coping with having injured someone theme

Someone feels guilty at having been responsible for injuring another person.

Examples

Doctor McCoy unintentionally blinded Spock in tos1x29 "Operation -- Annihilate!".

16 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 10 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
ahp1x02 choice Kim was so distressed at having killed his father that he had a total breakdown and had to be committed.
ahp5x36 major Henry's motivation in this drama was to atone for having shot an innocent man by clearing that man's name.
bbf1x11 major Garibaldi somehow blamed himself.
play: Othello (1603) major Othello when he realized Desdemona was in fact innocent
tz1959e5x24 major Joe became bedridden after seeing a future in which he accidentally defenestrated his wife.
tz2002e1x21 major The story pivoted on Sean's remorse for having broken his dad's heart by selling a trophy baseball.
ahp2x01 minor Milicent acted upset about having bashed her lover's brains in with numerous hits from an croquet mallet.
ds93x26 minor Odo was wracked with guilt over having killed a fellow Changeling
ds95x07 minor Worf regretted having broken the neck of a childhood friend albeit accidentally.
play: Henry VI Part 3 (1595) minor a father had unwittingly killed his own son and a son his father, and they both regretted what they had done