- "My sorrow at its ruin runs deeper than the depths of the underworld... do you not understand?"
- ― Merlina, Sonic and the Black Knight
- "It would have been better if I had died that day… Even if I am still alive, my heart is already dead. Ever since that incident, my tears have dried up"
- ― Koyuki Kazahana (Naruto)
- "Don't trouble me any further. I can no longer be happy."
- ― Yuki Misumi (Hitozuma Sex ~Shiranu Ma ni Otosareteita Ai Suru Tsuma~)
- "I once believed that the road of happiness continued forever and ever into the distance. When it was destroyed, I realized for the first time that it lies upon a thin sheet of glass."
- ― Kocho Shinobu (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- "That impossible indignation strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved one is just poison in your heart. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed or started longing for your own death, so you'd be spared your pain."
- ― Henri Ducard (Batman Begins)
- "If you want to ask me how much sorrow there is in my heart, it is like this endless surging spring water rolling eastward."
- ― Li Yu, Southern Tang Dynasty emperor and poet
The power to possess indomitably strong sadness. Variation of Indomitable Emotions. Opposite to Indomitable Happiness.
Also Called[]
- Indomitable Grief
- Indomitable Melancholy
- Indomitable Sorrow
- The Path of Utter Despair
Capabilities[]
The user possesses indomitably strong sadness; a negative but very important emotion that causes great sorrow that has powerful impact on users through sheer grief. The emotional pain of sadness is extremely great that’s it can be life-changing for better or worse. Through grief and depression, users can grow in strength in character.
Applications[]
- Apathy - Sadness may cause user to forget about other feelings and/or user can become distant, cynical and unsympathetic.
- Fallen - The user's sadness may cause them to want dark powers or become evil.
- Humanity Retainment - Sadness can often be a great reminder of ones humanity.
- Empathy - Sadness can help sympathize and empathize with others pain.
- Sadness Empowerment - Become stronger through sadness.
Associations[]
- Despair Embodiment
- Despair Empowerment
- Indomitable Emotions
- Melancholy Manipulation
- Nihilism Embodiment
- Sadness Empowerment
Limitations[]
- May need to learn how to control it.
- May cause distress for the user.
- Uncontrollable sadness may result in significant negative effects such as decreased self-preservation or hopelessness.
- User may even feel the desire to kill themself because of their extreme sadness.
Known Users[]
- Yasha (Asura's Wrath)
- Guts (Berserk)
- Griffith/Femto (Berserk)
- The Elk/The Nowhere King (Centaurworld)
- Bruce Wayne/Batman (DC Comics)
- Teth-Adam/Black Adam (DC Comics)
- Future Gohan (Dragon Ball Z)
- Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader (Star Wars)
- Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze (DCAU)
- Cheon Yu-Jong (Nano Machine)
- Various Characters (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- Giyu Tomioka
- Inosuke Hashibira
- Kanao Tsuyuri
- Tamayo
- Tanjiro Kamado
- Zenitsu Agatsuma
- Kenshirō (Fist of the North Star)
- Souther (Fist of the North Star)
- Raoh (Fist of the North Star)
- Chrome Walker (Fixed Damage)
- Gintoki Sakata (Gintama)
- Oboro (Gintama)
- Sadness (Inside Out)
- Chihiro Rokuhira (Kagurabachi)
- Bi Ki (Kingdom)
- Earl Shi (Kingdom)
- Kan Ki (Kingdom)
- Man'U (Kingdom)
- Sen To Un (Kingdom)
- Yuu Ren (Kingdom)
- Man Goku (Kingdom)
- King of Sorrow (Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil)
- Elektra Natchos (Marvel Comics)
- Erik Lehnshr/Magneto (Marvel Comics)
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
- James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
- The Sorrow (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)
- Crying Wolf (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots)
- Madara Uchiha (Naruto)
- Obito Uchiha (Naruto)
- Itachi Uchiha (Naruto)
- Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
- Zabuza Momochi (Naruto)
- Shinichi Izumi (Parasyte)
- Tatsuya Suou (Persona 2)
- Various Characters (Reverse: 1999)
- Forget Me Not
- Isolde
- Vertin
- SCP-096 - The "Shy Guy" (SCP Foundation)
- Johann Faust VIII (Shaman King)
- Merlina the Wizard (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
- Kazuya Mishima (Tekken)
- Kaneki Ken (Tokyo Ghoul)
- Ksetsu Samonji (Touken Ranbu)
- Wanda Maximoff (WandaVision)
- Eeyore (Winnie-the-Pooh)
- John Doe (unOrdinary)
Gallery[]
Anime/Manga/Manhwa[]
Guts (Berserk)
When Shinichi Izumi (Parasyte) had his cells fused with Migi to repair his heart and before the death of Reiko Tamura, he became distant, unsympathetic, and lost the ability to empathize with others, as he not only thinks but feels emotionless like a parasite...
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... until he remembered the memories of his mother and the sorrow that came from losing her and regain his ability to feel, to be human and empathize with a recently orphaned baby he carried in his arms.
Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star)
Madara Uchiha (Naruto)
Obito Uchiha (Naruto)
Itachi Uchiha (Naruto) for many years has carried a great burden and sorrow that came from the genocide of his entire clan that he caused, forever in grief of his action in the name of peace and his village.
Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto), in discovering the painful truth about his brother Itachi and knowing that he killed the one person who loved him unconditionally, experienced great enough sorrow that it made him apathetically swear a new form of vengeance against the people that wronged him through the destruction of The Leaf Village.
Chihiro Rokuhira (Kagurabachi)
Earl Shi (Kingdom)
Bi Ki, the Queen Mother (Kingdom)
Kan Ki (Kingdom) forever mourned the death of his true love, Shio.
Ko Chou (Kingdom) witnessed and experienced the tragedies of war in his military career, which has hardened his mentality known by many of his men to have known true pain.
Ri Boku (Kingdom) having lost his family and friends to the Warring States period of China, he survived bearing sorrowful patriotism towards his homeland Zhao to protect it at all cause.
Man'U (Kingdom) was left a broken man after losing by his home state
Tanjiro Kamado (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) felt deep sadness for the people who were killed by demons. He even went far as to empathize with certain demons who had suffered tragedies from their previous life as humans.
Tamayo (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) has been burdened with lifelong sorrow and regret from accidentally killing her husband and children when she became a Demon under Muzan's deception.
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Giyu Tomioka (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) lost his older sister & best friend.
Despite repressing her emotions, Kanao Tsuyuri (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) can feel genuine sorrow, which she finally expressed through tears after losing her two adoptive sisters to Doma.
Hashibara Inosuke (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) cried his heart out in sorrow after learning his mother's abandonment was, in reality, self-sacrifice.
Maria Akeboshi (Maria no Danzai) is forever heartbroken by the death of her beloved son Kiritaka.
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Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul)
Suzaku Himejima (Highschool DxD/Slash Dog) felt profound sorrow over her aunt Shuri's death and cousin Akeno's exile by the Himejima Clan.
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Johann Faust VIII (Shaman King) was completely heartbroken by the death of his beloved wife, which drove him to insanity, desperate to revive her by becoming the Shaman King.
Jewellery Bonney (One Piece) weeping inconsolably from learning her beloved adoptive father Kuma's sacrifices for her sake.
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Yoriichi (Kimetsu no Yaiba) is burdened by lifelong tragedies including losing his wife and unborn child to seeing his beloved brother abandoned his humanity to become a demon
After the death of his lover who is Shido's previous Incarnation Shinji Mio Takamiya (Date A Live) fall into such sadness that she swore that she will bring Shinji back even if it means killing Tohka or erasing Shido's current memories.
Cartoons[]
After his Queen Athena's death, King Triton (Disney's The Little Mermaid) becomes extremely strict and hateful towards humans due to the grief he suffered over his Queen Athena's death.
Eeyore (Winnie-the-Pooh)
Sadness (Inside Out)
Sad Ness (Happy Ness: The Secret of the Loch)
Comics[]
Batman (DC Comics) life is plagued by great tragedies particularly his parents' death.
James Logan Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
Movies/Live Action TV[]
Anakin Skywalker's (Star Wars) life was full of tragedy since he was born as a slave on Tatooine, to a slave of a corrupted Republic and Jedi Order, to even a slave of the evilest man in the galaxy.
Black Adam (DC Extended Universe)
Magneto (X-Men Movies)
After losing her sister Sara at the hands of Daichi, Kekera and Michinaga. Keiwa Sakurai (Kamen Rider Geats) was overcome with so much sadness that when he first uses the Bujin Sword Buckle he quickly became not that different from Michinaga when he first met him, even developing a grudge against Ace.
Video Games[]
Tatsuya (Persona 2) saw Maya die and was forced to forget the memories of his friends and then has to return to a destroyed world.
Yasha (Asura's Wrath) possesses the Mantra affinity of Melancholy.
The Sorrow (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater) is named for the emotion he carries into the battlefield.
Crying Wolf (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots) suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, expressing extreme sorrow in battle through her eternal crying.
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Merlina the Wizard (Sonic the Hedgehog) was filled with sorrow upon discovering that the kingdom of Camelot was destined to end in ruin and warfare, driving her to acquire the Scabbard of Excalibur and use dark magic in an effort to make Camelot eternal.
Imashino Misaki (Blue Archive) is always sad and hopeless, so she wants to commit suicide multiple times, but the suicides always failed.
As the only person immune to the storm, Vertin (Reverse: 1999) has experienced many deaths and tragedy's in her life.
Web Animation/Comics/Series[]
Well known for being in a docile state and becoming emotionally disturbed once someone's seen its face SCP-096 - The "Shy Guy" (SCP Foundation) is very well known for its sadness that can't be cured when not viewing its face, even SCP-999 who can cure the darkest of hearts of literally anyone including SCP-682 can't seem to cure The Shy Guy's suffering.
Videos[]
Raoh, Toki is waiting... (Remastered - Kareta Daichi)-2
Parasyte - Shinichi finally cries
Migi Handle the Defense
Minato vs Obito - Naruto Shippuden-2
Kaneki vs Jason - Tokyo Ghoul-2
Supernatural 03x10 - Dean talking to Dean (I don't deserve to go to hell)-2
Dean's confession about Hell 4.10 (High Quality)-2
Cupid On Supernatural-2
Rick Sanchez Ranting For 7 Minutes Straight - Rick and Morty - adult swim-2
Gary and His Demons - Still The One (Full Episode)
Guts VS Nightmare (Berserk VS Soul Calibur) DEATH BATTLE!
Guts VS Dimitri (Berserk VS Fire Emblem) - DEATH BATTLE!-2
Madara VS Aizen (Naruto VS Bleach) - DEATH BATTLE!
Darth Vader VS Doctor Doom (Star Wars VS Marvel) - DEATH BATTLE!-2
Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha (Star Wars VS Naruto) - DEATH BATTLE!-2
One Minute Melee - Roronoa Zoro Vs Rurouni Kenshin (One Piece vs Samurai X)
Ryu vs Kenshiro - Mini Rumble S2 EP2
SCP-032 - Brothers' Bride (SCP Orientation)
SCP-096 - The Shy Guy (SCP Animation)-2
SCP-096 The Shy Guy (SCP Animated)-2
SCP-1440 The Old Man from Nowhere (SCP Animation)
Brothers of Death SCP-1440 The Old Man From Nowhere (SCP Animation)
Analysis & Discussions[]
Maglor, Son of Fëanor - Tolkien Explained
The Complete Travels of Túrin Turambar - Tolkien Explained-2
Batman - Evolving The Legend-2
The Punisher- Garth Ennis's Impact - NowThis Nerd-2
What Makes a Villain Feel Real?-2
Anakin Didn't 'Turn' into Darth Vader, He Always was Him- Star Wars Character Analysis
Why Anakin’s Slaughter of the Separatist Council was SO much more Important than you Think
Darth Caedus (Legends) Featuring Dash Star - Star Wars Minute
Rurouni Kenshin- The Art of Redemption
Claymore- The Imperfect Trailblazer
The Soul of Gintama
SCP-096 remastered illustrated (The Shy Guy)-2
Music[]
Berserk OST - Forces-2
TVアニメ「キングダム」第5シリーズ：ノンクレジットOPムービー／DeNeel『導火』
TVアニメ「キングダム」第5シリーズ：ノンクレジットEDムービー／Novel Core『RULERS』
Tokyo Ghoul – Opening Theme – Unravel
Tokyo Ghoul √A – Opening Theme – Munou
【東京喰種-re】ノンクレジットEDムービー「HALF」女王蜂-2
Kid Cudi "No One Believes Me" (Official Video)-2