Tear Jerker / Mars Attacks!

• Towards the end, when the Martian abductees crash into the ocean.
• During the first attack all Jason Stone was thinking of was trying to get to Natalie. He was reduced to a skeleton before he could even hold her hand.
• Billy-Glen's horrific death, and his parents' reactions to seeing it live on television. You feel bad for them even though they were all jerkasses.
  Billy-Glen's Dad: [flipping through the channels hurriedly] ...no, that didn't happen to him... no, that didn't happen to him...
• The Death of a Dog card in the original series is one for animal lovers. Many of the others in the series will wring tears even as they arouse horror.
  • In the movie proper, the president's dog is the one that dies when he starts barking to alert his owners of the martians entering their room at night.
• Also, Byron's Almighty Mom and Plucky Girl of a wife when she senses during the invasion that Byron might be dead. Right after he's shown all beaten up on the ground, the scene shows her tearing up and cradling their kids:
  "Something happened... something happened to Byron
  • Which makes Byron's ultimate survival and return to his family all the sweeter.
• The death of Secret Serviceman Mitch. He seemed friendly enough, and did his job well right to very end.
• The Martians use two different variants of a Death Ray, one with a green beam and the other red. When it impacts a living, breathing target it proceeds to painfully disintegrate their flesh and internal organs, leaving only a charred skeleton behind that is the same colour as the beam that killed them. While sometimes it's portrayed in a comedic light, it's nonetheless a truly horrific way to die while the victims die screaming horrifically. The rayguns can even destroy non-organic materials such as weapons.
• When the president gives a big speech to the Martians to try and get them to form a truce. The leader pretends to agree only to kill him.