Tender Tears: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawling along the road, and killed the poor little thing. This made the Tin Woodman very unhappy, for he was always careful not to hurt any living creature; and as he walked along he wept several tears of sorrow and [[Tears of Remorse|regret]].''|''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]''}}

 

 

Opposite [[Manly Tears]] are '''Tender Tears''', where the character weeps more than most people because of the exquisite tenderness of her heart. [[Double Standard|More frequent for women than for men]].

 

 

Seldom a [[Single Tear]], but it's possible.

 

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* While it's usually most associated with [[Manly Tears]], ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' is FULL of characters who shed these to show the sensitivity and kindness of their hearts; the most prominent being [[The Hero|Kenshiro]] and [[Big Bad|Raoh]]. The latter case denotes Raoh as a [[Noble Demon]] rather than a [[Complete Monster]].

* [[Fullmetal Alchemist|The trait of tender compassion has been passed down the Armstrong line for generations!]]

* Misaki from ''[[Junjou Romantica]]''. In the first episode he starts crying because his brother Takahiro insensitively announces his engagement to Akihiko who is in love with him (which Takahiro is unaware of). And this after Akihiko molested Misaki when he found out about his feelings for his brother, the boy is definitely sensitive.

* Subverted in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''. We see Hikaru, Kaoru, Honey, and Tamaki are all able to cry on cue... until Haruhi finds they're using eye-drops. It's played straight in Tamaki's case, though—he doesn't need eye-drops to get the tears flowing.

* [[The Messiah|Allen Walker]] of ''[[D.Gray-man]]''. Also [[Action Girl|Lenalee Lee]], whenever any of her [[Nakama]] die. D.Gray-man being the series [[Nightmare Fuel|it is]], however, it's hard to say if the same would still be true in less traumatic circumstances.

* Gau from ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'' cries when he meets Raikou for the first time, when Raikou tells him about his past, when he gets slashed by Raikou, when he intervenes in {{spoiler|Raikou and Yukimi}}'s fight, when he calls Yukimi on the cellphone, when {{spoiler|Raikou gets stabbed}}, etc, etc...

* The [[Tin Man]] from ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]''.

* In ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|The Last Battle]]'', Lucy cries over the end of Narnia while all the rest are gladly following Aslan. Tirian backs her up, and asserts that crying over it is not unmanly.

** In another of his ''40K'' novels, ''Faith & Fire'', Verity stops counting how many times she administered last rites when she realized the number would make her cry.

* Dante (the character) does this often in Dante Alighieri's ''[[Divine Comedy]]''. He laments at the misfortune of those condemned to the various circles of hell.

* In [[Adrian Tchaikovsky]]'s ''[[Shadows of the Apt|Dragonfly Falling]]'', Che over {{spoiler|Totho}}.

* In [[The Bible]] Jesus goes to the grave of his dear friend Lazarus and meets with his sister Martha who is in mourning and asking Jesus why he didn't come to help her brother sooner. Martha proclaims that had Jesus arrived days earlier then he could have healed him and saved his life with his miracles, and Jesus seeing this is deeply moved by Martha's plight and the shortest sentence of the entire Bible states simply, "'''Jesus wept.'''" Jesus loved Lazarus and he is deeply saddened that death has such tyranny over Mankind, but he then proclaims to Martha that since he is the Son of the Living God and the Messiah anyone who believes in him yet shall he die he shall still live. Then in one of the greatest miracles in the Bible Jesus calls forth to Lazarus to rise and he comes back to life. In his humanity Jesus wept for Lazarus and in his divinity he rose him from the dead.

 

== [[Theater]] ==

== [[Video Games]] ==

* If you look closely, [[Ax Crazy|Jack]] is crying throughout the Paragon romance scene right before the suicide mission in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

{{quote|''Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.'''}}

* In ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'', [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=394 a tearjerker].

* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-42.html Anna cries over the freed Klaus.]

 

* Orn "Dutchy" Ayers of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]" frequently cries when he reads about the plight of the less-fortunate countries.

* Male version (it's a gay couple): anyone notices how many comments on [http://www.furaffinity.net/full/4919867/ this picture] are in the lines of "[[Heartwarming Moments|Awwww...]]"?

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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