Jerk The Tears

''If you laugh, you're a monster. Apparently.''

When someone's appearance and/or condition can pull at heartstrings. This type of Emotional Manipulation is used on characters in a franchise instead of the audience themselves. The UnTrash that does that is So Unbelievably Sad. A common method of Jerking The Tears is putting a child in a wheelchair after another person's actions injured them. This rarely fails to earn a round of "aww" from any gathering of onlookers.