History Main / TearsofRemorse

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* The newly-forged Darth Vader in StarWars Episode 3, while massacring a roomful of untrained kids in the Jedi Temple and after slaughtering a roomful of surrendering useless bureaucrats and their bodyguards.

* Lelouch from ''CodeGeass'' does this after [[spoiler:he accidently makes his second-favorite sister commit mass genocide and has to shoot her to stop the bloody rampage]].

* Vegeta of all people does this in ''DragonBallZ'' when he [[HeroicSacrifice selfdestructs]] to try to kill Boo. Of course, being ''Dragon Ball'', [[SenselessSacrifice it doens't do anything]].

* In ''TheAbyss'', the most emotional character in the entire sequence is "One Night". Earlier in the film, she said and thought nasty things about Lindsey Brigman. Obviously her probably dying brought out a great deal of regret; she was the only one [[PleaseWakeUp besides]] [[ClusterFBomb Bud]] ([[HowDareYouDieOnMe Lindsey's husband]]) to openly have an emotional breakdown.

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* ''CriminalMinds'' offers us some examples. For example, in ''Mosley Lane'', as he's spreading the ashes [[spoiler: of a boy his wife has cremated alive]], Roger Roycewood tells a woman in the graveyard that he likes to think to roses as the souls of forgotten people. Although he doesn't acutally shed tears, his voice breaks and he sniffs. Then he gets back to his role as accomplice of TheMonsterOfTheWeek.

* Faith in ''{{Angel}}'' episode "Five by Five". She agrees to take assassination contract to Angel, but keeps giving him openings he doesn't use. Eventually she's rendered sobbing wreck, revealing that she was trying to get Angel to kill her in order to stop her past crimes from haunting her.

Perhaps you have had a HeelRealization, perhaps you are DyingAsYourself 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 ''[[MyGreatestFailure 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.

* A brief glimpse of [[{{Berserk}} Guts]] with [[http://view.thespectrum.net/series/berserk-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+03&page=167 his face fallen and tears in his eyes]] stops him from being a VillainProtagonist, and add a lot more depth to (and questions about) his character.

* A brief glimpse of [[{{Berserk}} Guts]] with [[http://view.thespectrum.net/series/berserk-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+03&page=167 his face fallen and tears in his eyes]] stop him from being a VillainProtagonist, and add a lot more depth to (and questions about) his character.

* DigimonAdventure02 has former BigBad Ken Ichijoji who cries upon realising [[spoiler: he's been sadistically torturing and killing living beings as catharsism for his TheUnfavourite and [[DeadLittleSister Dead Big Brother]] complexes without realising they were sentient. Plus there are the real kids who's life he's been making a misery with his actions...]]

* Shakespeare's Sonnet 34

* An example brought on by less-than-heinous behavior in the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse novel ''Half Life'': due to a FreakyFriday[=/=]PersonalitySwap situation, the Doctor learns just how [[CowardlyLion scared]] his companion Fitz is most of the time while traveling with him, and is brought to tears. He [[MenDontCry doesn't usually cry]].

* Vegeta of all people does this in ''DragonBallZ'' however the real turning point us when he self destructs as majin vegeta.