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* In ''{{Naruto}}'' when [[spoiler: Asuma dies]] it's truly pouring cats and dogs. Yet Shikamaru gives himself away by stressing that smoke is stinging his eyes.

-->'''Minato:''' Dust can't get in your eyes when you're [[GogglesDoNothing wearing goggles]], Obito.

* ''StarWars'': When Talon Kardde learns fellow smuggler captain Shada D'ukal wasn't, in fact, on her ship when it [[HeroicSacrifice self-destructed]] to disable a hostile capital ship.

* In JimButcher's ''DresdenFiles'' novel ''Turn Coat'':
-->''"Ana," he said, almost choking on the words. "You... you think that I... How could you think that I would...?"\\

"Nah, nah. Just got some dust in my eyes."

* Played with at the end of one ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' animated series episode, as K's implied love interest takes off in her ship, leaving Earth for an unknown length of time.
-->'''K''': *puts on sunglasses* Careful, slick, there's dangerous gas fumes around here.\\
'''J''': *solemnly regards K for a moment* Those gas fumes... they really sting the eyes, huh?\\
'''K''': Yeah.

* GrahamMcNeill 's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' ''Literature/{{Ultramarines}}'' novel ''Dead Sky Black Sun'', stripped of his captaincy and exiled from the Chapter world, Uriel washes himself after a bout, and looks in a mirror.

* In the ''CabinPressure'' episode "Boston", the [[AssholeVictim asshole passenger]] Mr. Leeman makes Martin cry when he calls him a "flying cabbie" (as opposed to someone with a real job at a real airline). Martin insists the smoke from Leeman's cigarettes got in his eyes. Douglas, not fooled, sings 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' at him.

* ''BlueBeetle'''s BigGuy pal Paco pulls this in issue #7.

* The Image; [[CerebusTheAardvark Cerebus]] has lost [[spoiler: his position as Prime Minister]] and all his plans have fallen through. He wells up, but vehemently denies crying until he [[TearJerker collapses in the Regency Elf's arms]].

-->--'''Creator/StephenColbert'''

* Hal Holbrook's Oscar-nominated supporting role in ''Into the Wild'' culminates in one of these.

* Eden from ''{{Doomsday}}'' is normally [[TheStoic stoic]], almost to the point of DullSurprise, but when she cries, it's only from one eye. Justified in that her right eye was damaged when she was a child (possibly damaging the tear duct) and she got a new one.
* ''{{Terminator}} 2''. John Conner is talking to the Terminator about his mother Sarah Conner and his father Kyle Reese.
-->John: Mom and him were only together for one night. She still loves him, I guess. I see her crying sometimes. She denies it totally, of course, like she got something stuck in her eye.

* PlayedForLaughs in the 1994 remake of ''AngelsInTheOutfield''. One of the ball players pokes fun at Coach Knox for shedding a tear during the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner" before a game, but Knox shrugs it off as sunscreen getting in his eye.
* In Disney/TheLionKing 1½, cinema!Timon says a variation of this after watching the scene where movie!Timon and movie!Pumbaa stare at each other in a TearJerker (perhaps) scene. It was obvious that cinema!Timon was bursting into tears.
* In ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', after Kida takes Milo to a high place to overlook the whole of Atlantis, Milo sheds a few tears of joy and when Kida asked what's wrong, he just said he had something in his eye.

* In the film adaptation of ''TheBabysittersClub'', Kristy protests to her mother that she's not crying - she's got allergies.

* In ''DeathBecomesHer'', this is Helen's excuse for crying at Ernest's funeral at the end.

--->'''Yui''':'''I'm not crying!'''

* On the first {{ECW}} "One Night Stand", Paul Heyman standing in the ring as the fans chant "Thank You Paul". He insisted that his eyes were red and watery because he'd been sharing a blunt with Rob Van Dam, not because he was crying. Yes, wrestling is scripted, but not everything is. This was not.

** Thus cue-ing a HeWillNotCry,SoICryForHim by the fans for Roy. ManlyTears indeed Roy!!!

* After a poignant scene in {{Castle}} between him and his daughter, who he just dropped off for the first day of college:

* DavidTennant's last [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hSgbmtt-QM video diary]] for ''Series/DoctorWho'' shows him trying to remain composed as he knows he is about to say goodbye to the show's cast and crew, though his voice keeps cracking and he can't stand still. It's rather {{Adorkable}}.

* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'' has [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow]] breaking in tears [[spoiler:after Fluttershy's speech on why she helped her even after all the horrible things she told her in the morning]].

Contrast: ManlyTears, which is admitted; BadDreams, where the hero really can keep it buttoned up ... while awake; TenderTears of exquisite sensibility; [[strike: and WaterWorks, where the tears really are a sign of weakness (though WaterWorks may be invoked by contemptible characters even when it really is SandInMyEyes),]] SingleTear, InelegantBlubbering. Compare TryingNotToCry, OnionTears, which may also be used as an excuse. The literal case of this trope is often preceded by AHandfulForAnEye.

* Inverted in a ''{{Garfield}}'' strip, when Garfield and Jon watch the sunset together:

-->'''Satan''': Right, that's it. I can hear a demon blubbing. Is it you?
-->'''Demon''': No, no, I've just got dust in me eyes.

* At the ending of ''[[{{Uncharted}} Uncharted 2: Among Thieves'']], Nathan Drake claims that the tears he shed [[spoiler: when he thought Elena was dead]] were just the rain.
--> '''Nathan''': "It was raining and you were unconscious."\\
'''[[spoiler:Elena]]''': "It was sunny, and you were bawling. Whatever, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I kept your tears in a jar. I have proof.]]"

* The "Literal Lyrics" version of the infamous trailer for ''DeadIsland'' invokes the Trope.

** Then, in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', when Harry told Dumbledore about Scrimgeour's saying he was "Dumbledore's man through and through" and that he said it was true, Harry looked away until Dumbledore had controlled himself.

* ''SomethingPositive'': When Davan plays a JimHenson memorial song to Jason to prove a point, after Jason made fun of a workmate who played sad songs and cried over them, Davan himself ends up with "some backfired plan in my eye".

* Shining Armor sheds "liquid pride" at [[spoiler: his sister's coronation]] in the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure season 3 finale]] of ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.

* ''FlowersForAlgernon'' combines this with InnocentInaccurate; the mentally disabled Charlie, who's being used as an experimental subject, writes in one of his progress reports about going out drinking with some "friends" of his. It's very clear to Miss Kinnian, his teacher, that these "friends" are actually just taking him with them so that they can make fun of him, and when he tells her that they've never been anything but good to him, "she got something in her eye and she had to run out to the ladys room."