Overlooked Heartbraking/heartwarming Moments in Animation

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What the thread title says. What heartwarming or heartbreaking moments in animation do you think are overlooked, and why?
My vote for heartbreaking is the death of Littlefoot's mother in the original Land Before Time. For some reason, when the great tragedies in animation are listed, this one seems to be excluded a lot of time, in favor of Mufasa's death in The Lion King. Not only that, but the Land Before Time series is often viewed as being happy and joyous, thanks to its many sequals. But I still find this scene very emotional.
As for heartwarming, almost any scene from the Shrek series that focuses on Shrek and Donkey's friendship seems to be overshadowed by the Shrek/Fiona romance. Indeed, that is powerful stuff, but Shrek would never have gotten the girl if it weren't for Donkey. One of my favorite scenes in the series is in Shrek 2, after Donkey(who had previously drank a magic potion transforming himself into a beautiful white horse) transforms into a donkey once more, and Shrek says "You still look like a noble steed to me." Of course, that scene has the misfortune of coming directly after Fiona's "Happily ever after with the ogre I married."
But what are yours? Oh, and if anyone disagrees with another poster's opinion, please do it respectfully. Thank you.
 
Fwoan my God. An overlookt heartbreaking animation moment,for me, would have to be when one Ms Meg Bennett of Bionic Six woke up from her long dream. She was concerned about the fate of the people of the civilization she'd dreamt of. Extremely scared/heartsick, she lookt in her mirror to happen upon the leador of said civilization. She breathily desperately askt him: Is your world OK.... It's overlookt because I think most original Bionic Six fans, nut/otherwise, have forgotten it, or never saw fit to think of it as much of a pn(thing).
 
The scene where Rose sacrifices herself in Homecoming and Jake in turn saves her...at the price of her forgetting him. :sad: :( :crying:
 
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Oh,God yes.....The scene with Littlefoot's mom's death still makes me cry to this day ("I'll be with you....even if you can't see me...."),I never could get into any of the sequels,since none came close to anything that was in the original (and due to the low quality of the sequels,few people seem to realize the original is actually a decent film)....

Among the Disney films,the most heartbreaking scene for me is in Brother Bear,when Kenai realizes what happened to Koda's mom (Kenai killed Koda's mom,which turns out to be the reason he gets changed into a bear in the first place...I still almost can't believe Disney went in that direction).....and his confession to Koda...

and for a scene that's both heartbreaking and heartwarmng,is the ending of All Dogs Go To Heaven.....Charlie ends up being able to go to heaven,since he gave up his own life to save Ann-Marie,but he gets to say a final goodbye to her,and ask her to look after Itchy...
 
Yep and that was one part of the film that made seriously want to cry and I was pretty close to it too. I only cried at the ending instead, but it was still really sad. He was feeling regret for finding happiness and thinking that would interfere with his vow to avenge his parents' death. Quite depressing when you think about it.

I also agree with the scene of Littlefoot's mother's death in the original Land Before Time. Man, to this day I still cry when Littlefoot is listening to his mother's last words and calling out to her after she had died. I agree that none of the sequels came even close to the original movie, but I did think that the first few ones were fairly decent. Once it got passed five or six is when things really went downhill in my opinion.

I also cry up at the ending scene with Charlie going to heaven after he says goodbye to Ann-Marie. That was so touching and sad, especially with how he gave his life for hers. I'll come back later when I can think of another heartbreaking moment.
 
My picks come from the same movie, The Secret of NIMH. The most heartbreaking scene in that movie for me is when Mrs. Brisby is reading Nicodemus' journal in his study and thereby learns of his death. She admits that she has trouble reading but when she stumbles over the words "he was killed today", it has nothing to do with her reading difficulties. The sorrow of the scene is compounded by the brief glimpse she - and the audience - catches of Jonathan later when she views the rats' history in Nicodemus' viewer.

The most heartwarming scene from NIMH comes a bit earlier in the film, when the Brisby family is gathered together in Timothy's sickroom; the other children are worried that their little brother is going to die, and Mrs. Brisby assures them that he'll be fine despite her own doubts.

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It's from an anime, Vandread, The Second Season, in which the Nirvana's helmsman Bart Garsus befriends a dying girl; when he is called to duty during a Harvester raid, he vows that he will do all that it takes for Shriley (the dying girl), while she is indeed dying, before she gets a chance to finish the doll she was making for Bart--and after she loses her life, the said doll falls to the floor, without the blonde hair meant for its head. When Bart hears the news, he winds up stricken with grief, and does the next best thing in Shirley's memory--he shaves his head bald to match that of his doll.
 
Most of the adaptation of the British nuclear war graphic novel When the Wind Blows would do it.

It revolves around a sweet, innocent old couple living in Sussex. They think that a nuclear exchange will be like the Blitz; an immediate horror that can be overcome. They and their cottage escape a direct hit from a Soviet assault on Britain, leaving them in the midst of a wasteland. Nor do they have a clue what's really going on:

There's no mail or milk deliveries? They're playing catch-up.
There's a smell of burnt flesh? People having early dinners because of "the unexpected circumstances."
No one's coming? Well, there must be a lot of people to help.

The rest of the film follows the couple, slowly feeing the ravages of radiation sickness, as they gradually realize no help will ever come for them...
 
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