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[[File:tvtropes-otoboku-orz.jpg|link=Otome wa Boku Ni Koishiteru|~~right~~|Mizuho faces the reality of [[Wholesome Crossdresser|his]] situation.]]

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* Principal Uchiyamida does this to his insurance company whenever his Cresta gets destroyed in ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]''.

* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', Panther becomes convinced (thanks to his friend Watt, a self-proclaimed but usually-mistaken expert on Japanese culture) that ''dogeza'' involves dangling from one foot with your arms and legs outstretched. When he gets to Japan, Sena has to show him how it's really done. Later, Panther tries to use ''dogeza'' to convince Apollo to [[Put Me in Coach|let him play for the NASA Aliens]], but Apollo doesn't relent until the rest of the team does ''dogeza'' as well. In a later episode, the American character Big Bear is shown doing the same posture as Panther initially thought a ''dogeza'' was.

** This may be a [[Shout Out]] to a famous scene in ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'', where the arrogant Hyuga goes into the pose of supplication in front of his ultra strict Toho coach, begging him to let him play in the finals. When the coach refuses, ''the whole team'' imitates Hyuga to support him. After a last test to see Hyuga's ability and how serious he is, the coach allows Hyuga to come back.

** This may be a [[Shout-Out]] to a famous scene in ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'', where the arrogant Hyuga goes into the pose of supplication in front of his ultra strict Toho coach, begging him to let him play in the finals. When the coach refuses, ''the whole team'' imitates Hyuga to support him. After a last test to see Hyuga's ability and how serious he is, the coach allows Hyuga to come back.

*** In the manga and old anime series, Hyuga's mentor and the person who unwittingly caused his fall of grace arrives from Okinawa right before the finals... and goes into the pose too in front of Hyuga's actual coach, after explaining his part in the whole mess and apologizing for the troubles Hyuga and the team when through. He refuses to get up until the other coach assures him Hyuga will play.

* In ''[[Get Backers]]'', Shido does this to Ban, who has always been a bitter rival, to convince him to help save the kidnapped Madoka; Ban initially brusquely refuses, and other characters are astonished ("[[What the Hell, Hero?|Don't you know how hard that must have been for him?]]").

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* Seen a few times in ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]''. In episode 26, Keroro imagines Natsumi doing this out of gratitude for helping so that her mom can come to the sports festival. In episode 27, Keroro himself does this when he begs Natsumi and Fuyuki to [[Maintain the Lie|pretend they've been captured so Keroro can impress his visiting father]].

* Gon does this in chapters 304 and 305 of ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' upon finding out that {{spoiler|Kaito is dead}}.

* Minori of ''[[Toradora (Light Novel)|Toradora]]'' does this around the beginning of the story, in a [[Shout Out]] way to the aforemented ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'' scene (she even uses the same pre-scene [[Badass]] pose of sternly crossing her arms, with her jacket put on her back like a cape dramatically floating in the wind!), when she, in a misunderstanding, believed Taiga and Ryuuji were an item, and begged the latter to take good care of the former.

* Minori of ''[[Toradora (Light Novel)|Toradora]]'' does this around the beginning of the story, in a [[Shout-Out]] way to the aforemented ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'' scene (she even uses the same pre-scene [[Badass]] pose of sternly crossing her arms, with her jacket put on her back like a cape dramatically floating in the wind!), when she, in a misunderstanding, believed Taiga and Ryuuji were an item, and begged the latter to take good care of the former.

* In ''[[Moyashimon]]'', after Professor Itsuki samples Misato and Kawahama's home-made ''kuchikame'' sake, he's so impressed by their inquisitive spirit that he does this as he asks them to join his lab team as research assistants.

* In the [[Sailor Moon]] R movie, the four Inner Seishi go into the pose to {{spoiler|beg Fiore to spare the life of Moon, whom he intends to torture to death.}}

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* In the older ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters]]'' games, your defeated characters would be shown in the background as you play with the others, sitting or kneeling around sadly after their losses. Their poses were different per character, but several of these were very similar to the traditional [[Pose of Supplication]].

* The temple-guardian [[Mooks]] in ''[[Prince of Persia]] 2'' all give up fighting and assume the [[Pose of Supplication]] after you get the Flame. Hilariously, if they're at the edge of a platform, they'll fall right into a [[Bottomless Pit]].

* Shu, who is being targeted for recruitment as [[The Strategist]] by the [[Hello, Insert Name Here|player character's]] army in ''[[Suikoden II]]'', asks [[Quickly Demoted Woman|Apple]] to assume the [[Pose of Supplication]] before he'll consider [[Joined Your Party|joining up]]. One sign he's at least a minor [[Jerkass]] is that he admonishes her for throwing away her pride so quickly, then leaves the room.

* Shu, who is being targeted for recruitment as [[The Strategist]] by the [[Hello, Insert Name Here|player character's]] army in ''[[Suikoden II]]'', asks [[Quickly-Demoted Woman|Apple]] to assume the [[Pose of Supplication]] before he'll consider [[Joined Your Party|joining up]]. One sign he's at least a minor [[Jerkass]] is that he admonishes her for throwing away her pride so quickly, then leaves the room.

* Yangus does this when begging his old friend Red to return the horse and cart she stole from them in ''[[Dragon Quest VIII (Video Game)|Dragon Quest VIII]]''.

* The image potholed in the description comes from the ''doujin soft'' visual novel, [http://www.insani.org/omgwtfotl.html ''OMGWTFOTL'']. The option to genuflect pops up almost entirely throughout the game. {{spoiler|Every instance leads you to the same bad end.}}

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