I got to thinking about the sad moments on Buffy. Here are three things that made me cry:

1. When Angelus had Giles taken hostage, and Dru pretended to be Jenny, that scene had me blubbering like a baby

2. After Buffy took her dive off the tower, the look on Spike's face had me crying

3. Pretty much every moment in the episode "The Body"

What made you cry?

1. Anya's poignant, heartfelt speech in The Body

2. Spike's speech to Buffy in Touched

3. Buffy's last moments with Dawn on the tower in The Gift

4. "I love you" just before Spike closed the Hellmouth

and I'll admit it, although I'm Spuffy through and through -- hey, at the time, we didn't even know Spike at all!!!

5. When Buffy told Angel she loved him, and to close his eyes, and sent him to hell to save the world.

When Spike went dusty down in the hellmouth, helloooo lol

Spike's death, definitely!

The whole end of The Gift.

Pretty sure I teared up through The Body, too.

The church scene in Beneath You. I've watched just that several times, and it still gets to me.

CM

Then, there's season 5 of Angel, where every time someone died, or appeared to die, I was bawling.

Spike's death, definitely!

The whole end of The Gift.

Pretty sure I teared up through The Body, too.

The church scene in Beneath You. I've watched just that several times, and it still gets to me.

CM

Then, there's season 5 of Angel, where every time someone died, or appeared to die, I was bawling.

1. After Buffy pushed Spike to the ground in Fool for Love, when he started crying I started bawling my eyes out too.

2. In the gift, Buffy's death didn't affect me at all... it was when I saw Spike that the tears fell

3. The whole of Crush well, didn't make me cry, but it was just so... sad... i could literally feel Spike's pain when he was trying to tell her he loved her on the faux stakeout at that factory, the look on his face when Buffy shuts him down... and at the end when he realises he's not invited anymore... I was nearly in tears thinking about it just now... poor Spikey

4. definitly Spike's speech in touched... *sigh*

5. and who didn't cry when Buffy told Spike she loved him in Chosen....

I could go on forever... there were way too many sad moments on that show that we all love so much...

1) Spike going all dusty on the Hellmouth

2) When Buffy told Spike she loved him.

3) When Buffy jumped from the tower. I had started crying as she started to run, I knew she was going to die.

4) When Spike broke down over Buffy's body. Made me cry harder, he was so borken, wanted to go make him feel better.

5) When Buffy comes back and she's walking down the steps towards Spike and he has this complete look of awe and befudelment (sp?) on his face. OMG, I bawled at that.

6) When Buffy pushed Spike down in the alley and tossed the money at him and he started to cry. I cried too. I was pissed at Buffy.

7) When Joyced died and Buffy found her.

8) Buffy and Dawn in the hospital mourge with Joyce.

9) Buffy sending Angel to Hell. OMG, tear jerker.

10) The end of Angel, though I'm in Egypt since Spike and Angel are still kicking.

Definetely Buffy sending Angel to hell in Becoming Part 2 up through the ending credits...that song "Full of Grace" is still my go-to song when I want to cry it out.

The Body, The Body, The Body.

Selfless. Made me laugh and cry.

And the entire final disc of season 7: Touched, End of Days and Chosen. There are tear-worthy moments in each.

What can I say? I'm a crier.

Reading through these, there were a lot of moments where I thought "well done" on the acting, writing, etc., or "man, that was bogus," like when Buffy jumped.  I'm not a crying type of gal, so there were only three moments for me where I teared up (in chronological order): when Spike tries to tell Buffy he's in love with her the first time after the vamps run away.

"In I was Made to Love You," when Spike shows up at the Magic Box, and everyone shuns him.  That moment is impossible for me to watch.  I just feel so... bad.

When Buffy finds her mom on the couch- how can I not think about my own reactions?  It's depressing and sad.  Anya's speech too.

And seeing Spike break down and cry in "The Gift," they show him crying for all of what, one second?  And that was the moment- not seeing her friends, or Dawn, or Buffy's lifeless body, but that split second of Spike covering his face in grief is what got to me.  I just believed James.  I just felt it.

Oh, and I felt a "something" when he realizes it's not the Bot, and actually Buffy coming down the stairs.  The expression on his face... damn, he's good.

I never outright cried, but there were a few moments that made my eyes teary.

As most, The Body; that entire episode was just heartbreaking. Also, in Fool For Love, when Buffy pushed Spike, that look on his face.

There is one moment that really broke me up, even though it has nothing to do with Spike and/or Buffy. Those last few moments before Fred turned into Illyria, they just broke my heart for both Fred and Wesley.

Haven't ever cried while watching Buffy, but Anya's speech in The Body made me come damn close.

For some reason, every time I watch the sex scene in Smashed -- with the look of absolute shock on Spike's face when she finally "does it," and then the haunting music as the other sounds slide into the background -- I get sad.

-S

The Body. I've only seen it once and I don't think I could watch it again.

The end of Chosen when Spike died got me teary-eyed as well and finally the end of The Gift. That one was all Spike's fault as well. He cried and then I cried. :P

The alley scene in Dead Things. Just a few little angry ones.  Helped transform my growing disgust with Buffy's character into pure revulsion.

I'll have to think about happy tears...

Oh, you mean sad tears?

Wesley's death in Not Fade Away.  I was bawling.  ~asr

I don't cry over everything, I hold a lot of crap in, but sometimes if you catch me on the right day, like those eps I mention, the dam breaks, lol. Fred had be crying too. OMG, was that not a sad ep if I've ever seen one. I was sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time. I will never watch Chosen again cause it's just to hard.

And this is sorta off topic, but I cannot read any fic were Spike dies. It's just to hard. I read one (Sabershadowkat) where Spike dusts after being shot with a garlic bullet. OMG, if I'd known he was going to die not Buffy I would have never read it. I was torn up for a week, a whole bloody week. I'm bad when it comes to him, lol.

I had a really hard time reading his death in fics after Chosen, too, but I've gotten better about it. I don't cry anymore, just whimper and say "No!".

Season 5 of AtS used up a whole box of Kleenex. Spike's hands, Cordy dies, then Fred, then Wes, and then we have our brave little soldiers going into what could be their final battle. I didn't miss an ep. of that show from the very beginning, and the end really hit me hard.

Caro Mio

Where do i start?

Passions- Willow breaking down on the phone just got me.

I Only Have Eyes For You- the speech between buffy/angel when they were possessed had me bawling my eyes out.

Becoming part 2-  although i dislike angel, it still made me cry

Amends- so so so moving, although stupid angel all with the whole ooo im so weak, i cant have sex with buffy so i hafta kill myself.

The Prom- again, despite my dislike for Angel, i was still blubbering like a baby

The eppie when oz first left, cant rememba the name.

New Moon Rising- again cause of willow/oz

The Body and the one after (i forget the name of the eppie). Especially Spike with the flowers.

The Gift- poor spike :(

Afterlife (?)- anyway the one with "every night i save you." really sweet and touching.

Grave- Xander comforting willow was so heartwrenching!

Beneath You- that last scene was simply beautiful.

Touched- speech had me all teary eyed and choked up.

surprisingly, chosen was not so much with the crying. mainly cause i knew spike was coming back i think. although buffy *finally* realising she loved him did get to me.

Although Xander's "That's my girl. Always doing the stupid thing" comment did start me off a little now i think about it

Also Fred's death in A Hole In The World and Wesley's in NFA. had me sobbing.

As you can tell i'm a big crybaby. BtVS and Angel but loads of TV stuff gets me going- like moulin rouge, wow i cried a lot in that film.

Okay- in no particular order:

Amends- "I know what you did,'cause you did it to me." beings the tears, every time.

The Prom-"Class protector" did anyone have a dry eye?

Dead Things- I was just so mad at Buffy.  Did she really not understand that Spike was trying to save her?

The Gift- Just didn't feel real until I saw how broken Spike was.

Seeing Red- Just plain PO'ed at the writers

Beneath You- The end just got to me

Chosen- did anyone else tear up when the sign tipped over?

Oh, god yes- "Wesley, why can't I stay?" broke my heart.

Chosen didn't get to me, it most made me angry, cause I didn't believe SMG's delivery of "I love you," how Joss totally screwed us in the basement scene, Anya fighting instead of keeping the motors running for the buses or something, which would've made more sense, and Spike dying didn't bother me (cause I knew he was coming back, and I couldn't wait for Angel s5), but the lack of reaction from everyone else upon realizing he didn't make it cause he was too busy saving their asses. Pfft.

Gotta agree, Scarlet- Chosen made me mad, too.  I know Spike was coming back, but the end still got me.  And, we all know it wasn't Willow's spell that saved the day.  In fact, it probably screwed with the universe-- But, a true hero doesn't think he is, and that's part of what got to me in Chosen.

One word "Tara" ....had me blubberin like a baby...I only have eyes for you & the end of Becoming...Anya's speech in the body...heck that whole episode..When spike is disinvited : (  The end of Fred and Wesley....and they almost had me going when Willow thought she was talking to Tara again...bastards.

1. When Spike died in 'Chosen'.

2. Pretty much throughout the whole episode of 'The Body', especially Anya's little speech.

3. Spike's speech in 'Touched' and in 'Beneath You'.

4. When Tara died.

5. When Buffy sent Angel to hell.

6. When Buffy dies.

7. When Jenny died, I dunno if I cried, but it was so sad.

There's probably more, but that's all I can remember.

Okay scenes that made me cry in Buffy...

1: Beaten and battered Spike in season five after Glory knocked seven colours out of him...Can't remember what epi was called

2: Beaten and battered Spike again this time by Buffy in season six ...Dead Things?

3: And I know you;ll all say weirdo but Andrew crying in season seven when he thinks Buffy is going to murder him at the seal...

4: The speech in Touched where Spike tell Buffy she's the one....Season seven

5: And lastly I was heaverly pregnant at the time two weeks over due it was boiling hot and Spike died in the Hellmouth I cried on and off for three bloody days....My hubbie thought I was cracking up, my midwife was concerned for my babies health and all I was worried about was Spike was dead....Joss has alot to answer for....

I agree with pretty much all of the comments made, though for me especially :

(in somewhat chronological order)

Becoming, Pt 2, Buffy and Angel's last scene, then the look on SMG's face after the portal closes, when she first starts to cry and the music starts, I usually bawl my eyes out.

When Angel breaks up with Buffy in the sewers, then comes to dance with her at the prom, the song that plays is a tearjerker, plus the whole "Class Protector" thing.

Season 4, when Oz comes back and finds out Willow is with Tara, then decides to leave for good and Willow tells him about how if they meet up in Istanbul when they're old and grey, she wouldn't be surprised, because some part of her would always be waiting for him.

Season 5, oh my God.  So much of it.  Spike's tears at the end of Fool For Love.  The entire episode The Body, most especially Anya's speech in the dorm room...bawling!  The look on Spike's face when Buffy re-invites him and his mini-speech.  The entire end of The Gift starting when Buffy realizes what she has to do, her speech to Dawn, and the fall and aftermath.

Season 6, Spike's "every night I save you" speech.  The look on Spike's face when Buffy breaks it off with him.  When Tara is shot.  Xander's yellow crayon speech.  The end of Grave.

Season 7, the end of Beneath You.  The episode where Cassie dies.  When Buffy rescues Spike in Showtime.  Willow sitting with Xander in the hospital after he loses his eye.  Buffy getting kicked out of the house.  Spike's speech in Touched.  The end of Chosen.

AtS, Season 5, when Cordelia comes back for the one day, and after she disappears when Angel turns around and sees she's gone, oh, the look on his face!  Wes and Fred's final moments together before she becomes Illyria.  Spike and Angel in The Deeper Well, when they realize they have to let her die, and Spike's line "There's a hole in the world...feels like we ought to have known."

I think that's pretty much it.  I guess I'm a crier!

Ditto starting with Season 4.

CM

I knew Spike was coming back but it was still wrong. And I totallyg et why Buffy let Spike wear the piece fromt he LIz Taylor collection, but I still wished Angel wore it, then there wouldn't have been show down with the Black Thorn. When the Sunnydale sign fell over I didn't cry but I knew it was really the end. I too was pissed at everyone's reaction to no more Spike. They all can kiss my a**. I mean, Dawn could have at least reacted. *flips Joss the bird* lol

The look on Spike's face when Buffy dis-invited him.

When Buffy comes back from the dead and she and Spike are sitting opposite each other, holding hands, not talking much.

Spike dying in Chosen.  That sucked.

Spike crying in the alley after Buffy tells him he's beneath her.

Willow telling Oz that part of her will always be waiting for him.

The scene were Buffy dumps Spike in As you Were.  Totally can't take that one. 

Surprisingly, very few of my tear-jerker moments are Spuffy. In chronological order:

1. Even not being a Bangel fan, the second half of season 2 is like clinical depression in a box set, so there were several moments from Innocence on where I got misty, but the ending of Becoming Part 2 really gets me. That was back when SMG was acting the hell out of her scenes... I so wish we could've seen that depth of emotion in season 7. *sigh*

2. The Willow/Oz break-up in Wild at Heart. 

3. Joyce being sick... that whole arc had me sniffling, and there were a few moments when I teared up, and of course, cried during The Body.

4. The Gift, as soon as Buffy started talking to Dawn up on the tower.

5. When Tara dies in Seeing Red.

6. Spike's speech in Touched, and when he's just holding her.

7. Pretty much all of A Hole in the World.

I didn't cry during the end of Chosen, mostly because I knew Spike was coming back, and because SMG didn't sell the emotion. But that music from the battle scene always gives me chills.

Oh, yeah...I've been reading over some of these and there's a few more that totally made me cry...

A Hole in the World -- "Please, Wesley -- why can't I stay?" Oh. My. God. That broke my heart.

Willow's heartbreak (one of her best scenes, really) when Oz leaves her after the whole thing with Veruca.

The scene between Willow and Oz when he comes back and leaves again, the bit about her always waiting for him...how sweet and tender...I was okay with Willow/Tara mostly, but Oz was always the one for her I think...

And Xander's yellow crayon speech...well, actually, right after it...when he's just telling her I love you over and over, and every time he says it she hurts him, and he just. keeps. saying it...wow...intense...beautiful...loved it, but it makes me bawl....

Mine are...

Giles sobbing in Buffy's arms in Passion

Angel walking away from Buffy at the end of Graduation Day Part II (really, really hate Bangel, but the look on Buffy's face choked me up)

Spike crying after Buffy says he's beneath her in Fool for Love

Pretty much the whole episode of The Body

Spike beaten in the crypt in Intervention

Spike's speech and then his crying for her during The Gift

Spike holding Buffy's hands in Afterlife and when he cries outside her house. Also, when he punches the wall out of pain/frustration

Pretty much every time Buffy uses/abuses Spike in season six. Most especially: when she breaks up with him in As You Were and when she beats him in Dead Things. Call me crazy, but I also cried when Spike was pleading with her to let herself love him in Seeing Red. He was almost crying, kissing her forehead...it was sad. What happened afterward didn't make my sympathy shift toward Buffy at all.

I also cried for Spike in Lessons when he chokes up and says "I'm not fast...I'm not a quick study." I don't know why, but that scene just always gets to me. Also, the church scene in Beneath You...that was so beautiful and full of angst. JM deserved an Emmy. In Chosen I cried more with frustration than anything. Spike saved all their asses and none of them even had the decency to look sad when he died. And Buffy smiling at the end? I could have slapped her.

I cried at AtS during A Hole in the World when Fred dies. And I was completely wrecked when Wesley died in Never Fade Away. When Illyria asks if he wants her to lie to him, and he says "Yes, please." I break down every single time. 

...wow...I cry a lot! lol.

I have that end-ending of Chosen, too, with no sad faces, barely any watery eyes, and all the joking. Sure, there's relief that the hellmouth is dead for those that didn't lose anything, but for the core group? They lost home, landmarks, loved ones........Hence why I re-wrote the end in Discovery ! Just couldn't stand them being so glib.

CM

not really a crier but heres wot got to me in buffy

the body- anyas speech

im totally against bangel but when buffy has to kill angel

buffys face when she rescued spike from the first

when buffy throws spike his money n he cries

buffy's i love you

when spike lays against the cross

the scoobies face when buffy tells them she was in heaven

spikes face when buffy is dead

willow when oz left her

spike's your the one speech

spikes face when buffy has dis-invited n then his face when she lets him in, his whole you make me feel like a man speech

n if i think of nemore il put em up lol

madcowxx

I just finished rewatching season 5... good lord, I hadn't realized how much of that season made me cry (or at least sniffly). I'd already mentioned Joyce being sick, and The Body, and Buffy's speech to Dawn in The Gift... but man...

I teared up at Spike and Dawn in Tough Love, when she says it's all her fault, and he tells her she's not evil. One of my favorite Spike and Dawn scenes. Also, renewed snifflies, like, five minutes later, when Spike tells Buffy, "I'd do it. Right person, person I loved, I'd do it."

And when Willow finds Tara - actually there were a lot of Willow/Tara moments that made me all misty, after Tara's brainsucked and Willow is taking care of her. "She's my everything." *sigh*

When Spike gives his "I know you'll never love me" speech... actually, from the minute she invites him in...

And man, from when Buffy figures it out all the way until the end - with her speech, and everybody crying (especially Spike)... damn. And I never really noticed this before, but looking at Buffy's face when she's in the portal, she really looks like she's in intense pain.

Maybe I'm overly emotional right now or something... because I don't remember crying that much before, lol.

Eyes got misty: Touched, Chosen, The Gift, Becoming Part II

Crying: I Will Remember You

Sobbing: Not Fade Away (from the moment Illyria asked: ''would you like me to lie to you now?'' 'til the end and about half an hour after)

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but even though it's B/A, in the episode of AtS when Angel gets turned human, and he has to tell Buffy that the PTB are making it so their day together never happened.  She asks "when?" and he answers "a minute."  Then the way she repeats it, just completely heartbroken...some of SMG's best acting I think.

This is pretty much going to be repeating alot of these but here goes. I'm not much of a full out crier but times that got me all misty eyed and choked up:

Buffy's "Giles' I'm only sixteen. I don't want to die." In prophecy girl. It was one of the first eps I saw so I didn't get too misty eyed but I felt 'wow' and now I watch it and still do.  It's the same with Buffy's whispered 'Close your eyes' before she sends Angel to hell.

"Most of the people here have been saved by you, or helped by you" When Buffy got presented with her Class Protector title. And it also gets to me, even though I wasn't a Buffy/Angel shipper at the time, when Giles' mentions her trophy and Buffy says "Every now and then people suprise you." and then he sees Angel behind her and says "Every now and then." and then she sees Angel and they dance. I find that moment more powerful than when he walks away in Grad Day.

Anya's "I don't understand. And there's just a body and I don't understand why she can't just get back in it and not be dead anymore." God I can't even watch the Body anymore. I just can't. It gets to me to much, especially after my own mum got ill.

"Live. For Me." Who doesn't get choked up at the end of the Gift. Like others have said, the look on Spike's face gets me. And the whole scene. It's so sad.

Spike's "Can we rest now?" scene. But it's not the final part that gets me most, its the 'It's what you wanted right?" and "Why does a man do what he mustn't? To be hers. To be the kind of man who will nev... To be a kind of man."

Anya's "What if I'm really nobody?" at the end of Selfless.  I always liked Anya, and this was her last episode really. She became expendable after that, and the end of this got to me more than her death in Chosen.

"I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You are a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy". How can you not love that line? That scene? It chokes me up. Also because one of my biggest memories of the end of the series was seeing the US advert for the 'last few episodes'. And it has the 'How would you spend your last moments?' bit and showed all the couples and Spike's "A hundred plus years and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. You." And I associate that with the end of the show.

"No you don't. But thanks for saying it." "What did this?" "Spike". Any big fan cried at the end of Chosen right? Because how could you not. I was choked up the whole way through the episode. "The world is definitely doomed." and "Every girl who can stand up. Will stand up. Slayer's. Every one of them. So here's where you make a choice. Are you ready to be strong?" 

"All the way down. There's a hole in the world. Feels like we 'ought to have known." That whispered line in A hole in the World in Ats5 always chokes me. One of the most powerful episodes in Angel l I think.

And then cut to Fred's "My boys. I walk with heros. Think about that." and then her "Please Wesley, why can't I stay." God that scene is so emotional. The whole episode is.

And then the final of Angel. Because that was really the end. No more of any of it. From the hands up "I'm in" at the end of Power Play. To so many scenes in Not Fade Away. "Would you like me to lie to you now?" Illyria to Wesley and then to Illyria's "You'll last 10 mins at best" to Gunn who responds with "Well lets make 'em memorable". And then "We fight." "Lets go to work."

Wow, this post has reminded me of all the good tearjerkers. End of Becoming part II/The Body/Not Fade Away are the worst for me, I think - the actors do really good jobs at death scenes. Hmm, must go watch them now!

In fact, though this may be the revision/lack of sleep talking, just reading the lines posted is making me tear up!

Jess

OK... obviously, I am a man.  And -obviously- being a man, I DO NOT CRY.  I am far, far too busy watching baseball and having gunfights with wild bears to cry.

That said, I have been known to (accidentally, momentarily) leak from time to time.  For example, the s5 scene where Buffy kisses Spike and he susses out that she's not the robot.  

Remember at the end when she turns to him and says: "What you did for Dawn and me.  That was real.  And I won't forget it."

Well at that EXACT moment a mosquito flew directly into my right eye, causing a strange tearlike substance to dribble out.  Swear to God that's how it went down.  Luckily, I was able to immediately run it under some cold water, thereby avoiding any potential vision-loss or accidental getting-seen-by-girls-ness.

When everyone gathers in willows and taras room at college. Anyas beautiful and heartfelt speach, gets me everytime.

When she gets to "and noone will explain to me why" im a mess and i usually pause it at this point.

rough outtake:

"I mean, I knew her, and then she's, (sniffling) there's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And, and Xander's crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why."

*bawl*

lostboy, your post just absolutely cracked me up, and i think i might have just fallen in love with you a little bit ;P lol....love that... :P

yeah, i was just watching "Into the Woods" today, and although I absolutely *hate* Biley (even the name is disgusting lol) when Xander is giving her that speech about going after him, and she all tears up and can't say anything but his name, and he just tells her "Run"...that's a priceless scene, and I was tearing up too...

then, in the end of that episode, when Xander goes back to Anya and declares his love for her so sweetly and honestly...wow...that bit made me cry, too :)

lol lost boy very manly u r darn those mosquitos lol ur post just cracked me up so funny

Sarah aka Madcow

   You know when I cried?  Season 8 comics, issue3.  The guy wearing the leather duster looking thing and the red shirt turned out to be Ethan.  I have stopped reading it.

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