This is an increasingly common tactic used by {{Manga}} and {{Anime}} authors who have created thoroughly unsympathetic {{Tsundere}} characters yet still wish the audience to sympathize with them, or merely wishing to convincingly give a feminine side to an otherwise overly-masculine or unemotional girl.

Perhaps she has been emotionally cold one times too many to the hero's affections, too damn cruel over the smallest of mistakes, or simply revealed her vulnerable side too damned late for the audience to care any more. Either way, no amount of garden-variety dere-dere moments is going to earn any tangible amount of audience sympathy.

Time to go for the big guns.

Show that the Tsundere is a girl after all by [[SparklingStreamOfTears turning on the waterworks]].

There is an inexplicable phenomenon that the tougher a character is, the more ''adorable'' they will be when SparklingStreamOfTears pour out of their eyes, windows that prove they have souls. The tyrant instantaneously becomes TheWoobie, whose endearingly vulnerable sobs and pleas for sympathy makes the coldest of hearts want to [[TheGlomp hug her till she feels better.]] This is considered {{Moe}} beyond belief by fandom in general, even those who are not fans of the {{Moe}} sub-genre.

''Occasionally'' this moment acts as a roadstop, a turning point in which the character [[CharacterDevelopment starts to slowly becomes a better person]].

'''Nine times out of 10,''' unfortunately ('''especially''' if the story in question is a RumikoTakahashi romantic-comedy), having felt embarrassed for daring to be vulnerable, the once adorable woobie '''immediately''' turns into a [[{{Jerkass}} tyrant of epic magnitude]] worse than the mere {{Tsundere}} she was to compensate for her brief moment of weakness.

Note that this can also occasionally apply to a male character. What differentiates this from ManlyTears is that whereas ManlyTears shows the sensitive attributes of an ''already'' decent male, CryCute used on a man character is as a rule in the AlasPoorVillain context that humanizes an unforgivably evil male. See also TenderTears, where tears are part of a consistent sensitive depiction, and WaterWorks, where tears inspire contempt and not sympathy.

Sometimes includes BitingTheHandkerchief. Contrast InelegantBlubbering.
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!!Examples:

* Lampshaded in FullMetalAlchemist, when Roy fondly remembers the [[NotSoStoic generally stoic]] Riza crying and tells her he'd like to see her 'pure tears' again.
* [[spoiler: Franziska Von Karma]] at the end of ''PhoenixWright AceAttorney: Justice for All''.
* Evangeline of ''MahouSenseiNegima'', Thousand-Year-Old Vampire-Tyrant and Evil Sorceress, cries adorably as she asks Nagi to [[TearJerker pat her on the head like a little girl one last time]] at the end of the Mahora Budokai Tournament.
* C.C of the ''CodeGeass'' franchise, when her DeadpanSnarker facade slips and she shows her {{Kuudere}} colors.
* Aunt Haruka, Narusegawa Naru and Aoyama Motoko of LoveHina.
** ''Especially'' Aoyama Motoko, in accordance with the Toughness/Tears inverse relationship mentioned above.
* The death of Prince Vegeta in DragonballZ is ''the'' definitive '''male''' example that [[TearJerker makes you cry for a villain.]]
* Asougi Rin of {{Mnemosyne}}.
* Also voiced by [[MamikoNoto Noto Mamiko,]] Asagami Fujino of ''KaraNoKyoukai''.
* Every girl (''especially'' Nagi, voiced by RieKugimiya) and even ''Hayate himself'' of ''HayateNoGotoku''.
* Even {{Jerkass}} {{Tsundere}} Hiiragi Kagami can be TheWoobie of woobies on the few times she cries in ''LuckyStar''.
** Kagamin is NOT a Jerkass. A grouch certainly, but nothing worse.
* Cagalli Yulla Athha, a most admirably brave Warrior Princess, weeps in Athurns arms in the first season of ''GundamSeed'' after her father's HeroicSacrifice.
**I've never seen Cagalli listed as a "thoroughly unsympathetic" character before. And she ends up weeping in Kira's arms, not Athrun's.
* Louise (voiced by RieKugimiya) of ''ZeroNoTsukaima''. Too bad she needs to be under the influence of a magical drug to allow herself to be so emotionally honest.
* The roar of a wounded tiger in ''{{Toradora}}'': "Ryuuji is MIIIIIINE!!" [[PigeonholedVoiceActor AGAIN]] voiced by RieKugimiya.
* Miu of ''{{Ichigo Mashimaro}}'', though she's more of a {{Jerkass}} than a {{Tsundere}}.
* [[LittleMissSnarker Vita]] crying in Hayate's arms during the finale of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha A's''.
** Also, [[{{Tsundere}} Teana Lanster]] during the talk she and Nanoha had after Teana's RageAgainstTheMentor in ''[=StrikerS=]''. She soon matures into a downright competent leader and SmartGirl afterwards.
* Arguably Faith in the episode of {{Angel}} she first appears in, though a much more extreme example.
** Faith is more of a [[TheWoobie woobie.]] Rewatch ''[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' Season 3, particularly Faith's first appearance and the Xmas ep "Amends."
* Tsugumi in {{Ever17}} as an example where the character genuinely stops being a {{jerkass}}. There were signs beforehand that she wasn't, sure, and they were even [[CharacterDevelopment getting more common.]] Seeing her cry basically makes you forget her doing stuff like pretending to push Takeshi down an elevator shaft for shits and giggles or randomly sucker punching him at the beginning, though. Mostly applicable to Takeshi's routes so they could spring a whole bunch of surprise reveals on you by letting her stay a jerk in The Kid's.
* Blue when confronted by Ho-oh in ''PokemonSpecial''. And immediately after that, when [[spoiler:Silver is captured. Of course, the first crying was [[XanatosGambit all just an act]]..]].
** [[spoiler:Blue's crying is more believable when you realize that she was kidnapped by Ho-oh at a young age as part of the Mask of Ice's recruitment program. The fact that she was using [[WoundedGazelleGambit Fake Tears]] was not only part of the act, but also a demonstration that she has, in fact, come to control her ornithopia. Cue [[{{CrowningMoment/Pokemon}} CMOA]] and Will and Karen in an awkward situation.]]
*In one episode of TazMania, Digeri Dingo uses this tactic as a kid for Taz to get his ball that he kicked off a cliff.
* [[CaptainTsubasa Carlos Santana]]. That's all.
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Hiyoshi Wakashi]] from ThePrinceOfTennis, after losing to [[spoiler: Ryoma]] in the manga.
** Also, [[spoiler: Akaya Kirihara]] in the very last OAV.
** And ''Ryoma'' himself in the anime, when [[KindheartedCatLover his beloved cat Karupin]] is brought by home after spending a whole day outside.
* Arthur/England from AxisPowersHetalia is a diehard {{Tsundere}} (and ''extremely'' heavy on the 'tsun', especially when [[LoveFreak America]] is [[IShallTauntYou around]]), but his tears in [[spoiler: "Cleaning Out the Storage"]] were so damn genuine that [[TearJerker everyone in fandom cried for and with him]], tagging him as an DefrostingIceQueen and sort of {{Woobie}}.
* In Jim Butcher's ''DresdenFiles'' novel ''Small Favor'', Harry demands of Rosanna how many knights she's murdered with her trick of getting her eyes to well up with tears and looking helpless.
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