Unable to Cry: Difference between revisions

* In the manga ''[[Inuyasha]]'', it's revealed that Sesshoumaru never sheds tears, no matter what. Jaken explains that if a situation warrents tears being shed, [[He Will Not Cry, So I Cry for Him|he will cry on Sesshoumaru's behalf]].

* Erza of ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' plays with this; she cannot cry in her right eye, even when it was healed of damage {{spoiler|from when she was a slave. She does, eventually, cry in her right eye at the end of the Tower of Paradise arc.}}. She claims that it's because she already cried half of her tears out.

* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. Claes whenever she sees something that reminds her of her dead handler Lauro (who has been wiped from her memory).

 

* Referenced in ''[[Mystic River]]'' where Sean Penn's character sobs "My own little daughter and I can't even cry for her" "Jimmy, you're crying now!"

* In ''[[The Holiday]]'', Amanda Woods can't cry. It's part of the trumped-up reason her boyfriend says he cheated on her during the [[Defenestrate and Berate]] scene at the beginning; that he's freaked out by her emotionlessness. But eventually [[The Power of Love]] is upon her, and she finds herself crying because she has to leave her new love interest. This produces a delighted reaction to her, and leads straight into a [[Race For Your Love]] scene.

* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'': "Why do you cry?" "He is Conan. Cimmerian. [[He Will Not Cry, So I Cry for Him]]." [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], [[Tear Jerker]] and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] all in one.

* ''[[Terminator]] II: Judgment Day'':

* Tobias of ''[[Animorphs]]'' spent ''so'' much time [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock|trapped]] in the form of a red-tailed hawk that even when he returns to human form, his predatory mindset prevents him from crying. This saves his life on one occasion--{{spoiler|he's just found out who his father really was, but he needs to pretend that he doesn't believe what he's been told.}}

* In ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]'', Elphaba's skin reacts to water like acid, including her tears. When her beloved teacher is murdered and all the students are consoling each other, she has to force herself to stand far away from the crowd and put on a cold face, lest she risk breaking down and burning her face.

* The protagonist of Brian Keene's short story "The Garden Where My Rain Grows" suffers from this problem. He can get sad over the deaths of loved ones, but he's never been able to cry. Not before the apocalypse,<ref>which, ironically, comes in the form of a never-ending rainstorm</ref> not after, not when his oldest friend is decapitated by Satanists. He finally finds himself able to cry at the end, after {{spoiler|a [[Kraken]] kills his [[Love Interest]].}}

* In Teresa Frohock's ''[[Miserere: An Autumn Tale|Miserere an Autumn Tale]]'', Lucian freezes after {{spoiler|Catarina}} dies. Rachael holds him a long time, and nearly gives up before he sobs.

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' claims he cannot cry in one episode, although he's cried at least twice and got misty-eyed far more times than a supposed [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] should.

* The Mayor in ''[[Spin City]]'' is unable to cry because his father always said tears were a sign of weakness. When he needs to, he stabs himself in the thigh with a pen.

* Michael Bluth from ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' never cried as part of a [[Running Gag]] that GOB kept calling him a heartless robot. It wasn't a matter of ''couldn't cry'' as it was he didn't feel that he needed to. He did shed a few tears in the finale, though.

** Which, despite being a heartwarming moment for him (possibly a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], YMMV), elicited opposite reactions from those around him; GOB, especially, who'd made a big deal about his failure to cry, found the sight repulsive and unmanly, and it's what convinced his mother to sell out the company to Stan Sitwell.

== [[Music]] ==

* The Jackson Browne song "Doctor, My Eyes".

{{quote|''"I never cry. If I did, I'd cry ice"''}}

 

* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', [[Chosen One]] Colette laments her inability to cry at one point, as a part of {{spoiler|the angel transformation process which is sealing away her soul piece by piece.}} She does get better by the end, but [[Tear Jerker|at the time...]]

* The manga adaptation of ''[[Mega Man X]]'' has a variation: X can (and does) cry, but this is unusual because he's a [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|Reploid]]. Zero, also a Reploid, can't cry and sees it as a useless human thing at first. He later comes to envy X when Storm Eagle dies.

* In ''[[Persona 4]]'', This is the main problem with Naoki Konishi, the Hanged Man Social Link. He finds himself being unable to properly mourn his sister's death, which makes him seem cold in the eyes of others. In the end of his story arc, he's able to properly mourn and move on.

* Tia in the original version of ''[[Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals]]'' was constantly teased as a child to the point of crying because her name was so close to the word, "Tear". Maxim, her childhood friend and [[Unrequited Love]], would always save her and eventually told her the source of her torment was because she cried so easily. She eventually became strong enough to not cry all the time, but at Maxim's wedding (to another woman), admits she hasn't cried since she was a child and fears not being able to anymore. {{spoiler|At the game's ending, the moment that Maxim dies, Tia, in another part of the world and unaware of what has happened, [[I'm Crying but I Don't Know Why|suddenly finds herself crying uncontrollably without knowing why]].}}

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