Top 7 Times Cartoons Randomly DESTROYED Us | Thomas Sanders
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- Sometimes... cartoons... out of nowhere... choose violence. I needed to talk about seven times where they hit me over the head with emotional warfare... Spoilers
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Are there any other cartoon moments I left out?? I know I did... I'll regret asking, but... go ahead and remind me of some of them...
I am one of your fans I love your pokemon and Disney pranks soooo much
Inside out! The very real depiction of depression in youth is insane and always gets me
Luz finally opening up about her dad!! That episode had me WEEPING
@@mae1810 Yeah I'm pretty sure that thomas sanders would do that Disney prank like that
Futurama got plenty more in the later episodes. Especially the resolution with Fry travelling back in time and spending more time with Seymore.
Or Fry speaking to and hugging his mom in her dream...
Seriously, that show is the greatest.
cartoons are either the silliest things or they steal my heart and stomp on it.
WHY NOT BOTH AT THE SAME TIME
They know exactly what they're doing, and I love/hate them for it.
@@ThomasSanders relatable
@@Leo.J.Covitz HAHA REAL
Cause they lull you into a FALSE sense of security with the silly before saying, "Lol, here's some Odyssey level bullshit about the pain and love we all have for each other, give me those tears, NERD!"
Uncle Iroh made me sob, I wasn’t okay after watching that. Like heavy sobbing , barely breathing, and snot running down my nose. Also Big Hero Six left me emotionally scarred for the rest of my life.
OMG YOU’RE SO RIGHT!! so much grief 😭
I think we all were...
No, same, I was ugly crying to that one.
SAME
in addition to being a heart wrenching ending, i think Seymour's story is an homage to Hachiko. for those who don't know, Hachiko was a real life dog who waited for his human at a train station in Japan every day. one day, the human died and Hachiko waited at the station until he, too, died.
I don't know if it's truth or fiction but, in the book, they try to re-home Hachiko, but he runs away every single time, to go wait for his human at the train station. In Japan, some distance from his "original" statue, there is one representing both of them reuniting in the afterlife, and I start choking up every time I think about it.
There's a similar tale about a dog in Australia that has a dedicated memorial called the "Dog and the Tuckerbox" somewhere in NSW, with a statue and everything. Used to visit it on the way to seeing relatives during school holidays...
"Reaching Out" from The Owl House. When Luz opens up about losing her dad, with it compounded by the fact that she can't be with her mom on the anniversary of his death like she usually is. As someone who's also lost a father, it really hits hard.
And when she's in the car light getting pulled back! The owl house made me cry alot...
And her expressing how she "didn't have any flowers" something so simple but means so much to her, bawling
Plus the shot of Amity when Luz tries to deflect and play it off?? Heart. Wrenching.
The entire episode of "I am my monster" from Steven Universe. I was BAWLING.
OH GEEZ
Me too 😭
YES 😭😭😭SUF WAS SO SAD-
THIS
This episode made me cry a river
Honestly the scene in Steven Universe where Amethyst basically says "I didn't ask to be made!" hit pretty close to home
The ending of Fox and the Hound. I can’t- like, not even. Every. Single. Time. 😭
But also in the middle when she has to bring him to the forest and he doesn’t realize it’s a goodbye jet. I’m sobbing every time.
@@lazyduckling272 YES. That scene never fails to make me ugly cry, no matter how many times I see it. All the people who worked on that scene should pitch in for my therapy bill at this point
Dumb people: Cartoons are for kids! Anything animated is a lower form of art.
Us: It has been 3 weeks and the tears will not stop, help me
Tales of Ba sing se is meant to be filler but 11 year old me fighting influenza was dying and sobbing over it 😭😭
She is so much more than a filler omg
Major The Owl House spoilers! Towards the end of “Thanks to Them”, Hunter’s Palisman, Flapjack, a red cardinal, dies to make sure that Hunter lives after being possessed by Emperor Belos. I was crying when I saw it happen for the first time.
That and them all saying "bye" to us at the end of the finale just crushed me...I always cry at the finales of my comfort shows...I know it's a comfort show if it makes me cry...like honestly the only comfort shows where the finales didn't destroy me were ATLA and Korra...because I was instead laughing at the last joke or smiling at Korra and Asami (did I spell that right? I've never typed out her name before)
and it was caused by Hunters own hands. That made me bawl me eyes out
So, for me... It's the scene from the Iron Giant where he realizes what he must do and steps away from Hogarth. Hogarth hugs his finger, the Giant says, "Me... Go... You... Stay... No following." The Giant steps back, looks into the air and blasts off into space, Hogarth's words echoing in his mind:
"You are who you choose to be."
The Giant's answer:
"Superman..."
I'm instantly brought to tears because of that.
The Iron Giant is so underrated! It's one of the best animated movies I've ever seen.
Omg yes 😭
Why would you remind me this😭😭😭😭
The breakdown scene from Candace Against the Universe had me sobbing.
Oh dang!!!
No surprise, but Bluey makes me cry all the time, with the most notable example being from the episode "Baby Race." Chili basically thinks she's an inadequate mother because she was projecting her sucess as a parent onto Bluey learning to walk first out of the other kids in the group. The scene of the Poodle mom coming by and affirming that she, who has had nine kids, thinks that Chili's doing perfectly fine as a mother? Destroys me every time I see it.
I may not be a mom, but seeing someone being given affirmation despite their own preception of failing hits so close I cant help but tear up
I am not emotionally prepared for whatever we're about to see tomorrow when the episode The Sign comes on
Same every time she says “you’re doing good” it just makes me sob eternally 😭
that makes me cry and the episode where chili's sister comes round and she's laying on the grass with bingo and bingo runs away and she just LAYS THERE it makes me SOB uncontrollably I am now just thinking about it
I was right. I wasn't emotionally prepared, started crying 2 mins into it😭
I think? this is the episode where the poodle mom, Bella, looks straight at the watcher and says, "You're doing great." The producers have said this was a very purposeful shot, meant to have both Chili and every parent watching be the ones she's saying it to.
A moment that always makes me emotional is in Lilo and Stitch where Lilo tells Stitch that if he wants to leave he can and she will remember him and everyone that leaves. And the saddest scene is where Stitch says he's lost and says Lilo is his family.
If it helps, Futurama later retconned that a time-displaced duplicate of Fry (long story) came back and spent those twelve years happily with Seymour
You are a kind soul for blessing me with this information. I feel like I have to watch Futurama now
Probably the most heart wrenching episode for me was the final episode of Gravity Falls. I still remember being about 6 or 7 and watching Dipper and Mabel getting on the bus to head home and then watching Dipper opening up the letter that Wendy gave him thst said "See you next summer", and I just started crying because it felt like it was also telling the viewer that. It still affects me when I watch it to this day.
honestly
that episode hit like the bus they were riding on
I knew it was all coming because I was spoiled before I saw it and I still sobbed.
Yes! I feel this so much! And I also just relived that pain by rewatching the whole thing..😢
One of the most touching moments in a TV show for me was in "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" when the characters Applejack and Apple Bloom bonded over memories of their deceased parents. The episode, titled "The Perfect Pear," did not directly mention that the parents were dead. Instead, it showed how the characters cherished the good memories they had with their parents. As someone who lost their dad at a young age, this episode made me emotional.
Omg yes my little pony is honestly one of the best written cartoons I've ever seen and this episode was so sad but so happy 😭 also honorable mention to when the crusaders get their cutie marks and Applejack says their parents would've been so proud of Apple bloom
@@SnowLily06 "Yes, that scene almost made me cry. It's also the reason why I hate it when people say that the deaths haven't been confirmed. They have, but you're just not paying attention. All the people that say it shouldn't be confirmed, like I said, I lost my dad when I was five. Little kids experience grief, and the way they portrayed it was so real. If the kid hasn't experienced grief, they won't notice it, but the ones that have will feel Scene." i do use Grammy because of my dyslexia but sometimes Grandma makes it not 100% clear clear then what I put to but if things don't make sense you can have playing VA
That one was a huge gut punch
oh yeah Perfect Pear was peak. Another one that hit me personally as the oldest of 3 siblings from FiM was Sisterhood Social
When I was a kid, "Bye Bye, Butterfree!" WRECKED me, and even now the ending is still so sad but sweet. It's even worse knowing that, of all of Ash's Pokémon that he's parted ways with, Butterfree NEVER came back.
Actually, in Pokémon Journeys, Ash does reunite with his Butterfree! And he brings his mate with him! 😊❤
@@aliciaerjavecWait, WHAT?! Now I need to go find that episode!
Not a cartoon series, but an animated film, but Nimona has me sobbing EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
King sacrificing himself at the end of Season 2 of The Owl House. That show makes me bawl but this is the first one I thought of
THIS SCENE 😭
Like, the ENTIRETY of Owl House, is an emotional rollercoaster and more adventure time, but definitely the miniseries after the show ended had some good emotional moments
the scene where camila and luz communicate with the car light and luz is being pulled away and camila is BEGGING her to stay I sob so hard every time
Me: Oh, this looks like a fun video. I don't think I'll be emotionally re-traumatized...
*six minutes later*
*sobbing uncontrollably*
The Futurama one has me sobbing. Why 😭
LITERALLY WHY!! I still remember being on my parents' couch watching it for the first time and then CRYING MY EYES OUT for the next two hours.
i can't even hear that song without the waterworks coming. that ending hits us so hard with that one two punch
That episode was a crime against humanity 😭 Just being reminded of it made me cry!
Steven Universe Future. The last episode after the 'monster is defeated' and Steven breaks down in tears and finally lets himself cry it all out.
I cried just as hard with him 😭
Right? I feel like SUF was misunderstood and misrepresented pretty badly. I am glad to see people have seemingly been coming around to it.
The scene in Land Before Time when Little Foot thinks he's found his mother but it's only his shadow... he finds a big footprint (hers?) and curls up in it to sleep. This has stuck with me since I was little. When I rewatched it with my kids a few months ago I was bawling and I'm tearing up now just recounting it lol :')
The Last Crash of the Sunchaser from the Ducktales reboot was my main emotional destroying episode. It's just the way the last scene was, the music the colors the story? The "I am" right at the end? I went in and got my heart destroyed
DUCKTALES!! YESSSSSS ughhhh they did *such* a good job with that show, no one talks about it enough!!!
For real!! I saw that episode just the other day and my heart SHATTERED
"#5, Winnie the Pooh: Find Her, Keep Her"
That made me start thinking of this one Winnie the Pooh episode where Rabbit adopted a baby bir- "oh that's the same episode"
One that sticks with me is in amphibia (MAJOR amphibia spoilers) where Marcy realizes the fake world created in the finale wasn’t real. As a neurodivergent person Marcys arc was very relatable even if Marcy being neurodivergent isn’t canon.
That whole finale. The way that they tell you in no uncertain terms that there is no going back, and you have to find happiness in what comes next.
ohmygods, yes, that moment hurt so bad. Amphibia just got better and better as the show went on, loved it
We LOVE cartoons!! Through ALL EMOTIONAL rollercoasters
By the end of this 11 minutes I’m ugly sobbing
Honestly, yeah, I definitely don't mind them batting around my heart every now and again
@@ThomasSanders, i feel like the ice king and marceline letter in adventure time was a nod to People who have relatives who sturggle with dementia. Funny enough when my mawmaw had Alzheimers dementia and she went kinda ... well ye know, in spite of all of that she was somehow able to always remember one thing , me and that she loved me and it was because i would always sing for her anytime i saw her and she utilized music to remember me. She i see characters like ice king and grandma Coco and they always remind me of her
MLP FIM had so many moments that genuinely had me tearing up as I was rewatching it recently. Like Season 5 ep 3 when Twilight's friends hang up a chandelier literally decorated with memories to encourage her to make new memories in her new home? I was done for. AND THEN IN THE VERY NEXT EPISODE with Apple Bloom worrying about her destiny and what cutie mark she'll get and what will happen if she's stuck with something she doesn't like and Princess Luna comforting her??? "If I like who I am will other ponies?" "Of course." OMG. And of course the episode that probably made everyone cry The Perfect Pear, season 7 episode 13. We finally learn who Applejack's parents were and what they were like with basically complete confirmation that they are dead and its so amazing. Literally tearing up just thinking about it. Honestly it's one of the best episodes of the series. Applejack, Apple Bloom, and Big Mac walking around town asking ponies who knew their parents about them and learning how they met and fell in love???? Oughhh. Perfect episode 10/10 made me cry.
My little pony is one of the best cartoons ever made there's no doubt
I love Iroh, that scene made me sad but I only got a little misty. It was the scene in the tent when Zuko finds Iroh again after joining Team Avatar, and he apologises and Iroh hugs him- that scene made me cry, like tears down my face, proper CRYING my heart out. Another animated moment that made me cry was Angel Dust's monologue to Husk right before 'Loser Baby' is sung in ep. 4 of Hazbin Hotel, sobbing, heart literally broke in two
Not animation but in the new ATLA there was a scene that wasn't in the original that absolutely DESTROYED me, like I never cry, but that episode got me (if you watched the secret tunnel episode you know what im talking about)
I've watched it and I'm not sure what you are referring to in the episode that made you cry. What made you cry in that episode?
@@JAAAY62 ⚠️SPOILER ALERT⚠️ The funeral scene with iroh and zuko
The Hey Arnold episode "Parents Day" got my ass like nothing had before lol. When there's the flashback to Arnold waking up scared and calling for his parents (who'd gone missing at that point) and his grandparents comforted him and he realized his grandparents had been there for him all his life 😭😭
The Futurama Episode Always Gets Me, Not The Main Plot Or Anything But The End. Every. Single. Time. Probably Because I'm Such A Sucker For Animals And I Can't Imagine Leaving My Pets Like That, Whether It's On Accident Or Not.
The end of Futurama omgggggggggg it is INCREDIBLE. Yes, absolutely cried at that as well
The one episode in a cartoon which always tugs at my heartstrings is The Perfect Pear from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, the episode is essentially about Applejack and her siblings going out and learning about their parents, who have not been seen anywhere in the show up until this point.
Through a bunch of different ponies perspectives and stories, it paints out a sort of Romeo & Juliet love story, and it concludes, essentially confirming that their parents died, and we get to see all of this beautiful imagery and scenery as a result of their love blossoming even after all of this time, and it is beautiful.
And the best part is that the outro, which is usually a loud blaring reprise of the intro theme, was instead replaced with the guitar instrumental for the song featured in the episode, "You're in my head like a catchy song"
I balled my eyes out when I first watched the episode and I'm pretty confident it broke the waterworks for everyone who watched it when it came out.
It's so good 😭
love this list!
honorable mentions:
the episode of Hey Arnold! where we find out why Helga is obsessed with him, it's because he was the first one that saw her and treated her nicely.
That Mother's Day episode in Rugrats where we learn more about Chuckie's mom, but also that Tommy was born premature.
The Justice League Unlimited episode where Superman gets a birthday present that turns out to be a plant that give people visions of their hearts' deepest desires. Superman sees what his life would be like on Krypton if it wasn't destroyed and he lives a normal life with a family. and then it turns on Batman, and we see him smile (very rare) as he has a vision of his parents being alive.
Not a cartoon, but a movie scene that continues to make me cry every time: When Dumbo's mom reaches her trunk out of the cage and she can't even see him because of her chains and yet she holds him and rocks him with her trunk as Baby Mine plays. A song that talks about loving and protecting their baby forever and it shows a montage of all the other mommies getting to hold their babies and sleep peacefully and she can't even SEE her baby after being imprisoned FOR TRYING TO PROTECT HIM. I'm sobbing just thinking about it.
I feel like a cartoon moment that really hit me hard was in Amphibia’s “True Colors”(BIG spoilers btw” When Marcy is revealed to have gotten them there on purpose and Anne and Sasha back away. They are justified in doing so, but Marcy’s, “I just didn’t want to be alone” hit me so hard.
One scene that I still remember is from American Dragon: Jake Long, when he watches Rose (Jake's girlfriend) sacrifice herself to save him and his family. The animators did work with that scene, which made it so intense for a 2000s Disney kid's show.
The scene in Big Hero Six, when Baymax shows Hiro the video of Tadashi after saying, "He is here," always gets me crying.
Honestly, How to Train Your Dragon (the first one) is just an emotional rollercoaster. You start by feeling bad because he is a societal outcast (which most people can understand/relate to). You see the despair in Toothless's eye when he thinks he will be caught, when the village finds out about Toothless, the slap that can be heard around the world, when Stoick saves Toothless, and when Stoick thinks he lost his son. There is so much in that movie that makes the whole film be considered a life-changing experience.
Wall-E going home after a day of working all by himself and rocking himself to sleep. I don’t think it really was even meant to be a sad scene, exactly, but I sob every time I watch it
Not technically a cartoon/tv show, but just today I was recommended 'Song of the Sea' (the full move is here on youtube for free) and I was not ready for such a charming little movie about Irish folklore and family. Highly recommend but with tissues on standby
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I also recommend watching bluey if you liked being destroyed emotionally
Oh my ...... I don't know if I'm ready
@@ThomasSanders you will never be ready... Never
Oh. 100%. There's at least 30 episodes of Bluey that break me every single time.
@@ThomasSanderstrust me you’ll love it. It may be targeted for little kids but I swear to you it’s for everyone. EVERYONE.
A show I grew up with was My Little Pony, and in the episode "Twilights Kingdom part 2", the house/library Twilight has lived in since the beginning of the show gets destroyed by the villain.
Omg when that happen I just went “oh… oh” and just started crying as the epic beat down played out, honestly most of that episode was TEARS
This was so sadddd. It's made worse by the next season showing that Twilight doesn't even accept her new castle as a home until her friends make her library a part of it
The Fry and Seymour will always be my weak spot! It also feels more of a betrayal because we watch Futurama for the laughs but to be left shattered out of the blue like that is just, it’s genius and diabolical all at the same time. 😂😭
Cw// Daddy issues and owl house spoilers
My dad left when I was 7. I never really got to properly grieve because I have difficulty regulating my emotions. However, when I first watched The Owl House and saw that one scene with Luz talking about her dad’s death to Amity….It hit me like a wreaking ball, man…. Same with the scene in season three where Hunter BREAKS DOWN CRYING after being told he’s part of Luz’s family
🫂
The Second you said "Tales of Ba sing se" is went ridged, i grabbed my powerade ade and was getting ready to cry, Iroh makes me cry always
HOW DARE YOU RE-OPEN THE KESSIE WOUND!!!!!! That was safely kept in the depths of my memory where it was safely locked away!! BUT THE FUTURAMA EPISODE?!?!?! I specially don’t watch anything related to that dog because I bawl my eyes out every time I see him on screen!! EVERY TIME!! But yes the creator of that episode needs to write an apology to ALL of us AND needs to donate to EVERY SHELTER IN THE COUNTRY!!
Still adore you to pieces though!!
I have two distinct memories from Pokemon.The charmander episode with him protecting the flame from his tail from the rain because it could KILL HIM and Ash being turned into stone in the first movie I was BAWLING
I can’t remember what episode it was, but it was near the very end of She-ra and the princesses of power. There is a line where Mara tells Adora “You are more than what you can do for other people. You deserve love too” That made me cry a lot.
Omg yes She-Ra was so good and got me emotional so many times!
For me it was a scene from infinity train hazel singing about her dead mom even though I have never experienced such lost I felt all my loneliness bubble up and ugly cried
I thought in Adventure Time
thought you be talking about the last message Marceline's mom gave her but this one's sad too
Cartoons always make you cry even when they don't mean to
Oh my gosh, I’ve never met someone else who cried at that episode of Winnie the Pooh! And the exact same, moment, too! Rabbit refusing to read to Kessie and her crying by the fire broke me as a child, and has stuck with me my whole life. I thought I was alone! 😅
I cried with Uncle Iroh when I first watched the episode and I still tear up now. I even cried when Steven saw the tape of his mother
I wholeheartedly agree with you about Jurassic Bark. That damn song at the end is just the icing on the emotional cake of that episode, that's usually when I start bawling...Another episode of Futurama that just stabs me right in the heart is Game of Tones, where Fry gets to talk to his mom. OMG 😭
One time a cartoon absolutely destroyed me? Yep, definitely in Pokemon in the episode in which Ash's butterfree leaves him. I always get teary-eyed when thinking about that episode
Another moment in Pokemon that made me cry but in a good way was the final scene of the fight between Leon and Ash. That was such a good way to showcase him finally becoming the best Pokemon trainer and I was sobbing by the end of it
For Futurama, I always get messed up by "Game of Tones", where Fry realizes he never got to say goodbye to his mom.
You had to remind me of that ep with rabbit. I cried my eye out seeing this ep as an adult. Being a parent now, makes me realize that this time will come when my child gets older.
Yes that time will come but, as a dyslexic kid grown up, please keep reading to your kid! Even if you feel like they don’t need you anymore, like rabbit did. My mom read to my almost every night till I was 11+ and I finally proudly said “I want to read this one on my own.” Before I read small book and comics and she read the thick big stories to me cozy at night. We both celebrate when I finished it, my first big book! Her reading to me for all these years ment so much. And when she started reading big books t my younger brother I snuggled up and listened again just for those cozy feeling of sharing that moment. If I ever have kids I’ll read to them till they ask me to stop, maturity, age, or independence be damned.
I have so many memories when my dad reading to me every night before bed time. I sit and read with my child (when they let me) and I love it so much.
That Futurama episode gets me every time, it breaks my heart and is also the reason why I'm still here, because I imagined my cat Ping in that position just sitting there, waiting for me to come home.
Hollow Mind. Also King's Tide. And ALL of season 3. The Owl House destroys me every time.
Mother’s Day episode of Rugrats with Chuckie learning about his mom. Right in the heart.
for the futarama one Eric Kaplan wrote the episode and now you've made me cry and its only 2 IN THE GOD DAMN MORNING 😭😭
My personal list in no particular order
- The Up intro. Man...
- Tales Of Ba Sing Se
- Ella being found by the possum twins in Ice Age 2
- Keith being hugged by his mum in Voltron
- Bojack and the nothingness of death
- Unsaid Emily in Julie and the Phantoms.
- Sir Pentious dying in Hazbin Hotel
- Rui talking to his parents (who he thought hated him) in Demon Slayer
SEYMOUR NOOOO 😭😭😭 that Futurama episode had me sobbing. I still find it hard to watch any media with dogs in it. And this episode was the start of that aversion 💔💔
The one episode of Gravity Falls that had me bawling was the scene when Soos was celebrating his birthday and he was super exited for his dad to come home, and then he didn’t and instead sent Soos another postcard. 😭
An episode that will never not fail to get me is the Mother’s Day episode of Rugrats. I may have been barely older than Chuckie at the time and didn’t understand the whole situation yet, but that poem wrecked me.
There are a lot of cartoons that are super emotional and have me in a ball in the corner crying my eyes out, but one cartoon that gets me so very emotional is Tangled the series-specifically Varian being ignored by everyone in the kingdom.
If you haven’t seen it, I would highly highly recommend it!! 10/10
Yes-awesome series!!
One thing I find now that I lost both my grandparents is that death in cartoons or live action can get me so easily when the person passing is so closely linked to another and we see them react to the news
especially hospital deaths or characters who are older forgetting someone who was meaningful to them
everyone: "Cartoons are for kids."
Me: "Are you sure?"
Okay, okay, I have another moment from Atla that never fails to make me cry. The moment when Zuko faces Iroh after he betrayed him. That scene. Iroh first with the back to him and... I'm already crying can't see my keyboard anymore😢😭
Ninjago has some very nice moments in it and some rather horrifying ones.
"You were always the son I never had. It's time you begin your next stage in life. And the only reason I'm about to do this is because I love you." (Dr. Julien before wiping Zane's memories so she doesn't have to deal with the grief of his death)
"This isn't about numbers. It's about family." (Zane to the villain as he's sacrificing himself)
"I yearned to make the world in my image. I never realized I already had, in you." (Garmadon's intended final words to his son)
"You can only save those who want to be saved." (Morro to Wu before allowing himself to die again).
"Brave little girl you are. Where are your parents, child? Do you have a name? Well, aren't you the quiet one?" (Nurse speaking to a small child in a flashback that was a lot)
"You wouldn't hurt me. Your son." (lot of spoilers there, but let's just say the person saying that turned out to be very wrong, which was devastating)
"And although we- we were unable to save her, we will always remember her. Wherever she is now, she is in our hearts."
"I would have never admitted it when I was a kid, but my big brother was always my hero. Now he's the world's hero. Again."
People die a lot in this show, but they usually get better. Still hurts.
I'll share some not here that wringed me like a sponge, assuming we're only talking about western cartoons and not anime.
-For me, Fry's dog is not the saddest moment in Futurama, maybe just overexposure. But, to me, The Luck of the Fryish is a way harder hitting reveal. Maybe it's because of my own abrasive history with my brother, but Fry learning that his brother DID actually love him despite their rivalry and passed on his legacy to his son was just such an emotional gutpunch.
-Obviously there are a million and a half Steven Universe moments that can fit this list, but I'll give it to the first time I cried at SU, that being the Kindergarten episode. Amethyst angrily and tearfully yelling "I didn't ask to be made" turned the show from good to great in my eyes.
-Shifting gears to the show that almost could, Infinity Train, season 2 specifically, is a happy cry moment. That moment being the end of the season with MT realizes they're finally free and, in true nonbinary fashion, changes their name to the first thing they see, Lake. Too bad the show doesn't exist anymore because of evil CEOs, which in a way is the saddest cartoon moment of all.
-It is INSANE that there's no Owl House moments in this video. The one moment that hit me the hardest, aside from all the gay stuff, is Eda's fight with Lilith at the end of Season 1, which culminates in her realizing that she probably won't make it and ends the whole thing by simply telling Luz "Thank you for being in my life".
-And one last one that isn't a cartoon, but it's a parody of a cartoon, and this is a theater kid friendly space! It's basically just the entire end of Twisted. Twisted is my favorite musical, it's hilarious biting satire combined with genuine heartfelt emotional character moments that leave all of my emotions out on the floor. And what made me finally ugly cry was the lyric "You are kind and that's enough. You're a diamond in the rough." Go see Twisted! It's free!
I agree with Futurama one but also of Vegeta from dragon ball Z when he sacrifices himself and shows his son he's not so bad after all that freaking made me cry my eyes out
What makes the Uncle Iroh episode even sadder is the fact that it was the last episode that Mako recorded before he passed away. Making the song feel like he was also saying goodbye to us.
damn you, Sanders, you made me cry
Leaves from the vine is such a heartbreaking scene for so many reasons but honestly one that gets me more is when iroh grabs zuko and hugs him in that tent. "I was never angry with you, i was sad because i thought you had lost your way" makes me tear up just writing that out😭😂
Personally, the one that stands out to me is from the Teen Titans cartoon in the early 2000s, where (and I'm gonna keep this vague on the off chance someone hasn't seen it yet) the entire saga between Raven and Trigon happens. Just... that entire thing, from start to finish, had me crying at multiple points. It just hits so many emotions, from desperation to love to terror to hopelessness to joy. Really hits me right in the gut lol
Thomas being an emotional drunk,, that checks
The Futurama one traumatized me for sure. Also Mufasa dying in Lion King. And Spirit when he is on the train being taken away from his herd. That broke my heart.
THE DOG ONE????? HELP????? I NEVER WATCHED THAT SHOW AND I STARTED BALLING 😭💀
at the end of gravity falls, when grunkle stan loses his memory, regains it, and then the twins go home and the note says "see you next summer" with like everyone going and doing their own things too??
absolutely balled my eyes out
"jurrassic bark" absolutely destroys me every time scenes like this about animals are my weakness
reminds me off the one episode of Samurai Jack with an assassin robot finding and adopting a dog named Lulu and he wanted to give up his job to life peacefully with her
you see the nice moments of them togheter, he always called her "sweet thing" it's so wholesome
but Aku dognapped her so he'd be forced to get back on the job and try to kill Jack to get Lulu back
Jack managed to kill him instead
he asked Jack one last thing
"take care of Lulu for me"
we have no idea if Jack got to figure out that means there is a hostage
Find Her, Keep Her has been THE winnie the pooh episode for my family that whenever it's mentioned, we all go OUGH THAT ONE WAS SO EMOTIONAL. Glad to see that it's also wrecked someone else. I haven't seen that episode in years but upon hearing Cassie crying I had a gut reaction and almost started sobbing too, it's THAT powerful
This episode of Winnie the Pooh ripped my heart out when I was just 5 years old, and I still feel emotional trauma when seeing these clips😭
The entirety of The Owl House. Just. The entirety of The Owl House. I cried so much. Every season.
Especially the last episode
I have four moments in cartoons that made me cry and both of them are from the masterpiece known as the Owl House. These are in no particular order
1 is when Luz explains to Amity the tradition of her mom and her visiting her dad's grave every year on the anniversary of his death to put flowers on his graves as a way to honor him and how Luz couldn't be there this year as she was stuck on the Boiling Isles
2 is of course Flapjack's sacrifice to save Hunter. That lil birdie gave the last of his life force so Hunter could live on
3 is when we see Camila's flashback of how people ridiculed Luz for being herself and her being too afraid for Luz having a hard in school just like she did and the principal not understanding Luz and forcing Camila to send her to camp to be someone she isn't.
4 is Camila finally realizing her mistake and finally understanding Luz. Telling her that she regrets trying to change her into something she is not.
One that really got me was the penultimate episode of Season 1 of Ducktales 2017, specifically when the kids learn what happened to Della Duck, Dewey accuses Scrooge of being money hungry, and it reveals that Scrooge almost went bankrupt sending rockets to try and find her. It broke my heart and I’m tearing up a bit just thinking about it.
okay so in Voltron: Legendary Defenders - the episode Reunion, where Pidge goes looking for her brother. the whole episode had me super hopeful and already emotional because of the flashbacks. but then, then she finds the graveyard, and then she’s panicked and in denial before she finally finds her brothers grave. she cried, i cried - it gets to me every time. and then, when Pidge realizes the grave is a red herring and does end up finding her brother, there were more tears - happy tears. so, while it may not be the most popular one, VLD episode Reunion kills me - i am an emotional train wreck for the best after that episode every time i watch it.
The Rescuers.
That's my number one.
I will admit that the Futurama episode and the one where he's yellin for Leela to wake up. Both of those had me in tears.
But to this day, my number one emotional moment that will make me ugly cry just from hearin the song...
that little girl, Penny, and a voice singing "someone's waiting for you" to her, will always break me into a thousand pieces.
As a kid, my father left me and my mom at a very early age, and my mom was often gone for long periods of time just to help sustain the both of us. Add the fact that i was constantly bullied.... yeah. This song made me absolutely lose it. the song is just this disembodied voice tellin her not to be sad, that there's someone out there waiting to love you, even if you can't see them right now, while she's locked away by a woman abusin the absolute crap out of her in the middle of nowhere. This playin for her while she felt utterly alone, wishing for a better life. It hurts to think about even now, honestly.
Oh my GOD, that Futurama dog episode gets me every fucking time, I was sobbing just seeing these clips… 😭😭😭
this is gonna sound weird but: ninjago. the seabound finale had me sobbing HARD
This wasn't even super emotionally devastating but when Bunny exploded and Bubbles was kneeling on the floor holding a patch of her dress 😭😭😭
For me anything that has to do with a character and their mother or pet. That always get me choked up. 😢 #FamilyLove #AnimalLovers
in their defense your honour, they're just a little silly
Th Iroh one gets worse when you realize that's not just a picture of Lu Ten, it is the last letter he ever sent to Iroh. It reads: General Iroh, I will see you again after victory is obtained. Your loyal son, Lu Ten.
Little soldier boy actually thought he was gonna come marching home. 😭😭😭
Omg one that made me cry uncontrollably for a good while was in The Owl House when Hunter lost Flapjack😭 it fucking broke me, I couldn’t stop thinking about it for so long
reaching out and hollow mind from the owl house, and luz' "why arent you mad at me" scene in s3 ep1. my daddy issues havin ass cant handle it
You know these episodes had such a strong impact when you're crying just watching this video
For me, the part of ATLA that made me cry the most wasn’t when Iroh made the memorial for his son, it was when he and Zuko reunited before the finale… yall remember the scene