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* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': "[[Recap/SwampThingVolume2Issue29LoveAndDeath Love And Death]]" shows Abby scrubbimg herself in the shower and later ''with a wire potato brush'' as she [[GoMadFromTheRevelation loses it]] after learning the AwfulTruth behind why her husband [[DealWithTheDevil has]] been [[DemonicPossession acting]] very [[RapeAsDrama oddly]] as of late:

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* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': "[[Recap/SwampThingVolume2Issue29LoveAndDeath Love And Death]]" shows Abby scrubbimg scrubbing herself in the shower and later ''with a wire potato brush'' as she [[GoMadFromTheRevelation loses it]] after learning the AwfulTruth behind why her husband [[DealWithTheDevil has]] been [[DemonicPossession acting]] very [[RapeAsDrama oddly]] as of late:
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* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Early in chapter 2 (the end of [[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony episode 1 of the anime]]), Oliver catches a topless Nanao bathing her upper half in a fountain. She explains she's ritually cleansing herself of [[ChildSoldier the blood from her last war]].
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': A nurse on her way home from work in "[[Recap/CSINYS04E07 Commuted Sentences]]" happens upon a man who has been stabbed multiple times and stops to try and help him. Upon realizing that he's actually her recently acquitted rapist, she runs home screaming and immediately starts washing her hands. When that doesn't get his blood off fast enough, she jumps in the shower to scrub herself vigorously... and that's where the detectives find and arrest her.
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* Implied to be the reason Blanche takes so many baths in ''Theater/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. She wants to wash away her past.
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This trope covers such instances. Often, characters who are [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone burdened with the guilt]] of having killed someone (justified or not), will develop a habit of obsessively washing their hands, [[TheseHandsHaveKilled as if the blood they spilled is permanently staining their hands]]. For these guilty characters, this compulsion to scrub, like with TerribleTicking, may be just the start of a SanitySlippage, accompanied later by visions or [[BloodyHallucinationsOfGuilt hallucinations of blood]] on their hands.

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This trope covers such instances. Often, characters who are [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone burdened with the guilt]] of having killed someone (justified or not), will develop a habit of obsessively washing their hands, [[TheseHandsHaveKilled as if the blood they spilled is permanently staining their said hands]]. For these guilty characters, this compulsion to scrub, like with TerribleTicking, may be just the start of a SanitySlippage, accompanied later by visions or [[BloodyHallucinationsOfGuilt hallucinations of blood]] on their hands.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': "Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E14BadGirls" ends with [[spoiler:Faith]] desperately trying to scrub Finch's blood off of her hands and clothes after killing him in a sign of her guilt and SanitySlippage.

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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': "Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E14BadGirls" "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E14BadGirls Bad Girls]]" ends with [[spoiler:Faith]] desperately trying to scrub Finch's blood off of her hands and clothes after killing him in a sign of her guilt and SanitySlippage.

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