Tear Jerker / The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (2004)

• Shadow Link being genuinely saddened when he learns that Vio was never really on his side.
  Shadow: Don't think this is over! I'm not done yet! I'll never forgive you!
  • The chapter itself is even titled, Ch. 8 "Poor Shadow Link". An early hint of Shadow Link's true, conflicted nature.
• When Link's father found his son unconscious in the castle. It's actually Shadow Link.
• Shadow Link's death. He knew that by sacrificing himself for a world that would never appreciate what he'd done. That they would never care for a "shadow" like him. That he was casting away his life for a bunch of ungrateful and unknowing people who would celebrate the four Heroes, and yet he still did it because he wanted to show them, he was a hero, too; that not all dark things were bad. The most heart-breaking part of this was when the four Links are gathered around the dying Shadow, and they talk about him. Vio even refers to them, the four heroes of light, as Shadow's family. Despite him being what he was and what he did.
  Shadow: You know Shadows can always do nothing but follow behind their owners. Backs facing us, never to turn around. But that Shadow was able to turn before ya'll and beat yall's enemy. Isn't that something.
• When the time comes for the Link's to return the Four Swords back into one. The boys are sad after having come to see each other as more like brothers, rather than just facets of one person.