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** In [[Pokémon (anime)|the TV series]], this was how Team Rocket got Ekans and Koffing to evolve.
*** It was more that the tears caused the Pokémon in question to realize their masters would love them whether they evolved or not—so they stopped being worried and evolved.
*** [[Deadpan Snarker|Meowth]] also suggested that their time to evolve just happened to be then.
** Also, in a Johto episode Ash and his group met a [[Cute Witch]] who needed to collect an Aipom's tear to finish a spell that would let them understand Pokémon language. After chasing a wild Aipom around and making it cry with laughter, the witch performed the spell... and ended up temporarily turning Ash into a Pikachu.
* Deconstructed by ''[[Kanon]]''. {{spoiler|Mai Kawasumi}} cures her mother with her tears, and people eventually learn that her tears have the ability to rejuvenate anything, even after it has died. Unfortunately, since she's living in a modern setting, she gets swept up in a media circus that publicizes her powers, gets persecuted by the people around her for being different, and is eventually forced to leave her town.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', Anzu (as the Magician of Faith) mourning for Jounouchi's sacrifice against Bakura leads to her Flip effect being activated.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In a twist on [[Norse Mythology]] (see below), [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[The Mighty Thor]]'' (back when the title was still ''Journey Into Mystery'') had Loki [[And I Must Scream|trapped forever in the form of a tree]] unless someone cried for him, but he was such a total dick that not even his wife shed a single tear. After a few millenia of experimenting, he discovered that he could make his leaves fall off, and managed to get one to drop into somone's eye. The resulting tear freed him, and the [[Marvel Universe]] has never been the same since—among many other deeds, he was indirectly responsible for [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] getting together.
* Duma, angel of silence, speaks at the [[Sandman]]'s funeral. His speech is a manifest miracle that lets every listener know that their life is meaningful, among other things. The speech consists of a single tear.
* In one issue of the [[Superman]] comic based on the 1990s animated series, Supergirl gets a Argoian illness. One of the ingredient is Element X, a unknown element—while saying good-bye to Supergirl, Superman cries. It turns out Kryptonians tear contain {{spoiler|Kryptonian salt.}}
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* The end of ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]] II'' movie.
* ''Nutty Professor II: The Klumps'' {{spoiler|has Sherman's [[Love Interest]] for this movie (played by Janet Jackson) fix things with a tear. When Sherman needs to reabsorb the arrogant Buddy Love back into his body or otherwise lose his intelligence, and Buddy is breaking down into liquid Buddy reaches a fountain before drying up leaving Sherman suck without his intelligence. Till Jackson's character's single tear drops through Buddy's remains which activates the fountain allowing Sherman to get his smarts by drinking the fountain water.}}
* ''[[Ultraviolet (film)|Ultraviolet]]'' has the heroine Violet weep over the [[
* In the film ''Fat Albert'', the cartoon characters are able to enter the real world when the magic tear hits the remote control
* in ''[[Osmosis Jones]]'', When Frank is dying, his daughter cries and drops a tear in his mouth, and while it ''seems'' like the tears made a "miracle" in reviving Frank, [[Justified Trope|it was actually Osmosis]] who went along the tear that made a difference.
* The end of [[Aquamarine]].
* Near the end of [[The Last Mimzy]].
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* In [[The Velveteen Rabbit]], the velveteen rabbit's real tear landed on the ground and it made the fairy appear.
* In [[The Silmarillion]], Luthien Tinuviel's tears have healing properties. (Presumably as a result of her half-[[Our Angels Are Different|Maia]] ancestry.)
* Inverted in ''Tiger Moon'' by Antonia Michaelis. It's Farhad's tears that end up [[spoiler:turning Nittish [[Taken for Granite|to stone]].
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* ''[[Smallville]]:'' Chloe's healing powers were tear-activated the first time.
* One episode of the original series of ''[[Star Trek]]'' had a race of [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Green Skinned Space Babes]] who had mind-controlling tears. Kirk made one cry and decided to wipe her tears away with his bare hand. Bad idea.
* Much of season 7 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' revolves around a seal over the Hellmouth that's opened with by spilling blood on it. It's eventually revealed that to close it requires the tears of the person originally responsible for spilling the blood.
* In the final episode of [[Power Rangers in Space]], Andros cries at the sight of an apparently dead Astronema/Karone. The tear trickles down his cheek and lands on Astronema's face, reviving her. {{spoiler|It's more widely believed to be a delayed reaction to Zordon's purification wave, though.}}
** And in an episode of [[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy|the next season]], Karone comes across a warrior {{spoiler|she fought and}} [[Taken for Granite|turned to stone]] {{spoiler|back when she was Astronema}}, and she cries on him, restoring him. {{spoiler|This must be a magical power for the residents of KO-35.}}
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* In [[Brutal Legend]], the Sea of Black Tears is a source of power, and evil.
* In ''[[The Binding of Isaac]]'', his tears are his main projectile weapon.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** [[Hilarity Ensues]], because while Leela, and later the rest of the crew, are beating the crap out of him, he's still thanking them profusely.
* Somewhat parodied in ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|Liloand Stitch]] 2: Stitch has a Glitch''. After they are too late to save Stitch from his malfunction and he shuts down. Lilo's tear brings him back to life. It's parodied by the fact that Pleakley asks Jumba for the scientific explanation. Jumba proudly states (as if he knew any other way to state things) that there is no possible scientific explanation, declares it a miracle, and celebrates.
* A variation occurs in ''[[Osmosis Jones]]'': {{spoiler|the titular blood cell, after fighting the virotic villain on the eyelashes of Frank's daughter, retrieves the "hypothalamus piece" that is needed to stop the fever which has just killed Frank. To get back into Frank's body, he uses a tears of the weeping daughter to fall into his mouth. Moments later, Frank comes "[[Back
* ''The [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] Movie'': SpongeBob and Patrick are captured by a diver who makes souvenirs out of dried-up sealife and are placed under a heat lamp. As they await their fate, they each shed one tear that join to form a heart. That one heart-shaped tear then drips down the power cord into the outlet, causing it to short and activate the sprinkler, which [[Doing
** In the original series, SpongeBob loses his pineapple home after nematodes drink it dry, leaving a little "pebble" behind. Near the end of the episode, he plants it in the ground, and a single tear falls on it, restoring it back to normal ([[Butt Monkey|on top of Squidward]]).
* In the Grand Prix-winning Rene Laloux short ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXn6d13YC0&fmt=18 Les Escargots]'', A down-on-his-luck farmer discovers that crying on his lettuces makes them grow large and healthy. Unforunately, it has the side effect of attracting [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|snails the size of Mack trucks]] which go on a rampage in the nearby town once they've picked his field clean...
* Disney seems to like this trope. Belle brings back the Beast by weeping over him. (Admittedly, this comes from the source material.) And in ''[[Bambi]] 2'', the Great Prince sheds a [[Manly Tears|manly tear]] for his injured son, who is quickly revived.
* In ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'', [[Metamorpho]] is brought [[Back
* In ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', it's Eustace's drops of sweat that save the day and {{spoiler|prove he's a capable farmer}}.
* Parodied on ''[[South Park]]''; a statue of the Virgin Mary is crying blood from her ass, and Randy Marsh thinks it'll cure his alcoholism.
** I think the correct term would be "Bleeding"? and it was from her vagina, and that is normal, girls bleed from they vaginas all the time.
** Also, Cartman drinks the tears of a bully, saying how good they taste (it invokes/subverts this trope a bit).
* In ''[[The Fairly
* In ''[[Bartok the Magnificent]]'', the witch [[Baba Yaga]] told Bartok the Bat that the final ingredient she wanted for her potion was something from himself. When Bartok pulled out his own hair thinking that was what she wanted, Baba laughed at him and Bartok angrily yelled at Baba for that and Bartok said that everyone hates her, Baba started crying and after Bartok felt bad for her, he started crying and Baba got the final ingredient she wanted, tears which came from Bartok's heart, she put Bartok's tear in her potion on her cauldron and the potion became powerful to drink and Baba gave Bartok that potion to use it to save Prince Ivan from the evil Ludmilla and Baba told Bartok when he drinks it, he will become the outside what he is on the inside, that's what happened to Ludmilla when she took the potion from Bartok and became a purple wingless dragon. YIKES!!!!
* In ''[[She-Ra: Princess of Power|She Ra Princess of Power]]'', Hordak was disappearing to death from eating the doomberry pie Skeletor gave him, but Hordak was saved by She-Ra's tears in the episode "My Friend, The Enemy".
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* In Season 3 of the ''[[Winx Club]]'', Stella had been turned into a monster and she and her friends has to get to the mirror of truth to break the spell, but it didn't break the spell on its own, then Stella's tears touched the mirror of truth and it shattered into a lake and after she got a gift from Brandon, Stella was touched and her other tear landed on the lake and changed her back into a human revealing that love changed her back which is her tears.
* In the end of final ''[[Peter Pan and The Pirates]]'' episode: Never land was disappearing and everybody was falling because Peter Pan grew up to an old man and he didn't believe in never land and forgotten about Tinker Bell, Tinker Bell was convincing Peter as an old man to believe in never land and become young again and after Peter remembered Wendy's laugh and Tink herself and realized he made a mistake about growing up, Tink's tear landed on Peter and Tink's tear changed him back into a young boy and everything turned back to normal.
* Near the end of [[Filmation]] version of ''[[Journey Back
* In ''[[Care Bears]]'', one major baddie had a raincloud that washed away your color and your will to do anything. When the Care Bears and one of the humans confronted him, the rain affected one of the Bears. The human cried on him, and his tear hit the Bear's tummy symbol, undoing the effects and allowing him to break the impasse.
* One episode of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' has Sheila break the spell on a cursed king when she cried a [[Single Tear]] of gratitude over him for helping to save her brother.
* ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' "The Littlest Giant" has Stimpy the "Little Giant" leaving the giant country in exile and sob all over and filling farmer Ren's dried up well with his tears. They both become friends in result.
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