: A character, grieved by his own guilt, cries.
- Straight: Jack realizes he did a lot of harm and cries.
- Exaggerated: Jack realizes he caused Jill to stub her toe and weeps.
- Downplayed: Jack realizes he did something bad and it leaves him feeling a little down.
- Justified: Jack cries because he is genuinely sorry.
- Tom laughs until he cries, remembering his evil deeds.
- Tears of Joy
- Subverted: Tom weeps and sobs over his deeds, because he didn't get away with it.
- Double Subverted: But he admits that he deserves his punishment.
- Parodied: Sally sobs over having stolen a jelly bean until her pool of tears drowns everyone else — whereupon she eats the jelly bean.
- Zig Zagged: Two characters argue about whether Jack is sincere in his tears, or only faking, or...
- No one realizes his guilt.
- No one does anything bad.
- Enforced: The writers want to show that evil actions provoke grief and regret, possibly in preparation for a Heel-Face Turn.
- Lampshaded: "Ah, his grief is sincere — as long as those aren't Water Works."
- Invoked: "You will not believe how much I wept over that, Jack."
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Jack refuses to show any remorse or grief whatsoever.
- Discussed: "He might really be sorry — look at how he cries."
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Jack's tears are stem from a mood he's in, caused by external circumstances that primed him to be sad, and his remorse will dry up as quickly as the tears.
- Reconstructed: After he gets out of it, Jack realizes how Not So Different he is from his victims, and decides to become a better person anyway.
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