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* Toward the end of ''[[Pokémon: The First Movie|Pokémon the First Movie]]'', Ash is turned to stone in the crossfire between Mewtwo and Mew. A stream of glistening tears from all of the Pokémon distraught by this resurrects him.
** 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
*** [[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.
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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
* 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
* One [[Hulk]] story (circa Hulk # 300) has the heroic monster stuck in what appears to be a typical Fairy Tale world: an evil ruler holds a princess (whose tears create flowers) hostage while his minions enslave the populace. However the story is a hard deconstruction of the trope, as not only is Hulk completely helpless in this world (it is never explained why) but the princess realizes she can use her tears to create plant monsters... and uses them to ''massacre'' the bad guys.
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*** They still are the most common point of entry.
* Used straight in the [[New Jedi Order]]. The alien Jedi Vergere's tears are naturally complex organic compounds which she can modify further with the Force. They can heal, among many other things (she frequently uses them as a paralytic poison).
* In the ''[[Xanth]]'' novel ''Yon Ill Wind'', Demon X(A/N)^th (yes, his name is a mathematical formula) makes a complicated bet that can only be won by getting the first Xanth resident he meets to shed a tear for him. (And if he ''loses'' the bet, [[The End of the World as We Know It|Xanth itself will be destroyed]]
* In [[Stephen Hunt]]'s ''The Kingdom Beyond the Waves'', a craybarian's tears are instrumental in conveying her immunity to poison to Amelia.
* In Terry Pratchett's early novel ''The Carpet People'', looking into a termagant's eyes turns people to stone, while its tears will turn them back again.
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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, [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess Oriana]] tries to summon [[The Chosen One]], but is captured before she can finish. However, one of her tears starts glowing and promptly finishes the
* 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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