Unable to Cry: Difference between revisions

* ''[[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'':

* Addressed directly in ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy II: The Golden Army]]''. Hellboy and Abe are listening to "Can't Smile Without You" and Abe notes that he physically can't smile and isn't even sure if he has tear ducts. {{spoiler|Then Nuala dies--turns out he does.}}

* In [[Bicentennial Man]], after his beloved Little Miss dies of old age, he comments that it isn't fair that he is capable of feeling so much sadness, but incapable of expressing it.

** 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.

** His sister Lindsay finds herself unable to cry on command like she used to, though she does finally manage it when she believes her father is dead.

* This happens to Mariah Cirrus, rescued from a sleeper pod in an abandoned ship in the second season of ''[[Babylon 5]]'', due to the cryogenic process drying out her tear ducts.

* Part of the plot in the [[Soap Opera]] ''Yo Amo a Paquita Gallego''. The titular character is unable to cry, as she never had done that, not even at her birth. But, as one character points "those who are unable to cry are unable to sincerely laugh neither", so the plot has a real delight in doing all kind of very awful things, even to ludicrous levels, [[Break the Cutie|just to see if she ever breaks]]. When Paquita finally cries, near the end of the soap, is the signal that the universe can stop trowing shit on her ASAP.

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

* [[Jay-Z]]'s "Cashmere Thoughts" gives us:

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

== Poetry ==

* Edgar Lee Master's ''[http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/7600/ Charles Webster]''

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Girly Edition:"

'''Lady''': Mary Anne's better! }}

* In an early episode of [[Futurama]], Fry [[It Makes Sense in Context|drinks an alien emperor whose body is made of liquid and sleeps in a glass bottle]] and is [[Idiot Plot|crowned the new emperor]]. When it turns out that the old emperor he drank isn't really dead, but is alive inside his stomach, the options of getting him out are narrowed down to Fry crying, but he can't because he's "too manly." {{spoiler|The solution, of course, is for all his friends to kick the crap out of him until he sheds tears of pain. It works.}}

* 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]].}}

* Solid Snake from [[Metal Gear Solid]], due to sheer jadedness.

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