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See also for where the character fails to see they are nobler than they give themselves credit for. • Sadakiyo from realizes that he's been manipulated by Friend into doing evil when he bashes a former schoolmate's head in after the latter had come to him for information. • Also hilariously averted by Yanbo and Mabo: they never realized they were bullies to start with, and yet they manage to realize a without noticing.

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Tenma had been trying to guide Astro so that he would eventually become the most powerful robot in the world, able to rule over all humanity. However, all this time, Astro had been fighting for peaceful man-machine coexistence. So in their final conflict, Tenma and Astro meet in the abandoned Laboratory 7, where most of Tenma's angst originated, first with his real son then with Astro's original incarnation. What finally ended the battle wasn't strength of arms at all, but Astro forgiving Tenma for everything he did. He suddenly realizes that the robot he built himself had shown himself to be more human than him, and he finally surrenders.

• In, Koro-sensei, back when he was the God of Death, but just before the tentacles completely turned him into a superbeing, had his when Aguri Yukimura died getting impaled by a tentacle meant for him in order to calm him down from what would be a self-destructive rampage. His inability to save her made him realize that for all that he knew for the sake of taking lives, he never used his knowledge to help people. • Quite a few villains from experience this, but tend to follow it up with an since they still believe their actions are necessary or justified. • Djel Sanes, a responsible for murdering Pastor Nick and several other innocents in order to protect the 's secrets. He breaks down and admits that he is a monster for all he's done, but insists it was for the greater good. • Reiner Braun breaks down and admits to having lost their moral compass, later ranting about being a murderer and a monster.

He's coped with his guilt via episodes of, and is deeply shaken once he realizes it. Still, they resolve that there isn't any choice left but to take responsibility and see things through to their end. • Bertolt Hoover similarly breaks down, accepting that their actions can never be forgiven and that it isn't possible to apologize. However, they reject a by stating that they can't stop.

• In, Griffith is made to realize at the Eclipse that rather than being the beloved leader that everyone thinks he is (including himself at times), who will do anything to realize his dream and uses people to that end, even into death on the battlefield. It's his spite for Guts' being the one person he couldn't control that sends him over the mother of all. Rock grows to realize the path he has chosen after he fails to save Yukio and the Washimine clan from destruction. He experiences this again after Fabiola calls him out on his plan that, while saving Roberta from herself, also nearly got Garcia killed.

• In, Uryu is initially obsessed with proving the Quincies superior to the Soul Reapers, and he tells Ichigo about how his master and grandfather argued in favor of Quincies working together with Soul Reapers, only for the Soul Reapers to reject his plans and let him die against five Huge Hollows while Uryu watched. Ichigo then tells Uryu that while he wasn't paying attention to all of the story, he understood the part about his master wanting cooperation between Quincies and Soul Reaper, and proposes joining forces with him in spite of being angry about him using hollow bait and endangering innocents. At the end of the fight, while Uryu saves Ichigo's life, he realizes in an internal monologue the real reason he did all this in the first place — he was angry with himself for failing to save his master's life. Uryu: Maybe I was trying to forget my weakness. My weakness in not risking my life to help you. By blaming the Soul Reapers, I tried to forget my own shame.

Today I will help a Soul Reaper. Can you forgive me?

I am a weak disciple. A weak disciple who wouldn't die for you. Can you ever forgive me?

• • Suzaku had one in R2, right as he was about to use Refrain on Kallen to get her to admit who Zero was. In his mind, this makes him just like Lelouch, who (as far as he knows) wormed his way into the hearts of many, including Suzaku and his love interest, only to exploit them. • Suzaku has a second one after using the upon the Tokyo Settlement. After a moment of going, he eschews his morals and his distaste of results through contemptible means, going as far as to demand a prince of Britannia promote him to the highest post of the military and, since only the Emperor had that authority, requesting to assassinate the Emperor. • The comedy series, surprisingly, has a few examples.

•: This trope is the entire point of High School Boys and Panties peeping at a girl's panties does not make a guy feel good, but guilty and depressed. Especially when you tricked a into unwittingly flaunting her panties. Motoharu slipped into a so hard he skipped school for three days. •: always ends up crying whenever her past as, the legendary 'Archdemon' is brought up. •: Yanagin was in Habara's gang as well, but she did a due to. • In the finale of the anime, Light lies bleeding and slowly dying on some stairs, abandoned by everyone whom he considered an ally, betrayed by the one person (Matsuda) who seemed the most to understand his and not only sees his long-dead rival, but also a vision of himself from older times, before he got possession of the Death Note and became Kira.

It ultimately doesn't help because Light dies, having lost every shred of dignity he originally possessed. • Ken of realizes that the Digital World is not a, that the Digimon are alive and sentient, and that sadistically them as an is in fact bad. He undergoes a soon after. If you can say he was a to begin with. He honestly until later in the arc, at which point he went into Dark Spore aided denial. • Yamaki in has a particularly nasty one when he realizes that not only has he been killing sentient beings in the name of destroying 'digital anomalies', but that it may have been his efforts to control what he saw as an invasion that made the real invasion possible.

• Beelzemon, also from, has one when the ramifications of his lust for power finally hit him: he sold out and tried to kill his friends, drove one of them over the by killing her partner right in front of her, and was at least indirectly responsible for the gaining the ability to invade Earth. This horrifies him so much that he actually has to be persuaded into, as he doesn't believe he deserves it. • Before them, three out of the four human antagonists of V-Tamer 01 quit after this realization. The one that doesn't is told and thus quits before it.

At the very end of the manga, the DNA Voice that arguably drove Lucy to her murderous ways, is prepared to use its remaining power to destroy the world once Nyu and Lucy's spirits leave their melted body. Kouta has promised to kill Lucy, but cannot do it out of love. The Voice is shocked and impressed.

In hideous pain itself, it now begs Kouta to end its existence, and he does. Adobe Illustrator Cs2 Torrent Download With Keygen Free on this page. Most of these moments are in flashbacks, as soldiers in Ishval realize they're acting as and become we know and love. In the timeframe of the story itself, Scar gets a slower-acting one than usual, apparently beginning when he notices that he's standing menacingly over Ed and Winry in exactly the same way he remembers standing over him and his brother. • In, Yomi realizes what kind of monstrosity she is after she crippled Kiri physically and mentally. Actually she realizes this multiple times, but.

Happens again in the final chapters of manga. •: Ledo does not take it well when he learns that the Hideauze are, and not true extraterrestrials.

The Hideauze whose children he just absentmindedly killed out of instinct. And then Chamber makes it worse when he follows his programmed directive and crushes a curious Hideauze child. • • In, both Master Asia and Dr. Mikamura get them. For Master Asia, it was the fact that humanity was a part of the Earth as nature was and wiping them all out wouldn't solve a thing. Mikamura, it was the realization that his own jealousy towards Dr. Kasshu led them to the point where his own daughter was now the core of the Devil Gundam.

Both of them suffer -worthy moments to atone. • In, Queen of the Moon Dianna Soreil learns that her policies, past antics and army have actually caused quite a bit of suffering both on Earth and on the Moon for years and allowed maniacs like to sieze ludicrous amounts of power. This turns her into and causes her to undertake massive changes in policy upon regaining power.

• in Sigh, when she finally gets called out by Kyon on her treatment of Mikuru. Directly after this is one of her biggest moments, and she becomes much nicer after this. Made more obvious in the anime rendition, where she looks away from Kyon as he calls her out and it's clear. • In the 11th book, Kyouko Tachibana has one of these. • Happened in several arcs in, with.

• The in Tsumihoroboshi-hen when Keiichi recalls the events of Onikakushi-hen, and he realizes that he was the insane one, not them. • In, Nagare, the Green King has one in the end when Shiro and Neko tell him that they're willing to sacrifice the Slates because they don't need power, just warm food and friends to share it with around a small table. Which is what, only they were too focused on their revolution plot to appreciate it before it was too late (or at least Nagare was). This is emphasized when Shiro and Neko run past the Green Clan's room on their way to this showdown, and Shiro. • In while carrying out a ploy Jirou's actions (which Tomoe refers to as looking at a reflection of himself) causes Tomoe to admit what an asshole he's been to Nanami. • In, after Kouichi Hayase's selfish use of gets one of his friends killed, he realizes he's been a and resolves to be a proper good guy. •, Misao Amano is shocked to find out she is Pixy Misa (the evil magical girl that has tortured practically every main character, including her parents and her best friend).

While it was initially thought her evil side was due to brainwashing, it was in fact her repressed self, despite having no memory of her actions. • • Neji admits this in Shippuden episode 192 in a flashback before the where really gets him this. Neji: He helped me to understand just how selfish and narrow-minded I was being. • During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Gaara's father, the Fourth Kazekage (revived via the Edo Tensei), came to this realization when he saw that the son he made into a weapon and denounced as a failure ended up becoming a better Kazekage than he ever was. He admits his faults and his lies, and makes peace with his son before being sealed away. • At the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War, Madara of all people gets this realization despite his ego.

After he seemingly succeeds in his goal of using Infinite Tsukuyomi to brainwash everyone into peace and happiness, Black Zetsu betrays him and reveals that all he accomplished was becoming a vessel for the less well-intentioned Kaguya Otsutsuki. Once Madara is released from her control and is about to die again, he admits that his distrust towards later generations is his that caused him to start his extreme plans. • has one in () at the very end. This being, Gendo realizes this too late to do any good to anybody, and ends up dying an and midway through said realization.

His last words are especially. ' I'm sorry, Shinji.' • In the final episode of, Hakim experiences this after a simple conversation with Nono. Because Nono was born on the Moon and lived there for her entire life, she has absolutely no concept of what a country is. Hakim, who has resorted to terrorism to bring attention to the plight of the third world, realizes that development in space would eventually eliminate the borders between countries and loses his will to fight.

• When a scrappy entrepreneur from shows up, Claire (who was raised and educated in the USA since the age of eight and become a ladder-climber) finds him annoying at first, until he reveals that his life's history is very similar to hers, at least before he went back to El Tanika to aid them with his education. Ultimately, this guilt bomb only serves to. • Mewtwo at the end of, when he realizes not all. • • The nemesis Manchester Black thought of himself as a 'realist', operating as an anti-hero (i.e.

Killing without remorse). He perceived Superman's boy-scout morality to be a facade bordering on stupidity. In an attempt to give Superman one bad day, he created a telepathic illusion of Lois Lane being murdered to provoke a homicidal response out of Superman.

When it failed, and he saw the depth of Superman's dedication, Black realized that he had been a villain who had been lying to himself all along, and there was such a thing as a Good Guy. He then promptly killed himself. • The Eradicator gets two of these during the 'Reign of the Supermen' portion of. The first time, it was when Guy Gardner started endorsing him as a genuine Superman, shaking up his thoughts over if that was what Superman stands for. He gets a second when Lois Lane chews out both him and Steel for fighting across Metropolis, causing a ton of destruction. • In Superman is so frightened of losing another home-world and getting so obsessed with protecting Earth from anything -including people- that he decides to destroy super-tankers so they can't pollute the oceans further. However stops him and reminds him that they have no right to make decisions for humanity or interfere with human evolution.

After arguing with his cousin, Superman agrees that he has been acting pretty crazy of late. • In Superman realizes that his behavior has been less than ideal when forces him to confront his dark side. Superman: I've been thinking with my heart instead of my head! Forgive me, Spectre — I've been acting like a fool! • Of all people, seems uh, primed, for one of these in. Then again, he has been looking at his monstrous actions from a different perspective aka ours over and over again for months on end. • In Kara Zor-El had been acting like a jerkass for a while (partially because of Kryptonite poisoning and because of a villain named Dark Angel who was attempting to break her).

After getting rid of Dark Angel, Kara reflected on her past behavior and realized she needed to change for better. • Paradoxically inverted in, after one of Flash's friends accuses. The friend then realizes the best way to make the Flash a better hero is to become a villain who'd push him to be one. • In, The Joker's expression changes during his speech about human morality in tragedy, when he comes to the realization that he's not just taunting Batman, he's only describing himself. • Ironically, had one after he had intentionally decided to become a 'normal' criminal. Up until this point, he did what he did either or to prove he was.

Finally, one day, he has enough, decides to drop the super-villainy and the gimmicks, and pulls a couple of last jobs like a 'normal' crook to get the funding to get back on his feet. Batman stops him. Because he was subconsciously leaving clues behind. Riddler then realizes he wasn't the brilliant mastermind he thought he was, he had an actual compulsion he could not control; '. He surrenders and asks Batman to take him to Arkham Asylum, and after being treated and eventually released, was one of the few rogues to pull a semi-successful by becoming a private detective specializing in bizarre and unexplainable crimes.

• Strictly speaking, this is a rehash of a story where he has a nervous breakdown when he breaks into a jeweller's without leaving any clues and can't grab the loot because he can't bring himself to do it, and he tries to hypnotise himself into getting rid of his compulsion, which is when the subconscious clues ensue. • As put by in one article regarding, Overman spent years working for Adolf Hitler, then one day he realized 'Oh crap it's Hitler!' • In, the female Dr. Light suffers this when she watches Supergirl selflessly tackle the Anti-Monitor despite the fact that he could kill her easily. She realizes how wrong her arrogant and haughty attitude was, but it takes just a little bit more time as she suddenly pulls an moment after she thinks she got Supergirl killed. • Several examples in: • Harley Quinn helped perfect his mind-controlling devices.

When she realized they were turning people into drones unable to love someone other than Lex, she got horrified and defected. • used to be one of the Luthor's enforcers. Then she was told her boss framed for their father's murder shortly before seeing other enforcers dealing with a riot by setting fire to the rioters and understood she was not on the side of the angels. • • Happens twice in the 'Armour Wars' saga, once at the beginning when he realises his technology may have been responsible for some of the worst criminals in the Marvel Universe, and again at the end when he questions the extreme measures he has used in trying to solve the problem. • has one of these in #150, after he almost kills Kitty Pryde with an electric shock.

He's so disturbed by it that he actually reforms (and stays reformed for a hundred and twenty-five issues), and eventually becomes the headmaster of Xavier's school. • This is what ended the.