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{{trope}}
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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
* ''[[
** In the arc where Mamoru breaks up with Usagi for her safety, he cries a single tear onto his motorcycle helmet.
** Also, Usagi's single tear when Mamoru is wounded in the battle with Zoicite is how she is revealed as the moon princess. The one tear also forms the Silver Crystal.
* The Oosawa Mitsuki adaptation of ''[[
* ''[[
** Whitebeard. The strongest man in the world sheds a tear at {{spoiler|the death of Ace.}}
** Genzo sheds a single tear when he hugs Nami and {{spoiler|tells her that the whole village knew her secret all along.}}
* {{spoiler|Shadow Man}} in ''[[
* ''[[
== 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 ''[[
* 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]].
* Oren Ishii cries a single tear at her mother's murder in ''[[Kill Bill]]'''s "The Origin of Oren Ishii". She probably would have cried more, but then the bed started weeping blood...
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** After Gandalf dies in the film version, Frodo does this. (A while after. He's sort of a screaming sobbing wreck for a while.)
** A straighter example would be Gandalf himself in ''Return of the King'' when he sees the Dark Tower {{spoiler|tumbling down.}}
** Also Aragorn when Boromir dies. [[Manly Tears]], indeed.
** Wormtongue has one he sees the army of Uruk Hai, though in this case it's more of a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment than actual grief.
* The King of Qin in ''[[Hero (
* In ''[[Velvet Goldmine]]'', the stone-cold pretty boy Brian Slade ([[Jonathan Rhys Meyers]]) sheds one single tear after breaking up with his boyfriend Curt Wilde (Ewan McGregor), at the end of his performance of "Bitter-Sweet".
* ''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
* Strangely enough, ''[[Halloween (
* In ''[[Transformers (
* In ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'' after Jesus dies on the cross, a single drop of rain falls from the sky.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvXKN5Fz_OE This viral ad] for ''[[
== Literature ==
* As mentioned above, it pops in Dante's ''[[
* Almost all of the flashback scenes in ''[[
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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 ''[[
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek:
** The clue that Sarek has Vulcan Alzheimer's was he was moved to one tear while listening to a (Mahler?) recital.
** Also, when Picard is in the process of getting Borgified, a single tear shows that he is still there underneath the Borg uni-mind that has suppressed it.
* 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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** Also Amy, near the end of "Victory of the Daleks".
* In the [[Korean Drama]] ''[[Bad Boy]]'', most of the main characters, male and female, do this on occasion.
* In the ''[[
* ''[[
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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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== Video Games ==
* [[Exposition Fairy|Midna]] sheds a single tear at the end of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Shadow sheds a tear during the final ending of ''[[
* A significant plot point in ''[[Wild
* Ophelia at the end of ''[[
* ''[[
** The ending, wherein Snake sheds a singular tear at the grave of {{spoiler|The Boss, his teacher and "mother", whom he was forced by politics to kill}}. Notable here is that, unlike many other characters that cry a single tear for whatever reason despite having both eyes in perfect working order, Snake has the excuse of having one eye fried by muzzle flash and the tear ducts around it damaged.
** 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
* From ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
* From ''[[
* In ''[[King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow]]'', if you challenge [[Chess
* In Mother 3', the {{spoiler|Mecha-}}Drago cries a single tear right before {{spoiler|he dies of his injuries given to him by Flint}}.
== Web Animation ==
* From ''[[
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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
* Combined with [[Tears From a Stone]] towards the end of the [[Lady Lumps VS Boy Bumps]] video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ennbJY9FqhQ Dr. Doom Likes to Watch]. A drop of rain slides down Doom's mask like a tear as he mourns the loss of {{spoiler|Doom Chair, his beloved hover chair.}}
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Pibgorn]]'' [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2009/08/17/ in response to a] [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
* In ''[[
* [[Roza]] [http://www.junglestudio.com/roza/?date=2009-10-26 too weak to continue to search].
* In ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* Tibalt does it in [
== Web Original ==
* The [[media:cryeeagle.
* ''[[The Onion]]'''s editorial cartoonist Kelly likes to use the image of the Statue of Liberty shedding a single tear.
* The animated short ''[[Kiwi]]'' uses this to [[Tear Jerker|heartbreaking effect]].
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Most Season One episodes of ''[[Moral Orel]]'' have Orel crying a single drop at the Rev. Putty's latest sermon.
* The picture from ''[[
* In ''[[He-Man and
* Not quite this trope, but in ''[[The Simpsons (
* The ''[[Batman:
* The koala man from ''[[Ugly Americans]]'' is prone to this.
* When Wendy gets jealous of Stan's teacher that he likes in one episode of ''[[
* ''[[Clone High]]''
** Abe cries one single tear after he screens his thinly-veiled autobiographical film, "It Takes a Hero." He even comments on it.
** ''Clone High'' parodies the single tear thing a lot; the opening sequence alone has ''five''.
* ''[[
** 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 ''[[
* 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 (
* 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
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