History PlayingWith / SwissArmyTears

** The leader of tear-makers [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes his wrong-doings and sets the child slaves free, and decides to heal Bob on his own.

** A single tear brings everyone who died during the work back to life, restores areas destroyed in battle and causes Emperor Evulz to instantly make a HeelFaceTurn.

** Alice's tears can heal small wounds, but aren't powerful enough for to fix heavy damage or bring someone back to life.

* '''Justified''': Alice is a magical being whose tears are widely showed in myth as having healing properties.

* '''Averted''': Alice's tears doesn't revive Bob.

** A CorruptCorporateExecutive, TotalitarianUtilitarian, or other unscrupulous authority [[MagicAIsMagicA figures out the mechanics of these sorts of tears]] and then finds a way to mass produce them for the pharmaceutical industry. What follows is a 'tear maker' job [[PoweredByAForsakenChild where people spend their working hours crying]]. This is either a good living or [[IndustrializedEvil a bad one]].

* '''Reconstructed''': The powers of said tears are magical in nature and only work at certain conditions, making them unwieldy for industrialization.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob dies, and Alice mourns for him. After a few minutes, she suddenly remembers that tears always heal, and proceeds to forcefully cry on Bob.

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* '''Straight''': Bob is knocked out during a fight, Alice's tears cause him to awaken.

** A single tear brings everyone who died during the series back to life, restores areas destroyed in battle and causes the BigBad to instantly make a HeelFaceTurn.

* '''Justified''': The character who cries is a magical being whose tears are widely showed in myth as having healing properties.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Even though the show hangs lampshades on it repeatedly, Bob's tears don't always work, which props a lot of invoking and ConversationalTroping when the characters start realizing it... even when they KNOW most instances from that point on are not actual applications of the trope.
* '''Averted''': Alice's tears never come close to Bob's corpse.
* '''Enforced''': "How are we going to heal Bob after the fight with the BigBad?" "Maybe we should give Alice the ability to heal people with her tears. The shippers will love it!"

** The BigBad carves Alice's eyes out [[GenreSavvy so she can’t cry resurrecting tears.]]

* '''Played For Drama''': Bob pulls off a HeroicSacrifice and dies in Alice's arms. She begins to cry, but he remains dead.

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** The tear-makers are [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapped child slaves [[MoralEventHorizon who are brutally tortured 24/7.]]

** The tear-makers are [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapped child slaves who are brutally tortured 24/7.]]

** Alice's tears revive people... As zombies.
** An army of weeping Swiss soldiers save the day.

** Alice is knocked out in a fight. Bob knows his tears would probably help her, but he [[MenDontCry wouldn't be caught dead crying]].
** Villain carves Alice's eyes out so she wouldn't cry resurrecting tears!

* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Someone [[MagicAIsMagicA figures out the mechanics of these sorts of tears]] and then finds a way to mass produce them for the pharmaceutical industry. What follows is a 'tear maker' job where people spend their working hours crying. This is either a good living or [[IndustrializedEvil a bad one]].

** Alice's tears is the trigger for the ArtifactOfDoom.

** Due to BizarreAlienBiology, Alice's tears are actually a very powerful poison.
** Alice's tear is the trigger for the ArtifactOfDoom.

* '''Inverted''': Due to BizarreAlienBiology, Alice's tears are actually a very powerful poison.