Trying Not to Cry: Difference between revisions

== Film -- Animated ==

* Subverted in ''[[Ice Age|Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs]]'' after {{spoiler|Peaches is born}}.

'''Eddie''': I didn't! (and starts crying) }}

* Puss in Boots in ''[[Shrek]] 2'', watching Fiona and Shrek choose to remain ogres together instead of being beautiful.

* ''[[Treasure Planet]]''

* The scene mentioned in the page quote, when Grumpy tries --and fails-- to keep from breaking down in tears over Snow White's casket. If you didn't cry, you don't have... Oh, what the hell are we saying? You totally cried at that.

* Parodied in ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', when the family discovers that evil Grandma Ida has been drugging a rich Chinese man and plans to marry him, she uses all her pills to drug everyone with a buffet. They're all left in a state of blissful naivete, calmly and happily commenting on what a monster Ida is. The Chinese man, however, snaps out of it before the marriage is official and runs off, leaving Ida on the floor sobbing. Hal, drugged and beginning to cry, mentions "I promised I wasn't going to do this" as he watches Ida wallow in her misery.

* Parodied in [[King of Queens]], when Carrie joins a model family advertising a house, and gets a little too attached to her pretend children.

* Played for laughs with Gus in [[Psych]]. He's a sympathetic crier.

* In ''[[Lufia]] II: Rise of the Sinistrals'', Maxim's childhood friend Tia was once a girl who burst into tears easily, until one day, she decided to stop crying. {{spoiler|In the ending, she finally starts crying again when she senses [[Bittersweet Ending|Maxim's death]].}}

* In ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] 2'', Played very straight in {{spoiler|1=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC_u6HACZ5c the Happy Ending of the] [[Hello, Insert Name Here|Protagonist]]'s [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] [[Genki Girl|Hikari Hinomoto]]}} :

''' {{spoiler|Hikari}}''': I kept remembering about that time, that time when you moved away... I find it hard to breath, and drown with sadness. {'' {{spoiler|Hikari}}'s eyes start to well up with tears''} When I think that you will disappear in front of me, the tears... come out... {''the welling up gets bigger''} [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|I don't want it, to be like this, to be like this...]] [[Anguished Declaration of Love|because I LOVE YOU !]] }}

* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' had a scene after Antimony {{spoiler|"[[Psychopomp|guides]]" an old friend to the ether}}.

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'''Kat''': Oh!}}

* ''[[Paranatural]]'' had Isabel eventually abandoned by her [[Non-Human_Sidekick|symbiotic spirit]] Eightfold. It plays a cool goodbye scene mind-to-mind, and only then finds out she is capable of maintaining connection between them at even greater range than it thought. The poor spider-frog tries to add something... and collapses into weeping and babbling instead.

* Xandir in ''[[Drawn Together]]'', in the episode where he came out of the closet.

* From ''[[The Simpsons]]'' when Bart and Lisa were about to head off to Kamp Krusty:

'''Marge:''' (starts sobbing) Oh, I'm going to miss this! }}

* In ''[[Total Drama Island|Total Drama World Tour]],'' [[Ascended Fangirl|Sierra]] says "I promised myself I wouldn't cry" word-for-word, because she [[We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future|believed]] her [[Love Interest]] Cody was sleeping with [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|Heather]].