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WARNING: Some tropers may take several attempts to edit this page on the first try. Fortunately, keyboards are water resistant, provided you lean back after the first few seconds of making a living example of this page while editing.
Also see Les Murray's [https://web.archive.org/web/20131019110357/http://www.lesmurray.org/pm_aor.htm greatest poem].
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* ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'': after Blofeld and his crony kill [[James Bond]]'s wife. There were two takes of the scene: the one ''without'' actual tears was chosen.
* Matthew McConaughey's defense summation in ''[[A Time to Kill]]''; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7f-BgDgpmE done in one take.] The tears were genuine and ''unscripted.''
* Aragorn from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', after seeing how Merry and Pippin were apparently caught up in the Rohirrim's slaughter of Uruk-Hai, furiously kicks a helm, and collapses in tears after seeing how his friends were apparently killed. [[Throw It In|Viggo Mortensen broke two toes when he kicked the helm and actually collapsed in pain, but used it; Peter Jackson thought it looked appropriate]]. He does cry in the book (and the extended edition) immediately after Boromir's death. Most Middle-Earth societies don't have such a taboo against men crying, and there are many instances of manly men weeping.
** Éomer cries desperately when he discovers {{spoiler|Éowyn's}} body on the battle field and then goes on a rampage, making this also an example of [[Berserker Tears]].
** Theoden in front of Theodred's barrow.
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* ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'': the opening scene goes from oddly funny to horribly chilling when Landa passively intimidates LaPerdite into admitting that he is {{spoiler|sheltering the Dreyfus family}}, and he begins to cry - out of shame, presumably.
* Suicidal Roy breaks down a few times in ''[[The Fall (film)|The Fall]]'', but mostly when he visits Alexandria after she has broken her arm {{spoiler|trying to get the medicine he requested to kill himself with}}, and he continues telling her the story, making it steadily more tragic. ("Why are you making everybody die?" she asks.)
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
** Hilarious?! It's fucking tragic! But not as much as Amos, Cedric's father, completely breaking down when he sees his son's body. "That's my son! ''That's my boy''!"
** The Potter series being the way it is, each film ending that followed ''Goblet of Fire'' featured this trope: ''Order of the Phoenix'' has {{spoiler|the death of Sirius}}, {{spoiler|Dumbledore's death}} in ''Half-Blood Prince'', and then {{spoiler|Dobby's death}} (and the scene at Harry's parents' graves) in ''Deathly Hallows''.
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** In ''Deathly Hallows'', Ron breaks down and cries after {{spoiler|defeating the Horcrux in the locket}}, and also after {{spoiler|he watches his brother Fred die}}.
** Surprisingly, Harry also sees Snape break down crying twice while {{spoiler|going through Snape's memories: once when Lily died and once when he found part of a letter she had written}}.
** Dumbledore sheds a [[Single Tear
** Hagrid is also prone to this.
*** Hagrid is often described as ''blubbering''.
* [[Played With]] in the ''[[Belisarius Series]]''. The fierce autocrat Justinian is blinded by a rebel torturer in a failed coup. One of his dearest desires is to have his eyes back to cry, not for himself but for his wife who is doomed to die in ten years.
* [[C. S.
* In one of the last chapters of ''[[Moby Dick]]'' Captain Ahab sheds a single tear, which "was worth more than all the water in the ocean".
* In John Barnes's ''[[One for the Morning Glory]]'', Prince Amatus weeps at Gorlias's death.
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{{quote|''Lord O'More did not hear her. He dropped in his chair, and covering his face, burst into those terrible sobs that shake and rend a strong man. Lady O'More hovered over him, weeping.''}}
* In Elizabeth Kerner's ''[[Tales of Kolmar|Song in the Silence]]'', Lanen describes Jamie as the most manly guy she's known, but at the end he cries when {{spoiler|Akhor/Varien sings a song he wrote at his wedding to Lanen}}.
* When his firefighters try to fight a fire without Ben Ladradun's help and fail, some of them dying in the process, Ben goes to see the bodies and weeps. Witnesses think it's from grief for the firefighters, when
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[Ric Flair]] cried during his final match with [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], cried at his Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and cried during his farewell speech, and if you didn't shed a few tears yourself, you're either not a true fan, or you have no soul.
** Ric's final match at [[Wrestlemania]] 24 was so [[Tear Jerker|tearjerking]], his ''opponent'' cried. Then again, [[Shawn Michaels]] is one of Ric's [[Intergenerational Friendship|closest friends]] and called it an honor to wrestle Ric in his final match with WWE.
* [[Shawn Michaels]] repeated the Flair farewell experience two years later, after being beaten by [[The Undertaker]] at [[Wrestlemania]] 26. He shed tears after the match and the next night on Raw. [[Triple H]] got in on the Manly Tears at the close of the show when he [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|came out to hug Shawn]].
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