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Basic Trope: A character fakes crying, usually to manipulate people.

  • Straight: Alice cries in order to "convince" Bob to do what she wants.
  • Exaggerated:
  • Downplayed:
    • Alice sometimes uses crying to "encourage" people to do what she wants, but only when she really is sad/upset/etc, as opposed to just pretending to be so.
    • Alice conceals the reason for her tears, she pretends to be empathetic when she really only feels sorry for herself.
  • Justified: Alice desperately needed Bob to do what she wants, so she fakes crying
  • Inverted: Alice pretends to be happy, with a "smile" that doesn't reach the eyes.
  • Subverted: Alice really is sad.
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: Alice's monotone "Boo hoo, wah!" somehow fools Bob.
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: ???
  • Enforced: Due to the twist of Alice being a villain, every instance of her crying has to be retconned to feigned tears.
  • Lampshaded: "You know Alice, if you keep on fake crying like that, nobody's going to believe you."
  • Invoked: Charlie accuses Bob of "making Alice cry" as a subtle cue to start fake crying.
  • Exploited: Charlie watches Bob fall for Alice's trick and realizes he is easy to manipulate.
  • Defied: Alice knows that Bob would not care if she was crying for real, so she doesn't try to pretend.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

Back to Crocodile Tears otherwise *SNIFF* *SNIFF* *SNIFF* *SNIFF* I'm going to cry. Waah!

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