Excel Saga (anime)/Tear Jerker

• Excel Saga actually advertises episode 24 as a Tear Jerker. And as promised, not a single joke in the entire episode (except for one brief one where Kabapu is revealed to only be pretending to bleed). Still, for fans of this Gag Series it's usually rather uncomfortable to see Excel get a really drawn out death scene while she's bleeding and monologuing. Not that she seems to know about such things though, given her "something is flowing out of my body" comment. The rest of the episode isn't much more cheerful, with most of the characters actually getting a bit of serious Character Development.
  • To specify, that was the following episode which was serious. But the real tearjerker occurs in the previous Wham! Episode where, after an episode that was mostly a parody of Fist of the North Star, the last couple of minutes has Excel banging on the door of Il Palazzo's base until her fists are bloody and crying out for Il Palazzo to let her in, only for Il Palazzo (who, unbeknowst to Excel, is Brainwashed and Crazy) to shoot her through the chest and leave her to die in the desert. It was just so pathetic and sad.
• There's also the episode 8 where Cossette is assigned to an assassination mission. Her mark is a lady that Cossette can't kill after realising she has a daughter; this triggers Cossette's memories of her own mother's death. All fades to black, Cossette sees her mother's spirit at the distance, waving goodbye. Cossette wants to follow her but Pedro shows up to pull her back, since she would die if she went further. Oh, Cossette's mother gets better by way of Izi-chan.
  • Oddly enough, this entire sob story was clearly meant to be a parody of a Tear Jerker.
• This troper, who rarely cries, was in tears at the systematic elimination of of Wolf and the Dog Pack in episode 10. The subsequent betrayal by Inchiki and Menchi's kind previous owner, who ended up NOT being really kind at all, had him crying. And Menchi's sad song during the credits, after all that, had him full-out bawling. It always plays on the credits, but this time it was poignant.