Basic Trope: Someone cries while cutting/peeling onions.
- Straight: Charlie is trying to cut onions, but his eyes can't stop watering.
- Exaggerated: Charlie can't even be in the same room as raw onions (regardless of whether or not the onions are cut) without bursting into Ocular Gushers.
- Downplayed: Charlie's eyes water a bit when he cuts onions, but not severely.
- Justified:
- Truth in Television - onions can cause eye irritation when cut or peeled.
- Charlie is allergic to onions and they make his eyes water.
- Charlie actually feels bad for the onion he's cutting.
- Inverted: The onions cry when Charlie cuts them.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Somehow, even cooked onions can't stop but make Charlie burst into Ocular Gushers.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Nobody ever cuts or peels onions.
- Charlie doesn't cry when cutting onions.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Someone uses raw onions to temporarily blind and distract Charlie.
- Defied: Charlie uses a sharper knife, chills the onions before cutting them, and/or uses eye protection before cutting the onions.
- Discussed: As Charlie is trying to deny that he's crying, he asks "Who's cutting onions in here?"
- Conversed: ???
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