History Main / PoseOfSupplication

* In the ''Manga/{{Gravitation}}'' manga, Shuichi spends several hours in this position outside Yuki's front door, only to discover Yuki isn't even home.
* Many, many Duelists adopt this pose after being defeated in a duel in ''Franchise/YuGiOh''.
* Common way for non-combatants to express their frustration at being unable to join the battle in ''Manga/DragonBall''.
** Tien does this during the original series episode "Tien's Atonement," begging a man he had previously brutally injured for forgiveness and even offering to let him take revenge on him if he wants. The man forgives him and gives him the Dragon Ball.

* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Genma Saotome tries to pass this off as a ''martial arts technique'': "The Crouch of the Wild Tiger." It is surprisingly effective.

* In ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'', Panther becomes convinced (thanks to his friend Watt, a self-proclaimed but usually-mistaken expert on Japanese culture) that ''dogeza'' involves dangling from one foot with your arms and legs outstretched. When he gets to Japan, Sena has to show him how it's really done. Later, Panther tries to use ''dogeza'' to convince Apollo to [[PutMeInCoach let him play for the NASA Aliens]], but Apollo doesn't relent until the rest of the team does ''dogeza'' as well. In a later episode, the American character Big Bear is shown doing the same posture as Panther initially thought a ''dogeza'' was.
* The ''Eyeshield 21'' case may be a ShoutOut to a famous scene in ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'', where the arrogant Hyuga goes into the pose of supplication in front of his ultra strict Toho coach, begging him to let him play in the finals after having disobeyed his orders and being benched as a result. When the coach refuses, ''the whole team'' imitates Hyuga to support him. After a last test to see Hyuga's ability and how serious he is, the coach allows Hyuga to come back.

If this is towards an antagonist who still won't grant the humble person a favor, it's a good sign that they're a complete {{Jerkass}} who will be zapped by LaserGuidedKarma later. And if a ''hero'' rejects helping the supplicant, expect him/her to be [[WhatTheHellHero chewed out]] by the rest of the cast. Compare KneelBeforeZod, AintTooProudToBeg. See also CowerPower.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman: ComicBook/TheHiketeia'' is a graphic novel dealing with the duty and ritual of supplication. As such, this pose and its meaning is dealt with heavily.

* More than one culprit in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' has gone into the pose as soon as their crimes have been revealed.

* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', Beeps [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4207 performs]] the full "forehead to floor, hands clasped over head" version while begging Roko to not fire her for a less-than-intelligent move. At the time, Beeps is actually ''Roko's'' boss and tries to promote her to make the "begging to not be fired" work. Roko does eventually accept promotion, since she's the most competent person in the office.

* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', Beeps [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4207 performs]] the full 'forehead to floor, hands clasped over head' version while begging Roko to not fire her for a less-than-intelligent move. At the time, Beeps is actually ''Roko's'' boss and tries to promote her to make the "begging to not be fired" work. Roko does eventually accept promotion, since she's the most competent person in the office.

* ''LightNovel/TheTwelveKingdoms'' anime features a ruler who bans the pose of supplication from his subjects, since she's come to think of it as humiliating. Additionally, the kirin in ''The Twelve Kingdoms'' select the rulers for their realm by bowing in front of them. (They're not able to bow in front of anyone else -- even if they want to, they're physically incapable of doing so. This causes lots of angst to Taiki, the NaiveNewcomer among them, since he's not sure if he'll be able to do so.)

* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', after the truth Cross had been hiding about his nature as a self insert character or that the world of ''Manga/OnePiece'' is fictional where he's from, Cross bows on his knees with his head to the deck of Going Merry to beg for the Straw Hat Pirates' forgiveness for lying to them, tearfully pleading that they let him stay with the crew as he's come to [[PlatonicDeclorationOfLove love them all genuinely]].

* In the ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' fic ''Fanfic/HereInMyArms'', after receiving a WhatTheHellHero speech from Kurumu for spurning Tsukune's LoveConfession, which drove him to jump off of the cliff and become a vampire in the first place, Moka, realizing that Kurumu is [[JerkassHasAPoint completely right]], does this, complete with placing her forehead on the ground, while tearfully begging her for forgiveness.

* "orz" in lowercase appears in the title of ''Anime/MaiOtome'' episode 6, referring to the pose. It even made it to the English dub title ("Nina Entangled...orz").

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesForThreeHundredYearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': Associated strongly enough with Halkara that she is shown doing it in the anime's opening as part of a "roll-call" sequence briefly showing the full cast. When she comes back after trying to find a cure for "gnome mushrooms" that shrank Azusa to child-size, which she ate because of Halkara in the first place, she walks in, smiles, and does an acrobatic flip into an apology pose to report her failure.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman: Hiketeia'' is a graphic novel dealing with the duty and ritual of supplication. As such, this pose and its meaning is dealt with heavily.

** Prostration is a major component of ''salat'' (ritual praying to God) and is done twice for every ''rakaat'' (the amount of times you prostrate from standing up). So for example, the dawn prayer, which has two rakaat, requires four prostrations, while the noon prayer, which has four rakaat, requires eight prostrations. The only time that prostration is forbidden during salat is when you are praying for the dead (''salat al-janazah'' if the corpse is present or ''salat al-ghaib'' if it is not present) because of the aforementioned restriction of bowing to anything other than God. During funeral prayers, the salat is conducted strictly while standing up.

* Parodied in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh''. During the second vacation, Yukari boasts her English skills, which is treated as a divine miracle (complete with a visual of [[Literature/BookOfGenesis sea parting away]]) to the point that Osaka, Tomo, and Kagura begin prostrating before her.

** Prostration is a major component of ''salat'' (ritual praying to God) and is done twice for every ''rakaat'' (the amount of times you prostrate from standing up). So for example, the dawn prayer, which has two rakaat, requires four prostrations, while the noon prayer, which has four rakaat, requires eight prostrations. The only time that prostration is forbidden during salat is when you are praying for the dead (''salat al-janazah'' if the corpse is present or ''salat al-ghaib'' if it is not present) because of the aforementioned restriction of bowing to anything other than God. During funeral prayers, the salat is conducted strictly by standing up.

* According to [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Muslim]] practice, one may bow, even kneel before humans, but ''never'' prostrate oneself. Only GOD gets this treatment. It's actually ''forbidden'' to touch your forehead to the ground unless it's for Him. And if you aren't practicing, not even then. This does lead to culture clash in some places. In UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}} for example, which is overwhelmingly Muslim, prostration is still used in some cultures to respect people much higher in social class.

* In ancient Iranian culture, there were three ways for people to greet others. The first was a kiss on the lips, done between people of equal standing. The second was a kiss on the cheek, done by a person of slightly (but not much) inferior standing. The third was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proskynesis prosykinesis]], a type of bowing/prostration done by a person much lower in social standing. It might be a slave to his master, or a commoner to a government official. Naturally, the only person who received proskynesis from everyone in the empire was the shah. The ancient Greeks mistook this as a sign that Persians worshiped their emperors and gleefully attacked it in propaganda during the Greco-Persian Wars.