Peter! '''(runs to find them)'''
67-->'''Sarah:''' Alan, they're not there. It's 1969; they don't even exist yet.
68* The ending, where Alan and Sarah meet Judy and Peter again (for the first time in the new timeline). It's implied shortly before that point that Alan and Sarah would forget a lot of their "old" adult life when they became teenagers again, but they not only remembered exactly what the kids looked like, they also sought them out to bring them and their parents to their town to be a part of their happy lives. Add in the panicked BigNo when their parents mention they're planning a ski trip to the Canadian Rockies (presumably the trip they died on in the original timeline), it shows how strong a love they have for the kids, and how great a debt they owe them. Their memories of the kids survived magic amnesia and the memory fade of 26 years.
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