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Aerith. Do I need to say more?

Joyce Summers. That episode of Buffy was a masterpiece.

Artax from The Neverending Story

Mufasa would be the most popular answer for us oldies.

Jesus, because no one ever shuts up about it

Cowboy Bebop spoilers

Bambi's mother.

Runner-ups:

• Carl's wife from Up
• The mother in Violet Evergarden
• Ghost and Roach from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Sirius Black in Harry Potter. I had to go back and reread the paragraph several times, then put the book down. Seemed just so unfair.

Maes Hughes

Hazel from Watership Down.

NOT a children's movie, mum!

Made me cry:

Gotta be Schindler's List. That movie was so goddamn sad, and I just started sobbing when I saw that splash of red color. You know when. Ooof. A masterpiece I will never watch again.

For a more recent example, I watched the second season of Arcane. Lots of sad scenes, but anyone else who has watched it knows the most heart-wrenching one:

Left me disturbed:

Another Spielberg movie, Saving Private Ryan. Didn't cry when the Nazi soldier sloooooowly stabbed Mellish to death. But afterwards, I had nightmares about it for months. Cripes, what a brutal death scene.

It’s been 25 years since I first read it and I’m still not ok with the fact that Old Dan and Little Ann didn’t make it.

Arthur Morgan's death scene in RDR2 really got to me. But perhaps even more so, when my horse was killed right before. I remember pausing the game for a moment because I had had that horse for so long and somehow it felt like a major deal that happened so quickly.

Never had a game affect me like that before.

Dumbledore

Big dan and little anne from where the red fern grows. Fucked me up at like age 10

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Several from the Misborn series really hurt. I think Vin's death most affected me, but Kelsier was a hard one to swallow as well.

I think the biggest impact though is probably from Swan Song? Sister Creep hit me so hard. I read the book young and I'd never read anything so bittersweet and hopeful but so painful. It really stamped some new emotions in me I think.

Or, gosh, almost anyone in Bly Manor, but especially Dani.

The second death of Jake Chambers in Stephen King’s ”The Dark Tower” comes quite quickly to mind…

Breaking bad spoilers

My horse in Red Dead Redemption 2. I captured and tamed it from wild the moment I was able.

R.I.P Coffee!

Hedwig and Fred Weasley

Charlie from all dogs go to heaven.

BT in titanfall 2, one of the only scenes that made my shed a tear

The dragon from Dragonheart. It was my first time being sad from a movie.

John Marston. There are a lot of character deaths that really hit me hard. Hank from Breaking Bad comes to mind.

But man, John's death just hits so deeply. I played RDR a good 4 or so years after its release, so I knew it was coming. Even then, it barely felt real. And you better believe I was frantically trying to mark all those Pinkertons to help John get through it.

A lot of people hate on Sword Art Online, but in the second season...

Marley from Marley and Me

I started reading Dragonlance novels around 10 years old. When I got my hands on the third main one (IIRC), one of the main characters who's a knight died and that impacted me for quite some time.

The Tali/Legion decision is brutal if you made mistakes in ME2 and 3.

Carter from Person of Interest.

Optimus Prime was a real shock for sure. For me it’s any animal death.

• Artax from The Neverending Story
• The dogs from Where the Red Fern Grows
• There’s a scene in the Sci-fi novel Armor where a puppy falls in a well and its owner, a child, unable to rescue it ,has to kill it by dropping stones on it to spare it drowning. I read that a long time ago, probably in the 80s, and it still haunts me.