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** The samurai doesn't appear to feel remorseful and the bookie doesn't appear to force the samurai into one last fight. The samurai wants to earn enough money to care for his family and the fight with Usagi just happens to be the one that would give the samurai enough Ryo to live a quiet, peaceful life with his wife and child. The samurai fights this last fight not because the bookie is forcing him to, but because he wants more Ryo.
* In ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' Mac Gargan, a.k.a. the Scorpion, ends up wandering the sewers at one point, depressed but with a clearer head than he had had for a long time. Eventually, his sanity starts to return, and he is about to make a [[Heel Face Turn]] when Spider-Man {{spoiler|having depression issues of his own, finds Gargan and [[What the Hell, Hero?|attacks him savagely ignoring Gargan's pleas that he had changed.]] Gargan then goes crazy again to save himself and continues his life of super-villain debauchery, first as Scorpion, and later as a new Venom}}.
* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
* In ''[[Nikolai Dante]]'', during the Battle of St Petersburg, a random [[Mook]] suddenly had a change of heart and shoved a machine gun operator out of the way to stop him firing on the Romanov forces. Immediately afterwards, Jena, unaware of what he had just done, stabbed him in the chest.
* A [[Star Wars]] Tales comic tells the POV account of the first stormtrooper to rush into the ''Tantive IV'' in [[A New Hope]]. Desperate to leave his backwater, dead-end planet, he murders a subversive man as a loyalty test for an Imperial officer and leaves with them to become a stormtrooper. He has witnessed horrors, committed unspeakable atrocities, and, all this time later, is beginning to lose his cold, ruthless demeanor. He wonders if he hadn't made the wrong decisions, and begins to consider jumping ship and finding the Rebel Alliance. Then Princess Leia shoots him in the face.
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* {{spoiler|Gaspard}} in ''[[Dark Cloud]] 2'' realizes that he's lost his way after a [[Not So Different]] moment with the hero and decides to quit serving the [[Big Bad]] and back out of the conflict entirely, expressing a wish to see the end of the heroes' journey and maybe end his own with them. Unfortunately for him, the [[Big Bad]] pulls a [[Villain Override]] out of spite and the heroes are reluctantly forced to kill him.
* {{spoiler|Specialist Cross}} in ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'' helps Alex Mercer defeat Blackwatch in the later half of the game. {{spoiler|He is killed by the Supreme Hunter before he gets the chance reveals his true identity to Alex}}.
* [[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]: The Meherun's Razor DLC involves a mad wizard seeking an artifact weapon as part of his bid to invade Cyrodil. Deep inside his fortress, you encounter Khajiit workers bussed in by the wizard to help work his mines and outfit his army. Of course, they attack you on sight just like everyone else, despite the fact that they're not wearing armor and most of them have nothing but hoes and rakes to attack you with. While poking around, you can find a letter home by one of the workers saying that they hate Cyrodil and the work sucks, but [[Money, Dear Boy|the money's too good]]. It also mentions that they're planning rebelling on at very least against the head smith in the near future. Of course, that worker is probably dead now...
** Much like the [[Penny Arcade]] example below, there's a lot of talk about missing the recipient of the letter and sending them needed money.
* In [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]], the Blades want you to do this to {{spoiler|Paarthunax, the dragon leader of the Graybeards, for his past crimes... nevermind the fact that the only reason the atrocities were thwarted was because of his eventual notion that these mortals are worth something, and teaching them how to overcome Alduin.}}
* The Bonfire of the Vanities DLC for [[Assassin's Creed II]] does this several times in the same mission. In order for the people of Florence to rise up against the insane monk Savonarola, Ezio has to assassinate each of his lieutenants that he had corrupted with the Apple of Eden. By mortally injuring them, the men are freed of the Apple's influence, and several of them express remorse and horror for their actions. But by then it is too late for them to right their wrongs, and they die in misery and shame.
** Notably, one of them admits that he wasn't under the Apple's influence and followed Savonarola because he happens to agree with him. He laughs at Ezio for thinking that the Apple is the only reason someone may share another person's ideas.
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