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1 Topic by Just Kidden September 27, 2011 (07:43pm)

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Have you ever felt like you were about to start crying when you saw a character achieve their goals/miserably fail at something?

Discuss. Has there ever been a time where you felt emotionally connected to a certain character? Why do you think certain characters make this kind of feelings happen?

(sorry about sounding like a teacher trying to make a writing prompt, I've been doing way too much of those lately)

For me, the Toy Story characters I've really connected to over the years. I grew up with these characters and watched Toy Story 2 everyday from when I was 6-8. When I saw them get handed over from Andy to Bonnie it made me cry from all of the emotional attachment that I had grown towards these characters and to see their story finally end just made me feel sad.

Also, when Twilight Sparkle overcame all the odds in the new My Little Pony episode, I started crying. >.>

Maybe I'm just a crybaby.

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2 Reply by LASF September 27, 2011 (07:46pm)

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When a good guy character comes all the way for nothing and gets so disappointed. It doesn't make me want to cry but it makes me feel bad for them.

EDIT: Toy Story 3, when the toys were about to get burned up by lava or something (I saw it a few months ago, hard to remember every detail), I almost cried.

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3 Reply by Anteater September 27, 2011 (07:53pm)

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Ya I kind of cried on Toy Story 3 because it was just kind of sad. have you heard of the movie Hatchi? It was great but it sucked because it was so sad!

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4 Reply by Just Kidden September 27, 2011 (07:54pm)

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I tried watching Hatchi, but I stopped because the actors were ~terrible~. And the storyline was corny.

But yeah, good examples, guys.

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5 Reply by Anteater September 27, 2011 (08:00pm)

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Or Braveheart. That one is reeeeeeeeeeeaaaally sad.

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6 Reply by WelcomeToAwesomeness September 27, 2011 (08:48pm)

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Something like this has happened to me before while watching Death Note. Over the course of the story I started to really like, and even root for the main character Light. Even though I knew what he was doing was wrong, (killing people) I started to sympathize for his character. At the end when he was

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killed

, I couldn't believe it. This put me out so much, I had started to feel for him and even slightly believe in his cause. I still think the ending could have been better thought out and I don't exactly agree with everything that happened. Oh well, it's still one of the best television shows I've ever seen.

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7 Reply by Pillow September 27, 2011 (09:08pm)

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It didn't work like that for me in Toy Story 3 because I didn't believe for a second that they were going to die.

I felt for Will Hunting in Good Will Hunting more than I did in any other movie, no matter how many times I see it.
Donnie Darko
Hank Moody from Californication
L from Death Note
Tony Soprana from The Sopranos
Dexter from Dexter
Walter White from Breaking Bad
People in Magnolia.

I rarely feel for anyone in a film or show, but those are some I can think of.

WelcomeToAwesomeness wrote:

Something like this has happened to me before while watching Death Note. Over the course of the story I started to really like, and even root for the main character Light. Even though I knew what he was doing was wrong, (killing people) I started to sympathize for his character. At the end when he was
Spoiler (click to read)
killed
, I couldn't believe it. This put me out so much, I had started to feel for him and even slightly believe in his cause. I still think the ending could have been better thought out and I don't exactly agree with everything that happened. Oh well, it's still one of the best television shows I've ever seen.

I think in Death note we were supposed to root for both sides. I was involved with L because he kind of reminds me of myself, but the way Light's

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Death

was made, with the voice over etc, I think that was their intention, and it worked, too.

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8 Reply by WelcomeToAwesomeness September 28, 2011 (01:04am)

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Yeah, L was my favorite character other than Light, I was just bummed that whiny kid Near ended up solving the case. If anybody could have done it L could, it just seemed kinda cheap that Near was able to make huge assumptions on who Kira was and they always turned out right.

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9 Reply by Onion September 28, 2011 (03:41am)

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This probably sounds incredibly lame but I cried at Marley & Me. :,(

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10 Reply by Pillow September 28, 2011 (04:07am)

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WelcomeToAwesomeness wrote:

Yeah, L was my favorite character other than Light, I was just bummed that whiny kid Near ended up solving the case. If anybody could have done it L could, it just seemed kinda cheap that Near was able to make huge assumptions on who Kira was and they always turned out right.

Same, after L went away the show wasn't as good anymore. Still really awesome and clever anime, though.

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11 Reply by Brickyman September 28, 2011 (10:35am)

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Strangely, Superman in Superman Returns when he got his bright red behind whooped by Lex and his thugs..

And kiinda in Toy Story 3, but I knew they wouldn't die.

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12 Reply by Hazzat September 28, 2011 (11:19am)

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The only fictional character I've ever cried over was in the excellent, yet underrated and forgotten video game:

The level about a little girl whose daddy goes away on business, he dies while away and they have to make the following Christmas (and following year) the best one ever. You have to dance to the tune of Chicago's 'You're the Inspiration' to cheer her and her mother up. Heartbreaking.

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13 Reply by Loïc F-B September 28, 2011 (11:56am)

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When I was 4/5, I was crying at the end of The Iron Giant

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When I was 4/5, I was crying at the end of The Iron Giant

Of course you'd be crying at 0.8 years old

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Lechnology wrote:

LGFB Studios wrote:
When I was 4/5, I was crying at the end of The Iron Giant
Of course you'd be crying at 0.8 years old

Yep, exactly

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16 Reply by JamesW September 28, 2011 (12:32pm)

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I've felt attached to plenty of film characters, events, and plots. Revenge of the Sith, Gladiator, Once Upon a Time in the West, Harry Potter to name a few.

For TV I have one very clear memory of being in total emotinal shock. I don't know if I was sad or angry or what, but I sure was shocked. It was the last scene of season one of Rome. Never felt that level of shock before or since.