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== Anime and Manga ==
* Sayaka from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' has this reaction when she makes Madoka cry after she yells at her for not using her latent power to fight witches. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|this realization helps push her towards the {{spoiler|[[Despair Event Horizon]] and she becomes a witch.}}
* Robin Mask suffers from this when he thinks he's killed [[Kinnikuman]] during their fight in the 20th Choujin Olympics. EspeciallyOnce noteworthy in that Robin was previously in anhis [[Unstoppable Rage]]- once it wears off, he realizes that he was taking the fight totoo seriously. While he's lamenting, Kinnikuman puts him in a finishing hold, winning the match.
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'': Vegeta hadhas this twice, once when he allowed Perfect Cell to reach his perfect form, and again when he allowed Majin Buu to resurrect.
** Gohan had this too, thanks to his cockiness.
** A short while before the above example{{context|reason=which one?}}, Goku had one of these moments on his own when Piccolo [[What the Hell, Hero?|reminded him]] that Gohan was [[Half Human Hybrids|partially human]], didn't share [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Goku's]] lust for battle, and thus didn't find any pleasure at all in getting [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomped]] by Cell while his father simply looked on from a distance.
* In the OVA of ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'', Katan says this while looking down at his hands in horror after {{spoiler|accidentally killing Sara, when he was actually aiming for Setsuna}}.
* ''[[Magical Project S]]'': Misao Amano (as her [[Super-Powered Evil Side|evil]] [[Magical Girl]] alter ego Pixy Misa) was destroyingunwittingly the city and almost killed [[Friendless Background|her only friend]] Sammy and her parents, to the point where sheof {{spoiler|ranrunning away due to guilt}}, this was justified although it was her other personality did this and was unaware of what she did. The twist here wasis that {{spoiler|what she did was realyreally her (her repressed aspects,) and [[Not Brainwashed|not brainwashing]]}}.
* Guld Bowman Inin ''[[Macross Plus]]'' gets a simultaneous double helping of this, when he finally overcomes his [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]] in the middle of a [[Macross Missile Massacre]] which he believes has killed Isamu Dyson, the person who he had blamed for the trauma. {{spoiler|Actually caused by his own attempted rape of Myung, a memory he had suppressed until that moment}}.
* Sasuke in ''[[Naruto]]'' after finding out that {{spoiler|the brother he spent years trying to kill and finally succeeding did everything to protect him and Konoha and the Council ordered him to do it in the first place}}.
** Somewhat averted{{verify}} as {{spoiler|instead of vowing to honor his brother's sacrifice and give up killing or investigate the veracity of Madara's claims, Sasuke decides to go after Konoha and the elders responsible for ordering the death of his clan. [[Knight Templar|Danzou]] even [[What the Hell, Hero?|calls him out on this]] and tells him that he's wasting Itachi's sacrifice by attacking everyone and everything in anger.}}
** For a villainous example, inIn the 3rdthird ''[[Naruto]]'' film (''Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom'') the [[The Dragon|baddybaddie]] Ishidate accidentally turns his employer—andemployer--and more importantly, paymaster—topaymaster--to stone. [[Oh Crap]].
** Sakura has this reaction when she realises what the promise she got out of Naruto did to him.{{context|reason=what is said promise?}}
* ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'': It's discovered that [[Big Bad]] Ken Ichijouji, definitely an [[Evil Overlord]] with a [[0% Approval Rating]], never knew Digimon were sentient, thinking the Digital World to be a very, ''very'' realistic [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|video game]]. He gives this line once he finds out he's done real harm, and makes a [[Heel Face Turn]].
* Yamaki of ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' actually yells this under the dramatic and appropriately messed-up sky created by his program Juggernaut, an attempt to purge digital life from reality that instead results in a massive and highly dangerous breach between the worlds. Of course, this a fellow about whom the line, "Looks like your pal Yamaki ripped open the sky again," has been uttered. This of course leads to him being fired, and after a good sulk, he begins his [[Heel Face Turn]].
** [[Blood Knight|Beelzemon]]: Beelzemon spends a good deal of time wandering the Digital World listlessly, thinking back over his actions after {{spoiler|he kills Leomon and is later saved by Leomon's Tamer, Jeri}}. He's so disgusted by himself that he completely loses the will to fight and even to live, not even ''trying'' to fight back while a group of Chrysalismon beat him halfwayhalf to death. He (somewhat) snaps out of [[Villainous BSOD|it]] when he finds out that Renamon and Rika risked their lives to find him, and, well...has a [[Heel Face Turn|I think you know]] [[The Atoner|where this is going]].
* Shinji Ikari in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has a [[Heroic BSOD]] after he is forced to kill {{spoiler|the angel Kaworu}}.
** And another one after his EVA nearly kills Toji Suzuhara due to his inability to fight. {{spoiler|This haunts him to a greater degree in the manga since he, rather the dummy plug, actually kills Toji.}}
* Renton from ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' does this after he goes berserk and tears an army of enemy LFO's to shreds., Henot doesn'trealizing reallythey havewere enoughactual time to ask of God what he has donepeople. He, instead, loses his lunch over the debacle.
* Lelouch from ''[[Code Geass]]'' has a [[Delayed Reaction]] version of this when the memory of his murder of {{spoiler|his half-brother Clovis}} from the previous episode causes him to vomit (you see the bathroom sink water running indicating he did get sick).▼
** The impact of this cannot be fully felt if you don't realize that up until this moment Renton (and many members of the audience) didn't realize that the entire time he's been fighting enemy LFO's, he's been killing people. He simply thought that enemy LFO's were robots.
** Suzaku also has one of these {{spoiler|when he realizes he's [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]] by trying to drug Kallen to get information out of her }}. Followed by {{spoiler|Nina Einstein, once she witnesses the horrendous results of her FLEJIYA nuke.}}▼
▲* Lelouch from ''[[Code Geass]]'' has a [[Delayed Reaction]] version of this when the memory of his murder of {{spoiler|his half-brother Clovis}} from the previous episode causes him to vomit (you see the bathroom sink water running indicating he did get sick).
** Lelouch actually has another one of these, when he {{spoiler|loses control of Geass and Euphemia gets hit with his off -the -cuff command to KILLkill ALLall JAPANESEJapanese PEOPLE!people.}} The look of utter shock on his face spoke volumes.▼
▲** Suzaku also has one of these {{spoiler|when he realizes he's [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]] by trying to drug Kallen to get information out of her }}. Followed by {{spoiler|Nina Einstein, once she witnesses the horrendous results of her FLEJIYA nuke.}}
▲** Lelouch actually has another one of these, when he {{spoiler|loses control of Geass and Euphemia gets hit with his off the cuff command to KILL ALL JAPANESE PEOPLE!}} The look of utter shock on his face spoke volumes.
*** Earlier in the series, he gets a similar expression upon being informed that {{spoiler|his love interest's father was among the casualties of his latest battle.}} Although this isn't as objectively big as the aforementioned incident, it shook Lelouch rather badly and forced him to personally face the consequences of his actions and orders.
** Darlton gets one of these {{spoiler|after his hypnosis wears off and he realizes he just saved Zero by shooting Cornelia in the back.}}
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* The protagonist from ''[[Tsukihime]]'' goes through this in every route, after he regains control/consciousness from whatever insanity/inversion/dream-turned-reality he just went through, all of which generally involve him causing bloodshed and death.
* Gyoubu Kasumi from ''[[Basilisk]]'', after {{spoiler|Tenzen grabs a flautist boy and throws him into the middle of their fight, causing Gyoubu to accidentally kill the boy's father when the old man tries to save his son}}.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' ''Duel Monsters'', season 4. Yami in a big way after that Raphael duel - [[More Than Mind Control|you]] [[Heroic Sacrifice|know]] [[What the Hell, Hero?|the]] [[Heroic BSOD|one.]] {{spoiler|In an attempt to win, he plays the Seal of Orichalcos, and when he loses, Yugi offers his soul instead.}}
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'': Judai's mind is stuck on this trope like a broken record for the first several episodes after becoming acquainted with his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]].
* Tony in ''[[Toward the Terra]]'' after he {{spoiler|accidentally kills Matsuka, a fellow Mu}}, while attempting to assassinate the antagonist. Complete with enough angst to last the rest of the series.
* The manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' has Chrono do this after {{spoiler|his [[Unstoppable Rage]] in volume 5}}. He's so distraught he can't even quite get out the words: "Oh, no. Have I done? Ro...sette!"
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*** When {{spoiler|''Greed'' kills his only surviving True Companion after being Mind Wiped}} in the manga. [[Big No]] ensues.
** Roy after {{spoiler|killing Winry's parents}}.
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', several of the characters have these moments. Heck, Keichi has two regarding the same horrific event.
* ''[[Kikaider|Android Kikaider: The Animation]]'' (not to be confused with the [[Toku|live-action ancestor]] of the "[[Power Rangers]].") In the first episode, Jiro [[Henshin Hero|(the android)]] helps some kids get their toy airplane out of a tree by pushing the tree over. (He was in his "human" form at the time, and the kids thought they were enlisting his help to ''climb'' the tree.) After the the kids run away, [[Mood Whiplash|any humor in this moment gets a kick in the nuts]] when Jiro realizes there was a bird's nest in the tree, and the eggs in it have been destroyed. In the English dub, he utters the trope verbatim.
* In the manga ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', Ruby does this when he realizes {{spoiler|he was a huge [[Jerkass]] to his Feebas after she loses a Contest and caused her to run away. He only partly realized that on his own at best, and it takes a [[What the Hell, Hero?|tongue-lashing from Wallace]] before it finally gets through to him completely.}}
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