Basic Trope: A character has tears streaming down their face as they attack another character..
- Straight: Tears stream down Alice's face as she beats Bob to a pulp.
- Exaggerated: Alice's eyes spout giant gushers as she smashes Bob into a red stain on the ground.
- Downplayed: Alice's eyes are full of unshed tears as she smacks Bob around.
- Justified:
- Alice is beating Bob to a pulp and crying all the way because he killed the one person who she cared about.
- Alice feels genuinely bad about what she's doing but can't help herself.
- Alice was earlier crying over something else and Bob attacked her first so she fights back.
- Inverted:
- Alice smiles and laughs as she beats Bob.
- Fireball Eyeballs
- Subverted: We see Alice lunge at Bob with tears in her eyes, but when we see her beating him, her face shows only rage.
- Double Subverted: ...before the tears start flowing mid-beating.
- Parodied: Alice cries over Bob's betrayal, and then the tears jump up and beat the crap out of Bob.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Despite the fact that Alice is portrayed as extremely emotional, and the thing that causes her to beat Bob would normally have her crying, she doesn't shed a single tear.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Charlie takes advantage of the fact that it's hard for Alice to see through her tears of rage to make his escape.
- Defied: Alice refuses to let her sadness overwhelm her as she beats Bob.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Tears of rage? Things just got real!"
- Implied: We see Bob badly beaten face as well as Alice's tear stained face and bloodied knuckles when Charlie finds them.
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