Tropescilloscope: My God, What Have I Done?

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

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Dual Wielding Unusually Uninteresting Sight Adult Fear Epic Movie Ship Tease Put on a Bus The Starscream Age Lift Irony Stealth Hi/Bye Guns Akimbo Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Villainous Breakdown Bloody Hilarious Drugs Are Bad Dissonant Serenity Scenery Gorn Retcon Death Glare Fantasy Films Kids Are Cruel Vampire Fiction The Dreaded Closed Circle Gory Discretion Shot Redemption Equals Death Wham Shot Very Loosely Based on a True Story Ghost Fiction Nice Hat Funny Foreigner Book-Ends Adaptation Name Change Black Best Friend Captain Obvious Red Eyes, Take Warning Bullying a Dragon Annoying Younger Sibling Zombie Stories Ironic Echo Smug Snake Left the Background Music On Aside Glance Grey and Gray Morality The Power of Love Psychopathic Manchild Car Fu Demonic Possession Call-Back Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie War Is Hell Authority Equals Asskicking Evil Is Hammy Romantic Comedy Take That! The X of Y Badass in a Nice Suit Cool Guns Scary Black Man Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Cool Shades Bavarian Fire Drill Horror Films Not Using the "Z" Word Getting Crap Past the Radar In Medias Res Hero of Another Story Author Appeal Leitmotif Belligerent Sexual Tension The Alleged Car Would Hit a Girl Extreme Doormat Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bar Brawl Honor Before Reason Rule of Three No Celebrities Were Harmed Cain and Abel Evil-Detecting Dog The Load Smoking Is Cool Depraved Bisexual Extremely Short Timespan No Antagonist Silence Is Golden Mr. Fanservice She Cleans Up Nicely Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Lancer Room Full of Crazy Greater-Scope Villain Offscreen Moment of Awesome Kill It with Fire Last-Name Basis Badass Normal Woman Scorned Oh, Crap! 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Epilogue The Casanova It Can Think Breaking the Fourth Wall Male Frontal Nudity The Hero Continuity Nod Scenery Porn Product Placement Shout-Out Sequel Hook Humiliation Conga Police are Useless Central Theme Meaningful Echo Enemy Mine Fire-Forged Friends Affably Evil Real Life Cowboy Cop folderlabel Jerkass Christmas Movies Index Rape as Drama Cluster F-Bomb Random Events Plot You Killed My Father The Hero Dies Off-into-the-Distance Ending Unresolved Sexual Tension Canadian Movies Broken Pedestal Gorn Fat Bastard Revenge Those Two Guys NO INDOOR VOICE As the Good Book Says... Shell-Shocked Veteran Be Careful What You Wish For Knife Nut Artistic License – History The '90s Tap on the Head Jerk with a Heart of Gold Time Skip As You Know Fainting It's Personal My Greatest Failure Red Herring Vitriolic Best Buds Domestic Abuse Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Alcoholic Morality Pet Soft Glass Non-Indicative Name Brainless Beauty This Is Gonna Suck Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bi the Way Rich Bitch Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Destination Defenestration Dutch Angle Actually Pretty Funny Mad Scientist Driven to Suicide Villain Opening Scene Took a Level in Jerkass Based on a True Story Cruel and Unusual Death Russian Films I Have Your Wife Flashback The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Adaptational Heroism Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Whole Plot Reference Crucified Hero Shot Villain Ball Psychological Thriller The Sociopath Suspiciously Similar Substitute Those Wacky Nazis Darkest Hour Bloodless Carnage Good Is Not Nice Paper-Thin Disguise Have a Gay Old Time Wrong Genre Savvy Immune to Bullets Broken Bird Adaptational Badass Abusive Parents Stalker with a Crush '80s Hair The Quiet One Artistic License – Military The Great Depression Papa Wolf Anti-Hero Leave the Camera Running The Mole Daddy's Girl Stylistic Suck Big Bad Deconstruction Despair Event Horizon Film Noir Big Eater She's Got Legs Thriller Face–Heel Turn Foregone Conclusion Hollywood Darkness Abhorrent Admirer Downer Ending Not So Above It All Italian Films Kubrick Stare Improvised Weapon Get Out! 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Jerkass Has a Point Adaptational Attractiveness Covers Always Lie Face Death with Dignity Dirty Old Man Did Not Get the Girl It's All About Me What the Hell, Hero? Knight Templar Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Never Found the Body Bottomless Magazines A Father to His Men Decoy Protagonist Made of Explodium Even Evil Has Standards Disappeared Dad Final Girl Card-Carrying Villain Asshole Victim Same Language Dub Recycled IN SPACE! 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Nothing Is Scarier Anguished Declaration of Love Camp Gay Ass Shove Diabolus ex Machina He Who Fights Monsters Novelization The Un-Reveal An Arm and a Leg Older Than They Look Gold Digger Back from the Dead Romantic False Lead The '80s Bowdlerise Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Leaning on the Fourth Wall Only Sane Man Bloodier and Gorier Hollywood Law Earn Your Happy Ending All There in the Manual Arch-Enemy Fourth Date Marriage Beware the Nice Ones Even Evil Has Loved Ones Anachronic Order Determinator The End... Or Is It? Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Awesome, but Impractical Drives Like Crazy Early-Bird Cameo Only One Name Creative Closing Credits Military and Warfare Films Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Jerk Jock Guile Hero Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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For! Emphasis! I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Instant Death Bullet Shipper on Deck In Name Only Break the Haughty Heroic BSoD Show Within a Show Works Set in World War II Tranquil Fury Adaptation Expansion Blood Knight Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Blood from the Mouth Protagonist Title A.I. Is a Crapshoot Playing Gertrude Catapult Nightmare Deus ex Machina Humans Are Bastards Plot Hole Interrupted Suicide Dark and Troubled Past Major Injury Underreaction The Vamp Shut Up, Hannibal! Bring My Brown Pants Not Even Bothering with the Accent Evil Counterpart Disguised in Drag Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Eagleland Handicapped Badass Homage Idiot Ball Match Cut Film Noir Index Slasher Movie Animated Credits Opening Together in Death Reasonable Authority Figure The Ace Arranged Marriage Disney Villain Death Bad Boss Darker and Edgier Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Well-Intentioned Extremist Dirty Cop Hypocritical Humor Action Genre Meaningful Background Event Peek-a-Boo Corpse Evil Is Petty The Ghost The '60s