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For whatever reason, a character is moved. But this guy is made of strong stuff: He is beyond [[Inelegant Blubbering|blubbering]] and won't turn on the waters works. He dammed up the [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]] and had his [[Ocular Gushers]] surgically removed. [[Trying Not to Cry|And he promised himself!]] He is not going to cry.
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Well, maybe just ''one'' drop.
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Compare with [[Manly Tears]], which can often overlap with this.
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Not quite a [[Discredited Trope]]; lots of examples are parodies, but there are still many, many works that play it straight.
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== Advertising ==
* The best-known example is probably the [[Crying Indian]]. He even has his own trope!
== Anime
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]''
** In the arc where Mamoru breaks up with Usagi for her safety, he cries a single tear onto his motorcycle helmet.
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== Fan Works ==
* One hears, in parodies, of [[Mary Sue
* In [http://bobmin.fanficauthors.net/Healing_Harry/Healing_Harry/ Bobmin's ''Healing Harry''], one of the flashbacks has past!Harry drop a single tear, which disturbs present!Ginny much more than anything else, given that she knows how he was treated at the Dursleys.
* In ''[[My Immortal]]'', Ebony cries a single tear when she's sent to her [[Ironic Hell]] in the hacker chapter.
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* The eponymous character of ''[[Bambi]]'' cries a single tear when he figures out his mom is [[Missing Mom|dead]].
* Anakin Skywalker, after murdering hundreds of Jedi and all the helpless separatist leaders, showed that there is still humanity and decency inside him as he sheds one of self-hatred in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]''.
* Trip's single tear in ''[[Glory]]'' probably earned Denzel Washington the [[Academy Award]].
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* ''A Matter of Life and Death'': When the ghost of Peter Carter kisses his one true love June, a single tear falls from his eye. More interestingly, although she is petrified and in another time altogether she also sheds a single tear - which is later used as proof of her love for him.
* The eponymous character in ''[[Cry-Baby]]'', as well as several others over the course of the film. It's mainly used for [[Rule of Funny|comedic effect]].
* Strangely enough, ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'s'' Michael Myers has a
* In ''[[Transformers (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'', Sam sheds one when {{spoiler|it seems like he's about to be forced to watch Bumblebee, who's probably his closest friend in the world, be executed by Soundwave right in front of him. Fortunately, [[Big Damn Heroes|this doesn't happen]].}}
* In ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'' after Jesus dies on the cross, a single drop of rain falls from the sky.
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== Literature ==
* As mentioned above, it pops in Dante's ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'', specifically in the first few cantos of ''Purgatorio''. There is a soldier mentioned who is a brutal, bloody bastard his whole life, but when he is struck down in battle he cries a single [[Tears of Remorse|tear of repentance]], which is enough to send him to Purgatory instead of Hell.
* Almost all of the flashback scenes in ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'' involve
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* This also shows up a lot in ''[[Chronicles of Blood and Stone]]'', including a two-tear variation (one per eye.)
* This happens to Albus Dumbledore near the end of ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (
* The ''[[Xanth]]'' novel, ''Yon Ill Wind'', follows a bet between the Demon X(A/N)<sup>TH</sup> and his fellows. In order for him to win, a young woman has to shed a single tear for him. It's her ''last'' tear.
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire
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* Dean Winchester of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. Heck, there's even a drinking game based on each time this happens.
* Jim [[Profit]] cries a single tear when he {{spoiler|[[Oedipus Rex|kills]] [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|his father]]}} in the pilot. Justified because he's a [[Heroic Sociopath]] who [[What Is This Feeling?|does not understand these strange human things called emotions]].
* Parodied in ''[[Hyperdrive]]'' when a robot sheds an oil tear in the [[
* Parker of ''[[Leverage]]'' cries a single tear when she hears Hardison pull off a difficult violin solo perfectly. It screws over the team's heist. Worth it? Hell yes.
* ''[[Skins]]''
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* In the ''[[Friends]]'' episode "The One where the Stripper Cries", in a flashback to 1987, Chandler, for comedic effect, sheds a single tear upon learning that Ross broke one of their college pacts.
* ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'', "Albi the Racist Dragon":
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* The political cartoons in ''[[The Onion]]'' have the Statue of Liberty cry either [[Tears of Joy|a tear of joy]] or [[Tears of Remorse|a tear of remorse]] nearly [[Once an Episode]].
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* [[Exposition Fairy|Midna]] sheds a single tear at the end of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'', when {{spoiler|she must leave Hyrule.}} Interestingly, {{spoiler|after Midna materializes through the portal, the tear itself breaks the Mirror of Twilight, [[Tear Jerker|severing the only known bridge between the Light World and the Twilight Realm.]]}}
* Shadow sheds a tear during the final ending of ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]'': Battle during his realization of [[Dead Little Sister|Maria's]] promise.
* A significant plot point in ''[[Wild
* Ophelia at the end of ''[[Brütal Legend|Brutal Legend]]'' cried a single tear. {{spoiler|It was black, implying there was still some traces of the Sea of Black Tears in her}}.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3''
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** Also, The Sorrow. Though that's because he got SHOT in that eye thus likely causing the single tear but you know... Boss just squeezes out like 2 tears as well(though she probably could have cried more). Manly tears indeed.
** Averted with Otacon (though he's not the epitome of manliness) who bawls like a bawling thing at the drop of a hat.
* From ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'', Terra {{spoiler|when Master Eraqus dies}} and Aqua {{spoiler|during the [[Say My Name]] segment of the secret ending.}} Quite the [[Tear Jerker]] in both cases, although the latter example is more hopeful. Also Sora {{spoiler|once he starts feeling Ventus' heart and taking it in, and thus starts feeling by magic heart-to-heart empathy what any sane person would feel after [[Tear Jerker|that ending]].}} Notably, since Sora's feeling it by proxy, ''he doesn't even know why he's letting out that single tear''.
* From ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
* From ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]] Final Mix+'', {{spoiler|after Sora fights Roxas and beats him,}} an extra cutscene not found in [[Kingdom Hearts II]] initiates, with {{spoiler|Roxas and Axel on the clocktower in Twilight Town. At the end of the cutscene, Roxas says he has to go back to Sora, Axel and Roxas say their goodbyes, and a single teardrop is shown falling and disappearing. There was no indication of the person who cried, whether Roxas cried again, or if Axel, also a Nobody, is the one who cried.}}
* In ''[[King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow]]'', if you challenge [[Chess with Death|the Lord of the Dead]] for the sake of two mortal souls, he defies you to make him cry. You can do so by showing him the mirror of truth, which recants his terrible history, to the point that the mirror itself shatters from the strain- and Death cries a single tear.
* In Mother 3', the {{spoiler|Mecha-}}Drago cries a single tear right before {{spoiler|he dies of his injuries given to him by Flint}}.
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== Web Animation ==
* From ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', as Strong Sad describes his [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|proposal]] for Strong Bad's 150th email episode:
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* [[Weebl and Bob|Weebls-Stuff]]: [http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Flying+Squirrels/ Eagles are proud to fly with squirrels.]
* ''[[Half Life: Full Life Consequences|Half Life Full Life Consequences]]'': "A tear droped out of John Freemans' eye and landed on Gordon Freeman."]]
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* ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' had, on some occasions, "a single tear of black liquid sorrow".
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' has single tears in the intermission between Acts 4 and 5.
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'': Whether listening to your son and husband quarrel as the son goes off to fighter school, separating from a woman because you must put [[Honor Before Reason]], reuniting with your long-dead little brother in the afterlife, hearing that someone will send a messenger to your home to see whether you can
* ''[[Pibgorn]]'' [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2009/08/17/ in response to a] [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', Vanamonde von Mekkan sheds one after an encounter with [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070625 the perfect cup of coffee.]
* [[Roza]] [http://www.junglestudio.com/roza/?date=2009-10-26 too weak to continue to search].
* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20150920183714/http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1273450/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-24/ when his family's disappearance catches up to him.]
* In ''[[Question Duck]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130615221633/http://questionduck.smackjeeves.com/comics/1394051/278/ tragically, love was not possible between a man and a mermaid; she sheds one.]
* Soli of ''[[The Meek]]'' has a teardrop tattooed on her face. She regrets getting it, because she's a bandit but the tattoo makes her easy to recognize.
* Tibalt does it in [
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** ''Clone High'' parodies the single tear thing a lot; the opening sequence alone has ''five''.
* ''[[Futurama]]''
** Happens when Fry is trying to choose between saving Bender and Leela versus drinking a trough of Slurm, with him crying a single tear into the Slurm. Naturally, his friends think they're pretty screwed.
** Also the episode where he drinks the leader of a planet of water people and has to cry him out. Believing Leela to be dead, is only able to muster a single tear. After she's revealed to be alive, everyone proceeds to beat the tears out of him.
** Happens again when Leela gets plastic surgery to make it look like she has two eyes. Upon looking into a mirror and realizing that she looks normal, she sheds a single tear. The surgeon exclaims "Woops! Looks like we got some leakage. Let me just cauterize that for you." Cue a painful scream from Leela.
* In the prehistoric ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode 'Ugh', a club sheds a tear when prehistoric Squidward chooses another club over him.
* Moppy, a sentient mop from ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]'' sheds one after seeing Fanboy with Chum Chum's cousin. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
* In the ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'' episode "Doomie's Romance," Lydia brushes a tear from her cheek after Doomie's attempt to bring Pinkie (Mayor Maynot's former convertible) to life fails.
* In ''[[The Problem Solverz]]'' episode "Funny Facez", Roba sheds a tear after his idol, Tony Marv, calls him ugly.
* Shed to tragic effect by Twilight Sparkle in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode ''"[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
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