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* ''Webcomic/TheGreenhouse'': Demons need their anchors for more than just food. Their anchors stabilize them, give them the capacity for thoughts beyond [[HorrorHunger slaking their thirst on vulnerable souls]]. When [[spoiler:Red is severed from Mica]], she goes straight for the easiest source of food around: [[spoiler:LoveInterest Liv]]. Once she's bound to a new pseudo-anchor and regains sentience, she's utterly horrified, and starts [[spoiler:burning through all her remaining energy so that she can make her frantic apologies audible]].



* ''Webcomic/TheGreenhouse'': Demons need their anchors for more than just food. Their anchors stabilize them, give them the capacity for thoughts beyond [[HorrorHunger slaking their thirst on vulnerable souls]]. When [[spoiler:Red is severed from Mica]], she goes straight for the easiest source of food around: [[spoiler:LoveInterest Liv]]. Once she's bound to a new pseudo-anchor and regains sentience, she's utterly horrified, and starts [[spoiler:burning through all her remaining energy so that she can make her frantic apologies audible]].
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** Roy has a moment during the Wooden Forest arc, where he decides to ''not'' rescue Elan from the bandits because he is just really fed up with dealing with Elan's stupidity. The rest of the team calls him out on this and goes to rescue Elan themselves. A couple hours later, Roy realizes that he can't abandon a teammate to an unknown fate for his own convenience and still call himself Good; that his morals require him to protect and help those weaker than himself, however dumb and annoying they may be. He goes back and helps out with the rescue (good thing too, because the rest of the Order had pretty well botched it).

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** Roy has a moment during the Wooden Forest arc, where he decides to ''not'' rescue Elan from the bandits because he is just really fed up with dealing with Elan's stupidity. The rest of the team calls him out on this and goes to rescue Elan themselves. A couple hours later, Roy realizes that he can't abandon a teammate to an unknown fate for his own convenience and still call himself Good; that his morals require him to protect and help those weaker than himself, however dumb and annoying they may be. He goes back and helps out with the rescue (good thing too, because the rest of the Order had pretty well botched it). He's told later that if he hadn't had this realization on his own, then regardless of what happened to Elan and the rest of the Order Roy would have permanently lost a place in the Lawful Good afterlife and been placed in True Neutral.
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* ''Webcomic/TheGreenhouse'': Demons need their anchors for more than just food. Their anchors stabilize them, give them the capacity for thoughts beyond [[HorrorHunger slaking their thirst on vulnerable souls]]. When [[spoiler:Red is severed from Mica]], she goes straight for the easiest source of food around: [[spoiler:LoveInterest Liv]]. Once she's bound to a new pseudo-anchor and regains sentience, she's utterly horrified, and starts [[spoiler:burning through all her remaining energy so that she can make her frantic apologies audible]].
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** In the prequel book ''Start Of Darkness'', Redcloak goes through a more tragic use of this trope after he [[spoiler:kills his brother]].

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** In the prequel book ''Start Of Darkness'', ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickStartOfDarkness Start of Darkness]]'', Redcloak goes through a more tragic use of this trope after he [[spoiler:kills his brother]].
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* ''Webcomic/BronzeSkinInc'':[[GiantWoman Patricia]] after she angrily tosses the coatis into the horizon. Fortunately, they landed safely.

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* ''Webcomic/MetompsychosisUnion'': Tilo freaks out a bit after disabling the flotation for the corporate commune, since it sinks the whole thing killing an untold number of civilians. It wasn't the result he was trying for, as he tried to enable the flotation devices after breaking it from OPAL's control, but it failed and he was working under pressure while his teammates were being shot at. He may also be freaking out that he made it look like someone else was the hacker responsible, thus framing them for the disaster.


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* ''Webcomic/UnOrdinary'': [[spoiler:John]] is horrified by just how badly he's injured his classmates, but with the Authorities having messed with his mind and trapped him mentally in the past and his own furious resistance to taking credit for his own actions he takes a long time to accept this. He doesn't want to feel any guilt or responsibility for hospitalizing his classmates, and living in a society that is fine with the strong regularly beating the weak makes his increasingly violent denials of guilt while blaming his classmates for their misfortune easier. When he's finally forced to confront his past, and current, actions he's horrified and calls himself an nonredeemable monster even if he still doesn't trust or care for his classmates.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Duane realizes that he's done something inexcusable in [[spoiler:letting the Aldish soldiers into the shrine]], an action he considered righteous until he saw the bloody consequences. When Sette tries to apologize to him for forcing him to stay in the shrine of a religion he finds heretical he stops her and says he cannot bear to hear, nor deserves, an apology given what he's wrought.

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* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', White Mage has a moment of this trope after [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/07/07/episode-867-night-and-day/ attempting to become evil]]



* In ''Webcomic/AmericanBarbarian'', [[http://www.ambarb.com/?p=183 Rich realizes what his pursuit of revenge did.]]



* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/031030 After confessing. So to speak]]



* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2004-05-05 What have I done?]]



* ''Webcomic/MagIsa'' -- [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119706 Eman's Dad regrets killing his wife.]] Then... he hangs himself later.



* ''Webcomic/{{Pibgorn}}'' [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2010/07/15/ Pib. . . What have I done?]] (Why, lost Pib in the upper atmosphere when you need her help to save the earth.)
* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'''s Monique learned that she may be responsible, in part, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-05 for the damnation of a million men.]]
** Seymore goes through this when a girl-turned-devil he wanted to truly reform finds his shotgun and goes on a rampage.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209162807/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4036 Lil Evil asks this more literally than most.]] Having drunk from Lethe, he fears AmnesiacDissonance.
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-20 Baby Blue destroys many of Fuchsia's things -- and realizes.]]
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209165949/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2618 An ad offers apathy as a cure for this.]]
** Even the cartoonist has one of this, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209162732/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4338 after realizing how much misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc; he has drawn for pure shock value and cheap laughs over the years]].
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* ''Blog/TextsFromSuperheroes'': Clark says he feels "sick with guilt" after realizing that his secret use of x-ray vision killed Jimmy and is currently killing Lois.

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* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', White Mage has a moment of this trope after [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/07/07/episode-867-night-and-day/ attempting to become evil]]
* During the Great Outdoor Fight arc of ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}},'' Ray is attacked by country-western singer Cody Travis, and retaliates by ''[[{{Squick}} ripping his face off.]]'' In the following strip, he looks at his blood-soaked hands and vomits.
* In ''Webcomic/AmericanBarbarian'', [[http://www.ambarb.com/?p=183 Rich realizes what his pursuit of revenge did.]]
* ''Webcomic/AxeCop'' [[http://axecop.com/comic/ask-axe-cop-15/ once killed a mermaid]] because it was making an angry face, so he assumed it was hostile. He has this reaction after he learns that for merpeople, "mean" and "nice" facial expressions are the other way around, which means he actually killed a good guy by mistake. The merpeople also had this reaction upon learning that they had been using the wrong facial expressions for so long.
* ''Webcomic/TheBikiniBottomHorror'': One of the Patricks has this reaction [[spoiler: when he realizes that Spongebob wasn't aware of the secret behind the Krabby Patty Secret Formula, and that he ultimately killed him for no reason.]]
* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/031030 After confessing. So to speak]]



* ''Webcomic/MagIsa'' -- [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119706 Eman's Dad regrets killing his wife.]] Then... he hangs himself later.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** A rare [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0451.html villain example]], where TheDragon Redcloak comes to regret [[WeHaveReserves using hobgoblins as cannon fodder]] because of his [[FantasticRacism prejudices]]. "Oh my God... I'm turning into XYKON! What have I let myself do?"
** In the prequel book ''Start Of Darkness'', Redcloak goes through a more tragic use of this trope after he [[spoiler:kills his brother]].
** There is a more obscure example in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0448.html this strip]]; after Xykon [[spoiler:uses a [[IdiotBall Symbol of Insanity]] to cause all the paladins to massacre each other]], the last one standing recovers and cries, "Oh Twelve Gods... what have I done?" then commits [[strike:seppuku]] [[FantasyCounterpartCulture whatever Azurites call ritual suicide]].
** Vaarsuvius's expression upon realizing [[spoiler: the Familicide spell killed off Girard Draketooth's entire lineage]] is the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0842.html non-verbal epitome]] of this trope. V has a verbal one in the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0843.html next strip]] at the discovery of [[spoiler:just how many people Familicide killed due to the way the spell works.]]
** Very early in the strip, Elan pretends to be a wizard and spouted many nonsensical words. Vaarsuvius flips out and harshly insults the bard, causing him to run away crying. Immediately, Vaarsuvius feels awful, and Haley wastes no time chewing the elf out. The two make up in the next strip.
** Roy has a moment during the Wooden Forest arc, where he decides to ''not'' rescue Elan from the bandits because he is just really fed up with dealing with Elan's stupidity. The rest of the team calls him out on this and goes to rescue Elan themselves. A couple hours later, Roy realizes that he can't abandon a teammate to an unknown fate for his own convenience and still call himself Good; that his morals require him to protect and help those weaker than himself, however dumb and annoying they may be. He goes back and helps out with the rescue (good thing too, because the rest of the Order had pretty well botched it).
* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'': [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1994.html Han Solo's gun goes off accidentally, killing Greedo.]]
--> '''Han:''' Greedo, old pal! Are you okay?! Greedo? Don't fool around with me, buddy... Oh no!!!
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', it appears that Prince Aaronev Sturmvoraus seems to have had one of these as his daughter is dying, if Tarvek's flashback is accurate. Of course, considering that she is in this condition because [[spoiler: he had just tried unsuccessfully to overwrite his daughter's mind with the mind of his EvilOverlord / possible lover,]] the sympathy one might feel for him is abated some.
* In ''Webcomic/ThogInfinitron'', the aliens (Opians) that gave Thog his powers [[spoiler: finally [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Thog_Infinitron/index.php?p=415148 realize that Thog's cybernetics are not inborn]], and are in fact due to their medical intervention to save his life.]]
-->'''Tertaladrol''': We're going to be sent to the dung mines of Guanolon IV, aren't we...
* During the Great Outdoor Fight arc of ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}},'' Ray is attacked by country-western singer Cody Travis, and retaliates by ''[[{{Squick}} ripping his face off.]]'' In the following strip, he looks at his blood-soaked hands and vomits.
* ''Webcomic/AxeCop'' [[http://axecop.com/comic/ask-axe-cop-15/ once killed a mermaid]] because it was making an angry face, so he assumed it was hostile. He has this reaction after he learns that for merpeople, "mean" and "nice" facial expressions are the other way around, which means he actually killed a good guy by mistake. The merpeople also had this reaction upon learning that they had been using the wrong facial expressions for so long.



* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/031030 After confessing. So to speak]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'''s Monique learned that she may be responsible, in part, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-05 for the damnation of a million men.]]
** Seymore goes through this when a girl-turned-devil he wanted to truly reform finds his shotgun and goes on a rampage.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209162807/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4036 Lil Evil asks this more literally than most.]] Having drunk from Lethe, he fears AmnesiacDissonance.
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-20 Baby Blue destroys many of Fuchsia's things -- and realizes.]]
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209165949/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2618 An ad offers apathy as a cure for this.]]
** Even the cartoonist has one of this, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209162732/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4338 after realizing how much misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc; he has drawn for pure shock value and cheap laughs over the years]].

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* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' In ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', the de-programmed [[TeenGenius Fortiscue]] [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/031030 After confessing. So to speak]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'''s Monique learned that she may be responsible, in part, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-05 for the damnation of a million men.]]
** Seymore goes through
commanderkitty.com/2011/03/27/one-more-cant-hurt/ has this when a girl-turned-devil reaction once he wanted to truly reform finds realizes what his shotgun and goes on a rampage.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209162807/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4036 Lil Evil asks this more literally than most.]] Having drunk from Lethe, he fears AmnesiacDissonance.
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-20 Baby Blue destroys many of Fuchsia's things -- and realizes.]]
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209165949/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2618 An ad offers apathy as a cure for this.]]
** Even the cartoonist
creation has one of this, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209162732/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4338 after realizing how much misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc; he has drawn for pure shock value and cheap laughs over the years]].done.]]



* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', White Mage has a moment of this trope after [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/07/07/episode-867-night-and-day/ attempting to become evil]]

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* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', White Mage has a moment of this trope ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', after Abraham [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/07/07/episode-867-night-and-day/ attempting egscomics.com/?date=2009-10-22 is persuaded by Nanase that Ellen is a person not a monster]] he realizes he got [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-09-15 very close]] to become evil]]killing an innocent person.



* In ''Webcomic/{{Strays}}'', [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100419171012/http://www.straysonline.com/comic/128.htm when Feral realized he was trying to choke Meela]]. (He had pushed her out of the bed earlier. With this, he goes and sleeps in the corner.)
* ''Webcomic/{{Pibgorn}}'' [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2010/07/15/ Pib. . . What have I done?]] (Why, lost Pib in the upper atmosphere when you need her help to save the earth.)

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Strays}}'', [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100419171012/http://www.straysonline.com/comic/128.htm when Feral realized ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', it appears that Prince Aaronev Sturmvoraus seems to have had one of these as his daughter is dying, if Tarvek's flashback is accurate. Of course, considering that she is in this condition because [[spoiler: he had just tried unsuccessfully to overwrite his daughter's mind with the mind of his EvilOverlord / possible lover,]] the sympathy one might feel for him is abated some.
* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': Minmax has this reaction when, in a desperate attempt to make Kin remember their bond of trust, he grabs her slave leash (which forces her to do the bidding of whoever's holding it) and triggers her crippling PTSD. Though he doesn't say the words, his face has this exact expression, and he doesn't recover for several pages:
-->'''Minmax:''' Did... did you tell her I'm sorry?
-->'''Forgath:''' Yeah.
-->'''Minmax:''' Well... well, do you think I should go talk to her?
-->'''Forgath:''' I don't think that'd be a good idea.
-->'''Minmax:''' Well did you tell her I'm sorry? ...[[TearJerker Did you tell her I'm sorry?]]
* Anthony Carver in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' reacts in this manner when, in the chapter "Annie and the Fire" describing the events of the chapter "Divine" from his viewpoint. He made a desperate deal to try and [[spoiler:bring back the soul of his late wife at the cost of his right hand]], but
he was trying to choke Meela]]. (He had pushed her out ignorant of the bed earlier. With this, he goes connection between mother and sleeps in daughter. The end result is his realizing, too late and to his horror, that [[spoiler:bringing back Surma would come at Antimony's expense]]. He expresses gratitude that he was stopped before it went too far.
* ''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}'': After
the corner.)
* ''Webcomic/{{Pibgorn}}'' [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2010/07/15/ Pib. . . What have I done?]] (Why, lost Pib
strip [[https://gunshowcomic.com/648 "On Fire"]] became a popular meme, Creator/KCGreen made a followup called [[https://thenib.com/this-is-not-fine/ "This is Not Fine"]], in which the upper atmosphere when you need her help dog suddenly comes to save his senses and desperately tries to put out the earth.)fire in his house while berating himself for letting it last so long and get so bad. The final panels show him sitting in his fire-damaged house with his face in his hands, wracked with regret.



* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''
** Parodied in "Vampires".
--> '''Riff''': Thanks to all the damage you did to the truck, we've lost another day! Instead of being able to free Torg and Zoë under the cover of daylight, we'll be lucky to make it in time at all. And that doesn't bother you."
--> '''[[TheSociopath Bun-bun]]''': "Nope."
--> '''Riff''': "Now we'll ''never'' make it home in time for the season premier of ''Series/{{Baywatch}}''..."
--> '''Bun-bun''': '''''What have I done?"'''''
** Happens in a subtle manner when Torg realizes that he messed up the security computer systems and released a bunch of [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20101015 bad stuff]]. [[spoiler: Torg was inside the No-Fun lab and blew up their server. This causes a bio-weapon mutagen to be released. This may or may not turn the entire dimension into a hell like realm full of demon like creatures]]
** Occurs again later when Riff says that future Torg will do bad [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/weekly/110912 stuff like]] [[spoiler: cause the Research and Development War or turn this dimension into hell.]] More like "what will I have done", but still.
* In ''Webcomic/AmericanBarbarian'', [[http://www.ambarb.com/?p=183 Rich realizes what his pursuit of revenge did.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Panthera}}'''s Jason has developed a tendency to slip into this. To be fair to him, he talked his boss into giving his little sister the same [[PrematureEmpowerment shapeshifting]] [[VoluntaryShapeshifting powers]] he has himself... only for things to take a sudden turn for the worst when [[spoiler:Ari reveals that he's the very man they have been trying to hunt down and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness attempts to kill them]]. The one who kills him off is Onca/Taylor, who utterly freaked out four days earlier at the very idea that ''her'' big brother might have killed a person.]] Ten days after that, they find out that [[spoiler:some of the world's leading scientists have no idea how they're still alive and they're going to wither and die in ''[[YourDaysAreNumbered less than thirty years]]''.]] Cut to the North Korea story arc, where [[spoiler:Gyeoknoho]] comes pretty damn close to finishing his sister off partially because this time, Jason has ''no'' idea how he's supposed to come up with a plan to eliminate it. Is it any wonder that Jason is skirting the edge of HeroicBSOD right now?
* [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/21 Part 1]] of the ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' story arc ''Ripped From Today's Headlines'' has Tycho feeling bad for accidentally killing his wife.
* In ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', the de-programmed [[TeenGenius Fortiscue]] [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/03/27/one-more-cant-hurt/ has this reaction once he realizes what his creation has done.]]
* In ''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}'', a bunch of villagers approach the Thaumaturge asking her to save them from an evil army of {{Jerkass}} goblins. The Thaumaturge claims that [[GreyAndGreyMorality evil is relative]] but jerkassery is not, so she agrees to help them. After the Thaumaturge has [[PlayingWithFire incinerated]] the goblins, the villagers react in a way that makes her realize that ''[[http://oglaf.com/abyss/1/ they were the true jerkasses all along.]]''
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', after Abraham [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-10-22 is persuaded by Nanase that Ellen is a person not a monster]] he realizes he got [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-09-15 very close]] to killing an innocent person.
* Anthony Carver in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' reacts in this manner when, in the chapter "Annie and the Fire" describing the events of the chapter "Divine" from his viewpoint. He made a desperate deal to try and [[spoiler:bring back the soul of his late wife at the cost of his right hand]], but he was ignorant of the connection between mother and daughter. The end result is his realizing, too late and to his horror, that [[spoiler:bringing back Surma would come at Antimony's expense]]. He expresses gratitude that he was stopped before it went too far.

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* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''
** Parodied in "Vampires".
--> '''Riff''': Thanks
''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'': Scarlet has such a moment when she snaps out of her demon state to all the damage you did to the truck, we've lost another day! Instead of being able to free Torg and Zoë under the cover of daylight, we'll be lucky to make it in time at all. And find out that doesn't bother you."
--> '''[[TheSociopath Bun-bun]]''': "Nope."
--> '''Riff''': "Now we'll ''never'' make it home in time for the season premier of ''Series/{{Baywatch}}''..."
--> '''Bun-bun''': '''''What have I done?"'''''
** Happens in a subtle manner when Torg realizes that he messed up the security computer systems and released a bunch of [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20101015 bad stuff]].
[[spoiler: Torg was inside the No-Fun lab and blew up their server. This causes a bio-weapon mutagen to be released. This may or may not turn the only did she massacre an entire dimension into a hell like realm full alleyway of demon like creatures]]
** Occurs again later when Riff says that future Torg will do bad [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/weekly/110912 stuff like]] [[spoiler: cause the Research and Development War or turn this dimension into hell.]] More like "what will I have done", but still.
* In ''Webcomic/AmericanBarbarian'', [[http://www.ambarb.com/?p=183 Rich realizes what his pursuit of revenge did.
non-sinners, she stabbed Chase.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Panthera}}'''s Jason has developed a tendency to slip into this. To In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Galatea can be fair to him, he talked his boss into giving his little sister the same [[PrematureEmpowerment shapeshifting]] [[VoluntaryShapeshifting powers]] he has himself... only for things to take a sudden turn for the worst when [[spoiler:Ari reveals infuriatingly arrogant, but any situation that he's makes her feel she's acting like the very man they have been trying to hunt down and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness attempts to kill them]]. The one abusive scientist who kills him off is Onca/Taylor, who utterly freaked out four days earlier at the very idea that ''her'' big brother might have killed a person.]] Ten days after that, they find out that [[spoiler:some of the world's leading scientists have no idea how they're still alive and they're going to wither and die raised her will bring her knees in ''[[YourDaysAreNumbered less than thirty years]]''.]] Cut to the North Korea story arc, where [[spoiler:Gyeoknoho]] comes pretty damn close to finishing his sister off partially because this time, Jason has ''no'' idea how he's supposed to come up with a plan to eliminate it. Is it any wonder that Jason is skirting the edge of HeroicBSOD right now?
remorse.
* [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/21 Part 1]] of the ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' story arc ''Ripped From Today's Headlines'' has Tycho feeling bad for accidentally killing his wife.
* In ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', the de-programmed [[TeenGenius Fortiscue]]
''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'': [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/03/27/one-more-cant-hurt/ has this reaction once he realizes what his creation has done.irregularwebcomic.net/1994.html Han Solo's gun goes off accidentally, killing Greedo.]]
* In ''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}'', a bunch of villagers approach the Thaumaturge asking her to save them from an evil army of {{Jerkass}} goblins. The Thaumaturge claims that [[GreyAndGreyMorality evil is relative]] but jerkassery is not, so she agrees to help them. After the Thaumaturge has [[PlayingWithFire incinerated]] the goblins, the villagers react in a way that makes her realize that ''[[http://oglaf.com/abyss/1/ they were the true jerkasses all along.]]''
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', after Abraham [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-10-22 is persuaded by Nanase that Ellen is a person not a monster]] he realizes he got [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-09-15 very close]] to killing an innocent person.
* Anthony Carver in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' reacts in this manner when, in the chapter "Annie and the Fire" describing the events of the chapter "Divine" from his viewpoint. He made a desperate deal to try and [[spoiler:bring back the soul of his late wife at the cost of his right hand]], but he was ignorant of the connection between mother and daughter. The end result is his realizing, too late and to his horror, that [[spoiler:bringing back Surma would come at Antimony's expense]]. He expresses gratitude that he was stopped before it went too far.
--> '''Han:''' Greedo, old pal! Are you okay?! Greedo? Don't fool around with me, buddy... Oh no!!!



* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': Minmax has this reaction when, in a desperate attempt to make Kin remember their bond of trust, he grabs her slave leash (which forces her to do the bidding of whoever's holding it) and triggers her crippling PTSD. Though he doesn't say the words, his face has this exact expression, and he doesn't recover for several pages:
-->'''Minmax:''' Did... did you tell her I'm sorry?
-->'''Forgath:''' Yeah.
-->'''Minmax:''' Well... well, do you think I should go talk to her?
-->'''Forgath:''' I don't think that'd be a good idea.
-->'''Minmax:''' Well did you tell her I'm sorry? ...[[TearJerker Did you tell her I'm sorry?]]

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* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': Minmax has this reaction when, in a desperate attempt to make Kin remember their bond of trust, he grabs her slave leash (which forces her to do the bidding of whoever's holding it) and triggers her crippling PTSD. Though he doesn't say the words, ''Webcomic/MagIsa'' -- [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119706 Eman's Dad regrets killing his face has this exact expression, and wife.]] Then... he doesn't recover for several pages:
-->'''Minmax:''' Did... did you tell her I'm sorry?
-->'''Forgath:''' Yeah.
-->'''Minmax:''' Well... well, do you think I should go talk to her?
-->'''Forgath:''' I don't think that'd be a good idea.
-->'''Minmax:''' Well did you tell her I'm sorry? ...[[TearJerker Did you tell her I'm sorry?]]
hangs himself later.



* ''Webcomic/TheBikiniBottomHorror'': One of the Patricks has this reaction [[spoiler: when he realizes that Spongebob wasn't aware of the secret behind the Krabby Patty Secret Formula, and that he ultimately killed him for no reason.]]
* ''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'': Scarlet has such a moment when she snaps out of her demon state to find out that [[spoiler: not only did she massacre an entire alleyway of non-sinners, she stabbed Chase.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}'': After the strip [[https://gunshowcomic.com/648 "On Fire"]] became a popular meme, Creator/KCGreen made a followup called [[https://thenib.com/this-is-not-fine/ "This is Not Fine"]], in which the dog suddenly comes to his senses and desperately tries to put out the fire in his house while berating himself for letting it last so long and get so bad. The final panels show him sitting in his fire-damaged house with his face in his hands, wracked with regret.
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Galatea can be infuriatingly arrogant, but any situation that makes her feel she's acting like the abusive scientist who raised her will bring her knees in remorse.

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* ''Webcomic/TheBikiniBottomHorror'': One In ''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}'', a bunch of villagers approach the Patricks Thaumaturge asking her to save them from an evil army of {{Jerkass}} goblins. The Thaumaturge claims that [[GreyAndGreyMorality evil is relative]] but jerkassery is not, so she agrees to help them. After the Thaumaturge has [[PlayingWithFire incinerated]] the goblins, the villagers react in a way that makes her realize that ''[[http://oglaf.com/abyss/1/ they were the true jerkasses all along.]]''
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** A rare [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0451.html villain example]], where TheDragon Redcloak comes to regret [[WeHaveReserves using hobgoblins as cannon fodder]] because of his [[FantasticRacism prejudices]]. "Oh my God... I'm turning into XYKON! What have I let myself do?"
** In the prequel book ''Start Of Darkness'', Redcloak goes through a more tragic use of
this reaction trope after he [[spoiler:kills his brother]].
** There is a more obscure example in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0448.html this strip]]; after Xykon [[spoiler:uses a [[IdiotBall Symbol of Insanity]] to cause all the paladins to massacre each other]], the last one standing recovers and cries, "Oh Twelve Gods... what have I done?" then commits [[strike:seppuku]] [[FantasyCounterpartCulture whatever Azurites call ritual suicide]].
** Vaarsuvius's expression upon realizing
[[spoiler: when he realizes that Spongebob wasn't aware of the secret behind the Krabby Patty Secret Formula, and that he ultimately Familicide spell killed him for no reason.off Girard Draketooth's entire lineage]] is the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0842.html non-verbal epitome]] of this trope. V has a verbal one in the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0843.html next strip]] at the discovery of [[spoiler:just how many people Familicide killed due to the way the spell works.]]
* ''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'': Scarlet ** Very early in the strip, Elan pretends to be a wizard and spouted many nonsensical words. Vaarsuvius flips out and harshly insults the bard, causing him to run away crying. Immediately, Vaarsuvius feels awful, and Haley wastes no time chewing the elf out. The two make up in the next strip.
** Roy
has such a moment during the Wooden Forest arc, where he decides to ''not'' rescue Elan from the bandits because he is just really fed up with dealing with Elan's stupidity. The rest of the team calls him out on this and goes to rescue Elan themselves. A couple hours later, Roy realizes that he can't abandon a teammate to an unknown fate for his own convenience and still call himself Good; that his morals require him to protect and help those weaker than himself, however dumb and annoying they may be. He goes back and helps out with the rescue (good thing too, because the rest of the Order had pretty well botched it).
* ''Webcomic/{{Panthera}}'''s Jason has developed a tendency to slip into this. To be fair to him, he talked his boss into giving his little sister the same [[PrematureEmpowerment shapeshifting]] [[VoluntaryShapeshifting powers]] he has himself... only for things to take a sudden turn for the worst
when she snaps [[spoiler:Ari reveals that he's the very man they have been trying to hunt down and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness attempts to kill them]]. The one who kills him off is Onca/Taylor, who utterly freaked out of her demon state to four days earlier at the very idea that ''her'' big brother might have killed a person.]] Ten days after that, they find out that [[spoiler: not only did [[spoiler:some of the world's leading scientists have no idea how they're still alive and they're going to wither and die in ''[[YourDaysAreNumbered less than thirty years]]''.]] Cut to the North Korea story arc, where [[spoiler:Gyeoknoho]] comes pretty damn close to finishing his sister off partially because this time, Jason has ''no'' idea how he's supposed to come up with a plan to eliminate it. Is it any wonder that Jason is skirting the edge of HeroicBSOD right now?
* [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/21 Part 1]] of the ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' story arc ''Ripped From Today's Headlines'' has Tycho feeling bad for accidentally killing his wife.
* ''Webcomic/{{Pibgorn}}'' [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2010/07/15/ Pib. . . What have I done?]] (Why, lost Pib in the upper atmosphere when you need her help to save the earth.)
* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'''s Monique learned that
she massacre an entire alleyway may be responsible, in part, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-05 for the damnation of non-sinners, she stabbed Chase.a million men.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}'': After ** Seymore goes through this when a girl-turned-devil he wanted to truly reform finds his shotgun and goes on a rampage.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209162807/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4036 Lil Evil asks this more literally than most.]] Having drunk from Lethe, he fears AmnesiacDissonance.
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-20 Baby Blue destroys many of Fuchsia's things -- and realizes.]]
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209165949/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2618 An ad offers apathy as a cure for this.]]
** Even
the strip [[https://gunshowcomic.com/648 "On Fire"]] became a popular meme, Creator/KCGreen made a followup called [[https://thenib.com/this-is-not-fine/ "This is Not Fine"]], in which cartoonist has one of this, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209162732/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4338 after realizing how much misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc; he has drawn for pure shock value and cheap laughs over the dog suddenly comes years]].
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''
** Parodied in "Vampires".
--> '''Riff''': Thanks
to his senses all the damage you did to the truck, we've lost another day! Instead of being able to free Torg and desperately tries to put out Zoë under the fire cover of daylight, we'll be lucky to make it in his house while berating himself time at all. And that doesn't bother you."
--> '''[[TheSociopath Bun-bun]]''': "Nope."
--> '''Riff''': "Now we'll ''never'' make it home in time
for letting it last so long the season premier of ''Series/{{Baywatch}}''..."
--> '''Bun-bun''': '''''What have I done?"'''''
** Happens in a subtle manner when Torg realizes that he messed up the security computer systems
and get so bad. The final panels show him sitting in his fire-damaged house with his face in his hands, wracked with regret.
released a bunch of [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20101015 bad stuff]]. [[spoiler: Torg was inside the No-Fun lab and blew up their server. This causes a bio-weapon mutagen to be released. This may or may not turn the entire dimension into a hell like realm full of demon like creatures]]
** Occurs again later when Riff says that future Torg will do bad [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/weekly/110912 stuff like]] [[spoiler: cause the Research and Development War or turn this dimension into hell.]] More like "what will I have done", but still.
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Galatea can be infuriatingly arrogant, but any situation ''Webcomic/{{Strays}}'', [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100419171012/http://www.straysonline.com/comic/128.htm when Feral realized he was trying to choke Meela]]. (He had pushed her out of the bed earlier. With this, he goes and sleeps in the corner.)
* In ''Webcomic/ThogInfinitron'', the aliens (Opians)
that makes her feel she's acting like gave Thog his powers [[spoiler: finally [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Thog_Infinitron/index.php?p=415148 realize that Thog's cybernetics are not inborn]], and are in fact due to their medical intervention to save his life.]]
-->'''Tertaladrol''': We're going to be sent to
the abusive scientist who raised her will bring her knees in remorse.dung mines of Guanolon IV, aren't we...
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* ''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}'': After the strip [[https://gunshowcomic.com/648 "On Fire"]] became a popular meme, Creator/KCGreen made a followup called [[https://thenib.com/this-is-not-fine/ "This is Not Fine", in which the dog suddenly comes to his senses and desperately tries to put out the fire in his house while berating himself for letting it last so long and get so bad. The final panels show him sitting in his fire-damaged house with his face in his hands, wracked with regret.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}'': After the strip [[https://gunshowcomic.com/648 "On Fire"]] became a popular meme, Creator/KCGreen made a followup called [[https://thenib.com/this-is-not-fine/ "This is Not Fine", Fine"]], in which the dog suddenly comes to his senses and desperately tries to put out the fire in his house while berating himself for letting it last so long and get so bad. The final panels show him sitting in his fire-damaged house with his face in his hands, wracked with regret.
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* In ''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}'', a bunch of villagers approach the Thaumaturge asking her to save them from an evil army of {{Jerkass}} goblins. The Thaumaturge claims that [[GreyAndGreyMorality evil is relative]] but jerkassery is not, so she agrees to help them. After the Thaumaturge has [[PlayingWithFire incinerated]] the goblins, the villagers react in a way that makes her realize that ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150214144856/http://oglaf.com/abyss/1 they were the true jerkasses all along.]]''

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* ''Webcomic/ErikaAndThePrincesInDistress'' : [[spoiler:King Parfait reacts this way when a pastry from Egg-White snaps him out of his hypnotised state, reminding him that he promised his wife to take care of the son he is now attempting to assassinate.]]
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* ''Webcomic/MyDeepestSecret'': After Yohan brings up Emma's DarkAndTroubledPast [[spoiler: and tells her he did a background check on her, driving the poor girl to tears in the process,]] he's genuinely remorseful and realizes how badly he screwed up.
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** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4036 Lil Evil asks this more literally than most.]] Having drunk from Lethe, he fears AmnesiacDissonance.

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** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2618 An ad offers apathy as a cure for this.]]
** Even the cartoonist has one of this, [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4338 after realizing how much misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc; he has drawn for pure shock value and cheap laughs over the years]].

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** Even the cartoonist has one of this, [[http://www.sinfest.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209162732/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4338 after realizing how much misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc; he has drawn for pure shock value and cheap laughs over the years]].



* In ''Webcomic/{{Strays}}'', [[http://www.straysonline.com/comic/128.htm when Feral realized he was trying to choke Meela]]. (He had pushed her out of the bed earlier. With this, he goes and sleeps in the corner.)

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Strays}}'', [[http://www.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20100419171012/http://www.straysonline.com/comic/128.htm when Feral realized he was trying to choke Meela]]. (He had pushed her out of the bed earlier. With this, he goes and sleeps in the corner.)



* In ''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}'', a bunch of villagers approach the Thaumaturge asking her to save them from an evil army of {{Jerkass}} goblins. The Thaumaturge claims that [[GreyAndGreyMorality evil is relative]] but jerkassery is not, so she agrees to help them. After the Thaumaturge has [[PlayingWithFire incinerated]] the goblins, the villagers react in a way that makes her realize that ''[[http://oglaf.com/abyss/1/ they were the true jerkasses all along.]]''

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* ''Megatokyo'' has a non-physical example from Kimiko, in what could be one of the most emotional points in the comic. After a long, emotionally draining night in which Piro smashes multiple perverts' cameras as they attempt to get upskirt pictures of her, she ''tears'' into him at the train station accusing him of trying to play the hero in order to get laid. His single sentence answer makes her ''break down completely'' as she realises that she may have just nuked everything they had between them in a single emotional outburst.

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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has a rare [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0451.html villain example]], where TheDragon Redcloak comes to regret [[WeHaveReserves using hobgoblins as cannon fodder]] because of his [[FantasticRacism prejudices]]. "Oh my God... I'm turning into XYKON! What have I let myself do?"

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