History TearJerker / CowboyBebop

* When Julia is shot and killed. You might see it coming with how she awkwardly got up, but it was still so sudden, then the silence, the birds, the white. What can really start the tears flowing was Spike's face. 26 episodes we watched Spike do it all with this calm and way to cool look on his face. Then we see his look of utter shock.

* Spike and Jet sharing one last joke before Spike leaves in the final episode. They've been friends for years, but Jet totally understands that Spike [[ItsPersonal needs to settle things on his own]]... even if it means he's never coming back.

* On "Pierrot le Fou" on Youtube almost ''every'' single comment lampshades the trope: they're all about how [[AlasPoorVillain horribly sad the ending was]] and how NO viewer could stop the tears when Pierrot, in his VillainousBreakdown, screams and cries like a little kid after Spike throws a knife at his leg. Not helping the scene is the amusement park setting the duel went down in, where the parade going around Pierrot evokes the mental image of a lost kid crying for his mom in a crowd of strangers. And no, it doesn't get better; he's unceremoniously crushed by one of the parade floats, and even Spike seems upset over it. His last words in the episode? "I hate amusement parks."

* Meta example: Unsho Ishizuka, the voice of Jet, passing away August 13, 2018.

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** A special mention has to go to the scene where an old lady, who was a classmate, remembers Faye and is mystified by her [[OlderThanTheyLook young looks. She attempts to engage her in conversation, but Faye simply says she's a ghost and runs off. Seeing what Faye should have been and what lives she missed out on (and the people that missed her) was just brutal.]]

*** "[[FamousLastWords Bang]]."