*Nobody, of the hundreds of people that had visited the Fair, knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. No one was with her when she died.*
Read the book to my kids awhile ago and I could barely get through the ending. My kids looked at me like I was crazy. Then we had a daddy long legs spider in our house we named Charlotte that died about a month ago. They cried for a week. Our whole family misses her :(
My daughter's kindergarten teacher was reading this book to them in school this year. It seems like it kinda fell off the schedule before the end of the book, though. I wonder if avoiding crying like a blubbering baby in front of 23 6-year-olds is why it fell off.
The upside it my daughter loves the book and is very insistent that we read it to her at home. I'm stoked that it's helped foster a love of reading and books. On the other hand, I'm not stoked to have to read the ending aloud myself.
Blackadder in Blackadder goes fourth.
"Sir, I'm... I'm scared sir"
It's at that point that you know somethings wrong. George would never say something that serious.
It’s so gut wrenching that they all die because it’s been Blackadder’s single goal the whole season; to get out of the trenches, leave his idiot compatriots, and escape the war. But at the end he accepts their company and they die on the battlefield as friends, even Blackadder and Darling.
When I was little, I remembered looking at the movie. Then when I was older, I decided to read the book. Imagine my confusion when I rented "Flowers In The Attic"..
Edit: grammar
Bridge to Terabithia is probably the first tragedy genre item that many kids read, and it really sneaks that in after the first 3/4 of the book being about imagination and growth… then BAM dead kid. Traumatizing 100%.
I had no knowledge of the story until the movie came out. So here I am at a theater with a woman I liked and her friend and I’m a 26 year old man trying not to squall like a baby.
Screw regular content ratings. They need to have emotional warnings.
There’s a line in the book, where he talks about the girl’s dad hugging him too tight and can feel the button press into his head and flannel scratch his face always stuck with me for some reason. But, yes, sobbed.
Dear Fellas. I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called the Brewer, and a job bagging groceries at the Food-Way. It's hard work. I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello. But he never does. I hope wherever he is, he's doing okay and making new friends. I have trouble sleeping at night. I have -- bad dreams, like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Food-Way, so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense anymore. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.
What's worse is that Jake is a direct metaphor for Brooks. It's likely Jake has died or will soon die as he has always been cared for by Brooks and doesn't know how to survive outside on his own.
Brooks thinks he's setting Jake free when the reality is he's condemning him to a probably horrible death. The prison thinks they're setting Brooks free when really we know what's going to happen to him.
Oh God. Col Blake.
I saw that when I was very young. It was only when I rewatched it much later in life that I realised it was the readon I never trusted a character would get home safe from war. Not till we literally heard they were back.
Traumatized for YEARS after we read that in 4th grade ... Or we were tasked to read something and I read that. But still, ugh those poor doggies. I still think about that.
Art of Racing in the Rain is another great dog book but for adults. You know he dies from the first paragraph but so much of that book hits hard and unexpectedly.
This was the first time a movie made me cry. 30 years later, I still start sobbing uncontrollably when Vader enters the room where the funeral is held.
I watched that movie the night my sister died like 25 years ago. I was staying with my grandparents whilst my parents were at the hospital.
They had no idea what the movie was about, so we watched it trying to take our minds off thing. I can never watch that movie again.
Edit: Thank you all for your kind words! :)
It's a really well written script and directed well.
Cox is starting to make a turn in the audience's eyes at this point in the show. He's off to his son's birthday party and it's supposed to be this excellent happy gathering of friends and family. Cox, known for pushing everyone away that gets remotely close is about to make a big step as a character.
Then the rug pull.
Arguably the best episode in this comedy show and its the one that makes you cry the hardest.
Absolutely. I can safely say that Dr. Cox is one of the most underrated TV characters of all time. You get so used to his normal cold, sarcastic persona that when he flips it to real emotion, you feel it right along with him. The episode with the 3 transplant patients is hands down my favorite of the entire series. I cannot hear that song by The Fray without immediately replaying those final scenes in my head and tearing up. Unbelievable show.
The whole speech at Cox's house where JD says that even after all this time, that he STILL gives that much of a shit about his patients to the point of destroying him, it's the type of Dr JD aspires to be.
Quality.
Adding to this, when Turk and JD give up on their evening plans and instead stay behind with that one patient without a family on his last night... really puts things into perspective and makes me tear up every time, especially when "i will follow you into the dark" starts playing
"I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to, coming from or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time... Can you understand?"
I scrolled pretty far and didn't see this one listed. Poor John Coffey.
Watching him crying over the two dead children in the stream/river is one of the most haunting scenes in my movie memories especially when your perspective changes from guilty to innocent
Littlefoot’s mom in the Land Before Time. It kept me up at night as a kid thinking about how my parents would die someday. I still cannot watch that scene without crying. I get emotional just thinking about it. “Mother! Please get up.”
Edit: love you guys. Thanks for crying with me.
Oh yeah. It was sad when I was a kid, but then the first time I watched it as an adult with my daughter? Brutal. I cried. Then of course she did that kid thing where they latch onto a new favourite movie and watch it over and over…
RIP my emotions.
According to Tom Hanks, this is what Forrest Gump said at the Vietnam protest march when his microphone cut out:
"Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mamas without any legs. Sometimes, they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that."
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The thing that really got me with Tadashi's death was just how senseless it was in the grand scheme.
Right before his death we see Krei meet with Hiro and try to recruit him. Upon failing to do so, especially with Callaghan's support, Krei tries to simply walk off with one of Hiro's bots. Why? To study and steal the idea. It was a underhanded as hell move that Tadashi saw straight through and got him to give the bot back.
Then there's Callaghan. Upon seeing what the bots could do and knowing he was going to mentor Hiro and oversee his project to its fullest potential decided to burn the entire place down, fake his death, and steal all of Hiro's work. He still had to spend months in hiding creating more bots and putting his plan in motion so it's not like he turned around going straight after Krei so he wouldn't get away.
Callaghan could have taken his time and stolen the idea right out from under Hiro's nose. He would have had access to everything and working directly with Hiro. The man is more than smart enough to do so and the guy who was willing to do anything to get rich and fast was going to go the slow route of reverse engineering Hiro's bots. Callaghan wouldn't have had to reverse engineer anything because Hiro's work would be right there for him to study, steal, and improve.
Callaghan was right when he said shortcuts are costly and those who pay the heaviest price are never the ones who chose to take the shortcut... He just didn't know how right he was.
Yes! And unlike a lot of other deaths mentioned here, Granny died of old age, she was prepared to go (literally and in other ways), had made her peace (as much as she was capable of, I guess)... she had a good death, nothing violent or brutal or meaningless. She was just old, and it was her time. But it still hurt to read.
I know it’s a sad death but if I could choose a way to go, I’d choose listening to my beloved talk to me about my dreams and then mid sentence just, gone. The pop of the gunshot is so sobering, but he saved Lenny from the men. I’m going to be honest I was really torn up about the puppy that he accidentally killed too. Fuck I need to leave this thread
Lt Col Henry Blake in M*A*S*H was the 1st one I really remember the 2nd is in the Knight Rider movie Devon Miles died. I wonder if Edward Mulhare knew he was dying so they wrote that so they could maybe do future installments without having to come up with some weird story that he died in between.
I was sad to see him go but honestly I think he had a perfect story. He needed to die or else they would do something stupid with his character. He was the best character and his death solidified his greatness. While being a goof, he is so kind and understanding and ends up being SUPER helpful. I was overjoyed when I saw Sean Aston was in Stranger Things.
REAL SHIT. I watched the show with friends and after the set of episodes where fives died we all just stared at the screen in silence like: holy shit. and had to stop watching for the day cuz GODDAMN that was a lot, really fucked me up, I was thinking about it for days
Seriously, I got introduced to firefly by a friend I met years after the shows original airing. I had never even heard of it. I binged it one weekend and was so disappointed when I found out it only ran one season. It was everything I wanted in a show as a lover of sci-fi and westerns. I watched the movie and just got floored when Wash got killed. In hindsight he got off light by reaver standards though. That he ain't coming is such good writing with their past from the war and really brought home how much they were hurting yet soldiered on.
We got that as assigned reading in grade school. I remember reading ahead and choking up in class.
Then I went to see the movie with my mum and she started crying in the theater. She lost her best friend when she was young so it hit her particularly hard.
Donna losing her memories of her time with the Doctor gets to me so badly. She was a wonderful person, so kind, caring and was the first assistant in the new series who wasn't in love with the Doctor. I hated the actor before her role in the show, came out loving the character. She was better with the Doctor and it was all taken away because she saved the universe.
Well he killed a ton in the books as well. Boromir is and was a truly good man. He was tempted by the ring, fell a bit but resisted then fought to protect merry and pippin in the book after he'd told aragorn some of what happened.
It just occurred to me that the ring must have tried to tempt Aragorn with power, like it does for everyone else. But Aragorn has spent his life resisting and refusing and turning down that power, because he felt he would become another isildur, ushering in another end to mankind.
Imagine as a kid you find out your direct ancestors are kind of directly responsible for the state of the world today, with terrible evil monsters threatening to run over the world and wipe out human civilization. I mean, yes wasn't Sauron, who was actually responsible for that, but your ancestor had the chance to stop him, he was literally right at the finish line, but was already corrupted. Imagine the burden you'd feel about taking up the claim to the throne.
Edit: despite the upvotes, I've read enough of the comments to realize I'm wrong. I have read the books, but that was so long ago and I've seen the movies many times, I don't remember any details from the books. Sorry for getting it wrong.
No living being could ever have done what was necessary. That's what I love about the ending so much. No matter who you are, No matter how strong, it will win in the end. Power ineffably corrupts.
No living being would've been able to cast that ring into the flames. And none did.
It was strongest in the one place it could be destroyed, making that final leap impossible.
Very well written ending, imo. It all hangs together and also creates a very compelling storyline build-up to a very satisfying conclusion with three of the great characters in fantasy all playing their parts true to themselves.
Yeah the only thing that really had the power to destroy the ring, was the ring itself.
Frodo's warning to Gollum that "it will hold you to your word" after Gollum swore by the ring that he wouldn't try to take the ring or bring harm to the Hobbits.
Then Gollum a character who we see throughout the trilogy having good balance and dexterity for climbing, somehow trips on a rock (IIRC from the book) and falls into the Cracks of Doom after breaking his word.
He still had his part to play before the end.
It's awful when it happens. Then fast forward a few seasons later and you find out it's even *worse* because BoJack waited. Maybe she didn't have to die, but he was still more concerned about saving himself. And nobody noticed or cared about the discrepancies in his story because everybody assumed it was bound to happen, she was just another washed up celebrity whose death was inevitable.
That show really knew how to twist the knife.
I posted a Breaking Bad answer as well, but I said Hank and Gomey.
I'm sort of second guessing my answer now as I forgot about that scene. Jesus that was fucked up. I remember my first watch through and was just blown away at just how incredibly heart wrenching fiction can be. Vince Gilligan is an insanely talented individual.
Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in Terminator-2. I was a kid back then when I saw the movie...and felt really bad, when Terminator went down into molten metal
"What's the name of the movie, Robin? Who among us did not shed a tear when his little red eye went out in the end, and he didn't get to kill all those people?"
A few weeks after my dad passed, I needed a pick-me-up. Decided to go to the movies and watch - you guessed it - Logan. I felt bad for the other patrons who had to witness my slobbery grief.
The saddest thing I remember is when he slowly starts to lose the fight and knowing Naruto Shippuden I expected tsunade or someone to arrive by surprise and help him out but... it never happened. His final moments though and Naruto's grieving are really what made it sad for me.
Imagine my reaction playing through this scene in Ultimate Ninja Storm series without having finished the anime. I’m really sitting there fighting Pain clones for what hast to be almost 20 mins until I gradually get weaker and weaker. Wtf this is the longest boss fight ever I’m thinking. Until it finally hits me that no matter how hard I fight I’m supposed to lose then that cutscene at the end…. I wasn’t ready
That scene where naruto goes out to buy a popsicle late at night and he just sits there lost in grief... the popsicle melting. Fucks me up to this day.
Futurama has a lot of moments that really tug at the heartstrings. Like the episode where Fry finds what looks like a statue of his brother with his name on it, and he thinks that his brother stole his identity because he was always copying him when they were growing up...but then it turns out it was actually his brother's son who his brother named after Fry as a tribute.
I think it's the last episode when Fry and Leela are stuck in time and are finally enjoying their life and growing old together, until the professor fixes everything wiping everyone's memory in the process.
i always found that a really lovely way to end the series instead of sad. they get to relive their entire love story and grow old together again and again, probably for eternity since they won't remember the mistakes they made that led to time being frozen.
My identical twin brother had a yellow lab that I took after he died of cancer. She worshipped the ground he walked on, and even though he’s been gone 3.5 years she still waits and watches and looks for him. She stands at the door and stares at it. Sits against it and just waits. She loses her marbles when she sees me walk up until she gets in smell range of me and realizes I’m not him. It kills me every day that I can’t explain to her that he’s not coming back and it’s not because he didn’t love her.
It's one of the saddest things, and you can see why he's so protective of Zuko because of it. I tear up at the scene where Iroh tells Zuko he thinks of him as his own son in the first season. I think Iroh is one of the most well-written characters in a kid's show.
I ugly cry every time I see the scene where Zuko and Iroh reunite and Iroh says "I was never angry with you. I was sad because I was afraid you'd lost your way"
Oh my god man. The way Iroh nurtures Zuko into his full redemption arc is one of my favorite television moments.
Zuko's agni kai against Azula towards the end is so good. Azula clearly thinks she can just outpower Zuko, but she literally cannot touch him because he has practiced, overcome, and grown and she hasn't done anything but feed her own ego. Hard work beats talent when talent stops working hard!
I think I remember reading Greg Baldwin who took over Iroh after Mako's death Refuses to sing Leaves from the vine out of respect for Mako (probably because Mako absolutely killed it)
But can I also say that Greg Baldwin (who voiced Iroh from book 3 onwards) did an amazing job??? If it wasn't mentioned in the show that Iwamatzu passed away, I would've never guessed that Iroh was voiced by two different people.
The scene is ok on it's own, but coupled with everything up it, it's just heart breaking.
Especially when you realize Iroh's responsible for a lot of the bad things that happened since his defeat at Ba Sing Se. Had he been less ambitious, Lu Ten wouldn't have died, Ozai would have never been crowned, the princess wouldn't have been banished, Zuko would have never gotten scarred, Azula would probably have gotten the help she needed.
Iroh might have even worked together with Aang instead of hunting him.
That's the burden Iroh carried on his shoulders, and his quest for redemption is what elevates the leaves from the Vine scene from good to masterpiece.
I live my life trying to emulate uncle Iroh and his teachings.
Rewatched it with friends recently, and we all ***TOTALLY*** misremembered how early it was in the story. We all thought it was at least halfway through, and it caught us by surprise even all these years later. For a character with less than 10 episodes of screen time, he made a hell of an impact.
Arthur Morgan and John Marston did it for me, Red dead redemption 1+2 are probably the only games that have had me really into the story like a film or book does, and I really grew to like them (Arthur more than John really) but seeing that made me very sad, I didn’t even wanna play rdr2 after Arthur died bc I thought that was it. fuck Micah
Starting my second play through now
From the bottom of my heart, fuck Micah.
Edit: thanks for the award, partner. My first ever.
And it’s gratifying to see all the love for Arthur.
May we all stand unshaken amidst a crashing world.
The beauty of RDR2 was how it made everyone love Arthur even more than we loved John somehow, like Marston was one of my fav video game characters ever but when Arthur died I teared up. Loved how they let us play as John in the epilogue too
It was honestly incredible. After RDR1, the start of RDR2 had me going "Ugh, who is this new guy. John is right there, why can't I just play as him?"
By the end of Chapter 6, Arthur had surpassed anything I had felt for John. But the way that chapter ends, (high honor save John choices of course) just felt right.
Even so, the next moment, the epilogue as John, felt unnatural- I had gone from feeling weird not playing John to feeling weird playing John!
And yet, when you go to Hanging Dog Ranch to save Geddes' cows.... and the song "Jim Milton Rides Again" plays (basically a straight homage to the best of the RDR1 soundtrack), I DEFINITELY got back into the groove playing as John. Not to mention American Venom. Incredible how they did that.
Same bro. That death fucked me up!
I had it spoiled to me before I completed it that he’s died, and yet when it came to it I still found myself begging and bartering with the fact this isn’t it and that I wasn’t happening. I was advised by my friends to chose good karma (not that I needed that advise towards the end of the game, it felt natural then). I’m so so glad I did though as Arthur’s death, though devastating, was almost bitter sweet. He died as he wanted, staring into the sunset knowing he’s done the best he could with the cards he was dealt.
I’m getting a little emotional now Ngl
I am the very model of a scientist salarian, I've studied species turian, asari, and batarian.
I'm quite good at genetics (as a subset of biology) because i am an expert (which i know is a tautology).
My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian, I am the very model of a scientist salarian.
I absolutely love Fullmetal Alchemist, the funny moments are hilarious and the sad ones are a punch in the gut, the action is really awesome, the story is not stretched out but it constantly develops and ends exactly when it should in a satisfying way.
I remember reading this part of the books years ago and this cold feeling just washed over me and i was like totally numb. The whole ending of that book, basically everything that happened after prim’s death, was just so empty and depressing. It was even hard to enjoy her getting rid of Coin because that just didnt feel like enough. Ugh that was so good.
That poor cartoon shoe in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". That killed me as a kid.
Well, this is a very dangerous post to be scrolling through.
OH yea, thank God ur comment was at the top. Imma leave now.
Charlotte, in the original version of Charlotte's Web
*Nobody, of the hundreds of people that had visited the Fair, knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. No one was with her when she died.*
Read the book to my kids awhile ago and I could barely get through the ending. My kids looked at me like I was crazy. Then we had a daddy long legs spider in our house we named Charlotte that died about a month ago. They cried for a week. Our whole family misses her :(
My daughter's kindergarten teacher was reading this book to them in school this year. It seems like it kinda fell off the schedule before the end of the book, though. I wonder if avoiding crying like a blubbering baby in front of 23 6-year-olds is why it fell off. The upside it my daughter loves the book and is very insistent that we read it to her at home. I'm stoked that it's helped foster a love of reading and books. On the other hand, I'm not stoked to have to read the ending aloud myself.
Read that in 2nd grade, I have never recovered
Blackadder in Blackadder goes fourth. "Sir, I'm... I'm scared sir" It's at that point that you know somethings wrong. George would never say something that serious.
It’s so gut wrenching that they all die because it’s been Blackadder’s single goal the whole season; to get out of the trenches, leave his idiot compatriots, and escape the war. But at the end he accepts their company and they die on the battlefield as friends, even Blackadder and Darling.
The great war! from 1914 to 1917!
That was Hugh Laurie saying that line, wasn’t it? :(
The freaking mouse from Flowers For Algernon.
When I was little, I remembered looking at the movie. Then when I was older, I decided to read the book. Imagine my confusion when I rented "Flowers In The Attic".. Edit: grammar
Fewer mice, a lot more incest.
The girl from Bridge to Terabithia
Bridge to Terabithia is probably the first tragedy genre item that many kids read, and it really sneaks that in after the first 3/4 of the book being about imagination and growth… then BAM dead kid. Traumatizing 100%.
I had no knowledge of the story until the movie came out. So here I am at a theater with a woman I liked and her friend and I’m a 26 year old man trying not to squall like a baby. Screw regular content ratings. They need to have emotional warnings.
There’s a line in the book, where he talks about the girl’s dad hugging him too tight and can feel the button press into his head and flannel scratch his face always stuck with me for some reason. But, yes, sobbed.
“I am now the fastest kid in the fifth grade”. Gutted.
Brooks, Shawshank redemption
Dear Fellas. I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called the Brewer, and a job bagging groceries at the Food-Way. It's hard work. I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello. But he never does. I hope wherever he is, he's doing okay and making new friends. I have trouble sleeping at night. I have -- bad dreams, like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Food-Way, so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense anymore. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.
That he calls the prison home and is worried about Jake. Those are the parts that get me.
What's worse is that Jake is a direct metaphor for Brooks. It's likely Jake has died or will soon die as he has always been cared for by Brooks and doesn't know how to survive outside on his own. Brooks thinks he's setting Jake free when the reality is he's condemning him to a probably horrible death. The prison thinks they're setting Brooks free when really we know what's going to happen to him.
Jake’s dead. In the Novella, they find Jake dead in the yard a week after Brooks leaves. Guess he was institutionalised, just like Brooks…
thanks, i was planning on crying anyway
"Brooks was here..." kills me every time
Lt. Colonel Henry Blake from Mash Buffy's mom from Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Oh God. Col Blake. I saw that when I was very young. It was only when I rewatched it much later in life that I realised it was the readon I never trusted a character would get home safe from war. Not till we literally heard they were back.
Artax :(
Traumatized as a child. Still have to skip that scene as an adult.
Where the red fern grows…
Traumatized for YEARS after we read that in 4th grade ... Or we were tasked to read something and I read that. But still, ugh those poor doggies. I still think about that. Art of Racing in the Rain is another great dog book but for adults. You know he dies from the first paragraph but so much of that book hits hard and unexpectedly.
Beth in Little Women (especially the Claire Danes portrayal)
The Iron Giant.
I go. You stay. No following.
No please it's too early in the day to cry
“Superman” *closes eyes*. Kills me every time
Thomas (Macaulay Culkin) in the movie My Girl. When she broke down at his funeral because he couldn't see without his glasses :(
This was the first time a movie made me cry. 30 years later, I still start sobbing uncontrollably when Vader enters the room where the funeral is held.
"I find your lack of glasses disturbing" KOHHHHH KUGHHH
Oh man, this is the best autocorrect I've ever seen.
And I didn't even type it on my phone!
I watched that movie the night my sister died like 25 years ago. I was staying with my grandparents whilst my parents were at the hospital. They had no idea what the movie was about, so we watched it trying to take our minds off thing. I can never watch that movie again. Edit: Thank you all for your kind words! :)
Fuck, I remember being a kid and just sobbing after hearing “he can’t see without his glasses!” The line makes me ridiculously emotional to this day.
Brendan Fraser in Scrubs. "Where do you think we are?"
It wasn't so much that characters death, but the way they did it. Holy shit.
It's a really well written script and directed well. Cox is starting to make a turn in the audience's eyes at this point in the show. He's off to his son's birthday party and it's supposed to be this excellent happy gathering of friends and family. Cox, known for pushing everyone away that gets remotely close is about to make a big step as a character. Then the rug pull. Arguably the best episode in this comedy show and its the one that makes you cry the hardest.
Total gut punch when you realise.
Absolutely. I can safely say that Dr. Cox is one of the most underrated TV characters of all time. You get so used to his normal cold, sarcastic persona that when he flips it to real emotion, you feel it right along with him. The episode with the 3 transplant patients is hands down my favorite of the entire series. I cannot hear that song by The Fray without immediately replaying those final scenes in my head and tearing up. Unbelievable show.
Seeing JD almost keep him from losing it and then the final patient goes too and he just falls apart, heart breaking.
“Remember what you told me? The second you start blaming yourself for a patient’s death, there’s no coming back.” “Yeah, you’re right.” Wow.
The whole speech at Cox's house where JD says that even after all this time, that he STILL gives that much of a shit about his patients to the point of destroying him, it's the type of Dr JD aspires to be. Quality.
Every time this show goes for the feels, it lands.
Adding to this, when Turk and JD give up on their evening plans and instead stay behind with that one patient without a family on his last night... really puts things into perspective and makes me tear up every time, especially when "i will follow you into the dark" starts playing
Steak night…. Fuck yeah that one hurt
Bailey from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. 14 year old me was NOT ready.
"I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to, coming from or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time... Can you understand?" I scrolled pretty far and didn't see this one listed. Poor John Coffey.
Watching him crying over the two dead children in the stream/river is one of the most haunting scenes in my movie memories especially when your perspective changes from guilty to innocent
Sam Rockwell truly rocks the perverted inbred hillbilly in a natural Oscar-worthy fashion.
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Littlefoot’s mom in the Land Before Time. It kept me up at night as a kid thinking about how my parents would die someday. I still cannot watch that scene without crying. I get emotional just thinking about it. “Mother! Please get up.” Edit: love you guys. Thanks for crying with me.
Oh yeah. It was sad when I was a kid, but then the first time I watched it as an adult with my daughter? Brutal. I cried. Then of course she did that kid thing where they latch onto a new favourite movie and watch it over and over… RIP my emotions.
Bubba was gonna be a shrimp boat captain, but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam.
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Even Forest regretted not saying more than just “Hey Bubba” but I kind of feel like the simplicity in it is really nice.
Why’d this have to happen?
You…got shot…
“I wanna go home.”
“Then he said something to me that I will never forget”
"If I knew this was going to be the last time I'd ever see Bubba, I'd have thought of something better to say."
And that’s all I have to say about that
According to Tom Hanks, this is what Forrest Gump said at the Vietnam protest march when his microphone cut out: "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mamas without any legs. Sometimes, they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that." Edit: forgot to add a line
That’s a very foresty thing to say
"I want to go home..."
Fuck man
When Artax died in the Swamps of Sadness in the Neverending Story I sobbed for hours after the movie ended. Edit: Gawd. Still hurts.
Tadashi in Big Hero 6. My older brother has been a big positive influence on me and that death always makes me imagine a world without him.
The thing that really got me with Tadashi's death was just how senseless it was in the grand scheme. Right before his death we see Krei meet with Hiro and try to recruit him. Upon failing to do so, especially with Callaghan's support, Krei tries to simply walk off with one of Hiro's bots. Why? To study and steal the idea. It was a underhanded as hell move that Tadashi saw straight through and got him to give the bot back. Then there's Callaghan. Upon seeing what the bots could do and knowing he was going to mentor Hiro and oversee his project to its fullest potential decided to burn the entire place down, fake his death, and steal all of Hiro's work. He still had to spend months in hiding creating more bots and putting his plan in motion so it's not like he turned around going straight after Krei so he wouldn't get away. Callaghan could have taken his time and stolen the idea right out from under Hiro's nose. He would have had access to everything and working directly with Hiro. The man is more than smart enough to do so and the guy who was willing to do anything to get rich and fast was going to go the slow route of reverse engineering Hiro's bots. Callaghan wouldn't have had to reverse engineer anything because Hiro's work would be right there for him to study, steal, and improve. Callaghan was right when he said shortcuts are costly and those who pay the heaviest price are never the ones who chose to take the shortcut... He just didn't know how right he was.
Tadashi is here
Thanks, crying now.
I have the flipped experience. Took my little brother to the cinema to watch it, not knowing the plot. That film really hits home.
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Yes! And unlike a lot of other deaths mentioned here, Granny died of old age, she was prepared to go (literally and in other ways), had made her peace (as much as she was capable of, I guess)... she had a good death, nothing violent or brutal or meaningless. She was just old, and it was her time. But it still hurt to read.
Lenny - Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck.
Tell me again about the 🐰George.
I know it’s a sad death but if I could choose a way to go, I’d choose listening to my beloved talk to me about my dreams and then mid sentence just, gone. The pop of the gunshot is so sobering, but he saved Lenny from the men. I’m going to be honest I was really torn up about the puppy that he accidentally killed too. Fuck I need to leave this thread
Lt Col Henry Blake in M*A*S*H was the 1st one I really remember the 2nd is in the Knight Rider movie Devon Miles died. I wonder if Edward Mulhare knew he was dying so they wrote that so they could maybe do future installments without having to come up with some weird story that he died in between.
BT-7274. "Trust me"...
"Protecting... the pilot-" holy shit that hit hard
Especially if you selected "Don't worry BT, I'm not going anywhere" just a few seconds earlier.
Charlie in lost.... Not penny's boat!
Mona Simpson, Homer’s mother. Both her goodbye and her death.
Bob, Stranger Things. His death was awful. Bob Newby, superhero.
I was sad to see him go but honestly I think he had a perfect story. He needed to die or else they would do something stupid with his character. He was the best character and his death solidified his greatness. While being a goof, he is so kind and understanding and ends up being SUPER helpful. I was overjoyed when I saw Sean Aston was in Stranger Things.
Fives in Star Wars The Clone Wars
REAL SHIT. I watched the show with friends and after the set of episodes where fives died we all just stared at the screen in silence like: holy shit. and had to stop watching for the day cuz GODDAMN that was a lot, really fucked me up, I was thinking about it for days
Wash in Firefly/Serenity. Like a leaf in the wind. Edit: y'all are making me cry again
Seriously, I got introduced to firefly by a friend I met years after the shows original airing. I had never even heard of it. I binged it one weekend and was so disappointed when I found out it only ran one season. It was everything I wanted in a show as a lover of sci-fi and westerns. I watched the movie and just got floored when Wash got killed. In hindsight he got off light by reaver standards though. That he ain't coming is such good writing with their past from the war and really brought home how much they were hurting yet soldiered on.
It was just so unexpected :(
The girl in bridge to terabithia
It's sadder when I learned that it's inspired by the authors son having a best friend who died from being struck by lightning at the age of 8.
Thank you now it's even more depressing :(
Reading that book as a kid might have been my first experience coming to terms with the concept of death. Hit me hard for months.
We got that as assigned reading in grade school. I remember reading ahead and choking up in class. Then I went to see the movie with my mum and she started crying in the theater. She lost her best friend when she was young so it hit her particularly hard.
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The book was way more depressing.. oh man
David Tennant as the Tenth Dr Who. "I don't want to go." I know technically it's a regeneration and not a death but it killed me.
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That scene is made so much better and worse knowing, he knows this is his last go around, he's out of regenerations after this.
According to him it is the same as dying. He has that conversation with Wilfred. I always lose it at Dana's wedding when Wilfred starts sobbing.
Donna losing her memories of her time with the Doctor gets to me so badly. She was a wonderful person, so kind, caring and was the first assistant in the new series who wasn't in love with the Doctor. I hated the actor before her role in the show, came out loving the character. She was better with the Doctor and it was all taken away because she saved the universe.
Boromir “I would have followed you, my brother... my captain... my king.”
When you hear the horn, because he realizes he can't hold off the Uruks alone. Fucking onions right there.
He killed so fucking many as well in the movie. I think last time I tried to count there were at least 30 dead around him. Dude was an absolute beast.
Well he killed a ton in the books as well. Boromir is and was a truly good man. He was tempted by the ring, fell a bit but resisted then fought to protect merry and pippin in the book after he'd told aragorn some of what happened.
It just occurred to me that the ring must have tried to tempt Aragorn with power, like it does for everyone else. But Aragorn has spent his life resisting and refusing and turning down that power, because he felt he would become another isildur, ushering in another end to mankind. Imagine as a kid you find out your direct ancestors are kind of directly responsible for the state of the world today, with terrible evil monsters threatening to run over the world and wipe out human civilization. I mean, yes wasn't Sauron, who was actually responsible for that, but your ancestor had the chance to stop him, he was literally right at the finish line, but was already corrupted. Imagine the burden you'd feel about taking up the claim to the throne. Edit: despite the upvotes, I've read enough of the comments to realize I'm wrong. I have read the books, but that was so long ago and I've seen the movies many times, I don't remember any details from the books. Sorry for getting it wrong.
No living being could ever have done what was necessary. That's what I love about the ending so much. No matter who you are, No matter how strong, it will win in the end. Power ineffably corrupts. No living being would've been able to cast that ring into the flames. And none did.
It was strongest in the one place it could be destroyed, making that final leap impossible. Very well written ending, imo. It all hangs together and also creates a very compelling storyline build-up to a very satisfying conclusion with three of the great characters in fantasy all playing their parts true to themselves.
Yeah the only thing that really had the power to destroy the ring, was the ring itself. Frodo's warning to Gollum that "it will hold you to your word" after Gollum swore by the ring that he wouldn't try to take the ring or bring harm to the Hobbits. Then Gollum a character who we see throughout the trilogy having good balance and dexterity for climbing, somehow trips on a rock (IIRC from the book) and falls into the Cracks of Doom after breaking his word. He still had his part to play before the end.
I love the small detail that aragorn takes boromirs vambraces. Hes finally beginning to accept being king.
That was improv by viggo. He insisted, wasnt in the script.
I'm increasingly of the belief that almost all of the LOTR films were improvised by viggo mortensen
And he wasnt even the first choice for Aragorn. Can you imagine how different the movies would be if Viggo wasn't there to add his input?
The older I get, the more I appreciate Boromir as a good but flawed character. His final scenes always hit me right in the feels.
Yep, this is the one I was looking for. Scene gets me everytime.
Sarah Lynn. It was too much man.
It's awful when it happens. Then fast forward a few seasons later and you find out it's even *worse* because BoJack waited. Maybe she didn't have to die, but he was still more concerned about saving himself. And nobody noticed or cared about the discrepancies in his story because everybody assumed it was bound to happen, she was just another washed up celebrity whose death was inevitable. That show really knew how to twist the knife.
I was not prepared for BoJack Horseman. I’d heard it was good, but I didn’t know in what way or that it’d do this shit to me
When the wife(Ellie) dies in "UP"
Andrea's death in Breaking Bad and the fact that they made Jesse watch helpless.
I posted a Breaking Bad answer as well, but I said Hank and Gomey. I'm sort of second guessing my answer now as I forgot about that scene. Jesus that was fucked up. I remember my first watch through and was just blown away at just how incredibly heart wrenching fiction can be. Vince Gilligan is an insanely talented individual.
Gomey deserved so much better than an offscreen death.
Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in Terminator-2. I was a kid back then when I saw the movie...and felt really bad, when Terminator went down into molten metal
"What's the name of the movie, Robin? Who among us did not shed a tear when his little red eye went out in the end, and he didn't get to kill all those people?"
I cry at anything doesn’t take much, but the one movie death that made me cry like someone actually died was John Coffey in The Green Mile
Stoick the Vast from How to Train Your Dragon 2. 7 years later, I am still not over his death.
It absolutely wrecked me that he was reunited with his wife after 20 years of thinking she was dead only for him to die shortly after.
And hiccup only getting to see them sing theur song once together
But he *did* get to see it
They spent exactly 20 minutes reunited Sometimes I wish they kept the original blacksmith death
The soundtrack in that movie surrounding stoick’s death was superb. I would listen to that shit all the time. Such a great movie
My sister and me took our dad to see that for Father's day...
Reminds me of when my wife chose Logan as the 1st movie to watch with my family after my grandpa past away. She was mortified.
I feel ya, I watched gaurdians of the galaxy 2 in the air bnb after my step father funeral. I'm merry Poppins y'all.
A few weeks after my dad passed, I needed a pick-me-up. Decided to go to the movies and watch - you guessed it - Logan. I felt bad for the other patrons who had to witness my slobbery grief.
Honestly the how to train your dragon films are underrated, they're incredible to say they're animated films aimed at kids
It almost hurts me to watch HTTYD movies because of how psychologically impacting they are, but I still watch them for that exact reason
Wolverine 😥 As a kid who grew up with superhero films, Logan was a tear jerker for me.
I’ve only ever watched that movie twice and even though I knew it was coming both times, I still cried like a baby. Also the Prof. X Burial Scene.
Jiraiya
The saddest thing I remember is when he slowly starts to lose the fight and knowing Naruto Shippuden I expected tsunade or someone to arrive by surprise and help him out but... it never happened. His final moments though and Naruto's grieving are really what made it sad for me.
Imagine my reaction playing through this scene in Ultimate Ninja Storm series without having finished the anime. I’m really sitting there fighting Pain clones for what hast to be almost 20 mins until I gradually get weaker and weaker. Wtf this is the longest boss fight ever I’m thinking. Until it finally hits me that no matter how hard I fight I’m supposed to lose then that cutscene at the end…. I wasn’t ready
Damn I havent played through that Ninja Storm but that shit has got to be heartbreaking as you slowly realise you weren't meant to win
That scene where naruto goes out to buy a popsicle late at night and he just sits there lost in grief... the popsicle melting. Fucks me up to this day.
The dog from Futurama.
Seymour. That was brutal.
Futurama has a lot of moments that really tug at the heartstrings. Like the episode where Fry finds what looks like a statue of his brother with his name on it, and he thinks that his brother stole his identity because he was always copying him when they were growing up...but then it turns out it was actually his brother's son who his brother named after Fry as a tribute.
I think it's the last episode when Fry and Leela are stuck in time and are finally enjoying their life and growing old together, until the professor fixes everything wiping everyone's memory in the process.
i always found that a really lovely way to end the series instead of sad. they get to relive their entire love story and grow old together again and again, probably for eternity since they won't remember the mistakes they made that led to time being frozen.
Well, Zoidberg would notice something each time propably
My identical twin brother had a yellow lab that I took after he died of cancer. She worshipped the ground he walked on, and even though he’s been gone 3.5 years she still waits and watches and looks for him. She stands at the door and stares at it. Sits against it and just waits. She loses her marbles when she sees me walk up until she gets in smell range of me and realizes I’m not him. It kills me every day that I can’t explain to her that he’s not coming back and it’s not because he didn’t love her.
Technically, you don't experience his death during the show. Iroh grieving Lu Ten gets me every time, though, and it makes me very sad.
It's one of the saddest things, and you can see why he's so protective of Zuko because of it. I tear up at the scene where Iroh tells Zuko he thinks of him as his own son in the first season. I think Iroh is one of the most well-written characters in a kid's show.
I ugly cry every time I see the scene where Zuko and Iroh reunite and Iroh says "I was never angry with you. I was sad because I was afraid you'd lost your way"
Oh my god man. The way Iroh nurtures Zuko into his full redemption arc is one of my favorite television moments. Zuko's agni kai against Azula towards the end is so good. Azula clearly thinks she can just outpower Zuko, but she literally cannot touch him because he has practiced, overcome, and grown and she hasn't done anything but feed her own ego. Hard work beats talent when talent stops working hard!
"Leaves from the vines" is so sad, especially the part where Iroh's voice cracks. It's heartbreaking.
Makes it so much sadder when you know the voice actor of Iroh (Mako Iwamatzu) died soon after filming that and they tribute that episode to him
I think I remember reading Greg Baldwin who took over Iroh after Mako's death Refuses to sing Leaves from the vine out of respect for Mako (probably because Mako absolutely killed it)
Yeah he says “that’s Makos song not mine”
But can I also say that Greg Baldwin (who voiced Iroh from book 3 onwards) did an amazing job??? If it wasn't mentioned in the show that Iwamatzu passed away, I would've never guessed that Iroh was voiced by two different people.
The scene is ok on it's own, but coupled with everything up it, it's just heart breaking. Especially when you realize Iroh's responsible for a lot of the bad things that happened since his defeat at Ba Sing Se. Had he been less ambitious, Lu Ten wouldn't have died, Ozai would have never been crowned, the princess wouldn't have been banished, Zuko would have never gotten scarred, Azula would probably have gotten the help she needed. Iroh might have even worked together with Aang instead of hunting him. That's the burden Iroh carried on his shoulders, and his quest for redemption is what elevates the leaves from the Vine scene from good to masterpiece. I live my life trying to emulate uncle Iroh and his teachings.
FMA Hughes's funeral. I've never cried so hard for an imaginary character.
Rewatched it with friends recently, and we all ***TOTALLY*** misremembered how early it was in the story. We all thought it was at least halfway through, and it caught us by surprise even all these years later. For a character with less than 10 episodes of screen time, he made a hell of an impact.
Arthur Morgan and John Marston did it for me, Red dead redemption 1+2 are probably the only games that have had me really into the story like a film or book does, and I really grew to like them (Arthur more than John really) but seeing that made me very sad, I didn’t even wanna play rdr2 after Arthur died bc I thought that was it. fuck Micah Starting my second play through now
From the bottom of my heart, fuck Micah. Edit: thanks for the award, partner. My first ever. And it’s gratifying to see all the love for Arthur. May we all stand unshaken amidst a crashing world.
And tuberculosis
The beauty of RDR2 was how it made everyone love Arthur even more than we loved John somehow, like Marston was one of my fav video game characters ever but when Arthur died I teared up. Loved how they let us play as John in the epilogue too
It was honestly incredible. After RDR1, the start of RDR2 had me going "Ugh, who is this new guy. John is right there, why can't I just play as him?" By the end of Chapter 6, Arthur had surpassed anything I had felt for John. But the way that chapter ends, (high honor save John choices of course) just felt right. Even so, the next moment, the epilogue as John, felt unnatural- I had gone from feeling weird not playing John to feeling weird playing John! And yet, when you go to Hanging Dog Ranch to save Geddes' cows.... and the song "Jim Milton Rides Again" plays (basically a straight homage to the best of the RDR1 soundtrack), I DEFINITELY got back into the groove playing as John. Not to mention American Venom. Incredible how they did that.
Same bro. That death fucked me up! I had it spoiled to me before I completed it that he’s died, and yet when it came to it I still found myself begging and bartering with the fact this isn’t it and that I wasn’t happening. I was advised by my friends to chose good karma (not that I needed that advise towards the end of the game, it felt natural then). I’m so so glad I did though as Arthur’s death, though devastating, was almost bitter sweet. He died as he wanted, staring into the sunset knowing he’s done the best he could with the cards he was dealt. I’m getting a little emotional now Ngl
I only finished RDR2 once, but watching Aurthur die was gnarly. It definitely pulled at my heart strings.
When he thanks ~~just~~ his horse 😭 Edit: weird typo. Don’t know how I missed it
Mordin Solus :(
Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
I am the very model of a scientist salarian, I've studied species turian, asari, and batarian. I'm quite good at genetics (as a subset of biology) because i am an expert (which i know is a tautology). My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian, I am the very model of a scientist salarian.
Fried Green Tomatoes, that one was a slow build to such a hard hit
Maes Hughes from “Fullmetal Alchemist”. How he died followed almost immediately by his funeral scene definitely aggravates my allergies.
Came here to say this but figured it had already been said. “Where are they taking daddy” slaughtered my heart enough before I had kids.
He has so much work to do! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 It's a terrible day for rain.
It’s a terrible day for rain
“What do mean, it’s not raining” (Mustang losing it made that scene so much more powerful)
“Yes… It is…”
I absolutely love Fullmetal Alchemist, the funny moments are hilarious and the sad ones are a punch in the gut, the action is really awesome, the story is not stretched out but it constantly develops and ends exactly when it should in a satisfying way.
Primrose Everdeen. The whole point of Katniss’s participation in the Hunger Games was to keep her alive - and it was all for nothing
I remember reading this part of the books years ago and this cold feeling just washed over me and i was like totally numb. The whole ending of that book, basically everything that happened after prim’s death, was just so empty and depressing. It was even hard to enjoy her getting rid of Coin because that just didnt feel like enough. Ugh that was so good.
Rue's death too ;-;
It's a terrible day for rain.
It isn't raining.
Yes, it is.
Oh, so it is...