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* [[Complete Monster|Johann]] from ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' can shed the most incredible [[Tender Tears]] known to man. {{spoiler|[[Manipulative Bastard|They're fake, of course.]] [[Mind Screw|Probably]].}}
* Akio from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' sheds a few tears when he talks about {{spoiler|how much suffering Anthy had to go through just because she wanted to protect him. Given this is from the same man who has raped her multiple times, they're obviously fake.}}
* In contrast to his image, and what he wants you to believe, Franky from "[[One Piece]]" embodies this trope. Because he's just a big, metal plated, perverted, delinquent, softie.
* 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.
* From ''[[To Aru Kagaku no Railgun]]'', [[Anti-Villain|Kiyama-sensei]] gets these going after {{spoiler|the Child Errors she spent most of her screen time trying to help finally wake up. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|It is quite a sight]].}}
* [[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 tears flow quickly and strongly in ''[[Battle Royale]]'' from beginning to end. Usually they're tender tears. Occasionally [[Manly Tears]], as well.
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* In ''[[Tsukigasa]]'', Azuma cries a few. They are somewhat comical considering his stated goal is to become more manly and these are definitely not [[Manly Tears]].
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', while several characters open the [[Ocular Gushers]] or [[Manly Tears]], Franky easily cries more often than anyone else on the crew, and gets emotional at just about any touching story he hears (which is how he ended up helping the Straw Hats, who used to be enemies in the first place). [[Sand in My Eyes|He never admits it]], though.
* Arguably, Kahlua from ''[[Rosario
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* 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.
* Lucie Manette sheds these all the time in ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]].'' Meant to show off her great compassion and sensitivity - and in her credit, these tears are rarely for herself.
* The Prioress weeps most piteously for her little dogs in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' if any are hurt - though she doesn't seem to care so much about the poor.
* In both ''Angela's Ashes'' and ''Tis'', Frank McCourt's family tells him "his bladder must be near to his eye" because of how easily he tears up.
* Fitz, from the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]], doesn't cry terribly often, but if his mum is [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] and trying to kill him, he knows or strongly suspects one of his friends is dead, etc., he is going to cry about it. Two of the Doctor's female companions have stood by and kept a stiff upper lip about the matter while Fitz wept over the fact the Doctor [[Never Found the Body|seemed to be dead]]. He's generally surprisingly sensitive for a grown man -- the thought of worms getting acid-rained on upsets him a little.
* ''Everybody'' in ''[[The Tale of Genji]]''.
* [[King Arthur]] and his knights in various media, especially the old stuff. Even more [[Tears of Remorse]] and a lot of [[Tears of Joy]]. And Malory has Gawain and Arthur do two rounds of synchronized swooning out of pure sorrow after Lancelot kills Gaheris and Gawain, who were ''on his side'', while rescuing Guinevere.
* 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.
* It really [[Depending On the Author|depends on the author]], but there are still a number of times in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] that Luke Skywalker cries openly. Maybe the most notable examples are the times in the [[Return of the Jedi]] [[Novelization]]. There's also a line in the ''Rebel Force'' series that implies he cries when some Imperials die horribly.
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