Tear Jerker / Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

• Infinite Warfare has a few tearjerker moments within it - especially the ending, in which the majority of your squad end up dying in the final battle by sacrificing themselves for the salvation of Earth. This includes you, marking the first time in a Call of Duty game that the player character does not survive to the end credits.
  • During the ending credits, you get to hear the final goodbye messages recorded by those who died along the journey for their friends and family. They knew there was a good chance they would not be coming home, and recorded farewell messages for their loved ones before departing.
    • For bonus Player Punch points, you actually get an achievement for forcing yourself to sit through the whole thing.
    • Each of the final messages are Tear Jerkers of their own. Omar's message is asking his wife to Take Care of the Kids, Gator's last message is to his wife and his unborn daughter, Ethan's message is him telling Reyes that It Has Been an Honor, Mac's message is telling her children that she didn't regret doing her job to protect them, Griffin's message is him trying to mend his relationship with his Disappeared Dad, Kashima's message is him apologizing to his parents for not making it back home, Yetide's message is basically a Dying Declaration of Love to her girlfriend, and Gibson's message is her saying a final "Thank You" to her husband.
  • This is also the first time in the franchise that all of the playable characters die in the same game. They are Wolf, Ethan, and Reyes.
  • The number of Retribution crew members in total? 767. The number of Retribution crew members who survive the game? Four. If you want to know who the survivors are, they are Salter, Brooks, Kloos, and Boats.
  • "Is that rain, sir?"
  • Operation Blood Storm is a Tear Jerker in its entirety for the fact that you witness the aforementioned message recorders' deaths, except Gibson, who was killed in a dogfight offscreen, and Omar, who died in a different place entirely. Right after crash landing on Mars, you see Kashima bleeding out right in front of you after saying the aforementioned line, Yetide getting shot right after dismounting the dropship, Gator's Heroic Sacrifice shielding you from a gunship fire, Griffin's Last Stand against an entire squadron of SDF C6s, Mac's Heroic Sacrifice to destroy the C6 deployment pods, and Ethan's self-destruct to destroy the core (which, to make matters even worse, the player is forced to personally execute, in the only sequence in the game in which Ethan is playable). And the poisoned cherry on top of the bitter cake? You suffocating in space after ordering your surviving comrades to fire on your position.
    Reyes: Fire on my position, Salter!
    Salter: I can't do that, Nick!
    Reyes: Nora, finish the mission! That's an order!
  • Before Operation Blood Storm, Nick Reyes is A Father to His Men. He's their friend, he loves them, he can't bear it when they die. In Operation Blood Storm, he realizes he can't save his men, and he doesn't even show any emotion when sending his comrades, (including Nora Salter, his partner for over 10 years) into a literal suicide mission. He doesn't freak out, or act surprised when he's forced to kill Ethan himself by triggering his self-destruct. Some players may see it as an epic Heroic BSoD.
  Reyes: Honor was all mine, Metal-1.
• Apart from Blood Storm, Operation Burnwater gives us Reyes and Ethan drifting in space after destroying the SDF fueling station on Titan. Reyes notices his suit has taken damage from a shrapnel and he's losing oxygen. Ethan claims he cannot do anything and stays by his commander's side with Reyes claiming Ethan isn't just a piece of expendable tech, but a brother. Before Reyes (seemingly) suffocates, Ethan's quote before Reyes suffocates is nigh impossible to hold back tears from.
  Ethan: I think I'm scared, sir.

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