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** Also Severus Snape, after he realizes his actions have inadvertently sentenced a woman he loves to death. Whoops again.

** And in the film version of ''[[Goblet of Fire]]'', when Harry doesn't resurface from the Hogwarts Lake for a minute or so after being given his underwater breathing apparatus (Gillyweed), Neville gasps, "Oh my God- I've killed Harry Potter!" Harry then promptly does a spectacular backflip out of the water, making everybody know he's quite alright.

** {{spoiler|Ariana's death - possibly at his own hands -}} was this for Dumbledore.

* In ''Cry Mercy'', the third volume of Toni Andrews's "Mercy Hollings" series, the title character confronts her adoptive parents in order to seek answers about her mysterious origins and troubled childhood. Throughout the series, she has expressed a great deal of anger towards her adoptive parents for dissolving the adoption and giving her back as a ward of the state at the age of twelve, which led her to spend her teenage years in a series of unhappy foster homes. She believes they abandoned her because they couldn't deal with the fact that she was a psychic with the power of [[Compelling Voice]]. However, her former adoptive mother reveals that {{spoiler|although her adoptive parents feared her powers and found her difficult to deal with, they cared about her and didn't intend to give her up until she used her Compelling Voice power to make them do so by telling them "Get out of my life and leave me alone!" in a fit of adolescent rebellion}}. She had repressed the memories of what had really happened, and realizes later that she is at least partly responsible for the problems that have made her miserable all her life. Mercy has another moment like this later on when trying to get an armed gunman to put down his weapon and release his hostage. She does not have perfect control of her power, and when he fails to respond at first she {{spoiler|loses her temper and thinks, "Goddammit, why don't you just blow your own brains out?!". Her anger makes her powers kick in and she has the man's death on her conscience, although she saves the hostage.}}

** There is a more obscure example in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0448.html this strip]; after Xykon {{spoiler|uses a [[Idiot Ball|Symbol of Insanity]] to cause all the paladins to massacre each other}}, the last one standing recovers and cries, "Oh Twelve Gods... what have I done??" then commits <s>seppuku</s> [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|whatever Azurites call ritual suicide]].

** Vaarsuvius's expression upon realizing {{spoiler|the Familicide spell killed off Girard Draketooth's entire lineage}} is the non-verbal epitome of this trope. V has a verbal one in the next strip at the discovery of {{spoiler|just how many people Familicide killed due to the way the spell works.}}

* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', it appears that Prince Aaronev Sturmvoraus seems to have had one of these as his daughter is dying, if Tarvek's flashback is accurate. Of course, considering that she is in this condition because {{spoiler|he had just tried unsuccessfully to overwrite his daughter's mind with the mind of his [[Evil Overlord]] / possible lover,}} the sympathy one might feel for him is abated some.

* In ''[[Thog Infinitron]]'', the aliens (Opians) that gave Thog his powers {{spoiler|1=finally [http://www.drunkduck.com/Thog_Infinitron/index.php?p=415148 realize that Thog's cybernetics are not inborn], and are in fact due to their medical intervention to save his life.}}

* [[Dominic Deegan]]: [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2004-05-05 What have I done?]

* In ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'', White Mage has a moment of this trope after [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/07/07/episode-867-night-and-day/ attempting to become evil]

* ''[[Pibgorn]]'' [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2010/07/15/ Pib. . . What have I done?] (Why, lost Pib in the upper atmosphere when you need her help to save the earth.)

* Vriska in ''[[Homestuck]]'' goes through this when she realizes that {{spoiler|her actions have resulted in the deaths of most, if not all, of the people she ever considered friends.}}