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* In one episode of ''Anime/{{Maburaho}}'', Kuriko tells Kazuki that he does this too much. His response is to apologize for it.

* ''Franchise/Danganronpa'':

* Mikan Tsumiki in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' lives and breathes this trope. [[spoiler:It gets a hell of a lot darker at the end of the third trial, where she angrily demands forgiveness over being accused of the murder of two students.]]
%%** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'': To a lesser extent, Chihiro Fujisaki apologizes often.

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' has a rather dark example: [[spoiler:Hanyuu]] tends to say "I'm sorry" [[BrokenRecord over and over]], but because she can't be seen by anyone except [[spoiler:Rika]], the only characters who can hear are those who are becoming [[spoiler:increasingly paranoid]]. It never [[GroundhogDayLoop ends well]].

* Woo-won in ''Manhwa/ThePizzaDeliveryManAndTheGoldPalace'' apologizes a lot even for minor inconveniences, to Sea-an's mild annoyance. It's because he feels the need to not be a burden on others and resolve things by himself, having spent years [[WorkOffTheDebt working off his father's debt]].

* ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'':

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has been derided as 'Apologetic Content' because of the main character Marten's constant apologising, even for things he shouldn't be apologising for, or weren't his fault. GentleGiant Elliott has the same problem, which [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3698 he thinks]] may be actually an autonomic response in his case. Clinton thinks Elliott may have an anxiety disorder, which Elliott [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4447 considers plausible]].

* Ethel from ''XenobladeChronicles3''. Her [[EstablishingCharacterMoment very first line]] is an apology to a young Noah, Lanz, and Eunie for not arriving soon enough to save more of Colony 14's inhabitants. As the commander of Colony 4 in the present, she frequently apologizes to newly arrived people like Consul K and Noah's party for the barren colony's lack of amenities, and when her second-in-command Borealis [[AngerBornOfWorry gets mad at her for wandering off into the desert unannounced]], she immediately apologizes to him upon returning.

* Colette from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. "I'm sorry" is practically her CatchPhrase, even tauntingly apologizing when she blocks enemy attacks. The apologizing happens so much, the LP Group ''LetsPlay/TippingForties'' ended up making it a drinking game. Lloyd and Regal also apologize a lot too, but what sets Colette apart from them is that she apologizes mostly when she doesn't have to.
** In the sequel, Emil manages to take the trope even further.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' after the WhamEpisode, a massive BreakTheHaughty, and one ImportantHaircut, [[TheHero Luke]] starts doing this a lot thanks to a massive GuiltComplex and HeroicSelfDeprecation that is heavily [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. He is actually ''worse than Colette or even Emil'' as time goes on and he gets more and more depressed.

* This is often associated with [[CanadaEh Canadians]], with varying degrees of accuracy.

* And the English.

** Some [[UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome autistic]] people are known to do this. It makes sense: if they're [[ParanoiaFuel never truly sure if any remark they made is]] misconstrued, InnocentlyInsensitive, or [[DiggingYourselfDeeper worse]], it's easy for them to start dropping apologies just in case.

* The apologizing when called out on it is often true because there's really nothing else to say to fair criticism.

%%* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Mikado.
%%* ''Anime/ErgoProxy'': Vincent.

* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', Chloe does this to Olga whenever she feels like she has failed her queen somehow.
* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': Asuka can't stand when someone does this. In chapter 10 she gets angry because Rei has been ordered to live in a hellhole. Rei apologizes for it, and Asuka gets angrier since Rei is sorry for something is not her fault.
-->''Asuka hissed her breath out from between her teeth. God, she hated people who apologized for everything, even when it wasn't their fault!''
* ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': Shinji has the habit of constantly apologizing, and it gets Asuka mad. However she gets mad because she feels that Shinji doesn't apologize for he feels that he has done something wrong but because he tries to avoid a scolding, and it drives her mad that he is unable to stand up to himself.
* Main character Zoe Elm in ''Fanfic/HeartToHeart'' is almost constantly apologizing, a trait that Trafalgar Law is trying to break her out of.
* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': At the beginning of the story Asuka still got angry cause Shinji's constant apologies (and Shinji mentions that he knows how much she hated his excuses). After several years of relationship [[spoiler:and marriage,]] though, she joked about it.

* ''Fanfic/NeverHadAFriendLikeMe'': [[ShrinkingViolet Amanda Adams]].
* The ''Film/StarTrek2009'' fanfic ''Fanfic/WrittenInTheStars'' (a genderswap fic in which the Kirks, both Prime and Alt Reality, are women) has the Alt Kirk apologizing pretty much any time she screws up. These apologies are almost always for Spock, who in turn doesn't know why she's even apologizing to him in the first place. It's a Kirk thing, as Kirk Prime later apologizes to Spock Prime.
* In ''Fanfic/FlashFog'', Fluttershy spends thirty minutes apologizing to the mayor - then apologizes for apologizing so much.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' fic ''Fanfic/HomeIsWhereTheHauntIs'', Mr. Mason even apologizes for apologizing so much. Then again, his apologies are rarely sincere.
* In ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' fic ''FanFic/{{Shatterheart}}'', [[spoiler:R!]]Syaoran frequently apologizes. Kurogane is actually rather annoyed them and succeeds in getting [[spoiler:R!]]Syaoran to stop.
* In ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', Shinji has this habit. When Asuka tells him that her parents are dead he apologizes, and Asuka reminds him that he has nothing to apologize for.
-->'''Shinji:''' "So what are your parents like?"\\
'''Asuka:''' (sharply) Dead.\\
'''Shinji:''' I'm sorry.\\
'''Asuka:''' Don't be such a wimp, Shinji. It's not your fault they died.
* In ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'', Shinji is repeatedly shown making a conscious effort to attempt to circumvent this habit, but he cannot help but slip up sometimes, and it drives Asuka up the wall whenever he does. In response, Misato tries reminding Asuka that verbal habits are just really hard to break, and asks Asuka how she would feel if someone asked her to stop using the word "[[UsefulNotes/{{Baka}} stupid]]" all the time. Asuka finds herself unable to come up with a reply to that.

* ''Fanfic/AGlassOfWine'': Shinji manages to get Asuka annoyed as soon as the second scene when he apologizes for Misato's apartment lacking a couch, even though she was ''not'' blaming ''him'' for it.
-->"We need a couch," she told him. When he didn't respond, she whent on. "Sitting on the floor all the time really bites."\\
"I'm sorry."\\
Asuka glared at him. It was the glare that always served as a harbinger for angry German-speak, and a glare he had learned well. "You're really the most frustrating person I know."\\
"I'm sorry?"\\
"Gott im Himmel." Asuka took a breath.

%%* ''Manga/HoneyHunt'': Yuri. She gets better.
%%* ''Manga/HotGimmick'': Hatsumi.

%%* ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'': Kaede.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Japan is this to a fault. [[spoiler:Due to [[AbusiveParents the abuse he had to suffer through for hundreds of years]], Italy is also this to some extent.]]
* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': Shinji has to fight against his impulse to apologize constantly because it drives Asuka very, very mad.
-->'''Shinji:''' Don't say "I'm sorry," or she'll kill me. Don't say "I'm sorry," or she'll kill me. Don't say "I'm sorry," or she'll kill me.
* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': This trope was present in the original, so this doujin plays the gag where Shinji apologizes a lot and Asuka replies "[[http://eva303.smackjeeves.com/comics/911298/021/ No, you are not!]]" or "[[http://eva303.smackjeeves.com/comics/1795226/062/ Quit apologizing!]]"

* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': Ai Kaga was specifically designed to lampshade and parody this trope. Even her name is a giveaway: "Kaga Ai" sounds like "kagai", "perpetrator" in Japanese, and she, indeed, believes that she is to blame for everything bad. Her [[ADayInTheLimelight spotlight episode]] in the anime cranks this UpToEleven, where the main cast wanders into a city where ''nobody'' can stop apologizing for even the slightest of slights.

* The UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese take this UpToEleven, with [[http://japanese.about.com/od/Grammar/a/Expressing-Apologies.htm an entire system]] dedicated to different apologies and their unique connotations.

* ''Manga/{{Dazzle}}'': Larawell in the second volume.

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Can also be a trait of real people. [[note]] Wait, I didn't mean to imply that Canadians aren't real people! Oh God, will you find it in your hearts to forgive me? [[/note]] In some cases, can be a warning sign that someone is a victim of UsefulNotes/{{abuse}}. For the trope's opposite, see TheUnapologetic.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Buttercup usually has trouble apologizing, let alone admit she did something wrong. But in "Moral Decay", after she accidentally clocks Bubbles and knocking out one of her baby teeth, she apologizes to Bubbles quite profusely.

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* Wilt from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''. [[{{Catchphrase}} Sorry. Is that okay?]] Tragically, his behaviour came from [[spoiler:the shame of losing a basketball game for his creator.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:[[UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan Jordan Michael]]]]:''' Wilt, you have to stop saying "sorry" all the time. It's ''not'' okay.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Fry does this while listening to his ex's story of what happened to her after he got [[HumanPopsicle frozen.]] He only apologizes because he feels bad for her and he does it at times when it's completely unnecessary.

** Some people with UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome are known to do this. It makes sense: if they're [[ParanoiaFuel never truly sure if any remark they made is]] InnocentlyInsensitive or [[DiggingYourselfDeeper worse]], it's easy for them to start dropping apologies just in case.

* Slash from Disaster Squad 2: Dawn of Armageddon. In one scene, Slash apologizes to The Underlord for his wrong actions while trying to kill four of the main heroes. The Underlord refuses to accept Slash’s apology and becomes more evil.

* This a common trait among people with low self-esteem and lacking trust and/or social skills, as well as people who have been abused. It's a defense mechanism to prevent rejection, violence or hostility that they feel directed towards them, but also to dodge and avoid a conflict.