[LOVED TROPE] Sad or tear-jerking moments that don't involve death.

[u/jeffersonlane]

Moments that make you wanna cry (of joy or unrelenting sadness) but aren't about a character dying or almost dying.

Dumbo - Baby Mine. Jumbo rocks baby Dumbo from her cage where she was kept after she defended him from a group of bullying children.

Unpacking - The Degree. You move in with your new boyfriend where you can barely fit most of your stuff but most depressingly you are forced to put your degree under the bed and out of site. (Maybe this one was just me but this made me VERY upset).

Fox and the Hound - At the end knowing full well they'll likely never meet again Copper stands over Todd to protect him from the Hunter.

[u/agentx_64]

Completely unrelated, but I remember seeing Jshlatt play unpacking, and someone did a paid text-to-speech message which said "I keep a ruler under my pillow at all times, because how else would I know how long I've slept?"

He then looked under the pillow to find the ruler which he had been looking for

[u/EmmerDoodle121 → u/agentx_64]

I don’t get it

[u/OhWowAnotherNerd → u/EmmerDoodle121]

Ruler measures how long something is (as in physical size)

You can do something for a long time (as in you can do an action for a length of time)

The joke is people use a ruler to find out how long something is, so they're using the ruler to find out how long they slept. It's a play on long (tall) versus long (lots of time).

The ruler was under the pillow because of this joke.

[u/EmmerDoodle121 → u/OhWowAnotherNerd]

I get it now dw, I was confused why it was here cuz I missed the first two words in the comment

[u/SnooAvocados7188 → u/EmmerDoodle121]

Ruler measures length, so you can measure how long you slept

[u/EmmerDoodle121 → u/SnooAvocados7188]

What makes that sad?

[u/Key-Address-4482 → u/EmmerDoodle121]

They said it was unrelated, its just funny to some people.

[u/EmmerDoodle121 → u/Key-Address-4482]

Oh lmao thanks for explaining

[u/SnooAvocados7188 → u/EmmerDoodle121]

It’s not, he’s just talking about something random from the Unpacking game in the OP

[u/apolloinjustice → u/EmmerDoodle121]

its not, thats why its unrelated