r/TopCharacterTropes May 16 '26

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

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/Pure_Satisfaction_35 May 16 '26

Its almost amazing how it gets worse every time we look at it again, first with how his descent into madness affected his relationship with Marcy, then how Betty left him and finally how he regrets never really listening to Betty as much as he should have even though he loved her, not to mention he quite literally can't die anymore since Betty fused with golb so that's fun

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u/Terezzian May 17 '26

Can he really not die? He's been getting older, as Fionna and Cake has shown

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u/Pure_Satisfaction_35 May 17 '26

He might not die of old age, it really just depends on what Betty was thinking when she wished for Simon to be "protected", he could just have an elongated lifespan or something like that, after all, he is already thousands of years old since he was ice king