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{{trope}}
A character spontaneously starts crying, seemingly for no reason. When asked about it, even ''they'' don't know why they're doing it. There is inevitably a plot-relevant reason behind this.
Perhaps it's a repressed memory that has just been triggered, or maybe something bad has happened somewhere else and their [[Spider Sense]] is tingling. Whatever the reason, it's usually because their subconscious knows something that the conscious mind doesn't.
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For the nasal equivalent, see [[Sneeze Cut]]. [[Sub-Trope]] of [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]].
For characters who are just confused because they didn't know they were capable of crying, see [[My Eyes Are Leaking]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* This happens in the end of [[Kannazuki no Miko]]; then Himeko, after her love Chikane is erased from existence, (including from Himeko's memory) looks at pictures that used be of her and Chikane, but now are only of her because of the erase, she starts to cry and she does not know why.
* In ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'', Pacifica starts crying when her {{spoiler|accidental protector and surrogate big brother Fulle}} is killed elsewhere, even though, due to a case of [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]], she doesn't have any memories of him anymore.
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** The second is after she {{spoiler|tries to destroy Gendo's glasses, having lost her memories of her time as Rei II}}. She feels sadness, but she doesn't know why.
* In the movie of ''Howl's Moving Castle'', this is implied to be the reason Sophie cries as she {{spoiler|escapes from Howl's childhood.}}
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Happens often in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series from ''[[Chain of Memories]]'' on, usually a character crying because of something they can't remember or a link to another character.
** Also in ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D|Dream Drop Distance]]'', when {{spoiler|[[The Messiah|Sora]] meets [[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
* In ''[[Fire Emblem]]: The Blazing Sword'', if you fulfill certain requirements you'll get a secret gaiden chapter in Hector's route. After Nergal's defeat, if you unlocked that chapter {{spoiler|Nils will start crying for reasons he doesn't know, but the player has figured out: Nergal was his and Ninian's ''father''}}.
* At the end of ''[[Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals]]'', Tia, who previously had been [[Unable to Cry]] due to overly toughening herself since childhood, suddenly finds herself crying uncontrollably without knowing why. {{spoiler|It's because her [[Unrequited Love]] Interest, Maxim, has just died}}.
== Webcomics ==
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', after Justin encounters a creature seemingly made of fire that doesn't burn. Cut to:
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'''Professor''': I... I'm not ''sure''... }}
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[[Category:Tear Tropes]]
[[Category:I'm Crying but I Don't Know Why]]
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