Paper Mario (franchise)/Tear Jerker

Paper Mario

 * The Mario and Peach's Theme that plays at the very end.
 * The citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom all wishing for the Princess to be alright as you ascend to the final level, and Peach wishing for the Star Beam to gain power.

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

 * Chapter 1: The Koopa skeleton holding a farewell note in Hooktail Castle.
 * Chapter 3:
 * Chapter 4:
 * One of the Trouble Center missions has you acting as a runner between Eve, a woman in Twilight Town, and Podley, her former lover. He's changed a lot since then, and pretends not to know her. But just as you leave the bar, you hear him whisper, "Oh, my Eve..." When you tell Eve that he's forgotten her, she acts like she understands and gives you your reward. And then you leave, and through the door you hear one of her children ask, "Mommy, why are you crying?"
 * Chapter 5:
 * Chapter 6:
 * Chapter 6:


 * Chapter 7:
 * Chapter 8:

Super Paper Mario

 * Chapter 1: Fracktail begging for forgiveness for attacking you just before he dies. Made all the more poignant that it was honestly not his fault, and he had been quite happy to let you pass up until Dimentio came along and cursed him to madness.
 * Chapter 4: After defeating Mr. L and enduring a slightly annoying young alien named Squirps for the entirety of the level, you find out that
 * Chapter 5: Everything about the whacka near Downtown Crag, if you decide to hurt him. He's a lovable, optimistic One-Scene Wonder... and if you hit him repeatedly to get a whacka bump, bit by bit you inflict brain damage on him and finally kill him in what is probably the most horrifically disturbing sequence in the entire game.
 * Chapter 6:
 * Chapter 7:
 * Before you go off to defeat Count Bleck, travel around in Flipside and Flopside. Most of them realize their impending doom. For instance:
 * There's an old woman and her granddaughter chatting together. The Flipside girl asks her grandmother what's going to happen, and the grandmother says that they should face it with hope. The Flopside grandmother tells her granddaughter that doom is certain, but to prepare for the worst, and to face the black hole not with sadness, but a cry of defiance.
 * There's also the little boy you made the deal with to get the fishbowl earlier in the game. He knows what's going to happen and doesn't seem too scared. But he also wishes to see his goldfish one last time.
 * There are also various characters that make comments along the lines of "See you on the other side, man!", "If I die, at least I'll die with you!", "I'm going to die happy!”. Saving these fellow's world makes it all worthwhile.
 * The ultimate one would have to be the tragic tale of
 * At the end of everything,
 * At the end of everything,