History Main / ManlyTears

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* [[TearsOfAwe Seeing something beautiful]] like a finely crafted weapon, or a wild and beautiful landscape. (This can overlap with patriotic pride if the beautiful sight is in/from his home country.)

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).

* ''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.
* Occurs at the ending of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' with Yao.
* ''{{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.
-->"That's Phil's boy!"
* 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.

* ''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.

* Charlie Barkin, a large, masculine dog, sheds a manly tear at the end of ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven''. As does his friend earlier on.

* 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.

* ''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.

* ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'': [[HandicappedBadass Garrett]] sheds a tear during the reprise of "I Stand Alone" as he leaves Kayley.
* 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.
* 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.

* 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.]]

* ''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.

* In ''Film/{{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.]]

* In ''Film/{{Balto}}''

* ''UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} wept.'' - [[Literature/TheFourGospels John 11:35]], the shortest passage in The Bible.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}'' and Phil cry Manly Tears over Meg's DisneyDeath. Phil also sheds a [[TearsofJoy Tear of Joy]] in the movie's finale.

* [[TearsOfAwe Seeing something beautiful]] like a finely crafted weapon, or a wild and beautiful landscape.

Contrast SandInMyEyes, where the man denies to the end that he is crying. See also NotSoStoic and BreakTheBadass. May be in the form of a SingleTear (which generally makes it ''even'' manlier)

* ''UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} wept.'' - [[Literature/TheFourGospels John 11:35]]

* {{WesternAnimation/Hercules}} and Phil cry Manly Tears over Meg's {{Disney Death}}. Phil also sheds a [[TearsofJoy Tear of Joy]] in the movie's finale.
* Disney's [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDameDisney Quasimodo]] has a few crying scenes, most memorably when he [[AllLoveIsUnrequited sees Esmeralda and Phoebus kissing]] and at Esmeralda's {{Disney Death}}. Some people might argue that these are {{Tender Tears}}, 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.
* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Great Mouse Detective}}''

* Moses in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Prince of Egypt}}'', 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.

** It’s PlayedForLaughs but Adult Spider-Man crying in the shower (in full costume) after getting divorced from MJ is still kinda sad.

** Occurs near the end of the movie with Basil himself after Olivia goes back to Scotland, even though tears are not visible.

* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': All seven dwarfs cry over Snow White's DisneyDeath. That includes [[GrumpyBear 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.

* Disney's [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDame Quasimodo]] has a few crying scenes, most memorably when he [[AllLoveIsUnrequited sees Esmeralda and Phoebus kissing]] and at Esmeralda's {{Disney Death}}. Some people might argue that these are {{Tender Tears}}, 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.

* Patriotic pride, especially if he's military and/or his country's anthem is playing.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Mr. Incredible holds up fine under torture, but he breaks down and sobs like a child when he is led to believe that [[spoiler:Syndrome killed his wife and children. (They turn out to be all right.)]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman'' sees Jonathan Kent, Bibbo Bibboski, Jimmy Olsen, and one of Superman's pallbearers cry as a reaction to the titular event.

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.

* 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.

* 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.