History ManlyTears / ComicBooks

** ComicBook/{{Magneto}} seems like he has a heart of stone, but once in a while he'll be moved to waterworks e.g in ''ComicBook/XMenRed2023'' [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTVa8nGLqwOnLny2KjorEOa-zELqbQFOSRhCQ&usqp=CAU when he cannot bring Anya back to life]] and another reality [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQjQ_d4vku0SrRN6-lM2G5BG8zt89YJhtAocUdSZeMCsKdHKoct he cried over the death of his daughter]] ComicBook/{{Polaris}}. Less touchingly he cried during his VillainousBreakdown in ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'' before getting executed.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': In issue #588, [[spoiler: after Johnny Storm dies]], The Thing challenges the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] and [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] to a fight just to vent his anger out on something. After briefly beating them around for a bit, Ben soon breaks down as Hulk (whom he had just been beating on) gives him a CoolDownHug, but the real [[TearJerker kicker]] is Thor whose is overlooking all this and [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/5kNA9CBecwtGmuToMI7ODVLo-vWxChN2iNzkhyhtT8fBKwJiV-RNg77AhKPcxHnzSzt2SwrgnvE=s1600 crying softly]].

** Cap in a earlier Avengers comic produces some tears [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSIWCbRrXStneWpM8SC5IBnbYFBGekUp04ykw&usqp=CAU over the past]].

** Extremely dark version, but in ''Comicbook/OldManLogan'' Cap lays in the rubble of the White House [[https://i.imgur.com/tz9thrZ.jpg cries tears of despair]] as Red Skull stands over him gloating before taking [[EyeScream his eyes out]].

** ComicBook/{{Magneto}} seems like he has a heart of stone, but once in a while he’ll be moved to waterworks e.g in one reality [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQjQ_d4vku0SrRN6-lM2G5BG8zt89YJhtAocUdSZeMCsKdHKoct he cried over the death of his daughter]] ComicBook/{{Polaris}}. Less touchingly he cried during his VillainousBreakdown in ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'' before getting executed.

* You think [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Doctor Victor Von Doom]] one of baddest and stone cold villains in Franchise/MarvelUniverse can't cry at needless loss of innocent life? [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRw5YktqyUvcCNmwwlL1cz6eYfUU_Kn9n5aEOg-P7-rRiOIpxqk Guess again]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' many of the macho and grizzled characters in the series are willingly to cry e.g Omni-Man bursts into tears and flies off at his son Mark saying that no matter how many people he loses due being TheAgeless he‘ll still have his dad. Mark himself cries many times, the most TearJerker example being [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/9c/ca/0a9cca05679f43e61a508ae218c3ba80.jpg when he meets his baby daughter]] after nearly losing her mother Eve.

* There are several examples in ''Ultimate Fallout'', as the ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan (the Spider-Man of the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe) has died. In the end of the comic, even Nick Fury (who hardly ever shows any emotional reaction) bursts in tears over the loss.
** Speaking of Spider-Man who could forget his tears shed over the [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQADLGDDuMZhak9K0FNwG_9vEIblgvw-MUOpyLQGDBW11NyeKw_ learning]] fact with great power there must also come great responsibility. [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/53/0b/b0/530bb0d2f37b1815f9ddfd884674d589.jpg Spidey in general]] doesn’t hesitate to let out the water works.

* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica in the final issue of [[MarvelUniverse Marvel's]] ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8d/72/8b/8d728b0e0090b5150872e944df8d651a.jpg after seeing the destruction and pain he's creating by fighting]].

* In the first issue of the ''Comicbook/DaredevilBornAgain'' storyline Matt Murdock, after suffering deep professional and personal loss at the hands of Wilson Fisk a.k.a. ''ComicBook/TheKingpin'' for what appears to be a period of several weeks, sees his apartment blown up before his eyes and is left jobless and homeless. After discovering proof of Fisk's involvement amongst the ruins of what was once his home he finally breaks down in tears while holding what is left of his costume in his hands.

* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica in the final issue of [[MarvelUniverse Marvel's]] ''Comicbook/CivilWar'' [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8d/72/8b/8d728b0e0090b5150872e944df8d651a.jpg after seeing the destruction and pain he's creating by fighting]].

** Cap in a earlier Avengers comic produces some tears [[http://www.funnybookbabylon.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/avengers277.jpg over the past]].

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': In issue #588, [[spoiler: after Johnny Storm dies]], The Thing challenges the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] and ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] to a fight just to vent his anger out on something. After briefly beating them around for a bit, Ben soon breaks down as Hulk (whom he had just been beating on) gives him a CoolDownHug, but the real [[TearJerker kicker]] is Thor whose is overlooking all this and [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/5kNA9CBecwtGmuToMI7ODVLo-vWxChN2iNzkhyhtT8fBKwJiV-RNg77AhKPcxHnzSzt2SwrgnvE=s1600 crying softly]].

* In ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' #588 [[spoiler: after Johnny Storm dies]] The Thing challenges ComicBook/TheHulk and ComicBook/{{Thor}} to a fight just to vent his anger out on something. After briefly beating them around for a bit, Ben soon breaks down as Hulk (whom he had just been beating on) gives him a CoolDownHug, but the real [[TearJerker kicker]] is Thor whose is overlooking all this and [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/5kNA9CBecwtGmuToMI7ODVLo-vWxChN2iNzkhyhtT8fBKwJiV-RNg77AhKPcxHnzSzt2SwrgnvE=s1600 crying softly]].

* Not even the biggest and baddest of [[BigBad villains]] in comics aren't free from crying, see [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11114/111142536/5219357-fsdfsdf.png Darkseid]] or [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LdDehM0phY0/TKXzi7KnN5I/AAAAAAAAACk/cebPP7FyMts/s1600/ThanosTears.jpg Thanos]].

*** Batman also breaks down when Dick Grayson aka Nightwing [[spoiler: dies in ''ComicBook/{{Injustice}}'' saying he's lost his son]].

** ComicBook/{{Beast}} readily cries whether it be in grief due his mutation or in happiness to see his friends alive usually with a crushing BearHug.

*** [[spoiler: It's all the more effective as Rorschach takes his mask off when he cries, despite him considering TheMask his "true face", but when it comes to facing his own death he decides to die as Walter Kovacs instead of Rorschach]].

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Captain America met the DespairEventHorizon shortly after being unfrozen. He reunited with Bucky, now an old man married to his former girlfriend, and all his family have died long ago. Everything he ever loved is dead. He was about to start crying, until Nick Fury pointed a nearby American flag.

* In ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' #588 [[spoiler: after Johnny Storm dies]] The Thing challenges ComicBook/TheHulk and ComicBook/{{Thor}} to a fight just to vent his anger out on something. After briefly beating them around for a bit Ben soon breaks down as Hulk (whom just been beating on) gives him a CoolDownHug, but the real [[TearJerker kicker]] is Thor whose is overlooking all this and [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/5kNA9CBecwtGmuToMI7ODVLo-vWxChN2iNzkhyhtT8fBKwJiV-RNg77AhKPcxHnzSzt2SwrgnvE=s1600 crying softly]].

* At the end of ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}'' Barry Allen delivers a letter from Bruce's father Thomas Wayne to his son after explaining the BadFuture he had caused. Batman is shocked when he sees who the letter is from but after Flash calms him down and makes him sit down Batman then removes his cowl and reads the letter. But by the time he finished reading Bruce had already broken out into [[https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tv/image/1442/48/1442482785132.jpg big bat tears]] and thanked Barry deeply.

** ComicBook/ProfessorX being a good sweet man at heart is adverse to tears [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/o2MPhrGKEORzC0RFe1okS41JTD7-pvTbwbUNfRGK-93K4LBoPLl4f1-yP-RMji7U2tcpmBFHC_Oc=s0 see the finale]] of ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills''.

*** Even perennial grouch J. Jonah Jameson [[https://img.playbuzz.com/image/upload/q_auto:good,f_auto,fl_lossy,w_640,c_limit/v1535420853/yv3e0d22gf7xaewaq8lg.png can cry as well]].

-->'''Batman''': "Your one hell of a messenger".

* DC's The Ray foolishly caused his father to go into respiratory arrest and saved him with mouth-to-mouth. His father immediately berated him for his stupidity, but Ray ignored him in his relief that he was alive, which was so great that he [[ManlyTears started to cry]]. His father realized it, stopped the scolding, and tried to put his arm about him. [[DontYouDarePityMe Ray angrily shrugged it off]]. (A second attempt was more successful.)

** ComicBook/{{Magneto}} seems like he has a heart of stone, but once in a while he’ll be moved to waterworks e.g in one reality [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQjQ_d4vku0SrRN6-lM2G5BG8zt89YJhtAocUdSZeMCsKdHKoct he cried over the death of his daughter]] ComicBook/{{Polaris}}. Less touchingly he cried during his VillainousBreakdown in ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'' before getting executed.

* You think Doctor Victor Von [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Doom]] one of baddest and stone cold villains in Franchise/MarvelUniverse can't cry at needless loss of innocent life? [[https://img.fireden.net/v/image/1536/17/1536177987598.png Guess again]].

** Batman also burst into tears when ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'' made echoes of his parents that [[http://i.imgur.com/tkaMg1j.png faded away]] when Bruce hugged them, cruel but it was the only way to stop him as he had [[SwappedRoles swapped powers with Superman]] and had gone crazy as result.

* Gambit during [[spoiler:the last moments of Rogue's life during ''ComicBook/XMen: The End''.]]

* Infamously Superman and Batman [[http://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/0/4/1/41041.jpg?v=1 both a shed tear]] watching some tentacle plant things live, mate and die.

** Extremely dark version, but in ''Comicbook/OldManLogan'' Cap lying in the rubble of the White House [[https://i.imgur.com/tz9thrZ.jpg cries tears of despair]] as Red Skull stand over him gloating before taking [[EyeScream his eyes out]].

* In the first novel of the Literature/NewJediOrder series, Chewbacca is killed when a moon crashes into its planet. Not long after, a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments series of one shot comics was released in tribute to the big walking carpet]]. The gist is that R2-D2 and C-3PO go around to various heroes and ask them for their thoughts on Chewbacca and any stories they have to share. Luke Skywalker talks about feeling Chewie's death through the Force and adds comic panels of what happened to his words. At the very end, [[TearJerker Han Solo is shown standing alone in the Millennium Falcon's cockpit, face in one hand and tears streaming down his cheeks]].

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