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Tear jerker
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Tear jerker is a highly sentimental film, TV show, play, book, song, etc., intended to produce tears in the audience. Tear jerker tropes Some of the tropes that are often used to produce tear jerker moments: * A Death in the Limelight * Adult Fear * Alas, Poor Villain/Scrappy * Anguished Declaration of Love * Book Ends * Break the Cutie/Haughty * Broken Tears * Crossing the Despair Event Horizon * Died in Your Arms Tonight * Disney Death * Driven to Suicide * Dying Alone * Dying Moment of Awesome * Face Death with Dignity * Face Heel Turn (if the character was well-known and loved enough) * Became Their Own Antithesis, when it is this combined with much too much changes. * False Friend * Fond Memories That Could Have Been * Go Out with a Smile * The Grotesque * Heroic Sacrifice * He Will Not Cry, so I Cry for Him * I Die Free * It's a Wonderful Failure * Particularly cruel Kick the Dog moments * Whenever a beloved character is Killed Off for Real * Kill The Cutie * Let Them Die Happy * A character crying Manly Tears * Meaningful Funeral * Mercy Kill * Moral Event Horizon-Especially if you did not expect it and the person who crossed it was lovable * My God, What Have I Done? * Never Got to Say Goodbye * Not So Stoic * Parting Words Regret * Planning For The Future Before The End * Please Don't Leave Me * Please Wake Up * A Type-A Stepford Smiler * Shoot the Dog * Stay With Me Until I Die * Tragic Hero/Monster/Villain * Together in Death * Was It All a Lie? * We Used to Be Friends * The Woobie * Yank the Dog's Chain * You Are Worth Hell Many downer endings and bittersweet endings include tearjerking moments. See Also
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