Tear Jerker / Super Mario Galaxy

"I want to go home! I want to go back to my house by the hill! I want to see my mother!"

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• The storybook segments in Super Mario Galaxy. The art style and Background Music is slightly heart-rending to begin with, but it gets worse when Rosalina admits to herself that her mother is "sleeping under the tree on the hill".
  • At first the music is just like all of the other storyline segments, but after the playback of young Rosalina's memories, the music stops, then changes as she has a complete breakdown.
    Rosalina: I want to go home! I want to go home right now! I want to go back to my house by the hill! I want to see my mother! But I know she's not there! I knew all along she wasn't out there in the sky! Because...because... she's sleeping under the tree on the hill!
• The end of the game after the final battle is a big Tear Jerker by itself:
  • It starts with Bowser of all people who has an Alas, Poor Villain moment as his sun collapses before his eyes.
    Bowser (in anguish): NO! My galaxy! My empire! This can't be happening...
  • But it happens: a black hole forms and begins sucking the characters into it, while Mario and Peach desperately reach for each other before flying apart. The only way to save the universe is shown by the Luma who introduced you to this adventure: it chirps and waves a final goodbye to Mario, who can do nothing but reach out to his loyal friend, as the Luma hurls itself into the black hole with all its siblings. Mario's shocked face as he reacts to all this makes the scene even sadder.
    • Alongside the chirping Lumas jumping into the black hole, another Player Punch is watching the Observatory, the place where you passed the most of your time in the game and did everything to make it a functional spaceship, destroyed like it was nothing. The music (the Lumas sad glockenspiel theme, but with extra violins) is the cherry on the cake.
  • You read that well, all of the Lumas die due to what appears to be the universe ending... followed by muted baby cries, representing that they have been reborn.
  • Compounding it further, the reason Bowser's miniature sun collapsed and exploded into a black hole? Mario removed the Grand Star that powered it. Mario, in an attempt to save everyone, almost KILLED everyone by complete accident.
  • Related to this, if you finish the game with all 120 stars, the bonus scene after the credits will likely have you crying tears of a different sort; after Rosalina says her farewell and her ship takes off, the camera pans back to the Gateway Galaxy planet and zooms in to reveal your Luma peeking from behind a rusted mushroom ship (presumably the same one from the storybook) and waving, alive and well after all... followed by a shot of the Luma chirping as it soars into the air.

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