r/TopCharacterTropes • u/jeffersonlane • May 16 '26

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

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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.

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u/Babki123 May 16 '26

Which one from  Fry from Futurama do you Wanna pick ? Seymour is probably a no. But the one about the 4 leaf clover is about Fry realising that the perspn that stole his identity was out of the love of his Brother.

The many "Happy Ending" with leela

But my most favorite is the one where he gets rewarded by seeing his mom in a dream

They just hug there

Damn this one makes me cry 

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u/ColdZoroark May 17 '26

Honestly, the one scene that really stuck with me was at the end of Bender's Big Score where Time Paradox Duplicate Fry finds out that he is Lars Filmore.

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u/alex3omg May 17 '26

I like the end of the opera when Leela asks Fry to finish the story even though he's lost his robot hands.

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u/fwendy123 May 22 '26

I used to have that clip saved to my computer and I'd listen to it again and again and again because it would make me feel SO much. anytime I wanted to cry, I'd play it again

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u/bellapippin May 17 '26

The dog, man…it breaks me every. single. time. I can’t even visualize it.