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Bleed 'Em and Weep

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A non-fighter — call her Alice — gets the drop on a bad guy who is threatening her or another sympathetic character. The bad guy is usually undeterred since they doubt that Alice could actually do it and will often try to talk her down or simply step in and take the gun away. But she holds fast, pulls the trigger, and shoots.
Immediately afterwards, we see the emotional weight of what's just happened land on Alice like a ton of bricks. Perhaps a horrified or sickened expression settles on her face. She may go into a full Heroic BSoD, dropping the gun and bursting into tears. Sometimes she collapses. Alternatively, she does not react much but she freezes in shock, neither moving nor lowering her weapon until someone more battle-hardened comes over and takes it out of her trembling hand. Sometimes that other is the bad guy themselves, who was merely wounded and is ready for Round 2.
The usual meaning of this trope is to signify that Alice has never shot anyone before (perhaps has never even held a gun before) and is emotionally unprepared for the aftermath. While either gender can react this way, it is more likely to show on female characters, who may act shaky and hysterical even before the act. Where a man could look down the barrel and coldly say "I'll Kill You!", a woman will point the gun with a hand quivering in rage/fear and scream "I'LL KILL YOU!" with tears running down her face.
There is a real phenomenon, occasionally called "Killer's Remorse", that can accompany the first kill of someone not trained against it, punctuated by tears, shakes, and occasional vomiting. This is generally considered a healthy reaction, as taking a life is supposed to be a difficult and turbulent stigma to overcome, i.e. unpleasant in every sense of the word. Soldiers actively train to prevent this from happening, while sociopaths and psychopaths do not experience it at all. Most police services require mandatory counseling for officers who have to take a life. And it's also an issue that impacts civilians forced to kill to defend themselves. Of course, once that initial unpleasant experience has passed, It Gets Easier might apply. Which, depending on the circumstances, can be worrisome. (However, It Never Gets Any Easier may also apply, if the person is not in a line of duty that involves multiple kills.) note Killer's remorse can also affect hunters who kill game for the first time. It Gets Easier is usually expected to follow, though some hang up their rifles and swear never to do it again.
Compare These Hands Have Killed, when a killer looks at their hands while contemplating the gravity of what they have done. Also see My God, What Have I Done? and Cradling Your Kill.
As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.
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Suicide by Cop
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While he doesn't break down, Suzaku tears up immensely in the finale after killing Lelouch in a Suicide by Cop, the final step of the latter's Thanatos Gambit. No one sees, however, due to Suzaku having become Lelouch's alter-ego as Zero, so his face is concealed by the helmet.
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Kill the Cutie
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Lelouch is almost inconsolable after he is forced to kill his beloved half-sister Euphemia after he accidentally used a Geass on her to make her kill a bunch of Japanese people, then use that incident to his advantage.
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Another episode depicts Kris Munroe shooting a bad guy and breaking down in tears as she states it's the first time she's ever shot anyone. Possibly due to Executive Meddling, a line of dialogue is shoehorned into the episode stating that the guy actually survived. (Which is also a bit of Truth in Television as not everyone who gets shot dies.)
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Also happens to Taro in the Pilot chapter.
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The Japanese legend of the Yuki Onna is discussed by Shinichi's father as a subtle clue as to how the murderer set up the crime scene so he could have an apparently air-tight alibi. In his version of the story, a man unwittingly picks up a yuki-onna on his way home, and though she was intending to freeze him to death, his concern for her causes her to melt instead.''
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When Michael is knocked unconscious during the battle at the end of We're Alive's first season, Pegs is left defenseless when Latch and Scratch come looking for them - or so you think, until she picks up Michael's SMG and kills Latch with it, leaving Scratch emotionally scarred (they were twins, after all). So far, Pegs is still being haunted by what she had to do that night to save Michael.
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Volume 8 has Jaune being forced to Mercy Kill Penny after she is mortally wounded rather than heal her so that her maiden powers will go to Winter, since it would be pointless for him to heal her. Then he lets out an absolutely gut-wrenching cry of despair and immediately tries to murder Cinder, who was the one that had wounded Penny in the first place.
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