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{{quote|''"Wow! How powerful a man do you have to be to be able to shoot somebody in the face, and have ''that'' guy go: 'My bad!'"''|'''Jon Stewart'''
As [[Collateral Angst]] states, "Some stories make things even worse by having the casualty apologize for being hurt. They will use phrases such as "being a burden" or "letting you down" to express their guilt.
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Compare [[Why Did You Make Me Hit You?]] and [[Apologizes a Lot]]. [[My Fist Forgives You]] is the inverse of this.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[The Chick|Princess Sakura]] in ''[[Tsubasa Chronicle]]''. She can't fairly be held accountable for the burden she imposes on [[Hero Secret Service|the crew]], as she didn't choose to go on a dimension-hopping quest and can't help her drowsiness seeing as her heart literally broke into pieces and flew away. Her lack of combat ability is also understandable, given that she was a princess with an [[Big Brother Instinct|overprotective big brother]]. Later on she does get to kick some ass, until her soul leaves her body ''again''.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In an issue of the Marvel ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comics, Lady Jaye and Zarana get into a [[Designated Girl Fight]] (more of a [[Cat Fight]], really) while several male Joes and [[COBR As]] watch before finally pulling them apart. Afterwards, Zarana's fellow Dreadnoks compliment her performance, one saying "I especially liked how Zarana kept hitting the soles of Lady Jaye's boots with her face!"
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* Used sarcastically by Lando Calrissian in one of the [[Star Wars]] [[Expanded Universe]] novels; some corrupt cops rough him up, then drag him to the equally corrupt governor, where he is charged with many crimes, including assault on a law officer. Lando snarkily admits yes, he attacked the officer's fist with his stomach.▼
* She's not directly apologizing to her attacker, but after Lady Sybil is briefly taken hostage in ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', she apologizes to her husband for "letting him down." It's more an apology for being tearful and shaken about it than an apology for being taken hostage, but it's enough to seriously freak him out.▼
== [[Film]] ==
* An auto-collision version occurs in ''[[Analyze This]]''. After Dr. Sobol rear-ends the mobsters, Jelly tells him "it's all right; it was our fault for being in front of you like that. Forget about it!" Then again, Jelly didn't REALLY think it was their fault; he was just trying to get rid of Dr. Sobol before he noticed the kidnapped mobster in the trunk.
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▲* Used sarcastically by Lando Calrissian in one of the [[Star Wars]] [[Expanded Universe]] novels; some corrupt cops rough him up, then drag him to the equally corrupt governor, where he is charged with many crimes, including assault on a law officer. Lando snarkily admits yes, he attacked the officer's fist with his stomach.
▲* She's not directly apologizing to her attacker, but after Lady Sybil is briefly taken hostage in ''[[
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', "Demons and Angels", when the High Lister has been fatally stabbed:
{{quote|'''High Lister''': Forgive me, brother. I appear to have stained thy knife-end with my blood. A thousand apologies. [''dies'']
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* US Vice-President Dick Cheney accidentally shot Harry Whittington, a wealthy campaign contributor, while they were hunting together in Texas. Whittington apologized to Cheney. Then again, the accident occurred at least partly because Whittington was standing somewhere he wasn't supposed to... [[Double Subversion|
* It's almost universal in Britain (don't know about elsewhere) for someone who's been bumped into to begin to apologise profusely. We don't like confrontation
** Maybe not profusely, but it's common practice for Americans to apologize, too; both the bumper and the bumpee.
** In which case, the assumption is generally that someone wasn't paying attention to their surroundings. Nine times out of ten, it was both, so both are at fault.
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** Possibly justified in that instance, as it could be a way of trying to mollify the assailant so they'll stop.
* Joke: How do you get a Canadian to say "I'm sorry"? Punchline: You step on his foot.
* In the U.S., at least, some schools that decide to "crack down" on fighting adopt a policy where everybody involved in a fight automatically gets punished, and the definition of "fight" covers pretty much any physical altercation, no matter how one-
** Or, in other schools, Inverted as people are allowed to ''beat the crap out of someone'' if they so much as bumped into them, as "self-defense" is often seen as justification for a fight. No matter how little the attack was.
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