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{{quote|''"I'm fine. I have something in my eye, that's all. ''[sobs]'' ...I have something in my other eye. ''[sobbing]'' I have something in my heart..." ''|'''[[Stephen Colbert]]'''}}
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Something of a [[Discredited Trope]] - nowadays it's just as likely to be used to evoke pity for the character's inability to express his emotions honestly as it is to portray them as strong and stoic. That's assuming it's not being outright mocked.
Contrast: [[Manly Tears]], which is admitted; [[Bad Dreams]], where the hero really can keep it buttoned up ... while awake; [[Tender Tears]] of exquisite sensibility; <s> and [[Water Works]], where the tears really are a sign of weakness (though [[Water Works]] may be invoked by contemptible characters even when it really is
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'''Mustang''': Yes, I'm fine *puts on a hat* Except... it's a terrible day for rain.
'''Hawkeye''': What do you mean? It's not raining.
'''Mustang''': *looks up with the hat obscuring his eyes, tears falls down his cheek* [[Blatant Lies|Yes... it is]].
* [[Beat]]*
'''Hawkeye''': So it is. }}
* [[Tsundere|Yui]] from [[Houou Gakuen Misoragumi]].
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* In ''[[Naruto]]'' when {{spoiler|Asuma dies}} it's truly pouring cats and dogs. Yet Shikamaru gives himself away by stressing that smoke is stinging his eyes.
** Also, when {{spoiler|Sasuke has seemingly died at the hands of Deidara}}, {{spoiler|Itachi}} may or may not be crying for him. We can't be sure, because it's raining pretty hard.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090213152018/http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/71/13/ Sakura] does this in a volume 8 flashback.
** Obito Uchiha tries the same line.
{{quote|'''Minato:''' Dust can't get in your eyes when you're [[Goggles Do Nothing|wearing goggles]], Obito.}}
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', as Joey is about to be disqualified from the Duelist Kingdom semifinals for not having a Glory of the King's Hand card, he is on the ground crying in despair over not being able to save his sister's eyesight. Mai approaches him, telling him to stop crying, and he claims to have a nosebleed. She then gives him her Glory of the King's Hand card, wrapped in a tissue, which Joey notices is
* Variation in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] A's'', where the [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]] who claims to have no emotions says that the tears in her eyes are not hers, but are coming from the person she absorbed. Nanoha and Fate call bullshit.
* After Yue of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' admits her feelings for Negi and has a minor [[Heroic BSOD]], she uses this excuse to keep Negi from paying too much attention. He's only ten, so he falls for it.
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'''Rutt''': No, I mean, well, yeah, so what, eh? The light's so beautiful, eh? }}
* Played with in ''[[Ice Age]]: Dawn of the Dinosaurs''. After {{spoiler|Peaches is born}} Diego is pushing away a tear, when called on it, he first invokes the trope "No, it's just... one of those dino's scratched my eye and..." and then subverts it ".. oh what the hell, [[Manly Tears|I'm not made of stone]] after all." Later, Crash and Eddie repeat the trope.
{{quote|'''Crash''': [[Trying Not to Cry|I Promised Myself I Wouldn't Cry.]]
'''Eddie''': I didn't. [Turns on the water works.] }}
* Eden from ''[[Doomsday]]'' is normally [[The Stoic|stoic]], almost to the point of [[Dull Surprise]], but when she cries, it's only from one eye. Justified in that her right eye was damaged when she was a child (possibly damaging the tear duct) and she got a new one.
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* ''[[Star Wars]]'': When Talon Kardde learns fellow smuggler captain Shada D'ukal wasn't, in fact, on her ship when it [[Heroic Sacrifice|self-destructed]] to disable a hostile capital ship.
* In [[Lloyd Alexander]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Prydain|The High King]]'', when Fflewdur Flam sacrifices his harp for firewood, he complains of how it smokes, though it burns with very little smoke.
* [[Graham McNeill]] 's ''[[Warhammer
{{quote|''droplets trickled like tears down his reflection's cheek''}}
* Both applying to this and Live Action TV, the titular character of ''The Story Of Tracy Beaker'' usually passes off any instance of her crying as "hay fever".
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** Also used (in a more [[Hilarious Outtakes|adlib]] fashion) during the infamous Filliam H. Muffman clip, when Colbert couldn't stop laughing.
** And Stephen was ''not'' crying during the 2009 inauguration special. It was just allergies. Really.
** He also didn't cry in this clip [http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/hpfwm4/raining-vs--sprinkling], his face was just sprinkling.
* On the ''Hercules: the Legendary Journeys'' episode "The Other Side", Hercules goes to the [[Elysian Fields]] and reunites with his lost family. His daughter asks him if he's crying. He tells her that Daddy isn't crying, the wind just blew something in his eye and then hugs her like he'll never let her go.
* A rare female example, from ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'': when it is pointed out that Seven is crying after most of the Borg children leave, she claims that her ocular implant is malfunctioning. Subverted when the Doctor finds that it really was a malfunction. Inverted at the end when Icheb informs her that her implant is malfunctioning again, and the Doctor point out that it's working perfectly.
* In the ''[[That '70s Show]]'' episode "Jackie Moves On", Kelso denies that he cried after Jackie broke up with him:
{{quote|'''Kelso:''' I did not cry! I had something in my eye.
'''Hyde:''' For a week?
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0445.html This] ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' strip. [[Tear Jerker|For the readers too.]] The line itself is subverted in the next frame, as [[Token Evil Teammate|Belkar]] gets the "something" out of the hobgoblin's eye. With a dagger.
* ''[[Nedroid]]'''s Reginald is [http://nedroid.com/2010/03/this-movie-moves-me/ just allergic]... to being sad.
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* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', Monique asks Slick to take off his [[Sunglasses
* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-65/ Max has allergies], after his father dropped him off with an apology for not being supportive and telling him to go on his own, to make his colleagues respect him as a man.
* Angus from [[Questionable Content]] [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2004 insists that] his [[Tender Tears]] are due to allergies.
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