History TearJerker / Mother

* A meta example: The former CEO, Global President of Nintendo, programmer and late Creator/SatoruIwata contributed to EarthBound by reprogramming the entire game from scratch so it would be saved from cancellation. If it wasn't for him, the franchise would have ended prematurely... a fate which befell him on July 11th 2015.

*** Don't forget how you hear [[spoiler: "I miss you"]] at the end credits.

* The ending credits song "Smiles and Tears'' from when you've beaten the game.

* Teddy's fate at the hands of R7038. [[spoiler: He gets better. (At least in the English version and the [[GameBoyAdvance GBA]] remake.)]]

* [[spoiler: Giegue]] is a pretty [[TragicMonster tragic villain]]. It's clear that he was torn apart by his [[spoiler: ParentalAbandonment and conflicting loyalties.]]
--> Stop... Pleeease, stop!

* In Videogame/EarthBound, two sesame seeds- one white, one black- can be found in desert. They're each only one pixel big, and if you talk to them, they'll ask you to help them find each-other, because they're in love. The sesame seeds cannot be interacted with beyond this, and they're on completely opposite sides of the desert. Twelve years later, Mother 3 came out. In the last chapter of the game, [[spoiler:you can find a single black pixel and a single white pixel sitting on a stand, side-by-side]].

!!''MOTHER 3''/''[=EarthBound=] 2''/''EarthBound 3''

!!''MOTHER 3''/''[=EarthBound=] 2''

* Arguably, ''MOTHER 3'' in general — starting with [[spoiler:Hinawa's death and Flint's subsequent breakdown in Chapter 1, the entirety of Chapter 6 where Lucas chases his mother's ghost through a field of sunflowers. This game wasn't tagged "strange, funny and heartrending" for nothing, you know.]]

[[quoteright:345:[[VideoGame/MOTHER3 http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28112814042172_4933.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming This picture]] [[WhatCouldHaveBeen is not the ending of the game]].]]

When a game series' taglines are [[VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings No crying until the end]], and [[VideoGame/{{MOTHER3}} Strange, Funny, Heartrending]], this makes it undoubtedly one of the most [[TearJerker emotional]] franchises of all time.

--> ''"Oh! [[spoiler:Giygas]]! I loved him... I loved him, as if he was my own child... He was always wagging his tail... just like a pup..."''

* A meta example: The former CEO, Global President of Nintendo, programmer and late Creator/SatoruIwata contributed to EarthBound by reprogramming the entire game from scratch so it would be saved from cancellation. If it wasn't for him, the franchise would have ended prematurely... a fate which befell him on July 11th 2015. To (sorta) quote Smiles and Tears, "[we] miss you."

* A meta example: The former CEO, Global President of Nintendo, programmer and late Satoru Iwata contributed to EarthBound by reprogramming the game so it would be saved from cancellation. If it wasn't for him, the franchise would have ended prematurely. He died on July 11th 2015.

!!''MOTHER''/''Earthbound Zero''/''[=EarthBound=] Beginnings''

[[quoteright:345:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28112814042172_4933.jpg]]

When a game series' taglines are [[VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings No crying until the end]], and [[VideoGame/{{MOTHER3}} Strange, Funny, Heartrending]], this makes it undoubtedly one of the most [[TearJerker emotional]] series of all time.

** [[spoiler:At the beginning of the fight Lucas can't bring himself to attack Claus, and will only heal to keep himself alive. [[{{BerserkerTears}} After Flint is struck down, however...]]]]

!!''MOTHER''/''[=EarthBound=] Beginnings''

* Realizing [[spoiler: Fassad was Locria, the seventh Magypsy.]] On one of the floors in the Empire Porky Building, [[spoiler: there is a Magypsy's shell house. Inside there are crates and presents of bananas, banana peels litter the floor, a Magypsy's memento (a Razor and Lipstick) that can come in handy as with the other mementos, familiar looking horns on the table, and a Magypsy's bed, where laid out on it is Fassad's clothing.]] Finally, when you reach the entrance of the next elevator, [[spoiler: there is a lone mouse. What he says will make you can't help but feel sorry for Porky's first lackey throughout half the game.]]

* Around the middle of the game, your party is taken to Easter (Youngtown in the prototype), a town in which all the adults living there were kidnapped by Giygas, leaving all the children alone. [[IMissMom Some of them take it better than others]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQqipQvtz7w The haunting, somber background music]] only worsens the situation.

* Teddy's fate at the hands of R7038. [[spoiler: He gets better. (At least in the English prototype and the [[GameBoyAdvance GBA]] remake.)]]

*** And now, with the real-life passing of SatoruIwata, those three little words are made even sadder.

When a game series' taglines are [[VideoGame/{{MOTHER}} No crying until the end]], and [[VideoGame/{{MOTHER3}} Strange, Funny, Heartrending]], you know that this is a series with immense Tear Jerkers.

-->[[spoiler:'''Claus Halucination''']]: Everyone's here, Lucas. Everyone's waiting to spit on you, throw rocks at you, and make your life hell. Who's "Everyone"? ... Everyone you love.

-->[[spoiler:'''Claus''']]: Everyone's here, Lucas. Everyone's waiting to spit on you, throw rocks at you, and make your life hell. Who's "Everyone"? ... Everyone you love.

* Giegue is a pretty [[TragicMonster tragic villain]]. It's clear that he was torn apart by his ParentalAbandonment and conflicting loyalties.