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This is especially contrasting when they eventually get used to it

1. All Quiet on the Western Front - Paul stabs a French soldier in a shell crater with a knife, breaks down then spends hours trapped with the dying man, apologizing to the corpse and rifling through his belongings to learn who he was.

2. Breaking Bad - Walt's first direct kill is when he is forced to strangle Krazy-8 to death with a bicycle lock. He is traumatized and is contrasted deliberately with how casual killing becomes for him later.

3. The Last of Us - Ellie's first kill is when she shoots a man trying to drown Joel, which is framed as a horrifying threshold explicitly acknowledged by Joel afterwards - "it doesn't get easier"

4. Vinland Saga - Thorfinn's first kill occurs during a mercenary raid in England as a child soldier. To prove his combat worth, he brutally stabs an English soldier in the back to take his sword, an act that deeply traumatizes him.

Especially when this daughter figure is actually adopted

1. In Inuyasha, Sesshomaru essentially adopts Rin as an orphan and the sequel Yasahime it turns out they got married and had kids

2. In Usagi Drop, Daikichi adopts (another) Rin as a child and later on they fall in love when she's a high schooler and gets married

...Shit kinda looks like grooming man. Why can't it just stay wholesome father-daughter relationships despite having no blood relations

Former slave owners/traders who genuinely feel bad for participating in the institution of slavery and try to amend themselves.

1. One Piece - Donquixote Mjogard: One of the Celestial Dragons(World Nobles) who enslaved the Fishmen, he was saved and taught by the mermaid Queen Otohime, repents his deeds and sacrifices his life helping the Fishmen in the Levely.

2. The Mission - Rodrigo Mendoja: A Spanish mercenary and slave trader who repented after killing his brother and receiving penance from the Jesuit priests, he sacrifices his life fighting the Spanish and Portuguese slavers to save the Guarani people

3. Real life/Amazing Grace - John Newton: A British slave trader who repented after experiencing spiritual experience related to a storm at sea, he became an Anglican priest and spent his life fighting African slavery including helping the abolitionist William Wilberforce.

1. The Mission - Former mercenary and slave trader Rodrigo Mendoza sides with the Guaraní people against Portuguese and Spanish conquistadors

2. Dances with Wolves - Former Union Lieutenant John J. Dunbar sides with the Sioux people against the US army

3. Avatar - Former marine Jake Sully sides with the Na'vi people against RDA SecOps

4. Real life - Former sailor Gonzalo Guerrero sided with the Mayan people against Spanish conquistadors.

1. Warhammer 40,000 - Asuryani Eldar (Craftworlders)

2. Mass Effect - Qurians

3. Wall-E - Humans

4. The Culture series - Culture

Entire civilizations who permanently live in spaceships without a fixed planet and just wandering around space.

https://www.danielmitsui.com/00\_pages/michael\_samurai.html

Curious to know if there are any other depictions of Archangel Michael as a soldier other than European/Byzantine ones

Basically captains refusing to leave the ship to the end out of honor/responsibility, often resulting in their death. Admirals and acting captains are included.

1. Titanic - Captain Edward Smith goes down with RMS Titanic

2. Midway - Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi and Captain Tomeo Kaku go down with IJN Hiryu

3. Star Trek (2009) - Acting Captain George Kirk goes down with USS Kelvin

4. Legends of Galactic Heroes - Fleet Admiral Alexandre Bewcock, Admiral Chung Wu-Cheng and Captain Emmerson go down with FPA Rio Grande

1. Inuyasha/Yashahime - Sesshomaru and Rin (married)

2. Usagi Drop - Daikichi Kawaki and Rin Kaga (married)

3. Bleak House - John Jarndyce and Esther Summerson (almost married)

1. All Quiet in the Western Front

2. Saving Private Ryan

3. Halo: Reach

1. Sicario - The dinner scene. Meant to show how far Alejandro has gone in his revenge but seen as a just revenge to the evil cartel boss by many considering the horrible murder of his family

2. The Joker - The subway and TV show shooting. Tragic portrayal of mental illness and societal failure creating a monster. Significant portions of the audience cheered it as justified revolutionary payback.

3. Avatar: The Way of Water - The return of RDA spaceships to Pandora. Meant to show the destruction of beautiful nature by greedy humans but it's still visually stunning as technological triumph and youtube videos are full of comments saying "humanity fuck yeah!"

4. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - The "Bad Ending". If you successfully signal the ambush, Bell wipes out Adler's team and aligns with Perseus. This results in Perseus' network successfully detonating the nukes in Europe. Many players prefer this to "Good Ending" because you are killed as an expendable CIA asset for doing the right thing.

(Disclaimer: I do not endorse what's happening in those despite being cool scenes)