What is the saddest thing you've seen in fiction? Any form- television, literature, video games, what have you.
I don't know if this is the definitive saddest thing I've seen, but this from Fullmetal Alchemist is definitely the saddest thing I've seen recently:
oh man i just read the manga this past month and just started watching brotherhood today and i'm actually crying its so sad
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The thing I never really wrapped my brain around until now was in order to be remembered, in order to leave something significant behind, you have to leave
-Rosalina's Storybook in Super Mario Galaxy
-Shirley's Death in Code Geass
-Japanese Sonic X Season 3 ending
-Lockon's Death in Gundam 00
-The ending of Inside I'm Dancing/Rory Was Here
-Suzuha's failure/"death" in Steins;Gate
-Sosuke's deterioration and depression throughout the latter half of Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid
-"Kenny Dies" and "You're Getting Old" episodes of South Park
All that comes to mind for now.
--- "My memories will be part of the sky."
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Spoilers for a bunch of anime and jrpgs. Cause I'm a weeb.
-The finale of Death Parade. I was literally sobbing watching that dear god.
-The entire last 3 chapters of Super Dangan Ronpa 2, but especially Nanami. ;_; My daughter why.
-Akinari's death in Persona 3. That social link made me cry more than the actual ending did.
-Natsume being adopted by the Fujiwaras, in Natsume's Book of Friends. Tho "sad" probably isn't the best way to describe it, it still made me cry buckets.
-NATSUME CRYING ON THE PORCH OF HIS DEAD PARENTS' HOUSE.
-Just Natsume crying in general. If he's crying, I'm crying.
Yeah that FMA one definitely comes to mind as one of the saddest moments. I find that it was even worse in the original version than Brotherhood. Other than that, other ones I found sad would be:
Bluestar's life in Bluestar's Prophecy was really sad. There were heaps of times I cried reading this book. The main one that comes to mind is Bluestar giving up her kits to Oakheart, and one of them dying along the way. That entire scene was really well done and really got to me, and no other fictional book so far has left me quite emotional. The Erins really put their heart and soul into Bluestar's Prophecy, and it's a shame they're no longer doing that.
Kurou's death in Okamiden was really awful to me. It's literally the first death in fiction that I feel shouldn't stick. He didn't deserve that death at all and I was really upset when it happened (like, literally crying).
L's death in Death Note. And then Light laughing at his grave. Light's death was pretty sad too.
Vriska's death at the end of Act 5 in Homestuck was very sad when it first happened. It may have lost it's meaning now, but it was still sad when it happened.
Pretty much everything that happens to Dorian at the end of the book Heir of Fire.
there's probably more, but i can't think of them at the moment.
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a true saiyan always sprinkles when he tinkles
I thought that scene was sad, but honestly I found Maes Hughes's death a lot worse. His death was unexpected, especially for such a likable character. I actually cried during that scene in Brotherhood.
Some other ones are:
-The ending to The Book Thief. Part of me can't believe that the author would kill off Liesel's parents and best friend like that, but at the same time i wasn't too surprised, considering this is set in World War II.
-Stoick's death in How to Train Your Dragon 2 was unexpected but nonetheless really sad.
-The ending to the Walking Dead video game. Lee's death is so sad and I cry ever single time I play it. same for TWD: Season 2 video game's ending.
The ending of The Book Thief. I cried for a good hour and it made me depressed for like a week, I'm not even kidding. That book hit me hard, which is why I love it so much.
Wall-E
When EVE repairs WALL-E who doesn't remember her.
Metal Gear Solid:
Sniper Wolf's death
Metal Gear Solid IV: Guns of the Patriots:
Microwave Hall
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag:
Blackbeard's death
Cast Away:
Wilson drifts away
Quote:
WILSON! WILSON I'M SORRY! WILSON! WILLLLLSOOOON!
Dark Souls:
Solaire hollows (and to a lesser extent, Siegmeyer)
Boss against Gwyn, Lord of Cinder
Descent into the Kiln of the First Flame
Knight Artorias' battle (especially if you listen to the cut dialogue)
Demon's Souls:
Boss against Maiden Astraea
Ostrava of Boletaria commits suicide
Halo: Reach:
The deaths of Noble Team (especially Jorge, Emile, and Noble Six)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2:
Ghost and Roach's deaths.
Jurassic World
Charlie's death
Echo's death
Blue and Owen part ways, with Blue leaving to find the rest of her pack, not knowing they're all dead.
and for a brief moment
Rexy is bested by the Indominus
Pokemon: The First Movie
Ash turns to stone (though I hated the fact he came back)
Final Fantasy VII:
Aerith's death (shocked me at first)
Cait Sith's sacrifice (though I wish he would have STAYED dead.)
Guardians of the Galaxy:
Groot's death (good thing he came back)
Wet Goddess: Memoirs of a Dolphin Lover (a book)
Ruby's death, both sad and creepy...
These are just moments I found sad, since I normally just laugh at "sad" scenes.
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"Caim? Caim...the one who calls to me...I cannot see. Where are you?"
~Angelus (Drakengard 2)
(Angelus x Caim OTP)
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Clannad - Nagisa's death and Ushio's death
Angel Beats! - Yui moving on
Death Note - L's death
Little Busters - Finding out that Riki and Rin were the only survivors
Anohana - Pretty much everything
The Walking Dead Game - Lee's death
Game of Thrones - Jon Snow being betrayed and presumably killed
Clannad - Nagisa's death and Ushio's death
Angel Beats! - Yui moving on
Death Note - L's death
Little Busters - Finding out that Riki and Rin were the only survivors
Anohana - Pretty much everything
The Walking Dead Game - Lee's death
Game of Thrones - Jon Snow being betrayed and presumably killed
Just want to point out that
There's next to zero chance that Jon Snow is actually going to be dead come The Winds of Winter, just like there's next to zero chance that Daenerys is going to be killed by Jhaqo. They're too important to kill off before the final book.
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The thing I never really wrapped my brain around until now was in order to be remembered, in order to leave something significant behind, you have to leave
Clannad - Nagisa's death and Ushio's death
Angel Beats! - Yui moving on
Death Note - L's death
Little Busters - Finding out that Riki and Rin were the only survivors
Anohana - Pretty much everything
The Walking Dead Game - Lee's death
Game of Thrones - Jon Snow being betrayed and presumably killed
Just want to point out that
There's next to zero chance that Jon Snow is actually going to be dead come The Winds of Winter, just like there's next to zero chance that Daenerys is going to be killed by Jhaqo. They're too important to kill off before the final book.
Yeah I know about that. But
The fact that they tried to kill him was still sad and frustrating.
I've been watching a Kingdom Hearts II playthrough, and I forgot how sad...well...EVERYTHING to do with Roxas is.
Like holy crap, this guy has it HARD. They truly made him the polar opposite of Sora.
Even out of context it still comes of as really sad because this is a guy who literally has everyone tell him "you're a Nobody" or "you were never supposed to exist" at every turn. Yes, there are special in-universe connotations there, but they arguably make things sadder, and even without that context, those phrases would still be HORRIBLE things to say to someone IRL.
Eh, spoilers well i don't you if you care for it or not.
In Free Birds, the leader of the Turkey clan dies in order that the other turkeys could escape from the burning tree, also his last words...i just want to cry.
I have too many, but, i wanted to go with something that no one would expect to be a sad moment in fiction.
Psychonauts, like, the entire game. I mean, it's game where you literally dive into the minds of the characters. To name a few, Milla's story, Sasha's story all the way down to tiny little side stories like Clem and Crystal's. My personal favorite is the story of Gloria Von Guton, who is bipolar because her mother's death.
The endings of Pokemon Blue/Red Rescue Team and Explores of Sky/Darkness/Time were really sad, yet also great endings.
Also the partner leaving you in Blue/Red Rescue Team after completing the main story-line hit me hard to the point I really struggled to continue the post-storyline. I got too emotionally invested in the partner and the character I was playing as. Doesn't help that I was a lot younger when I first played it.
After beating Undertale, there was a certain character's story which was really sad:
Asriel's entire story. He makes friends with a human called Chara, who is actually a sociopath and a murderer. The human and Asriel both end up dying. Then after his death his 'dust' (which I believe is monster's equivalent of blood) gets absorbed into flowers which one of them gets injected with Determination. So Asriel comes back to life as a flower called Flowey with the mind of Asriel but no soul, and hence he's not able to feel emotions, and he doesn't get help from anyone and his parents don't even know of his existence. And after learning the ability of saves and resets and learning that if he dies he no longer exists due to not having a soul he eventually gets driven to insanity and becomes a sociopath and the main villain of the game. The final fight with him in the true pacifist run nearly had me in tears since he had his reasons for fighting you and he just wanted to have a better life and ends up breaking down at the end off the fight. And in the end, you could save everyone else except him, who needed saving the most.
I mean, I thought that Kurow from Okamiden had it bad and I thought his ending was complete bull****, but Asriel has it worse since death is better than rotting away as a flower forever and being left behind, and there's a chance that Kurow is happily in the Celestial Plain with Chibi, Ammy and Waka anyway (I admit it's more of a headcanon and me in denial, but I don't see why that can't happen).
Then there's also the fact that Sans is aware of the timelines and resets. So he's aware that after you beat the game, you would probably reset to play the game again and hence he would live out the events of Undertale over and over. This reason alone makes me not want to replay Undertale too many times despite it having a really high replay value.
Then there's the ending of the prologue in The Last of Us. It didn't make me cry like Okamiden did, but I was really freaking close to it.
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a true saiyan always sprinkles when he tinkles
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Well the saddest thing *I* have seen in fiction, is in my own book (coming out very soon), but I am unsure if that really counts. Nonetheless, I've seen it, and it is fiction. lol. I do think maybe readers won't find what I am talking about as sad as I did, since I wrote it. Writing sad scenes for characters you love about can really be emotional sometimes.
Uh... for something everyone else has scene? I'm unsure, there's so many. The Road, The Leftovers, and The Last of Us (ironically all are alike) have all left me very emotional. Won't even speak of specific scenes since the entire things, I found extremely depressing and sad.
In World of Warcraft, that moment with Ji Firepaw, Aysa Cloudsing, and the explosives. And to think Ji had a crush on her, ... but that look of hers ...
Not the bit where you leave your partner, but seeing him crying on the beach after that. It's really heartbreaking to see months pass and your partner still hasn't gotten over the loss. One of the many reasons this is my favourite pokemon game ever. One question though: WHY DID DIALGA WAIT SO LONG TO BRING YOU BACK!?!?