History Main / TearsFromAStone

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the final scene of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E79FiveCharactersInSearchOfAnExit Five Characters in Search of an Exit]]", [[spoiler:having been revealed to be dolls]], the ballet dancer cries as she moves her hand towards the major.

* ''Manga/GiantRobo'' is another, crying a huge torrent of tears when it's almost destroyed by the Monster Sphere.

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* In ''[[Series/{{Kikaider}} Android Kikaider: the Animation]]'', Jiro (the titular android) can be seen shedding copious amounts of tears, despite the fact that robots obviously do not have tear ducts. [[spoiler:Arguably a justified situation; not only is Jiro in possession of a [[RestrainingBolt conscience circuit]] which blesses him with a full spectrum of human emotion, but he now has to stand on the sidelines while his LoveInterest is being traumatized for life by her MissingMom. Turns out Mom was a DeepCoverAgent working for BigBad Professor Gil, and only married Mitsuko's father in order to keep an eye on him and his robotics research. Mitsuko and her kid brother, Masaru, were just part of her cover. And if that wasn't bad enough, Gil has now given Mom orders to gun Mitsuko down before Jiro's very eyes. The experience of Mom holding a gun to her head is enough to give Mitsuko the [[HeroicBSOD Blue Screen of Death]]. It's when she softly whispers, "Please, Mother. Kill me," that Jiro's hurricane of emotions find their conduit.]]

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* In ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'', after [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} Meggy]] is transformed into an immobile T-posing zombie, Tari tries to help her regain her senses, but to no avail she can only hug Meggy's motionless body, not noticing that Meggy has a tear streaming down from her eye.
* Near the end of ''WebAnimation/LadyLumpsVSBoyBumps'' video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ennbJY9FqhQ Dr. Doom Likes to Watch]], a single drop of rain mimics a tear sliding down Doctor Doom's mask as he mourns the loss of [[spoiler:his hover chair, Doom Chair.]]
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* In ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'', after [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} Meggy]] is transformed into an immobile T-posing zombie, Tari tries to help her regain her senses, but to no avail she can only hug Meggy's motionless body, not noticing that Meggy has a tear streaming down from her eye.

To count as Tears from a Stone, the tears should be [[SingleTear one]] or a few and should be viewed as surprising or miraculous and played for pathos. Crying from [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots anthropomorphic robots]] or magical creatures, for example, is [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs usually just crying]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Goldie, the malfunctioning Gold Rush themed novelty dispenser that Stan keeps in the Mystery Shack, drips a SingleTear of oil when Stan decides to throw him away. Given [[WeirdnessMagnet the nature of Gravity Falls]], Goldie [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not be alive]].

* The statue at the Fairy Queen's shrine in ''Literature/Fablehaven'' when [spoiler:Kendra begs for help rescuing her grandparents and brother and saving Fablehaven from the imminent release of Bahumat. These tears are then incorporated into the elixir which empowers the fairies to mount the rescue and leads to Kendra becoming fairykind.]

* In the original Japanese version of ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'', Pegas (Teknobot) made a HeroicSacrifice in the final episode, and shed a single oil tear. The UK dub included this, but the US dub removed it for some reason.
* In one emotional scene in ''Manga/OnePiece,'' the figurehead of the main characters' ship is splashed by a wave and appears to be crying along with its crew.
** There's also Brook. A living skeleton who outright stated he could not cry, bursts into tears upon learning his crew's beloved TeamPet was still waiting for their return. WordOfGod (who in this case has a track record of [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum not always answering with total seriousness]]) {{Handwave}}s it by saying "Because even when his tears of sadness dry... his tears of joy can still flow."
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'' was the first HumongousMecha example.

* Similarly, the eponymous mecha of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' appears to be crying as rain splashes down its face when [[spoiler: Kamina dies.]]

** It happens again later [[spoiler: when Chachamaru begins to doubt that she has a soul. Negi points out that even though the tears themselves are actually oil, they're still real tears, as it's evidence of her emotion. The chemical makeup thereof is not important.]]
* In ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', [[spoiler: when Domon tells the [[TakenForGranite frozen in DG Cells Rain]] that [[TearJerker her father died]] through an HeroicSacrifice, Rain's metallic face is shown and she cries a single tear]].
* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE'', Kio's [=AGE-3=] Gundam emits a spray of lights from his eyes as he cries in the cockpit over the death of [[spoiler:Lu Anon]].
* Happens again in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans''. When [[spoiler:Biscuit Griffon]] is killed, Mika's Gundam Barbatos appears to have tears on its face--it's really water that's sprayed up from the ocean, as they're battling on the beach, but it's perfectly timed. It happens again when Mika is about to [[spoiler:execute Carta Issue, the person who killed Biscuit]], whether it's BerserkerTears from Mika or Barbatos feeling sad is another question.
* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico: [[TheMovie The Prince of Darkness]]'', Akito's (non-anthropomorphic) HumongousMecha cries "tears" of oil after he [[spoiler:kills BigBad Hokushin, who is indirectly responsible for destroying Akito's senses and abducting his wife Yurika.]]
* In one episode of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', Yin, a "Doll" supposedly incapable of emotions, cries. This [[spoiler: saves her life as a mafia hitman is unable to kill her because he doesn't know how to respond, having thought of her as less than human up to that point.]]

* In ''[[Series/{{Kikaider}} Android Kikaider: the Animation]]'', Jiro (the titular android) can be seen shedding copious amounts of tears, despite the fact that robots obviously do not have tear ducts. [[spoiler: Arguably a justified situation; not only is Jiro in possession of a [[RestrainingBolt conscience circuit]] which blesses him with a full spectrum of human emotion, but he now has to stand on the sidelines while his LoveInterest is being traumatized for life by her MissingMom. Turns out Mom was a DeepCoverAgent working for BigBad Professor Gil, and only married Mitsuko's father in order to keep an eye on him and his robotics research. Mitsuko and her kid brother, Masaru, were just part of her cover. And if that wasn't bad enough, Gil has now given Mom orders to gun Mitsuko down before Jiro's very eyes. The experience of Mom holding a gun to her head is enough to give Mitsuko the [[HeroicBSOD Blue Screen of Death]]. It's when she softly whispers, "Please, Mother. Kill me," that Jiro's hurricane of emotions find their conduit.]]
* [[spoiler:Emerl]] in ''Anime/SonicX'' does this after [[spoiler: seeing his unwilling destroyer, Cream, crying over the Old Yeller-like moment.]]
* ''Anime/AstroBoy'' cries a few times, despite being a robot. Possibly justified, considering he was originally a ReplacementGoldfish of a real kid.
* In the last ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' OVA when Akane has been turned into a doll, she magically cries as Ranma, while holding her, actually says she's cute (in a tomboy sort of way of course). One of the most touching moments in the whole series, actually.
* Mic Sounders XIII of ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' sheds a few [[SparklingStreamOfTears tears]] after he helplessly watches [[spoiler: eleven of his brothers get disintegrated and twelfth die in his arms]]. This is not only one of his most [[TookALevelInBadass badass moments]] but the only time you will see him truly furious at ''anything''.
** In the ''Anime/GaoGaiGarFINAL'' OVA, [=GaoFighGar=] has a single trail of oil leaking from its eye when Guy [[spoiler:destroys the Fake Mamoru and [=GaoGaiGar=].]]
* The MadArtist teacher from ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' is a gorgon and likes to turn people to stone for her collection. Her victims are still aware and clue Tsukune in to what is going on by crying.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' had two especially indirect examples when [[spoiler:Haku and Zabuza]], both rendered emotionless thanks to [[spoiler:the technique that brought them back to life as {{Revenant Zombie}}s]], had [[TearsOfBlood blood]] on a sword dripping off into one's eye and running down the ''reflection'' of the other's face.
* In ''Manga/ElfenLied'', just before the scene when Lucy confronts Kouta about her guilt over [[spoiler:murdering his family]], a raindrop symbolically runs from the eye of a jizu statue, looking remarkably like a tear.
* When Shachi in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is defeated inside Taiseiden, Hokuto Soukei's symbol statue in the center of it all sheds tears to allow him to fight once more.
* Alphonse in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' can't cry, being AnimatedArmor, but rain substitutes.

* The second chapter of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' opens with a shot of a rain-pelted statue of Justice, with one of the drops flowing down her cheek like a tear.
* Inverted in homage to Norse myth in an early [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] issue of ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'', Loki's first appearance in Marvel Comics. Loki is fated to remain [[TakenForGranite imprisoned in a tree trunk]] until his plight causes someone to shed a tear. The people of Asgard are perfectly capable of crying--just not for Loki. However, Loki's long imprisonment eventually allows him to take control of the tree and make it drop a leaf into Heimdall's eye, causing him to shed a tear.

* Dreamwave's ''ComicBook/TransformersGenerationOne'' #12 has cover art of a grieving Optimus Prime going through a complete emotional breakdown while leaking tears of optic fluid down his face plate, [[PietaPlagiarism holding the lifeless body of his beloved mate Elita One]].

* In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy,'' Abe speculates that he doesn't even have tear ducts. When [[spoiler: Princess Nuala dies,]] you guessed it: a single tear.
* A cutaway shot in ''Film/TheEndOfStPetersburg'' shows a crying statue: a metaphor for the suffering of the city.

* At the end of ''Film/BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes'', after [[spoiler:it is revealed that apes and humans are coexisting together peacefully]], the final shot of the film shows a statue of the ape Caesar, which is crying as the film closes.
* In ''Film/GodsAndGenerals'', General "Stonewall" Jackson breaks down into ManlyTears upon being informed of [[spoiler: the death of the child Jane Corbin from scarlet fever]]. A watching officer remarks in surprise that he has never previously cried after the deaths of any of his comrades or men. Another suggests that he is "crying for them all".

* The MadArtist teacher from ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' is a gorgon and likes to turn people to stone for her collection. Her victims are still aware and clue Tsukune in to what is going on by crying.

* OlderThanFeudalism: There's a [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek myth]] about a rock/statue that cried: Queen Niobe tried to outlaw worship of the goddess Leto, bragging that she had borne fourteen children while Leto had only two. Unfortunately, those two, Apollo and Artemis, [[DisproportionateRetribution killed all of Niobe's children]] [[RevengeByProxy as punishment]], and Niobe stood weeping for them so long that she turned to stone, tears still pouring down her face.
* Also from Greek mythology: After Orpheus [[DontLookBack looked back]] in the underworld and lost his wife Eurydice for the second time, he wandered around for a while playing such sad songs on his lyre that even the rocks and trees wept for him.
* In Myth/NorseMythology, when Hel said she would let Baldur come back to life if ''everything'' wept for him, the very stones wept. (Loki, however, didn't. He's an asshole like that. And he was the one who killed him in the first place.)

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' the party finds Red XIII's petrified father, and Red XIII realizes that his father sacrificed himself to save the village, instead of running off like he'd thought all this time. After Red XIII pays his respects and the party heads off, a single tear emerges from the eye of the petrified Seto. It's sad at the moment, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation but when]] [[MST3KMantra you think about]] [[AndIMustScream it...]]
** And in ''Dirge of Cerberus'', when [[spoiler: Lucrecia sheds a tear within her crystallized stasis for Vincent]], as a final testimony to the end of her tragic life.

* RobotGirl Aigis sheds tears of happiness in a cutscene near the end of ''VideoGame/Persona3'' when the main character [[spoiler:returns from the realm of Nyx, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Death, after performing a [[TimeDelayedDeath Time Delayed]] HeroicSacrifice to seal Nyx away from humanity]]. Then, at the very end, she cries again when [[spoiler:his aforementioned death actually occurs]]. One of the player's last actions in the game is the option to wipe her tears away.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' - Not sure if this qualifies, but as Serah Farron is turned into a crystal, she weeps a single tear for her fiancé and sister.

* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVI'', Prince Alexander faces Death himself and challenges him in order to resurrect the king and queen. The challenge? Make Death cry. Alex then shows him [[spoiler:a MagicMirror which reveals Death's horrific painful past]], which shocks him so much that he sheds a single tear.

* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''
** A statue of the Virgin Mary [[TearsOfBlood weeps red]] in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLegacyOfDarkness''.
** Similarly, one mission in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' is to find a weeping statue. It's in the Nation of Fools, and when you examine it, it weeps blood.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', the moon that's cursed to crash into Termina cries shining blue stones known as Moon's Tears.
* Giving the [[AnimateInanimateObject Plain Doll]] the Hair Ornament in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' causes her to weep TearsOfJoy, which solidify into a Blood Gem that grants a small amount of health regen to the player when equipped. The description straight-up says that it should be impossible for a doll to cry actual tears, and anyone who thinks this is cute rather than horrifying must be out of their mind.
* One of the {{Jump Scare}}s in ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival]]'' has an angel statue crying thick, black tears.
* Knucklotec, the giant Olmec head statue boss in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', sheds some tears upon defeat, right before exploding.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'', the statue of Saint Veronica in front of the Bareahard Cathedral starts crying black tears, which is said to be a sign of a crisis in the world. While perhaps true, the immediate cause is a monster in the Bareahard Waterway, which polluted the fountain's water so that it melted the statue's material, thus making it look like it's crying.
* The [[MonsterShapedMountain giant/mountain]] in the third ''VideoGame/{{Drawn}}'' game weeps a small ''waterfall'' of tears. Justified because it's both animate and the product of a child's imagination.