Tears of Remorse: Difference between revisions

* In [[L. Frank Baum]]'s ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', the Tin Woodman [[Tender Tears|cries]] because he stepped on a beetle and killed it. He ends up rusting from all the tears and Dorothy has to oil his joints so he can move again.

* [[William Shakespeare]]'s Sonnet 34

* An example brought on by less-than-heinous behavior in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''Half Life'': due to a [[Freaky Friday]]/[[Personality Swap]] situation, the Doctor learns just how [[Cowardly Lion|scared]] his companion Fitz is most of the time while traveling with him, and is brought to tears. He [[Men Don't Cry|doesn't usually cry]].

* In Suzanne Collins's ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', after Katniss shoots the Gamemakers' pig and stalks off insultingly, she [[Inelegant Blubbering|sobs]] over the low score they will give her—breaking [[I Gave My Word|her promise to really try to survive]]—and the possibility they will punish her mother and sister for it.

* The title character of the ''Rissa Kerguelen'' series by F.M. Busby is, though petite, a highly-trained [[Badass]], capable of defeating a larger, stronger, '''meaner''' person in unarmed combat. But when she kills someone, no matter how vile the other was and how necessary his/her death, Rissa '''will''', sooner or later, break down in tears over it.

 

* Andrew in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Storyteller". After several attempts to justify the murder of Jonathan, he breaks down crying as he realizes he killed his only true friend in cold blood.

* Faith in ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Five by Five". She agrees to take assassination contract to Angel, but keeps giving him openings he doesn't use. Eventually she's rendered sobbing wreck, revealing that she was trying to get Angel to kill her in order to stop her past crimes from haunting her.

* A major point in the ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' episode 'Beauty and the Beast'. Uther must cry tears of true remorse to break the troll enchantment. To accomplish this, Arthur takes a potion that makes him appear dead. Cue frantic, remorseful, crying Uther.

 

* [[The Protomen|Thomas Light]] has this during ''Funeral for a son'', when he realizes {{spoiler|He sent his ''son'' off to fight a battle he knew in his heart was unwinnable}}.

 

* In [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''Pericles'', Marina on her own harmlessness:

 

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