The most beautiful of princesses will cry tears as sparkling as diamonds, and as soft as ermine. "To weep is to make less the depth of grief." It's Okay to Cry · Humanizing Tears · Ocular Gushers · Cathartic Crying

The Prone to Tears trope as used in popular culture. Some characters look like they're always ready to cry. In fact, they probably are and burst into tears ...

Everybody Cries is where a group of three or more characters (sometimes all the main characters) cry in the same area, whether in one scene or a sequence of ...

A person just refuses to cry when they clearly want to or calls themself weak for doing so. That's when someone tells them that there's nothing wrong with ...

Something terrible has happened, but a character finds themself unable to shed tears (or at least says they can't). In the classic scenario, a bereaved hero ...

Basically, it's trying to hold back any crying in a situation. The simple fact is that tears are often seen as a sign of weakness. Therefore characters hold ...

The phrase is often used in order to indicate a really upsetting past, and it usually will imply in such a case that it was something the person did repeatedly.

A character spontaneously starts crying, seemingly for no reason. When asked about it, even they don't know why they're doing it.

Pushed by the author: The narrative itself goes alongside this trope. Men won't be shown crying, and if they do, it won't be painted in the same light as women.

A character cries. Not just any old crying, but full-on ugly crying. It tends to be loud, complete with a runny nose and red, puffy eyes. Western Animation · Manly Tears · Your Makeup Is Running