Mobile Suit Gundam SEED/Tear Jerker

Gundam SEED
""This is what I do: I pilot a mobile suit, and when I'm not fighting, I help other people build mobile suits. Why? Because I can.""
 * In SEED Episode 40, during the Heroic Sacrifice of, Fiction Junction's Chariot of Dawn acting as a heartbreaking funeral march did not help to stop the tears from pouring down. Damn you Yuuka for your beautiful singing voice!!
 * Also in Gundam SEED, there are the nearly-simultaneous Heroic Sacrifices of  and   in phase 49. And then Gundam SEED Destiny ruined  's completely... but that's for another time.
 * She may have been the most controversal character on the show, but this troper still found himself crying for, especially after
 * Another heartbreaking scene with Flay, much earlier in the series:
 * And her talk with Natarle, where she cries and tells her how sorry she is for how badly she treated Kira... *SOB*
 * It's incredibly subtle, but Fllay's rant when she and Kira break up always gets me. She asks how he can feel sorry for her, when he's the one suffering, the one who does everything he can to protect his friends and suffers when he can't. At first glance, it seems like she's mocking him, but then it hits you: Fllay's been manipulating him, and slowly falling in love with him in the process. Thinking Kira pities her throws her own actions into sharp relief, and the guilt is destroying her. Knowing this lends a new, heartbreaking quality to her last line "So how...how could you feel sympathy for someone like me?"
 * Kira's response: "Maybe this was all a mistake." His girlfriend is breaking down in front of him, and he's too emotionally drained to deal with it. Highlights how badly both their lives suck. Made even worse when Kira refuses to see his parents, noting that, "all they'd see is a soldier" and that he'd have to ask "why the hell they made me a Coordinator."


 * Perhaps one of the biggest reasons for why
 * Made worse when you realize that the episodes leading up to it foreshadowed it to high heaven.
 * Followed by . My God, poor  ... *sob*
 * And the scene that follows that:

Gundam SEED Destiny
": ", I will never forget you""
 * When Shinn unknowingly killed Captain Todaka, the man who rescued him after his (Shinn) family's tragic death. The fact that they showed how he rescued Shinn in a flashback after his death really made This Troper feel depressed... =(
 * There's death in Gundam SEED Destiny, in the arms of  . And we also have her Famous Last Words:   WAH! ;-;
 * This troper finds the moment just beforehand even worse. actually succeeds in Defusing the Tykebomb, and  has a momentary fantasy of being reunited with him, and she looks so happy. Knowing what's coming makes that moment absolutely devastating.
 * The beginning of the following episode is also a real Tear Jerker, when.
 * Another of the few truly touching moments in Destiny was  The   spoken there are among the saddest in the whole franchise:
 * And then we have


 * It's only a Clip Show, but Episode 29 of Seed Destiny, "Fate" always leaves me feeling like I've just been kicked in the gut. Durandal and Le Creuset's ghost arguing over the human experience while we flashback over every, single one of Seed's most depressing deaths is bad enough, but it's only made worse because Le Creuset is narrating for most of it, and we're treated to the flashbacks from the end of Durandal and Captain Gladys' relationship. The episode is absolutely emotionally draining to watch, as it shows you just how far gone Le Creuset was, and actually leaves you rooting for the Chairman, while giving you a lot of insight into how he got to be that way. The incredibly sad music does not help, nor does Durandal's obvious depression. Probably one of my favourite, if saddest, Gundam episodes, and the one that got me hooked on Destiny.