History Main / InelegantBlubbering

[[caption-width-right:350:[[BlatantLies Yes, it's]] the [[ManlyTears manliest of tears]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[SarcasmMode Truly]] the [[ManlyTears manliest of tears]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', Hassel breaks down in tears whenever he's [[TearsOfJoy proud of someone]]. The game phoenetically spells out his dialogue as he cries, implying that he's sobbing hard enough that he's hard to understand.

* ''Fanfic/BoysAndGirls'', a fanfiction of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', has Lori start "bawling like an infant" upon realising she's done wrong by fawning over Hugh while dating Bobby.

* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', Paul sobs his heart out on John. Later he wipes his nose on one of John's [[WingedHumanoid wings]].

* In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/Heirverse ''Heirverse'']] Pretty much everyone at some point though special mention goes to [[spoiler: Aizen in CF as he desperately tries not to break down in front of Gin and "fails miserably" as he bitterly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] ]]
* In the {{prequel}} to ''Fanfic/RespawnOfTheDead'', Medic gets so drunk he throws up on Heavy after [[spoiler:kissing him for the first time]]. After Heavy cleans himself up, he comes back to find that Medic is crying in a completely undignified manner which would be totally unlike him [[InVinoVeritas if he hadn't just drunk eight beers]].
* Several times in ''Fanfic/SecretDreamer'', most notably in Chapter 10, when Severa [[spoiler:visits her father's grave]].
* In ''Fanfic/LucysUnwantedHouseGuest'', after Lisanna [[RonTheDeathEater hires some thugs to beat up Lucy]], Lisanna's older siblings, Mirajane and Elfman, [[IHaveNoSon disown her]]. In Mirajane's case, she even hiccups and stutters as she cries, and Lisanna hearing this causes her to "start crying like a baby."
-->'''Mirajane''': And to *sob* think ''*hiccup*'' t-that you were my...my...my SISTER?!
-->'''Lisanna''': B-but *sob* One-
-->'''Mirajane''': I a-am *sob* NOT your *hiccup* 'Onee-chan'! For I could NEVER have such a [[YouMonster monstrous]] weak mage as my younger sibling!

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', Hassel breaks down in tears whenever he's [[TearsOfJoy proud of someone]]. IThe game phoenetically spells out his dialogue as he cries, implying that he's sobbing hard enough that he's hard to understand.

* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'': "Now Luke, you know a gentleman never makes a scene in public" [[spoiler:"I'm sorry, professor, but I'm not a gentleman yet!"]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
** Jemma tends to cry like this. Notable examples include ''T.R.A.C.K.S.'' after Daisy gets shot and ''A Wanted (Inhu)man'' when she's overwhelmed during her long-awaited dinner date with Fitz.
** Fitz does this during his WhatHaveIDone moment in ''The Return'' when he remembers how he became the sadistic Doctor during the team's time in the Framework.
** Daisy also does this a couple of times, in ''Absolution'' when Mack forgives her for what she did while under Hive's influence, and in ''Ascension'' when Lincoln sacrifices his life to save the world.
* Invoked in the last pre-Netflix episode of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', when Michael chokes up in the middle of a speech about keeping his family together.
-->'''Narrator:''' And that’s when Michael finally cried...it wasn’t exactly a turn-on.
* ''Series/AshitaMamaGaInai'': Donki wailing for her mother at the end of the first episode is what a child breaking down in tears would realistically sound like, as opposed to Post's quiet (and faked) crying earlier.
* In ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', after [[spoiler: Starbuck - who he considered a daughter - is seemingly killed,]] the normally stoic and steely Commander Adama gets completely hammered and dissolves into a snot-and-drool puddle on the floor of his quarters.
* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''. Normally calm and controlled, Margaret becomes a hysterical wreck by the end of "A Man, a plan". Finding [[spoiler:your lover, with whom you intended to elope, murdered and delivered to your house in a box]] does this to people...
* A RunningGag in early episodes of ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'' has receptionist Carole constantly in tears over her divorce, sometimes making her [[TheUnintelligible hard to understand]].
* In one episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', after being asked to be the officiant of someone's wedding, Terry writes a wedding speech that manages to provoke buckets of messy, inelegant tears... from Terry himself.
-->'''Terry:''' Darlene and Lynn, I want you to remember the words of Music/LutherVandross: "A thousand kisses from you..." ''[Begins to break, but forces himself together]'' "A thousand kisses from ''you''... ''is never... too... much.''"\\
''[Terry dissolves into tears; Gina stares incredulously]''\\
'''Holt:''' Every time he reads it, he breaks down.\\
'''Gina:''' Terry, I thought you had done this before.\\
'''Terry:''' Yeah, but that was just workout metaphors! You told me to get gorgeous with it, and it took me to some very real places.
* Willow was a pro at this on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Confessions" when she's weeping in the bathroom over Xander and Faith sleeping together, in "Wild at Heart" when [[spoiler: Oz leaves her]] and especially in "The Gift" where [[spoiler: Buffy dies]]. Another one is "Passion" where we get a BigNO and she collapses gasping in Joyce's arms when she hears [[spoiler: Jenny has been murdered]].
* Billie does this in the series finale of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' after [[spoiler: she's forced to kill her sister]]. Most fans noted how she sounded uncannily like a seal -- yet the scene is still very sad.
* Debra Morgan in ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', when she returns to the spot where [[spoiler: Frank Lundy was killed.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a few of these, all with fairly good reason.
** Rose at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]] — the Doctor is [[SingleTear fairly composed]]; she's bawling her eyes out.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]: John Smith -- the Doctor in human form -- does this while breaking down over the decision of whether or not to die to bring back the Doctor.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]]: [[https://youtu.be/o6k5Qc1Qb4I?t=2m45s The Tenth Doctor]] when [[spoiler:the Master dies]]. Unlike the other examples — instead of sobbing, he just lets out a long, agonized ''[[TheScream scream]]''.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]] has Eleven [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/388093811e3e1c1b852aa14cbcd26781/tumblr_ml7cu5JlQN1qjqq3uo1_500.gif a blubbering mess]] due to [[spoiler:losing Amy and Rory to the Weeping Angels.]]
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Given that Josh is ProneToTears, it is natural for him to pull these. One time, when he ends up missing an important test because Drake thoughtlessly abandoned him at the house to make out with his girlfriend, he starts to cry rapidly. Turns into BerserkerTears when Drake gives off a [[DefensiveWhat smug comment]] as Josh is pointing at him, prompting Josh to nearly tackle Drake in a fit of rage.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': Aeryn is a pro at this when she's hugely grief-stricken - in "Relativity" when [[spoiler:Crais kills her mother Xhalax ([[FakingTheDead or so she believes at the time]])]] and at the end of "Infinite Possibilities, part 2: Icarus Abides", complete with a running nose, when [[spoiler:Crichton dies of radiation poisoning.]]
* In the Filipino family drama ''Flordeliza'', Liza undergoes a crying fit, complete with a running nose, when Crisanto smashes her cell phone for [[PlayingSick lying about her blindness]] in an attempt to rid Flor and Gener from her life. She undergoes another when Beth throws her to the ground, throws her packed bag to her, abusively declares that [[IHaveNoSon she is no longer her daughter anymore]], and [[StayingWithFriends sends her away to her grandparents]].
* ''Series/{{Friends}}''
** This happens with Monica and Rachel when they are saying goodbye because Rachel is moving to Paris. Her blubbering becomes so unintelligible that Monica can't understand [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dw_pXzXTMg what she's saying.]]
** Monica is quite prone to this. When Rachel is about to move out, Monica gives a speech to Phoebe about how great a roommate she was. It begins seriously but becomes comedic as Monica blubbers "I have to live with a BOY!!!"
** Again when she's proposing to Chandler, she can barely get the words out because she's crying so hard. She even lampshades it saying "there's a reason girls don't do this."
* In ''Series/{{Glue}}'', resident [[SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan sensitive guy]] James sheds ManlyTears about once per episode - but he erupts into helpless sobs [[spoiler:when he's arrested on suspicion of murder after hallucinating his dead ex-boyfriend during an acid trip]], and later when [[spoiler:he's kidnapped by the real murderer, beaten and almost killed]].
* In ''Series/TheGoldbergs'', there was one episode where Erica was brokenhearted by her first love, that not even her parents could comprehend what she's saying while she's crying. Only Barry does, as he, himself, has experienced what she's going through.
-->'''Murray''': How the hell did you understand her?
-->'''Barry''': As most of you know, I've uh, spent the majority of my life hysterical and emotionally out of control, I speak the language.
-->'''Erica''': (tearfully squeaking)
-->'''Barry''': She'd like some hot tea with a little bit of honey.
* A pivotal scene in Season 2 of ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' involves this trope, as a way to show that [[spoiler: Michael]] really does care about [[spoiler: Team Cockroach]].
* Lilly in ''Series/HannahMontana'' is all about this trope when she cries.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}''. When Duncan [[spoiler: accidentally kills Richie]] at the end of Season 5, Joe Dawson literally breaks down crying on Methos' shoulder. Duncan is slightly more subdued (probably due to shock) but is still whimpering pretty hard as he walks off. A case of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, as it's really emotionally painful to watch and hammers in the impact of the scene.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'', "The Frogs and the Lobsters":
** In the Duchess and the Devil Horatio is confined in an oubliette as punishment. There’s no food, water, or space to turn around, but what brings Horatio to (ugly) tears is a rat crawling on him.
** The usually stoic Horatio sheds somewhat inelegant ManlyTears, with mucus and everything, when he contemplates the results of British participation on side of the Royalists in the French Revolution. He's also a bit shattered as his French lady friend died a vain death.
* Marshall from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' does this hilariously in "The Chain of Screaming" after being yelled at by his boss. The others have a ''very'' hard time not making fun of him for it.
** Also, Ted is notorious for doing this during toasts at all his friends' weddings, which earns him a lot of flack [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube and a YouTube video.]] However, when he's being mocked for it at Punchy's wedding in the 7th season premiere, Marshall stands up and furiously admonishes everyone at the reception, pointing out that Ted's only crying because he's overcome with joy after Lily announced she was pregnant.
* Three words to describe Rocky Lockridge's loud bawling in ''Series/{{Intervention}}'': [[MemeticMutation Best. Cry. Ever.]]
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
** In ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', [[EmotionalBruiser Gentaro]] cries inelegantly after JerkJock Shun Daimonji breaks down in tears and tells him about [[WellDoneSonGuy how much pressure and stress his father puts on him to be the "King" of the school]]. [[NarmCharm It is hilarious]].
*** Gentaro also cries again in the Hyper Battle Video DVD when he thinks Series/KamenRiderAmazon stood him up.
*** Used much less humorously in the penultimate episode. After [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kengo]] breaks down crying over [[spoiler: having to leave Earth and his friends behind]], [[AllLovingHero Gentaro]] and [[GenkiGirl Yuki]] try to cheer him up but similarly burst into tears themselves, to the point where they can barely even speak.
** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'':
*** [[AllLovingHero Emu]] gets himself some alone time to ugly cry after failing to save the then-current BigBad in [[Recap/KamenRiderExAidEp23ToTheMaxDeadOrAlive #23]], who only died because Emu's effort to stop him in a nonlethal way gave his co-villain all the means needed to [[TheDogBitesBack stab him]] in the back.
*** The co-villain in question devolves into a sobbing mess pleading for forgiveness after being finally pushed into a HeelRealization [[Recap/KamenRiderExAidEp40DestinyReboot #40]].
** Episode 13 of ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'', period. [[spoiler: Kento is dying, in pain, and attempting to tell the others to go on without him and save the world. ''Everyone'' is crying, even [[{{Keet}} Ren]] and emotion-repressing Tetsuo Daishinji, Rintaro is trying not to but obviously is, Touma is sobbing, Ryo Ogami is angry-crying, and hell, even Kento himself is crying because he doesn't want to leave Touma.]]
* A recurring sketch in ''Series/ManStrokeWoman'' is a man whose girlfriend has just dumped him, causing him to blubber incoherently while his friends hazard increasingly bizarre guesses as to what he's trying to say.
* Al Bundy on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' is a master of this. As he pours his heart out to Peg of another day at the shoe store:
-->'''Al:''' This humongous woman in a short dress sits down in front of me. I saw underwear. It said "Saturday" on it.\\
'''Peg:''' So?\\
'''Al:''' Today's Wednesday!! (''loses it'')
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Happens with some frequency -- lots of [[ManlyTears really red eyes]] and folks breaking down completely.
* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'':
** A fleeting example in 3x05 -- after Arthur is shot and Merlin thinks he won't be able to save him, he's briefly shown in tears, complete with running nose, as he washes the blood off his hands.
** Guinevere in 4x09. When Arthur confronts her about [[spoiler:kissing Lancelot on the eve of her wedding to Arthur]], Gwen is on the verge of hysteria considering she was under a spell at the time, didn't understand what she was doing, and can't provide Arthur with a coherent explanation.
** Merlin in "A Lesson in Vengeance", once again because it appears that his spell has failed to heal Arthur. Partially done to contrast with Gwen, who was brainwashed the episode before and has spent the entire episode crying CrocodileTears to get everyone to follow her.
** Merlin [[spoiler: revealing his magic to Arthur]] in the series finale almost doesn't come to pass since Merlin is crying so much.
* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': In the third season episode "The Coup," when Dwight tries to go behind Michael's back to Jan, Michael berates him until Dwight breaks down. He goes on his knees, wailing, and when he comes up he has snot running down his face. In the second-to-last episode "A.A.R.M.", Andy crashes the auditions for an ''Series/AmericanIdol'' knockoff called ''America's Next A Capella Sensation'' wearing a ridiculous old man outfit. He gets rejected after performing the Cornell University alma mater song, and, having quit his job to compete on the show, burning all his bridges in the process, bawls uncontrollably. This footage ends up getting used on the actual show and becomes a viral sensation, complete with a popular StupidStatementDanceMix video.
* Belle in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' collapses into a heap of hysterics during the Season 3 Winter finale when [[spoiler: Rumpelstiltskin sacrifices himself]].
* ''Series/Peacemaker2022'' in episode 2 after getting back to his trailer home - Peacemaker has a breakdown on his bed - sobbing hysterically, yelling how everyone hates him and they're right because he's a terrible person and also several times he punches himself in his maimed clavicle.
* Gus in ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has a tendency towards being an inelegant, undignified weeper when sufficiently frightened or upset.
* In the mini-series ''Rhodes'', Cecil Rhodes collapses on the ground in tears at the funeral of a friend, implied to be a homosexual lover of Rhodes.
* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' -- resident primadonna celebrity Johnny La Rue (John Candy) goes into pathetic blubbering, pleading fits when station higher-ups deny him his perceived perks.
* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'': Mr. Conductor does this in the episode "Does It Bite?" when he is about to tell Tanya and Matt "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E3TheSadStoryOfHenry The Sad Story of Henry]]". He ends up sobbing hysterically as he warns the children that it's a very sad story. He does this again before he tells [[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E4EdwardGordonAndHenry the second half]].
-->'''Mr. Conductor:''' I have some time. I'll tell you a story about Henry, the big green engine. But I must warn you... ''(voice breaks)'' It's a very sad story! ''(he begins sobbing hysterically)''
* Jax Teller does this a couple of times on ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', once in "Laying Pipe" when he watches his best friend beaten to death and once in "A Mother's Work" when [[spoiler: he finds his wife dead on their kitchen floor]]. His face turns bright red, tears smeared everywhere, full body shaking, the whole deal.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]], [[spoiler: Aamin Marritza]] finally breaks down like this when telling the truth about his experiences as [[spoiler: a Cardassian file-clerk working in a death camp on occupied Bajor.]] And then Kira loses it herself when [[spoiler: he's randomly stabbed to death by a vengeful Bajoran drunk.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Jean-Luc Picard is twice reduced to this: once while expressing Sarek's [[TheStoic repressed anguish]] and a long Vulcan lifetime of regrets, and once when he finally breaks down over [[MindRape what the Borg did to him]], and how he wasn't strong or good enough to stop them.
* Sam from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is an ugly crier and gets much fewer crying scenes compared to his brother (Jensen Ackles, who plays his brother Dean, is a master of "the single perfect tear"). When he does, he dissolves into this. See the beginning of Season 2 [[spoiler: when his dad dies]] or the end of season 3 [[spoiler: when Dean dies]].
* ''Series/That70sShow'': Played for laughs in "Eric's Depression". After breaking up with Donna, Eric is depressed, leaving his parents wondering what to do. Kitty asks Red how he handled his first breakup, he insists "I took it like a man.". [[GilliganCut We go to a flashback which shows young Red]] ''[[GilliganCut not]]'' [[GilliganCut "taking it like a man", weeping inelegantly]]. In spite of that, present-day Red still says [[BlatantLies "Yep, took it like a man"]].
* Happens on ''Series/{{Titus}}'' when the titular character finally breaks down over his mother's death... in an airplane bathroom.
** And, according to Christopher Titus's stand-up, [[TruthInTelevision based on real events,]] as smelling turkey on a flight sparked memories of [[SupremeChef his mother's Thanksgiving dinners]].
--->'''Titus''': Now I'm lying on the floor in a fetal position and I'm crying. And I don't mean "crying", I mean "snot-coming-out-of-my-nose, booger-bubbles bursting all over the place..."
* Ianto from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' is a rather ugly crier.
** Gwen also cries like this when Rhys [[spoiler: dies in the Season 1 finale.]]
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has perhaps one of the most brutal examples ever in its Season 7 premiere. After smashing in the skulls of [[spoiler: Abraham and Glenn]] with a barbed-wire baseball bat, Negan literally has the entire group shaking and sobbing on the ground. And then, just to further show everyone how helpless they are, Negan tells Rick that he'll have to [[AnArmAndALeg cut off Carl's arm]] if he doesn't want the remaining group members to die equally horrible deaths. It's this threat that [[BreakTheHaughty finally breaks Rick down]] to the point where he's nothing more than a blubbering, runny-nosed mess at Negan's feet.
* Grace from ''Series/WillAndGrace'' is a champ at this, complete with incoherent high-pitched talking.
* In ''Series/WinterSonata'', a [[DrowningMySorrows drunk]] Oh [[SmugSnake Chelin]] loses it [[spoiler: after she proposes that "the jilted ones" (she and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Sang-hyuk]]) [[PairTheSpares start dating]].]] She's the sole blubbering mess while [[TenderTears everyone else]] in the series [[ManlyTears cries]] so [[TearfulSmile carefully]].
* One clip on ''Series/WorldsDumbest'' features a guy who's blubbering because his football team lost an important game. When he's brought into the studio several months later, he's ''still'' sobbing.
* Whenever Bull from ''Series/NightCourt'' cries, he makes a sound like a Godzilla with his tail caught in a bear trap.
* One of Lucy's trademarks in ''Series/ILoveLucy'' is to let out an infantile like "WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" whenever she cries.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Happens to Richard Watterson all the time, especially in the newer seasons.
* In the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', Sasha and Grime ''attempt'' to have a stoic, dignified goodbye between two battle-hardened soldiers. It quickly devolves into hysterical bawling about how much they're going to miss each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Skippy Squirrel bawls inelegantly as he watches the death of the title character's mother and the wildfire scene in "Bumbie the Dearest Deer" (a parody of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''). He does this again [[spoiler: after Slappy explains that [[NobodyCanDie no one gets hurt in cartoons]], when they fly to Tucumcari, New Mexico to meet Veena Waleen (who acted as, well, Bumbie's Mom), and when they watch an in-flight movie of an "Film/OldYeller" parody named "Old Yellow".]]
--> (Skippy sniffles, wiping his nose with his paw.)\\
'''Slappy''': Ohhhh (handing tissue), use a tissue.\\
(Skippy, shown with red, puffy eyes and runny nose, blows hard on the tissue, which covers him.)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': A distressingly realistic and dramatic example. [[spoiler:After [[PleaseDontLeaveMe being left behind by Vi]] and the rest of the gang to sit out the rescue mission for Vander, Powder has a tantrum in her room, complete with saliva and snot running down her face.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', [[spoiler: Azula]]'s last appearance is this overlapping with BrokenTears. At first, there was incoherent, furious screaming, but within seconds it devolved into sobbing.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Harley Quinn comically (and loudly) sobs and blows her nose during the Joker's famous eulogy scene in "The Man Who Killed Batman".
* ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines'':
** Starla bawls loudly twice in the episode "The Driving Force". The first time she cries is when she finds out her piston is missing and again when she gets depressed over possibly not ever getting it back again.
** Crusher has a tendency to cry in a very undignified manner if things do not go his way.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', Jazmine does this out of guilt after Grandad sneaks her, Huey and Riley into a movie without paying. After watching a guilt-slinging anti-piracy ad she has tears and snot running down her face.
* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'':
** WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup is shown to be prone to this in several episodes, most notably "A Gentleman's Gentleman" and "Pluto and the Armadillo."
** In "WesternAnimation/SymphonyHour," Pete's character, an Italian man named Sylvester Macaroni, is outright sobbing like ''Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}'' at the end of Mickey Mouse's performance because the instruments are all damaged from an elevator accident, making the performance of Von Suppé's "Light Cavalry Overture" sound like Spike Jones' parody thereof, and Macaroni is convinced that his reputation is shot. [[spoiler: He cheers up immediately when it turns out that the audience loves it]].
** "Donald Duck and the Gorilla" ends with both title characters being affected by tear gas and crying their eyes out in each other's arms.
** In "WesternAnimation/HockeyHomicide," the Loose Leafs' goalie bursts into tears and throws a tantrum when a puck gets past him. [[RuleOfFunny And apparently, the hockey rink is so cold that the goalie's tears freeze on his face]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E45DeadDuck Dead Duck]]", Launchpad cries loudly and messily when returning from Darkwing's funeral.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** Stewie does this near the end of the episode "New Kidney in Town", with literal rivers of snot pouring from his nose. Brian even makes mention of how gross it is when Stewie tries to hug him.
** Joe Swanson does it at the Drunken Clam in an earlier episode, after trying to catch a thief who stole money raised for a boy's surgery. (He got the money but lost the perp.) This actually causes the other guys to slowly exit the bar through increasingly unlikely ways to get clear of him.
* In the classic short film ''WesternAnimation/FeedTheKitty'', Marc Anthony goes into a massive blubbering fit after believing [[CuteKitten Pussyfoot]] has been baked into a cookie. He goes into yet another one when he's handed a cookie in the shape of a kitten. [[spoiler:Thankfully the kitten turns out to be safe]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': Billy does this in the episode "Tricycle of Terror," when Irwin, Pud'n, and Sperg tease him about his tricycle.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'':
** Helga Pataki's older sister Olga is infamous for this. She does it in every single episode where she appears, and often over inconsequential things like [[TheBGrade getting a B+ on an otherwise perfect report card]]. Making it worse, her thick black mascara always runs.
** Helga may have some of this as well, though hers is not nearly as frequent or profuse as Olga's. See episodes like "The Subway," when she thinks, quote, "We're all gonna starve to death and get eaten by rats!"
** Minus the runny makeup, Harold sometimes experiences this. It's often in the midst of one of his meltdowns that begin with, [[CatchPhrase "AHHHH! MOMMY!"]] In "Weighing Harold," he became so upset at being called fat that he wept uncontrollably onto the blacktop. In "What's Opera, Arnold?" he also sang a parody of "Vesti la giubba" from ''Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}'', bawling just as much as any hammy tenor, and in other episodes, the music of that aria tends to underscore his blubbering fits.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Bolin does this in the episode "[[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS1E5TheSpiritOfCompetition The Spirit of Competition]]". OcularGushers, rivers of snot, the whole deal. And then he [[GirlyRun runs away from the offending sight]]. [[spoiler:Although, if you saw the girl you had a crush on and just went on a date with kissing your ''brother'', you’d probably be pretty distraught too.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'': Let's just say whenever Penny Ling cries, she loses all her cuteness and leave it at that.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Lori Loud and her boyfriend Bobby Santiago. In "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS2E13TheLoudestMissionRelativeChaos The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos]]", they both weep uncontrollably in each other's arms at the prospect of Bobby being away for the weekend, to the point where Lori's brother Lincoln and Bobby's sister Ronnie Anne have to drag them apart. In Lori's case, this trope overlaps with YourMakeupIsRunning.
** This seems to run in the Loud family, as Lori's dad, Lynn Sr., is also shown crying this way in episodes like "Garage Banned," "Breaking Dad," or "Can't Hardly Wait", and it's implied that she got her penchant for this from him. "Camped!" implies that he got it from ''his'' dad Leonard.
** The spin-off ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' shows Bobby reduced to hysterical weeping in episodes like "Stress Test" and "Operation Dad". Much like Lori, inelegant blubbering seems to run in the Santiago family, since his dad Arturo also breaks down sobbing in "Teacher's Fret" after his soccer team loses the big game.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Done by Rarity ([[InvokedTrope entirely on purpose]] to [[PityTheKidnapper irritate her captors]]) in "A Dog And Pony Show" when one of the [[MinorInsultMeltdown Diamond Dogs call her a "mule".]]
** In "Baby Cakes", this is how Pinkie Pie, who was so eager to babysit month-old foals and prove she has what it takes, ultimately reacts when she realizes just how in over her mane she is.
** Fluttershy is reduced to blatant tears, running away in embarrassment when her wingpower is measured far lower than everypony else's in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]". Then there's the scene where the animals are comforting her. She looks up, her eyes are red and her face is covered with grass.
** When Fluttershy [[BrutalHonesty bluntly tells Rainbow Dash]] that she'll be spending the winter without Tank in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E5TanksForTheMemories Tanks for the Memories]]", Rainbow Dash starts openly sobbing about how much she doesn't want Tank to go. [[EverybodyCries Eventually]] Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie join her as well.
** In stark contrast to his earlier [[ManlyTears tears]] shed at Twilight Sparkle's coronation, [[spoiler: Shining Armour]] gets like this at Matilda and Cranky-Doodle's wedding in "Slice Of Life".
* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "Eda's Requiem", where King mentions that he's planning to "ugly cry, hard" when he [[spoiler:meets his dad for the first time]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
** Mitch does this in the episode "Gettin' Twiggy With It," when he [[AintTooProudToBeg pleads with the girls not to take the classroom hamster Twiggy away from him]], complete with rivers of snot coming out of his nose.
** Bubbles does this in "All Chalked Up". No red, puffy eyes, but it ''is'' quite loud.
** Professor Utonium sobs loudly and messily in "Reeking Havoc" during a flashback when he lost the chili-cooking contest.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EddQrjeHb4 Buttercup]] in "Cover Up" when her blanket is lost and ends up sounding just like [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Tommy Pickles]] (who shares her [[Creator/ElizabethDaily voice actress]]) when she does so.
** The entire town in "City Of Frownsville" after [[VillainOfTheWeek Lou Gubrious]] unleashes a ray that makes anyone who is hit by it do this.
** Bubbles in "Little Miss Interprets", when she mistakenly assumes the Professor wants to abandon her and her sisters. She wails so much that most of what she says is unintelligible.
** Big Billy does this in "Slave The Day" after receiving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Blossom, and in "Aspirations" after finding out that Sedusa never cared about him or the rest of the Gangreen Gang.
** Bunny in "Twisted Sister" blubbers loudly and indecipherably when being told she isn't cut out to be a Powerpuff Girl.
*** At the end of the same episode, the Narrator is reduced to a sobbing wreck as he tries to do [[SoOnceAgainTheDayIsSaved his usual outro]] after Bunny's HeroicSacrifice, [[BreakingTheFourthWall eventually asking for the show to go to a commercial]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'':
** Bubbles does this in "Bubbles of the Opera" after she gets a bad school photo, complete with a wrinkly face.
** Bubbles [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccMiw9dg6YI bawls inelegantly]] again in "Odd Bubbles Out" after her argument with Donny that apparently went on for ''two hours straight'', with red, puffy, bloodshot eyes and all.
** The Professor wailed loudly after Sapna Nehru dumped him in the episode "Arachno-Romance".
** Some bullfighters bawled and sobbed in "The Stayover" after the bull ran away.
** Eddie in "In The Garden Of Good And Eddie" after Bubbles yelled at her.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' has Stimpy, whose blubbering is as inelegant as they come.[[note]]Then, being a complete "eediot", he's just inelegant, period; especially where Ren is concerned...[[/note]] First there's the Army episode during the tear gas training scene, but even that doesn't compare to the [[Recap/RenandStimpy2x07SonofStimpy episode]] where he loses his "son"...
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** Eric Cartman does this at the end of "Breast Cancer Show Ever" after Wendy [[IWasBeatenByAGirl annihilates his manhood and "coooool"-ness by beating him in a fight]].
** Cartman again in the episode [[ItMakesSenseInContext went to Canada for Christmas and dethroned Saddam Hussein]]. After they "miss" Christmas by not returning from Canada before Christmas morning, Cartman tries to make good on his previous threats to beat Kyle up if such a thing happened. He squares up to Kyle, moves in, and Kyle pops him once in the nose. Cartman [[{{Beat}} pauses]], then lets out a drawn-out, incredibly high-pitched cry, [[IWantMyMommy wailing for his mom]].
** Steven Seagal gets like this when he pleads for others to tell him he's ripped (when he's anything but).
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'': Candy dissolves into ''half a minute'' of this in "The Thing from Beyond" when the aliens get lost in the woods.
** Bud does this in “The Flyling” ''three'' times: First when Etno calls him out for cheating in a game of chess, second when he and the fly CryLaughing, and third when [[spoiler:the fly decides to leave the house]].
** Gorgious does this in “Holiday Heave Ho” when Etno’s mouse trap decapitates his teddy bear. Directly PlayedStraight in the 2nd Italian dub, where Gorgious is simply reduced to just sobbing.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** Mr. Krabs does it in the episode "Clams" after a clam ate his dollar, to the point where his eyes become literal faucets.
** Patrick in "Nature Pants" while [=SpongeBob=] is giving his stuff away and leaving. He ''is'' on the verge of losing his best friend after all.
%%** [=SpongeBob=] himself is the undisputed master of this trope, and Squidward does this frequently as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': There was a good amount of this trope at the beginning of "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS2E33TheBounceLounge The Bounce Lounge]]". When they got the news that the Bounce Lounge is closing, Star and Pony Head cry OcularGushers of tears and rainbows, respectively. Star even left some snot on Marco’s sweater when she was crying on it.
%%* Most crying in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is pretty much split between this and cute crying depending on how serious the scene is supposed to be taken.
* ''WesternAnimation/StickinAround'': Russell does this when mourning over the death of "Castina" (really Stacy's cast in a costume) in "Wimbled' Uh", which annoys Lance. He does it again in "Goodbye, Adios, Sayonara Bradley" when he thinks Bradley is going to leave Latchkey Garden Apartments.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' video, "[[Recap/VeggieTalesEpisode11SillySingAlong2TheEndOfSilliness Silly Sing Along 2: The End of Silliness?]]". Larry bursts into this after he told Jimmy Gourd that Archibald Asparagus has canceled "Silly Songs with Larry" until further notice.
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* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': Nagisa does this [[spoiler: after he [[ICannotSelfTerminate delivers the deathblow to Koro-sensei.]]]]
* This happens often to several characters in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', especially Armin and Eren, and civilians and soldiers alike have [[TearsOfFear crying breakdowns]] when they see they're doomed to be eaten by Titans. Deaths are rarely dignified.
* Whenever Miyoshi cries in ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', it starts with cute crying and devolves into this -- for example, when Mashiro and Takagi get their first serialized manga.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', anime Episode 21. After Ichigo defeats the giant Soul Reaper gate guard Jidanbō by destroying his axes, Jidanbō starts crying uncontrollably and lamenting their loss.
* A plot point in a ''Manga/CaseClosed'' case. [[spoiler: Two years before the ''Tottori Spider Mansion'' case took place, a girl named Misa Takeda and later her mother Kikuko committed suicide; while Misa's father/Kikuko's husband Nobukazu barely showed any emotions, Nobukazu's younger brother Ryuuji ''wept'' so intensely for their deaths that the neighbors and family members were shocked. This was actually the first hint that Misa was Kikuno and ''Ryuuji's'' love child and Nobukazu was aware of it; when Conan heard about this detail he began to decipher the Takedas' ''[[BigScrewedUpFamily very]]'' [[BigScrewedUpFamily dark family dynamics]]...]]
* Played for laughs in ''[[Manga/{{Karin}} Chibi Vampire Karin]]''. Karin is ''not'' attractive when she cries. Most characters tend to look pointedly away when she does.
* ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'': Rosette has a full-blown snot-dripping sob fest towards the end of the manga [[spoiler:in the afterlife when she realizes that she's dead and admits "Chrono! I don't want to leave you!"]]
* In the ''Fluffy Fluffy Cinnamoroll'' comics from Creator/{{Sanrio}}. [[ProneToTears Mocha]] does this a lot when she's seen bawling her eyes out, one chapter has her frustrated about how her fortune was horrible that month ([[ButtMonkey her luck is usually bad to begin with]]), Cinnamoroll pretended to be a fortune teller and her friends tried to cheer her up with a parfait with a chocolate heart but Espresso (who's usually TheSmartGuy) foolishly thought it was a good idea to use [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Milk's]] head as a table which leads the parfait to fall on the ground with the chocolate heart breaking in half which causes Mocha to cry loudly like a baby.
* Literature Girl in ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'' had one in the skit ''High School Boys and the Way We Are'', breaking down crying ''like a little child'' after a humiliating string of {{Epic Fail}}s.
* ''Manga/DevilMan'':
** In the ''Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman'' OVA, upon finding [[spoiler: Miki's severed head on a pike held by a mob, Akira kills those responsible. He then clutches her head to his chest and begins to cry.]] Akira then falls to his knees, sobbing and screaming as Satan and Psycho Jenny watch from a distance.
** In the 2018 adaptation, ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'', Akira has to break the news to Miki [[spoiler: that her entire family has died]]. As Miki wordlessly retreats to her room, a close-up shows Akira's face contorting as tears begin streaming from his eyes. Akira tilts his head back and sobs loudly in an almost childlike manner. Miki, alone in her room, hears Akira crying and is finally hit by what has happened. Soon both Miki and Akira are heard wailing.
%% * In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', this happens every time anyone cries for real.
* In episode 9 of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', after the rain washes Growlmon's camouflage paint away, Takato becomes so upset (possibly overwhelmed with stress) that he starts sobbing in this manner for almost a minute straight.
* ''Manga/DrStone'': Taiju is prone to this at emotional moments. When he and Yuzuriha finally speak to Senku [[spoiler:over the cell phone]] 50 chapters and one year after parting ways, he's only able to get out an incoherent "SENKU! I... I'm... SENKUUU!", to which Senku responds, "You're not Senku. I'm Senku, dammit."
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** Natsu. [[spoiler: After witnessing Igneel getting killed by Acnologia, Natsu is reduced to tears, unable to tell Igneel all the things he wanted to tell him.]]
** Lucy also does this when [[spoiler: she sacrifices Aquarius to summon the Celestial Spirit King.]]
* ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'' makes it clear in the first few chapters that crying, ''especially'' from very young children, is loud, undignified, and very annoying to most people who are around and don't know what's wrong. Save for a few important moments, it's almost never portrayed as cute whenever the children cry en masse.
* ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'': When Makoto cries, it is full-force waterworks and wailing. She most notably does this on the school roof when she believes that she's screwed everything up and can do nothing to fix it.
* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': This is pretty much standard for Tsubomi when she gets really emotional.
** ''Anime/GlitterForce'': [[EverybodyCries The Precures along with Candy]] sob themselves ragged in the final episode [[spoiler:upon finding out that they have to say goodbye to Candy because the Miracle Jewel doesn't allow traveling between worlds.]]
* At the end of the second episode of ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', Saya [[HeroicBSOD breaks down after killing her first zombie]] and collapses sobbing into Saeko's arms.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'': This is how Esidisi reacts after his arm is chopped off by Joseph, [[spoiler:turns out it is to catch him off-guard as well as a stress-relieving technique]]. This is even translated to [[VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle the fighting game]] as a counter that causes the opponent's Heat Heart Gauge to go down if they attack him while crying.
** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'': Okuyasu does this twice when the topic of Koichi's relationship with Yukako comes up. Also drinking the water in Antonio's restaurant, he starts crying momentarily as a side effect of his eyes being shriveled up and relieved of insomnia.
** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Narancia cries [[spoiler: as he begs Bucciarati not to leave Abbacchio's body behind after his death. In the anime he even trips and falls, proceeding to lay on the ground while sobbing and wailing loudly.]]
*** In the anime Mista, while in Trish's body, lets out a SkywardScream through streams of tears [[spoiler: when Narancia is killed.]]
* ''Manga/{{Kakegurui}}'':
** Itsuki Sumeragi, the first Student Council member that the main character Yumeko Jabami faces off against, turns into an utter crying wreck when her cheating at Double Concentration is not only exposed after Jabami easily beats her in a round but now she's being challenged to put up HER OWN fingernails as collateral!
* ''Manga/KimiNiTodoke:''
** Narrowly avoided when [[ShrinkingViolet Sawako]] was about to cry because her [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl best friends]] helped her get ready for a New Year's date with love interest Kazehaya. Ayane and Chizu realized the [[ProneToTears ultra-sensitive Sawako]] was about to cry because she was so happy to have such great friends, and quickly pleaded with Sawako to hold it in. Sawako stopped herself from turning on the waterworks just in time to save her makeup from becoming a godawful mess.
%% ** This is played straight on several other occasions, though; when crying characters in this series don't just look adorably sad or [[OcularGushers hilarious]], this does happen.
* Aqua from ''LightNovel/KonoSuba'' does this so often, it's practically a RunningGag. Usually, this happens when [[ButtMonkey something goes horribly wrong for her]] or she [[AintTooProudToBeg has to beg Kazuma to do something for her]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDj5fwLLx5A Have a look for yourself]].
* In ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'', Akko does this after she and her friends [[spoiler:cure a ghost of its chronic sadness]] at the magic-themed SchoolFestival. PlayedForLaughs, since they're TearsOfJoy. The announcer comes over to interview her while she's still wailing uncontrollably.
* All 9 members of µ's break down sobbing like this in the 11th episode of season 2 of ''Anime/LoveLive'' during the episode's climactic scene. Not even [[SmallNameBigEgo Nico]] could hold back for long.
* ''Anime/LupinIII'': Zenigata is prone to this, [[AntagonistInMourning usually when he thinks Lupin has been killed]].
* In ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' Mikuru engages in this in the last episode of "Endless Eight." It's one of the few times she's not very cute-looking in the series as she has twin trails of snot running down her face.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}:''
** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', the White Base crew do this after the death of [[spoiler:Guntank co-pilot Ryu Jose]], complete with [[TheGoodCaptain Bright Noah]] collapsing on all fours and sobbing "ItsAllMyFault!". It was considered such {{Narm}}, especially in light of the much more restrained and touching salute they gave the late [[spoiler:Matlida Adjan]], that the compilation movie version completely redid the scene.
** ''Anime/SDGundamForce'''s Bakunetsumaru is prone to doing this, usually for comic effect. At the end of the series, Zero calls him a "Crybaby Samurai"
** ''Anime/GundamBuildDiversReRise'' has a painfully realistic portrayal of this in Episode 20 as two years of trauma come crashing down on [[spoiler: Hiroto after he had to kill the artificial intelligence girl he'd fallen in love with to save GBN from falling apart]]. There is ''nothing'' dignified about the grief in this episode -- it is an obvious and still-raw emotional wound.
* In ''Manga/MyHime'', Aoi's crying is apparently quite dreadful to hear, and when she pretends to be on the verge of tears, her roommate Nao and Nao's ArchEnemy Natsuki actually put aside their differences as she demands.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}:''
** The series plays this straight with several characters, both in the manga and the anime. For instance, the scene where Naruto cries over [[spoiler:Gaara's death in Shippuuden]] is very well done.
** Sasuke and Gaara get their moments, both with different results. Sasuke looks like he's just [[{{Wangst}} taken a level in emo]], while Gaara looks like he's finally let [[TheWoobie a lifetime of pain and torment go]].
* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Kotarou goes into this after he's defeated in the Mahora Tournament after promising to meet Negi in the finals.
* ''Manga/{{Noragami}}'' features [[TheWoobie Yukine]] who cries really really loud on several occasions. Complete with snot and rivers of tears.
* Chapter five of ''Manga/OmujoOmutsuJoshi'' ends with Morei in her room, throwing a tantrum over an AccidentalPervert moment she witnessed between Shouta and Ichigo. The first look at her face in this scene has her bawling her eyes out with snot running freely down one nostril.
* ''Franchise/OnePiece'':
** Creator/EiichiroOda took this trope to a whole new level with the series. ''Everyone'' has done this, though male characters more often than female ones. The artist just loves drawing ''rivers'' of tears mixing with rivers of snot and saliva, apparently. It's Oda's signature move really.
** The most extreme examples (with the above snot and saliva) only happen with males. [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished Females]] only show mucus in the face of [[BreakTheCutie emotional trauma]]. At most, Robin as a child had mucus running down to her mouth in the flashback of her DarkAndTroubledPast while trying to get her mother to acknowledge herself as such, but females' snot is generally kept to realistic levels.
** Pictured is Luffy at the end of the Water Seven arc. As the crew is about to leave the island, the earlier issue of Usopp [[TenMinuteRetirement leaving the crew over Luffy's decision to abandon the crew's ship]] is unresolved, and Luffy, at Zoro's insistence, refuses to readmit Usopp unless Usopp apologizes. When Usopp finally makes a tearful apology and begs to be let back in, Luffy pulls him aboard the Straw Hats' new ship, with both of them crying profusely with snot coming out of their noses. Zoro and Nami are simultaneously annoyed with their crying crewmates and glad that Usopp's back.
** However, Oda seemed to go further into this trope with Rebecca than most other females. For example, her crying in Chapter 789 as she is [[spoiler:nearly forced into killing her aunt Viola]] is the first instance of a female actually crying to the extent of drool, and her TearsOfJoy two chapters later completely ''cover'' Luffy's face as he was resting on her LapPillow.
** Chapter 791, in particular, is ''loaded'' with the trope. Not just Rebecca, but the entire town and even [[spoiler:Kyros]] let out understandably huge amounts of TearsOfJoy following [[spoiler:Doflamingo's defeat]]. That bit wasn't played for comedy, and in the case of [[spoiler:Kyros]] specifically, it's even more justified as [[spoiler:he couldn't cry at all when he was a toy, so he's making up for all the time he spent UnableToCry in one moment]].
** Franky and Chopper are especially prone to this; Franky especially, as it's a RunningGag for him. Luffy's had his moments too, both sad ([[spoiler:Ace's death]]) and happy (reuniting with Usopp after Enies Lobby, the picture up top).
** Chapter 785 has a minor example, with a little girl crying such inelegant tears of relief after her grandmother regains the will to live. It's a welcome tension reliever, considering the rest of the chapter is serious.
** Yamato briefly breaks into this when she realizes that, yes, her cuffs ''were'' rigged by [[ArchnemesisDad Kaido]] to explode should she ever try to remove them. She quickly snaps out of it and [[YoureNotMyFather disowns Kaido on the spot]], resolving to fight against him.
** At the end of the Wano arc, Momonosuke, [[spoiler:who, despite having aged into an adult, is mentally eight years old]], tearfully begs Luffy not to leave, crying so hard that snot comes out of his nose and he can barely get his words out.
* ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'': In “Jyushimatsu Falls in Love” (season 1 episode 9), the [[{{Keet}} normally cheery]] Jyushimatsu breaks down bawling after he gets rejected by a girl he had fallen in love with.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Max blubbered his eyes out after seeing his father lose to Ash.
** Oshawott wailed loudly and inconsolably while saying goodbye to Meloetta.
** In the end of an episode of the Kalos Saga, James' snotty tears look almost familiar to that from One Piece.
** Serena broke down sobbing after she lost her first Pokemon Showcase.
** Clemont sobbed in TearsOfJoy when Bunnelby agreed to join his team.
%%* Happens to nearly all the characters at various points in ''Manga/RaveMaster''.
* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', in the third film, Shinji bursts into a bout of this, letting loose a flood of tears along with the remainder of his sanity, when he realizes that [[spoiler:Kaworu is about to kill himself to stop Fourth Impact]].
* In ''Anime/RODTheTV'' this often happens to Anita.
* In the 1978 film adaptation of ''Chirin No Suzu'' (known as ''Anime/RingingBell'' in the West) by Creator/TakashiYanase. After [[SweetSheep Chirin]] quickly realizes his mother's dead, he starts crying in a surprisingly realistic manner (especially in the Japanese version). He also starts crying loudly after [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he accidentally breaks all the mother bird's eggs]]. While we don't see any saliva or snot, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sad_chirin.jpg Chirin's face is very wrinkly]] and actually resembles the way an infant or toddler would cry in real life.
* In ''Manga/SaintBeast'', Maya's tears tend to go along with full-on tantrums, which work really well on his [[BigBrotherInstinct brother]].
* In ''Manga/SevenSeeds'', Ryo saves Semimaru from death and delivers an [[NotSoStoic uncharacteristic]] speech to him, yelling at him for his carelessness in even dangerous situations. The shock from what happened and realization of the consequences his attitude can have, Semimaru is curled up on the floor, hiding his face and obviously crying like a baby (though he tries to do it quietly) and the only audible thing to hear is repeated apologies.
* Deconstructed in ''Manga/SoulEater'' when, during a very serious fight, Medusa going on about parental abandonment/abuse prompts Deathscythe to exit [[EquippableAlly weapon mode]] and [[ItsPersonal personally threaten his opponent]]. However, even as he grabs her by the scruff, he chokes on his words and can't get anything out other than "Why you...!" and "You little..." Medusa calls him pathetic for not preparing his words properly and throws him away.
%% * A staple of Creator/StudioGhibli movies. Both kids in ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'', Chihiro in ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', Sophie in ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle''...
* In ''Anime/TamagotchiTheMovie'', Chamametchi blubbers after Mametchi gets angry at her, [[spoiler:thinking she's the whole reason he and his gang are in the situation they're in with Tamagotchi Planet having gotten sick from a lack of sunlight]].
* Rossiu gets a moment like this in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. He's got a stoic face for the crowds the whole time he's planning to sacrifice some of them to save all of them. But in private (as revealed by someone close to him), he was crying his heart out into his bed. It may have been the hardest thing he ever had to do, but he was going to do it.
* ''Manga/TerraforMARS'': [[TheHero Akari]] has himself a good cry when he admits he loved his childhood friend after her death. While it's a little more subdued in the manga, the anime has his face covered in streams of tears, mucus, and saliva. Akari even sniffles and snorts back snot.
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'': In season 2, [[StockShonenHero Subaru]] does this in episode 16 out of joy from seeing his partner Thomas's [[spoiler:heartfelt reunion with his long-lost sister Ruby]].
* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': Kaneki is reduced to this at the end of the first episode, tears and snot running down his face even as he refuses to take human flesh from Touka, screaming that he's still human, ''not'' a Ghoul. Touka, who is [[NoSympathy less than sympathetic]], eventually loses her patience and literally shoves a piece of human meat down his throat.
* ''Anime/TokyoGodfathers'': Pretty much Hana's default method of crying, especially when she is reunited with her foster mother. Also Miyuki and Sachiko. Seriously, nobody cries pretty in this movie.
* In the ''Anime/{{Trigun}}'' anime, when Vash wakes up after [[spoiler: being forced to kill Legato after a series-long vow of pacifism]] the audience doesn't get to see much of him actually crying but they do get to hear some uncomfortably anguished wailing.
* In ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'' Sato bursts out into screaming, tortured wails at the end of episode 13. Although mostly off-screen, what we see is not at all pretty.
* In ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'', Mitsuki Yano does this at the end of Volume 7. [[spoiler:At the end of the previous volume, she'd made a LoveConfession to her best friend Hime, who not only turns it down, but resigns from the salon where they both work to avoid hurting Mitsuki, which would almost certainly result in them never seeing each other again. Mitsuki pleads with Hime to reconsider, even offering to retract her confession, but Hime sadly says they can't go back to the way they used to be.]] Mitsuki starts loudly sobbing and buries her head in Hime's chest, who mentally apologizes to Mitsuki before leaving the room, sitting on the stairs and crying herself.
* Yuri Katsuki from ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' does this while calling out [[spoiler:Victor, who told Yuri he would resign from being his coach if he didn't place on the podium]] for his lack of faith in him.
* Nearly every book owner or mamono/mamodo (save resident badass Brago) breaks out into these in ''Konjiki no Gash Bell'' / ''Manga/ZatchBell'', mostly [[spoiler:whenever a mamodo’s book gets burnt, meaning they have to leave their partner and return to the mamodo world.]]
* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'':
** [[spoiler:Sakura tries to comfort Saki who's crying after experiencing heartbreak towards her PrecociousCrush. [[MoodWhiplash Sakura then starts hilariously sobbing herself]].]]
** [[spoiler:After a highly successful relief concert to help Saga after a flood, Kotaro is so proud of the girls that he goes into the PoseOfSupplication and cries messily.]]
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* Whatever else you may say about him, American President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon [[HappilyMarried loved his wife]] and broke down at her funeral, sobbing openly, profusely, and at times uncontrollably during the ceremony.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[SarcasmMode Truly]] [[ManlyTears the manliest of tears]].]]

* In ''Fanfic/LucysUnwantedHouseGuest'', after [[Manga/FairyTail Lisanna]] [[RonTheDeathEater hires some thugs to beat up Lucy]], Lisanna's older siblings, Mirajane and Elfman, [[IHaveNoSon disown her]]. In Mirajane's case, she even hiccups and stutters as she cries, and Lisanna hearing this causes her to "start crying like a baby."

** In ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', [[EmotionalBruiser Gentaro]] cries inelegantly after JerkJock Shun Daimonji breaks down in tears and tells him about [[WellDoneSonGuy how much pressure and stress his father puts on him to be the "King" of the school]]. [[MoodWhiplash It is]] [[NarmCharm hilarious]].

* In ''Series/WinterSonata'', a [[DrowningMySorrows drunk]] [[TheOjou Oh]] [[SmugSnake Chelin]] loses it [[spoiler: after she proposes that "the jilted ones" (she and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Sang-hyuk)]] [[PairTheSpares start dating]].]] She's the sole blubbering mess while [[TenderTears everyone]] [[SingleTear else]] in the series [[ManlyTears cries]] so [[TearfulSmile carefully]].

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'''s Future Past 2 DLC [[spoiler: Owain, the future son of Lissa]] goes into a sobbing fit upon being reunited with [[spoiler: his mother]]. It gets to the point that he can barely speak properly as he chews himself out. Considering [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness the one]] [[LargeHam who's]] [[HotBlooded doing it]], it's quite painful to read.

* Whatever else you may say about him, American President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon [[PetTheDog loved ]][[HappilyMarried his wife]] and broke down at her funeral, sobbing openly, profusely, and at times uncontrollably during the ceremony.

** Similarly, in Europe in TheHighMiddleAges, it was surprisingly appropriate for a KnightInShiningArmor to weep copiously under certain circumstances, such as the Crusaders did [[TearsOfJoy when they finally reached Jerusalem]] [[UsefulNotes/TheCrusades in 1099]].

* The [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish and Scottish]] tradition of [[DeathWail keening]] (singing a lament combined with wailing) over the body during the funeral procession and at the burial site is the human equivalent of the death wail of the [[OurBansheesAreLouder Banshee]], or ''bean-sídhe'' ("the woman of [[TheFairFolk the fairy folk]]''), who is a guardian spirit of the old Gaelic families; she [[OneWomanWail wails and cries through the night]] [[PortentOfDoom to warn "her" family that one of them will soon die]].

** The ancient Babylonians had a New Year's festival called Akitu, where the high priest customarily dragged the king by the ear and [[ArmorPiercingSlap slapped him in the face as hard as he could]]. If the king burst into tears, then he was still in the gods' favor. If not, then he clearly wasn't fit to rule.

->'''Mr. Conductor:''' I have some time. I'll tell you a story about Henry, the big green engine. But I must warn you... ''(voice breaks)'' It's a very sad story! ''(he begins sobbing hysterically)''

* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'': Mr. Conductor does this in the episode "Does It Bite?" when he is about to tell Tanya and Matt "[[Recap//ThomasAndFriendsS1E3TheSadStoryOfHenry The Sad Story of Henry]]". He ends up sobbing hysterically as he warns the children that it's a very sad story. He does this again before he tells [[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E4EdwardGordonAndHenry the second half]].

* ''Manga/TerraFormars'': [[TheHero Akari]] has himself a good cry when he admits he loved his childhood friend after her death. While it's a little more subdued in the manga, the anime has his face covered in streams of tears, mucus, and saliva. Akari even sniffles and snorts back snot.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'', Credenza [[http://thearchipelago.smackjeeves.com/comics/1909134/book-5-page-137/ sobs so suddenly and violently]] that she spooks Raven enough for him to form a crucifix with his fingers.

--> (Skippy sniffles, wiping his nose with his paw.)
-->'''Slappy''': Ohhhh (handing tissue), use a tissue.
-->(Skippy, shown with red, puffy eyes and runny nose, blows hard on the tissue, which covers him.)

** ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'': This is how Esidisi reacts after his arm is chopped off by Joseph, [[spoiler:turns out it is to catch him off-guard as well as a stress-relieving technique]]. This is even translated to [[VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle the fighting game]] as a counter that causes the opponent's Heat Heart Gauge to go down if they attack him while crying.
** ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'': Okuyasu does this twice when the topic of Koichi's relationship with Yukako comes up. Also drinking the water in Antonio's restaurant, he starts crying momentarily as a side effect of his eyes being shriveled up and relieved of insomnia.
** ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Narancia cries [[spoiler: as he begs Bucciarati not to leave Abbacchio's body behind after his death. In the anime he even trips and falls, proceeding to lay on the ground while sobbing and wailing loudly.]]

* A picture from the ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' AskBlog Ask-II-Humanized has Baseball [[https://ask-ii-humanized.tumblr.com/post/169750804942/things-have-been-gloomy-since-balloon-and wailing over Nickel's elimination]].

* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'': In season 2, [[StockShoenenHero Subaru]] does this in episode 16 out of joy from seeing his partner Thomas's [[spoiler:heartfelt reunion with his long-lost sister Ruby]].

* In the ''Series/TheGoldbergs'', there was one episode where Erica was brokenhearted by her first love, that not even her parents could comprehend what she's saying while she's crying. Only Barry does, as he, himself, has experienced what she's going through.

** ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'': This is how Esidisi reacts after his arm is chopped off by Joseph, [[spoiler:turns out it is to catch him off-guard as well as a stress-relieving technique]]. This is even translated to the [[VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle the fighting game]] as a counter that causes the opponent's Heat Heart Gauge to go down if they attack him while crying.

* During the tribute show for Wrestling/EddieGuerrero, Wrestling/ChrisBenoit can be seen weeping uncontrollably every time he's on camera. The two were HeterosexualLifePartners, and many believe that Eddie's death [[DespairEventHorizon was the beginning of the end for Chris]].