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** In some continuities, at least, there's also Harvey Dent, who Batman saw a a friend and ally that could really clean up Gotham in ways he himself could not - until Harvey became Two-Face.
** For a time, he considered making Jean-Paul Valley Batman this, saying that it was done at a moment of weakness and it was a mistake.
** Batman later had a more recent one where he explicitly acknowledges that he and the rest of the Batfamily terribly mishandled the death of Alfred Pennyworth, and Damian's reaction to it, recognizing that Damian was suffering from a tremendous guilt that the Batfamily should have addressed in a better way, with Bruce never once calling Damian out for running away, acknowledging that the Bat family fully deserved Damian's scorn and making a much better attempt to be present to atone for it.
* At various points in his history, [[Superman]] has had the bottled city of Kandor to deal with. More recently, he's had the only time he's ever had to kill someone; this caused him to actually leave Earth for a while.
** Of course, now that one's only sorta in continuity. Hell remembers it enough to have one (1) demon capable of trying to corrupt Superman, but the man himself doesn't remember it.
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* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', the immortal Hob Gadling will never forgive himself for having made his fortune in the slave trade.
* [[Nightwing]] had a moment revealed following ''[[Zero Hour]]''. When he was Robin, it was up to him to rescue Batman and the DA that replaced Harvey Dent when he became Two-Face. When he confronted the aforementioned villain, he was planning to hang the both of them for their "crimes". Two-Face attempted to hang the DA and Robin responded by cutting the line with a Batarang. However, he didn't realize that Two-Face's MO applied to everything - he saved the DA from hanging, but couldn't save him from ''drowning''. Batman freed himself and saved the day, but the event haunted Dick until the first time he took up the Mantle of the Bat, finally making the save when confronting Two-Face again.
** Another moment for Nightwing would be when Bane killed Alfred, as Nightwing was suffering under an alternative personality at the time, which meant he never got to see Alfred again and led to severe fallout in the Batfamily, which Nightwing believes he could have stopped it. Very tellingly, Nightwing has used his new fortune to improve the lives of people in Bludhaven at Alfred's request in his will, rather than use it as [[Crimefighting with Cash]].
* Talia al Ghul, at least [[Depending on the Writer]] heavily implies she sees her prior treatment of Damian Wayne as this. While how much of an [[Abusive Parents|bad mother]] she was to him will always vary, the best depictions of her at least try to be a better parent than Ra's was to her, but were undermined by Ra's being a constant presence, while at worst she actively encouraged Damian to believe in Ra's mission and embrace it. More recent stories have emphasized this and she has frequently called out Ra's and respected Damian's choices.
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