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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]] ==
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== Pardon us for having so few examples from [[Recorded and Stand
* [[Christopher Titus|"I'm Whitey, and I apologize!"]]
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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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