History ManlyTears / RealLife

* Creator/BrendanFraser openly wept when ''Film/TheWhale'' received a standing ovation. The same thing happened when he accepted the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActorInALeadingRole Academy Award for Best Actor]] for it.

** He wept after his victory at New Orleans as he recalled the final words of his mother (he'd been orphaned at 14).

** He wept after his victory at New Orleans as he recalled the final words of his mother (Jackson was orphaned at 14).

** After his wife Rachel died, he wept so long and so hard that he lost his voice the next morning. He managed to compose himself
up to her funeral, but upon giving a eulogy, he broke down and wept openly, apologizing to his guests for being "unmanly". After his presidency, he retired to the Hermitage where he'd visit Rachel’s tomb every night at sunset and "water her grave with his tears".

[[folder:Real Life]]

** According to Robert V. Remini, during the vicious mudslinging campaign of 1828, one newspaper stooped so low as to claim Jackson's mother a prostitute. Everyone expected Jackson to fly into a rage, but when he read the passage calling his mother a whore, Jackson wept. On a side note, an equally ridiculous accusation was made about his father being a mulatto; meaning, in a dimension where this claim wasn't BS, Jackson was the actual first black president.

* George Washington took his leave of his officer corps immediately after the Revolutionary War. He asked each and every one of them to take him by the hand as he left. Confronted with the realization that they probably wouldn't see their Commander-In-Chief again, practically nobody in this roomful of badasses was able to keep his composure. ManlyTears everywhere. Washington himself was said to have walked out of the room with tears running down his face.

* [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry]] was noted to be wiping away tears several times during his wedding to Creator/MeghanMarkle, particularly during the singing of his mother's (the late Princess Diana) favorite hymn and according to both an [[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/opinion/meghan-markle-miscarriage.html op-ed]] written by Meghan and a chapter in his memoir ''Spare'', he cried along with her after she miscarried their second child. He was also noted to be apparently wiping away tears at a service for his late grandmother, while his [[UsefulNotes/CharlesIII father]] also shed them upon the singing of the new national anthem --"God Save The King".

* [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry]] was noted to be wiping away tears several times during his wedding to Creator/MeghanMarkle, particularly during the singing of his mother's (the late Princess Diana) favorite hymn and according to both an [[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/opinion/meghan-markle-miscarriage.html op-ed]] written by Meghan and a chapter in his memoir ''Spare'', he cried along with her after she miscarried their second child. He was also noted to be apparently wiping away tears at a service for his late grandmother, while his father also shed them upon the singing of the new national anthem --"God Save The King".

** He tears up considerably when [[https://youtu.be/mIA0W69U2_Yaddressing the nation]] after the Sandy Hook shooting itself, even having to pause for a full ten seconds to compose himself and continue.

* [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry]] was noted to be wiping away tears several times during his wedding to Creator/MeghanMarkle, particularly during the singing of his mother's (the late Princess Diana) favorite hymn and according to both an [[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/opinion/meghan-markle-miscarriage.html op-ed]] written by Meghan, and a chapter in his memoir ''Spare'', he cried along with her after she miscarried their second child. He was also noted to be apparently wiping away tears at a service for his late grandmother, while his father also shed them upon the singing of the new national anthem --"God Save The King".

* [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry]] was noted to be wiping away tears several times during his wedding to Creator/MeghanMarkle, particularly during the singing of his mother's (the late Princess Diana) favorite hymn and according to an [[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/opinion/meghan-markle-miscarriage.html op-ed]] written by Meghan, he cried along with her after she miscarried their second child. He was also noted to be apparently wiping away tears at a service for his late grandmother, while his father also shed them upon the singing of the new national anthem --"God Save The King".

* Creator/BrendanFraser openly wept when ''The Whale'' received a standing ovation.

** He tears up considerably when addressing the nation after the Sandy Hook shooting itself, even having to pause for a full ten seconds to compose himself and continue.

* Leader of the Australian Labor Party Bill Shorten managed to keep his cool during an election period despite fierce competition. During one interview he gave an anecdote of how his deceased mother put her personal ambitions to be a lawyer on hold to raise him. The Daily Telegraph tried to spin this against Shorten by digging up records showing that his mother did in fact become a barrister (albeit in her 50s when Bill Shorten was already an adult). The ensuing press conference showed Bill getting misty-eyed as he [[RelativeButton called out the Daily Telegraph for their attempted smear.]]

* [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry]] was noted to be wiping away tears several times during his wedding to Creator/MeghanMarkle, particularly during the singing of his mother's (the late Princess Diana) favorite hymn and according to an op-ed written by Meghan, he cried along with her after she miscarried their second child. He was also noted to be apparently wiping away tears at a service for his late grandmother, while his father also shed them upon the singing of the new national anthem --"God Save The King".