Tear Jerker / Paddington 2

• The opening. While it is mostly heartwarming, there is also a sad side: Lucy and Pastuzo were planning to go to London that month and raising the cub they just rescued from the river, Paddington, was the reason they couldn't go to London as they planned. This makes Pastuzo's presumed death even worse.
• While most of these are Played for Laughs, some things that had happened to The Browns prior to the film are real sad.
  • First, Mary is not really the saddest, as her objective is to swim to France and live an adventure. She didn't have any dreams destroyed, besides Henry not being the man he married anymore, but just wanted something more to do in her life.
  • Judy's is sad, as Tony from the first movie broke up with her, possibly due to complications or Tony just showing his true colors. This makes Judy hate men, to the point of even including no boys in her newspaper maker career. Sad that now the boy she once loved regretted her, and it may be hard for Judy to trust any men she has a crush on now.
  • Jonathan's is less sad, as his problem was almost the same as Judy's from the original movie, to fit in. This makes him reduce the real him, in hopes of getting with the cool kids, but this means sacrificing the things he loved to do for his social life, such as trains.
  • Henry's is maybe the worst of all, as he enters into the mid-life crisis stage due to being rejected for a promotion and instead giving it to a younger lad. While some of the things Henry now did can also be put as Played for Laughs, it gets quite sad when his self-esteem gets low and when he keeps saying that his cool, better self is gone throughout the film. He may have improved by the climax of the first film, but this crisis made it almost go back to square one, as he keeps getting overshadowed as a shell of his former self: Bullseye Brown.
    • Luckily, all of these problems get solved by the climax and the end credits.
• When Paddington gets framed and arrested. The neighbors and The Browns watching it, either confused or absolutely devastated thinking this is all a misunderstanding. The reaction of The Browns is even worse, as they attempt everything to persuade the cop to not arrest him.
• One for Phoenix. The fact that his career went down as soon his fame decertified,: from a famous actor in the 60s/70s, as a west end "legend" to doing dog food commercials disguised as a dog. Luckily, he gets better by the end credits, making something quite reminiscent of a Broadway show in the same prison Paddington was in.
• When Paddington, after hearing what Knuckles said about The Browns eventually leaving him to rot in jail, doubts about that and has no worries about it... until Knuckles gets seemingly proven right when The Browns fail to show up to a prison visiting day, even after Paddington has spent an entire day waiting for them until lights out.
  • What makes it worse is, the only reason they failed to show up was to show the police the evidence Mary and Henry had gotten from sneaking to Phoenix Buchanan's house to expose him. They fail to do so, as the cop needs more evidence to be convinced. With the hope of proving it to the police that same day was lost, Mrs. Bird thinks about telling Paddington what they had as proof, only for them to notice that they missed the visit for going to the police station in the first place.
  • The scene after that, where Paddington is so sad about it, that he hallucinates Darkest Peru and his aunt Lucy. This reminds Paddington that he no longer has a home, or even a family to go to besides Lucy, eventually his imagination fading back into the jail cell he was in. That made Paddington accept the prison escape, as there was nothing he could do after that.
• To rub the salt in the wound, Knuckles breaks his promise of clearing Paddington's name in favor of getting him to escape the country with his crew. Paddington refuses and feels betrayed, running away to the streets while Knuckles just knows he may be caught for not accepting the offer. Now, Paddington is all alone, thinking he has absolutely nothing left in London, besides maybe his objective of clearing his name and getting his home back or at least find a new one.
  • A What If? question: Had Paddington's fear of The Browns really leaving him be true, what could had happened next? Maybe Paddington would really try his hardest to clean his name with the clues he had (at least if he figured it out by then)? Maybe return to Darkest Peru hidden in a transportation like in the first movie? Maybe just give up and stay homeless and alone in the streets, forever (or for some period of time) hiding from the law, still framed? Maybe eventually caught by the police, and put in a maximum security prison with an extended time of stay? Who knows, but bet that the fate could not have been pretty or any happier at all, especially because Paddington would had still felt sad and lonely. No way he could have pulled a miracle as he did back in the prison, now that the police has him as most wanted for attempted escape.
• The payphone scene. The example above influences this, as Paddington attempts calling The Browns to notify them about his escape, while not even knowing why he even called in the first place besides just letting them know. His expectations of The Browns not even caring about Paddington anymore are sadly seemingly fulfilled, as he sadly walks away towards the camera, with no reply at all, until the payphone rings as The Browns got to their house phone at the last moment to reply.
• When Paddington seemed to drown from being stuck in a train cart underwater while Mary tries to save him, but without any success. The fact that both acknowledge there is nothing they can do, not even mourn or say their goodbyes, than just stare at each other with sadness.
  • Another What If? scenario, if Knuckles and his crew hadn't had a change of heart and/or arrived on time, it could had led to a very sad Downer Ending.
  • The bad icing on the cake is that a theory states that Paddington could have actually died in that scene, with the single air bubble symbolizing his death and the rest after that being either the afterlife or Paddington's last happy thoughts
• While Paddington had been in a coma for 3 days after almost drowning, he gets shocked that today was Lucy's birthday, and gets sad that he didn't even get her a gift, despite all his efforts. Then, The Browns reveal that she came to London, and Paddington is pleased and in the verge of tears of joy, knowing that his efforts were all the worthwhile.
  • Not to be the bearer of bad news, but while Aunt Lucy did get the chance to visit London, Pastuzo never got the chance to. What makes it worse is the aforementioned opening.
• "For our friend, Michael Bond"