Digimon Tamers/Tear Jerker

• Digimon Tamers's movie also had one during the final battle. Shisamon has dedigivolved into Labramon, who resembles Mei, the puppy that used to belong to the little girl the Tamers are all trying to protect. She doesn't know him until he says her name, and maybe ten minutes later, he dies in order to take down the movie's villain as she screams his name and cries.
• Jeri's reaction when Gallantmon attempts to kill Beelzebubmon in revenge for her partner Leomon's death, specially when she cries and says she doesn't want anybody else to die and the last episode of Digimon Tamers.
  • Leomon's fate is just part of it. All of Jeri's descent into madness/possession is insanely powerful even for the dub, equal parts Nightmare Fuel and lip wibblies. Parent death? Check. Parental Abandonment? Check. Revelation that she's been screaming on the inside for a long time and slowly getting worse for the entire series? Check-a-roony! Poor little girl! ;-;
    • Bonus! Later, we get to see that Mr. Katou was so NOT the aloof Jerkass we've been lead to believe he was, but actually a normal guy who utterly failed to deal with raising his girl alone after his wife died. Once he realizes it's all his fault - he tries to rescue Jeri from the Big Bad on his own by crashing a van on the D-Reaper, tearfully attempts to talk her out of her Mind Control only to see Jeri's too emotionally damaged to hear him, and almost gets killed by the Big Bad holding her hostage.
• Beelzemon's entire character once he becomes The Atoner. This change leads to one of the season's greatest Crowning Moments of Awesome, followed immediately by one of its biggest Tear Jerkers when Beelzemon uses everything he has to smash through the D-Reaper's defenses, only to be stopped just before he can reach Jeri. Severely injured, his wings shredded, his weapon lost, all out of options, he manages to summon up the attack of her Digimon Leomon's Fist of the Beast King , in a My Name Is Inigo Montoya moment. Not only does he punch through the D-reaper's defenses to Jeri, but hearing him say the attack, and hearing the attack itself, snaps Jeri out of her Heroic BSOD. Just long enough for Beelzemon to yell at her to give him her hand. Jeri looks up, expecting Leomon. Sees the digimon that killed him instead. She doesn't move, and the D-Reaper closes the wound. Beelzemon gets impaled from behind by flying polygons of death. Fatally wounded, Beelzemon plummets to the ground, flickering in and out of existence. And what he says during all of this?

"Jeri! Take my hand! Take it! Jeri! Jeri! Just let me save you! I need to save you!Jeri! I just need one more chance! Just give me one more chance! "

• • In the manga version of that scene, she actually does accept Beelzebumon's attempt to help and approaches, but he is cut down before she can take his hand.
    • Or what about the episodes after that, when we discover that Ai and Makoto had seen the whole thing on TV? And then later, when the three of them take shelter somewhere, and those two little kids--who are even younger than Suzi is, try to reassure him he did great, fighting out there, and Impmon just thinks he failed, he's going to die, and they tell him not to... ;_; *sniff*
  • This troper was always most moved by how he screams "I need to save you!" on the verge of tears... even though he called his own past actions "unforgivable" he still puts everything he has into trying to rescue her at the repeated risk of his own life. THAT is what being The Atoner is about. Thankfully, Jeri does accept him in the end, and the reconciliation between the two is a tearjerking moment in itself.
• The most heart-wrenching part of the train scene is that even though Takato managed to tell all of his feeling, in the end it's not Juri he is talking to.
• Really, the final episode of Tamers from about 4 minutes to about 4 seconds before the ending credits was a Tear Jerker. Watching the Tamer's partners de-digivolve and then disappear into the Digital World, Henry's father's guilt-ridden reaction as he reveals why they're gong away, yet Jianglian still manages to smile at him and then Mr. Lee weeps, and Takato thinking that he'll never be able to keep his promise to Guilmon. The little touch of hope at the end wasn't enough for me, I had to go watch The Movie (sixth one) to re-assure myself that they are re-united.
  • ...Would this be a bad time to bring up that the sixth movie is considered non-canon due to plot holes?
    • Who cares? As long as they got to be together again, the how and why doesn't matter.
  • Sadly, if the actual canon is to be believed, the opening that Takato found turned out to be too small for them to actual reunite with their Digimon partners, there is a Firewall keeping humans out of the Digital World that cannot be cracked (without possibly destroying the world), and as of a year after the series ended, the Digimon and their Tamers have not reuinited, the closest they get as of this point (the last canon release in this series) was being able to send messages to their Digimon. Talk about a downer.
  • This may be a personal thing, but the lyrics to the Portuguese 2º ending made me realize just why the ending to this series was that much sadder (and perfect) than the any other ending I have ever seen... it's not just the Tamers whose partners, after having grown up with them were forcibly taken away. It's also US, the fans who were forcibly taken away from our idols who we cared for so much and above all who we grew up our childhood with. To show what I mean, bellow are the translated lyrics to the portuguese ending which is written like a dialogue between the tamers and the digimon, or alternatively between us and and the show:
    • The light that shines sweetly invades the day, painting in me a feeling ; I start to understand that one day, I may lose you ^[1], Or is it all an illusion? ; I only ask you that you never forget me, now that I know you have to leave ; with you, I learned how to be happy ^[2] You were all that I ever wanted ; Now, Listen to what love tells you! ; I feel it pulsing... it doesn't stop growing, The love that I want to give you ; I won't leave you ^[3]; I can't lose you ^[4] ; I just wan't to hug you ^[5] And ^[6] remember, That one day... You will be back!
• Let's not forget the musical number from the dub version of "Runaway Locomon"

Promise that we'll stay for the sunset. And when the moon shines through the darkness. We can find the path that leads us home. And on the way you'll maybe, sing me a song. Promise that you always will be there, hold my hand if ever I'm real scared. Help me stand up tall if I fall down. Make me laugh away all my blueist days. How could you promise you always would be there. Why'd you have to go away somewhere. Every morning into every night. Do you watch over me like the sun in the sky. I am all alone or standing in your light. I wish that I could, maybe... sing you a song tonight. ...You promised me we'd stay for the sunset.

• • Listening to the song while watching the scene with Rika and her dad really drives the point home.
• Leomon's attempt to stop Beelzemon.
  • More than anything he tried to reason with Beelzemon, seeing that Beelzemon wasn't truly evil but misguided. "To have power is not to be strong", then looking at Jeri reassuring her what their bond means to him. He is then impaled by Beelzemon, and Leomon can only ask why Beelzemon can't see any other way.
    • Beelzemon's final response of "Your wrong, to have power is to be strong", is only a way of life that many digimon are forced to believe in order to survive in Digimon Tamers. Digimon that can have good lives are redirected by the might equals right concept.

1. ↑ my joyfull memories
2. ↑ After all, once
3. ↑ because I chose to
4. ↑ since you are part of my childhood
5. ↑ to keep you close
6. ↑ I will always