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{{quote|''"Brangwen, my love, forgive me! If we ever meet again, I swear I'll put this right. I swear to you -- I'll never rest until I set this right."''|'''Prince Galrion''', ''[[Deverry|Daggerspell]]''}}
 
A character, usually a [[The Hero|Hero]], sometimes an [[Anti -Villain]] or [[Anti -Hero]], has done something that led to terrible consequences. Often they have had the best of intentions, but due to inexperience, lack of foresight, or something else, the results were the opposite of what they wanted and intended.
 
It is the thing that happens next that defines [[Must Make Amends]]: the character will do everything in their power to ''undo'' the thing they've done or caused. It might have been the death of a loved one, helping a tyrant to power, or something else.
 
Compare [[The Atoner]], who is usually making up for a whole set of bad deeds following a [[Heel Face Turn]] or [[Kick the Morality Pet]], while [[Must Make Amends]] is usually about a specific bad deed that can come from any type of tragic mistake. Contrast [[Buy Them Off]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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** In one of the ''[[Digimon]]'' movies, the little American boy had one of his Digimon go rogue; he had been chasing it all over the US in an attempt to fix it. Even after the other trainers show up, he is initially insistent that because it is his Digimon, he needs to make it right, himself.
** Beelzemon takes the cake though. Since it's his fault {{spoiler|Jeri's in the D-Reaper because it likes feeding off the despair she has for her dead partner, who ''he'' killed}} he practically went insane trying to set things right, screaming "I'll save you if the last thing I do!"...and it almost was.
*** To elaborate on him: {{spoiler|he's trying to break her out of an energy bubble, and gets it open. She freaks out because it's the guy who killed her partner, increasing his guilt. By the time she snaps out of it, the hole is closed and he starts trying to punch it open. He's so focused that he's shot in the back by about ten razor disks in a truly disturbing [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's for Kids?|was-this-really-for-kids scene]] and plummets to the sea of deletion goo below, trailing data in lieu of blood. And only got saved at the ''last possible second''. And nearly died of his injuries afterwards}}.
* In the ''[[Trigun]]'' manga, part of [[The Reveal]] in the flashback arc is that Rem was complicit in {{spoiler|the [[Strapped to An Operating Table|testing]] to [[They Would Cut You Up|destruction]] of Tesla, the girl [[Artificial Human|born from the bulbs]] before Vash and Knives were.}} Her mothering of the twins is an attempt to make amends for not doing anything to save Tesla. When they are found out by another researcher, he turns out to feel the same way.
** Of course, Knives does not much care about that part, concludes with [[Jerkass Has a Point|justification]] that [[Humans Are Bastards]], goes [[Axe Crazy]] and makes a good shot at a [[Kill All Humans]] plan. And Vash spends the next several decades feeling he has to make amends for that, somehow, until Knives ''uses him to blow up a fucking city'', and then he feels the need to make up for ''that''. Then Knives does it again, although Vash managed to evacuate that one first.
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== Webcomics ==
* [[Anti -Villain|Redcloak]] from ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' [[We Have Reserves|ordered thousands of hobgoblins that he was in command of into certain death]] without thinking or feeling anything because of the ancient grudges between goblins and hobgoblins. After a hobgoblin saved his life during the battle, however, [[My God, What Have I Done?|Redcloak reacted with horror to everything he he had done and become]], and promptly led the hobgoblins to a smashing victory, even sometimes putting his own life at risk in order to save those of his men.
* Jung Hyun from ''[[Welcome to Room 305 (Webcomic)|Welcome to Room 305]]'' {{spoiler|only became friends with Sun Joong because he felt guilty over seriously damaging his leg (that never really healed). Over time it became a proper friendship though.}}
 
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* From ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', we have {{spoiler|Luke, who ended up destroying the mining town Akzeriuth from his blind loyalty to his mentor Van. He spends some time in denial, but after some soul searching and an [[Important Haircut]] to boot, he starts almost going to become a [[Martyr Without a Cause]] thanks to the overwhelming guilt.}}
* The Nameless One from ''[[Planescape Torment]]''. The entire point of him seeking out Ravel Puzzlewell in order to {{spoiler|sever his body from his mortality -- thus making him immortal and accidentally causing his amnesia --}} is that he knew he {{spoiler|would never live long enough to make up for all of the crimes he had committed before he became good}}. It didn't work out too well.
* Arguably, Roxas from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fits this. {{spoiler|After [[Kill the Cutie|killing off]][[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Xion]], he tries his best to respect his dead friend's wish--by setting all the hearts that both he and she had collected free from Kingdom Hearts and foil [[Big Bad|Xemnas's]] plan for gaining ultimate power. [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|The way he goes about doing so]] wasn't really what Xion had intended him to do to begin with, and it was all because he wanted his life with Xion and Axel back. Riku stops him from going about his suicidal rampage to confront Xemnas, setting the stage for ''Kingdom Hearts II''.}}
** Considering how he {{spoiler|beats down Saix, quite possibly the second strongest member of the Organisation}} at only a ''fraction'' of his strength, he probably could have done it too.
* {{spoiler|Raven}} does this twice over in ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' after he {{spoiler|delivers [[MacGuffin Girl|Estellise]] to the [[Big Bad]] Alexei}}. After his [[Heel Face Turn]], he {{spoiler|saves the entire party by [[Load -Bearing Hero|holding up the collapsing ceiling of Baction long enough for them to escape]]}}. After surviving this, he {{spoiler|follows the party to the [[Cool Boat|Heracles]] for the sole purpose of settling accounts with them}}. He's also a {{spoiler|virtually immortal [[Death Seeker]] and fully expected them to kill him, but they settle for taking turns punching him in the face}}.
* "[[OOC Is Serious Business|I]] [[Mass Effect 3|MADE A MISTAKE!]]"
 
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