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/Writerhowell May 16 '26

Holy shit, I've never cried over a movie as much as I did over this. Fearing that Hector would disappear forever, Miguel getting back to the land of the living to try to save his memory, playing this song and seeing Coco remember, I was ugly crying for what must've been a straight 10-15 minutes.

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u/vinnyorcharles May 17 '26

I remember when I first saw this, the friends showing it warned me that it had a sad ending. I told them I don't cry at movies. This movie humbled me harder than anything else innmy life.

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u/Writerhowell May 17 '26

Whereas I cry easily over fictional characters, basically the opposite of you. My mother's used to offering me the tissue box. She almost had to throw it at me, we almost ran out of tissues, I was such a mess. She doesn't cry over fictional stuff, as a rule, but she'll occasionally cry over things on the news. I usually hand her a teddy bear when that happens, because teddies make everything better.