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Tearful Smile
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Someone smiles while crying — usually after the tears start. May be an attempt to paper over the grief, especially to fool a child, but often indicates a — complicated emotional state. As when No One Could Survive That! is succeeded by Not Quite Dead so quickly that the characters suffer emotional whiplash. (Compare Anger Born of Worry.) Sometimes a character will lie about crying, invoking Sand In My Eyes. Compare Go Out with a Smile and Tears of Joy, a less ambiguous expression of happiness. See also Cry Laughing, a similar expression of mixed emotion. |
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Bernadette Peters invokes this after she helps a contestant win the big prize in a 1974 telecast of The $10,000 Pyramid. | |
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In T. H. White's The Once and Future King, after Lancelot and Guinevere quarrel and make up | |
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EarthBound's famous song, "Smiles and Tears". | |
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Near the end of Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility, Elinor dissolves into tears when she hears that Edward is NOT married to Lucy. Since this is actually the release of tension and despair that she (and the audience) had been holding for nearly the entire film, she soon smiles. | |
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The end of Kill Bill, where Beatrix is reunited with her daughter has the main character crying in the bathroom before it turns into tearful laughter. | |
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Vash the Stampede in Trigun does a bit of this, being prone to complicated emotional states. (See chapter 32 of Maximum, 'Colourless Emotions.') Though mostly when he's really sad he goes right past tears to the Thousand-Yard Stare, and more often cries out of relief, frustration, sympathy, occasionally guilt, or as a gag. | |
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In the end of Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, Shanoa did this per Albus' final request. | |
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DC Nation : The mood whiplash hits hard at the end of the Olympics plot. Troia and Omen restored to life as per Arsenal's bargain with Hades. Unfortunately, Arsenal and Nightwing were killed in the process. As this is a limnal space between the living and the dead, the Titans and Arrows are saying farewell to their own. Athene wrests another condition from Hades; Troia will be allowed to choose which family she wants to bring back to life and stay with. Her choice is to restore her close friends Nightwing and Arsenal or her son and stepdaughter by Terry Long. After seeing her own children are terrified of her, she declares without hesitation to restore her teammates. Made all the more bittersweet because The Flash lost his kids before they were born, Arsenal has a young daughter, Tempest has a young son, and Nightwing had a yet-unborn daughter. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Durkon's, on hearing that his dead body will be returned home for proper burial. And much later, he dies with a tearful smile on his face. |
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In A Brother's Price, Jerin feels like crying when he's about to leave home to get married, but knows that actually letting tears fall will make his little siblings even more upset than they already are, so he forces cheer. Later he's upset because he's too modest to enjoy wearing tight clothing to appeal to women but knows no one wants to marry a crying boy, so he doesn't. His Eldest sister knows, all the same, and tries to console him. | |
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In Smallville, Chloe does this when Clark saves her in "Crush" and "Obscura". | |
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Casca from Berserk, several times throughout the series, but most notably during the Eclipse. While helping a mortally wounded Judeau walk, she is reminded by him that Guts loves her, and smiles. The tears in her eyes are barely noticeable, but prompt Judeau to say "You cry a lot when you're alone, don't you?" as his final words before falling to the ground. It gets worse in the movie adaptation, while Casca is suffering an excruciatingly painful and humiliating rape at the hands of Griffith right in front of Guts and a menagerie of other demons. There's no doubt that what she's feeling both physically and emotionally is unimaginably horrible, but yet she manages to give Guts a smile during her last moments of consciousness (and inevitable sanity) while tearfully telling him not to watch her be violated. |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender : has a lot of this, with one of the most memorable being when Iroh and Zuko are reunited in the finale. | |
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Miranda in Mass Effect 2 smiles tearfully after meeting her adult sister for the first time if Shepard encourages her to introduce herself. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Antimony's when meeting a friend after vacation Anja trying not to distress her daughter — somewhat complicated by the way Inelegant Blubbering left her eyes red. |
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Yata attempts this in the last episode of Project K after Mikoto's death. It doesn't hold for long and he ends up sobbing halfway through the HOMRA chant. | |
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A particularly heartbreaking example comes from Regular Show, from the episode "Cheer Up, Pops," when Pops is having a mental breakdown. | |
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At the end of the Saint Beast OVA, Maya wakes up Shin from a Happy Flashback turned Flashback Nightmare and asks why he's crying. Shin responds that he's crying over happy memories, and when pressed further, explains it's because he's sad that those times are now over. | |
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In the After Story arc of CLANNAD, after reconciling with Ushio and promising to take care of her, Tomoya finally begins telling her about her deceased mother, Nagisa. He starts out composed, but scarcely gets past the story of how they met before beginning to cry and smiling as he remembers his late wife. | |
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Hermione does one of these at the end of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in the infamous "there's no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid" scene. | |
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Aqua in the secret ending of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep when Ansem the Wise tells her Sora's name. | |
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In Babe, Mrs. Hoggett hasn't finished crying with horror and embarrassment because she thinks her husband has gone crazy for entering a pig in a herding contest, before she begins laughing because he won. | |
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Transformers Animated: Sari after Optimus's First Episode Resurrection. | |
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Misty from the Pokémon anime gets a tearful smile when Ash and Pikachu come back to life thanks to a friendly Ghastly, Haunter and Gengar after being accidentally killed by a falling chandelier. Pikachu also gets one in the first movie after Ash is restored from being turned to stone. | |
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In The Prince of Egypt, Moses has one after his first encounter with God, where he is tasked with leading the Hebrews out of Egypt. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Twilight Sparkle does this in the series pilot upon realizing that these five quirky ponies, who insisted on accompanying her on her journey to find the elements, are indeed her friends. Rarity also does this when she cuts off Spike's Anguished Declaration of Love, silently revealing that she knew about his crush on her all along. |
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In Superman, both Lois and Clark do this as they say goodbye after Lois breaks off their engagement and decides to leave Metropolis. | |
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At the end of Star Trek: Generations, Data and Counselor Troi are searching the wrecked Enterprise for survivors, and discover Data's pet cat, Spot alive under some rubble. Data begins to cry and wonders if his emotion chip is malfunctioning, but Troi assures him it's working fine. | |
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A somewhat depressing example occurs in the sequel, The Legend of Korra, with Amon, right before his death. | |
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In Digimon Tamers, Henry does this when Terriermon and the rest of the Digimon were forced to leave and return to their Digital World. *sniff* | |
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Joe and Ann during the press conference in Roman Holiday. | |
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