Basic Trope: Multiple characters start crying after a tragic event.
- Straight: After Alice performs a Heroic Sacrifice to finish off Emperor Evulz, all her party members are shown standing around her grave and crying over her.
- Exaggerated:
- Hundreds of people from Alice's hometown attend her funeral, and all of them start spewing Ocular Gushers.
- Literally every being in the universe starts crying after Alice's death.
- Downplayed: Alice's party is visibly upset at her death, but only the three members who came to her funeral shed a few tears.
- Justified: Alice was a viral hero in her party and hometown, and her death is treated with the sadness and respect it deserves.
- Inverted: All of them laugh at Alice's death.
- Subverted: It looks like everyone at Alice's funeral is about to well up, but they all manage to hold in their tears.
- Double Subverted: Then the coroner mentions Alice's greatest accomplishments, and one by one everybody unleashes them.
- Parodied:
- The crying of everyone is so long, they're obligated to take a deep breath during it before continuing.
- Everyone stares blankly for ten seconds before suddenly crying.
- Everyone is prompted to cry by the most minor and trivial of problems.
- Everyone starts to cry to the sky. A few seconds after they start, a Melancholy Musical Number shows up out of nowhere and joins them.
- Everyone crying is used as an Overly Long Gag.
- Zig-Zagged: Some people cry, others don't.
- Averted: No one cries about Alice's death.
- Enforced: "We need to make this sad scene even sadder! Let's have everyone cry!"
- Lampshaded: "Oh, we're all crying!"
- Invoked:
- An evil spell makes everyone cry.
- Bob cuts onions at the funeral.
- Exploited: The tears are later used as a plot device.
- Defied: Bob refuses to cry even as everyone else does, whether due to being The Stoic, disliking Alice, or believing that Men Don't Cry.
- Discussed: "And when she died, everyone cried."
- Conversed: "I thought I was gonna prevent myself from crying when Alice died, but when her friends cried, so did I."
- Implied: There are multiple tissues near to Alice.
- Deconstructed: The tears in everyone's eyes start to damage some of their skin.
- Reconstructed: Everyone wears some phlebotinum on their faces.
- Played for Laughs: Everyone cries over an ant being stepped upon.
- Played for Drama: The fact that even the most tough, stoic, or cheerful characters are crying adds to the pathos.
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