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{{Quote|"Okay. I don't forgive you."
Fiction loves to advocate for [[Forgiveness]] and [[Turn the Other Cheek|Turning the Other Cheek]]. A person has done a terrible thing. They are truly remorseful and are willing to make amends. A simple apology will probably do the trick.
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* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', Dream apologetically and solemnly tell Rose this multiple times as he prepares to kill her to save the Dreaming, as she is an [[Apocalypse Maiden]]. Rose eventually shouts at him to stop apologizing, and to get it over with already.
* ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' showed this in a few cases.
** In Slade's backstory, he apologized to his wife for getting Joey, their toddler son, permanently injured by assassins that
** Robin couldn't stop apologizing to Starfire after learning that {{spoiler|Mirage kidnapped and impersonated her, and Kory lampshades how he failed to realize ''something'' was wrong when Mirage didn't have flight or starbolts. Even [[Heel Face Revolving Door]] Slade could tell something was off while stalking them, since he knows it's not like Starfire to hold back and let Robin do all the fighting. Nightwing attempts to salvage the situation by popping the question, but Raven's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] crashed the nuptials while possessing Starfire}}.
** When Dark Angel erased Donna from existence, Wally West managed to bring her back with his memories of her. Just one problem: he brought back the idealized version of Donna, not the actual person. Donna suffered an existential crisis as a result, questioning if she was real or just the girl on whom Wally crushed. He tries to apologize and bring her back to the person she was, but she rebuffed him. Even when Donna regained her true self, they remained friends.
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* ''[[Divergent]]'' has Al bawling when he apologizes to Tris for assisting in an attempt on her life, after she ranked first in the Divergent faction. Her response is that if he touches her again, she will kill him.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' has this happen a few times in the past and the present:
** In ''[[Harry Potter and
** Zigzagged with Percy, because he ''doesn't'' apologize at first for turning his back on the family and making his mother cry. In fact, he doesn't talk to them period after the Wizarding World learns that Minister Fudge was lying about Voldemort's return, meaning his father was right all along not to trust Fudge. The new Minister, Rufus Scrimgoeur, tries to use Percy to gain admittance to the Burrow, where Harry is spending the winter holidays. Percy is given a few moments with his family, where he ''could'' apologize for being an ambitious ass, while the Minister talks to Harry. Instead, Percy acted like the previous year didn't happen so his younger siblings — including [[Beware the Nice Ones|Ginny]] — tossed mashed parsnips at him.
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* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'':
** ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' shows that Lady Stoneheart, aka a resurrected Catelyn Stark, will accept no apologies from those involved in the Red Wedding or associated with the Lannisters. When Merrett Frey begs for his life after Stoneheart uses the Brotherhood Without Banners to lead him into a trap, she gives the order to hang him.
** In ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'', Jaime is disgusted with his family for arranging the Red Wedding, which violated [[Sacred Hospitality]] by using the Freys to kill off the Starks over the crime of Robb Stark refusing to marry a Frey and instead wed Jeyne Westerling. He wasn't directly involved, but everyone blames him because Tywin Lannister wouldn't have engaged in mass slaughter if his captor Catelyn Stark hadn't released him as a hostage in exchange for her daughters. When visiting the Westerlings, who used their daughter Jeyne to curry favor with the Lannisters, Jaime is truly sorry on seeing that Jeyne has torn her clothes in mourning and still has Robb's crown. He can't directly apologize but says that he'll arrange a good marriage for her. Jeyne isn't in the mood to hear it, for obvious reasons.
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** At a convention, Jade opted to stay in her hotel room while Brent went out to the festivities. A woman hung out with him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Brent allowed it, not knowing that Jade had seen when coming out of the hotel room. He apologized to Jade, but she didn't accept it; they had a fight and (temporarily) broke up as a result.
** Zigzagged when Jade smacks Brent for backseat-driving. While Brent was shocked that Jade would do such a thing and didn't want to talk to her, Jade did apologize but also pointed out that he was ''grabbing the wheel'', which could have made them crash. Brent refuses to listen and schedules an appointment with a therapist.
* In ''The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter'', Marquis Sperado, after noticing that Leslie, the daughter he has abused since birth and even tried to murder in a fire to empower his eldest child, has the magic power his family has coveted, tries to stop himself and the rest of the household from mistreating her and even directly ask for forgiveness over the years of mistreatment. Leslie, who knows her family too well and has already planned her escape from them, immediately realizes that this is a very transparent attempt to softening her for the kill, so immediately and publicly rejects their half-assed forgiveness pleas.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* A parent may say to a child "Sorry isn't enough" to explain this lesson. The child may need a while to understand it, since we are taught to say sorry when making a mistake.
* Radio host [[Don Imus]] once referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "Nappy-headed hos". Note that the women were black, with "Nappy" being a racial slur. Imus made a public apology, but he was soon fired from the show. It didn't help that he said after, "And it was a straight-forward apology that Charles and I wrote. And I didn’t offer any I didn’t think it was necessary to offer any excuse, and I don’t think there is now. "
* In her comic memoir ''Return to Society Punch!'', Naoko Takeuchi recounted that everyone at Kodansha was ''so'' sorry because they lost several pages of her follow-up series ''PQ Angels'', and they kept passing the buck. Needless to say, she did not accept their apologies. (This was before digital backups and scans.) To add insult to injury, she was pressured to do another long-form series after finishing ''Sailor Moon'', despite begging for a break, and she was burned out from working all the time. Takeuchi got so fed up that she quit Kodansha, took a long-needed vacation for a year, and went to work for Shueisha instead.
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