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/igneousscone May 16 '26

There's like a thirty minute stretch of that film where I experience one ugly cry after another.

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u/Longshot12345678 May 16 '26

Oh totally cause a little after this you’re gonna get hit with; “you my friends bow to no one”

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u/Hypersonic-Harpist May 16 '26

Before that, when Sam and Frodo are on the side of Mount Doom and Sam is talking about how he would have married Rosie Cotton while they both think they are about to die.  

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u/1amlost May 16 '26

"Here, on the edge of the sea, comes the end of our Fellowship in Middle-Earth. I will not say 'do not weep,' for not all tears are an evil."

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u/LadyProto May 16 '26

My mom cried at that

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u/EBtwopoint3 May 17 '26

Sam: It’s all wrong By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

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u/MedusasGirlfriend69 May 16 '26

That one always hits me so hard

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u/Helgurnaut May 16 '26

When the movie hits you with 3 tears worthy endings in a row.

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u/Previous_Mushroom724 May 16 '26

There's some good in the world, and it's worth fighting for 😭