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** Let's not forget the ''original'' [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment, when Boomer finally 'regains consciousness' and sees the aftermath of her actions in the Season 1 finale. And the thematic continuation, the Season 4 premiere has {{spoiler|Tigh experience a sort of 'waking nightmare' where he imagines the consequences of not owning up to the horrible truth of what he believes himself to be -- killing Adama -- and is horrified by the thought}}.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':

{{quote|"There should have been another way."}}

** The Ninth Doctor had one of these in "The Parting of the Ways", when he forcibly sends Rose back to her own time in the TARDIS to [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies|protect her from the Daleks]], {{spoiler|only for her to absorb the power of ''the Time Vortex itself'' to get back and save him. He is truly distraught as it threatens to burn up her mind: "The power's gonna kill you, and it's ''my fault''!" He sacrifices his Ninth life to save hers.}}

* In Season 4 of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Samuel has this reaction after {{spoiler|murdering his brother, Joseph.}} He may or may not quote this trope by name, as Robert Knepper's well-done emotional performance makes it unclear whether he's saying "What have I done", or if he's begging {{spoiler|Joseph}} to "Hold on".

* In the ''[[Charmed]]'' episode "We're Off to See the Wizard", Phoebe utters this almost verbatim after using pyrokinesis -- an upper-level demonic power -- on Cole's new personal assistant.

** Hawkeye has this in the episode "Fallen Idol." He sends Radar to Seoul to "sew a few wild oats", and Radar subsequently gets wounded by enemy fire en route.

** In the episode "O.R.", Frank Burns complains out loud about the difficulty he's having removing a wounded GI's kidney. On a hunch, Trapper goes over to look at the patient's x-ray...and shows Frank that the guy ''only has one kidney''. While Frank's borderline incompetence in surgery was usually [[Played for Laughs]] on the show, in this instance he's shown to be genuinely shaken at the realization that he could have killed the man through his carelessness.

* ''[[Star Ocean 4]]'': {{spoiler|In the past Earth, Edge hands an energy source equal in power to a doomsday device to Earth military so they can prevent the future disaster which befalls Earth. [[Earthshattering Kaboom|This backfires.]] }}

* {{spoiler|Terra}} from ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'' has this reaction after {{spoiler|trying to [[Kick the Morality Pet|stop Master Eraqus killing Ven, and taking it too far. Eraqus does it too when he calms down.]]. Then [[Complete Monster|Xehanort]] finishes him off.}}

* {{spoiler|Anders}} has this reaction in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' right after {{spoiler|he blows up the Chantry and sparks open conflict between Mages and Templars}} if he is a full rival. After the most recent patch, he can even be convinced to {{spoiler|''side with the Templars'' after realizing that he has pretty much become a true abomination}} to help mitigate the damage to Kirkwall.

* In ''[[Tactics Ogre]]'', some of the leaders' death quotes might invoke this to the player. You kill a person who seems to just be a named Mook...then an optional battle (If you wanna recruit one of the characters) has a woman who wants revenge because you killed her husband. After you beat her, she reveals she's ''pregnant''. Another person laments that he won't be able to get medicine for his sick daughter.

 

== Webcomics ==

* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' has a rare [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0451.html villain example], where [[The Dragon]] Redcloak comes to regret [[We Have Reserves|using hobgoblins as cannon fodder]] because of his [[Fantastic Racism|prejudices]]. "Oh my God... I'm turning into XYKON! What have I let myself do?"

** In the prequel book ''[[Start of Darkness]]'', Redcloak goes through a more tragic use of this trope after he {{spoiler|kills his brother}}.