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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]]s crying a single perfect crystalline tear, but that may be a [[Dead Unicorn Trope]].
* 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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{{quote|''[[Narm|A single tear rolled down her cheek, like a liquid diamond]].''}}
* 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 ''[[
* 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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