History TearJerker / Farscape

** And of course the noble [[YouShallNotPass last stand]] of D'Argo, especially the exchanges with John and Chiana beforehand, and the fact the latter has to be carried away sobbing and screaming.

* The season 1 finale’s last supper before the crew embarks on what they’re certain will be their last stand against the Peacekeepers. Chiana even made their favorite dishes for the occasion. Sob.

* Scorpius' memory of his first twelve years of life in "Incubator". While it in no way justifies the crimes he's committed, you can't help but feel sorry for the child he once was.

** [[NotWhatItLooksLike When it turns out]] that ([[TheOldestOnesInTheBook as might be expected]], though [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder not for the reason you'd expect]]) [[spoiler:Crais didn't actually shoot Xhalax but let her live in exchange for their lives, so as to keep Peacekeeper Command from sending more teams after them]], the follow-up to this turns out to be almost as heartbreaking: [[spoiler:despite wanting to make Aeryn suffer for costing her her life, her love, and everything she had among the Peacekeepers, including being forced into the life of an assassin by her superiors, it turns out Xhalax did love her after all...that [[TitleDrop the choice]] was not about her possible redemption but rather a SadisticChoice--either her father had to die or baby Aeryn did. In the end Xhalax's revenge scheme was more about [[SuicideByCop ending her pain]]...and so when Crais breaks in and shoots her to (he thinks) save Aeryn, all she can do is bitterly whisper that she [[ThatManIsDead "died long ago"]] and ask to be allowed to fall from the window ledge. Aeryn [[DiedInYourArmsTonight holds her, dying, in her arms]]...then lets her go, absolutely bleak and devastated yet again.]]

* John being confronted with his mother in the MindScrew of "Won't Get Fooled Again", whom he knows is dead...and then having to watch her collapse and die in front of him. The way he holds her, touches her face, and sobs at how cruel the whole thing is is utterly heartbreaking--and makes what he does to [[spoiler:the Scarran]] behind it all oh-so-cathartic.

* The death of [[spoiler:Jool and the Eidolons]] in ''[=PKWars=]'', and Chiana's miserable lampshading of how much ''Moya'''s crew is a DoomMagnet.

** And of course the noble [[YouShallNotPass last stand]] of [[spoiler:D'Argo]], especially the exchanges with John and Chiana beforehand, and the fact the latter has to be carried away sobbing and screaming.

* D'Argo's entire backstory. All he wished to do was peacefully retire to a humble farming life after his military service alongside his Sebacean wife, Lo'Laan, and their son, Jothee, but Peacekeeper xenophobia conspired to frame, and imprison him, for her death and sell Johee into slavery. As he put it in his quiet response to a question from a then disgraced Crais, his former jailer:

* D'Argo's enture backstory. All he wished to do was peacefully retire to a humble farming life after his military service alongside his Sebacean wife, Lo'Laan, and their son, Jothee, but Peacekeeper xenophobia conspired to frame, and imprison him, for her death and sell Johee into slavery. As he put it in his quiet response to a question from a then disgraced Crais, his former jailer:

-->"We're cursed. Everything we touch gets destroyed."

-->We're cursed. Everything we touch gets destroyed.

* As if the entire concept of "The Locket" isn't bad enough--one group of people stuck frozen in time forever, never aging, and never able to see their loved ones again, while another pair get to [[GrowOldWithMe grow old together]]--there's the scene when Old!John makes it back up to Moya, and when the others open the transport door they find him cradling the dead Aeryn in his arms...meaning she died on the way up, in space, just the way she'd wanted. Then comes the bittersweet moment when he sits by her body, telling her about the lake in Maine he used to go to with his father, and all the things/people he never got to show her, followed by him looking in the titular locket to find the picture of "the only man [she] ever loved" was him. (He breaks down himself over this.) And then finally at the end, after reverse-starbursting also reversed time and left them alive and young again before they ever entered the mist, they're left with just echoes of all those years they spent together...and the locket, which had somehow fused together, is pried open to reveal the photo had [[{{Symbolism}} turned to dust which just pours between their fingers]] while they share a HeldGaze.

* The death of Talyn!Crichton. Especially Aeryn bursting into tears and curing up next to his body as the screen fades to black

* The final moments of "Bad Timing". John and Aeryn have just got engaged and for a second it looks like the season is going to end happily for once...and then a ship flies overhead, its pilot identifying the cast as intruders on the planet. Unable to return to Moya, John and Aeryn embrace and kiss as the ship opens fire, its weapon reducing them to millions of crystals spread out across their rowboat. D'Argo, Chiana and Rygel can do nothing but watch helplessly from Moya's command centre. D'Argo's ''howl'' as his friends are crystallised is absolutely gut-wrenching.

* Aeryn's [[spoiler: temporary death in the season 2 finale.]]

--> '''John''': Go away, go away Zhaan. There's no point.

** Hell, the whole last half of 'Dog With Two Bones'. Grab tissues, cuz you're gonna need 'em. John's last fantasy flash is [[spoiler: less horrific to a [[Series/GameofThrones post-Red Wedding]] audience]] but still shocking and pretty frelling sad. That scene got the waterworks going, and the hanger scene made sure they kept on coming.

* Moya being willing to sacrifice herself for her occupants
* [[spoiler:Zhaan's death]]. It's one for both the main characters and the audience. And the look of complete heartbreak on Stark's face is enough to make you cry.
* [[spoiler: Talyn and Crais's sacrifice at the end of season 3, where they blow themselves up to save everyone, Crais waking Talyn up for just long enough for them to die together]] counts, especially considering the lead-up with [[spoiler: Talyn trying and failing to control his psychological problems to the point where he attacks his own mother]].
* [[spoiler: Gilina's]] death. Especially her asking Crichton, "If things had been different, could you have loved me?" "Yes."

* Crais wants revenge on Crichton for the death of his brother, [[spoiler: because the pair were conscripted into the Peacekeeper forces, and the last words his father said to Crais was to take care of his brother]].
* D'Argo's family, due to he and his wife being StarCrossedLovers [[spoiler: due to her being a Sebacean, who was murdered by her brother for marrying a Luxan, and D'Argo was subsequently framed for her death.]]
* The [[spoiler: death of Talyn!Crichton. Especially Aeryn bursting into tears and curing up next to his body as the screen fades to black]]

* Season 4's 'Constellation of Doubt'... because watching Crichton losing his faith in humanity due to that frellnik documentary, plus how the camera pans over to Chiana hearing the unkind things that the human commentators had to say about her... yeah. And if that isn't enough of a downer, pretty much everyone on the crew is convinced that [[spoiler: Aeryn is as good as dead, and even if she isn't, they have no way of finding her and Crichton is the only one who even thinks its possible]], is absolutely heart-breaking.

* The final moments of "Bad Timing". [[spoiler: John and Aeryn have just got engaged and for a second it looks like the season is going to end happily for once...and then a ship flies overhead, its pilot identifying the cast as intruders on the planet. Unable to return to Moya, John and Aeryn embrace and kiss as the ship opens fire, its weapon reducing them to millions of crystals spread out across their rowboat. D'Argo, Chiana and Rygel can do nothing but watch helplessly from Moya's command centre. D'Argo's ''howl'' as his friends are crystallised is absolutely gut-wrenching.]]

* Scorpius' memory of his first twelve years of life in "Incubator". While it in no way justifies the crimes he's committed, you can't help but feel sorry for the child he once was.

** Hell, the whole last half of 'Dog With Two Bones'. Grab tissues, cuz you're gonna need 'em. John's last fantasy flash is [[spoiler: less horrific to a post-Red Wedding audience]] but still shocking and pretty frelling sad. That scene got the waterworks going, and the hanger scene made sure they kept on coming.

* Season 4's 'Constellation of Doubt'... because watching Crichton losing his faith in humanity due to that frellnik documentary, plus how the camera pans over to Chiana hearing the unkind things that the human commentators had to say about her... yeah. And if that isn't enough of a downer, pretty much everyone on the crew is convinced that [[spoiler: Aeryn is as good as dead, and even if she isn't, they have no way of finding her and Crichton is the only one who even thinks its possible]], is absolutely heart-breaking.

* "DNA Mad Scientist" really puts Aeryn's place into perspective. D'Argo, Zhaan, and Rygel have a chance to go home. Aeryn is also certain that Crichton will eventually find a way back to Earth, too. An attempt to find a place of her own to live leaves her being experimented on by [[VillainOfTheWeek Namtar]]. After revealing the increasing BodyHorror to Crichton, she says, "I didn't want to get left behind. I'm so scared."

--> '''John''': Go away, go away Zhaan. There's no point

-->'''Crichton:''' ''[to Aeryn]'' You know what the worst part of this is? You and me. We never could get it together. Now we never will.

* The [[spoiler: death of Talyn!Crichton. Especially Aeryn bursting into tears and curing up next to his body as the screen fades to black]]

** When Zhaan goes into his head, we hear a lot of sinister whispering from Scorpius, and then Johns voice, loud and clear, telling Zhaan that its pointless to try helping him. Her response to the level of pain she felt in his mind was to try and help him by performing assisted suicide. The others stop her thankfully, but Zhaan would never take an action like that lightly, so his depression must have been unimaginable.
'''John''': Go away, go away Zhaan. There's no point

* Many, including some of the most gut-wrenching {{Season Finale}}s known to man. And "...Different Destinations". Anything involving Talyn where Moya is desperately trying to get her kid to listen (and he ''just doesn't...''); anytime Moya is willing to sacrifice herself for her occupants; and when [[spoiler:Talyn commits suicide]]. The last one has left people in tears. Then there's [[spoiler:Zhaan's death]]. It's one for both the main characters and the audience. And the look of complete heartbreak on Stark's face is enough to make you cry.

* D'Argo's family, due to he and his wife being StarCrossedLovers [[spoiler: due to her being a Sebacean, who was murdered by her brother for marrying a Luxan, and D'Argo was subsequently framed for her death.]]