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Are there any works of fiction (I'm especially thinking TV, but anything will do) where the men actually do cry at things that warrant crying, and not at silly emo shit like in soap operas? Even a rec of a few particular episodes would be nice, even if it's not a regular thing.

This happens with Sam and Dean on Supernatural at least once a season. And you can choose between Dean's One Perfect Tear or Sam's Slobbery Drippy Crying!

"Dean's One Perfect Tear or Sam's Slobbery Drippy Crying!"
Best thing I've seen all day <3

It is pretty terrible.

Like he is about to turn into liquid like that guy from the X-Men movie.

Meanwhile Dean....

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Starsky and Hutch?

That one episode ("Gillian", IIRC) where Hutch's girlfriend died and he has a complete breakdown over her body and lashes out at Starsky is the only example that comes to mind, but that example is a really good one.

;___; That scene.

I don't know. I think I just thought of S&H because the guys are emotional when appropriate and not all emotional constipated for the most part. I know Starsky cried when Terry did, and the tag at the end of that ep has Hutch and Starsky barely holding back tears.

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M*A*S*H. Granted, they have VERY strong reason to do so -- they're never crying about normal things that normal people can relate to, they're crying about absolutely nightmarish soul-crushing shit. So it may not be what you're looking for.

Damn it. I've seen a few examples recently, but I can't come up with them. Sorry.

Downton Abbey, maybe?

Who cries in that? Thomas is the only one I can think of. Matthew?

I don't know if Matthew does. Tom does, Bates does.

Yes :(

people cried a lot in LOST from what i remember. in the walking dead too, but there's always someone dying in that show, so...

there, three people crying (from LOST, spoilers for season 6)

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Breaking Bad! Jesse Pinkman, more specifically. Just... OW, my heart.

Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad. His life goes down the tubes and he is understandably upset by it frequently. Problem Dog and Down are both episodes in which things come to a head for him.

Stephen Holder from The Killing. He has a checkered past and sometimes he has emotional implosions. Numb is a really good episode where Holder breaks down.

Fox Mulder from The X-Files. His sister was abducted in his childhood and Scully and he take turns getting kidnapped. Anything from the "cancer arc" is good.

Oz. Just Oz. Later seasons are when things go off the rails for many characters but Beecher spends most of season one falling apart.

Homicide Life on the Street has a number of emotional scenes skillfully played by male actors (and, of course, on the women front, there's wonderful Melissa Leo). Betrayal is, of course, really emotionally intense for Bayliss but Lewis's reaction to the events in Crosetti are also really heartbreaking.

Walter Bishop from Fringe has strong emotional issues (mostly of his own making) tied to his relationship with his son, Peter. John Noble turns in an incredibly affecting performance.

Stiles on Teen Wolf, especially in the S3 eps Motel California and The Overlooked.

Hasn't Derek cried...once? (When Paige died?) I feel like Derek must cry in secret every single day of his life. It's that bad.

And Scott cried in Motel California, too. Can't remember what episode it was, but Isaac cried in that scene with the dog. Also Chris Argent cried when Victoria died...and...uh...I'm blanking on the rest of the cast.

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I dunno about not being "silly emo shit like in soap operas," because that's kind of what Once Upon a Time is, but Rumpelstiltskin spends a lot of time crying over losing his kid, thinking his kid's dead, losing the love of his life, thinking she's dead, losing his wife, thinking she's dead, his wife telling him she wishes he'd died, his dad telling him he wished he'd never been born--his life kinda sucks. I think Charming gets a few tears in, too, although he's not as prone to turning on the waterworks. This might be one show where women and men get equal time to break down crying.

You are not wrong about the soap opera. I love OUAT so much, but holy gods is it ever soapy as hell.

Rumple is fascinating, though, because he's actually an incredibly weak and emotional man pretending to be a calm, rational chessmaster. He's all calm-calm-scheming-calm and then flips out or crumples in tears when people push the wrong buttons. And it's odds-on whether he's more dangerous in his emotional or rational states, because when he's rational he'll spend 300 years calmly planning the demise of a world, but when he's emotional he decides to spend 300 years calmly planning the demise of a world. Also, flips out, burns castles down and kills demons. He's easier to defeat when he's emotional because he makes more mistakes, but he's also at his most physically dangerous then, and it's where all his stupidly strong resolve emerges from. If you deliberately make him cry, you'd better put him down there and then because if you don't he will hold that grudge well into the 'rational scheming' phase, and then you are screwed.

Also, he looks incredibly pathetic when he crumples. Robert Carlyle's face. And he cries for good stuff as well as bad. He cries when someone he loves gives him hope, he cries when confessing his feelings, he goddamn cries over a hamburger (well, much more meaningful in context, but still).

He is weak and fragile and emotional and goddamn lethal. I love him.

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For a movie examples:

The LotR movies - it's like six hours of Manly Tears.

I'm pretty sure there was crying in Armageddon when Bruce Willis switches places with Ben Afleck to save him.

If you want the most significant male crying ever, watch Drive.

George (and possibly Mitchell?, idk everyone was practically crying in that scene, hell, I was) in Being Human UK, particularly the last episode S3.8,
although if you watch the show, there are a couple episodes that warrant crying from both men in the show, and it is just amazing (I would say fantastic/fabulous but I feel like those are inappropriate words to be associated with crying).

it's not live-action but...One Piece.

The men are always crying. sloppy, drippy, snotty crying jags over genuinely sad things/deeply emotional moments. and no one ever acts like it's weird or unmanly.

ily for reccing one piece anon
all emotions are displayed in an over the top manner in this manga, like when the characters are happy, they're HAPPY, and when they're sad, they're really freaking sad
it's all very rollercoastery

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