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{{quote|''"It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it."''|'''Kreia''', |''[[Knights of the Old Republic|Knights of the Old Republic II]]''}}
 
Few things are [[Villainous BSOD|more crushing]] than realizing [[Obliviously Evil|that you're one of the bad guys.]] You exclaim "[[My God, What Have I Done?]]?" and perhaps shed [[Tears of Remorse]]. Or in some cases, you realise you're even worse than you thought you were. Either way, it's the moment you know you're in the wrong.
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* The original Dove was a vigilante crimefighter from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' who was active between 1989 and 1995. He considered himself a hero helping to defend ordinary people from street criminals. His usual modus operandi was to hunt any criminal whom he thought "got away with it"; that is, whenever he disagreed with a "not guilty" verdict. When captured, he was confronted with the fact that he wasn't a defender of the public, but rather just another serial killer and the idea horrified him to the point that he hung himself while awaiting trial.
* Phase of the [[Whateley Universe]] is a fourteen-year-old who was kicked out of the richest family on the planet, the Goodkinds, when he turned into a mutant: the Goodkinds are notoriously anti-mutant, supporting the [[Knight Templar|Knights of Purity]] and the semi-governmental Mutant Commission Office (MCO). Goodkinds, including the boy Phase used to be, have supported the MCO with billions of dollars over the years. Phase has defended the MCO to his new (mutant) friends at [[Super-Hero School|Whateley Academy]], even though there are rumors that the MCO has kidnapped hundreds of young mutants who were never seen again. In "Ayla and the Grinch", Phase has to face the fact that the MCO really ''has'' been kidnapping, and "disappearing", young mutants, and he is partly responsible, since he helped fund the MCO.
* Throughout ''[[DoctorDr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing -Along Blog]]'', the titular [[Villain Protagonist]] has been a villain [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|in name only]], mouthing [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] slogans but too meek to actually do anything really bad. Then comes the challenge from the Evil League of Evil to which he aspires: [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten|commit a heinous crime or die]]. It's not until the very end, when his inability to pull the trigger on his [[Arch Enemy]] Captain Hammer has led directly to the death of {{spoiler|his love interest, Penny}}, that he realizes that the murder will be attributed to him, and thus he ''is'' now a villain for real. His final song, "Everything You Ever", is a [[Lyrical Dissonance|triumphant dirge]] simultaneously celebrating his ascenscion to true Evil and mourning the loss of his soul.
** "Now the nightmare's real; now Dr. Horrible is here...."
 
 
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