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== Real Life ==

* The page image is of [[Imperial Russia|Tsar]] Ivan IV the Terrible holding the body of his son, the Tsarevich (heir apparent) Ivan. The Tsar decided that his son's his pregnant wife was too immoderately dressed (or something), and the younger Ivan jumped in to defend her; in a fit of rage, the Tsar proceeded to beat down on his son with his scepter. Heavily. But when Tsar Ivan realized that his son was ''almost dead'', he started kissing him and trying to stop the bleeding, crying, "May I be damned! I've killed my son! I've killed my son!". His son regained consciousness long enough to deliver some [[Tear Jerker]] last words, and then remained comatose until dying a few days ~~later—during~~ which his father remained awake for long hours praying constantly for a miracle.

* The page image is of [[Imperial Russia|Tsar]] Ivan IV the Terrible holding the body of his son, the Tsarevich (heir apparent) Ivan. The Tsar decided that his son's his pregnant wife was too immoderately dressed (or something), and the younger Ivan jumped in to defend her; in a fit of rage, the Tsar proceeded to beat down on his son with his scepter. Heavily. But when Tsar Ivan realized that his son was ''almost dead'', he started kissing him and trying to stop the bleeding, crying, "May I be damned! I've killed my son! I've killed my son!". His son regained consciousness long enough to deliver some [[Tear Jerker]] last words, and then remained comatose until dying a few days later -- during which his father remained awake for long hours praying constantly for a miracle.

* Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the ''Enola Gay'', watched the city of Hiroshima disappear in an atomic blast. Some members of the crew would claim that Lewis was at first caught up in the moment and yelled, "My God, would you look at that sonofabitch go!", but after he calmed down, Lewis wrote in his log, "My God, what have we done?" (The rest of the crew maintained that they [[I Did What I Had to Do|did what they had to do]]).

** As he watched the first atomic test ever at the Trinity site:

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* A [[Real Life]] self-styled [[Evil Debt Collector]] quit the industry after he discovered that a woman he'd tried to collect from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJS9c0jgosQ died in 9/11].

* Often experienced after a binge drinking session, especially with some of the more foul tasting beverages.

* The reaction was this [http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/dashcam-video-shows-montana-officer-breaking-down-after-fatal-shooting-n285331 Montana police officer] had when he shot and killed a ~~passager~~ during altercation. It was after he was forced to use deadly force when he learned the guy he killed wasn't unarmed, causing the officer to break down in tears.

* The reaction was this [http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/dashcam-video-shows-montana-officer-breaking-down-after-fatal-shooting-n285331 Montana police officer] had when he shot and killed a passenger during altercation. It was after he was forced to use deadly force when he learned the guy he killed wasn't unarmed, causing the officer to break down in tears.

* Became a meme targeted at New Jersey Governor Chris Christie after he dropped out of the race for President of the United States and endorsed [[Donald Trump]] as the Republican candidate in late February 2016. Christie had spent nearly his whole campaign castigating Trump as utterly unsuited for office, and the barely-concealed look of shock and dismay on his face during the rant Trump delivered while accepting the endorsement spawned dozens of meme pics like [[media:Christ-2016-what have i done.jpg|this one]]. Given that the Trump endorsement may well have [http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/02/politics/chris-christie-donald-trump-backlash/ destroyed his] [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/03/02/chris-christies-wordless-screaming/?tid= political future], they may be right on the money.