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* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]:
** In the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before", Kirk pauses to apologize to Gary Mitchell before smashing him with a rock. Mitchell just happens to get back his super-powers in that instant.
** And in "Operation - Annihilate!" a whole colony does this: they've been infected by [[Puppeteer Parasite|Puppeteer Parasites]]s, and they apologize and beg their victims to run away even as they're attacking.
** In "The Man Trap", McCoy says "Lord forgive me," as he kills the [[Monster of the Week]], which had shapeshifted into his ex-girlfriend.
* In "Time's Arrow, Part 2" of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', Riker says "I just want you to know that I have the utmost respect for the law" to a policeman, then punches him out.
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* In the prologue before the game starts, an alien invasion kills [[Iji]]'s father and little sister {{spoiler|and almost the whole human population}}, but even after she is transformed into a [[Nanomachines|nanomachine]]-powered cyborg, she has no desire to kill her attackers and says a grief-stricken "I'm sorry..." when she does.
** Before you start racking up kills in ''[[Iji]]'', Iji will sometimes mumble a tear-quenched "I'm sorry" after killing an enemy. This gets reversed if you shoot everything you see, however, which makes her yell "Why don't you just DIE!" or similar when shooting them.
* Some of the mercenaries in the ''[[Jagged Alliance]]'' series are [[Apologetic Attacker|Apologetic Attackers]], and others begin as such but grow hardened (or [[Sociopathic Soldier|develop a murder fetish]]) with experience.
* During the first battle with Jafar in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', he orders the Genie to attack you. Before every attack, the Genie yells "I'm really sorry about this!" or the equivalent ("Oh please oh please let me miss!") as well as "Quick, get out of the way!", and if he does hit you, health orbs fly out of his fist to make up for it.
* Shannon in ''[[Ougon Musou Kyoku]]'' is literally an [[Apologetic Attacker]], as one of her moves is an apologetic bow.
* The automated turrets from ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' fit this trope. After being deactivated, they say things like "No hard feelings" and "I don't hate you".
** They may also apologize to ''each other'' if one turret collides with another.