12 Emotional TV Moments That Made Us All Cry In 2013

6. Once Upon A Time - Gold Kills Pan, Storybrooke Vanishes

In probably the second most painful midseason finale this year aside from The Walking Dead, Peter Pan's been defeated, his body trapped in Pandora's box, and Henry and his family are safely home from Neverland and in Storybrooke. However, Pan has secretly swapped bodies with his great grandson Henry and, with lost boy Felix in tow, plans to place a curse on Storybrooke that will make Regina's work look like child's play. With a handy little bit of magic, Rumpelstiltskin manages to swap the bodies of his father and grandson and confronts his father once and for all, sacrificing himself by using the Dark One's dagger to kill him. Pan is defeated, but the curse has already begun and is in full gear to envelop Storybrooke. Regina has a fail safe to the curse hidden away that will make Storybrooke vanish off the face of the earth and its inhabitants return to the Enchanted Forest with no memory of their earthly selves. The gut-wrencher, however, is that Henry cannot cross over to the other realm since he is of this plane of existence, and Emma can choose since she is of both worlds. Ultimately, Emma decides to stay with Henry and Regina, making her peace with the sheriff, casts a spell on her son and his birth mother that will implant memories where Emma never gave Henry up for adoption and wound up in a town that never existed in the first place. As they drive away in Emma's beaten up Beetle, the town is enveloped in a cloud of smoke and ceases to exist. Flash forward a year later because you really have been crying for that long. Emma and Henry are living in a swanky New York City apartment and who comes knocking other than Hook, who tries to restore Emma's memory via "true love's first kiss," which aptly ends with Emma's mean right hook across the Captain's face. Oh well, worth a shot. Then we cut to black until March. Sorry Walking Dead fans, but I'm just throwing this out there. If Rumpel dies, I riot.