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[[File:CrappyIntervieweesApologizer.png|frame|<small>[[Self-Demonstrating Article|I'm sorry!]] I can't think of a better caption for [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/interviewees this image]!</small> ]]
[[Self-Demonstrating Article|Sorry!]] This article has two quotes on the main page instead of just one.
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Wait, are we starting the description? Ahh, oh no!! I'm so sorry, I'll get started!
Alright, this trope is about a character who [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|apologizes a lot]]. When called on it, may actually apologize for being so apologetic. Often a trait of a [[Dojikko]] or [[Cute Clumsy Girl]] and not out of place on a [[Shrinking Violet]]. Often comes with [[Self-Deprecation]]. Some [[Apologetic Attacker
Can also be a trait of real people.
Sorry, was that okay??
=== Sorry, sorry! Thank you for waiting! I'm here with the examples! ===▼
== Sorry for beginning with [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Kaede from ''[[SHUFFLE!]]''.
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* Hatsumi from ''[[Hot Gimmick]]''.
* Ai Kaga from ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' 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.
* Nagisa and Ryou from ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]''
* Himeko from ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'', largely cause she doesn't (for most of the series) regard herself as being worth the space she occupies. This even sort of happens during the infamous [[Wham! Episode|episode 8]].
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Asuka and Shinji play the "Stop apologising so much! Sorry..." gag.
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* Sumeragi Subaru from ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'' does this a lot. In Book 4 he apologizes so much that his sister tells him to stop saying sorry, and he apologizes for apologizing.
* Jacuzzi Splot in ''[[Baccano!]]!'' does a lot of apologizing for very little provocation, including claiming that he should be the one to apologize for being run into and apologizing to someone because he called her a good person without actually knowing if she was or not, and finally, apologizing for introducing himself
* Minawa from ''[[Mahoromatic]]'', usually because she's just [[
* Sena from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' can go from improbably badass running back to compulsive, apologizing bowing fool in an instant if he gets flustered.
* Pagaya of ''[[One Piece]]'' apologizes nearly every time he speaks, to the point where this is almost a [[Verbal Tic]].
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* John Ritter's character in ''[[Noises Off]]''. Christopher Reeve's character does a variant on the theme.
* Hello, Wesley from ''[[Wanted]]''. At least, I think that's his name. Anyway, he shot someone while doing a flip over their car IN ANOTHER CAR while saying "I'm Sorry!" in slow motion.
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* Nina, the lead of ''[[Black Swan]]'', shows this trope in spades.
* Frank Tupelo's ''first line'' in the movie ''[[The Tourist]]'' is "I'm sorry." The woman who just sat down in front of him actually asks what he is sorry for.
== Sorry for mentioning [[Literature]] at all ==
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== I apologize for using examples from [[Live
* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', Tobin Dax was one of these, as we see during Jadzia's ''zhian'tara'' ritual, where his personality is placed into O'Brien's body temporarily. Complete with being told to stop, and apologising for apologising.
* The Tenth Doctor, from ''[[Doctor Who]]''. So much so that "I'm sorry, I am so sorry." is pretty much his [[Catch Phrase]]. ''Well''... one of them. In his case, most of the time he's sorry to be the bearer of bad news, rather than sorry for any of the [[Jerkass]] things he's done.
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* Sookie in ''[[True Blood]]''
* This was part of why Amanda Kimmel came in third in ''[[Survivor]]: China'', amongst [[Poor Communication Kills|other reasons]].
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* Quite a few of the characters from ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' are guilty of this, Serena being the worst. Chuck averted it for the first couple of seasons by hardly ''ever'' apologising for all the jerkass things he did, but come season three he started apologising as much - if not ''more'' - than everyone else.
* In ''[[Crownies]]'' Richard is constantly apologising "profusely" to Judge Walker, usually because he's brought in uncooperative witnesses. She lampshades it in one episode, while she's forcing him to copy by hand a list of prior convictions that he'd given her without a chance to properly format them, while dealing with a sprained wrist. He then informs her that his wrist was sprained in a bike accident on the way to her lecture two nights ago. She reveals that the ambulance that picked him up also dented her Prius. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|He apologises. Profusely]].
* Elizabeth on the ninth season of ''[[Hell's Kitchen]]''. [[Television Without Pity]]'s tagline for the episode in which she was eliminated read as follows: "Elizabeth's gone. She's sorry, you guys. She's so sorry. So sorry. Sorry sorry sorry! (Sorry.)"
== Our apologies for having examples from [[Music]] ==
* [[REM]]'s "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)", whose chorus is entirely made up of Michael Stipe yelling "I'm sorry!", while "The Apologist" is the same deal but with added "So sorry!"'s.
* The [[Vocaloid]] song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhmnbvT3Sns Heta Lenka] ends each refrain with Len letting out a long, [[Cute Clumsy
* The [[Galaxie 500]] song "Sorry".
{{quote|''Are you sorry that you love me''
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== Pardon us for having so few examples from [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]]
* [[Christopher Titus|"I'm Whitey, and I apologize!"]]
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* ''[[Fire Emblem]] 10'' (Radiant Dawn) has a conversation where Rafiel would over-apologize. Ike suggests that he doesn't need to be so soft, prompting a confused Rafiel to apologize again (this is how he was brought up in the heron tribe).
** According to Nailah, all herons were like this, Reyson is an exception because he has spent to much time picking up manners from Tibarn.
* ''[[Wild
* Oichi from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]''. Oh sweet heavens for the love of GOD... ''Oichi''!!
{{quote|'''Oichi''': ''I'm sorry... This is all Ichi's fault... I'm so sorry, please forgive Ichi...!''}}
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== I'm also sorry for listing examples from
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel Communitychannel] Natalie Tran. Popular Australian [http://www.youtube.com youtuber]. She either apologises for not making a video soon enough, or aplogogises for making one. Even after her most liked videos, like "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2RzKNCahRg We Just Touched Awkwardly]" she apologeticly whispers "back to normal broadcasting, next video". She even titles some of her videos "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7IQCHQUos Sorry, this is so crap]" or "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cv-KjQMdQ4 sorry it doubles but there are outtakes]" or "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfmePghddJ8 sorry this isnt very good guys]" or "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQntXoMLFkw sorry this is crap. late merry christmas/hsm/favourite songs]" . She even has a video entitled briefly: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqm9ZJkkRso sorry]"▼
* Dee in ''[[Tales of MU]]'' is anything but a [[Dojikko]], but she apologizes at the drop of a cowl.▼
* [[Maddison Atkins]], as Adam [[Lampshade Hanging|observes]].▼
* Parodied in "Soh-ry", part of a self contained series of [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=250 "Canadian Stereotype Comics"] in ''[[Hark! A Vagrant]]''.
* Modern day Germany in ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]'', out of guilt for Nazi Germany's actions. (They're separate characters here.)
* Kieri from ''[[Slightly Damned]]'', especially earlier on. At one point moves into [[Sorry I Fell on Your Fist]] territory when Kieri [http://www.sdamned.com/2006/10/10202006/ claims it is her fault] that she was cursed by a spiteful demigod. {{spoiler|Justified by how Kieri is strongly suggested to have had an [[Why Did You Make Me Hit You?|abusive mother]]. }}
* You wouldn't expect it, but [[The Nostalgia Critic]]. For God's sake, his top fuck-up was not finding [[Transformers: The Movie|Optimus Prime's death]] depressing.▼
* The horribly abusive childhood of Jeremy MacConnor (''[[Platinum Grit]]'') has made him honestly believe everything to be his fault, and he apologises accordingly.
* Hanners in ''[[Questionable Content]]'' sometimes starts [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3076 recursive apologies]. [https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3953 Beeps] gets stuck in apology loops too.
== I'm terribly sorry that you had to wait this long for [[Web Original]] examples ==
▲* [http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel Communitychannel] Natalie Tran. Popular Australian [http://www.youtube.com youtuber]. She either apologises for not making a video soon enough, or aplogogises for making one. Even after her most liked videos, like "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2RzKNCahRg We Just Touched Awkwardly]" she apologeticly whispers "back to normal broadcasting, next video". She even titles some of her videos "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7IQCHQUos Sorry, this is so crap]" or "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cv-KjQMdQ4 sorry it doubles but there are outtakes]" or "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfmePghddJ8 sorry this isnt very good guys]" or "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQntXoMLFkw sorry this is crap. late merry christmas/hsm/favourite songs]" . She even has a video entitled briefly: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqm9ZJkkRso sorry]"
▲* Dee in ''[[Tales of MU]]'' is anything but a [[Dojikko]], but she apologizes at the drop of a cowl.
▲* [[Maddison Atkins]], as Adam [[Lampshade Hanging|observes]].
▲* You wouldn't expect it, but [[The Nostalgia Critic]]. For God's sake, his top fuck-up was not finding [[Transformers: The Movie|Optimus Prime's death]] depressing.
* Through most of the first volume of ''[[RWBY]]'' it seemed like "I'm sorry!" was the [[Catch Phrase]] of Pyrrha Nikos.
== We regret that we didn't mention [[Western Animation]] earlier ==
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