Has an animated TV show or film ever moved you to tears?

[Hush Little Batman]

It can be traditional animation or CGI, it doesn't matter. What matters is the question - has you ever cried or, at the very least, choked back some hevy tears, while watching an animated show or film?

If "yes", please provide the name of the film/show and describe the scene that got to you.

[TheTen-EyedMan]

The Pokemon movie.

When the kid (ash?) is dead and Pikachu is using his energy to try and revive him. I choked up when I watched that.

I guess I'm just a sucker for overt product placement dressed up as mawkish sentiment.

[Grazzt]

When I was a little kid, Thorin's death scene in The Hobbit made me cry.

[i_mmmchocolate]

-Dumbo

-Bambi

-Secret of Nimh

[TheTen-EyedMan]

When I was a little kid, Thorin's death scene in The Hobbit made me cry.

You wouldn't be human if that didn't mess your shit up.

[JuggernautRM]

Lion King. Don't tell me I was the only one who cried when Mufasa died.

[i_mmmchocolate]

Lion King. Don't tell me I was the only one who cried when Mufasa died.
The first time around yes.

[TheTen-EyedMan]

Lion King. Don't tell me I was the only one who cried when Mufasa died.

http://fanart.lionking.org/Artists/Rifina/SimbaCry.jpg

[Justin D.]

The climatic scene in The Iron Giant.

"Suuuupeerrrrmaaaan."

Every damn time.

[The Batman]

http://www.fightprostatecancer.org/images/optimus_dead.jpg

I'm not ashamed to admit that when Optimus Prime died I was a little choked up.

[i_mmmchocolate]

There was an episode of Batman TAS that made me teary eyed. I can't remember which one at the moment.

[Frodo-X]

Lion King. Don't tell me I was the only one who cried when Mufasa died.

I'm with you on that one.

When Dinobot dies on Beast Wars I got a little choked up the first time.

[TheTen-EyedMan]

http://www.fightprostatecancer.org/images/optimus_dead.jpg

I'm not ashamed to admit that when Optimus Prime died I was a little choked up.

http://perso.orange.fr/kwik-e-simpsons/wallpapers/nelson-800x600.gif

WUSS!!!!!!

[Nikita]

It can be traditional animation or CGI, it doesn't matter. What matters is the question - has you ever cried or, at the very least, choked back some hevy tears, while watching an animated show or film?

If "yes", please provide the name of the film/show and describe the scene that got to you.


Flight of the Fireflies was very sad. (I think that's the title) It's the anime about World War II, and the story of the little Japanese boy and his sister during the war. There mother is killed during a bombing and eventually his sister dies from starvation and he eventually dies at the end too. Oh man, I boo hooed big time at that one.

I also cried my guts out at Watership Down when I was younger. When the one rabbit died after the fight.

Frosty the Snowman made the waterworks turn on when I saw Frosty melt as a kid.

Cartoons are brutal man!

[Puma]

Bambi - mother's death
Lion King- mufasa's death
when it appears Ballou is dead in Jungle Book

Damn you Disney!


I also cried my guts out at Watership Down when I was younger. When the one rabbit died after the fight.

I had forgotten about that one, no wonder I just can't read the book!

[TheTen-EyedMan]

Bambi - mother's death
Lion King- mufasa's death
when it appears Ballou is dead in Jungle Book

Damn you Disney!


http://www.csulb.edu/depts/fea/logos_studios/Walt%20Disney.jpg

What do you expect from a Nazi sympathiser?

[i_mmmchocolate]

What do you expect from a Nazi sympathiser?
Not sure what the hell that has to do with the thread...but okay.

[TheTen-EyedMan]

Not sure what the hell that has to do with the thread...but okay.

The scuttlebutt against Walt Disney is that he was a Nazi Sympathiser.

[Hush Little Batman]

Wow, a lot of replies! I'll answer my own question.

When Solomon Grundy died (the first time) on Justice League.

http://img165.imagevenue.com/loc553/th_44679_27_122_553lo.jpg (http://img165.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=44679_27_122_553lo.jpg)

His last words with Hawkgirl went as follows:

Grundy: "Birdnose?"

Hawkgirl: "I'm here."

Grundy: "Grundy think's he is going away now."

Hawkgirl: "No, just hang on."

Grundy: "Do you think Grundy's soul is waiting for him?"

Hawkgirl: "Grundy I don't believ-- (long pause) Yes, it's waiting for you.

Grundy: "Then Grundy...gets his reward."

*He dies*

Then it cuts to some of the heroes standing at his grave. The voice acting, animation and music during that ending were all top-notch. It is arguably the most emotional moment on JL ever.

[i_mmmchocolate]

It is arguably the most emotional moment on JL ever.
That was one of the few episodes of JL I've seen and yes, I got teary-eyed.

[Mike Smash!]

The climatic scene in The Iron Giant.

"Suuuupeerrrrmaaaan."

Every damn time.

Oh man, me too... What a fucking awesome movie.

[The Batman]

http://perso.orange.fr/kwik-e-simpsons/wallpapers/nelson-800x600.gif

WUSS!!!!!!

BOO URNS to that I say!!

He was Optimus Prime and I was choked up like a real man would be when one of his favourtie cartoon characters dies!

[TheTen-EyedMan]

BOO URNS to that I say!!

He was Optimus Prime and I was choked up like a real man would be when one of his favourtie cartoon characters died!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Unicron.jpg

Nobody cries when Unicron dies.

[DocAbsurd]

I can say proudly that I've wept at one scene in nearly every Disney flick. Even when I'm expecting it after multiple viewings, I still get teary eyed. They are truly the master of their craft.

And while not animated, I wept openly when I saw the three episodes of Last of the Summer Wine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_of_the_summer_wine) where Compo died. The actor, Bill Owen, passed away in real life and they incorporated his death into the series, rather than simply write him out of the story. There's episodes where characters still get choked up over the loss and you can just feel they're not acting.

The Iron Giant got to me, too.

That's something that seems to be missing from modern animation. Everything is geared to the belly laughs, avoiding the tug on the ole heart-strings. There's a vital bit of characterization absent; we no longer feel sympathy, we no longer can identify with the protagonists. The characters are shallow, almost stereotypical: there's a wacky one, a selfish one, a stupid one, a 'hip' one. The characters' depth goes no further than the surface programming that makes the fur rustle in the breeze.

Unfortunately the CGI animation has become more of a character than the characters themselves.




Doc 'Kleenix' Absurd

[Michael P]

The climatic scene in The Iron Giant.

"Suuuupeerrrrmaaaan."

Every damn time.
I was bawling for like the whole last fifteen minutes of that movie. "I am not a gun," the Giant saying goodbye to Hogarth, "You are who you choose to be..." dammit, Brad Bird, you took my masculinity and shredded it like damp Kleenex.

I cried when Mufasa bought it, too. "C'mon, dad... get up. We gotta go home..."

When Lisa said goodbye to Mr. Bergstrom.

[Tadhg]

Futurama, the end of Jurassic Bark.

[Hush Little Batman]

Futurama, the end of Jurassic Bark.

After I saw that episode, I avoided it the next couple of repeat viewings because it was so heartbreaking. :(

[BoosterBronze]

Prince of Egypt, when all the Israelites are set free, and singing in Hebrew, I tear up every time.

[1WEBHEAD]

I cant believe no one had metioned Titanic.
What a sad ending. The way the mothers tucked their children in knowing that the ship was sinking and that they'll never see them agian and how the old couple are holding each other while water was seeping into their room.

Iron Giant is defiantly an honorable mention. Such a great movie.

[Lance]

The Green Mile

gets me every damn time.

[Frodo-X]

After I saw that episode, I avoided it the next couple of repeat viewings because it was so heartbreaking. :(
I still avoid that episode.

[Frodo-X]

Titanic and Green Mile? We seem to be veering away from the animated theme.

[Lance]

Misread that.

[colossus34]

As a kid:

Bambi
Dumbo

As an adult:

Lion King
BTAS episode "Robin's reckoning" when Robin's parents are killed, very well done.

[literally exaggerated]

Grave of the Fireflies is among the saddest movies ever made. Its an absolute classic, and made me tear up a bit.

Bambi got me pretty bad as a little kid.

[i_mmmchocolate]

Finding Nemo, the very beginning. You know, when the shark kills his mother.

[Jeff Brady]

Grave of the Fireflies.

Iron Giant.

Cowboy Bebop, when Ed leaves the ship to live with her dad. The music for that scene just wrecks me.

[Frodo-X]

Finding Nemo, the very beginning. You know, when the shark kills his mother.

Yeah, that one got me too.

FYI: It's a barracuda.

[creep]

Futurama, that one episode about Fry's dog.

[Guapo Méndez]

The climatic scene in The Iron Giant.

"Suuuupeerrrrmaaaan."

Every damn time.

Same here.

[Cephus]

The climatic scene in The Iron Giant.

"Suuuupeerrrrmaaaan."

Every damn time.

Oh yeah, that one gets me every time.

[JeffreyWKramer]

That's happened to me many times, including many of the ones already mentioned here.

[KrymynalChylde]

I have a buddy who spent 3 years in jail for assault with a deadly weapon, toughest guy i know by far.
and he STILL admits to crying when Optimus Prime died, i think that got any kid who grew up in the 80s

and does anyone remember the movie the Last Unicorn? I don't remember exactly what happened but I do remember crying.

[i_mmmchocolate]

FYI: It's a barracuda.

Oops.
___

[Grazzt]

Oh, this one didn't make me cry, but it came close. The death of Littlefoot's mom in the original Land Before Time.

And while this isn't on-topic, God how I hated the sequels to that movie. I don't think there's ever been as large a drop in quality between movies as between Land Before Time and Land Before Time 2.

[DrewTheXenocide]

The Lion King the only movie ever to drive me to tears. The Iron Giant drove me pretty close, as well as that one episode in Gotham Knights Batman (The one on WB) where Clayface makes this little girl who becomes an item of affection for Robin.

[i_mmmchocolate]

And while this isn't on-topic, God how I hated the sequels to that movie. I don't think there's ever been as large a drop in quality between movies as between Land Before Time and Land Before Time 2.
Definitely. Fortunately, I never watched any of the sequels.

I'd also like to add Ferngully to the mix.

[Tages]

The episode of Batman:TAS "Heart of Ice," when Mr. Freeze begs his wife's forgiveness for failing her.

Two episodes of The Simpsons: the end of "Mother Simpson" when Homer says goodbye to his mom and just stares at the stars while the credits roll. The modern Simpsons would never give him a moment like that. Then there's "And Maggie Makes Three," when you see what Homer does with all of Maggie's pictures.

While "Jurassic Bark" didn't make me tear up, it got close. "The Luck of the Fryish" and "Time Keeps on Slippin'" did, though.

Another vote for "Grave of the Fireflies," one of my favorite movies.

[The Batman]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Unicron.jpg

Nobody cries when Unicron dies.

You know you're right.

Poor Unicron, so alone, so misunderstood.

Even at the very end.

Next time I watch Transformers: The Movie I shall weep. I shall weep for Unicron. But it will be a single solitary man tear, like the one that Spock cried for V'Ger in The Motion Picture.

[Jack Zodiac]

Futurama, the end of Jurassic Bark.

That one and "Luck of the Fryish," when he finds his nephew's grave and realizes his brother didn't really steal his life.

[Jack Zodiac]

While "Jurassic Bark" didn't make me tear up, it got close. "The Luck of the Fryish" and "Time Keeps on Slippin'" did, though.

Another vote for "Grave of the Fireflies," one of my favorite movies.

"Time Keeps on Slippin'" was the one where Fry spelled out a love letter for Leela with stars, right? That one definitely had a sappy ending, but I don't recall crying from it. I think "Jurassic Bark" and "Luck of the Fryish" are the only two that got me.

And "Grave of the Fireflies" was definitely a heart-stabber. A lot of animé movies get me, and most series have at least one moment, usually towards the end, where I lose my shit. "Fullmetal Alchemist" had 'em all over the fuckin' place, though. The first time I watched through the series, I didn't want to watch it again (until Adult Swim picked up the dub) because of how ridiculously emotional most of the series was.

[Tages]

The last three episodes of "Cowboy Bebop," especially "The Real Folk Blues Pt. 2" when that star finally fades out.

The final three episodes of "Trigun" too. One of the most emotionally powerful scenes in any TV show I've ever seen was the end of Vash's confrontation with Legato.

[El_Filibusterismo]

Disney's The Fox and the Hound (which I had forgotten about until the recent DVD release)

An American Tale


I dread being in rooms with any of these movies playing. I watched Fox and Hound again with my younger cousins when I was a teenager, and almost completely lost it. "Somewhere Out There" is still heart breaking to hear on the radio.

[Ontir]

Aside from EVERY Disney movie ever made? No, no animated TV show or film has ever moved me to tears. :D

[Jack Zodiac]

The last three episodes of "Cowboy Bebop," especially "The Real Folk Blues Pt. 2" when that star finally fades out.

The final three episodes of "Trigun" too. One of the most emotionally powerful scenes in any TV show I've ever seen was the end of Vash's confrontation with Legato.

Yeah, the very last episode of "Cowboy Bebop" always gets me, even if I see it on Adult Swim after missing the rest of the reruns. That, and "Waltz for Jupiter" with the blind girl and her brother.

"Trigun" didn't really tug on the ol' heartstrings as much, though. There were a few scenes throughout the series, again especially towards the end, that were depressingly sad, and I know I cried at one or two of them, but overall the series wasn't as depressing as "Cowboy Bebop," and nowhere near as sad as "Fullmetal Alchemist."

[FBHthelizardmage]

several eps of Evangelon and Rah Xephon (when I actually realised what was going on in Rah Xephon for instance) got a rather emotional reaction from me... though not outright tears.

[Sanagi]

Grave of the Fireflies is, as always, the champion in this category. Nausicaa's probably the runner-up.

And I'll echo Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, and the Iron Giant.


and sailor moon.

[Lord of Denial]

As said before The Iron Giant gets me each and every time. Pullman had it right the last 15 min I just sit there with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes.

Optimus Prime dying was the one I cried at most. Prime was like my idol and when I saw him fall it was like losing my personal hero.

[DWEarhart]

An American Tail, when I saw it as a child. But only the first time.

Recently, Barnyard.

[Erebus]

The JLU episode, set in Batman Beyond's time, and the flashback with Batman comforting Ace as she died in his arms.
And Toy Story, when Buzz is desperately trying to believe that he was real, so he tries flying, but to no avail.

[Ryan Day]

Grave of the Fireflies made me bawl like a 7-year-old whose kitten just died. Watching that movie is like being punched in the stomach. (in a good way) And now, you can remember it in Candy Form:
http://image4.play-asia.com/350/PA.43210.001.jpg

[Jabuka]

For some reason i cant remeber any movie that made me cry except for one And I cant remember it...maybe it was princess mononoke because it happend like in the last 2 years nm i looked back a few pages and it was luck of the fryish but more liike a manly 2 tear drop...and then robot chicken came on.

[Black Atom]

Animated movies generally touch me more than most live action ones. When I was a kid, I cried my eyes out when the evil stepsisters tear apart Cinderella's dress.

Others that've come close:
Fox and the Hound
Princess Mononoke
The Simpsons episode "And Maggie Makes Three"
Finding Nemo
Iron Giant
Spirited Away

[Kirayoshi]

Prince of Egypt, when all the Israelites are set free, and singing in Hebrew, I tear up every time.Agreed. I love how that builds up; they're uncertain at first, a little scared, but then some kids start to play on the road, then a few of the older people start smiling, and slowly it dawns on them that they're finally free of Pharoah's yoke. Children laugh, girls dance, people pull out pipes and drumheads, and it's a celebration! Beautifully paced.

Actually Prince of Egypt has a few moments that go at the ol' heartstrings. At the beginning of the movie when Moses' mother eludes the guards and places her baby in the basket, singing sadly as her son disappears, I always get a lump in my throat. Also, just before that scene after his confrontation with Ramses when Moses, having fulfilled his mission to free the Israelites, breaks down. Powerful stuff.

Speaking of religious themes, does anyone else get a little misty-eyed watching A Charlie Brown Christmas, when Linus recites the Gospel of Luke?

More recently, in Tokyo Godfathers, when Gin is beaten up by a bunch of drunk jerks, and later is reunited with his daughter. And later when Hana argues with Gin, telling him to leave, but later reveals that he was only pretending to be angry in order to get Gin to reconcile with his daughter.

[The Batman]

Wow, I thought I was the only person that really enjoyed Prince of Egypt.

[Erebus]

Wow, I thought I was the only person that really enjoyed Prince of Egypt.
I actually know some atheists who love the movie.

[Young Avenger]

The "Tales of Ba Sing Se" episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender. The last part of Iroh's story when he's celebirating the birthday of his dead son while singing soldier boy got me choked up.

And the "Robin's Reckoning" episode of Batman:TAS had me in tears. Best telling of Robin's origin I had the pleasure of seeing.

[Athena Bast]

Lion King. Don't tell me I was the only one who cried when Mufasa died.

I didn't cry then but when Simba and his girlfriend are falling in love and "Can you feel the love tonight?" is playing... :o

[Athena Bast]

I'm with you on that one.

When Dinobot dies on Beast Wars I got a little choked up the first time.

Ya know.. that is the ONLY ep of Beast Wars I have never seen. I'm not avoiding it, I've just never had the chance to see it.

[a. non]

The last third of Tenchi Universe ep 26: No Need for a Conclusion, with the gang getting back together.

Also, the end of All Dogs Go to Heaven made my eyes leak.

Athena: here you go:

BW: Code of Hero Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmaaOusCDi8) and Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blo1hatXVsI)

[Athena Bast]

The episode of Jem where Jerrica and Kimber are remembering their parents and start of the Starlight Foundation. There's a song she sings at one point called "Always There In My Heart". I don't know why but I can't get through the first line in that song before I'm mush.

Always there in my heart

Seasons come, seasons go
But you're always there in my heart
Photos fade, youth is gone
But you're always there in my heart
Always near, ever dear
You are always there in my heart
Time goes by, life goes on
But you're always there in my heart

You're a part of me as I am of you
I can't leave you behind
You're a part of me and whatever I do you
You're always on my mind


There's another verse but I can't find my CDs that I have my Jem songs on so I can't type it out. The lyrics may looks cheesy but the way they are sung really tugs at your heart strings.

[LtMarvel]

Graveyard of the Fireflies-- a story about war's most innocent victims, the children.

Oh, the opening Circle of Life of Lion King...the artistic beauty moved me to tears... (see it on the big screen, and you'll know, too!).

[the film freak]

The climatic scene in The Iron Giant.

"Suuuupeerrrrmaaaan."

Every damn time.

I saw that a few months and yeah that got me.

Ditto that Futurama episode with the Dog. The poor little guy...sniff

I only get upset when animals (non talking) and robots die.

-Grant

[drwho]

Okay, I almost cried when I saw land before time at the theatre. Where the little dinasaurs parents were dieing and dropping like flies. And one of them was saying something like poppa, poppa over and over again to his dead dad.

[Buzz Dixon]

GUNBUSTER ends with the heroines returning to Earth thousands of years after falling into a black hole in their efforts to save humanity from alien invaders. As they approach the planet, it is completely dark, causing them to wonder if they succeeded or failed. Then the dark side of the planet lit up to spell out "Welcome Home." One of the best anime endings ever.

Also, the last episode of the first season of STARBLAZERS a.k.a. SPACE CRUISER YAMATO. The heroine has been in a coma for most of the return trip; Derek Wildstar picks her up and carries her to the bridge to show her Earth even though she is unconscious. Meanwhile the Captain finally subcumbs to his injuries and dies in his cabin in the Doctor's presence. The Doctor comes to the bridge to tell the rest of the crew, but just as he does the heroine revives and the bridge crew bursts out cheering...and the Doctor just stands there, knowing he can't share the knowledge with them right now.

And Roy Fokker's last visit to his girlfriend in ROBOTECH a.k.a. MACROSS.

[Totoro Man]

End of the Iron Giant, for sure

Buzz Lightyear's attempt to fly and the exchange he and Woody have later about being toys really get me.

Jessie's Randy Newman song in Toy Story 2 REALLY gets to me. Randy Newman's song about being abandoned by the people you love most, in the place it shows up in Toy Story 2, is heartbreaking and I choke up with that.

The whole flashback in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker was really sad. I cried seeing that because I didn't realize how attached I got to the characters watching the cartoons over, like, ten years, and seeing that segment the first time was pretty shocking. After I saw the movie four or five times it doesn't have quite the same heaviness to it for me.

I got a littl emisty eyed for "Code of Hero" in Beast Wars.

Baby Doll in the Batman: TAS gets me.

Actually, the argument Bob and Helen have in the Incredibles felt so plausible as a family argument I got a bit watery-eyed because it felt more real to me than a lot of other husband/wife arguments I've seen in films. Brad Bird can really go for the jugular and isn't afraid to do it which is one of the things I admire about his story-telling as a film-maker.

[Knightmare10880]

The death of Littlefoot's mom in the first Land Before Time movie, and then when they finally find the great valley.

When it looks like Baloo has died saving Muglowi's life in the Jungle Book.

Optimus Prime's death in Transformers:The Movie

Dinobot's death in "Code of a Hero", it was one of the most beautiful scenes I've seen. Dinobot standing there knowing that the odds are stacked agansit him facing certian death, leaps into battle fighting with everything he's got, ignoring his computer's recomndation of going into stasis lock, until he's got nothing left. Then when the others arraive and he lays there dying surrounded by his teammates uttering his final words "Tell my story truly the good along with the bad, and let history judge me accordingly."

[CaptainAwesome]

The only movie I have ever gotten choked up at, and I still do, is The Fox and The Hound. I can barely stand to watch the commercials for the new DVD without getting a lump in my throat.

[SAMAS]

Iroh's tale in Avatar: the Last Airbender
Also, Momo's at the very end.
Code of Hero
The ending to Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Several parts of Full Metal Alchemist

[Hush Little Batman]

End of the Iron Giant, for sure

I've never seen the Iron Giant. :o

[Jared]

"Until all....are one."

[Serik]

I remember when I was 6 I creid when Optimus Prime died.

The Futurama episode where Fry tries to bring his dog back to life really tugs at your heartstrings.

[Howard Allan]

There are many moments in Watership down where I actually cried. The rabbits being killed and claimed By Elafrera Is especially moving.

[PatchMadripoor]

"Tales of Ba Sing Se" in the Avatar series. Me and my kid got choked up and got all misty eyed during the Iroh segment. Still gets me just thinking about it. Even though you know it was coming, still VERY well done.

Batman:TAS, the episode when Batman is trying to be at crime alley to remember the night his parents died. At the finale of the episode Leslie Tomkins was there to console him, and then you get that flash back to the same scene years ago when Dr. Thompkins consoled a young Bruce Wayne on that tragic night. It never really hit home just how much young Bruce loved his parents until that episode.

[PatchMadripoor]

Grave of the Fireflies.

Iron Giant.

Cowboy Bebop, when Ed leaves the ship to live with her dad. The music for that scene just wrecks me.

I scoured the internet for months looking for that Cowboy Bebop song. I put that away in a CD in my family albums, which are fireproof, just to save that song and that moment, when Ed leaves and Valentine sleeps in her old bed. No tears, but that really got me.

[Gavin Higginbotham, BotF]

http://www.fightprostatecancer.org/images/optimus_dead.jpg

I'm not ashamed to admit that when Optimus Prime died I was a little choked up.

Me too. I was five years, Optimus Prime was my hero and here he was. He'd just beat Megatron, blasted away all of the attacking Decepticons and now had died. As soon as he faded into black... tears fell.

[Paradox]

Hmmmm...not a one I can remember, not even Bambi.

Which is odd, because I'm a guy who leaks like a sieve over stuff like the end of "It's a Wonderful Life" and when Vic Mannelli's dog Peanut is killed in Iron Man.

[Nefarius]

Iron Giant for the win.Really,every time i see this film my eyes turns teary.Especially the last minutes were the robot sacrifice himself to stop the missile saying "supermannn"was very emotional.If someone doesn't see this movie yet,i advice him to see it or try to find clips from youtube.He won't regret this.

[Your Imaginary Pal]

Disney makes wusses of men, 'tis true
Lilo & Stich got me with the sentimental line Stitch delivers of Ohana means family....
Finding Nemo, where Marlon is truing to get rid of Dori and she makes a tearful confession that when she's around Malon, she's home.

Darn you Disney & Pixar, Darn you to heck

[ouiyahtsiouiyah]

Dont think I cried but I went literally insane for a couple weeks after watching the ending of Berserk.

[TheLazy]

The climatic scene in The Iron Giant.

"Suuuupeerrrrmaaaan."

Every damn time.

Oh yeah, that had me sobing.

The end of Monsters, Inc, when Sully and that girl have to part ways.

When Goku dies on Dragon Ball Z, but that was more out of happiness.:rolleyes:

[Cam63]

Lion King. Don't tell me I was the only one who cried when Mufasa died.

Yeah. The bastard owed me $ 200.

[yeoman]

Ya know.. that is the ONLY ep of Beast Wars I have never seen. I'm not avoiding it, I've just never had the chance to see it.


Find someone with the Season Two box set. As soon as possible.

Prior to that episode I'd only seen the second episode of Beast Wars. I was totally derisiv eof the series. Cared nothign for it.

On accident I saw the last half of Code of Hero around the time it originally aired. Later that day I hunted around the internet for the name of the episode so that if I ever saw it in listings again I could make sure I saw it.

That fifteen minutes is probably the reason I became a fan of the Transformers again.

[LukeCage02]

Bright Eyes.... burnin' like fire ! :p

[Murrocko]

A Futurama episode almost brought me to tears, really had to fight them back the first time I saw it. It was the one when Fry finds his old pet dog insode some amber and they keep flashingback to show when he found Seymore and what not. The ending is what almost got me.

Cowboy Bebop almost got me too in the finale. I was really pulling for a happy ending for Spike, but I guess that's just how he wanted it to be.

[HomerJay]

TOY STORY 2
- When Jesse reminisces of how loved she used to be.

MONSTER'S INC.
- Sully opens the door at the very end and is reunited with Boo (Kitty!).

DUMBO
- The whole "Baby Of Mine" scene.




Fuck.

[Kirayoshi]

Cars, the flashback scene where we see the slow decline of the town. Plus when we find out what happened to Hudson's racing career. Also, when Lightning McQueen stopped just inches away from the finish-line, drove back and pushed King across so King could finish his final race. As a result, Slick(who caused King to crash in a dirty display of cheating) won the piston cup but lost his fans, and McQueen became the new hero of the racing circuit.

[Predator]

Have to second all the mentions to Iron Giant (the scene where Hogarth "dies" is just the start of a solid ten minutes of tears for me, both sad and happy), Lilo and Stitch (Stitch's line about Ohana), the end of Finding Nemo ("Love you dad", "I love you too, son"), and Batman TAS (Heart of Ice, when a human Freeze reaches out to his wife with his final breath). All of them are sure-fire ways to get my eyes watering. Also get some happy tears when I first saw the ending to Spirited Away.

Another moment was at the very end of the Cowboy Bebop series, when Spike meets his final fate and the song "Blue" plays over a bright shining sky. I downloaded the song some months later, and I still well up every time I hear it.

A new moment was just last week when I saw Codename Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.. The final speech that Numbah Zero gives to Numbah One about needing to stop having adventures and start being a dad got to me.

[yeoman]

Batman TAS (Heart of Ice, when a human Freeze reaches out to his wife with his final breath).


Just about anything with the animated Mr. Freeze really. Also the end of the Episode of Batman Beyond he's in. "Go. You're the only one who cares."

The funeral of Meas Hughes in Full Metal Alchemist.

Oh, and the ending theme to Excell Saga with Excell's living emergency rations, Menchi, howling mournfully into the night.

[TheDarkestHorse]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who tears up at multiple Futurama episodes. I haven't seen most of Full-Metal Alchemist, but the 'origin' scene, and especially the bit with the little girl/chimera were hard to watch. Not sure if I cried, but I found Mask Of The Phantasm very emotional.

[jaguarshark]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Unicron.jpg

Nobody cries when Unicron dies.
If it makes you feel better, I did.

Not when I watched it as a kid, mind you, but when I bought it on DVD a few years ago... being a big Orson Welles fan, there's something about that scene that just gets me. It's not just Unicron dying, it's Welles finishing out his career with the line "You cannot destroy... my destiny...!", when that's pretty much exactly what the studios did to him. The way his career ended up is sad, to me, so that scene is especially so. (Of course, conspiracy theorists would tell you that Nimoy voiced that line anyway, but whatever.)

Another instance of cartoon-induced crying for me was an episode of 'Winnie the Pooh' I saw when I was a kid, where the rabbit adops a bird and then has to let it go.
I'm sure there are way too many others than I should admit, but I can't think of them offhand.

[Nyssane]

I cried at a lot of animated things (most of them when I was younger, but even now I tear up occasionally):

1.) A few Batman episodes had me sad, most notably the episode with Baby Doll when they were in the funky mirror room and she saw what she would've looked like if she didn't have the disease. And then later, she shoots the mirror after giving up. :( It was sad.

2.) The Little Mermaid had me crying during the scene where Eric wants to marry Vanessa, and Ariel wakes up all excited after hearing the news that he wants to marry someone, but only has her hopes dashed as she hides behind a pillar.

3.) A Rugrats episode had me crying, though I don't remember what about. I think it was the episode where Angelica made a "club" and didn't invite anyone into it but Tommy, and later on they started a club of their own and didn't want to invite Angelina when she asked to join.

4.) The obvious, Lion King.

[Michael Painter]

I had never seen the Futurama episode with Fry's dog until its Adult Swim showings, and when I first saw the whole episode, I balled for about 10 minutes. I have not been able to see that episode ever since.
I was also really close to crying with the episode of the Simpsons where Maggie says "Daddy" at the very end. It really was one of the most sweet things I saw.

[Atom_basher]

Im starting to think im an emotionless bastard, because one of these examples got me even remotely close to being teary eyed, not to mention all the so called tear inducing scenes in cinema cant get me to even be sad.

[Domo Goddess]

The Snowman ( not Frosty the Snowman ) - the ending

Mom says she cries during the Small One, but I don't remember it so I can't comment

[Speed Force]

Iron Giant-"I am not A gun"
Tears of happiness from "You can fly"???
"YOU CAN FLY!!!

The Lorax-When he flies away at the end...
I was 6 yrs old, (1971) I told my mom to write the TV station to have it banned from television...

Watership Down-When the rabbit dies and floats away...

JLU- The GL/Hawkgirl kiss, because they made you wait so damn long for it...

I know it doesn't count, but the end of "The Natural"...
When you see the coach looking out from the dugout, as the sparks are flying,
and Glenn Close was never more beautiful, crying and lauging as she looked on...

[Domo Goddess]

I recently saw the Futurama episode about Leela's parents.
The ending got me choked up a little.

[Nate Grey]

The episode of Jem where Jerrica and Kimber are remembering their parents and start of the Starlight Foundation. There's a song she sings at one point called "Always There In My Heart". I don't know why but I can't get through the first line in that song before I'm mush.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVbdvmAqsWw :)

[Omega Alpha]

No movie or TV show ever made me cry. And i haven't cried ever since i was a kid. I'm a very mean and insensitive person, and you're all sissies:p

Seriously, i don't think a movie can make me cry. But if you're not deeply moved by It's a Wonderful Life, The Bicycle Thief or the Grave of the Fireflies, you're a very sick person.

[Nate Grey]

Optimus Prime's death made me cry, but I was nine at the time. There were a LOT of bawling kids in the theatre, some parents even left with them.

Seems to me I get more emotional at characters REACTING to someone who died than at the death itself when it comes to toons (its both when it comes to live action). Perhaps that's why I didn't get misty at "Jurassic Bark" (that and it was too cruel in an ironic way to be sentimental to me) but misty at "Luck of the Fryish." When they showed the flashback of Fry's brother holding his newborne baby and asking his wife if he could name him Frye...got to me. And Fry realizing he was at his nephew's grave and not his brother's as he reads the inscription and hangs his head.

Which Digimon was it when it was three kids who could merge with the Digimon? I think it was season three. They faced all those hardships together...and then they start to "die", and the dad's explanation of how he knew about that and that he knew that was going to happen and he broke down...that got to me.

[Deep_Sleeper]

Definitely Futurama episode with Fry's dog, I'm guessing since it's coming up often it was called "Jurassic Bark".

At the end, when they show what Fry thought and what actually happened and that one song is playing in the background...GOOD GOD!

[the goddamn batman]

Agreed! One single tear. :(


There have been a few times where movies (animated and live action) have been very moving too me, but it's rather infrequent that I cry... in general, not just movies. I've cried at the occasional movie here or there.

[GodSmackingReptile]

http://www.fightprostatecancer.org/images/optimus_dead.jpg

I'm not ashamed to admit that when Optimus Prime died I was a little choked up.

i was also, i was trying my best not to cry, but the movie that i cried in .................now dont laugh..................... The Pokemon Movie (the first one) when ash gets turned to stone and all the tears of the pokemon bring him back to life, now mind you i was ten years old at the time.

The Iron Giant jerked some tears

alot of the episodes of futurerama made me cry. most of them have been said already, but this one episode really got to me. it was the episode when Fry finds his long gone dog from the past and the dog was a fossil. in the end when Fry decides to defossilize him and they cut to a scene of the dog waiting outside of the pizza shop... iswear the look on the dogs face and the music and everything had me crying my eyes out... i wasnt the same for a couple of hours.

[Thorlief]

almost EVERY animated movie I've seen has a scene that makes me cry like a fountain, and I'm a 27 years old big guy

take the Disney movies: Jesus, you can always find that particular scene where the music is so freaking moving, and the scene is so freaking SAD it really becomes a torture to me. Almost unbearable

Hercules: when Meg apparently dies

Aladdin: when theyre flying

Hunchback of Notre Dame: where do I start??? When Quasimodo cries over Esmeralda's corpse

Lion King:..

Toy Story 2: "When she loved me.." probably the SADDEST SCENE EVER

Tarzan: the first five minutes I was already crying. And nothing particularly sad was going on..only Tarzan's parents reaching the island. But I guess it was due to Phil Collins' beautiful music and vocals

and so on

key is the music to me. If done well, the music alone can crush my heart

[dazzler_slave]

Yeah, there hav been a few. :o

Grave of the Fireflies
Jin-Roh
The Prince of Egypt
The Lion King
Flight of Dragons
Transformers The Movie
Watership Down

OK so I am a big baby, I accept it! :D

[dazzler_slave]

almost EVERY animated movie I've seen contains a scene that makes me cry like a fountain, and I'm a 27 years old big guy

take the Disney movies: Jesus, you can always find that particular scene where the music is so freaking moving, and the scene is so freaking SAD it really becomes a torture to me. Almost unbearable

Hercules: when Meg apparently dies

Aladdin: when theyre flying

Hunchback of Notre Dame: where do I start??? When Quasimodo cries over Esmeralda's corpse

Lion King:..

Toy Story 2: "When she loved me.." probably the SADDEST SCENE EVER

Tarzan: the first five minutes I was already crying. And nothing particularly sad was going on..only Tarzan's parents reaching the island. But I guess it was due to Phil Collins' beautiful music and vocals

and so on

key is the music to me. If done well, the music alone can crush my heart

I am suddenly completely in love with you right now! That is so sweet! Plus I totally agree! A good song or score can totally bring me to tears!

[Thorlief]

;D

I bring the Disney's, you bring the hankerchiefs :D

[dazzler_slave]

;D

I bring the Disney's, you bring the hankerchiefs :D

It's a date, babe! ;) :D

[lalalei2001]

I got misty-eyed at the end of Cinderella 3 when the King told Anastasia that everyone deserves true love.

[Black Atom]

Titanic and Green Mile? We seem to be veering away from the animated theme.

Not so. Didn't you see Disney's Titey?

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/97/pics/97qfunhouse.jpg

[wingsofdamnation]

in the original pokemon movie i cried when Ash turned to stone and all the pokemon cried and their tears brought him back to life.

[Karl H]

I cried in the '85 transformers movie when Optimus Prime died. I was in the cinema with all my school friends and picked on for weeks afterwards!

I also regularly cry tears of joy watching the Racoons - I don't know why.

And the final episode of the '90's X-men cartoon was pretty emotional for me too...

[Bouncing Boy]

The Pinky and the Brain Christmas Special. At the end, when the Brain nearly takes over the world, but is too choked up after reading Pinky's letter to Santa.

[GodSmackingReptile]

in the original pokemon movie i cried when Ash turned to stone and all the pokemon cried and their tears brought him back to life.

since when!??! you used to always pick on me for crying for that movie!

[Arrjay]

Futurama, the end of Jurassic Bark.

Same here.

That was sad.

[lalalei2001]

I cried in Pokemon 4 when Celebi almost died.

[MKTerra]

Mai Hime: The scene in a later episode where normally food-loving Mikoto breaks down over a bowl of seafood ramen because it reminds her of Mai, whom she had parted ways with.

[Perry Holley]

Cowboy Bebop, when Ed leaves the ship to live with her dad. The music for that scene just wrecks me.Oh yeah.

Every damn time I see "Hard Luck Woman", and Call Me Call Me starts to play, I lose it.

Every. Damn. Time.

The last three episodes of "Cowboy Bebop," especially "The Real Folk Blues Pt. 2" when that star finally fades out.
TRFB2 hits me differently than "Hard Luck Woman" does - I don't really feel sad, because Spike got what he wanted... but it still hits me, and it hits me hard. I don't cry... but I usually find some excuse not to have to say anything for the next hour or so.

[Gladiaria_Alata]

What happened with Merry in episode 312, the song just added to it.

[Sabrina_Fried]

I must be a cold fish. All through my youth when I was watching disney films, all the kids around me would be bawling their eyes out, but at worst, I'd get a bit misty-eyed.

However, most of the anime I have seen in recent years routinely reduces me to tears, even with repeated viewings. Good anime has at least one scene that reduces me to "eat a whole container of ice cream" depressed.

When I watched the Rurouni Kenshin cartoon for the first time a few years ago, before I had caught up with the manga, I actually had to stop watching the DVDs for a few weeks after I watched the scene where Kenshin tells Karou "sayonara" and leaves for Kyoto. I just got so depressed that I couldn't watch anymore. Eventually my manga reading caught up, and then surpassed that scene in the cartoon.

I still can't listen to the song that was played in that scene without getting all choked up. And I just watched that arc again tonight....

damn I need some ice cream now.

Sabrina

[DaeJi]

This is why I prefer traditional animation over CGI; you just can't get that emotional respond with CGI that you can get with traditional animation.

Me? I cried like a little bitch the first time I saw Beauty and the Beast. Oh god, I was still balling after the credits stopped rolling.. it was so beautiful and heartfilled and touching... she loved him so much... so beautiful.. *crys* Waaaaaa!

[Atvar]

Yes I cried at the the end of "Jurassic Bark". And just so everyone one else can feel my pain here is the clip from youtube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=akf-H0OVpLA
:(

[Ring Slinger]

I remember distinct tears at the end of an episode of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES. In the episode titled "The Crime Doctor" (IIRC), Batman helps a doctor who was a friend of his father, Thomas Wayne. The doctor's brother was a bigtime mob boss and had dragged him into a life of pulling bullets out of thugs and other less than reputable medical practices. In the end, after Batman's intervention, the doctor is "caught" and has to face up to his choices. Bruce Wayne visits him with an offer of assistance with his legal fees and issues if the doctor will just do him one favor...the doctor who has lived a life of performing "favors" is immediately angry, but Bruce continues, eyes downcast:

"Tell me about my father."

[stealthwise]

Jurassic Bark.

Saddest story of all-time.

[90'sCartoonMan]

The Last Unicorn killed me. I remember crying over it when I was a kid, and I rented it last year...still gets to me.

Parts of JLU's "Epilogue", including Batman waiting with Ace and Terry's little bit about coming to terms at the end.

[marshal99]

Grave of the fireflies. It's the only animated movie that i can say that i will cry every single time i watched it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mdYPBIuhJY

[Thorlief]

another one is Video Girl Ai. The manga reduces me to a little crying girl, the anime is just as intense and the final scene reduces me to a crying little woman. Masakasu Katsura is a freaking master when it comes to describe love

[Howard Allan]

yes. Watership Down. When The rabbits die and elafrera comes to take their souls.

[lalalei2001]

Oh man, where do I begin? Let's see...

Grave of the Fireflies, The Last Unicorn, the Unico movies, the My Little Pony Movie, the Fox and the Hound, the Brave Little Toaster, the Jem episode with the song "Always There In My Heart", and Journey Back to Oz.

And Bambi. Can't forget Bambi :(

[Night]

Some of those already said.... then theres

Blue Cat Blues
http://www.animatedvideos.tv/video/31026-tom-and-jerry-blue-cat-blues-1956.html

[Tien Long]

Alot of anime has gotten me on the verge of tears, but no bawling or anything. Ed's leaving and the "Blue" song scene from Cowboy Bebop,hearing about Soujiro's past and pain in Rurouni Kenshin, and Kuwabara finally reaching Team Dr. Ichigaki during the Dark Tournament in Yu Yu Hakusho were pretty powerful. Friends of mine cried when they saw the episodes of Naruto which focused on Rock Lee and Gaara, and I have to say, when I saw those, i could feel my eyes wet a bit.

However, the scene that had me absolutely pouring rivers was during the Monk Anji episodes of Rurouni Kenshin. After having taken so many lives due to his hatred for the Buddha, who he blamed for not protecting his loved ones from murder, Monk Anji comes to terms that his killing has caused just more suffering. However, the images of his loved ones come back to tell him that they're not gone, and that he can be forgiven. Suddenly, they all come together and turn into an image of the Buddha, who's gold light comes and bathes Monk Anji.

Oh man, I think I'm starting to tear up a little right now...

[Sabrina_Fried]

Alot of anime has gotten me on the verge of tears, but no bawling or anything. Ed's leaving and the "Blue" song scene from Cowboy Bebop,hearing about Soujiro's past and pain in Rurouni Kenshin, and Kuwabara finally reaching Team Dr. Ichigaki during the Dark Tournament in Yu Yu Hakusho were pretty powerful. Friends of mine cried when they saw the episodes of Naruto which focused on Rock Lee and Gaara, and I have to say, when I saw those, i could feel my eyes wet a bit.

However, the scene that had me absolutely pouring rivers was during the Monk Anji episodes of Rurouni Kenshin. After having taken so many lives due to his hatred for the Buddha, who he blamed for not protecting his loved ones from murder, Monk Anji comes to terms that his killing has caused just more suffering. However, the images of his loved ones come back to tell him that they're not gone, and that he can be forgiven. Suddenly, they all come together and turn into an image of the Buddha, who's gold light comes and bathes Monk Anji.

Oh man, I think I'm starting to tear up a little right now...

Just finished watching those episodes....defintley a 3-hankey rating. Want some ice cream?

There's also the scene from the OVA when you realize that Kenshin is going to end up killing Tomoe . I've seen that OVA so many times, yet every single time we get to that scene I bawl my eyes out.

Sabrina

[Tobias March]

Briiiight eyes....burning like fiiiire....briiiight eyes.. :)

[90'sCartoonMan]

Some of those already said.... then theres

Blue Cat Blues
http://www.animatedvideos.tv/video/31026-tom-and-jerry-blue-cat-blues-1956.html

That didn't make me cry so much as go "Oh jeez" when I saw the ending. This is off topic, but do you remember the one (or have a link to it) where Jerry ends up in a mental home?

[mattx110]

bruce wayne turns down fictional happiness to suffer as batman. depressed mad hatter just wanted to give him what he wanted to leave him alone because hatter is such a paranoid evil mess.

the "almost got 'im" episode had my tearing from laughing so hard.

[Hellbaby]

Almost in Futurama when Fry's dog waits for him but he never comes back because he falls in the deep freeze for 1000 years. Granted, I was pretty young, but that was so sad how the dog was so loyal, but he could never find his person.

[Toku King]

Almost in Futurama when Fry's dog waits for him but he never comes back because he falls in the deep freeze for 1000 years. That was so sad how the dog was so loyal, but he could never find his person.

I was just about to say that one, actually.
Makes me think about the friendship with my dog. Sadly, now I'm a country away from him, and may never see him again just like Fry.
Swells my heart up just thinking about that furball.

[Tobias March]

Almost in Futurama when Fry's dog waits for him but he never comes back because he falls in the deep freeze for 1000 years. Granted, I was pretty young, but that was so sad how the dog was so loyal, but he could never find his person.

I literally refuse to watch that episode again :(

[BlairH]

http://www.fightprostatecancer.org/images/optimus_dead.jpg

I'm not ashamed to admit that when Optimus Prime died I was a little choked up.

That music! THE MUSIC!!!

[The Xenos]

Well, stuff like Grave of the Fireflies or even Lion King are pretty obvious.

The one that sideswiped me was Finding Nemo. That scene with Dorrie talking about feeling at home. I had recently broke up with someone and that really got to me.

Berserk, that scene with Guts and Caska similarly got to me.

Oh yeah, Cowboy Bebop got to me. (Those who have seen know the eps I mean.) I once used it as a cathartic jumpstart after a relative died. Weird little scenario. I had trouble letting the emotions and tears out for some reason, kinda emotional constipation, so I watched that and it helped.

[The Xenos]

Well, stuff like Grave of the Fireflies or even Lion King are pretty obvious.

The one that sideswiped me was Finding Nemo. That scene with Dorrie talking about feeling at home. I had recently broke up with someone and that really got to me.

Berserk, that scene with Guts and Caska similarly got to me.

Oh yeah, Cowboy Bebop got to me. (Those who have seen know the eps I mean.) I once used it as a cathartic jumpstart after a relative died. Weird little scenario. I had trouble letting the emotions and tears out for some reason, kinda emotional constipation, so I watched that and it helped.

[beetlebum]

I will admit to crying during all Disney movies, the Land before time and Fievel. Anyone who did not do so will no longer be qualified as a human being. Also, that episode of the X-Men cartoon where Warren makes his debut and the little girl says she is saved by an Angel. I promised myself I wouldn't cry (sniff)

[Frodo-X]

I literally refuse to watch that episode again :(
So do I. I avoid it every time Adult Swim has it on.

[mgs]

besides most of the ones mentioned here, I'll also add that story in Batman:TAS about Freeze's life and his love, Frozen Heart or something like that. And at the end, he sacrifices everything for the memory of his love.

that's another one that got to me.

[Tyr]

Justice League Unlimited "For the Man Who Has everything" the end of Clarks "Dream" always makes me cry.

[Tien Long]

Justice League Unlimited "For the Man Who Has everything" the end of Clarks "Dream" always makes me cry.


Very powerful episode. Didn't make me cry so much as show me how very humble and moral Superman is. In the end, he doesn't want to rule a planet as an absolute monarch, but simply wants to live a mundane, regular life. In essence, whereas we always dream about becoming Superman, Superman himself would give up all of his ungodly powers just to live like us.

Going back a couple of posts, and in the same vein as JLU, I really liked the Epilogue episode, where Batman stays w/ Ace just as she's about to die. Here, one can see that Batman isn't all about crime-fighting, fear, and intimidation, but rather possessing an incredible, indomitable spirit and desire to not see another person suffer.

Thinking back on it, i definitely cried a lot through Lilo and Stitch. First off, I was watching it during a pretty depressing time in my life. Secondly, I think the majority of the movie is very depressing.