History TearJerker / MegaMan

* And on a related note, the ending cutscene of ''2''.

* ''9'' really gets to this Troper. Just imagine living your life knowing that you're forcibly going to be killed on a certain date ''and'' replaced by a newer model.

** The ending is made worse with FridgeLogic in that after Lan wakes up post-credits, ''Mega Man doesn't speak''. The poor kid could've dreamed he was talking to him...

*** [[FridgeHorror ...Crap.]]

** If you're talking about ''that'' ending[[hottip:*:Where Zero kills off the main cast]], it was officially {{Jossed}} by Inafune-san.

* The remix of Ballade's theme turned out rather sad, so much that the song was named "Farewell to Ballade". It almost reminds this troper of "At the bottom of the night" from ChronoTrigger.

* It's never been depicted in-canon, but you ''know'' how the original ''Game/MegaMan'' series ''has'' to end, don't you?

!Game/MegaMan

** If you're talking about ''that'' ending[[hottip:* :Where Zero kills off the main cast]], it was officially {{Jossed}} by Inafune-san.

!MegaManBattleNetwork

!MegaManStarForce

* Comparing Dr. Wily between the standard universe and his alternative in MegaManBattleNetwork. In the latter, he eventually manages to put behind his rivalry and goes on to help the world. In the former, he goes completely off his rocker and tries to spell doom for the world for centuries after his death. It'd be sad and pathetic if if didn't cost billions of people their lives.

* The [[WesternAnimation/MegaMan Ruby-Spears cartoon]] had this too. Near the end of "Bro Bots", Megaman saves Protoman's life during their fight, despite the latter betraying him and his family after [[HeelfaceMole pretending to be good]]. After a corny line, Protoman grows serious and asks if he's getting sentimental. Mega responds that he owed Proto for telling him about the scrambler chip he'd placed on him, and now they were even. Then sad music starts playing as Protoman leaves to rejoin Wily.
** Not only that, but Protoman punched through a glass window as he made his escape. The shards became embedded in the now-cooling lava, and you saw Megaman in their reflection. Not moving to stop Protoman. Just sitting there, staring at where his brother left...
--->'''Protoman:''' Until next time, bro.
--->'''Megaman: *bitterly*''' Yeah...until next time, bro.
** Another was in the episode "Mega-Pinocchio". After believing he was turned into a human, Megaman failed to stop Gutsman and Cutman, taking the blame for letting them get away. It was really Wily toying with his mind that made him hesitate, but Mega was unaware of this. He ended up talking to Dr. Light about it, which resulted in the following lines.

--->'''Megaman:''' ...Am I one of your mistakes?
** After playing ''Megaman 10'', the scene in "Robosaur Park" with Mega and Roll arguing over who should take the antidote becomes a lot sadder. Especially since, in both scenarios, Roll gives the same reason that Megaman should take it...She couldn't stop Wily. He could.

* The [[Series/MegaMan Ruby-Spears cartoon]] had this too. Near the end of "Bro Bots", Megaman saves Protoman's life during their fight, despite the latter betraying him and his family after [[HeelfaceMole pretending to be good]]. After a corny line, Protoman grows serious and asks if he's getting sentimental. Mega responds that he owed Proto for telling him about the scrambler chip he'd placed on him, and now they were even. Then sad music starts playing as Protoman leaves to rejoin Wily.

!MegaManX
* In Zero's storyline of ''X4'', the fight against Iris, and the result. Unfortunately, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LISmPmdUhYA hammy 90s voiceacting]] kind of ruined the moment a bit for American audiences, although the scene [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVG1qIpeS0 as originally done]] is far more effective at getting Zero's voice-ripping ''anguish'' across. [[spoiler:"WHAT THE HELL ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?!", indeed.]]
** This scene has now been [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-JE2FKD-k redubbed]] with much better voice-acting. Hearing Zero's tiny little sob at the end of his scream breaks this troper's heart.
* Zero's final moments during his ending in ''X5''. Utterly broken and defeated, he finally remembers what he was built for, apologises to Iris's memory, and says that the world will finally be peaceful when he dies, right before he says goodbye to his best friend X. This troper doesn't care that his death was eventually retconned, it's still so goddamn sad.
** Given that ''X5'' was originally intended by Keiji Inafune as the final chapter of the ''MegaManX'' saga, it would have been Zero's final demise - until he is revived in ''MegaManZero''.
* ''X5'''s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICTvx1t3n94 remix]] of Dr. Light's ''X1'' theme...even sadder than the SNES one.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssCWyBJuhA unused track from X5 entitled "Armageddon"]], for when the space colony crashed. It sounds like a rock ballad, but there's a sense of the Earth being wiped clean.
!MegaManZero
* When Zero makes his [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]], we see [[spoiler:Ciel break down and sob for him]] all the way through the closing credits. [[spoiler:At last she tells him, wherever he is, that she'll follow his example and make the world a better place. "Just come back someday...I...I believe in you!" Cut to Zero's shattered helmet amid the wreckage of the Ragnarok satellite -- he's not coming back, folks.]] Absolutely brutal.
** Not to mention that [[spoiler:Zero dies aboard the Ragnarok satellite as it falls towards earth, and you see lots of shooting stars falling as Ciel cries. Yes, that's right, you watch ''Zero burn up on re-entry'' as you see that poor girl cry her heart out.]]
* Don't forget about [[spoiler:the Guardians of Neo Arcadia, who sacrifice themselves to give you the opportunty to destroy Omega.]]
* Nor about [[spoiler:Elpizo destroying ''MegaManX's'' body. You get a close-up of Zero's face as he could only watch helplessly as the last thing keeping his best friend alive explodes before his very eyes.]]
!MegaManZX
* At the very beginning of the first game where [[spoiler:after fighting a posessed Giro, he sacrifices himself to allow Model Z to lend you its power in order to survive.]] And in the implied backstory, [[spoiler:Ciel is murdered by Serpent (who was supposedly her ally) during an expedition to find the biometals.]]

* The ending to ''Star Force 3'' was this combined with a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. Geo's beaten the big bad twice, the second in such a way that it will never return. Except...by doing so he has sentenced himself to death in space, since fighting Meteor G generated so much noise that the rocket - the one that Geo ''needed'' to be able to get to and from the Earth and the Meteor - has completely failed. Not only that, but unlike the first game with a similar scenario, theres no capsule for Geo to ride off in, no capsule which his friends could send a signal for it to track back to Earth - nothing. And then you see everyone in the WAZA hq realising this. But then, a message is sent to everyone's Hunter. The sender? Kelvin - Geo's dad. [[HotShounenMom Hope]] proceeds to break down into tears as she hears her husband's voice for the first time in three years. But thats not where it ends, far from it. You see the reason Kelvin has sent out this message - and to the entire world even - is to ask them, plead with them - no - '''beg''' them to please help his son who is now floating in space, protected only by a small field of EM waves that won't last long. He asks them both as a human being and as a father, to help the boy who saved their lives. Now if you know the Mega Man series, you know that it puts a lot of effort into proving just how HumansAreBastards, so you really don't expect much...

** After playing Megaman 10, the scene in "Robosaur Park" with Mega and Roll arguing over who should take the antidote becomes a lot sadder. Especially since, in both scenarios, Roll gives the same reason that Megaman should take it...She couldn't stop Wily. He could.

** That, or he ends up dying at the hands of his past self late in his life, when he gets kidnapped by a time-travelling Wily and turned into Quint.

** And on a related note, the ending cutscene of ''2''.
** ''10'' gets this with [[spoiler:Roll giving her medicine to Mega Man to save him, the music in the scene is 8-Bit as well, but it still makes you feel sad, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming have a warmer heart]], and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the sudden rage to rip Wily apart]].]]
** The remix of Ballade's theme turned out rather sad, so much that the song was named "Farewell to Ballade". It almost reminds this troper of "At the bottom of the night" from ChronoTrigger.
** ''9'' really gets to this Troper. Just imagine living your life knowing that you're forcibly going to be killed on a certain date ''and'' replaced by a newer model.
* In Zero's storyline of ''MegaManX 4'', the fight against Iris, and the result. Unfortunately, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LISmPmdUhYA hammy 90s voiceacting]] kind of ruined the moment a bit for American audiences, although the scene [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVG1qIpeS0 as originally done]] is far more effective at getting Zero's voice-ripping ''anguish'' across. [[spoiler:"WHAT THE HELL ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?!", indeed.]]

** Zero's final moments during his ending in ''X5''. Utterly broken and defeated, he finally remembers what he was built for, apologises to Iris's memory, and says that the world will finally be peaceful when he dies, right before he says goodbye to his best friend X. This troper doesn't care that his death was eventually retconned, it's still so goddamn sad.
*** Given that ''X5'' was originally intended by Keiji Inafune as the final chapter of the ''MegaManX'' saga, it would have been Zero's final demise - until he is revived in ''MegaManZero''.
** ''X5'''s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICTvx1t3n94 remix]] of Dr. Light's ''X1'' theme... Even sadder than the SNES one.
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssCWyBJuhA unused track from X5 entitled "Armageddon"]], for when the space colony crashed. It sounds like a rock ballad, but there's a sense of the Earth being wiped clean.
* When Zero makes his [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]] in ''MegaManZero 4'', we see [[spoiler:Ciel break down and sob for him]] all the way through the closing credits. [[spoiler:At last she tells him, wherever he is, that she'll follow his example and make the world a better place. "Just come back someday...I...I believe in you!" Cut to Zero's shattered helmet amid the wreckage of the Ragnarok satellite -- he's not coming back, folks.]] Absolutely brutal.

** Don't forget about [[spoiler:the Guardians of Neo Arcadia, who sacrifice themselves to give you the opportunty to destroy Omega.]]
** Nor about [[spoiler:Elpizo destroying ''MegaManX's'' body. You get a close-up of Zero's face as he could only watch helplessly as the last thing keeping his best friend alive explodes before his very eyes.]]
* The ''[[MegaManZX ZX]]'' series has a few of its own as well, not the least of which are at the very beginning of the first game where [[spoiler:after fighting a posessed Giro, he sacrifices himself to allow Model Z to lend you its power in order to survive.]] And in the implied backstory, [[spoiler:Ciel is murdered by Serpent (who was supposedly her ally) during an expedition to find the biometals.]]
* The ''BattleNetwork'' series has several of these. The most poignant is the ending of [=BN3=], where everyone thinks [=MegaMan=] is gone for good. We see Lan four months later, still heartbroken but moving on with his life. Only after the credits does Lan's dad find a way to save [=MegaMan=].

* The ending to ''[[MegaManStarForce Star Force]] 3'' was this combined with a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. Geo's beaten the big bad twice, the second in such a way that it will never return. Except... by doing so he has sentenced himself to death in space, since fighting Meteor G generated so much noise that the rocket - the one that Geo ''needed'' to be able to get to and from the Earth and the Meteor - has completely failed. Not only that, but unlike the first game with a similar scenario, theres no capsule for Geo to ride off in, no capsule which his friends could send a signal for it to track back to Earth - nothing. And then you see everyone in the WAZA hq realising this. But then, a message is sent to everyone's Hunter. The sender? Kelvin - Geo's dad. [[HotShounenMom Hope]] proceeds to break down into tears as she hears her husband's voice for the first time in three years. But thats not where it ends, far from it. You see the reason Kelvin has sent out this message - and to the entire world even - is to ask them, plead with them - no - '''beg''' them to please help his son who is now floating in space, protected only by a small field of EM waves that won't last long. He asks them both as a human being and as a father, to help the boy who saved their lives. Now if you know the Mega Man series, you know that it puts a lot of effort into proving just how HumansAreBastards, so you really don't expect much...

* Comparing Dr. Wily between the standard Megaman universe and his alternative in MegamanBattleNetwork. In the latter, he eventually manages to put behind his rivalry and goes on to help the world. In the former, he goes completely off his rocker and tries to spell doom for the world for centuries after his death. It'd be sad and pathetic if if didn't cost billions of people their lives.

** ''X5'''s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICTvx1t3n94 remix]] of Dr. Light's ''X1'' theme... Even sadder than the SNES one...
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssCWyBJuhA unused track from X5 entitled "Armageddon"]], for when the space colony crashed. It sounds like a rock ballad, but there's a sense of the Earth being wiped clean...

** ''X5'''s[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICTvx1t3n94 remix]] of Dr. Light's ''X1'' theme... Even sadder than the SNES one...

** Not only that, but Protoman punched through a glass window as he made his escape. The shards became embedded in the now-cooling candle wax lava, and you saw Megaman in their reflection. Not moving to stop Protoman. Just sitting there, staring at where his brother left...

*** Given that ''X5'' was originally intended by KeijiInafune as the final chapter of the ''MegaManX'' saga, it would have been Zero's final demise - until he is revived in ''MegaManZero''.

* The ending to ''[[MegaManStarForce Star Force]] 3'' was this combined with a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. Geo's beaten the big bad twice, the second in such a way that it will never return. Except... by doing so he has sentenced himself to death in space, since fighting Meteor G generated so much noise that the rocket - the one that Geo ''needed'' to be able to get to and from the Earth and the Meteor - has completely failed. Not only that, but unlike the first game with a similar scenario, theres no capsule for Geo to ride off in, no capsule which his friends could send a signal for it to track back to Earth - nothing. And then you see everyone in the WAZA hq realising this. But then, a message is sent to everyone's Hunter. The sender? Kelvin - Geo's dad. [[HotShounenMom Hope]] proceeds to break down into tears as she hears her husband's voice for the first time in three years. But thats not where it ends, far from it. You see the reason Kelvin has sent out this message - and to the entire world even - is to ask them, plead with them - no - '''beg''' them to please help his son who is now floating in space, protected only by a small field of EM waves that won't last long. He asks them both as a human being and as a father, to help the boy who saved their lives. Now if you know the Mega Man series, you know that it puts a lot of effort into proving just how HumansAreBastards, so you really don't expect much... The entire world gets to work, distributing power to WAZA, as well as creating a Purpose signal so strong, that it literally becomes ''Purpose wave'' which begins to tug at the EM waves surrounding Geo, and bringing him home. One small problem though - it seems that Omega-Xis and Kelvin aren't gonna be able to come with him, setting it up to be a BittersweetEnding. And during the credits we're treated to drawings depicting how Geo's life continued once he came back to Earth. However after the credits you see that though two weeks have passed, Geo has been hiding his sadness over his loss of both his best friend and his Father for a second time. Then suddenly, we see a blue shooting star crash down towards him, revealing that not only is Omega-Xis fine, but he's brought someone with him. Cut to the Stelar household where Hope has just finished making dinner, to find her son walk through the front door with not only everyone's favourite alien - but with the man she loves. Cue the HappilyEverAfter.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UctxA28FCsw Lamentations of a War Machine]]
** The video's gone, so... Now what?