Tear Jerker / AdventureQuest Worlds

• The Master's Moral Event Horizon moment of causing Terra's Disney Villain Death played out before Stratos, which actually causes him to cry.
• Later, the Dreamweaver is shown to be crying because she was actually regretful for being a puppet to the Master, whose real name is Exos. After she and the hero escape from him when he tries to kill them, she thanks him/her for saving her life. This also counts as a Heartwarming Moment.
• The "Chaos Scars" cutscene also counts, seeing as how the Chaotic Troll boss was actually Khasaanda and Krellenos' brother, Antiphuus, Chaorrupted by the ninth Lord of Chaos. The hero knew that he was Chaorrupted by Chaos anyway so he/she had no choice but to kill him, and the fact that Khasaanda cried over Antiphuus' death is very sad indeed.
• The scene with Lady Vayle and her brother's Spirit Orb during Vayle's ending in the Doomwood saga.
• Veddrian's farewell to her ghostly sister Veddris in the final scene of the Bludrut mid-week release.
• The moment in Doomwood II when Sepulchure throws himself in front of Gravelyn to protect her from Drakath's attack, thus making this the second time he's been killed by Drakath. Made even sadder when Gravelyn then has to purify her father's Doomblade to save everyone — and in so doing destroy all that remains of him.
• The Bittersweet Ending of the Frostval 2012 event. Quetzal, the great beast that Kezeroth wanted to use to destroy Lore, is dead, and Kezeroth has been frozen back in time for at least 26,000 years because Athon, your Chronomancer ally, used all of his power in a Heroic Sacrifice to save the Hero, Frostval, and all of Lore. But while the Hero has done the impossible, he or she doesn't really feel like celebrating due to Athon having to give his life to stop doomsday from befalling Lore. Luckily doubles as a heartwarming moment as the Spirit of Frostval cheers them up reminding them that they inspired Athon to have hope and that he sacrificed himself to save Lore from destruction, letting them know how noble said sacrifice was and that his life should be celebrated.
• The Chaos Wedding event on September 2013. It has been confirmed that King Alteon will be our 12th Chaos Lord. The next part makes it worse: when King Alteon finally succumbs to the Chaorruption that he's been having to deal with all game at this point, he strikes down his own eldest daughter, Princess Brittany, resulting in everything going completely to hell.
• The finale of the Swordhaven saga. Brittany's death at the hands of the King has unleashed the Chaos Dragon, the worst Chaos Beast yet, upon Swordhaven. Because of the Chaos Dragon's initial assault, Swordhaven is in flames. And worst of all, your final battle is against King Alteon himself — and no matter how you choose in the end, you will have to kill him to free him from his Chaos-induced madness. The saga ends on a serious downer — Swordhaven is in ruins, the Alliance is headed for disaster following the fall of the most prominent force for Good, many people are dead, and there will most likely be war as the various candidates vie for the throne.
• The revelation of the 13th Chaos Lord. After 5 years of going through insane quests, Drakath finally reveals it. It's the hero. In other words, WE, the player character, are going to cause destruction and chaos and ultimately have to decide what to do to prevent Drakath from unleashing the Mother of Monsters.
• Syrrus blaming himself for the Frostspawn invading Lore after he opened up the gate for them to travel through. There's also Lorentz's death at the hands of Karok, and if that's not heartbreaking enough, said death also seals up the gate that he and his army used to enter Lore, which causes Syrrus to blame himself even further.
• The moment where a Brainwashed and Crazy Nevanna murders her own old friend Aven right in front of the hero. The hero drops to their knees and calls her out on this atrocity before she summons a monster in place of his corpse to fight them, and his funeral held afterwards is rather saddening. Later, Aven's spirit invades Nevanna to free her from the Queen's control and she wakes up and realizes the damage the Queen of Monsters made her do to her home. While she does set everything right again, she's unable to forgive herself for what she did to the very grove she dedicated herself to protecting.
• While it's unknown what happened to Princess Tara in the finale of the Infernal Invasion saga when the Infernals were closing in on her, Warlic states that while the rest of Swordhaven's inhabitants were all able to get away safely, he wasn't able to pick up any trace of her, thereby deducing that he thinks she's gone. It's rather heartbreaking for Victoria, and now, with Alteon and Brittany dead and Tara gone, there's just her and Lord Brentan left. That's right - just when things couldn't get any worse after the ending of the Swordhaven saga, they did anyway because of the Infernals.
• Madra despairing over the death of Eremon, despite the fact that he was siding with, and sacrificed himself to spare, Kolyaban, a nasty mutator and the first daughter of the Queen of Monsters who mutated several members of her own species and turned the sweet and innocent Aria into a horrifying monster under her influence. When he says his sacrifice is worth it as long as Kolyaban is spared, Madra responds that she will not and vows to see to her suffering for all that she's done.
• The finale of Laken's saga deserves special mention, too, especially with its Bittersweet Ending. When Dage reveals to Laken, who was revealed to still be loyal to him, that he's no longer interested in conquering Lore and instead wants to help preserve the balance between the living and the dead, his own loyal general loses it and decides to murder his own master in kind, start a new Blood Legion, and rule both Lore and the underworld in his place. Ada, distraught by the revelation of her father figure's loyalty to Dage, vows to do everything in her power to save him, while Dage, the Undead Legion, and the heroes understand that a legion run by a now-insane Laken would pose a huge threat to Lore. From there, a war breaks out between the Legion and the Seraphic Order, culminating in the Legion and the heroes putting Laken down to Ada's horror. Ada is then forced to slay the very man who took such good care of her, who has now realized the errors of his ways, understands himself that he's broken himself beyond saving, and tells her how proud of her he is for how much she's grown and how strong she's become, despite her initially refusing to do so, and she's then seen praying with tears leaking from her eyes as Laken's soul rises out of his dead body and splits into two. Dage sincerely apologizes to her for what happened, but she, now infuriated at the Legion, rejects it and declares that she will never forgive him and will come for him to make him pay, ending her declaration with the words "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...", referencing Scorn's own grudge against Dage. If the players sided with the Legion during the war, Ada even calls them out on betraying Laken and his trust and refuses to forgive them as well.
  • The secret, optional "What if Laken Had Won?" cutscene instead shows Ada making a contract with Rayce and sacrificing herself to save Laken from himself and heal the wounds his broken insanity had inflicted upon himself, and he becomes overcome with grief over his daughter figure's death and blames the hero and Dage for it while leaving the Dark Shard for them and swearing to get revenge on them. Indeed, this optional cutscene is rather heartbreaking as well.
• Emperor Daisho's death at the hands of Jaaku, right in front of Ai no Miko, no less, which makes her overcome with so much grief and rage that she blasts the Orochi that committed the murder for Jaaku, forcing them to retreat. The soldiers of Yokai and the hero take their time to mourn Daisho's death and comfort his daughter.
• In a future showing what would've happened to Battleon had Malgor not been stopped from conquering Lore, the heroes attempt to convince future Yulgar to fight against the shadowy influence that was corrupting him. Unfortunately, Yulgar finds himself unable to do so and vanishes, leaving a grief-ridden and enraged hero to declare that the corrupted future class trainers would answer for what they did to him... only to notice that they're already gone. This event leaves Jinx stunned by how vile and atrocious Malgor's actions have indeed proven to be to him.
• Mahou's tragic past involves him being overcome by his own grief after Akio's death at the hands of the Infernals. Said sadness was what led to Malgor coming to him with an offer of an alliance.
• As horrific as what villainy Malgor caused in the time period witnessed by the hero and Jinx where he succeeded in conquering Battleon and fully corrupting its residents to his side as well as his attempt to murder Fiamme after draining all of her Fire Avatar powers out of her and transferring them to Tyndarius may have been, players have begun to feel sorry for him after learning how he became what he is today: he was born from the negative emotions of the Eternal Dragon of Time, who wanted to save his creator from succumbing to despair and disappearing. He started out as a Mumbler and evolved into a False Wyvern, trying to make peace with Swordhaven and the Shadowscythe through words only to find his efforts futile. He spoke to Warlic and eventually realized that his efforts to bring peace through words was futile, and he became what he is today, and sought to bring peace in a new way: my corrupting the Mana Core and Lore's ley lines through his Shadowflame powers to render the entire world silent. And if that wasn't already enough, there's the descriptions for his armor set items and the Mainyu capes, describing him as making an endless chase for an impossible dream of peace and his Mainyu form as the form he would've taken had the hero been there to care for and tutor him enough, respectively. Truly a tragic Anti-Villain and Well-Intentioned Extremist indeed.
• The events that led to Darkon's plans against Astravia are truly shocking and saddening at the same time. His brother Drago launched a coup that led to Darkon's friends Regulus, Titania and Aurola getting badly injured and nearly slaughtered, as well as Suki being murdered, and made a Sadistic Choice to him to either make him king instead of him or else be doomed to never see her again, and when a badly-wounded Suki was presented to him to his horror, he was struck by a slash from his own brother and offered to The Fool as a sacrifice alongside her by Drago himself. Darkon was holding Suki close to him as they disappeared to The Fool's domain, with tears running down his face. And to top it all off, there was one very line said by him that was powerful enough to move many players to tears.
  Darkon: I don't want the morning to come. If only this moment could last forever.

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