History TearJerker / AlanWake

* Remedy’s recent game, ''VideoGame/{{Control}} '', reveals that [[spoiler: Alan is still trapped in the Dark Place all these years later, desperately trying to write his way out.]]

* Cynthia Weaver has spent the last forty years obsessively maintaining the town's lights for the sake of the man she loved. She ''had'' a life and a career before this, but that's all gone now, and since she's the only one who knows how important her duty is, she's regarded as the town kook. Thomas Zane basically ''used'' her to prepare Bright Falls for Alan Wake's arrival, and her graffiti alternates between gushing about how much she loves Zane and cursing him, and one instance talks about how "darkness waits in her dreams". Does that mean she thinks her mission is ultimately hopeless, or that her dreams provide some respite from a life of constant bright light?

* One of the last scenes in the game is [[spoiler:Alice crawling onto Cauldron Lake's shore after Alan put himself in her place, forlornly calling out, "Alan?..."]]

* The final fate of [[spoiler: Thomas Zane. He was a nationally famous poet, before the Dark Presence took his girlfriend. He had to write himself, and everything he ever did, out of existence, and spend 40 years in the Dark Place.]]

* Hearing Alice's words in "The Writer" basically giving Alan a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. [[spoiler: Though obviously false, both Zane and Narrator!Alan gently remind Rational!Alan and by proxy the player that the words said in the speech are Alan's own doubts and flaws anyway.]]

* In American Nightmare, hearing on the radio that Alice has given Alan up for dead. [[spoiler: It gets undone by the ending, but damn it hurts to hear.]]
* Cynthia Weaver has spent the last forty years obsessively maintaining the town's lights for the sake of the man she loved. She ''had'' a life and a career before this, but that's all gone now, and since she's the only one who knows how important her duty is, she's regarded as the town kook. [[spoiler:Thomas Zane]] basically ''used'' her to prepare Bright Falls for Alan Wake's arrival, and her graffiti alternates between gushing about how much she loves [[spoiler:Zane]] and cursing him, and one instance talks about how "darkness waits in her dreams". Does that mean she thinks her mission is ultimately hopeless, or that her dreams provide some respite from a life of constant bright light?

** It gets worse when you realize that she's not only alone, in the middle of a lake, with her car crashed, her purse and clothing in another dimension, and wearing nothing but her underwear. She has one friend in a thousand miles who she doesn't even know is nearby. [[FromBadToWorse Also, the deputies that should be searching for her are mostly dead, so it will be very difficult for her to get back to the town even if she can find it]].

* Being [[spoiler: unable to save Emma in the first two iterations.]] It's even worse the second time around, since she'd already turned GenreSavvy and it still didn't help.

* Cynthia Weaver has spent the last forty years obsessively maintaining the town's lights for the sake of the man she loved. She doesn't seem to have a personal life of any sort, and since she's the only one who knows how important her duty is, she's regarded as the town kook. Her graffiti alternates between gushing about how much she loves [[spoiler:Thomas Zane]] and cursing him, and one instance talks about how "darkness waits in her dreams". Does that mean she thinks her mission is hopeless, or that her dreams provide some respite from a life of constant bright light?

* Being [[spoiler: unable to save Emma in the first two iterations.]] It's even worse the second time around, since she'd already turned GenreSavvy and it still didn't help.

* The warehouse where you come across the radio playing "War." It's hard to go through the subsequent battle without being moved to tears by the lyrics talking of how you're fighting against the impossible and how you're never alone on the front lines.

** "The Poet and the Muse" by the [[Music/PoetsOfTheFall Old Gods Of Asgard]]. Just pay attention to the lyrics...

** "The Poet and the Muse" by the Old Gods Of Asgard. Just pay attention to the lyrics...

* The song that plays during the credits for the last episode and the two [=DLCs=] is David Bowie's "Space Oddity", about a spaceman who becomes lost in the void forever, watching the Earth from above. ''Can you hear me, Major Tom?''...

* The song that plays during the credits for the last episode and the two DLCs is David Bowie's "Space Oddity", about a spaceman who becomes lost in the void forever, watching the Earth from above. ''Can you hear me, Major Tom?''...

* The song that plays during the credits for the last episode and the two DLCs is "Major Tom", about a spaceman who becomes lost in the void forever, watching the Earth from above. ''Can you hear me, Major Tom?''...

* The song that plays during the credits for the last episode, The Writer, is "Major Tom", about a spaceman who becomes lost in the void forever, watching the Earth from above. ''Can you hear me, Major Tom?''...

** The happy memory Zane shows you afterwards, too.

** "The poet and the muse" by the Old Gods Of Asgard. Just pay attention to the lyrics...

* Alan throws a tantrum at Alice for trying to get rid of his writer's block and storming out.

* Alan is such a JerkAss when he yells at Alice for trying to get rid of his writer's block and storming out.

* Hearing Alice's words in "The Writer" basically giving Alan a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. [[spoiler: Though obviously false, both Zane and Narrator!Alan gently remind Rational!Alan and by proxy the player that the words said in the speech are Alan's own doubts and flaws anyway.]]

* Hearing Alice's words in "The Writer" basically giving Alan a massive TheReasonYouSuck speech. [[spoiler: Though obviously false, both Zane and Narrator!Alan gently remind Rational!Alan and by proxy the player that the words said in the speech are Alan's own doubts and flaws anyway.]]

* Hearing Alice's words in "The Writer" basically giving Alan a massive ReasonYouSuck speech. [[spoiler: Though obviously false, both Zane and Narrator!Alan gently remind Rational!Alan and by proxy the player that the words said in the speech are Alan's own doubts and flaws anyway.]]

* The warehouse where you come across the radio playing "War." It's hard to go through the subsequent battle without being moved to tears by the lyrics talking of how you're fighting against the impossible and how you're never alone on the front lines.

* One of the last scenes in the game is [[spoiler:Alice crawling onto Cauldron Lake's shore after Alan put himself in her place, forlornly calling out, "Alan?..."]]

* Alan is such a JerkAss when he yells at Alice for trying to get rid of his writer's block and storming out.