Tear Jerker / Epic (2013)

• Even with his Big Bad status, it's not hard to feel sorry for Mandrake's anguish cries after his son's death. Bad guy or good guy, losing a child is never easy.
• The distant relationship between MK and her father, even to the point when she tells him she'll be going through the 5 stages of grief alone.
• Ronin's last moments with Queen Tara before she succumbs to the boggan arrow.
  • A happy one that parallels the above: Ronin's smile when he sees Tara, for a moment, before she chooses her heir.
  Tara: There's that smile.
• Professor Bomba breaking down after he thinks he imagines his daughter as a Leafman.
• This line
  Ronin: (when they are entering the Boggan's stronghold, Wrathwood) "I've been here before; with your father."
  Nod: ") He never told me about this."
  Ronin: "(Sadly) He never got the chance..."
  (Nod lets it sink in.)
• Ronin's apparent death in Wrathwood. Almost nothing is said about it, making it all the more painful, especially if you realize that, as far as he knows, Nod just lost the only father figure he's had for most of his life. MK's silent understanding (what with her mother's death) makes it all the worse; she clearly knows there's nothing she can say to make it better. Finn's face says the same thing when he understands what Nod means...
• After the climax of the film, the human-sized MK reunites with her dad. He is looking over an old picture of their family and manages to choke out only part of a heartbreaking sentence:
  Professor Bomba: I always hoped if I uh... if I proved it to her, she'd uh... you know...
• The fact that the movie, despite being exciting and funny, can be quite morbid too. It has several deaths.
  • The whole reason MK is moving is because her mother died. Having a parent die is very sad.
  • Queen Tara, one of the friendliest characters, dying.
  • It's said that Nod's father is deceased, while in battle.
  • Seeing a fruit fly child grow up, grow old and die in a minute. It was Played for Laughs, but still.
  • Seeing the bat that Mandrake shot die. We know it's dead 'cause there's a skeleton.
  • When Bomba suspects MK's turtle to be dead. ^note  There's hope, though. Several turtle owners have mistook their turtles for dead when in fact they were only hibernating.
    Bomba: "We got your dolls, your pictures, your turtle—oh, dear."
• This line from Ronin after Mandrake steals the pod, right after confronting Nod and MK for not doing their jobs.
  Ronin: I don't want to hear it! That pod was the last part of the queen that I-...that any of us...will ever have.

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