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* From Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "[[CanadaEh Canadian]] [[Music/AmericanIdiot Idiot]]":

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'''s Jacuzzi Splot is prone to this due to his tendency to be a MartyrWithoutACause. On the low scale, he'll [[ApologizesALot apologize for pretty much anything]], up to and including being shoved. At the other side of the spectrum, he's blamed himself personally for the death of three men he encountered the day before -- not because he killed them, but because his gang took them down (against his protests) while they were trying to murder ''him''.

* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess''... the title character does this quite often. Apologizing to her older siblings for always having to protect her, wondering if the world would be better off without her, etc. And, of course, she's never really done anything wrong - apparently, she threatens the continued existence of the world simply by ''living''. And, apparently, [[spoiler:by dying]]. Girl just can't catch a break.

* [[TheChick Princess Sakura]] in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''. She can't fairly be held accountable for the burden she imposes on [[HeroSecretService the crew]], as she didn't choose to go on a dimension-hopping quest and can't help her drowsiness seeing as her heart literally broke into pieces and flew away. Her lack of combat ability is also understandable, given that she was a princess with an [[BigBrotherInstinct overprotective big brother]]. Later on she does get to kick some ass, until her soul leaves her body ''again''.

* [[TheChick Princess Sakura]] in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''. She can't fairly be held accountable for the burden she imposes on [[HeroSecretService the crew]], as she didn't choose to go on a dimension-hopping quest and can't help her drowsiness seeing as her heart literally broke into pieces and flew away. Her lack of combat ability is also understandable, given that she was a princess with an [[BigBrotherInstinct overprotective big brother]]. Later on she does get to kick some ass, until her soul leaves her body ''again''.
* ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'' has Chris, who often apologizes for his very existence (his mother was a DeathByChildbirth case) and feels that he's a burden on his family, even when he's been rendered psychologically damaged and unable to speak.
* Tohru Honda of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' does this quite a bit too, not wanting to burden anyone with her troubles despite those troubles being pretty drastic. This is best seen in the beginning of the series, where while her grandfather's house is being renovated, she resorts to living in a tent, rather than bother any of [[TrueCompanions her friends]] by staying with them.
** Also Ritsu Sohma. The two of them occasionally get into apologizing contests.
* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess''... the title character does this quite often. Apologizing to her older siblings for always having to protect her, wondering if the world would be better off without her, etc. And, of course, she's never really done anything wrong - apparently, she threatens the continued existence of the world simply by ''living''. And, apparently, [[spoiler:by dying]]. Girl just can't catch a break.

* Yukinari of ''Manga/GirlsBravo''.

* In ''Fanfic/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything'' [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] apologizes to L after L beats him up. Later L apologizes when [[spoiler: Light nearly murders him.]]
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/427653/chapters/719529 The Well Groomed Mind]]'' after Ron (being a [[TheResenter jealous prat]]) punched Harry in the jaw and knocked him out; Dumbledore expects ''[[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming Harry]]'' [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming to apologize for it.]]

* She's not directly apologizing to her attacker, but after Lady Sybil is briefly taken hostage in ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'', she apologizes to her husband for "letting him down." It's more an apology for being tearful and shaken about it than an apology for being taken hostage, but it's enough to seriously freak him out.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'', "Demons and Angels", when the High Lister has been fatally stabbed:
-->'''High Lister''': Forgive me, brother. I appear to have stained thy knife-end with my blood. A thousand apologies. [''dies'']
-->'''High Rimmer''': Brother, permit me to furnish you with a fresh knife.
* The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' covers the death of Polonius like so:
-->'''Hamlet:''' Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool!
-->'''Crow (as Polonius)''' Oh right, it's ''my'' fault you killed me!

* One of the ''[[Series/NotOnlyButAlso Pete and Dud]]'' sketches involves Peter Cook upending a bowl of spaghetti over Dudley Moore's head. Dud: "I'm sorry, I seem to have spilt my spaghetti."
* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Gabby finds evidence suggesting her soon-to-be ex husband, Carlos, could be on the verge of getting a very well-paying job. She decides she's going to woo him back so she can take him for even more money. They sleep together. He then reveals that he planted the fake evidence with the full knowledge that she'd steal it, read it, and then try to rob him blind. Outraged that she's been proven beyond all reasonable doubt to be a lying, manipulative, whorish bitch, she pushes Carlos out of the upstairs window. He survives with no damage lasting beyond the end of the episode. The closing narration ''still'' tries to suggest that [[DesignatedVillain Carlos]] was in the wrong, and that he feels guilty for being so cruel to [[DesignatedHero Gabby]].

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''. In "The Cavalier Years", after discovering Bladrick's latest cock-up, Blackadder says he's too busy to punch him. So he raises his fist and tells Baldrick to run towards it. He does.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'', the heron prince Rafiel is like this. He's exceptionally weak in combat (he seriously can't even do damage (without [[CherryTapping using spell imitating items]]) but has a [[SquishyWizard fantastic support ability]]), [[spoiler: due to a paralyzing illness, which leaves him unable to fly, despite his massive wings]] and so soft-spoken that Ike says he's "afraid that he'll kill him if he shouts too loud." He apologizes when Ike calls him out for it. (If his allies fail to protect him in combat and he falls, he apologizes for that, too...but then, several of the characters do that, [[RuleOfDrama very dramatically.]])
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' for the Wii, where one of Mr. Sandman's lines is "Tell your face... to leave my fists alone."

--> '''Lloyd:''' Stop apologizing for everything!
--> '''Colette''' Oh, sorry...
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has Audino. Many players go out of their way to hunt down these pokemon, as they [[PinataEnemy give insane amounts of experience]] when [[NonLethalKO knocked out]]. At level 35 and above, some Audino will actually ''heal'' the player's pokemon while getting the tar beaten out of them by said pokemon. [[WhatTheHellPlayer Several]] [[WhatTheHellHero tropes come]] [[{{Hypocrite}} to mind]].
* ''VideoGame/TheHalloweenHack'' has Desperate Survivors, who waste turns and even go out apologizing to you even though you're the one attacking them (only more obvious that they ''run away'' from you on the field screen).
* In ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', if you kill the Maiden in Black, the Nexial Binding in her ankle will revive her after a few seconds, and she will tearfully apologize for being unable to die.

They are the ButtMonkey, TheWoobie, and/or the ChewToy, and ''they'' apologize for it. When dangerous weapons are involved, thus pushing this trope UpToEleven, it can don the name "Sorry I Fell Into Your Fire" or "Sorry I Bumped Into Your Bullet".

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* In ''Roleplay/DeptHeavenApocrypha'', Nessiah's lack of self-confidence makes him apologize to Milanor incessantly (read: whenever the topic arises) for Milanor having to take care of him, no matter how many times Milanor insists that he's doing it because he wants to. Nessiah also still blames himself for the abuse he's suffered at Hector's hands, which isn't helping him too much mentally...
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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In "Launch" at Season 5, Mermista, Perfuma and Frosta give a ReasonWhyYouSuck speech to Entrapta out of frustration and anger because they think that she didn't care about Glimmer (who was kidnapped by Horde Prime)and had agreed into tracking Prime's ship signal as a pretext to explore his technology. Actually, Entrapta WAS trying to track the signal to save Glimmer so she could atone for her wrongdoings while she worked for the Horde; she all but apologizes for being alive and breathing while she runs away in tears to find the signal at once. Still, Mermista [[ByTheHair almost yanked Entrapta's hair off]] before the poor scientist could explain her true intentions, still apologizing for not hearing her bullies. In the end, the princesses help her to find the signal so Adora and Bow will be able to rescue Glimmer, but they never apologize to Entrapta for mistreating her. No onscreen, at least.

* SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower: In "Launch" at Season 5, Mermista, Perfuma and Frosta give a ReasonWhyYourSuck speech to Entrapta out of frustration and anger because they think that she didn't care about Glimmer (who was kidnapped by Horde Prime)and had agreed into tracking Prime's ship signal as a pretext to explore his technology. Actually, Entrapta WAS trying to track the signal to save Glimmer so she could atone for her wrongdoings while she worked for the Horde; she all but apologizes for being alive and breathing while she runs away in tears to find the signal at once. Still, Mermista [[ByTheHair almost yanked Entrapta's hair off]] before the poor scientist could explain her true intentions, still apologizing for not hearing her bullies. In the end, the princesses help her to find the signal so Adora and Bow will be able to rescue Glimmer, but they never apologize to Entrapta for mistreating her. No onscreen, at least.

** Also Ritsu Sohma. The two of them occasionally get in to apologizing contests.

* Inverted in ''Manga/YuGiOh''. There are two instances where Seto Kaiba throws a card to disarm someone in physical combat, and each time, he's disgusted that his opponent ruined his rare card. Kaiba's "This is for making me waste a perfectly good trading card!" moment in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' was not an exaggeration.