if I cry it means one of 3 things, one: I'm watching Clannad; 2: I'm entering 12-year-old ragekill mode (and being the cynical suicidal person I am, I can kill you and myself without much thought to it); 3: i just entered smart-ass mode, I'm normally called smart-ass, but when this happens, do not talk, or you will face consequences. More often a combination of 2 and 3, causing a slasher smile, no regrets, and nothing can convince me to stop.

Happened to This Troper when two thugs tried to rob him. He blocked the thugs' club with his hands and was ready to fight. The pussies ran away. Also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for this troper.

Whenever this troper gets angry or frustrated, he cries. This troper hates this about himself. If this troper's angry at someone though, to prove (first person mode activated) I'm not weak, I go into an insane, ruthless rage and tear at him until I think I've done enough. I'm the Incredible Hulk, just wet instead of green.

This troper was known to react this way when he was younger. The embarrassment of crying in public and not being able to stop tended to result in highly aggressive rage towards the person responsible. Unpleasantness would ensue.

This troper has experienced this more times than he cares to count: he'd take leave of his senses and pound on a tormentor one minute, and the next, he'd have a moment with his conscience and be sobbing after realizing what he'd done.

This troper usually didn't remember much of those occasions, but the guilt once his actions were described could be rather overwhelming.

This happens to this troper whenever she loses her temper big-time. Snap -> Rage -> Tears.

I am also the same way.

I get these, usually whenever family arguments ensue on the way to our annual trips to the beach. The culprit is my brother, who is also prone to this, and often the first to use it. I try to shut him and either my mom or dad up, but either of my parents would turn into indifferent bitches and yell at me, and it escalates from there. And then, despite my attempts to hold my tears back, I cry anyway. However, I consider it a sign of sheer weakness and I feel like my self-esteem is dropping rapidly. It hurts so bad that I wish I had a sweet, understanding boyfriend around my age to hold me in these times.

This troper cries when she is pissed off. Every time. No idea why.

This MALE troper does the same thing. I figure it's a way to cool you off and stop you from unleashing total hell (Which this troper has wanted to do many a time).

Me too. I only go berserker a couple times a year, but I'm a bit scary when it happens. Luckily, time's brought restraint, so things no longer break when it happens.

This troper ONLY cries when she's pissed off. It makes it really hard to have arguments with people.

Thank god, I'm not alone! Breaking down in incomprehensible sobbing is not a valid argument in a fight apparently...

Me too! I get angry, then cry, then get frustrated and angry that I'm crying, which leads to more crying. /fail

This troper is almost never really angry - when he is, it's more of a combination of rage and sadness, resulting in an angry face covered in tears.

This happens to this troper whenever she's ''really'', '''really''' angry and frustrated. It doesn't help that crying makes her feel helpless and insecure and stupid, so she gets even more frustrated at her tears and there's a downward spiral.

This troper too. Anger moves very quickly between rage and sadness for her. Particularly if she JUST. CAN'T. GET. IT. Frustration turns to anger and anger usually leads to tears then more anger.

Very much TruthInTelevision. This troper's emotions, when upset, usually blend into a mix of violently angry and plain ol' sad. So yeah, she gets this a lot.

Watch HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi, and you'll see what this troper looks like when she's overcome with rage. Can be mixed with a SlasherSmile or some TranquilFury, depending on the occasion.

Same here. I tend to mix it up with some downright UNIQUE threats.

Happens to this troper whenever she gets angry, just give it about three seconds.

This troper can't stand this when it happens, mostly because this happens in public (and the silent crying happens at home) and it get accompanied with a screechy voice and ''EVERYBODY. FUCKING. STARING!''

This troper always gets these. One time, somebody made fun of it - I tore out most of his hair and stabbed him in the leg with a shard of glass.

This troper is an incredibly nice guy, so when someone pisses me off enough to explode, I can't help but cry from what I do. I nearly choked a guy to death once, with tears streaming down my face.

This troper's friend once got pissed off, jumped, and kicked someone in the face. Then immediately broke down into tears and fell to the floor.

This troper once bit an immensely annoying younger boy, and felt fine about it. Then came the loud, brash, over the top remarks about her gender, and cue a flying chair aimed away from him (didn't want to get in more trouble than I already was) and a torrent of tears. Happens every other time I get angry too, lest I go insane.

This troper doesn't cry very much so anyone who knows me well enough knows I only cry when I'm really sad, really happy, or am about to unleash hell. To name a couple times, I had been bound to a tree by a full roll of tape and some kids around me were taking turns hitting me, after a rather ''unpleasant'' kick, I tore myself off the tree and chased the dude down and returned the favor while crying. A second time had me being chased down by some friends who had become jerkasses that day. At some point I gave up running, started crying and yanked a nearby sapling out of the ground (which was fairly large) and walked towards them holding it like a bat.

This troper, who has an unidentified minor mental disorder (there's some social anxiety, occasional depression, and difficulty relating to other people) that is thankfully now under control (finding a good family therapist was the best thing that ever happened to me, and losing a bad child psychiatrist was a close second), used to have fights with her parents that felt like both poles of bipolar disorder happening at once.

Has happened to this troper only once, when her sister was standing over her throwing dozens of burning insults - her response was a heavy strike to the face, followed by collapsing in tears.

This troper has been in rages and will start to tear up. She tries to avoid crying, but it doesn't always work.

*raises hand* Happens to me, but really only during the fights with my mom and dad, which, by other people's standards, apparently get thermoneuclear.

This troper has had this happen twice:

The first time was at school, when a bully kept pushing me away, claiming I was "cutting in line" (Even though I was staying in line like I was supposed to). Eventually he pushed me back hard enough that I was violently slammed against the wall, which resulted in me, with tears in my eyes, preforming a football tackle on the bully, which took him down with ease. I never got in trouble for it (No teachers saw it happen, and the other students considered it my CrowningMomentOfAwesome), though that bully never bothered me again after that.

As for the 2nd time, it all started when his younger cousin started complaining that he was taking too long of a turn on ''Sonic 3 & Knuckles'', in early 2003. Eventually, his mom (My bitch-of-an-aunt) overheard his complaining and began to yell at me for "not being nice to her kid". Trying to keep my cool (Already annoyed by her whiny kid), I continued to play...only for her to turn off the TV seconds before I defeated Dr. Robotnik in Carnival Night and went onto Ice Cap for the first time. My rage boiled over, as I slammed the controller down onto the floor in rage (The thick carpet absorbed the force, leaving no damage to it), and was proceeded to be told to get the hell out of there by my aunt. After she told everyone what happened (Blowing it all out of proportion), my burning rage gave way to tears; as I was unsure if I'd ever get to beat Sonic 3 & Knuckles (At that point, nothing else mattered to me except beating that game, which I had become hooked on over the months prior to this happening).

This Troper gets angry a lot and her friends don't take her anger seriously any more since they know it's just her being grumpy. The only way they know to take her seriously is if she starts crying (also smashing stuff). They also know to run, just run.

This Troper almost only ever cries when she really wants to kill someone. Fortunately, the embarrassment of crying in front of people usually forces her to go somewhere private before she can start smashing things.

This troper rarely gets truly angry, but one instance stands out. She doesn't like being called a cheater by someone who cheats. She was playing Risk with her two siblings, Annoying Younger Brother and CoolBigSis. Annoying Younger Brother accused her of cheating, insisted that she re-roll, called Cool Big Sis a cheater, refused to back down on the subject, and in general wouldn't shut up about it. This troper, having heard the "Don't fight with your siblings, get an adult to handle it" line quite often from her mother, went to get said mother to break up the argument. What was said mother's response to this plea for assistance? "I'm tired of dealing with you kids; fix it yourself." This troper went back downstairs, rather shocked, and saw her siblings still arguing. After fifteen more minutes of this, another rejected plea for assistance, and her Cool Big Sis being rejected as well, this troper SNAPPED, flipped the board, screamed herself half-hoarse at Annoying Younger Brother, and burst into tears while doing so, marched up the stairs, told her mother off while still crying, and then locked herself in Cool Big Sis' bedroom for an hour while rocking back and forth hysterically on the bed. This troper doesn't handle familial strife well.

This troper's brother runs out her fuse quickly, as he doesn't give a shit for her or anyone. She's all calm for a few weeks of torture, then she goes in to rage mode, and gets so frustrated she breaks in to tears and then gets more frustrated and it's crazy. Crying makes me feel weak and vulnerable, and I hate feeling weak and vulnerable. It's not who I am, but her choices basically are go wild and attack, or bawl her eyes out on the floor, then scream, then start bawling again when she goes berserk.

This Troper's anger has levels. The angrier he gets the stranger he appears.

Level I - Deadpan Snark : This Troper will be sarcastic and verbally lash out to those who have angered him. "Well you must be so proud of yourself my friend, your Intelligence Quotiant is now at the same level of a bucket."

Level II - Cluster F Bombs : This Troper is normally quite articulate, but will go from romantacized speech to "Fuck you up the ass you cock sucking piece of shit!"

Level III - Tranquil Fury : After a certain point this troper will go completely emotionless after being so overwhelmed with Rage. "I am not amused."

Level IV - Berserker Tears : When overcome with absolute fury this Troper will then begin to cry and give a good "Reason You Suck" speech to the person who caused the anger. But luckily this doesn't come up often.

This troper and her father disagree on a lot of political/lifestyle/other things, and whenever we get into an argument about them, the words dissolve in my mouth. Instead of being able to argue, I just cry, and then I get angrier and I cry more because I can't have an intelligent conversation. It's frustrating and sad, because I'm usually such good friends with my dad.

This troper has a lot of trouble communicating her feelings in person, and having her ability to construct sentences, speak coherently and make a reasoned argument completely dissolve because she can't confront another human being face to face is ''horrifically'' frustrating. Thus one sees her absolutely livid and just streaming tears and sobbing in between what little of an argument she can scream.

This troper is prone to it. If you see me with tears in my eyes and I'm standing up? Run. (If you see me with tears in my eyes and I'm sitting down? I'm probably watching something awesome on TV.)

Holy crap, I'm not the only person that has berserk tears. It'd be nice to know you tropers...

This troper. Not really sure why, but he can only tear up when angry, never with any other emotion.

This troper's friend stepped in to stop a jerk jock insulting us, and when the jock insulted his girlfriend, he punched him square on the nose. When he walked away, I caught up and saw he was crying, he said, "I hit my hand on the door frame when I punched him." He's a bad liar.

When this troper was playing Chain Of Memories and lost to Riku for the 20th time when you fight him for the last time, she violently shut her gameboy off, slammed it on the bed and tried her hardest not to cry.

This only happens when this troper's rage reaches level 9-11 or when she's frustrated beyond belief. There are a few times that stand out. The most awful and shameful was when my brother was bothering me to watch, feed, and walk our dogs, and I had an AP paper due the next day that I had to fix. I also had about 4 hours worth of homework to do after that. I was already extremely stressed out, and him barging into the room to bitch me out made things ten times worse. So I stood up, we exchanged screams, and then I slapped him in the face so hard his glasses flew off his face. I immediately broke down sobbing hysterically. The second earlier one was when my friends abandoned me while I was going through an awful period of clinical depression, causing me to be rather suicidal and reckless. When bullied by these same former friends a few months later (and still severely depressed), I stood up, called one girl a few choice words of profanity before threatening to punch her in the face and throwing a chair. I left as quickly as possible and broke down in the bathroom. She never bothered me again, and in fact begged my forgiveness. I never forgave her.

This troper has had this happen exactly one time, and that was when he realized that his learning disabilities had caused him to push away the only girl...hell, the only person to ever love him for who he was. He sobbed hysterically, and while he was crying, was also busily shattering every mirror in his room (all 5 of them) with his bare hands, cutting the heck out of them, and all the while screaming "I am not a monster" over and over. The last one ended up with my 6 foot long Sephiroth Muramasa replica through it, since my hands were too bloody and the glass was too thick to break with my hands.

Whenever this troper's BerserkButton is pressed, she will, without fail, cry on top of her rage.

Ditto for this genderf**ked & queer troper, whose particular BeserkButton is homophobia/someone expressing the idea that lesbians, gays, transsexuals, genderqueers, etc. don't deserve the same rights as straight people. Unfortunately, this troper's own father quite often expresses this idea.

In addition to my crybaby tendencies--which I have thankfully outgrown--I end up crying when it becomes too much. I'm not kidding, I swear it means I'm close to a nervous breakdown. Psychologist mama says so.

This troper does this a lot, usually over very minor things. Causes have ranged from "I was frustrated from trying to explain why the solution to a math problem was wrong" to "I didn't want to participate in a community building exercise involving jump ropes". This troper absolutely hates whatever aspect of her personality makes her shut down like that over such dumb stuff, because whenever it happens it makes me suspect that something might be wrong with me.

Are you me? I get angry, teary and near-suicidal at way too many things. (That said, when this troper gets suicidal it also means she's gone axe-crazy...)

While he hasn't had to get mad at anybody in a while, this troper has a tendency to do this whenever he's angry. When he was younger, he was put in an absolutely horrid daycare center for the summer. One of his daily (more like hourly, really) activities? Fighting off the resident bullies with a combination of tears of rage and his two favorite weapons: shin/groin kicks (hard ones, despite the fact that I was and still am a wimp and the other guys were apparently made of steel; righteous rage and a whole bunch of adrenaline will do wonders for your strength) and HIS VOICE!

This troper used to get in huge fights with his parents. They would start with some trivial argument, which would escalate to screaming and this troper threatening his parents with physical violence (and occasionally brandishing a staff). Then this troper would run into his room and cry.

This troper launched into a most epic case of berserker tears 21 years in the making when she finally stood up to her parents and demanded that they stop holding me back; that I AM going to college, I AM going to move out of the house, I AM going to have a good job (better than the two of them combined have ever had) and I AM going to have my own life, all of this whether they like it or not. Hmph.

This troper has overactive tear glands and tends to cry whenever overcome with any emotion, whether I'm crying with laughter, sadness, pure nerves, or ''genuinely murderous rage''. Unfortunately this lead to a reputation as someone who is overemotional, which to be honest, was probably true.

This troper hardly ever cries at anything having to due with sadness. But when she's mad about something or at someone, she gets angrier and angrier at the offending whatever-it-is until she starts to turn bright read and her eyes tear up. People then start asking her what's wrong, which just makes her madder at herself and at everybody. It's at times like this when she wishes no one could see her face. It...isn't pretty.

This tropette usually mimics the picture on the BerserkerTears main page - when she rages on TeamFortress2, she switches from whatever class she was using to the Heavy, revs up that minigun, starts laughing maniacally into the microphone, and blinks away the angry tears falling down her face.

My brother, when he was younger, did this (though it's mostly stopped now). It used to be that if you made him angry enough he would break down into tears for a few moments, then, still crying, rev up with a gigantic yell of rage and come hurtling after you with the nearest relatively heavy, solid object raised to strike. He once punched a hole in our bathroom door while in one of these teary berserker rages, trying to get at whoever had protectively locked themselves inside (might've been me, might've been somebody else, can't remember). He's grown out of that phase, though, thankfully. I also break down into a less violent variant sometimes if I'm too angry to do anything else.

My family once drove me actually ''insane'' one day. I snapped, started crying, ran outside into the field, fell to the ground and started SCREAMING. I got better.