History ManlyTears / LiveActionTV

** In the [[spoiler:season 2 finale, Din Djarin, the titular Mandalorian, allows Grogu to leave with Luke Skywalker to train as a Jedi, and reveals his face to Grogu for the first and perhaps last time. As Luke takes the child back to his X-Wing, Din's [[TryingNotToCry eyes are visibly brimming with tears]] as he watches the child he grew to see as a son leave.]]

** In the [[spoiler:season 2 finale The Mandalorian allows his adopted son Grogu to leave with Luke Skywalker to train as a Jedi, and reveals his face to Grogu for the first and perhaps last time. As Luke takes the child back to his X-Wing Mando is clearly holding back manly tears watching his son leave.]]

** In the [[spoiler:season 2 finale The Mandalorian allows his adopted son Grogu to leave with Luke Skywalker to train as a Jedi, and reveals his face to Grogu for the first and perhaps last time. As Luke takes the child back to his X-Wing Mando produces manly tears watching his son leave.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' had Picard, a BadassBookworm if ever there was one, shedding a few many tears here and there. Two of the most memorable came consecutively in Season 4. After being cybernetically [[BodySnatcher body-snatched]] and literally {{Mind Rape}}d by the Borg, a scene shows them continuing to upgrade and alter his body while a single tear rolls down his otherwise impassive face, revealing that he's still FightingFromTheInside. In the next episode, he breaks down completely into ground-punching, blubbering tears when he tells his brother about what happened and how he blames himself for not being good or strong enough to stop it. With any other actor, it might've come across as {{Narm}}; with Creator/PatrickStewart, it's one of the most powerful TearJerker moments in the franchise.

** In "The Impossible Box", Narek's eyes become very red and he sheds tears after leaving [[spoiler:Soji to die]].

** During his last episode before leaving the show, a moving tribute from his colleagues managed to make self-proclaimed [[BritishStuffiness Stuffy Brit]] John Oliver break down and cry.
** Something similar happened to Jon during his last episode as host. At one point former correspondent Creator/StephenColbert appeared to talk to him. He then went off-script to pay tribute to Jon for his work over the years, and to express his admiration and gratitude towards him on behalf of the correspondents and staff. Jon was so moved that, as the show went to commercial, he buried his head in Stephen's shoulder and cried. All the returning correspondents then piled onto them for a group hug, while chanting: "Made him cry! Made him cry!"

** During his last episode before leaving the show, a moving tribute from his colleagues managed to make John Oliver [[note]] who often jokes about being a [[BritishStuffiness Stuffy Brit]] who is bad at dealing with emotions [[/note]] break down and cry.

** During his last episode before leaving the show, a moving tribute from his colleagues managed to make John Oliver [[note]] who often jokes about being a [[BritishStuffiness stuffy Brit]] who is bad at dealing with emotions [[/note]] break down and cry.
** Something similar happened to Jon during his last episode as host. At one point former correspondent Creator/StephenColbert appeared to talk to Jon. He then went off-script to thank Jon for his work over the years, and to express his admiration and gratitude towards him on behalf of the correspondents and staff. Jon was so moved that, as the show went to commercial, he buried his head in Stephen's shoulder and cried. All the returning correspondents then piled onto them for a group hug, while chanting: "Made him cry! Made him cry!"

** During his last episode before leaving the show, a moving tribute from his colleagues managed to make John Oliver cry.

** In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", Elnor sobs in Raffi's arms after [[spoiler:Picard succumbs to his neurodegenerative disorder]].

* The series after, ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', had Sisko who was always good for a few ManlyTears especially where his son and late wife were concerned, but the real kicker came at the end of [[spoiler:Season 6 when Jadzia Dax is killed and Worf, ''Worf'' of all people openly weeps over her body.]]
* In the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' altered-timeline episode "Twilight", Archer (who's suffering from over ten years of amnesia) breaks down into tears when he learns that [[spoiler:Earth has been destroyed]].

** The look on Uncle Phil's face indicates that he's very close to bursting into tears himself.

* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'': Watson spends most of his time early in the reunion episode "Hunt for the Tiger" crying over presumed dead Holmes. But when Holmes finally reveals himself, alive, to his oldest friend, it's Holmes -- "brain without a heart" Sherlock Holmes -- who buries his face his hands and weeps. The cost of his isolation from his London family comes clear in those tears.

** Later and in a particularly [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]] example, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]]. Rory breaks down a little when he [[spoiler:first sees his baby daughter, Melody.]] Crying Roman with a baby...

* Derek gets one of these in ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''. Mostly a cold, lone and aloof cynic, he's [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments moved to tears when he accidentally sees Cameron dancing ballet by herself.]]

* ''Series/WithoutATrace''. After spending the day searching for his missing, cancer-stricken aunt, along the way learning that she's been committing [[MercyKill mercy kills]] of people in her support group and finally finding her near death (she decided to kill herself upon that she herself didn't have much time left), an exhausted and grieving Martin Fitzgerald breaks down in fellow agent Samantha Spade's arms.
** Agent Danny Taylor is clearly on the verge of these when Martin himself is shot.

-->'''Archie:''' [[spoiler:It wasn't supposed to be like this. I was supposed to be the first one to go. I always used to kid you about you going first. You know I never meant none of that, and that morning when you were laying there. I was shaking you and yelling at you to go down and fix my breakfast. I didn't know. You had no right to leave me that way!]]
* Played with in the finale of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. Michael has been accused of being a "robot" for his inability to cry, mainly by his brother GOB, who cries in a decidedly unmanly, blubbering fashion when any of his family demonstrates actual affection for him. Then when Michael is making a speech about how the past couple of years of trying to save the Bluth company have paid off, he sheds a few ManlyTears... which everyone present finds disturbing and pathetic. GOB mocks him for it.

** G'Kar shed ManlyTears a couple times, once after his vision of his father, G'Quon and G'Lan (a vision given him by Kosh) in "Dust to Dust"; and another episode with himself and Delenn both in tears when Delenn is apologizing for holding back information on the Shadows from him when they were aiding the Centauri in their war against the Narn, which resulted in millions getting killed on his homeworld.

** Episode 9 "Why We Fight" features the discovery of a concentration camp. Liebgott, who is Jewish himself, is forced to translate to the prisoners that they'll have to close the camp back up before they can return with supplies. Afterwards he's seen collapsing crying into his hands on the wagon.

** Leo's tears are a tip-off to Phoebe at one point. The Source tells Phoebe that someone has died, but she doesn't believe him, and sends Leo to check. When Leo returns crying, Phoebe knows immediately it is Piper who is dead.

* Troy from ''Series/{{Community}}'' likes to ''pretend'' he has these, being an ex-Jock, when in truth he has more TenderTears than the rest of the cast combined.

** One of the characters in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]] is a boy about to serve in World War I. At the end, the Doctor and Martha offer to take him with them, but he declines, saying a war is coming, and that he must take part (he saw the future from a bit of {{Phlebotinum}}). The Doctor and Martha's next stop is in the present day, where the boy is one of the last living soldiers of the Great War, as a memorial is held. Both the speech and the sight of that terrible and wonderful Doctor moves him to some well deserved manly tears.

* On ''Series/{{ER}}'', after mishandling a delivery that results in the death of the mother, Dr. Green dissolves into tears while on the train ride home. Later that season, stern, gruff Benton completely breaks down over the death of his beloved mother. Carter sheds these pretty often too--after his friend's suicide, while grappling with drug addiction, and most tragically, after his son is stillborn.

** Ross breaks down when Rachel ends their relationship over his indiscretion with the copy girl, saying "This can't be it." She replies "Then how come it is?" Their fight and breakup was so devastating that the writers purposefully made all of Monica and Chandler's fights funny and not SeriousBusiness.

** Even Joey apparently once cried, although we don't get to see it, when he lost a hand of poker ("Read 'em and weep!" "...And then he ''did''").

** Howland Reed openly wept when his son Jojen told him of his vision-dream, because he correctly interpreted that it meant his liege-lord and great friend Eddard Stark had been killed.

* In ''Series/{{Glue}}'', James sheds ManlyTears in almost every episode (occasionally crossing into InelegantBlubbering, played for drama). To be fair, [[spoiler:death of a boyfriend, arrests, kidnappings, beatings and near-death experiences]] will do that to you.

** And then he weeps some more in Season 2, when confronted with his guilt for running away when they [[spoiler:pulled the plug on his dad]].

* The ''Series/LonesomeDove'' mini-series had its share of ManlyTears, but only once was it pointed out. [[ResignedToTheCall July Johnson]], a sheriff from Arkansas, had gone to find an outlaw. While he was away, his pregnant wife ran off to Nebraska to find a former lover of hers. July abandons his pursuit to go find her and it costs him his home, his job, and the lives of his son, deputy, and a girl. Months pass, and he ends up staying staying the night at the ranch of a woman named Clara. She reveals that July's wife had stayed there about a week ago. While there, she gave birth and abandoned the baby to Clara. Upon hearing this news, July bows his head and covers his eyes. Clara ushers her daughters into another room.

** Uther Pendragon on , when his son Arthur is mortally wounded, falls to his knees and sobs his heart out in front of half the knights and people of Camelot. Later he sits by Arthur's bedside, tears still drying on his cheeks, trying to ease Arthur's suffering. For someone who's been the series' resident hardass up until that moment, it's incredibly moving.

* ''Series/TheMiddle'' takes a more humorous approach to this when Axl is dumped by his perfect girlfriend. Frankie seizes to opportunity to get affectionate with her son until they are found by Mike. The following day, Frankie plays an old answering machine tape containing Mike's weeping voice begging Frankie to take him back. Mike discovers this and feels the need to explain to Axl that women sometimes find it cute when men weep.

* A ''female'' example on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', when Gibbs gets blown up and is comatose. While every member of the team is moping, ActionGirl Ziva nearly gets into a CatFight with [[TheChick Abby]] after making a bad joke. Later on, they cut to her just staring into the bathroom mirror, stone-faced, as Abby and Ducky's recriminations play in voice over and tears roll down her face. She breaks down even harder when [[spoiler:the time came that she brought Gibbs back to his old self]] both from [[spoiler:reliving the time he shot her brother dead and her grief in general of getting Gibbs to remember finally kicking in]]. When Gibbs is reliving his [[spoiler:family's death]], ''[[TheStoic Gibbs]]'' actually burts into these. Good ''God'', this episode dehydrates the soul.

* ''Series/TheRifleman'' had a couple memorable ones. Once when Lucas was challenged by a kid that was the son of a man he killed in the war, the first man he ever killed, he went home and broke down in front of Micah as he told the story. It worked well for the scene and really showed off Chuck Connors' acting chops. The situation was completely reversed when Micah heard that a man who was going to kill him a long time ago was only a town away, and he reverted back to his former drunken self. He didn't hold himself together nearly as well as Lucas, though.

* Dr. Cox from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. He loses two patients due to a risky and quickly-made decision to transplant organs that turned out to be infected, but keeps it together. [[spoiler:Then, he loses a third patient who he liked and could have waited a month for an extra kidney. He loses it. Cue the]] manly tears.

* Parodied/juxtaposed in the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' Season 9 episode "The Serenity Now", when Jerry finds himself surprised at the fact that he is crying over the end of another short-lived relationship.

* The finale of the first series of ''Series/SirensUK'' has Stuart attempting to come to grips with losing a father he never really knew. Stuart believes he is incapable of crying, but by the end he climbs on top of a ambulance, strips down to his boxers, stretches out on the roof and cries in the sun.

* Tony cries several times over the course of ''Series/TheSopranos'' - usually with good reason - but perhaps never as heart wrenchingly as in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oixf3UISkJs the penultimate scene of the final episode]], in which he sheds a single tear when he realizes that [[spoiler:Uncle Junior, advanced in his dementia and doomed to spend the rest of his life in a dingy state facility, no longer remembers his family or anything he ever accomplished.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' had Picard, a BadassBookworm if ever there was one, shedding a few many tears here and there. Two of the most memorable came consecutively in Season 4. After being cybernetically [[BodySnatcher body-snatched]] and literally {{Mind Rape}}d by the Borg, a scene shows them continuing to upgrade and alter his body while a single tear rolls down his otherwise impassive face, revealing that he's still FightingFromTheInside. In the next episode, he breaks down completely into ground-punching, blubbering tears when he tells his brother about what happened and how he blames himself for not being good or strong enough to stop it. With any other actor, it might've come across as {{Narm}}: with Creator/PatrickStewart, it's one of the most powerful TearJerker moments in the franchise.

** Rick sobs really hard when he finds out [[spoiler: his wife died in childbirth]]. He later sobs when [[spoiler: he find's his infant daughter Judith's baby carrier empty and full of blood.]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor, aside from being fairly HotBlooded, expresses either amusement, indignation or rage more than any other emotions, which makes the flow of tears in the second and third season finales of the new series incredibly potent.
** Three words, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Rose Tyler, I..."]]
** He was also clearly close to tears at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]] (during a particularly emotional scene between the Doctor and the Master), and [[spoiler:just before his regeneration in]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]].
** Wilfred Mott is good for these moments in the fourth season, especially in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]] and ''especially'' in "Journey's End". He usually accompanies his tears with a manly salute to add that extra kick. Ramped UpToEleven in "The End of Time".

** In the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novel ''Halflife'', the Doctor cries because, due to a situation that blurred the line between FreakyFriday and PersonalitySwap, he experienced firsthand just how scary it is to be one of his companions, following around an [[{{Determinator}} incredibly brave]] WalkingDisasterArea. He really doesn't cry often at all — it's mentioned at the beginning of the same book that no one ever saw him crying when his daughter died. He mourned, all right, but was never seen to shed so much as a single tear.
** The Ninth Doctor goes through a hell of a lot in his single season, from once again [[NotQuiteDead meeting the enemy he literally gave up everything to defeat]], to getting a [[HannibalLecture a verbal jab from a prisoner he's about to kill]], to seemingly watch Rose die ''twice'', and though his expressions of anguish are heart-wrenching, he doesn't break down crying. In all of his time onscreen, the Doctor cries [[SingleTear one single tear]]: for the loss of the Time Lords as seen in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]]. [[TearJerker And it is very well deserved]]. Nine definitely came close at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek "Dalek"]], just after he lowers the gun. He goes from raging about the Daleks to choking on his words in about five seconds, and it's very well done.

** The Doctor cries quite a lot at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]] as [[spoiler:the TARDIS' human form dies and disintegrates and she goes back to being a machine.]]
** The little show of humany-wumany emotion at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWho2011CSTheDoctorTheWidowAndTheWardrobe "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"]].
** And twice in Series 7 Part 2: Once in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten "The Rings of Akhaten"]] in his usual speech-making, and again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]].
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven "Death in Heaven"]], the usually tough and stoic Twelfth Doctor sinks to the TARDIS floor in tears when he [[spoiler: finds out that Missy lied about the coordinates to Gallifrey, and that there is actually nothing there, meaning that his home planet is still lost.]]
** Twelve also cries a bit in [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]]. He pretends not to be, but River notices and comments on it later (well, [[TimeyWimeyBall later from her perspective]]).