History Main / LonelyPianoPiece

[[AC:For the best reading experience, play the music from [[https://youtu.be/ISGDAXsS8c8 this video]] while reading on.]]

** Its sequel ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' has one of its own called "Darkness Falls", serving as the game over music if the player says no to the continue screen. The game closes after it's over.

* The aptly-named "Sad Song" from the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' soundtrack.

** There's also the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qEUR5rjLtE piano version]] of "Tune of Separation".
** ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood]]'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxLLWW7Tt54 this]] piano solo version of "Lapis Philosophorum".

** The track "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liMhcJrbxVE&feature=related Jewel Seed]]" from the [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha]] The Movie 1st original soundtrack.
** Also from the Movie, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPx3WtkhtcE Watashi no Okaa-san (My mother)]]", one of the themes of the {{abus|iveParents}}ed DarkMagicalGirl, Fate.
** The aptly named "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zryBFpWsKEY Itoshisa to Sabishisa (Affection and Loneliness)]]", also one of the themes of Fate from the time before she was befriended by Nanoha.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVhDEJNIRrE Dear My Sister Dear My Memory]]" starts off this way [[spoiler:[[FinalFirstHug as Fate says goodbye to Alicia]]]], though more instruments join in and it becomes more hopeful as the song continues.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUz74xRAMLw&feature=related Decretum]]'', Sayaka's theme [[spoiler:which plays during the scenes where she's consumed by her despair.]]

--> 4) And, of course, Lelouch's last words before he [[spoiler: dies]].

* ''Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor'' uses this, combined with OneWomanWail, as a remix of the usual ending theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-d1PaVvIKw Separation]], to [[TearJerker spectacular]] effect following [[spoiler:Shouko's HeroicSacrifice]].

* In the original ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', one of these (named [[http://youtu.be/kF3sDURzuQE?t=8m55s "Far Reaching Five Old Peaks"]]) is heard [[spoiler: as the empty Virgo Cloth reassembles itself after Ikki's HeroicSacrifice to defeat its owner Shaka, all of this in front of [[HeroicBSOD the very shaken]] Shun, Seiya and Shiryu.]]

* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udkxHDhESBI& Souiu natsu (That kind of summer)]]", which played in episode 11 when Kaguya and Shirogane both go to the school on the off chance that the other might be there, only for Shirogane to arrive right after Kaguya left. It's played again in episode 12 during Kaguya's HeroicBSOD.

*** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzfQhV3G_MU Unwavering Emotion]]" plays in several emotional scenes, for example when Bianca is arguing with her overprotective father, or during the emotional climax of the second game, in which [[spoiler:N tries to reason with Ghetsis for the last time, and fails]]. It was also remixed in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', but gained some more instruments. It is also played in all of the Memory Links in [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 the sequel]], even if [[SoundtrackDissonance it isn't fitting]].
*** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ4DJOTLgRQ Sayonara]]", also known as "N's Farewell". Guess when it plays.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uj2lzEUVto Az's theme]] in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY X and Y]]'', which makes sense when you see his backstory, which is considered by the fandom to be one of the most depressing backstories in a Pokémon game.

*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nq-gEG-E04 Midna's Desperate Hour]]. It's actually a variation on the [[{{Leitmotif}} Hyrule Field theme and Midna's theme.]] It's also a theme for the Bridge of Eldin in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', though there it's SoundtrackDissonance.

[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has several sad piano pieces. [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/showtime-piano-refrain-3 Showtime (Piano Refrain)]], [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/homestuck-2 Homestuck]], [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporal-piano-2 Temporal Piano]], and [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/mother-piano-bonus Mother (Piano)]] (among others) are all beautiful but sad piano pieces.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' features this in the episode where the Axis Powers are alone on an island. [[spoiler:You get a double whammy when it turns out that [[SorryILeftTheBGMOn Austria was playing it]], and realize that it could apply to him too.]]

* ''Manga/KareKano'' with character themes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqXPUXheg4c Yukino Miyazawa V (Nocturne)]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpmKPdeL6Zo Arima Souichiro I]].

** Literal with Music/EricCarmen's (or should we say Music/SergeiRachmaninoff's?) "All by Myself". Joo of IgudesmanAndJoo [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates this trope]] to its logical extent by playing and singing this song, slowly sounding more and more depressed, sobbing uncontrollably and singing unintelligibly by the end of the first chorus.

[[AC:For the best reading experience, play the music from [[https://youtu.be/ISGDAXsS8c8 this video]] while reading on. Also put the video on a loop to keep hearing it endlessly.]]

[[AC:For the best reading experience, play the music from [[https://youtu.be/ISGDAXsS8c8 this video]] while reading on. Put the video also on the loop to keep hearing it endlessly.]]

[[AC:For the best reading experience, play the music from [[https://youtu.be/ISGDAXsS8c8 this video]] while reading on.]]

* Partial {{Trope Namer|s}}, ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk's'' end piece "The Lonely Man".

* Whenever a tragic news story breaks out, a DarkReprise piano version of the ''Entertainment Tonight'' theme plays at the start of each episode.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has several sad piano pieces. [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/showtime-piano-refrain-2 Showtime (Piano Refrain)]], [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/homestuck Homestuck]], [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporal-piano Temporal Piano]], and [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/mother-piano-bonus Mother (Piano)]] (among others) are all beautiful but sad piano pieces.

* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' has the ''Theme of E-102 Gamma'', which, unlike the other character {{Image Song}}s, only has two recurring phrases as lyrics set to a sad piano with synths. This befits its emotionless nature as an Eggman robot that gained sapience.

* ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}'' has several of these, including "Awake", "Postcard from Celeste Mountain", the beginning sections of "Golden" and "Quiet and Falling", "Little Goth", "Exhale", and the credits theme "My Dearest Friends".

* In ''Disney/BigHero6'', a lone piano piece is playing after Tadashi's funeral, when Hiro sits lonely at the top of the stairs at home.