Manly Tears/Playing With

Basic Trope: A male character cries.
 * Played Straight: Bob sheds a tear.
 * Exaggerated: Bob breaks down and starts bawling.
 * Justified: Something really bad has just happened, is happening, or is about to happen. And, yes, men have feelings too.
 * Inverted: Bob is The Stoic or a Kuudere, and doesn't really express much emotion.
 * Men Don't Cry
 * Subverted: Bob's eyes are watering from seasonal allergies...at least, that's what he says.
 * Double Subverted: But he really is sad about whatever went down.
 * Deconstructed: Alice sees Bob crying and thinks him less of a man because of it.
 * Reconstructed: ... but Carol likes him more because he can express his emotions.
 * Parodied: Bob is literally crying over spilled milk.
 * Exploited: The Big Bad uses the Post-Rape Taunt ploy to make Bob too upset and emotional to fight him properly.
 * Intended Audience Reaction: Someone asks "What's wrong?" and it's shown that Bob is chopping onions.
 * Lampshaded: "Look what you did! Even Bob's crying!"
 * Averted: Bob doesn't cry.
 * Enforced: Trying to show that a) the event was a really tragic one or b) that Bob is a wuss.
 * Invoked: Alice, the love of Bob's life, dies suddenly, just when Bob was going to ask her to marry him.
 * Defied: Bob doesn't want to be seen as a wuss, so he holds back his tears and feelings, no matter what.
 * Played For Laughs: See "parodied" and "intended audience reaction".
 * Played For Drama: See "justified" and "invoked".

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