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Unable to Cry
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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 will angst (or Wangst) over their inability to cry for a dead loved one, lamenting that they must be a terrible person, dried up and dead inside, a monster! They never are; they're usually just suffering an undiagnosed Heroic BSoD, or are working up to an Unstoppable Rage and can't let themselves break down, or swore they wouldn't let their enemies see them cry and now have an emotional block about it. Occasionally they cried so much over one traumatic event (or a series of them) in their life that they seem to have no tears left for anything else. And sometimes, they literally can't cry no matter how sad they might truly be because they lack tear ducts, whether naturally or due to Facial Horror. In many works this will be leading up to a Big Scene where something triggers the character to break down in floods of cleansing tears, hopefully leading to catharsis, possibly leading to Narm. But alternatively, it can be simply a way of trying to explain/justify Men Don't Cry, in which case the tearless hero will remain stoical till the end, maybe shedding half a freedom drop at most. One common result of the Bearer of Bad News. A friend or relative may say "He Will Not Cry, so I Cry for Him". In some relatively rare cases, the character can cry over ordinary things but has never wept for the one big defining sorrow of their life. Obviously, this is Truth in Television to a degree, though fiction tends to be more Anvilicious about it. Compare Frozen Face. Compare Tears from a Stone, for when they shouldn't be able to cry, but somehow do. |
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In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Ultimate Robot K1-B0 laments that he can't cry in the wake of Miu Iruma's murder, since they'd grown attached to each other in the past couple of days. | |
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The central character in The Mental State undergoes a series of traumatic experiences that deeply affect him. To cope with everything and enable himself to deal with situations constructively, he shuts down almost all of his emotions, becoming a sociopath. He only escapes from this mindset after he is forced to revisit the event that scarred him in the first place, resulting in him breaking down in tears and howls. | |
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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 Straw Nihilist should. | |
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In The Last Unicorn, unicorns never cry because they never feel the kind of human grief and regret that would prompt them. After a stint as a human to save her fellows, the unicorn confesses that she is now full of tears even though she cannot cry. | |
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One book in the The Baby-Sitters Club series involves Claudia dealing with the loss of her beloved grandmother. At the funeral, she finds herself unable to cry; unaware that it's a fairly common reaction to loss, she worries something is wrong with her. When her emotions do catch up with her, they manifest in bizarre and unpredictable ways; it isn't until she breaks down completely that she's able to begin to heal. | |
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Shellpeople in The Ship Who... are humans in life support capsules with most of their nerves rerouted so they can serve as biological AI cores. They can't cry, and sometimes regret this as they can see it's a release of sorts. One of the lesser-known functions of a shellperson's brawn is to cry for them. | |
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The Simpsons episode "Girly Edition": | |
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In Teresa Frohock's Miserere: An Autumn Tale, Lucian freezes after Catarina dies. Rachael holds him a long time and nearly gives up before he sobs. | |
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Fire Emblem: Hector in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade admitted being unable to cry at the deaths of his parents even though he wanted to. In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Ike finds himself unable to cry when his father dies, and asks Rhys to cry for him. Byleth in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is noted by their father Jeralt to never have cried, even as an infant. Jeralt's death puts an abrupt end to this as they shed tears for the first time. |
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In Neon Metathesis Evangelion, Asuka has opened up to Rei and Shinji, she has admitted to herself and even to them that she loves them, she knows she is loved... but one thing still hasn't changed about her: She hasn't cried in ten years, not even at the funeral of her mother. She won't cry now, no matter what. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Alphonse — having lost his original body and instead walks around with his soul bound to a suit of metal armor — is incapable of crying, and it's a sensation he misses dearly. He comments on how Edward has the ability to cry, yet doesn't use it when Al wants to so badly. Happens to Edward in the 2003 anime version when he kills Sloth and he comments that Wrath can cry for her while he can't. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) has Princess Elise who can't cry... but only because she was trained not to, after her father sealed an unspeakable evil into her, that can only escape if she cries. | |
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In the "First Lay of Gudrun" of the Poetic Edda, Gudrun does not weep over her murdered husband Sigurd. Several women attempt to console her by relating their own sad stories but fail to get a reaction. Finally, Gudrun's sister Gullrönd uncovers Sigurd's corpse; when Gudrun sees Sigurd's face, she cries. | |
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Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals: Tia 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. At the game's ending, the moment that Maxim dies, Tia, in another part of the world and unaware of what has happened, suddenly finds herself crying uncontrollably without knowing why. In the remake, Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals, she cries earlier in the story, when her new boyfriend Dekar sacrifices himself to save her from Idura. |
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In the remake, Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals, she cries earlier in the story, when her new boyfriend Dekar sacrifices himself to save her from Idura. | |
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Fist of the North Star: A young girl named Asuka can't cry for her dead father because she thinks that, if she does, he'll never rest. Kenshiro's response is to hold her, shedding Tender Tears and stating that he'll cry in her place. | |
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Arrested Development: Michael Bluth 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 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. |
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Attack on Titan has Eren Yeager in the Final Season, where Sasha died from being shot by Gabi. And after hearing what her last word is, all he can do is laugh. Change to flashback from season 1, where Sasha said when they win and conquer land, they can farm animals and have meat. End of the flashback, Eren grits his teeth unable to shed tears losing his friend. Technically, it wasn't hIs fault he couldn't cry. Because it's Reiner's fault for showing too many painful hells to him. | |
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Parodied in an early Dilbert arc where Dogbert tells a psychiatrist he's unable to cry over Dilbert's death. When the therapist tells him that dogs can't legally inherit from humans, he of course starts bawling. | |
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In The Ouroboros, Mikey is the only one of the six spacefarers who remains dry-eyed after relaying the news that Splinter died in their absence. This is implied to be partly because he was forced to snap into Heroic Safe Mode after learning this, and none of the others are in any condition to help pull him out of it after hearing that. | |
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Shion from Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku is physically unable to cry due to his damaged eyes, and berates himself for his inability to mourn for his dead friend, Tenza. All he can do instead is seek revenge against the monster who killed Tenza. | |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shinji, albeit outright stating that he is sad, finds himself unable to cry after Rei saves his life via Heroic Sacrifice. In fact, she isn't mourned by anyone at all and is quickly replaced by an identical-looking clone. So Shinji's inability to cry might just be foreshadowing. | |
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In America's Next Top Model, a contestant named Tiffany was eliminated during Cycle 4. She took the elimination in stride and said that she has had such a hard life and cried so much, getting eliminated from a reality show was pretty small by comparison. This rather famously sent Tyra into a complete rage. | |
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The titular character of Thanks Kyubey physically cannot cry due to biology, which is a departure from canon insofar as all of Kyubey's species in canon are incapable of emotion at all, but the Kyubey in the fanwork is capable of emotion and empathy unlike every other Incubator. | |
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Robin (1993): When Tim has to attend the funerals of his father, his girlfriend, and a school friend who'd died in his arms after he failed to save her all in the same week, he finds that by the end of the week, for the last funeral, he just can't cry anymore no matter how disrespectful he feels that is. | |
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Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia: After Shanoa is forced to kill Albus and his spirit warns her about Barlowe's treachery, she laments the fact that she can't cry for him due to having lost her emotions. At the end of the game, Albus' last request before he leaves for the afterlife in Shanoa's place is to see Shanoa smile. Having regained her emotions at this point, she does with tears streaming down her cheeks. |
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Ballad Of A Shinigami: Since the dead can't cry, Momo cries for them. | |
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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. | |
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Solid Snake from Metal Gear, due to sheer jadedness. | |
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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. At the end of his story arc, he's able to properly mourn and move on. | |
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Siren: Vanessa loved her sister Justine, but after Justine's death, she finds herself unable to shed a tear. | |
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Mermaids in the Thora books don't cry. Instead, their tails turn pale when they're sad. | |
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Sapphire from Disgaea 3 can't cry even if she wants to. At least, not out of sadness. | |
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Black Butler: In an inverted example, Sebastian's human form has perfectly functional tear ducts, but he lacks any sort of emotion that would cause him to shed tears. Naturally, he's shocked the first time something irritates them enough to make tears roll down his face. | |
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In All Fall Down, Portia is this in spades, before breaking down in the Ghoul's arms after he averts her attempted suicide. | |
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Titus Andronicus: Titus cuts off his own hand as part of a deal to have his sons spared from execution. He gets the hand back along with the heads of his sons. He breaks into laughter, and when asked why he's laughing over this, replies, "Why, I have not another tear to shed." | |
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In one ROM: Spaceknight story, Rom spends the issue trying to rescue a little girl from his enemies the Dire Wraiths. When he finally reaches her, he can't detect any life signs and believes she has drowned. He cradles the little body in his arms and shudders, making little choking sounds, and Namor realizes the cyborg literally can't cry. Namor manages to save her life with Atlantean tech, though. | |
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In the Fallout 3 mission Those, young child Bryan Wilks asks you two check on his dad in the midst of a giant fire ant infestation. You will find him dead in his house. Upon receiving the news, Bryan will say that he kind of already knew and is frankly too tired to cry. | |
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Played straight as the undiagnosed BSOD in Parasyte: Shinichi is horrified at finding himself becoming more callous as the carnage marches on, and especially at being unable to show emotion when Kana is killed. His biggest hangup is being unable to cry at the funeral. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Ike finds himself unable to cry when his father dies, and asks Rhys to cry for him. | |
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In Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Kaguya notes she is unable to shed any tears over the death of her father, even though she thinks that she should. This doesn't mean that she wasn't emotionally affected, though; she's clearly quite sad when she wishes she could have taken Gan'an's picture. | |
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The action star Tug Speedman in Tropic Thunder can't cry on set, leading to a rift between him and the "award winner" Kirk Lazarus. | |
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This is the focus of the Steven Universe episode "An Indirect Kiss", in which Steven must help a disfigured Amethyst with his mother's healing Swiss-Army Tears, thus pushing him to try to cry, even though he finds himself unable to, even when he tries to force it when thinking about his mother, who he never knew. Fortunately, he later discovers he has healing spit instead at the end of the episode. | |
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Hector in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade admitted being unable to cry at the deaths of his parents even though he wanted to. | |
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In Tales of Symphonia, Chosen One Colette laments her inability to cry at one point, as a part of the angel transformation process which is sealing away her soul piece by piece. She does get better by the end but at the time... | |
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Degrassi: The Next Generation: Liberty, right after JT's death, though she eventually does cry. | |
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Antimony of Gunnerkrigg Court is fairly contained about losing her mother and being abandoned by her father, until she gets a chance to relax and then WHAM come the waterworks. | |
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In the penultimate episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, as White Fang's plans fall apart, Dorothy Catalonia breaks down but can't shed any tears. As he leaves her behind, Trowa Barton remarks: "That's sad. A woman who can't cry." In a subversion, once Dorothy is alone, she does start to cry. | |
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What happens to Alan Aramaki in the Last Season of Rose Guns Days. He realizes that his girlfriend Meixue, who was shot by a sniper — who is his best friend Keith to make things worse — is no longer responding because she already died from her bleeding. Yet no tears run. He can only sport a Broken Smile instead. | |
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Happens to Edward in the 2003 anime version when he kills Sloth and he comments that Wrath can cry for her while he can't. | |
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Gundam: In the penultimate episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, as White Fang's plans fall apart, Dorothy Catalonia breaks down but can't shed any tears. As he leaves her behind, Trowa Barton remarks: "That's sad. A woman who can't cry." In a subversion, once Dorothy is alone, she does start to cry. In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Kira, in stark contrast to how he used to be, has gone from tear-prone as he was in SEED to not crying at all. Even in situations where the battle-hardened Athrun cries he doesn't shed a tear. The reason for such a severe change is never really touched upon but the implications of it being a combination of general battle weariness and PTSD are there. |
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In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry meets with the Diggorys at the end to talk to them about Cedric's death. Mr. Diggory sobs throughout, but the book notes that Mrs. Diggory seems beyond tears. | |
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Ana Lucia's inability to cry (at least until Day 48) is mentioned in Lost. Notable in that we don't see her cry during any of her traumatic flashbacks either, and when she finally does breakdown, it's likely that she was finally letting out the grief of the past few months of her life. | |
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In Taxi, when Reverend Jim's father dies, Jim is upset because he hasn't cried yet. Then he realizes he is crying. And he asks, "But am I crying because I miss you, or am I crying because I didn't cry?" He decides it doesn't matter and he's glad the tears have finally come. | |
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For a villainous example, in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Heart of Ice", Batman is horrified when he discovers Mr. Freeze's Dark and Troubled Past. When Mr. Freeze himself shows up immediately afterwards... | |
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Aliens and animals in Animorphs don't cry. In book 5, Marco discovers that his Missing Mom, 'dead' for several years now, is actually a host to a very high-ranking enemy. He's in gorilla morph at the moment, something close enough to human to feel a similar kind of emotional pain, but also something that doesn't burst into tears - his only physical reaction when he sees her and realizes what's happened is to sit down abruptly. In The Andalite Chronicles, the alien Elfangor falls for a human girl and chooses to flee the war and stay with her. They were together for long enough to let him become familiar with human form. When he has to return and resume being an Andalite, in the narration he talks about crying as Andalites do - only in his hearts. Tobias spent so much time trapped in the form of a red-tailed hawk that even when he regains the ability to morph, he's unfamiliar with human biological responses to anguish and doesn't easily cry. This saves his life in book 23 —he's just found out Elfangor was his father and had wanted and loved him, but he needs to pretend that he doesn't believe what he's been told. That said, after that situation is resolved he morphs human in private and then he does cry. At the end of the series, Tobias morphs human so that he can cry so that Rachel can see him just before she dies. Hawks, of course, can't. |
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In The Underland Chronicles, Gregor really starts warming up to Luxa when she tells him that she has not cried since her parents' deaths. When her cousin Henry betrays her at the end of Gregor the Overlander, she goes into a catatonic state of sorts, and it seems like she still won't cry - until she sees Vikus. | |
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Rand Al Thor continually hardens himself as a defence mechanism in The Wheel of Time, to the point it is mentioned on several occasions he wanted to cry, wished he could, but finds himself unable to, as well as expressing any true emotion anymore, and even trying to stop himself feeling them. This was just one aspect of a 7-book breakdown. | |
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Althea, the eponymous princess from The Light Princess did not cry at her mother's death when she was 6 years old, and hasn't cried since. Her inability to cry (as well as her lightness) gets her labeled as a freak by her father and her kingdom. She eventually does cry, when she is afraid that the man she loves is dying/dead. | |
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In The Way to Protect the Female Lead's Older Brother, Dion is permanently unable to cry (and emotionally stunted in general) as a result of his upbringing. Due to this, he'a also endlessly fascinated with his half-sister's (who went through the same upbringing) ability to cry, to the point of going out of his way to give her reasons to be sad. | |
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In The Boondocks, Huey Freeman never cries, except for one scene in the first season finale... possibly. It was raining. | |
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In Amazing Grace, John Newton, the blind former slave trader, is last seen dictating his memoirs/confession to a scribe, (in which he gives full details of the atrocities he took part in,) and tells Wilberforce that despite decades of crushing guilt, he wasn't actually able to weep until he wrote it. The Tears of Remorse he is finally able to shed are clearly a great weight off his soul. | |
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In The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Plath's Author Avatar Esther realises she has never cried for her father and breaks down sobbing at his graveside. | |
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In One Piece, despite how much he wants to when Rebecca tearfully announces to him her will to win the tournament for the Mera Mera no Mi, the Thunder Soldier in the Dressrosa arc is literally unable to cry due to being a Living Toy. Thankfully, his toy status is later fixed, revealing him as a human named Kyros. When the whole thing was over, he made up for all those tearless years in one go. | |
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Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt in Gaunt's Ghosts novel Blood Pact is a particular example. Due to having his eyes ripped out during his torture on Jago in the novel Only in Death. he is unable to cry when his old friend, Doctor Tolin Dorden reveals that he is dying of blood cancer, as his new eyes are artificial implants which cannot perform that one function. | |
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In the Nightside series, Merlin Satanspawn's eyes are flames that burn within empty eye sockets. When Taylor and Suzie meet him in the 6th century, he sadly speaks of how, after King Arthur died, he couldn't even weep for his friend and protege because his eyes aren't built that way. | |
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Concrete: Ron's new alien body just isn't wired to weep, so feelings that he would have cried from in his previous body cause him to vomit instead. Unfortunately his new stomach is filled with extremely caustic acid strong enough to dissolve rocks and wood, meaning he naturally tries to avoid vomiting if possible. His inability to achieve emotional release is probably one of the contributing factors to his becoming depressed as the series goes on. | |
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In the Futurama episode "My Three Suns", Fry drinks an alien emperor whose body is made of liquid and sleeps in a glass bottle and is crowned the new emperor, which seems great until it becomes clear that the role has a ridiculously high turnover rate, being almost a guaranteed ticket to assassination. 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, which he can't because he's "too macho"; even a reminder that he outlived everyone he ever loved is easily shrugged off. Bender finally finds some success by telling him that Leela was brutally murdered on her way over to help him out, but Leela, who's not in on the plan, actually shows up before he's shed more than a few tears. The ultimate solution, of course, is for all his friends to kick the crap out of him until he sheds tears of pain. It works. Then the emperor himself says, "Thanks for crying me out!" and takes over the pummeling. | |
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Professor X in Ultimate X-Men was unable to cry at his son Proteus' funeral and he berated himself for it. Of course, the fact that Proteus was a mass murderer who killed over a million people worldwide and was going to kill him might have something to do with that. | |
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Jesse Custer, the protagonist of the series Preacher, saw his father killed in front of him at the age of five. Naturally, he cried his eyes out, until the murderer, a sadistic bastard, sneered at him for crying. Jesse stopped crying right then, refusing to show weakness to these monsters, and swore never to cry again. He never does, even when the love of his life is similarly murdered (by the same people) in front of him. In the end of the series, he is finally able to cry again when Tulip is about to leave him for good. This is what convinces her to try to make their relationship work. | |
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Referenced in Code Geass twice; the first time is when Shirley Fennette's father has died, and when she's putting on a brave face her friends tell her not to, and ask if she's cried yet. They're reassured when she replies that she's cried a lot. The second time is after the same unfortunate Shirley has died, and one of her estranged friends is dealing with her own grief, and is reassured by a coworker that as long as she can cry, she'll be OK. Both cases clearly work on the belief that being Unable to Cry is a sign that something is seriously, perhaps irremediably, wrong, while being able to express your grief is much healthier. | |
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The Princess in Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow. To do a scene where her character cries (she's a Rebellious Princess-turned-actress), she needs eye drops. She does cry for real at the end, though. | |
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The Nostalgia Chick has said she'd rather drink away any sad feelings than cry and mess up her mascara. So when she is sobbing or even just tearful, something is very badly wrong. | |
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In Bicentennial Man, Andrew is envious of Portia when she cries after Little Miss dies. He comments that it isn't fair to be capable of feeling so much sadness and incapable of expressing it. | |
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In Clannad After Story, Tomoya tells Ushio about how, when you become an adult, you often can't cry even when you want to. Not long after, though, he discovers he's still got plenty of tears left, even though if anyone should be numb to sadness, it's him. | |
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In The Secret Garden, like the book it's based on, Mary is this way after being neglected by her birth parents. Part of her Character Development is learning how to cry. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: Carmen can't produce tears because she's a cactus and her body is made to retain moisture. | |
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The Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "The Tower of Dr. Zalost" has a very unique example. The villain Dr. Zalost has a rat henchman who appears cold and only snarls or sighs. Towards the end, the rat gets hit with the Happy Cannonball which turns him into a crying baby. Fans have speculated that he was bottling up his emotions which prevented him from letting any tears out. | |
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In Home Improvement, Tim Taylor's boss Mr. Binford, who was like a second father to him, dies, and he is unable to cry for him or show grief the way the other characters do. After a bit of thinking (and a visit to his neighbor Wilson), he realizes that he just doesn't show grief the same way as everyone else. Notably doesn't end with a scene with him breaking down in tears. The episode said that Tim cried at the actual funeral, but didn't show it on-screen. Part of the story was that he didn't want Brad to think crying isn't "manly" because everyone shows grief differently. This later appears again when Jill's father dies and Randy can only respond by making death jokes. Tim tells him it's okay to react that way, but to be considerate of others and only make the jokes around those who will be okay with them (namely him). |
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Fairy Tail: Erza ZigZags this; she cannot cry in her right eye, even when it was healed of damage from when she was a slave. She does, eventually, cry in her right eye at the end of the Tower of Heaven arc. She claims that it's because she already cried half of her tears out. Despite feeling sad and lonely, Lucy cannot initially cry when she loses her father. She speculates that it was a result of her father often treating her horribly until they made up somewhat. Then when she finds out that he has been sending her birthday presents for the last seven years, paid her rent so she didn't lose her home, and actually loved her all along, she breaks down crying. |
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The first issue of Blackest Night: Titans reveals Rose Wilson to be a literal example: Rose is rarely shown grieving usually doing something else like playing with her phone or going skinny dipping instead. While at first, this comes off as a Jerkass trait, this comic reveals she is simply unable to healthily cope thus doing her best to ignore the grief instead. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Have You Seen This Snail?", Spongebob's pet snail Gary has run away. Near the end, Patrick tries to get Spongebob to let it out some more, after days of failed searches, but he laments that he can't cry anymore and that he's out of tears. It's subverted a second later when Patrick finds some balsa wood lying around, prompting Spongebob to turn on the Ocular Gushers again because Gary really loved balsa wood. | |
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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. | |
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In Scryed, when Scheris dies, Ryuho is initially frozen in stunned shock. Kazuma (in his own caring but rough way) tells him it's all right for a man to cry... and Ryuho melts down. | |
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Following the death of Cosmo, and the subsequent failure to revive her, in the series finale of Sonic X, Sonic was left not only unable to cry but unable to react properly. Despite regular complaints stating that he was "soooo mean", he was obviously mourning. | |
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What if Noelle Lost Herself?: Noelle laments that she hasn't been able to cry over her father's passing, wondering what's wrong with her and why she hasn't been able to shed any tears. | |
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Gunslinger Girl: Cyborg girl Claes whenever she sees something that reminds her of her dead handler Captain Raballo (who has been wiped from her memory). | |
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Crops up in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Tanks for the Memories". While most of the other ponies are reduced to tears by Rainbow Dash crying over her pet tortoise, Twilight Sparkle and Applejack appear unaffected. | |
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In the Doctor Who novel Set Piece. As Ace, stuck in ancient Egypt, gets to grips with the fact that the Doctor did apparently die and is not coming back for her, she tries to grieve for the Doctor's loss and finds she can't cry. | |
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In Monster, Wolfgang Grimmer regrets his inability to cry or otherwise respond to emotional situations, such as his son's death, owing to his upbringing at Kinderheim 511. This is subverted when Grimmer bursts into tears when trying to comfort a traumatized child after rescuing the child from suicide. Later, when dying from a gunshot wound, he is finally able to cry for his son. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Kira, in stark contrast to how he used to be, has gone from tear-prone as he was in SEED to not crying at all. Even in situations where the battle-hardened Athrun cries he doesn't shed a tear. The reason for such a severe change is never really touched upon but the implications of it being a combination of general battle weariness and PTSD are there. | |
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The normally emotionless Lita from Brütal Legend states that she'd rather have scorpions crawl down her cheeks than tears before her emotional breakdown by her brother's deathbed. Eddie responds by saying that would make an awesome album cover. | |
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In The Wild Child, Victor's years of isolation in the forest have caused his ability to cry, among other things, to atrophy. He is never observed crying at the institute, despite his cruel treatment by the other kids. He finally cries for the first time late in the movie after being punished by Itard. | |
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Uglies: All through Specials, Tally says that she doesn't think that Specials are physically capable of crying. She gets pretty close to crying at quite a few points, but she never actually cries. Until the end. | |
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In Dragonball Z Abridged version of The World's Strongest, Dr. Wheelo is nothing but a Brain in a Jar and thus cannot cry, despite every event conspiring to make him want to. | |
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The Little Mermaid: Mermaids are unable to shed tears, which makes their grief all the worse. When the title character becomes an angelic spirit for choosing to die rather than sacrifice her prince's life, she weeps for the first time. | |
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In Limitless Potential, Roll finds herself unable to cry when X explains to her that she's been rebuilt a century in the future and that everyone she knew, including Mega Man and Dr. Light, are long dead, which only distresses her even more. Justified given that when she was given her new body, Dr. Fujiwara saw no reason to give her the capacity to cry. | |
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In 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. | |
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In South Park, Butters' dad Stephen seems to either be unable to shed tears or is only pretending to cry. | |
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The Innsmouth Legacy. Aphra Marsh refuses to cry when she reads the FBI file on her mother's murder and autopsy by government scientists. She's one of the Deep Ones so the shedding of salt water has religious associations. | |
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In What Tomorrow Brings, Jake recalls feeling too hollow to cry at Tom's funeral in the original timeline. | |
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The eponymous character of the Eisenhorn novels in the Warhammer 40,000 universe is not only unable to cry but can't express nearly any facial expression change due to nerve damage sustained under torture, which his captor explicitly taunts him over. | |
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In Porco Rosso, after Gina has just received news of the death of her third husband (all of them were pilots who died in wars or plane crashes), she remarks to her friend Porco that she can't even cry after waiting all this time for some news of his whereabouts. | |
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Byleth in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is noted by their father Jeralt to never have cried, even as an infant. Jeralt's death puts an abrupt end to this as they shed tears for the first time. | |
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Conspiracy (2001): Offscreen, Dr. Kritzinger tells Reinhard Heydrich a story about an old friend who had an abusive father but a doting mother. The man was unable to cry at his mother's funeral but was strangely broken down in tears and sobbing uncontrollably at his father's funeral. It was because his father's hatred defined the man's life more than his mother's love ever did, rendering him an empty shell who had lost his purpose when the object of his hatred was gone. This ties into a warning that Kritzinger is trying to give Heydrich about his anti-Semitism. | |
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Played straight in The Secret Garden, in that Mary "doesn't know how to cry." She figures it out in the end. | |
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In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt an optional line of dialogue has Geralt say "I can't cry. Don't know how." after Vesemir dies. Whether he physically can't due to his mutations or finds it extremely difficult due to his upbringing/jadedness is up to the player's interpretation. | |
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A unique example in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Scotty tells Spock that the daughter of Chancellor Gorkon didn't 'shed one bloody tear!'. Spock points out Klingons don't have tear ducts. Furthermore, the first missive she issues clearly shows her bereavement. | |
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Addressed directly in 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. Then Nuala dies—turns out he does. | |
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The entirety of Organisation XIII in Kingdom Hearts. Since they have no hearts, they're physically incapable of feeling emotion. | |
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Parodied with Chandler in Friends in, naturally "The One Where Chandler Can't Cry." And of course, once he breaks through and becomes ABLE to cry, he CAN'T STOP, culminating in a hilarious Shipper on Deck moment when he laments about wishing Ross and Rachel could just work it out. (This is a Compressed Vice; he cried in several previous episodes, sometimes being pointed out as the most likely to.) | |
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In the Dolphin Trilogy, John is raised by dolphins and doesn't laugh or cry because he had no one to learn those behaviors from. In his early adulthood, he rescues Della from drowning, and when she cries in front of him, he's alarmed and confused by her behavior, although he can see it's a distress signal. When Della leaves him, he finally cries for the first time since the dolphins took him in. | |
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This happens to Mariah Cirrus, rescued from a sleeper pod in an abandoned ship in the Babylon 5 episode "The Long Dark", due to the cryogenic process drying out her tear ducts. | |
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Albert Camus' The Stranger: One of the points used against the main character in his trial is the fact that he didn't cry at his mother's funeral. He argues that it is hard to cry for a woman who lives a long happy life and then dies peacefully. | |
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Conan the Barbarian (1982): "Why do you cry?" "He is Conan. Cimmerian. He Will Not Cry, so I Cry for Him." | |
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Full Metal Panic!: Sousuke remarks on his inability to cry when Kurz supposedly dies, though he wonders if he could have had Kaname been there. In the final novel when, faced with certain death, he sees a video from his former classmates asking him to come back to school, Sousuke finally breaks down sobbing that he doesn't want to die. This also applies to Kaname and Tessa shortly afterwards, when they find themselves unable to cry over Sousuke's apparent death; Kaname thinks to herself that it seems to be because it's so hard to believe that he'd actually be dead. She's right, of course. |
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The Machinesmith, a Captain America villain who went through an Emergency Transformation and is very unhappy about it. "I... I can no longer even... cry." | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Data, being an android, has this problem, despite the multiple tragedies that inform his life. It's patently obvious to everyone but him (including the audience) that he can feel, however. He loses this limitation after getting Soong's emotion chip. The novel Immortal Coil has everything he didn't express all drop on him at once, to the point of what would be clinical depression in a human. | |
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| Unable to Cry / int_ff9ab17f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | hasFeature |
Unable to Cry / int_ff9ab17f |
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