Sand in My Eyes: Difference between revisions

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Kei'''}}: Yui... Are you crying-<br />

'''Yui''':'''I'm not crying!''' }}

** Ash used to use this excuse in early seasons, though he's since learned that men can cry. He typically lowers his head, or tries to, but he's obviously crying.

* In ''[[Naruto]]'' when {{spoiler|Asuma dies}} it's truly pouring cats and dogs. Yet Shikamaru gives himself away by stressing that smoke is stinging his eyes.

** Obito Uchiha tries the same line.

{{quote| '''Minato:''' Dust can't get in your eyes when you're [[Goggles Do Nothing|wearing goggles]], Obito.}}

* Variation in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] A's'', where the [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]] who claims to have no emotions says that the tears in her eyes are not hers, but are coming from the person she absorbed. Nanoha and Fate call bullshit.

* After Yue of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' admits her feelings for Negi and has a minor [[Heroic BSOD]], she uses this excuse to keep Negi from paying too much attention. He's only ten, so he falls for it.

** Also, after Kotarou speaks about his rather tragic past, Konoka says that there's some dust in her eyes while clearly [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v11/c092/16.html bawling].

* In ''[[Bunny Drop]]'', when Rin hits her caretaker Daikichi with the proclamation "I like you just being my Daikichi.", Daikichi is moved to tears, but insists it's only sweat. Also an [[Ironic Echo]], as sweat was Rin's excuse when she wet the bed.

* ''[[One Piece]]'''s Franky easily cries the most of the crew, getting emotional at just about any touching story he hears (which is how he ended up helping the strawhats, who used to be enemies in the first place). He NEVER admits it though, saying anything from "THERE'S DUST IN MY EYE!" to "I'M NOT CRYING YOU BASTARDS, I KNEW YOU'D SURVIVE!" there's no single manly tear either, try geysers. Perhaps the most original version was after the crowning moment of funny where Robin attempted to convince him to join the crew with a laser guided groin attack. Franky pretends that she is continuing with her ball-crushing grip long after she's actually let up, so that he can cry without shame about leaving his hometown, brother-figure, and nakama.

* In the ''[[Donald Duck]]'' story "W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N", written by [[Don Rosa]], Donald saves his nephews in a plywood mill, and they later give him an award. He tears up, and claims he still got sawdust in his eyes from the mill. One of his nephews points out that it was months before.

* The Image; [[Cerebus the Aardvark|Cerebus]] has lost {{spoiler|his position as Prime Minister}} and all his plans have fallen through. He wells up, but vehemently denies crying until he [[Tear Jerker|collapses in the Regency Elf's arms]].

 

 

{{quote| John: Mom and him were only together for one night. She still loves him, I guess. I see her crying sometimes. She denies it totally, of course, like she got something stuck in her eye.}}

* When ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'' was going around, ''The Guardian'' ran a humor article with useful phrases for the movie (in Aramaic, of course!). One of them was "I'm not crying; I've just got a [http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Mat&c=7#comm/3 mote in my eye]."

* In [[Lion King]] 1 1/2, cinema!Timon says a variation of this after watching the scene where movie!Timon and movie!Pumbaa stare at each other in a [[Tear Jerker]] (perhaps) scene. It was obvious that cinema!Timon was bursting into tears.

 

== Literature ==

 

** Mrs. Cratchit also has a moment, during the [[Alternate Timeline|alternate future]] that The Ghost of Christmas Future shows to Scrooge. In it, Mrs. Cratchit, busy with some sewing, heard her older son reading the line, “And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them.” It caused her to think of [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth|Tiny Tim]] and she began to cry, in front of her children. She's able to stop herself and tells them that she wasn't crying, claiming; "The colour [of the fabric] hurts my eyes."

* [[Lewis Carroll]] in ''[[Sylvie and Bruno]]'': "I felt very happy too, but of course I didn't cry: 'big things' never do, you know, we leave all that to the Fairies. Only I think it must have been raining a little just then, for I found a drop or two on my cheeks."

* ''[[Dangerous Liasons]]'': The "It's beyond my control" scene when the Viscount dumps his woman, so the Marquise can't get to her.

** Also from that series, ''Only In Death'': Hark writes that he thought he saw {{spoiler|Rawne}} tear up when he learned {{spoiler|Gaunt was alive}}. Hark attributed it to the dust.

** ''Straight Silver'': after a conversation with Kolea in which Criid briefly thinks that his comments show that he has ''some'' memory after his head injury, and then learns that she had misinterpreted something he said, another Ghost asks if she's all right. She tells him, "Grit in my eyes."

* ''[[Star Wars]]'': When Talon Kardde learns fellow smuggler captain Shada D'ukal wasn't, in fact, on her ship when it [[Heroic Sacrifice|self-destructed]] to disable a hostile capital ship.

* In [[Lloyd Alexander]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Prydain|The High King]]'', when Fflewdur Flam sacrifices his harp for firewood, he complains of how it smokes, though it burns with very little smoke.

{{quote| ''droplets trickled like tears down his reflection's cheek''}}

* Both applying to this and Live Action TV, the titular character of ''The Story Of Tracy Beaker'' usually passes off any instance of her crying as "hay fever".

** And Stephen was ''not'' crying during the 2009 inauguration special. It was just allergies. Really.

* On the ''Hercules: the Legendary Journeys'' episode "The Other Side", Hercules goes to the [[Elysian Fields]] and reunites with his lost family. His daughter asks him if he's crying. He tells her that Daddy isn't crying, the wind just blew something in his eye and then hugs her like he'll never let her go.

* In the ''[[That 70s Show]]'' episode "Jackie Moves On", Kelso denies that he cried after Jackie broke up with him:

{{quote| '''Kelso:''' I did not cry! I had something in my eye.<br />

== Radio ==

 

{{quote| '''Satan''': Right, that's it. I can hear a demon blubbing. Is it you?<br />

'''Demon''': No, no, I've just got dust in me eyes. }}

{{quote| '''Nathan''': "It was raining and you were unconscious."<br />

'''{{spoiler|Elena}}''': "It was sunny, and you were bawling. Whatever, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I kept your tears in a jar. I have proof.]]" }}

{{quote| '''Voodoo Lady''': The value of the ring on Blood Island comes from its emotional significance. It represents a pure, true love, a power greater than any other.<br />

'''Guybrush''': Oh, that's sweet. I... I think I have something in my eye.<br />

* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-65/ Max has allergies], after his father dropped him off with an apology for not being supportive and telling him to go on his own, to make his colleagues respect him as a man.

* Angus from [[Questionable Content]] [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2004 insists that] his [[Tender Tears]] are due to allergies.

 

 

'''Green Lantern:''' Yeah, tears. It's OK, man. We all feel the same way. }}

* Fozzie on ''[[Muppet Babies]]'' actually cries pretty hard when he tries to give up comedy, but that doesn't stop him from saying, "Sorry, joke -- er, smoke got in my eye."

{{quote| '''K''': *puts on sunglasses* Careful, slick, there's dangerous gas fumes around here.<br />

'''J''': *solemnly regards K for a moment* Those gas fumes... they really sting the eyes, huh?<br />

* In ''[[Care Bears]] To The Rescue Movie'', even Grumpy, who spent the whole episode complaining, is moved by Cheer and her new pet's goodbye. When the others notice this, he just says, "What? I have allergies."

* In ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', when a bird is reunited with his mother, Jimmy and Beezy cry...and so does [[Ax Crazy|Heloise]]. When they comment on this, she claims she has a feather in her eye.

 

== Real Life ==