Tears of Remorse: Difference between revisions

Perhaps you have had a [[Heel Realization]], perhaps you are [[Dying as Yourself]] and just learned the enormity of your deeds, perhaps you have learned that the deed you sought [[Revenge]] for was fully justified, but you have already killed the character, perhaps you have ''[[My Greatest Failure|failed]]'', perhaps a character has died, and you can never make reparation for something you did (perhaps contributing to the death, or perhaps not) -- and there is nothing for it but to cry your eyes out, it was so horrible. (Or shed a [[Single Tear]].)

 

 

May be a form of [[Manly Tears]]. [[Tender Tears]] combine when they are grief-stricken by minor injuries to others. Note that crying because you didn't get away with it is [[Water Works]].

 

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* [[Naruto|Uchiha]] [[Fake Defector|Itachi]] cries after Sasuke pursues him after Itachi was forced to kill the clan.

** Gaara also cried a single tear after he realized that Sasuke was never gonna stop obsessing over revenge/darkness like he used to and that he was forced to fight him.

* In ''[[Booster Gold]]'', at Blue Beetle's funeral, what finally has Booster in tears is that he stood up to eulogize him, and couldn't speak. What sort of friend can't pay tribute [[Due to the Dead]]? When Wonder Woman tries to console him, Booster speaks bitterly of how he failed Blue Beetle, not having been there to help him.

 

* In ''[[The Abyss]]'', the most emotional character in the entire sequence of Lindsey Brigman's drowning and resuscitation, besides Bud, is "One Night". Earlier in the film, she said and thought some rather nasty things about Lindsey. Obviously her probably dying brought out a great deal of regret; she was the only one [[Please Wake Up|besides]] [[Cluster F-Bomb|Bud]] ([[How Dare You Die on Me!|Lindsey's husband]]) to openly have an emotional breakdown.

** Fortunately Lindsey was saved by the [[Worst Aid|Miraculous Bitchslap of Life]]. One Night [[Tears of Joy|again broke down]].

* The newly-forged Darth Vader in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'', while massacring a roomful of untrained kids in the Jedi Temple and after slaughtering a roomful of surrendering [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|Trade Federation leaders]] and their bodyguards.

* In a daydream sequence from ''[[A Christmas Story]]'', Ralphie's parents shed these after they find out that the cause of Ralphie's blindness was from a bar of soap used to wash out his mouth when he said the "[[Precision F-Strike|F-dash-dash-dash word.]]"

 

* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''False Gods'', when Horus mortally wounds Temba, Temba recovers from the Chaos taint, realizes the scale of his betrayal, and sobs.

** In [[Ben Counter]]'s ''Galaxy In Flames'', after {{spoiler|Aximand}} kills {{spoiler|Torgaddon}}, he sobs, [[My God, What Have I Done?|asks what they did]], and speaks of how they had been their brothers. {{spoiler|Abaddon}} (who merely thinks [[Was It Really Worth It?]]) thinks he needs to be watched.