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It must be the tear actually having an effect, all the better if you can see it spread from the point of impact. Very often comes in the form of a [[Single Tear]].
A close relative of [[True
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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'''Billy:''' [[CPR Clean Pretty Reliable|Mouth to mouth resuscitation!]] Which makes sense! }}
* ''[[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
* 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.}}
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* In ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'', the solution to Fry drinking an emperor, an alien made up of liquid, is to have Fry cry out him out. After he has trouble making himself cry, the rest of the crew pretend Leela is being killed because of his actions. Until Leela arrives alive ruining this plan, but she beats up Fry to make him weep in pain.
** [[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 ''[[
* 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 From the Dead]]".}}
* ''The [[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|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 Wizard|revives our heroes]] and all the other creatures as well.
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* In ''[[Once Upon a Forest]]'', Michelle is still unconscious even after she receives the medicine; it is only Cornelius' tears which cause her to awaken.
* In the pilot episode of ''[[The Dreamstone]]'', Amberley has been turned to stone by Zordrak, and a single tear from Rufus is enough to reverse the spell.
* ''[[Felix the Cat]]: [[The Movie]]'' takes this [[Up to Eleven]]. When her kingdom is invaded by the Duke of Zill's forces, [[
* In ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]],'' Elizabeth's tears, mixed with a net of magical moonbeams, allow her to talk to dolphins.
* In ''[[Fantasia 2000]]'', at the end of the firebird sequence when the forest was burned by the firebird, the sprites tears fell on the ground and it made the grass grow and then the sprite did the rest of making the trees, grasses and the flowers grow with her magic and then disappears.
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