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Line 5: "These hands have killed! I've got [[Blood on These Hands\|blood on my hands]], and I'll never be the same again..." Could be followed by [[Out, Damned Spot!]], but it doesn't have to be. This has nothing to do with washing one's hands of blood, metaphorically or ~~literally -- only~~literally—only with acknowledging the shedding. This is a [[Sub-Trope]] to [[My God, What Have I Done?]] ~~-- the~~—the character in question experiences that guilt while staring horrified at his ~~hands -- and~~hands—and [[Blood on These Hands]]. If this trope is in a character's backstory, it's [[Sympathetic Murder Backstory\|Sympathetic Murder Backstory.]] If a character is contemplating his or hands for an entirely different reason, usually drug-related, then see [[Contemplating Your Hands]]. {{deathtrope}} Line 29: == Comic Books == * Leetah in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140307223353/http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ15/oq15-26.jpg this scene] from ''[[Elf Quest]]''. She's struck by the enormity of her hands, which have hitherto only brought healing, being able to kill, even in self-defense. Also, she does this so much that the warrior Elves she and the Wolfriders are bunking with tell her to stop admiring her hands and get to practical matters. ** Julia Ecklar turned this moment into a song entitled Healer's Hands. Mp3s of it can be found in various collections. * Cassandra Cain ([[Batgirl]]) has had at least one flashback to doing this after ripping a man's throat out with her bare hands. It did not help that she was around eight at the time. What makes it worse is her super ability to read body language. Turns out the body language of a dying person is pretty unpleasant. Line 86: * In ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'', James' reaction to killing {{spoiler\|Eddie}} in self defense is like this, but it's ironic because {{spoiler\|he's already killed his wife, although he's blocked it out of his mind}}. * In [[Final Fantasy 7]], Barret tries to make peace with his old friend, Dyne, by mentioning the man's daughter (whom Barret had rescued and adopted after their town was destroyed). Dyne refuses, noting that not only would she not remember him, but that his hands are too stained to carry her any more. Then he jumps off a cliff, leaving Barret to admit that [[Moral Dissonance\|his hands aren't any cleaner.]] * Inverted in ''[[EVE Online]]'' chronicle ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150427081645/http://www.eveonline.com/background/potw/default.asp?cid=14-07-05 Hands of a Killer]'', where the [[Heroic Sociopath\|owner of said hands]] gleefully admits that while he has never committed physical violence, he is nevertheless responsible of [[A Million Is a Statistic\|deaths of countless people]], [[We Have Reserves\|including his own crew]]. It's all a part of his recruiting speech. * In the ending of [[~~PlayStation~~Play Station 3]] [[Updated Rerelease]] of ''[[Eternal Sonata]]'', Frederic Chopin does this when he wakes up following his defeat in battle and sees that Polka is gone and that the world around him hasn't changed. He blames himself for not being able to do anything to stop her sacrifice. "Why? The dream was at an end. Oh no. It can't be. Not Polka." == Web Animation == Line 112: [[Category:Surprise Tropes]] [[Category:Hand Tropes]] [[Category:~~These Hands Have Killed~~{{PAGENAME}}]]