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* In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', Clark, who has spent the entire movie trying to save everyone, breaks down crying after he is forced to directly kill General Zod to keep him from murdering a terrified family]]. It's treated not as a [[ARealManIsAKiller rite of passage]] but a [[SadisticChoice terribly traumatic choice]] that forced him to do something strongly against [[TechnicalPacifist his]] [[ThouShaltNotKill nature]].

** Lindsay has a breakdown that leaves her badly shaken after she has to shoot serial killer Shane Casey when he breaks into her and Danny's apartment and holds their daughter at gunpoint. She's a detective but never had to kill anyone before and it shows. She tries to refuse her medal of valor but Mac calms her down and helps her get through it.

** Stella breaks down and cries so hard after shooting her ex-boyfriend Frankie after he breaks into her apartment and tries to kill her that she passes out herself.

* On ''{{Series/CSINY}}'', Lindsay has a breakdown that leaves her badly shaken after she has to shoot serial killer Shane Casey when he breaks into her and Danny's apartment and holds their daughter at gunpoint. She's a detective but never had to kill anyone before and it shows. She tries to refuse her medal of valor but Mac calms her down and helps her get through it.

* Happens on a much larger scale at the start of episode five of ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands''. [[AIIsACrapshoot Jack's]] taken control of the space station Helios and plans to kill Rhys and use his body as the first vessel for his new line of robotic skeletons infused with his AI, who will proceed to kill an incalculable amount of people to take their bodies and repeat the process ad nauseam. Since Jack is in control of the entire station, Rhys is forced to go to the power core and destroy it, which sends the facility into crisis mode; it begins exploding and crumbling, and the only people who have a hope of survival are the ones who manage to grab one of the very few escape pods. ''Many, MANY'' people die, and the only reason Rhys escapes is because Loader Bot fixes the last pod and commits a HeroicSuicide in the process. As Rhys floats away in the escape pod, banging on the door and screaming in sorrow for Loader Bot, he slowly calms down before solemnly putting his head in his hands and curling in on himself.

* Happens on a much larger scale at the start of episode five of ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands''. [[ArtificialIntelligence Jack's]] taken control of the space station Helios and plans to kill Rhys and use his body as the first vessel for his new line of robotic skeletons infused with his AI, who will proceed to kill an incalculable amount of people to take their bodies and repeat the process ad nauseam. Since Jack is in control of the entire station, Rhys is forced to go to the power core and destroy it, which sends the facility into crisis mode; it begins exploding and crumbling, and the only people who have a hope of survival are the ones who manage to grab one of the very few escape pods. ''Many, MANY'' people die, and the only reason Rhys escapes is because Loader Bot fixes the last pod and commits a HeroicSuicide in the process. As Rhys floats away in the escape pod, banging on the door and screaming in sorrow for Loader Bot, he slowly calms down before solemnly putting his head in his hands and curling in on himself.

* In ''Film/{{Thoroughbreds}},'' Lily breaks down sobbing after murdering her stepfather Mark. She holds an unconscious Amanda for comfort, who [[MoreExpendableThanYou intentionally chugged a roofied drink so she would go to prison for the crime instead of Lily.]]

* In ''Film/SawI,'' Amanda, Lawrence and Adam all do this. After Amanda cuts a paralyzed man's stomach open to get the key to free herself from the Reverse Beartrap and finally rips it off, she cries out in anguish and sobs. Lawrence forces himself to shoot Adam so that his wife and daughter aren't killed by Zep, and collapses immediately afterward, sobbing and screaming. Shortly thereafter, when Zep is about to shoot Lawrence, Adam, who was only [[PlayingPossum pretending to be incapacitated,]] [[KillingInSelfDefense bashes Zep's head in with a toilet tank lid]] -- when Lawrence pulls him close to calm him down after, Adam too breaks down crying.

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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 HeroicBSOD, dropping the gun and bursting into tears. Sometimes she collapses. Alternatively, she doesn't 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 [[SubvertedTrope the bad guy themselves]], who was [[OnlyAFleshWound merely wounded]] and is ready for Round 2.

* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'': Edward is experiencing a breakdown after killing Greed.

* ''Fanfic/TruePotential''': Hinata is traumatized after she killed an enemy for the first time. Later at night, she breaks down and [[CryIntoChest cries into Naruto's outfit]] over what she's done. It's only after talking with Naruto that Hinata is able to calm down and be able to sleep for the first time since she did her first kill.