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* Sega enforces this with the titular hero of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''. It's extremely rare for Sonic to be depicted crying in canon. Whether it's due to his gender or due to it being OutOfCharacter for his character is hard to distinguish.

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* Averted in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games, where Otacon is contractually obliged to undergo at least one TearJerker per game and is quite open about it. Examined in the first ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', where Snake, after watching Otacon cry for a while, places Wolf's handkerchief over her face. His rationale is that he doesn't need a handkerchief, having 'no more tears left to shed' - both showing that he only got to the point where he can't cry through massive emotional torture and making him implicitly envious of Otacon's ability to show emotion in that way.

* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonLightOfHope'': Upon given a gift he really likes, the Harvest Sprite Calvin starts crying TearsOfJoy, but he insists that it's just sweat.
* Early in the main story of ''VideoGame/{{A3}}'', Itaru cries after feeling the joy of acting on stage with the Spring Troupe, but he says that he is only feeling so warm inside.
** Winter Troupe thoroughly averts this, with all of their members being grown-up men and most having cried across the main story. Everyone shed TearsOfJoy after winning the act-off against God Troupe and Homare encouraged everyone to just cry their heart out, all while Yuki snickered at "grown men crying." There is also Hisoka crying as he remembered [[spoiler:his fallen friend]] August and reminisced about him with Chikage. Then, when Azuma visited his old family house with Tasuku [[spoiler:and discovered the hair comb his brother never managed to deliver as a birthday gift]], Azuma began sobbing and Tasuku encouraged him to just let it all out, and Azuma did. Guy also cried after learning that [[spoiler:he was a human and not an android]]. On a more lighthearted side, Homare [[SentimentalDrunk cries after drinking a little too much]], and he is ''not'' going to do anything about it because he is an artist and prefers letting his emotions overflow.
*** The anime has Tsumugi crying when Tasuku told him how much he loved his acting, something Tasuku regretted not telling Tsumugi [[spoiler:when Tsumugi failed the God Troupe audition]].
*** Winter Troupe itself is a unit in Mankai Company that especially performs drama and tragedy. The anime shows Michael and Raphael, Tsumugi's and Tasuku's characters respectively, crying in the play during the duel act, and the stage play has Kota, Tasuku's character, sob into Reo's jacket at the very end.

* ''Fanfic/ApprenticeAndPregnant'': Laurelpaw's father Grayclaw cried with his mate over Laurelpaw's death. When Laurelpaw is brought back, Grayclaw shies away until he stops crying. He claims he has allergies because "Dads aren't supposed to cry".

Opposite of ManlyTears and TenderTears, which [[InvertedTrope turn this trope upside down]]. Someone who wants to persuade a guy to let it out may affirm ItsOkayToCry, since after all RepressionNeverEndsWell. A man who usually refuses to cry but finally lets out his emotions may express a SorrowfulStutter, with that resulting in CatharticCrying.

** Zoro however very much plays it straight. He only cries once, and that was when he was soundly beat by the man he set his life goal to defeat. Zoro has no particular aversion to crying, whether himself or others, he's just a Stoic.

* In the Marvel ComicBook/CivilWar series, the mobster Underworld brings up this trope and says that it's a bunch of bullshit. He says that when his dad died, he cried like a baby, but was no less a man after he had grieved than before.

Opposite of ManlyTears and TenderTears, which [[InvertedTrope turn this trope upside down]]. Someone who wants to persuade a guy to let it out may affirm ItsOkayToCry, since after all RepressionNeverEndsWell. A man who usually refuses to cry but finally lets out his emotions may result in CatharticCrying.