Must Make Amends: Difference between revisions

* Connor does this in ''[[Primeval]]'', in episode 5 of series 5, though he shows the intention a little before hand.

{{quote|'''Connor:''' I helped build this. I need to make it right.}}

* An episode of ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' had one of the main characters accidentally shoot a suspect, who turned out to be a cop. Cue the [[Big No]].

** Also happens in ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' when Elliot realizes that a little girl falsely accused an innocent man of being her rapist, under pressure from Elliot himself and the shrink. The guy does ''not'' forgive Elliot since his life is already ruined, but Elliot throws himself wholeheartedly into finding the true culprit - and does so.

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Spike's instant feelings of self-condemnation following his {{spoiler|attempted rape of Buffy}} ultimately drove him to try to [[Must Make Amends]] by {{spoiler|regaining his soul}}.

* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', season five is this for Sam after {{spoiler|accidentally starting the Apocalypse}}. The second half of season six starts like this for him after he finds out what he did {{spoiler|while soulless}}.

* This happens with Clark in ''[[Smallville]]'' as he tries to {{spoiler|go back in time to save Lana Lang from dying but in turn causes his father's death.}}

* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Sylar attempts one of these during Volume 3. [[Chronic Villainy|It didn't take.]]

* ''[[Justice League]]:'' Hawkgirl was already torn between loyalty to her home planet and [[Becoming the Mask|her feelings for the teammates on whom she was spying]]. After she sold out the Earth and the League to her Thanagarian brethren, she discovered to her horror that they intended to destroy Earth in a bid to save Thanagar. Hawkgirl turned on them and provided the League with information crucial to defeating the Thanagarians. Ashamed by her prior actions, Hawkgirl resigned from the Justice League and secluded herself in Dr. Fate's household in order to think long and hard about what to do with the rest of her life. She came to the conclusion that resuming superheroism would be her best means of atoning for her wrongs and reconciling with the League. In a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], the League let her know that they voted to let her stay a Leaguer with Superman being the tiebreaker ("I believe in second chances").

** This also makes a nice [[Call Back]] to ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'', where Superman has a similar need to make amends after Darkseid brainwashed him and turned him loose on Earth. A popular fan theory is that Superman's actions in the first episode of ''[[Justice League]]'' (essentially trying to become the world's policeman) is him still trying to make up for that.

** In that same episode, Bender, in a fit of jealousy, literally [[Kick the Dog|kicked said dog's fossil]] into hot lava, but after realizing what he did, he went in to save him and recovered him.

* ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'': Basically, Jack and Oogie's whole fight is all about Jack trying to fix the damage he caused by [[Bad Santa|pretending to be Santa Claus]].

== Video Games ==

* Chell of ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' made a huge mistake by putting Wheatley in charge instead of GLaDOS, and spends the rest of the game trying to put GLaDOS back before Wheatley's incompetence [[Going Critical|blows everything up]].

* The [[Prince of Persia]] in ''four'' games {{spoiler|technically three since he basically let Aruman (I think that was his name) go in the end}}

* {{spoiler|Faldio}} from ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]''. {{spoiler|After shooting Alicia to bring out her Valkyria powers, [[I Did What I Had to Do|he justified his actions to Welkin, Captain Varrot and to himself that it needed to be done for Gallia's survival]]. After spending some time in confinement, he began to regret his actions and went to [[Taking You with Me|kill himself and Maximillian]] at the [[Military Mashup Machine|Marmotah]], even apologizing to Welkin and Alicia that his reasoning did not justify his actions}}.

** J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Manhattan Project

** Andrei Sakharov, developer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb

** [[Albert Einstein]], who sent a letter to [[FDR]], co-written with Leo Szilard, that led to the establishment of the Manhattan Project

** Niels Bohr, who had been on the Manhattan Project. He didn't quite advocate disarmament, but he was an architect of the "Atoms for Peace" vision that led to the creation of the IAEA.

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