Tender Tears: Difference between revisions

* The tears flow quickly and strongly in ''[[Battle Royale]]'' from beginning to end. Usually they're tender tears. Occasionally [[Manly Tears]], as well.

* The cyborgs of ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' have a habit of crying in their sleep, as noted by the Agency doctors. Especially tragic as the audience knows why they cry, but the girls don't and can't remember their dreams so don't understand why they feel sad on waking up.

'''Claes''': "That's how I feel right now. My heart is overflowing with tears, but they just won't come out of my eyes. At night when I'm asleep, they quietly spill out onto the pillow without my noticing." }}

* In ''[[Wild Rock]]'', Yuuen gets these, which reinforce the fact he is just not a manly man like the others.

== [[Theater]] ==

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

[[Tears of Remorse|But I wept for it]].'' }}

** And in ''[[Hamlet]]'' the player weeping for Hecuba appears to Hamlet as his [[Foil]] while he dillydallys about his own father's death.

And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,'' }}

** Miranda in ''[[The Tempest]]'', after the shipwreck. Prospero assures her:

Betid to any creature in the vessel'' }}

 

* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'': [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/04042003/ Why can't he just tell her he loves her?]

* ''[[Pibgorn]]'', [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2007/02/07/ Hippolyta, in the retelling] of ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream|A Midsummer Nights Dream]]''.

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

* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4233 Lil' E cries over the shooting of an angel.]