History Main / TearsFromAStone

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

* In Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}: ''Children and Monsters'', Japanese goddess Izanami, who exists as an immobile statue within her realm, is seen to weep one tear after her plan to kill Lucifer costs the lives of two of her children.

* 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 ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', a stone angel cries [[NightmareFuel black tears]] as [[spoiler:Oliver is being corrupted by {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}.]]

* The concept of the album ''Music/DeadWinterDead'' by {{Music/Savatage}} centers around an old Gargoyle looking over the town of Sarajevo for centuries, trying to figure out humans and now watching the devastating Bosnian War. When an old musician, playing Cello in the ruins to keep up a last piece of culture ( based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedran_Smailovic Vedran Smailovic]] ) is finally killed, a single tear drops from the gargoyle's eye.
* A song from the group {{Music/Fiction Junction}}, 'Stone Cold' used as both Opening and Ending song for the anime series ''Anime/SacredSeven'' has lyrics pertaining to this: 'For the sake of a single teardrop/The pebble starts to crack/If I can protect one of your dreams/Then there is probably meaning in getting smashed into bits.' This carries [[DefrostingIceQueen significant meaning]] in the protagonist's [[CharacterDevelopment character development]].

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

Tears from a Stone may have [[SwissArmyTears magical properties]] or be TearsOfBlood. For example, they may break a spell [[ThePowerOfLove in much the same manner as a kiss]]. They may also be used to show that the "stone" is actually a living person who has been TakenForGranite.

* Happened in an episode of ''Series/{{Combat}}'' A soldier had to blow up a cache of art treasures for some reason and saw a trickle of blood running down the face of a statue (from an earlier fight) that matched his own tears at having to destroy such beautiful things.

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 usually just crying.

* Happened in an episode of ''Series/{{Combat}}'' It's too far back for me to remember much, but apparently a soldier had to blow up a cache of art treasures for some reason and saw a trickle of blood running down the face of a statue (from an earlier fight) that matched his own tears at having to destroy such beautiful things.

** In the ''Final'' OVA, [=GaoFighGar=] has a single trail of oil leaking from its eye when Guy [[spoiler:destroys the Fake Mamoru and [=GaoGaiGar=].]]

* In ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'', after 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 usually just crying.

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

* Inverted in an 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.

* 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.

* Happened in an episode of ''Series/{{Combat}}'' It's too far back for me to remember much, but apparently a soldier had to blow up a cache of art treasures for some reason, and saw a trickle of blood running down the face of a statue (from an earlier fight) that matched his own tears at having to destroy such beautiful things.

* In ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' the team fakes a miracle by creating a statue that cries when it's touched by smoke from the candles. However, the statue isn't made of stone and the liquid it produces isn't tears, meaning that when the Vatican investigative team shows up to ascertain the veracity of the miracle, they would be found out almost immediately.

* In the BBC comedy puppet-show-for-adults/sitcom, ''Series/{{Mongrels}}'', a guide dog is blinded and runs away [[spoiler:fearing he will be turned into a collection box for a guide dog charity]]. At the end of the episode the main characters wonder what happened to him and, as the credits roll, the camera pans to a dog-shaped charity collection box that cries a SingleTear. Mostly PlayedForLaughs.
* In the ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' episode "The Miracle of Peckham", the statue of the Virgin Mary in the local Catholic church is seen to cry. Del uses this and his own salesman skills to raise money for the church. [[spoiler: It turns out someone stole all the lead off the roof and the rain's getting in. And Del knew this; his "sense" of when the statue would cry was based on weather forcasts.]]

* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' 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.

* 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.

* In Myth/NorseMythology, when Hel said she would let Baldur come back to life if ''everything'' weeped 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.)

* 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.

* In ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'', the statues of Xolotl gushes out tears when it is reminded of its tragic past, or gameplay-wise, when entering Overdrive during the raid battle.

** Parodied [[RunningGag several times]] in "Lisa's Wedding", as its claimed otherwise RidiculouslyHumanRobot aren't supposed to have emotions, but cry at sentimental events and short themselves out.

* 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 Niigata bishop John Soujirou Ito in 1984, and by the Holy See in 1988).

* In ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4'', after 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.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Poseidon makes a dramatic entrance by transforming one of the stone corpses of Medusa's ancient victims into water, which starts as water dripping from it's eyes and the damaged parts of the stone. When he leaves the corpse turns back to stone.

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* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', a stone angel cries [[NightmareFuel black tears]] as [[spoiler:Oliver is being corrupted by {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}.]]
* In the BBC comedy puppet-show-for-adults/sitcom, Mongrels, a guide dog is blinded and runs away [[spoiler:fearing he will be turned into a collection box for a guide dog charity]]. At the end of the episode the main characters wonder what happened to him and, as the credits roll, the camera pans to a dog-shaped charity collection box that cries a SingleTear. Mostly PlayedForLaughs.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Doomsday", the cyberized Yvonne breaks through her programming and fights off the other Cybermen as they corner the Doctor, constantly repeating, "I did my duty for Queen and country." A drop of oil leaks from one of her eyes.

** 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 ScaryDogmaticAliens shaped like tiny squids inside of mechanical battle suits whose real eyes are nowhere near the eyestalk.
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' has this happen with a TakenForGranite [[spoiler:Alan]] in ''The Eye of the Gorgon''.

* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' 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.
* Deliberately used in ''Series/ThePillarsOfTheEarth''; a mysterious rock is found that appears to weep at night due to some geological quirk. Jack, needing a miracle-performing relic to make his cathedral a success, carves a statue of the Virgin Mary and places the rock behind its eyes, and claims the statue is weeping for the sins of the world, in a not-very-subtle jab at Kingsbridge's various enemies. Naturally, stories quickly spread among the superstitious peasants of the statue healing the sick and performing other miracles.
* Happened in an episode of ''Series/{{Combat}}'' It's too far back for me to remember much, but apparently a soldier had to blow up a cache of art treasures for some reason, and saw a trickle of blood running down the face of a statue (from an earlier fight) that matched his own tears at having to destroy such beautiful things.
* In the ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' episode "The Miracle of Peckham", the statue of the Virgin Mary in the local Catholic church is seen to cry. Del uses this and his own salesman skills to raise money for the church. [[spoiler: It turns out someone stole all the lead off the roof and the rain's getting in. And Del knew this; his "sense" of when the statue would cry was based on weather forcasts.]]

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

* RobotGirl Aigis sheds tears of happiness in a cutscene near the end of ''Persona 3,'' 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.

* ''{{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.

* 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 both [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] and, in a sick way, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] since this is not only one of his most [[TookALevelInBadass badass moments]] but the only time you will see him truly furious at ''anything''.

* Near the end of the end of the 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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* Deliberately used in ThePillarsOfTheEarth; a mysterious rock is found that appears to weep at night due to some geological quirk. Jack, needing a miracle-performing relic to make his cathedral a success, carves a statue of the Virgin Mary and places the rock behind its eyes, and claims the statue is weeping for the sins of the world, in a not-very-subtle jab at Kingsbridge's various enemies. Naturally, stories quickly spread among the superstitious peasants of the statue healing the sick and performing other miracles.

Tears from a Stone may have [[SwissArmyTears magical properties]] or be TearsOfBlood. For example, they may break a spell [[ThePowerOfLove in much the same manner as a kiss]]. May show that the stone is, in fact, TakenForGranite.

* Giving the [[AnimateInanimateObject Plain Doll]] the Hair Ornament in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' causes her to weep TearsOfJoy, which solidify into a Blood Stone that can heal the player. According to the flavor text, this isn't supposed to be possible, and anyone who thinks this is cute rather than horrifying must be out of their mind.

* Giving the [[AnimateInanimateObject Plain Doll]] the Hair Ornament in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' causes her to weep TearsOfJoy, which solidify into a Blood Stone that can heal the player. According to the flavor text, this isn't supposed to be possible.

* When Shachi in ''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.

** In the "[=SpongeBob=] B.C." episode, Squidward chooses between two wooden clubs to carry out with him. When he takes one outside, the one he put down sheds a tear.