History Main / BitingTheHandkerchief

* Nana in ''Manga/BokuraGaIta'', the various times her abusive boyfriend makes her cry.

* Miyu did this in the Cinderella episode of ''Manga/DaaDaaDaa'', and Christine and other fans of the prince Kanata bit their hankies and wept during a special dance for the prince and his chosen girl.

* In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', Moist von Lipwig does this after promising to follow through on a suicidal boast. More related to outright terror than sadness, but the overacting is still there.

* Jun'iku of ''VisualNovel/KoihimeMusou'' can be relied on to do this any time Sousou is paying attention to a woman other than her.

* Nanny does this a bit in ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'', particularly in episode 18.

* In ''[[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry Ougon Musou Kyoku]]'', this is what Ange does during Virgilia and Beatrice's team ending.

** He does it again in the non-canon ''Kamen Rider Brain'' special during the airing of ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'' when told by Krim that the "600" that is meant to refer to him...does not mean his IQ as he thought, but ''gigabytes'', as in his storage capacity, a paltry number in 2019. Naturally, Brain doesn't take that double whammy well.

When mere tears simply aren't enough to indicate how melodramatically melancholy a character is, they can show just how upset they are by clenching the center of a handkerchief in their teeth, gripping the rest of it in one fist, and stretching it tightly as they [[OcularGushers weep]]. Sometimes, when things go completely south, the character may inadvertently tear the center right out of the handkerchief, the torn patch of cloth dangling from their teeth like a dog that's just taken a bite out of the mailman's backside.

** Also Done by Marilyn in [[http://www.filb.de/content/anime/dp/125/338.jpg "Battling a Cute Drama"]].

* In ''[[VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Ougon Musou Kyoku]]'', this is what Ange does during Virgilia and Beatrice's team ending.

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[[caption-width-right:304:So sad, yet so delicious.]]

* In the [[RealTrailerFakeMovie promo short-short]] ''{{Anime/Mai-HiME}} vs. {{Anime/Mai-Otome}}'', Mai is shown with [[OcularGushers tears like waterfalls]] and biting a handkerchief as she bemoans the monsters that she had to face in her series.

* In ''[[VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}} SHUFFLE!]]'', a bizarre, unnamed man (known only as the "Handkerchief Man") occasionally makes an appearance in the background doing this after the harem lead narrowly avoids being annihilated by the girls' fan clubs. No other characters notice him until the last episode.

* [[ClingyJealousGirl Yuuki]] does this with a spoon in the first episode of {{Kanamemo}} when she thinks that [[SchoolgirlLesbians her girlfriend]],[[OfficialCouple Yume]] is being too close to some of the other female characters. But Yume notices and swings over to kiss Yuuki, thus deflating any tension before it can really build.

* In ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', Mion did this when she spoke with [[spoiler:her twin sister Shion, admitting her feelings for Keichii and complaining that she couldn't compete with Rena's cuteness]].

* In ''Idaten Jump'', during one of the chibi sequences at the end [[TheSmartGuy Kakeru]] is seen doing this out of frustration for not getting his own Idaten Bike.

* In ''FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'', Luvia does this when explaining how her TalkingWeapon Sapphire abandoned her and made a contract with someone else.

* Both Arumi and her father do it in the "War" episode of ''Anime/AbenobashiMahouShoutengai''.

* Keiko plots to make Megumi bite her handkerchief in ''Manga/TenshiNaKonamaiki''.

Absolutely nothing to do with "[[{{Uke}} biting the pillow]]".

** Done on occasion by the extremely effeminate Professor Chronos De Mediciz/Dr. Vellion Crowler in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''.

* Usagi resorts to this in the image above from the ''[[Manga/SailorMoon Sailor Moon Super S]]'' movie, when engaged in a discussion with Mamoru about his feelings for Chibi-Usa.

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* [[ClingyJealousGirl Kuroko]] [[PsychoLesbian Shirai]] does this in the second seasons of ''ACertainScientificRailgun'' when Saten suggests that the reason she's been gone most nights [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kurokoshiraibroken_6821.jpg is because of a man.]]

* [[ClingyJealousGirl Yuuki]] does this with a spoon in the first episode of {{Kanamemo}} when she thinks that [[SchoolgirlLesbians her girlfriend]],[[OfficialCouple Yume]] is being too close to some of the other female characters. But Yume notices and swings over to kiss Yuuki, thus deflating any tension before it can really build.

Absolutely nothing to do with "biting the pillow", though it may be related to [[ChewingTheScenery another sort of overacting.]]