History Main / TearsFromAStone

* During the Angel War from the {{Literature/Nightside}} series, one indicator of the presence of angels from Above and Below was a rash of statues crying, bleeding, and/or soiling themselves.
* In the spanish art book/story 'Favole' by Victoria Francés, one of the small stories involves a woman falling in love with a statue of an angel. When she dies, the illustration of the statue shows it with tears. Whether the statue was actually sentient or not is up to the reader.
* Oscar Wilde's short story 'The Happy Prince' features the titular character, a golden statue standing above the city, weeping for the plight of his poor citizens.

* Father Saryon from {{The Darksword Trilogy}}, as a living statue, can and does, weep.

* ''{{Naruto}}'' had two especially indirect examples when [[spoiler:Haku and Zabuza]], both rendered emotionless thanks to ninja stilled TrainingFromHell that forced them suppress emotions, had [[TearsOfBlood blood]] on a sword dripping off into one's eye and running down the ''reflection'' of the other's face.

* One of the [[JumpScare Jump Scares]] in ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival]] has an angel statue crying thick, black tears.

* The Catholic Church has, among its various oddities, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping_statue statues and paintings--typically of the Virgin Mother--that are said to cry tears and other substances]]. Possibly related to the Greek thing above. The Church itself tends to be ''very'' cautious on the matter, however, and has disscarded 99% of the reports; the exceptions include a weeping statue from Syracuse, Italy (approved by local bishops in 1953) and the wooden statue from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Akita Our Lady of Akita apparitions]] (approved by the local bishop in 1984 and by the Holy See in 1988).

* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', we see a petrified [[spoiler:Mystique]] seem to shed a tear at one point -- or was it just condensation? Subverted in a later episode when [[spoiler:it turns out that the real Mystique is still alive and the statue was just a statue all along]].

* The Catholic Church has, among its various oddities, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping_statue statues and paintings--typically of the Virgin Mother--that are said to cry tears and other substances]]. Possibly related to the Greek thing above.

* The Catholic Church has, among its various oddities, statues and paintings--typically of the Virgin Mother--that are said to cry tears and other substances. Possibly related to the Greek thing above.

* 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..

* 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.

* In ''XMenEvolution'', we see a petrified [[spoiler:Mystique]] seem to shed a tear at one point -- or was it just condensation? Subverted in a later episode when [[spoiler:it turns out that the real Mystique is still alive and the statue was just a statue all along]].

* Dreamwave's ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' #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]].

* The ''TransformersAnimated'' episode "Along Came A Spider" ended with Blackarachnia crying. Justified, since Blackarachnia is part organic.
* ''GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'' has Aya, a robot, shed a tear at one point. Her body is a collection of smaller drones held together by wires and Green Lantern energy, making it impossible for her to cry in such a manner.

* The MadArtist teacher from ''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.

* Red Tornado sheds a single tear in a ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode. His episodes are huge {{tearjerker}}s though, so you can't blame him.

* The Catholic Church has, among its various oddities, statues and paintings -typically of the Virgin Mother- that are said to cry tears and other substances. Possibly related to the Greek thing above.

* During the Angel War from the {{Nightside}} series, one indicator of the presence of angels from Above and Below was a rash of statues crying, bleeding, and/or soiling themselves.

* In ''ComicBook/TheAvengers #58'' we see TheVision, an artificial being who overcame his destructive programming and saved the Avengers, shed a single tear when asked to join the team. Even the title of the issue recognizes this trope: "Even an Android Can Cry."

* In an animated version of ''[[{{Narnia}} The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'' a petrified Mr. Tumnus sheds a single tear.

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

* ''ShamanKing'' had a "crying sword" in a museum - it turned out the tears were coming from the ghost of its smith, who failed to save his best friend with it.

* In ''[[{{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 ''SonicX'' does this after [[spoiler: seeing his unwilling destroyer, Cream, crying over the Old Yeller-like moment.]]

* RobotGirl Chachamaru of ''MahouSenseiNegima'' once cried after a major breech of her privacy ForScience. It was just lens-cleaning fluid, but tears nonetheless.

* In ''Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles'' episode "Allison From Palmdale" a particularly powerful moment comes when [[RobotGirl Cameron]] undergoes a breakdown while in the "Allison" persona, and actually starts crying. This is especially hard-hitting, because earlier terminator models like the T-800 ''can't'' shed tears.

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

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** In the Series 9 finale, Hell Bent, a Dalek trapped in what is essentially a Time Lord graveyard was shown with liquid coming out of the eyestalk as it begged for death. For context, Daleks are ScaryDogmaticAlien cyborg squids inside of mechanical battle suits whose real eyes are nowhere near the eyestalk.

* In the SpongeBobSquarePants movie, Mr. Krabs sheds a tear while frozen solid after Plankton manages to steal his secret formula.