Halo: Reach/Tear Jerker


 * "Negative, Sir. I have the gun." Followed by, "This is the Pillar of Autumn. We're away...and The Package is with us."
 * Tear Jerker: The last level.  Don't look at me like that, I'm just sweating from my eyes. And if you're not overcome with Manly Tears, you will be by the time you've watched the final cutscene.
 * And just before that, when you know what's coming and you can hear the tone of the music behind Six, it made This Troper's eyes leak during the second playthrough.
 * Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you remember the only other time that music is played is
 * - Youtube comment
 * The Deliver Hope trailer. Not so much the visuals, but dear god, the soundtrack... Thom (the original Noble Six) dies in the trailer, carrying a tactical nuclear weapon inside a Covenant cruiser. Kat and Carter think they failed him. Holland thinks he was an idiot. They're all wrong.
 * "Tell 'em to make it count."
 * Even worse, right after the new lands, wounded on re-entry. With nothing but a pistol, s/he makes it up a hill and spots a large city, mostly smoldering, with a huge Covie ship floating above, while some of the most heart-wrenching music in the entire series plays (Up to 1:28 on this vid.) YMMV on this, but this moment nearly caused a Heroic BSOD for me.
 * Far from senseless. Destroying that Supercarrier killed so many Covenant and such a powerful and expensive ship that it's doubtful they could have died in a more meaningful and useful way. Just imagine if that Supercarrier had been present in the battle for Earth, or the battle at
 * Kat
 * Made even more upsetting when you find out through the game's Director's Commentary that  which explains why he ends up being the one carrying her body...
 * For what it's worth... That Field Marshal is probably the same one you fight at the end of The Pillar of Autumn. It won't bring her back, but... killing him gives you, if not some small amount of Schadenfreude, then at least satisfaction.
 * "You're on your own, Noble.  out." (BOOM!)
 * "I'M READY! HOW ABOUT YOU?" Sayonara, ya crazy bastard...
 * Understanding of the Halo universe will have some Fridge Tearjerker. Dr. Halsey's hostility towards the SPARTANs's was engendered by suspicion, since they weren't "her" SPARTANs. Her attitude change is tearjerking stuff, especially her final farewell to Noble Six.
 * "You're on your own, Noble.  out." (BOOM!)
 * "I'M READY! HOW ABOUT YOU?" Sayonara, ya crazy bastard...
 * Understanding of the Halo universe will have some Fridge Tearjerker. Dr. Halsey's hostility towards the SPARTANs's was engendered by suspicion, since they weren't "her" SPARTANs. Her attitude change is tearjerking stuff, especially her final farewell to Noble Six.