Grief

Focus on emotional whump, hand to hand with angst and crying.

Depending on the context of the death, maybe we get some self-sacrificing (or suicidal) whumpee, as a very negative effect of a possible guilt.

Sometimes other friends/loved ones are around to offer some comfort, sometimes... not.

Keep in mind that there might be spoilers of character's deaths.

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## Animes

**Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood**

* **Ep 10:** From this episode forward, **Roy Mustang** is determined to find who killed his best friend and starts a secret investigation, risking his own life by doing so. The few times he comes closer to a potential culprit, he goes dark until proven otherwise or someone stops him.

**Peacemaker Kurogane**

* **Ep 18: Yamazaki Susumu** cries over his sister's brutal death, being open to his feelings for the first time in a very long time, so long, that he at first doesn't even realize that he is sad.

## TV Shows

**Arrow**

* There is a lot of moments of grief on the show, by - and for - many characters. One early example is **Oliver Queen** (Stephen Amell) at **1x02**, grieving his father's death, keeping Robert's body at the island with him, even throwing up at the smell of it, but still trying to hug him before offering a proper burial.

**Balthazar**

* **1x04:** Lise, **Raphaël Balthazar's** (Tomer Sisley) fiancée, died over a decade ago... and he still sees and talks to her "spirit". It's clear from the beginning how much he is suffering, and on this episode, he cries over a conversation about the future they didn't had together.

**Charmed (1998)**

* **6x23: Leo Wyatt** (Brian Krause), having witnessed his son die on his arms, angrily destroys many things surrounding him with his powers, cursing himself for broking the promise of getting the son safely back to the future.

**Cidade invisível | Invisible City**

* **Eric** (Marco Pigossi) grieves his wife's death, while trying to put on a brave facade on behalf of his daughter. He keeps seeing the woman everywhere.

**Class**

* **1x02: Ram Singh** (Fady Elsayed) grieves his girlfriend's death, with some symptoms of PTSD, and the alien of the episode... is not helping. He even offers himself to be killed by it.

**Ghost Whisperer**

* **4x07:** After her husband's death, **Melinda Gordon** (Jennifer Love Hewitt) doesn't understand why he's not appearing to her as a ghost.

**Hunters**

* **1x01: Jonah Heidelbaum's** (Logan Lerman) grandmother is killed on this first episode, which leads him into a path of search for answers and pay back to anyone involved. He puts himself on dangerous situations in the process, and there's a moment he starts crying because of a restaurant's soup.
* **1x04: Jonah's** friend is murdered, and this is the last motivation he needs to join the hunters for good.

**Jupiter's Legacy**

* **1x03:** **Young Sheldon Sampson** (Josh Duhamel) grieves his father, constantly seeing visions of him disfigured by the way he died.

**Lucifer**

* **1x09:** More **angst** than grief, but still. It's a very painful moment for **Lucifer** (Tom Ellis) when Father Frank gets shot and dies, being maybe the first human to recognize who he is, and accept him. Angry and hurt words to God afterwards.
* **5x15: Everyone**, after Dan is murdered by the mercenaries they are investigating. The unfairness of it all and who is involved or not, takes a tool on all of them. **Amenadiel** (D.B. Woodside) and **Mazikeen** (Lesley-Ann Brandt) have particularly good emotional scenes.

**MacGyver (2016)**

* **5x05: Angus MacGyver** (Lucas Till) bottles up his feelings about Jack's death through the whole duration of the mission... until he is the last one awake on the plane, and let's out all of his grief, frustration and tears.

**Merlin**

* **2x13: Merlin** (Colin Morgan) looses his newly found father, and has to hold back his tears and the signs of grief off his face, when facing others, since no one can know his relation with the man.

**Shadowhunters**

* **1x12:** Ragnor Fell, one of **Magnus Bane's** (Harry Shum Jr.) oldest friends, is attacked by a Shax demon and dies at the warlock's arms. Later, Magnus keeps seeing him, like he is still there giving Magnus advices.

**Superman & Lois**

* **1x01: Clark Kent** (Tyler Hoechlin) rushes home and sees his mother right after she passes. He later reveals that he heard her last words on his way there.

**The Mentalist**

* **Patrick Jane** (Simon Baker) is driven by grief, guilt and revenge, since Red John murdered Jane's wife and daughter. He barely sleeps at his house (or at all), still wears his wedding ring, and well, the sad puppy eyes he makes every now and then are also a clue.

**Walker**

* **1x01: Cordell Walker's** (Jared Padalecki) wife dies right at the beginning, and he struggles to move on, even 11 months later. Drinking issues, anger and strayed relationship with his kids.
* **1x09:** Flashback from the night **Walker's** wife died and he has to identify her body at the morgue.

## Movies

**Einstein and Eddington (2008)**

* **Arthur Eddington** (David Tennant) finds out through the newspaper that his dear friend got killed at war. He is found alone by Winnie and comforted by her as he cries.

**Fatherhood (2021)**

* It's one of the main plots of the whole movie. It shows the grieving process of **Matt Logelin** (Kevin Hart) after his wife's sudden death, how he carries this for many years and how he eventually learns how to move on. A few good emotional whump scenes.

**Upgrade (2018)**

* **Grey Trace's** (Logan Marshall-Green) wife was killed in front of him, after some quite suspicious circumstances. He grieves and hurts, and when given the chance, goes after the responsables.

## Dramas

**The Untamed**

* **Ep 16:** Wei Wu Xian tries to stop Jiang Cheng (Wang Zhuo Cheng) from going back to their clan and seek revenge against the enemies who destroyed it. Jiang Cheng becomes violent against him, choking him on the ground and yelling all the reasons of why that was his fault.

**Word of Honor**

* **Ep 22: Wen Ke Xing** (Gong Jun) gets so worked up revealing - or yelling - the gruesome death of his parents, that he throws up blood.
* **Ep 32: Zhou Zi Shu** (Zhang Zhe Han), after the recent death of Wen Ke Xing. He drinks alone in anger and sorrow, thinking about his soulmate's plans and motives, and concluding he now has nothing else to lose as he prepares himself to seek retribution on the cost of the little time he has left.

## Gallery

"There’s gonna be a quiet moment he won’t see coming, then he’ll feel how deep the wound is" - Desi about Mac, MacGyver, 5x05"I would have loved to have children with you" - Raphaël Balthazar to his wife's spirit, Balthazar 1x04