Line #360 Main/ManlyTears


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2	[[caption-width-right:224:Who says MenDontCry?]]
3
4	->''"Are you surprised at my tears, sir? Strong men also cry. Strong men ... also cry."''
5	-->-- ''Film/TheBigLebowski''
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9	Crying is a very powerful expression of human emotion. But not all cultures and times understand the symbolism of crying in the same way. Particularly variable is the degree to which this symbolism has been gendered over the centuries.
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11	[[MenDontCry Boys don't cry]]. It doesn't matter the circumstances; shedding any tears is the ultimate no-no in terms of what you can and can't do as a man. ''But sometimes''... sometimes... sometimes there comes a time when a man's emotions deny any other form of expression, and they pour forth--prerequisite impassioned speech may or may not be present--by cascading down his cheeks. And crying does NOT make him any less badass in the eyes of the audience, but in fact [[RealMenWearPink may even reinforce this status]]. In other words, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Manly Man-Tears Of Manliness.]]
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13	Common cases of this are:
14	* [[DeathIsDramatic Loss of a significant other]] - child, LoveInterest, sibling, beloved pet, friend, comrade in arms, [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas parent]], OldMaster, AntagonistInMourning, you name it.
15	* [[TearsOfJoy Pride or joy]] [[SoProudOfYou for a significant other]] - child, LoveInterest, sibling, etc. (as above)
16	* Patriotic pride, especially if he's military (current or retired) and/or his country's anthem is playing.
17	* [[TearsOfAwe Seeing something beautiful]] like a finely crafted weapon, or [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome a wild and beautiful landscape]]. (This can overlap with patriotic pride if the beautiful sight is in/from his home country.)
18	* Intense gratitude for a significant service or favor, especially if it involves someone [[IOweYouMyLife saving his life]] or the life of his aforementioned significant other.
19	* An encounter with the divine, especially if he's religious and has received a blessing from his god(s).
20	* A particularly well-executed RousingSpeech, especially the one right before the FinalBattle or BigGame.
21	* Sympathizing with someone's (or some group's) plight.
22	* Reaching an important goal in one's life, ''especially'' if TheHero is HotBlooded. (Vowing to achieve said goal also works.)
23	* Having a father-figure finally say, "[[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done, Son.]]"
24	* Any case of HeroicSacrifice.
25	* [[BerserkerTears All-consuming rage]].
26	* ValuesDissonance - for the movies set in some very different historical or cultural context (even in Europe, it was actually common and even expected for men to cry on certain occasions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages).
27	* Basically any time a badass is overwhelmed with emotion.
28
29	The common thread here is that Manly Tears are ''justified'' and ''dignified''. Crying for no (good) reason doesn't count, nor does crying out of frustration or over wounded pride. Pain is out too, for no matter how bone-shattering the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating]] or how excruciating the [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] TheHero will never give their tormenter the satisfaction of MANPAIN TEARS[[note]] this being where BerserkerTears come in handy, as per the "don't get scared, get angry" maxim[[/note]]. [[TearsOfFear Crying in fear is also out, for the same reasons]]. On the "dignity" side, however justified they might be, InelegantBlubbering generally doesn't qualify as Manly Tears because of their lesser/non-existent dignity- though depending on the situation and the person, the two can overlap on ''very'' rare occasions: There [[MoreExpendableThanYou are]] [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim some]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone things]] [[AlasPoorVillain which]] can move even the most stoic Badass to openly weep.
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31	This can also be a common audience response to [[TearJerker particularly emotional moments]] in the more HotBlooded shows. In this case, it often overlaps with TearsOfJoy.
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33	If the character is particularly sensitive and so is often moved deeply, see TenderTears or EmotionalBruiser.
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35	Manly Tears may swiftly change into BerserkerTears if the one who caused the hero's suffering is here.
36
37	Sometimes the tears may be TearsOfJoy, and paired with the FistPump.
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39	Contemptible characters may attempt to characterize these tears as water works; the effect is to make them even more contemptible. The crying character may also apologize for them as a sign of weakness. True friends will probably reassure them ItsOkayToCry.
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41	Contrast SandInMyEyes, where the man denies to the end that he is crying. See also NotSoStoic, SorrowfulStutter, and BreakTheBadass. May be in the form of a SingleTear (which generally makes it ''even manlier'').
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43	Since there is no separate trope covering works from cultures where crying is actively expected as a part of masculinity, or no big deal, examples of that are included here. But in such cultures the message of the symbolism is not "he's crying because it's so extreme that even a normally unemotional man would cry", but rather "he's crying because a display of authentic emotion is what is expected of a man in these circumstances".
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45	The phrase "manly tears" originates from {{Anime}} fandom. ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is the TropeCodifier, due to how the hyper-masculine macho badass Kenshiro is not afraid of shedding tears. ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is arguably the TropeNamer, as it was the Gurren Lagann fanbase that coined the phrase "manly tears".
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48	!!Examples:
49	[[index]]
50	* ManlyTears/AnimeAndManga
51	* ManlyTears/ComicBooks
52	* ManlyTears/FanWorks
53	* [[ManlyTears/LiveActionFilms Film — Live-Action]]
54	* ManlyTears/{{Literature}}
55	* ManlyTears/LiveActionTV
56	* ManlyTears/{{Music}}
57	* ManlyTears/{{Sports}}
58	* ManlyTears/VideoGames
59	* ManlyTears/WesternAnimation
60	* ManlyTears/RealLife
61	[[/index]]
62	[[foldercontrol]]
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64	[[folder:Advertising]]
65	* An American anti-littering ad featured a (fake) Native American viewing the littered landscape and finally [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM a single tear escapes him.]] Thus creating the trope CryingIndian. (In a follow-up ad, the Indian rides with a big smile through towns where people are cleaning up.)
66	* An Australian ad for KFC has a crowd of men screaming like fangirls for the new product, and one of the men played by a Mauri footballer is shown sobbing very, very manly tears.
67	[[/folder]]
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69	[[folder:Film — Animated]]
70	* Charlie Barkin, a large, masculine dog, sheds a manly tear at the end of ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven''. As does his friend earlier on.
71	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'', after Balto falls off a cliff along with the crate of diphtheria antitoxin needed to save the sick children of Nome, he reaches his DespairEventHorizon, covers his face with his paws, and sobs softly. Fortunately, just then, his white wolf spirit guide appears and inspires him [[HeroicSecondWind not to give up.]]
72	* Earl Devereaux subverts the trope in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' and plays it straight in the second movie. He orders a tear back into his tear duct after first seeing the food animals. But at the end, he allows it to fall, whereupon it somehow manages to make a blueberry grow chest hair.
73	* ''WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman'' sees Jonathan Kent, Bibbo Bibboski, [[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen Jimmy Olsen]], and one of Superman's pallbearers cry as a reaction to the titular event.
74	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'': Dumbo's feisty mentor/caretaker Timothy Q. Mouse occasionally cries a little. For instance, he sheds a single tear as Mrs. Jumbo sings "Baby Mine" to her son, knowing that it is time for them to leave, and again while giving the crows a speech about what happened to Dumbo. Jim Crow and his brothers do this during Timothy's speech too.
75	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'':
76	** Bartholomew sheds tears and sobs like a baby while Ratigan talks about his history with Basil during "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind" number.
77	** One of Ratigan's thugs also sheds a tear after Bartholomew is eaten by Felicia.
78	** Dawson starts to cry after [[spoiler: Olivia gets kidnapped.]]
79	** Occurs near the end of the movie with Basil himself after Olivia goes back to Scotland, even though tears are not visible. He's obviously TryingNotToCry after their goodbye.
80	* ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}'' and Phil cry Manly Tears over Meg's DisneyDeath. Phil also sheds a [[TearsofJoy Tear of Joy]] in the movie's finale when Zeus creates a constellation of Hercules.
81	-->"That's Phil's boy!"
82	* Quasimodo has a few crying scenes in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}'', most memorably when he [[AllLoveIsUnrequited sees Esmeralda and Phoebus kissing]] and at Esmeralda's DisneyDeath. Some people might argue that these are TenderTears, since Quasimodo is generally a sweet, gentle character, but since the climactic battle proves that he can be a true badass, they qualify as Manly too.
83	* Occurs at the ending of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' with Yao, after he and his friends hug Mulan goodbye.
84	* Moses in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', at the deaths of all the firstborn Egyptian sons. After Rameses finally grants the Hebrews permission to leave (while mourning over his own son's body), as Moses walks back to the Hebrew dwellings amid the echoing sound of bereaved mothers' cries, he is overcome with grief and collapses against a wall, sobbing.
85	* ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'': [[HandicappedBadass Garrett]] sheds a tear during the reprise of "I Stand Alone" as he leaves Kayley.
86	* In ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'', Little John is a [[TheBigGuy big]], tough LovableRogue of a bear, but all the same, his eyes fill with tears when he [[DisneyDeath briefly thinks]] his best friend Robin Hood is dead.
87	* ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'': when [[spoiler: Mok finally raises the demon and]] [[MinionWithAnFInEvil innocent]] hench-man Zip takes a mortal hit for the hero, his villainous [[TheDragon brother]] can only tearfully ask him why he did it.
88	* The chivalrous Sir 1036 in ''WesternAnimation/RudolphsShinyNewYear'' is seen shedding tears when he and the other archipelago representatives begin to lose hope that they'll be able to bring back the Baby New Year in time.
89	* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', when Shrek was in the alternate reality, he convinces Donkey that he knows him, but it didn't do very well, Donkey freaked out and ran away, then Shrek saw one of the triplets' doll, then Shrek sheds a manly tear and he knew that they're not there at all. That is the first time we ever see Shrek cry.
90	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'': Averted in the first film, where Derek grieves at Odette's DisneyDeath without tears, but played straight in the third film, ''The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom'', when Odette suffers a second DisneyDeath. Derek's first reaction is UnstoppableRage, smashing stalactites and stalagmites with his sword until it shatters, but then he collapses, weeping uncontrollably.
91	* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': All seven dwarfs cry over Snow White's DisneyDeath. That includes Grumpy, who lead the attempt to rescue Snow White and therefore is easily the manliest of them. This scene may also have invoked a meta example of this trope at its first showing; after months prior to the release of people calling the movie "Disney's Folly," saying that an hour and a half of color/animation would drive people mad, etc., a bunch of grown celebrities, men as well as women, burst into tears over the sight of a dead cartoon character. Animator Ward Kimbal sat behind Creator/ClarkGable and couldn't help but notice him using a handkerchief during that scene.
92	* Miles Morales and his father Jefferson shred some tears ([[spoiler:namely over the death of their uncle/brother Aaron aka The Prowler]]) in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse''.
93	** It’s PlayedForLaughs but Adult Spider-Man crying in the shower (in full costume) after getting divorced from MJ is still pretty sad.
94	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Robaire sheds a SingleTear while [[spoiler:singing to help Mei's family.]]
95	[[/folder]]
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97	[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
98	* ''Literature/TheBible'':
99	** ''UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} wept.'' - [[Literature/TheFourGospels John 11:35]], the shortest passage in The Bible. He weeps out of compassion for the grieving sisters and friends of the dead Lazarus, whom he proceeds to bring back to life.
100	** Similarly, after Jesus' prediction that Peter would deny Him three times comes true, Peter weeps bitterly.
101	** Throughout the Hebrew Bible there are many examples of strong men weeping. Joseph, son of Jacob, repeatedly breaks down in tears throughout the later part of his story, as he reunites with his family and reconciles with the brothers who sold him into slavery.
102	* Occurs many times in Creator/{{Homer}}'s ''Literature/TheIliad''. Particularly between Achilles and King Priam when Priam [[spoiler:begs Achilles to return the body of his son Hector for burial. Priam's passion moves Achilles who begins thinking about his lost friend Patroclus; and the two men weep together over their loss]]. One of the finest examples of enemies united in grief in the history of literature.
103	* ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' consists of Odysseus crying on a rock, Odysseus defeating sea monsters, Odysseus crying on a rock, Odysseus defying Poseidon, Odysseus crying on a rock...
104	** To say nothing of Odysseus's reunion with [[spoiler:his son Telemachus]]. Many tears are shed on both sides.
105	* ''Literature/TheShahnameh'' has many examples. Most prominent would be Rostam, the manliest character in the entire book, bitterly crying when he realizes he's just killed his own son.
106	** Goodarz kills his long time rival and counterpart Piran, then sheds tears for him.
107	* In Creator/{{Virgil}}'s ''Literature/TheAeneid'', Aeneas and indeed many other heroic characters break down and cry on several occasions. This is further expanded upon in the notes, where it says that it was not prohibited for a Roman man to cry under extreme duress.
108	* In ''Myth/ClassicalMythology'', Orpheus was able to make TheStoic Hades shed "iron tears" by playing his lyre to appeal the return of his lost beloved.
109	* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', Dante sheds tears over the suffering of the damned, over losing Virgil, and over Beatrice's condemnation of him.
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112	[[folder:Poetry]]
113	* Les Murray's poem "[[http://www.lesmurray.org/pm_aor.htm An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow]]" is about a man who weeps "like a man" and a crowd who surrounds him in wonderment.
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116	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
117	* Wrestling/RicFlair cried during his final match with Wrestling/{{WWE}}, cried at his Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and cried during his farewell speech.
118	** Ric's final match at Wrestling/WrestleMania 24 was so {{tear jerk\|er}}ing, his ''opponent'' cried. Then again, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels is one of Ric's [[IntergenerationalFriendship closest friends]] and called it an honor to wrestle Ric in his final match with WWE.
119	* Wrestling/ShawnMichaels repeated the Flair farewell experience two years later, after being beaten by Wrestling/TheUndertaker at Wrestling/WrestleMania 26. He shed tears after the match and the next night on Raw. Wrestling/TripleH got in on the ManlyTears at the close of the show when he came out to hug Shawn.
120	* Speaking of Wrestling/TripleH, we see this fully when he beat Wrestling/TheUndertaker in 2018. A Mixture of Kayfabe & reality. He tearfully hugs Shawn before dropping to his knees and laying his head on the mat with Shawn there rooting for him. He composes himself and goes to help up Taker but the latter hesitated taking his hand. Triple H seems to lose his composure again as he kneels down with a HeadbuttOfLove and says something to his Kayfabe rival and real-life friend. After Taker takes his hand, Triple H helps him up & hugs him, still looking very tearful. [[note]] When he was still undefeated at Wrestlemania it was said Undertaker himself was ready to end the streak but Shawn & Triple H had too much admiration for him and refused to do so. Their match in 2018 was advertised to be their last one ever which everything would ride on, and Hunter beat him. While his crying made sense in Kayfabe given the characters' history, it probably wasn't planned so much as genuine emotion he was feeling at his final match with a longtime friend & idol.[[/note]]
121	* Wrestling/PaulHeyman at ''Wrestling/{{ECW}} One Night Stand 2005'', though he insisted that the reason his eyes were red and watery was because [[SandInMyEyes he was smoking a joint with]] Wrestling/RobVanDam.
122	** Paul also mentioned in the ''Rise and Fall of ECW'' that ''everybody'' cried after ECW finished their first pay-per-view, ''Barely Legal''.
123	* Despite trashing the Wrestling/RingOfHonor fans, after wrestling what was thought to be his last match with the company, a two out of three falls match with Wrestling/ColtCabana, it was obvious Wrestling/CMPunk was crying. It would happened again, him being overwhelmed by the positive fan support his debut match with the revived ECW brand received, cried while celebrating his win. He thanked the fans for their support during a taped segment the next week.
124	* Wrestling/HulkHogan, during the in-ring eulogy he gave for Wrestling/GeneOkerlund started tearing up, so he put his sunglasses back on to cover them.
125	* After his retirement match against Triple H, Wrestling/MickFoley seemed to get emotional.
126	* Whenever somebody wins a championship for the first time, expect this to happen. Wrestling/RandyOrton, Shawn Michaels, Wrestling/BethPhoenix, Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart, Wrestling/TheMiz are famous examples and tend to be heartwarming moments, even if they happen to be {{heel}}.
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129	[[folder:Theatre]]
130	* Cyrano insists in Act I of ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'' that he never cries, but in Act IV, Christian notices a tear drop on his most recent love letter to Roxane.
131	* Creator/WilliamShakespeare's heroes, when they cry, always apologize for the way their emotions overcame them. (To be sure, the character does have to ''say'' something to let the watchers know he's supposed to be crying.) One of the better-known (if not well-known) of these is the scene in ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' where [=MacDuff=] receives the news of his wife's murder. From one man to another:
132	-->"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak\
133	Whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break."
134	** In ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', Don Leonato expresses grief over his daughter Hero being the victim of Don John's slanders (which he at one point believed and attacked Hero over):
135	--->"I pray thee peace, I will be flesh and blood;\
136	For there was never yet philosopher\
137	That could endure the toothache patiently."
138	* Marius sometimes has these as Eponine dies in his arms during ''Theatre/LesMiserables''.
139	* The stage directions of ''Theatre/MissSaigon'' call for Chris to sob when Kim dies in his arms, though whether he actually does it or just lets out a BigNo depends on the actor.
140	* Of course, the Phantom lets loose with these at the ending of ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
141	* In the stage version of Disney's ''Theatre/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', not only does Quasimodo have his crying scenes as in the film, but in the final scene, the even manlier Phoebus also cries over the body of Esmeralda, who unlike in the film is KilledOffForReal.
142	* This is OlderThanTheyThink: the 3rd century AD Sanskrit play "Swapnavasavadatta" by Bhasa includes a scene where a king is reminded of his dead wife and starts crying - only to be interrupted by his new wife (who he has married for political reasons), so that he has to pretend that [[SandInMyEyes he was having an allergic reaction to pollen grains]].
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146	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
147	* In ''{{TabletopGame/Rifts}}'', the first ''Siege on Tolkeen'' book contains an excerpt from a speech by Joseph Prosek I, where he announces the formation of the [[TheEmpire Coalition States]]. At the end he asks the audience to forgive "an old man's tears" at this momentous occasion.
148	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Whenever a renowned or respected hero of the Imperium dies, the Bell of Lost Souls is rung in their memory. According to legend, the Emperor of Mankind sheds a single tear each time it tolls, despite the fact that he is a withered, mummified husk on life support.
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151	[[folder:Webcomics]]
152	* The obligatory ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/495 example.]] Also, the commander was once [[spoiler:falsely]] told all of his siblings were dead......[[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/but-mental-illness-is-so-cool-and-enviable and he openly starts weeping just like anyone would after being told their whole family had died.]]
153	* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0084.html here]] -- after an HonourBeforeReason parting.
154	** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0445.html By an opponent, and by Elan]],
155	** And again after an afterlife meeting [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0496.html here]].
156	** Again, during [[spoiler:Durkon's death]] He dies begging his killer to spare his friends, as well as smiling at the fact that he could finally [[spoiler:go home.]]
157	* Vasco from ''Webcomic/{{Lookism}}'' the architect student will sometimes burst into tears for no reason what so ever, he's also one of the biggest badasses in the series, but also one of the biggest [[DumbMuscle idiots]]. He cries so often that the others will often [[RunningGag beg him to stop]].
158	* Torg from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' sheds a few of these after [[spoiler:Alt-Zoe dies]]. Oddly enough, he's not particularly manly most of the time, ''except'' when crying like this.
159	* Davan's plan to prove that Jason can cry in ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' goes horribly wrong when, upon playing Music/TomSmith's uber-sad song "A Boy and His Frog" (about Creator/JimHenson and Kermit, and the death of the former), ''both'' of them break out in tears.
160	* Blu Sniper in ''Webcomic/CuantaVida'' when [[spoiler:Red Spy (his lover) pushes him out of the way of the Red Sniper's bullet and is killed instead.]]
161	* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Tarvek tears up when he [[spoiler:tells his sister Anveka that she was DeadAllAlong and that the clank body she was using as her puppet had taken over her identity completely. He adds that he loved his sister, and having the clank body around was comforting - right before shutting down the puppet body.]]
162	* Parodied in ''Webcomic/CrystalHeroes'' when Garrett does this while telling a story about his friend not dying during an encounter with some monsters.
163	* In ''ComicBook/GiantDays'', it takes the stoical [=McGraw=] most of an issue to crack over the death of his father. The sight of him shedding ''any'' tears is all the more powerful for that.
164	* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', Pinky cries at Blinky and Clyde's wedding.
165	* In ''Webcomic/CourtOfRoses'', [[https://courtofroses.spiderforest.com/index.php?comic_id=119 Sven the goliath weeps openly]] when hearing Diana's instrument/weapon came from her supportive mother.
166	* In ''Webcomic/BeyondTheEnd'', [[https://beyondtheend.gay/index.html?pg=928#showComic Michael has the tiniest tear]] after having to kill a shroud that had disguised itself as Uriel and coming back and confirming that he hadn't accidentally killed the real one in his conviction.
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169	[[folder:Web Original]]
170	* ''{{WebVideo/Aaron}}'' has a scene where Chris discovers that a) his brother was going to have a baby, meaning he would have become an uncle, b) the baby died, and c) their parents tried to cover it up. Upon getting this news, his eyes get quite watery.
171	* Happens a couple times in ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'' -- Oran during Raimi's NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech; Kamimura when he finally [[spoiler:expels the fragment of Goku's soul and becomes free.]]
172	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic could never be accused of being manly, preferring instead to wail pathetically when the slightest thing goes wrong, but when he's matured into TheAtoner for WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, he keeps his (apparently loads of) crying offscreen. All we see are some very red eyes throughout the entire movie.
173	* In WebVideo/DemoReel, Quinn is a former IRA member and even he blinks back tears at the ''Blue Patches'' sequel Rebecca and Tacoma made for Donnie.
174	* LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} makes noises implying he is crying during Chapter 6 of his [[LetsPlay Let's Play]] of ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}''
175	* In Megan Kearney's ''Beauty and the Beast'', the Beast is [[UnableToCry incapable of crying]]. In the end, when he finally becomes human again, the first thing he does after the initial shock is break down in tears of relief in Beauty's arms.
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177	----
178	-->'''JustForFun/{{Statler\|AndWaldorf}}:''' Well, you know what they say; it takes a big man to cry.\
179	'''[[TheStinger Waldorf]]:''' Yes, indeed. But it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.\
180	'''[[Series/TheMuppetShow Both]]:''' Do-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-hoh!

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