History TearJerker / MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs

** The dialogue between Signum and Fate , when Signum [[NotSoStoic starts to cry]].

* The scene from the end of episode 3, where Bardiche and Raising Heart are throwing up error messages to the people trying to fix them, telling them they don't have the right parts. The missing parts they are referring to are named CVK-792, or the Belka Cartridge System that their enemies are using, which are incredibly dangerous in the first place, but are more so for devices that have not been designed with that system in mind. The episode ends with a rather tense and melancholy BGM, with the word PLEASE written across the center of the screen in large print in the devices distinctive rune-script.

* The scene from the end of episode 3, where Bardiche and Raising Heart are throwing up error messages to the people trying to fix them, telling them they don't have the right parts. The missing parts they are referring to are named CVK-792, or the Belka Cartridge System that their enemies are using, which are incredibly dangerous in the first place, but are more so for devices that have not been designed with that system in mind. The episode ends with a rather tense and melancholy BGM, with the word PLEASE written across the center of the screen in large print in the devices distinctive rune-script.

* Fate's attempts to rescue Nanoha during the first battle don't go as well in the movie. In fact, Signum ends up slamming her into the ground when she tries to rush at Vita. This leads to an IronicEcho of the rescue from the series as she drags herself towards Nanoha's unconcious body.

* The part when the Wolkenritter decide to undertake the completion of the Book of Darkness without Hayate's knowledge and against her wishes, made especially heart wrenching with this line

* Vita dragging herself across a desert on some distant planet, fighting monsters to fill the book despite her knight armor being ripped up and she's covered in bruises and cuts. Then her shoe rips and she falls over, getting a face full of sand.

** Vita line before attacking Nanoha and giving birth to Nanoha's FanNickname.

** Made worse immediately afterwords as she sits there in the snow, [[CradleOfLoneliness Schwertkreuz held tightly against her chest]]. Despite being surrounded by friends and family who want nothing more than to comfort her, she's never felt so alone.

** Made worse immediately afterwords as she sits there in the snow, [[CradleOfLonliness Schwertkreuz held tightly against her chest]]. Despite literally being surrounded by friends and family who want nothing more than to comfort her, she's never felt so alone.

** Also, these are the only two times in the franchise that we see [[StoicWoobie Fate]] cry.

** And just in case there was a dry eye left in the house, this is the point where "Snow Rain" begins to play...

* In fact, pretty well all of episode 11 is one long TearJerker. The story spends the whole episode cycling between three settings. First is Fate in her heartbreaking LotusEaterMachine. The second has Nanoha fighting for her life as she desperately tries to reason with the despairing, perpetually-weeping avatar of the Book of Darkness. Finally, there's the Book's real personality talking to Hayate, sorrowfully telling her that she wants more than anything to give Hayate the happiness she wished... but she can't. Can't stop the out-of-control defense program, can't save any of their lives, can't do anything except let Hayate spend eternity dreaming of a life that can never be. And Hayate realizes how sad, lonely, and lost the Book of Darkness truly is: forced to live an endless cycle of destruction, doomed forever to kill the only people who could ever care for it.

* [[spoiler:Reinforce]] sacrificing herself to break the ViciousCycle in the last episode. As well as Hayate unexpectedly turning up and ''desperately'' trying to stop her. Made worse by the fact that this is the only time that Hayate's being in a wheelchair is played up as vulnerability instead of just a side effect of the Book's curse. She has all the power in the world [[spoiler: [[UselessWithoutPowers and she can't even save someone right in front of her]].]]

'''Fate:''' She's my friend. We've been apart. I finally got to see her. ''(tears well up in her eyes)''. She's my friend!

'''Fate:''' She's my friend. We've been apart. I finally got to see her. ''(tears well up in her eyes)''.

** Signum is unable to look her in the eye as she drains her Linker Core, [[DistantReactionShot and Fate's screams echo across the city]], complete with a shot of Shamal and Zafira with looks of obvious guilt as they drain Arf's Core as well.

* [[spoiler:Reinforce]] sacrificing herself to break the ViciousCycle in the last episode. As well as Hayate unexpectedly turning up and ''desperately'' trying to stop her.

** Signum is unable to look her in the eye as she drains her Linker Core, and Fate's screams echo across the city, complete with a shot of Shamal and Zafira with looks of obvious guilt as they drain Arf's Core as well.

* Fate's time in the [[LotusEaterMachine Book Of Darkness' dream world]] in episode 11. She ''knows'' it's all just a dream, but when it hits home that, in this world, she is truly loved by her mother Precia ''and'' has Alicia as the sweet older sister she never knew, she breaks down in tears. And then later, as she prepares to leave the dream-world to help save the day, she and Alicia share a heart-wrenching goodbye, Fate crying and apologizing as Alicia calmly fades away into light in her arms, her last words being of love to her sister.

** The Movie version of the scene makes it even more depressing by setting it after Hayate has been hospitalized and changing the location to a muddy hillside [[GrayRainOfDepression during a thunderstorm]].

* Vita dragging herself across a desert on some distant planet, fighting monsters to fill the book despite her knight armor being ripped up and she's covered in bruises and cuts.