Tropescilloscope: My God, What Have I Done?

A character commits a heinous act. A massive guilt trip follows. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Karmic Death Rich Bitch Race Lift Chuck Cunningham Syndrome All Men Are Perverts Affectionate Parody Dramatic Gun Cock Pet the Dog Aside Glance Disney Villain Death Obstructive Bureaucrat Dwindling Party "Shaggy Dog" Story Does Not Like Shoes Show Within a Show Jerkass Has a Point Never Found the Body Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Get Out! Determinator aka: The Determinator Ambiguous Disorder Empathic Environment Hate Sink Bunny-Ears Lawyer Meaningful Background Event Lighter and Softer Darkest Hour Bar Brawl Dies Wide Open It Will Never Catch On 20 Minutes into the Future Hong Kong Films Combat Pragmatist German Films Bound and Gagged Anyone Can Die Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Due to the Dead Fainting Not So Stoic The Bully Car Fu Children Are Innocent Card-Carrying Villain The Brute Bavarian Fire Drill Sexy Discretion Shot Early Installment Weirdness Getting Crap Past the Radar Villain Protagonist Token Minority No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Meaningful Echo Papa Wolf Disproportionate Retribution Domestic Abuse Downer Ending Historical Hero Upgrade Market-Based Title Laser-Guided Karma Rape as Drama Peek-a-Boo Corpse Japanese Films Adaptation Expansion Drill Sergeant Nasty Deal with the Devil Genre Savvy Age Lift Mugging the Monster Betty and Veronica Stuff Blowing Up Silence Is Golden Same Language Dub Ironic Echo Humiliation Conga Heel Realization Names to Run Away from Really Fast For Want of a Nail Hidden Depths Easily Forgiven Large Ham The Dreaded Horror Films Curb-Stomp Battle Not Even Bothering with the Accent Dull Surprise Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Awesome, but Impractical Daddy's Girl Big Bad Duumvirate Funny Foreigner Bare Your Midriff Badass Grandpa Dressing as the Enemy My Greatest Failure Unusually Uninteresting Sight Worthy Opponent Badass Longcoat Gory Discretion Shot The Hero Chekhov's Gunman Evil Laugh Trailers Always Spoil Historical In-Joke Leave the Camera Running Central Theme Film Noir Costume Porn I Did What I Had to Do Suddenly SHOUTING! Self-Deprecation Implacable Man Gorn MacGuffin Evil Is Hammy An Arm and a Leg Fiery Redhead How We Got Here Bolivian Army Ending Cool Car Light Is Not Good What the Hell, Hero? Shirtless Scene Serial Killer Double-Meaning Title Breaking the Fourth Wall Did Not Get the Girl Informed Ability Would Hurt a Child Action Girl Guile Hero Left the Background Music On Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Load B-Movie Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Redshirt Army Dark Reprise Diabolus ex Machina Dying Moment of Awesome Red Shirt Wicked Cultured Blackmail Credits Gag Straight Gay The Chessmaster Vomit Indiscretion Shot Amusing Injuries Guns Akimbo Cool Shades Stylistic Suck Rewatch Bonus Madness Mantra Extremely Short Timespan Never My Fault The Quiet One Canon Foreigner Humans Are Bastards Only in It for the Money Tap on the Head Dirty Old Man Rule of Funny Artistic License – Military Off with His Head! All for Nothing World of Ham She's Got Legs Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Mexican Standoff Cassandra Truth Pyrrhic Victory Hollywood Law Back from the Dead Police Brutality Reckless Gun Usage Mighty Whitey Black Dude Dies First Bowdlerise Evil Sounds Deep The Casanova Evil Counterpart For the Evulz Destination Defenestration No Good Deed Goes Unpunished British Films Twist Ending Animal Title Index Cowboy Cop You Have Failed Me Bi the Way Toplessness from the Back Sealed Evil in a Can Does This Remind You of Anything? Agony of the Feet No Ending Immune to Bullets The '80s As Long as It Sounds Foreign Unreliable Narrator Super Strength Artistic License – Geography Mystery and Detective Films Drowning My Sorrows Parental Substitute Actually Pretty Funny '80s Hair Call-Forward Dissonant Serenity Bring My Brown Pants Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Un-Reveal Badass Bookworm Chewing the Scenery Batman Gambit Military and Warfare Films Karma Houdini Babies Ever After Adaptational Badass Sir Swears-a-Lot Dirty Cop Gainax Ending Celebrity Paradox Homage Suspiciously Specific Denial Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Death by Sex Zombie Stories Hollywood Darkness Body Horror Heroic BSoD Continuity Nod Daylight Horror Heel–Face Turn Gender Flip Victoria's Secret Compartment Deliberate Values Dissonance Villain Ball Mad Scientist Psycho for Hire Would Hit a Girl Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Superhero Sequel Hook Alpha Bitch Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Facial Horror The Musical Even Evil Has Standards Heterosexual Life-Partners Air-Vent Passageway Title Drop The Mole Developing Doomed Characters Mr. Exposition Badass in a Nice Suit Half the Man He Used to Be Man on Fire Shell-Shocked Veteran Ungrateful Bastard Rule of Cool Together in Death Insistent Terminology Fatal Flaw Stealth Hi/Bye Offscreen Moment of Awesome A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Smurfette Principle Expository Hairstyle Change All There in the Script The Lost Lenore Logo Joke Big Eater Maybe Ever After And the Adventure Continues Insult Backfire Decoy Protagonist Cold-Blooded Torture Rated M for Manly Fanservice Extra Villain Opening Scene Have a Gay Old Time Hooker with a Heart of Gold Anachronism Stew Bad Boss Curse Cut Short Protagonist Title Motor Mouth Index of Film Westerns Demonic Possession Fate Worse than Death The Place Evil vs. Evil Meaningful Name Male Gaze Improvised Weapon Foregone Conclusion Anti-Villain Made of Explodium Rule of Three Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Auto Erotica Italian Films Blood from the Mouth In Name Only Hope Spot Interrupted Suicide Sadistic Choice Never Trust a Trailer Fantasy Films Red Oni, Blue Oni Anti-Hero Danny Peary Cult Movies List I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Roaring Rampage of Revenge Double Entendre Russian Films Accidental Misnaming Epic Fail He Who Fights Monsters Australian Movies And I Must Scream Cluster F-Bomb Romantic Comedy Defiant to the End Bottomless Magazines Crazy Jealous Guy Sacrificial Lion Didn't Think This Through Broken Aesop Freeze-Frame Bonus Break the Haughty Ghost Fiction Dogged Nice Guy Cool Old Lady Artistic License – Biology Green-Eyed Monster Eldritch Abomination Love Triangle Mistaken for Gay Word of God Closed Circle Bait-and-Switch Creepy Child Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Fake Shemp NO INDOOR VOICE Damsel in Distress Hypocrite Mind Screw The Great Depression Reasonable Authority Figure Vampire Fiction Greater-Scope Villain Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane He Knows Too Much Heroic Sacrifice Noodle Incident Bloodless Carnage Oh, Crap! Really Gets Around Alliterative Name Cloudcuckoolander Actor Allusion Dramatic Irony Take a Third Option Action Prologue What You Are in the Dark Call-Back Badass Boast Gone Horribly Right "The Reason You Suck" Speech Pimped-Out Dress Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Lock and Load Montage Manipulative Bastard Running Gag Dumb Blonde Everyone Has Standards Deus ex Machina Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Irony Overprotective Dad Kick the Dog The Reveal Video Credits Intrepid Reporter Department of Redundancy Department Eye Scream Action Genre Product Placement Villain with Good Publicity Chekhov's Skill Refuge in Audacity Ripped from the Headlines Fun with Acronyms Spiteful Spit timeperiod The Film of the Book Big Brother Instinct Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Badass Normal It Can Think Slashed Throat Recycled IN SPACE! Crazy-Prepared Authority Equals Asskicking Abhorrent Admirer Bond Villain Stupidity Genre Shift Reality Has No Subtitles Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Pay Evil unto Evil Retired Badass The Mafia Bland-Name Product Hypocritical Humor Artistic License – Gun Safety Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Nice Hat Black Comedy Rape Slap-Slap-Kiss Mercy Kill Moment Killer Jerk Jock Good Is Not Nice It's All About Me Exactly What It Says on the Tin Mythology Gag Suspiciously Similar Substitute Romantic False Lead Posthumous Character Broken Pedestal Calling the Old Man Out Riddle for the Ages Film Noir Index Frame-Up Older Than They Look La Résistance Your Cheating Heart Star-Crossed Lovers Black Comedy Obfuscating Stupidity Disguised in Drag Paper-Thin Disguise I'm a Humanitarian Bury Your Gays Pre-Mortem One-Liner Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Dog Bites Back Historical Villain Upgrade Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Voiceless Psychological Thriller What Happened to the Mouse? Tagline Groin Attack Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Beard of Evil Friend to All Children Soundtrack Dissonance French Films Offscreen Teleportation Truth in Television Affably Evil Contrived Coincidence All Girls Want Bad Boys Animal Motifs Fanservice Improbable Aiming Skills Those Two Bad Guys Random Events Plot Antagonist Title Grievous Bottley Harm Evil Is Petty Parental Incest Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Faking the Dead Those Two Guys Shoot the Shaggy Dog Men Are the Expendable Gender Kick the Son of a Bitch Death Glare Took a Level in Jerkass Bittersweet Ending Attempted Rape I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Award-Bait Song Public Domain Feature Films Our Vampires Are Different Horror Comedy Small Name, Big Ego Jerkass A Date with Rosie Palms Parental Neglect Crucified Hero Shot Gratuitous English Nice Guy Brother–Sister Incest Biopic Character Development Big Damn Heroes Final Girl Kubrick Stare Brainless Beauty Chase Scene Tempting Fate Boom, Headshot! Author Appeal As the Good Book Says... Manic Pixie Dream Girl Berserk Button Pretty Little Headshots The Ghost Spared by the Adaptation Cool Guns Dark Is Not Evil Totally Radical Obviously Evil Here We Go Again! Faux Affably Evil The Faceless Blatant Lies Precision F-Strike She Cleans Up Nicely Not What It Looks Like Punny Name Expy Not Using the "Z" Word Deadpan Snarker Our Zombies Are Different Put on a Bus Lampshade Hanging Those Wacky Nazis Outrun the Fireball The Remake The '70s Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Sci-Fi Horror Unresolved Sexual Tension Knife Nut Adaptational Villainy Bald of Evil Beware the Nice Ones Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Extreme Doormat Scenery Porn Overly Long Gag Foreshadowing In the Back Fish out of Water Eureka Moment Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Ascended Extra Big-Bad Ensemble Shout-Out Jump Scare Mama Bear Almost Kiss Red Eyes, Take Warning Neck Snap Ambiguous Ending Epic Movie Idiot Ball Adaptational Heroism Anachronic Order Deliberately Monochrome Nothing Is Scarier Stalker with a Crush Animated Credits Opening Martial Arts Movie Plucky Comic Relief Distracted by the Sexy Loophole Abuse Camp Gay Artistic License – Physics Knight Templar Translation Convention Villainous Breakdown Mundane Made Awesome Defrosting Ice Queen My God, What Have I Done? Politically Incorrect Villain Adult Fear Match Cut Reality Ensues N-Word Privileges Early-Bird Cameo Improbable Weapon User Death of a Child Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Spiritual Successor Happily Married Despair Event Horizon Loads and Loads of Characters Disney Death Casting Gag There Is No Kill Like Overkill Unusual Euphemism Foil Exact Words Mood Whiplash Five-Man Band Sequel Escalation Psychopathic Manchild Creative Closing Credits Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Catapult Nightmare The '60s Enemy Mine Adaptation Name Change Wham Shot Face–Heel Turn Death by Irony Bullying a Dragon Heroes Want Redheads Brutal Honesty Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The X of Y Manly Tears Vacation Films Scenery Gorn Science Fiction Films Arc Words Gold Digger This Is Gonna Suck The '50s Shipper on Deck Properly Paranoid "Well Done, Son!" Guy Tranquil Fury Fourth Date Marriage Disappeared Dad Sports Stories Kill 'em All Parental Abandonment Demoted to Extra Whole Plot Reference Chiaroscuro I Have Your Wife Rule of Symbolism Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Works Set in World War II Yandere Accidental Murder Setting Update Bloody Hilarious Laughing Mad Morality Pet Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Lancer Silent Movie Fire-Forged Friends The Power of Love Famous Last Words Male Frontal Nudity Composite Character Catch-Phrase Wrong Genre Savvy Earn Your Happy Ending Woman Scorned Christmas Movies Index Reality Is Unrealistic Bond One-Liner Sassy Black Woman Spanner in the Works Missing Mom Camera Abuse Only Known by Their Nickname Break the Cutie Slasher Smile "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Malevolent Masked Men Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Cameo Killed Mid-Sentence Line-of-Sight Name Shown Their Work Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Bilingual Bonus The Stoner Country Matters Adaptational Attractiveness Jitter Cam Book-Ends Narrator Retcon The Dragon Deconstruction Not So Different Once More, with Clarity! Serious Business The Ditz Plot Hole Throwing Your Sword Always Works Dual Wielding Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience I Need a Freaking Drink Establishing Character Moment And Starring Four-Temperament Ensemble Comically Missing the Point Off-into-the-Distance Ending Amoral Attorney Shut Up, Hannibal! Death Seeker Honor Before Reason Smoking Is Cool Thriller Skewed Priorities Hero of Another Story Apocalypse How Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Ship Tease Depraved Bisexual The Cavalry The Stinger Redemption Equals Death In Medias Res A Minor Kidroduction Hell Is That Noise Corrupt Corporate Executive Sanity Slippage Took a Level in Badass Eiffel Tower Effect Let's Get Dangerous! Instant Death Bullet Training Montage Armor-Piercing Question Woman in White You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Married to the Job Framing Device Soft Glass Evil Brit Determinator Film Series Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy No Celebrities Were Harmed Take That! No-Sell Insane Troll Logic The Bad Guy Wins Be Careful What You Wish For Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Villain Song Adapted Out A God Am I Becoming the Mask Cat Scare Poor Communication Kills Evil Plan Major Injury Underreaction Big Fancy House Only One Name Ms. Fanservice Sole Survivor Scary Black Man Retirony Ax-Crazy Advertised Extra Cool Old Guy Red Herring Fan Disservice Conspicuous CG Dropped a Bridge on Him Big "NO!" Even Evil Has Loved Ones Up to Eleven Manchild Re-Cut From Bad to Worse Death by Adaptation Race Against the Clock Grey and Gray Morality Fatal Family Photo Undying Loyalty Chekhov's Gun Funny Background Event One-Man Army Fantastic Racism Storming the Castle Flipping the Bird Captain Obvious Adorkable Say My Name Eyepatch of Power Beauty Is Never Tarnished Meet Cute As Himself Too Dumb to Live Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Darker and Edgier May–December Romance Fingore Drives Like Crazy Fat Bastard Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Historical-Domain Character Imagine Spot The Sociopath Artistic License – History Needs Wiki Magic Love Leitmotif Monumental Damage Adults Are Useless Better to Die than Be Killed No Name Given Driven to Suicide The Smart Guy Black and Gray Morality True Companions Neck Lift Arch-Enemy Black Best Friend Handicapped Badass Novelization Face Death with Dignity Only Sane Man Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Not Quite Dead A Father to His Men Evil-Detecting Dog One Steve Limit Taking the Bullet Only a Flesh Wound Pretty in Mink The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Intergenerational Friendship Real Life Aluminum Christmas Trees Stock Footage Pre-Asskicking One-Liner folderlabel War Is Hell Anguished Declaration of Love No Antagonist Wretched Hive From Nobody to Nightmare Hair-Trigger Temper Freudian Excuse Pragmatic Adaptation Arranged Marriage Cruel and Unusual Death Butt-Monkey Slasher Movie BFG Abusive Parents Dramedy Shower Scene Made of Iron Time Skip O.O.C. Is Serious Business Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Naïve Newcomer Corpsing Pragmatic Villainy Beta Couple Mooks The Atoner Alas, Poor Villain Genre Throwback Ominous Latin Chanting Last-Name Basis It's Personal The Chick Kids Are Cruel Bad "Bad Acting" Blood Knight The Alleged Car As You Know Police are Useless Room Full of Crazy Creator Cameo Well-Intentioned Extremist Drugs Are Bad The '90s Ambiguously Gay You Killed My Father Bloodier and Gorier Stepford Smiler Based on a True Story Femme Fatale Smug Snake Eagleland Failed a Spot Check Scare Chord Real Life Writes the Plot Visual Pun Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Non-Indicative Name Leaning on the Fourth Wall Artistic License – Law The Big Guy Dark and Troubled Past Documentary Rasputinian Death Author Avatar Your Head A-Splode Stealth Pun Music Stories All Just a Dream The Ace Henpecked Husband Make It Look Like an Accident The Alcoholic Vomit Discretion Shot Red Right Hand The Starscream Cat Fight An Aesop Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other One-Word Title Big Applesauce Annoying Younger Sibling Crapsack World Adaptation Dye-Job The End... Or Is It? Canadian Movies After the End All There in the Manual Flashback Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Hero Dies The Vamp Cain and Abel Wham Line Taking You with Me Punch-Clock Villain Hero Antagonist Playing Gertrude Vitriolic Best Buds Ass Shove Big Bad Brick Joke Revenge The Stoic Coming-of-Age Story Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Broken Bird Rousing Speech Covers Always Lie Dirty Coward No OSHA Compliance Adaptation Distillation Hoist by His Own Petard An Axe to Grind Action Survivor You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Dark Action Girl Dutch Angle Television Movie Index Sinister Minister Mr. Fanservice Asshole Victim Naked People Are Funny Kill It with Fire Gilligan Cut Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor My Beloved Smother Belligerent Sexual Tension Not So Above It All Spell My Name with an "S" Captain Ersatz More Dakka Every Car Is a Pinto Important Haircut "Awesome McCool" Name Love at First Sight The Oner