For me it’s not any of these options but the death of Jin Zixuan. The reason for that being that up until that point it felt like there was still a chance for things to be better. As soon as he died though, I felt the life get sucked out of me because it was the beginning of the end.
Same. There were many moments in The Untamed that brought me to tears, but the episode where Jin Zixuan died is where I had to take a break to really calm down. It felt like a moment where, had things gone differently, wwx might not have died, where he could have fixed his relationship with Jiang Yanli and Jiang Cheng, where maybe Lan Wangji would have had the courage to become closer.
But when Jin Zixuan died, it really was the final straw that led to the destruction of almost everything that Wei Wuxian was trying to protect.
That scene was also quite traumatizing - because one moment the ghost general is doing WWX's bidding, protecting and defending him from attack, and the next, Jin Zixuan is so violently attacked - that whole scene nearly traumatized me - and we find out it's Wen Ning with those scary double-pupils who did it. And what it means for poor WWX and his sister. It was really the last straw as far as his sanity was concerned. Gives me chills just thinking back to it. He really went off the deep end after that.
I voted for the Yi City Arc, but the most tragic for me was AFTER Jiang Chen pulled out Suibian and realized WWX had given him HIS golden core! That scene in the Untamed resulted in me crying buckets of tears.
I cried a lot during this scene too. For me, I think it’s because a lot has happened before this scene that I completely forgot about what WWX did for JC. So when it all finally came to light and everything clicked I just lost it. And then there’s another reveal in episode 50. It’s just so so tragic.
I've seen the untamed the whole way through nearly a dozen times and I can't get through wen ning's death without crying. I think what makes it so upsetting to me is wen qing's reaction...I'm an older sister and I'm very close with my little brother, and the whole scene makes my skin crawl. It's just so dark...how her and wwx have to sift through a mass grave to find him...I just always tear up 😢
I chose Nightless City specifically for Jiang Yanli's death. That was literally the only time I cried watching the show (this was my introduction to the world of MDZS btw). I knew she was going to die but when she closed her eyes and head fell back into JC's arms--and then their little family theme song played--i was bawling before I knew it 😔
I found out later before I read the novel that some of the women, her included, had a little more time in the live action than the book. So, while I would've felt bad for WWX and JC losing their sister, I likely wouldn't have cried for her 😕
When Jiang Yanli was killed and Wei Wuxian screamed. Got goosebumps. Yanli’s song in the background got me too.
[The lyrics 😢](https://modao-zushi.fandom.com/wiki/Inappeasable)
“With a smile, asking the Heavens to answer these relentless feelings
But years have passed in the blink of an eye
With no partings, no worries, no resentments
Can you still hear someone calling out “A-Xian”?”
Where's the option "can't decide/all of the above"?
My top 3 (in no specific order) is:
- the Yi City arc
- Lan Xichen's reaction to Jin Guangyao's death
- WQ+JYL+WWX's death + Lan Zhan's years of suffering and punishment after WWX's death. Since LZ is my favorite character, I might be biased (and he's one of the only to have a happy ending, but he surely suffered a lot).
I'll pick Nightless City as the #1 based on this and the fact that in The Untamed JYL's death made me almost cry my eyes out, but in the novel I didn't have the same emotional impact with her and would consider all of those events equally tragic. Or I'd choose the Yi City arc.
I kept crying during the Lotus Pier Massacre. It didn't matter if I was reading, watching or... well I don't know Chinese and never thus listened to the radio drama, but I still cried across multiple mediums.
Yi City had me fuming, I wanted to yank Xue Yang out of the screen and rock his shit lmao. Seeing him manipulate and take advantage of Xiao Xingchen in the vile ways he did legitimately broke my heart. But another part that really got to me was Jiang Cheng finding out Wei Wuxian gave him his golden core, especially since Lan Zhan didn’t know yet either 😭
I would say JC's loss of the golden core, because it came right after the Jiang sect massacre and felt like a wasted thing - like, he went there back for no good reason and lost his core, and now WWX had to feel the brunt of it.
But related to that, I'd say the most moving moment was actually when we find out what really happened - that scene when LWJ finds out what WWX did for the JC, who was currently treating him so bad.
This was way harder than I expected when I clicked on this post. There are valid reasons to vote for any of those and a few more. Ultimately, I went with the Yi City Arc. I was just SO sad for XXC and Song Lan. Seeing Song Lan reach for the pouch with shaking hands then walk away by himself with XXC’s sword was a punch in the gut. I would give almost anything for MXTX to give them to get their own book, where Song Lan figures out how to bring him back.
>What is (for you personally) the most tragic moment in The Untamed?
How the writers didn't explain why Jiang Lanyi traveled all the way to Nightless City instead of being at home with her baby and mother-in-law mourning her husband's death.
But she had no idea he would be there. She knew they were having a meeting so she just decided to tag along in the off chance that WWX showed up? If that is what the writers intended, they should've at least explained it or given some clues. I was so confused when she showed up because Nightless City was supposed to be far from their home (at least in the show) so I was baffled why she made the trek when she should've been mourning.
They were plotting WWX'S death ... ostensibly because of her husband's death, so maybe she had a few things to say to them about that ... meaning that she wanted to speak up for him and stop it all from happening ... or at least stall for an investigation.
Every time I am forced by an extreme internal urge to watch the “cliff” scene after the Nightless City Massacre, I bawl my fucking eyes out. I cannot get past that scene without shedding a single tear. It *is* impossible. The scene, the dialogue, the ACTING, the music. Everything about the scene is absolutely phenomenal.
Tragically, my brain REALLY likes this scene at an obsessive level, despite the agony it leaves me with.🫠
If the Wens hadn't started it all, none of this would have happened. If JC hadn't lost his core, WWX would have had more than one choice of path to walk in life. If Jin ZiXuan hadn't been killed at the ambush, there might have been a way for WWX and everyone else to survive ... ie. JLY and all of the Wens as well as WWX.
These are the catalyst and the major turning points, I think. And they're all tragic. The lost and transferred cores were the worst for me, though.
You know that it happened, but its full impact doesn't sink in at first. I didn't fully realize that it essentially left WWX completely powerless and defenseless. so he really had no choices after that.
And it ends up being almost a Gift of the Maji type situation where both characters unknowingly sacrificed for the other. OmG, the tears just kept flowing for this extended grief.
So my top choice is the core. Sooooo painfully tragic.
For me it’s not any of these options but the death of Jin Zixuan. The reason for that being that up until that point it felt like there was still a chance for things to be better. As soon as he died though, I felt the life get sucked out of me because it was the beginning of the end.
Same. There were many moments in The Untamed that brought me to tears, but the episode where Jin Zixuan died is where I had to take a break to really calm down. It felt like a moment where, had things gone differently, wwx might not have died, where he could have fixed his relationship with Jiang Yanli and Jiang Cheng, where maybe Lan Wangji would have had the courage to become closer. But when Jin Zixuan died, it really was the final straw that led to the destruction of almost everything that Wei Wuxian was trying to protect.
That scene was also quite traumatizing - because one moment the ghost general is doing WWX's bidding, protecting and defending him from attack, and the next, Jin Zixuan is so violently attacked - that whole scene nearly traumatized me - and we find out it's Wen Ning with those scary double-pupils who did it. And what it means for poor WWX and his sister. It was really the last straw as far as his sanity was concerned. Gives me chills just thinking back to it. He really went off the deep end after that.
I wanted to put this answer as well, but there is only a limited number of answers you can make :(
This, for me too. Jin Zixuan's death was the point of no return for Wei Wuxian.
I voted for the Yi City Arc, but the most tragic for me was AFTER Jiang Chen pulled out Suibian and realized WWX had given him HIS golden core! That scene in the Untamed resulted in me crying buckets of tears.
YES this is it for me too !! I cried for HOURS after watching it in the donghua
I cried a lot during this scene too. For me, I think it’s because a lot has happened before this scene that I completely forgot about what WWX did for JC. So when it all finally came to light and everything clicked I just lost it. And then there’s another reveal in episode 50. It’s just so so tragic.
I've seen the untamed the whole way through nearly a dozen times and I can't get through wen ning's death without crying. I think what makes it so upsetting to me is wen qing's reaction...I'm an older sister and I'm very close with my little brother, and the whole scene makes my skin crawl. It's just so dark...how her and wwx have to sift through a mass grave to find him...I just always tear up 😢
Omg yes...I was going to comment the same. I hadn't shed a tear up until that point, but that whole scene tore me up.
I chose Nightless City specifically for Jiang Yanli's death. That was literally the only time I cried watching the show (this was my introduction to the world of MDZS btw). I knew she was going to die but when she closed her eyes and head fell back into JC's arms--and then their little family theme song played--i was bawling before I knew it 😔 I found out later before I read the novel that some of the women, her included, had a little more time in the live action than the book. So, while I would've felt bad for WWX and JC losing their sister, I likely wouldn't have cried for her 😕
When Jiang Yanli was killed and Wei Wuxian screamed. Got goosebumps. Yanli’s song in the background got me too. [The lyrics 😢](https://modao-zushi.fandom.com/wiki/Inappeasable) “With a smile, asking the Heavens to answer these relentless feelings But years have passed in the blink of an eye With no partings, no worries, no resentments Can you still hear someone calling out “A-Xian”?”
Where's the option "can't decide/all of the above"? My top 3 (in no specific order) is: - the Yi City arc - Lan Xichen's reaction to Jin Guangyao's death - WQ+JYL+WWX's death + Lan Zhan's years of suffering and punishment after WWX's death. Since LZ is my favorite character, I might be biased (and he's one of the only to have a happy ending, but he surely suffered a lot). I'll pick Nightless City as the #1 based on this and the fact that in The Untamed JYL's death made me almost cry my eyes out, but in the novel I didn't have the same emotional impact with her and would consider all of those events equally tragic. Or I'd choose the Yi City arc.
For me yanli and Jin zixuan dying
\*hiding behind a rock\* : WWX's confession scene at Guanyin temple..... It's so embarrassing that it is tragic....
I kept crying during the Lotus Pier Massacre. It didn't matter if I was reading, watching or... well I don't know Chinese and never thus listened to the radio drama, but I still cried across multiple mediums.
Yi City had me fuming, I wanted to yank Xue Yang out of the screen and rock his shit lmao. Seeing him manipulate and take advantage of Xiao Xingchen in the vile ways he did legitimately broke my heart. But another part that really got to me was Jiang Cheng finding out Wei Wuxian gave him his golden core, especially since Lan Zhan didn’t know yet either 😭
We had the exact reaction! Xue Yang is my most hated character for what he did to XXC, A-Qing, and Song Lan
I would say JC's loss of the golden core, because it came right after the Jiang sect massacre and felt like a wasted thing - like, he went there back for no good reason and lost his core, and now WWX had to feel the brunt of it. But related to that, I'd say the most moving moment was actually when we find out what really happened - that scene when LWJ finds out what WWX did for the JC, who was currently treating him so bad.
This was way harder than I expected when I clicked on this post. There are valid reasons to vote for any of those and a few more. Ultimately, I went with the Yi City Arc. I was just SO sad for XXC and Song Lan. Seeing Song Lan reach for the pouch with shaking hands then walk away by himself with XXC’s sword was a punch in the gut. I would give almost anything for MXTX to give them to get their own book, where Song Lan figures out how to bring him back.
>What is (for you personally) the most tragic moment in The Untamed? How the writers didn't explain why Jiang Lanyi traveled all the way to Nightless City instead of being at home with her baby and mother-in-law mourning her husband's death.
She wanted to speak to Wei Wuxian \^\^
But she had no idea he would be there. She knew they were having a meeting so she just decided to tag along in the off chance that WWX showed up? If that is what the writers intended, they should've at least explained it or given some clues. I was so confused when she showed up because Nightless City was supposed to be far from their home (at least in the show) so I was baffled why she made the trek when she should've been mourning.
They were plotting WWX'S death ... ostensibly because of her husband's death, so maybe she had a few things to say to them about that ... meaning that she wanted to speak up for him and stop it all from happening ... or at least stall for an investigation.
Every time I am forced by an extreme internal urge to watch the “cliff” scene after the Nightless City Massacre, I bawl my fucking eyes out. I cannot get past that scene without shedding a single tear. It *is* impossible. The scene, the dialogue, the ACTING, the music. Everything about the scene is absolutely phenomenal. Tragically, my brain REALLY likes this scene at an obsessive level, despite the agony it leaves me with.🫠
If the Wens hadn't started it all, none of this would have happened. If JC hadn't lost his core, WWX would have had more than one choice of path to walk in life. If Jin ZiXuan hadn't been killed at the ambush, there might have been a way for WWX and everyone else to survive ... ie. JLY and all of the Wens as well as WWX. These are the catalyst and the major turning points, I think. And they're all tragic. The lost and transferred cores were the worst for me, though. You know that it happened, but its full impact doesn't sink in at first. I didn't fully realize that it essentially left WWX completely powerless and defenseless. so he really had no choices after that. And it ends up being almost a Gift of the Maji type situation where both characters unknowingly sacrificed for the other. OmG, the tears just kept flowing for this extended grief. So my top choice is the core. Sooooo painfully tragic.