History Main / MyGodWhathaveIDone

Do take note that {{Complete Monster}}s {{av|Erted trope}}oid this trope entirely, as they [[CardCarryingVillain take full responsibility for whatever heinous deeds they have done and relish in it]] [[EvilFeelsGood without ever feeling remorse]].

Do take note that {{Complete Monster}}s {{av|Erted trope}}oid this trope entirely, as they [[CardCarryingVillain take full responsibility for whatever heinous deeds they have done and relish in it]] [[EvilFeesGood without ever feeling remorse]].

Do take note that {{Complete Monster}}s avoid this trope entirely, as they take full responsibility for whatever heinous deeds they have done and relish in it without ever feeling remorse.

** There are many more instances of this trope throughout ''The Bible'', such as what caused the original UriahGambit, and how King David realized his compounded folly afterwards; in that case, aside from those described in the Old Testament, it also (according to Jewish tradition) resulted in Psalm 51, a famous prayer of repentance.

** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', in the DLC case, [[spoiler:Marlon Rimes]] is quite similar to [[spoiler:Acro]]. [[spoiler:His girlfriend died during a performance a year ago, and he believed Orla the orca whale was responsible, not knowing that 1) His girlfriend had a heart condition and 2) it was an entirely different orca. He tried to kill Orla by draining the water, but Jack Shipley, the owner of the aquarium and his boss, rushed out to save her, slipping and falling in the empty pool in the process despite Marlon's attempt to save him. Marlon tried to frame Orla for Jack's murder, but ultimately realized the truth of things and had this reaction. Thankfully, after it's pointed out that he tried to save her, he decides to make amends, however long it takes]].

** Edgeworth begins to go through this process during the final case of the first game when he realizes [[spoiler: that the man he's been studying under and trying to emulate for the last fifteen years is his father's killer, and not only that, but the aforementioned man has been planning to tie up loose ends and get true revenge on Edgeworth's father ''for those same fifteen years'' by one day getting Edgeworth framed and convicted for murder.]] He doubles down in the DLC case when it comes to light that [[spoiler: much of the evidence that the police department has been supplying the prosecutor's office with for years has been fabricated, meaning that not only has Edgeworth been putting away every defendant who had the misfortune of being tried by him using dirty tricks and basically no morals, but he's been doing it with fake evidence.]] No wonder he [[spoiler: "chose death" and went to Europe for two years to contemplate his character and the nature of law. He comes back from it kinder and more honest, with a visible weight lifted off his shoulders, and [[CharacterDevelopment is now only concerned with finding the truth behind the crimes he's faced with, no matter the danger it places him in.]]]]

* [[spoiler: Rika]] from ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'' says this nearly verbatim during V's route immediately after [[spoiler: stabbing him in a fit of emotion; she calls you in a panic, begging you to come save him, lamenting that she'ss a monster, and [[MadnessMantra insisting to herself over and over that his wound isn't that deep.]]]]

* [[spoiler: Rika]] from ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'' says this nearly verbatim during V's route immediately after stabbing [[spoiler: V]]; she calls you in a panic, begging you to come save him, lamenting that she really is a monster, and [[MadnessMantra insisting to herself over and over that his wound isn't that deep.]]

*** Peter betrayed Jesus too [[DirtyCoward In a different way]], by [[FriendshipDenial claiming not to be an associate of Jesus']], three times, the same night, after Jesus was arrested. Unlike Judas, Peter sought and was granted forgiveness directly from Jesus.
** There are many more instances of this trope throughout ''The Bible'', such as what caused the original UriahGambit, and how King David realized his compounded folly afterwards; in that case, aside from those described in the Old Testament, it also (by Judaism traditions) resulted in Psalm 51, a famous prayer of repentance.

* A rather disturbing example in the final episode of ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief''. After Arbiter literally [[AnArmAndALeg rips Chief to pieces]] [[spoiler:after learning that Chief killed Cortana, both intentionally and by accident]]. Things only gets worse for him when [[{{Jerkass}} Tyler]] [[HairTriggerTemper shows up planning to kill them both]] [[spoiler:after revealing that [[DrivenToSuicide Eugene committed suicide]]]]. This hits Arbiter so badly that he starts mumbling [[MadnessMantra "I'm in my happy place"]] over and over again. [[DownerEnding It gets even worse for there]]...

* In ''Machinima/ClearSkies 3'', Hausmann does this during the final battle [[spoiler:and surrenders rather than see more of his people killed.]]

* ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' gives us this line during ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'''s 'Resonance Cascade Incident':

* Church of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' suffers this when he realizes that the reason he's dead is because ''he'' tampered with the tank by disabling the friendly-fire safety.

* In ''WebAnimation/ReversalOfTheHeart'' The Prince shudders in horror and drops his sword and helmet, before falling to his knees, upon realizing the dragon he tracked down and nearly killed for the apparent death of his love, [[BalefulPolymorph was actually his love transformed into a dragon]].

* Geb from ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'' story The Rise of the Steam Soul. "Gods forgive me; I knew not."

Wiki/TVTropes wasted my time! What have I done?

* In the ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' episode, ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} vs. ComicBook/TheMask'', the hosts, Wiz and Boomstick, have one of these upon coming to the HeelRealization that they had given up their impartiality due to spite [[spoiler:by putting Deadpool into a fight they knew he couldn't win, just to get rid of him.]]
** There's also ''[[Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba Tanjiro]] vs. [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Jonathan Joestar]]'', where Jonathan bursts into tears after [[spoiler:a dying Tanjiro explains that he wasn't being controlled- he was protecting Nezuko because she's his sister. After this, Jonathan vows to protect Nezuko in Tanjiro's stead and stops Tanjiro's heart and brain with Hamon to [[MercyKill grant him a painless death.]]]]

** Season 2 inside the school: Taken UpToEleven! Daniel opens up Miyagi-do in response, which triggers the DisasterDominoes between the sides over the latter half of the season. When Miguel is knocked over the top floor railing, Robby (his opponent) is so stunned that he just dashes off. Having been read the riot act by their respective other halves, Johnny and Daniel realize the hard way just what kind of an impact their old rivalry has had on those they had worked so hard to be positive role models to. They abandon their dojos in the process.

* He may try to deny it, but in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', Kokichi Ouma is responsible for [[spoiler: the deaths of two of his classmates, Miu and Gonta]] and his actions in the fifth chapter are easy to infer a way to atone for what he did. [[spoiler: After he abducts Kaito, he decides to orchestrate an unsolvable murder in order to end the Killing Game and prevent Maki from being executed as the Blackened. He then volunteers ''himself'' as the final victim of the Killing Game, despite the fact that he knows Kaito is already dying and he previously showed nothing but contempt for Maki, as she is the Ultimate Assassin and he despises murder, plus he willingly allows himself to be crushed to death inside an electric press, which he likely wouldn't have agreed to if Miu and Gonta hadn't both died in such horrible ways because of him.]]

* He may try to deny it, but in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', Kokichi Ouma is responsible for [[spoiler: the deaths of two of his classmates, Miu and Gonta]] and his actions in the fifth chapter are easy to infer a way to atone for what he did. [[spoiler: After he abducts Kaito, he decides to orchestrate an unsolvable murder in order to end the Killing Game and prevent Maki from being executed as the Blackened. He then volunteers ''himself'' as the final victim of the Killing Game, despite the fact that he knows Kaito is already dying and he previously showed nothing but contempt for Maki, as she is the Ultimate Assassin and he despises murder, plus he willingly allows himself to be crushed to death inside an electric press, which he likely wouldn't have agreed to if Miu and Gonta hadn't both died in such horrible ways because of him.]]

** There's also ''[[Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba Tanjiro]] vs. [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Jonathan Joestar]]'', where Jonathan bursts into tears after [[spoiler:A dying Tanjiro explains that he wasn't being controlled- he was protecting Nezuko because she's his sister. After this, Jonathan vows to protect Nezuko in Tanjiro's stead and stops Tanjiro's heart and brain with Hamon to [[MercyKill grant him a painless death.]]]]

** There's also ''[[Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba Tanjiro]] vs. [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jonathan Joestar]]'', where Jonathan bursts into tears after [[spoiler:A dying Tanjiro explains that he wasn't being controlled- he was protecting Nezuko because she's his sister. After this, Jonathan vows to protect Nezuko in Tanjiro's stead and stops Tanjiro's heart and brain with Hamon to [[MercyKill grant him a painless death.]]]]