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Saddest moments in a cartoon?
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DrAg0nBoY
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didn't hit me until his daughter started asking why he had to go away. And my dumbass was at work watching that scene during my lunch break.Colonel Hughes death
Yeah that shit hit me so hard when she started. I am getting wattery eyes everytime I see this scene...
The entire movie was about a kid battling depression. It tore me apart.
BKatastrophe
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I see y'all picking DCAU moments are picking some greats: Mr. Freeze, Clayface, Babydoll, For the Man Who Has Everything, Epilogue. Good choices. Let me raise you:
Justice League - "The Terror Beyond - Part 2"
and
Justice League Unlimited - "Wake the Dead"
Granted I couldn't find a clip of the second one, but it's the saddest arc that no one talks about.
Man, what he said when Clark dropped his ass back on Apokolips...
Justice League - "The Terror Beyond - Part 2"
and
Justice League Unlimited - "Wake the Dead"
Granted I couldn't find a clip of the second one, but it's the saddest arc that no one talks about.
Man, what he said when Clark dropped his ass back on Apokolips...
Teriyaki Blues
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Many great and terrible things mentioned in here, so I'll just namedrop The Velveteen Rabbit. I can't even read the book. Tears from page one until done.
Acidote
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It was always Jurassic Bark for me. Until I watched this again after having nephews. Now I have a hard time watching both episodes.
yeah, arnold's christmas is great. it gets pretty exposition-heavy towards the end since the plot needs to catch helga up on arnold's/gerald's happenings, but it sticks the landing perfectly.
i also like arnold's valentine a lot too despite it should be really stupidly obvious that arnold's on a date with helga.
Vulcano's assistant
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Both this and Hughes are more effective in the original. Brotherhood kinda rushes through them by comparison.
echoshifting
Banned
Okay I suppose I will be the one to ask
What is the story with the dog in a wig that has been quoted like fifty times
What is the story with the dog in a wig that has been quoted like fifty times
well brotherhood is pretty junk overall.
in fullmetal alchemist brotherhood,
a guy fuses his daughter with his dog to create a human/animal chimera for some reason. then the show meanders arond for 60 episodes with an ever-increasing cast and without any weight and it ends.
Newtype-001
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Septimus Prime
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It's the one where Homer finds his mom.
I've seen a lot of these, and I still say Jurassic Bark. Nothing else is as sad, where even an out of context gif if it ruins my day.
Chuck Norris
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Great show have been trying to remember the name of it foreverPretty much every death in this series wrecked me as a child .
This series was pretty much Game of thrones For kids .
ValkyrUser
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The Jungle Book scene where Mowgli thinks Baloo is dead. That scene really made me sad when I was kid. 
Glass Rebel
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oh another scene from Gurren Lagann
fucked me up fam
fucked me up fam
Hesemonni
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This really is hard to beat.
It's how the film should have ended... especially if they wanted to really scar little kids for life.
You should watch this (if you haven't already):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phFISjORzQs
PeakPointMatrix
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Ow
The end of Bart Gets an F.
Owww
Damn it all
:'(
This took too long to post.If cartoon =/= anime, then
edit: beaten
ValkyrUser
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I've seen the praise for Gurren Lagann and I'm sure It's amazing but I also heard what happens. I refuse to watch it because of that.
Mister Wolf
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The saddest ive seen is the final moments between the chimera ant king and komugi in Hunter x hunter anime. Honorable mention goes to Naruto talking to zabuza about haku, he even made zabuza cry.
That's why people should watch the superior and more focused original series. Brotherhood was good overall, but the first series focuses a lot better on the bond between the brothers Elrich, and the people whose lives they affect. The music alone magnifies each emotional moment on a whole other level compared to Brotherhood.
Agreed. The Hughes and Chimera bits were so bad in Brotherhood. They wanted to rush through but also wanted to evoke an emotional response so it was basically "OK this shit happens to characters you don't really know well. Now cry please."
Having a kid say stupid shit at a funeral is just a way to squeeze tears. If you watched only Brotherhood you don't know the characters well and there's no weight to it. Might as well have just had a random scene of people kicking kids in the street.
Why isn't the monkey moving?
I like both FMA adaptations for what they were but lets not forget what a drop in quality the second half of FMA was. Some of those story decisions confuse me to this day. All that emotional weight that was set up went nowhere
except Earth... because yeah dead souls power Alchemy or something
Dunedain_Ranger
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Wasn't a cartoon but dinosaurs man the winter holocaust finale and the two little endangered species episodes sad and horrified at the same time ......
batman2million
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I gotta stop reading this thread. I keep tearing up in my cube.
Hurt and Scared
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History of trunks - Gohan's death
Heart of ice - mr freeze speech at the end
Charolette's Web - Wilbur coping with the fact his friend is going to die
My favourite superman moment ever.
"In the end, the world didn't need a "super" man... just a brave one."
All of this shit! ALL OF IT!
The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee (Las aventuras de José Miel in Latin America).
OMG I came here to post this!!!!
There is no way there is any cartoon sadder than this. 50 episodes of build up and then that last episode happens
The cartoon had such a negative on kids that it was remade with a happier ending.
Banjotanooki
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So I just saw Grave of the Fireflies thanks to this thread and...
WTF at that selfish brother?!
I didn't cry at all because I could see where the movie was heading STRAIGHT from the get go. It's obvious who would die and what would happen right from the first 30 minutes.
It doesn't help that he just reveals his sister died over a voiceover; "She never woke up again". I think it would have been powerful if he had just found her body there one day when he came back.
Maybe I just didn't GET the movie but I was mostly mad at the brother for not having the courage to apologize to his aunt and just being taken care of.
WTF at that selfish brother?!
I didn't cry at all because I could see where the movie was heading STRAIGHT from the get go. It's obvious who would die and what would happen right from the first 30 minutes.
It doesn't help that he just reveals his sister died over a voiceover; "She never woke up again". I think it would have been powerful if he had just found her body there one day when he came back.
Maybe I just didn't GET the movie but I was mostly mad at the brother for not having the courage to apologize to his aunt and just being taken care of.
That's the point. It's based on an autobiography and served as a sort of criticism and introspective look at Japanese society at the time, a society that values pride and honor and how the boy was so selfish and prideful, thinking he could do things on his own and stand on his own two feet and not ask for help... and how that attitude led to misery and death.
... It was a sentiment many Japanese youths (and adults) felt at the time, and some still feel it today.
We knew their fates in the opening moments of the film, and the story was about how the boy's pride led them to that fate.
You're supposed to feel that way but also realize how dumb and full of themselves kids tend to be and then throw them into the middle of a war torn country with no caring family except your sibling and you have to take care of her despite not knowing how to take care of yourself. Its supposed to make you a bit angry and you are supposed to be mad at him but you need to take that into the context of what is going on not only culturally in Japan at that point but what is going on at large in the world. These kids get the short short end of the stick and are expected to survive, that doesn't work today and it especially didn't work then.
You guys don't know what true sadness really is (except with Grave of the fireflies, that movie is devastating)
I think I remember this! Was the kid called Remy?
apotema
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You don't want to know
They are a family of travelling acrobats/dancers/showmen and one day the monkey was really sick so he couln'd act, but they were losing money because the monkey (Happy Heart) was the main actor in the play. So Happy Heart which was very intelligent decided to act in the play "The Death of the General", making his best performance yet. Everybody in the plaza cheered him and they received a lot of money. But in the end the kid Remi told him to stop acting...... the little monkey wasn't acting anymore.
apotema
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Yes, that's Remi, biggest tragedy ever
I've been looking for this for forever, I saw it once years ago and it devastated me. It's just called Remi?
Edit - Damn autocorrect
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