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First, I'm sorry that you have no life and spend all day editing tropes. Second, this is a subtrope of Sarcasm Mode, when a supposed apology is actually very unapologetic, and instead makes it very clear that either the person being apologized to is the one in the wrong, or that the apologizer prefers Insane Troll Logic to admitting they are wrong. So when Alice is supposed to apologize to Bob, she instead says "I'm sorry you screwed up, Bob." Why would Alice be apologizing in the first place? Perhaps Bob demands an apology for some tiny or imagined slight, and Alice just can't resist explaining how it's all his fault, instead. Perhaps Alice's boss is a Beleaguered Bureaucrat or a Corrupt Corporate Executive who just wants to get the problem over with, and the easiest way to do that is to order Alice to apologize for something she didn't do. Or perhaps Alice really is in the wrong, but she's enough of a Jerkass to ignore this in favor of putting Bob down. Note that it's not enough for Alice to just say "I'm not sorry." If anything, that would be the high road compared to this trope's inherent pettiness. Her apology has to actively shift the blame to Bob. This may cause Alice to say Screw the Money, I Have Rules!, to place Honor Before Reason, or lead her to become The Last DJ. Alternatively, this is just one more spat between Alice and Bob and there are no real consequences, other than Bob now being irritated with Alice. A subtler variation of this trope is for Alice to apologise by saying something like "I'm sorry you feel that way, Bob." This is a relative of False Reassurance and an even closer relative of the Stealth Insult, since Bob has to pay attention to the wording to notice that she's putting the blame on him for being offended rather than on herself for causing offense. If it's an Ordered Apology, the character giving the order may declare that it's not acceptable. A genuine apology, one that lacks any sarcasm or double meaning, would be a Heartfelt Apology, the direct opposite of this trope. Compare with Flippant Forgiveness and Bait-and-Switch Comment. Compare and contrast Never My Fault, where the perpetrator directly blames others for their own wrongdoing, with no attempt to disguise it as a non-apology. See also YouTuber Apology Parody, which commonly intersects with this trope thanks to the common perception of such videos as half-hearted attempts at damage control. If Alice instead apologises to the thing she compared Bob to, that's Insult to Rocks. Also see Two-Faced Aside. |
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From the Adventure Time episode "Mystery Dungeon": | |
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The Accidental Animagus: Charles casually calls Andromeda a "common whore"; when she points her wand at him, forcing him to apologize, he offers one of these, making clear how insincere his "apology" is. | |
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In the BoJack Horseman episode "Brand New Couch", BoJack's mother Beatrice calls him to apologize for how she treated him during his childhood after reading his memoirs. However, even as she apologizes, she still can't stop insulting him, calling him a narcissist for writing a memoir, and telling him he was born broken and that he'll never get better. | |
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House is forced to apologize to Cuddy's mother: "I'm sorry... that we saved your life," he starts, and then steers it back to a straight apology: "...in the way that we did." Wilson gives the apology a B+. | |
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Played humorously in That '70s Show. Kelso tells the guys that he got into some trouble with Pam Macey, mainly him unable to... well, let's just say in his case, the South didn't rise again. Eric and Hyde proceed to mock him about it, which Fez chatises them for. Then we get this gem from him: | |
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After the girls of The Baby-Sitters Club get into a huge fight, Mary Anne writes her friends "apology" notes. While she manages one sincere apology to Claudia, the other notes fall under this trope: | |
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A closing gag in The Simpsons episode "Insane Clown Poppy" has Homer being chased by the mafia mob. He then screams that he's sorry, causing them to stop and decide to leave him be. He then invokes this trope (saying, "I'm sorry you're such jerks") and the chase resumes. Another time, Homer declared, "I never apologize for anything. I'm sorry, that's just the way I am." It's played for Hypocritical Humor, but it becomes more logical when you reflect on it: It's really only half an apology when someone says, "I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna change." A complete apology would mean being willing to change and make things better, and anything that contradicts this is something of a backhanded apology. |
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So-Sorree from Yo-kai Watch makes anybody it inspirits do this constantly, to the annoyance of their peers. | |
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Sex and the City: Carrie apologizes to Big's trophy-wife for having an affair with Big, to which she reples "I'm sorry too: I'm sorry you cheated with my husband, ran around behind my back, and caused me to fall and break my tooth, requiring 27 stitches and hours of painful surgery." | |
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In Roseanne, DJ and his Mom are fighting, so while at the diner he leaves a note on one of the tables saying "The big scary one spits in the food." Annoyed, Roseanne demands he apologize. In the architects sketch, after Mr Wiggin's tirade of insults towards the city gents, they simply reply "Well we're sorry you feel like that." |
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The Night Unfurls: Downplayed in Chapter 1 of the remastered version. Kyril is not one for insults or jerkassery, but his apology towards Alicia for not showing respect towards a noble like her serves to highlight his brusque, seemingly uncaring demeanour. | |
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Ruby Rose from RWBY gives one to Weiss after Weiss sums up how their first fight as a team didn't go very well. | |
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In a banter between Anomen and Jan Jansen in Baldur's Gate II, Jan 'apologizes' to Anomen for having been impolite by pointing out Anomen's many unflattering characteristics in public. He then proceeds to list every one of them, pointing out that it was rude of him to bring attention to it before and apologising for it. | |
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In The Boys (2019), Super Supremacist Blue Hawk gets in hot water for using Police Brutality in black neighborhoods. When he's forced to make an Ordered Apology, he essentially says "I'm sorry you feel that way" with it quickly devolving into a shouting match with the crowd and violence. | |
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Squirt and Shimmer do this to each other in "Stumped" on Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends after having a fight over a hollyberry. Holley demands that they stop fighting and apologize to each other. "Sorry your ugly scarecrow won't have a head," shouts Squirt and Shimmer retorts "And I'm sorry that you're the world's worst berry thief!" Later, the two apologize to each other for real after they cool off and realize the pettiness of their earlier behavior. | |
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In a For Better or for Worse comic, Michael is showing off all of his new back-to-school supplies and then teases Elizabeth because she didn't get anything, causing her to cry. John then tells Michael to apologize, and say it like he means it, so Michael says "sorry" in a goofy voice, which causes him to get sent to his room. | |
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Scrubs: After Carla tries to interfere in Perry and Jordan's relationship, Turk persuades her to apologize to Jordan: Elliot within the first three episodes gets off on the wrong foot with Carla, J.D. makes her apologize and then she always adds "you know I'm right" or "But (excuse)". There is added dream sequences of her digging her own grave to prove the point! |
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In Rick and Morty, Rick is not the type to apologize. The closest you'll get from him is "I'm sorry you think you deserve an apology." Beth realizes she's not that different when she refuses to apologize to someone too, ultimately admitting "Oh my god, I'm my father." | |
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After a reader with the surname Dork complained about a Dilbert strip using "Dork" as an insult, Scott Adams printed a reply in which Dogbert apologized "To all the Dorks who were offended." | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, when Calvin is (unusually) trying to apologize to Susie, she just tells him to get lost, and he screams at her as she walks away: "I'm trying to apologize, you dumb noodleloaf!" He then Face Palms realizes what he's just said. | |
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In Super Paper Mario, after Luvbi trash-talks the Mario brothers, Jaydes (her mother) forces her to apologize. So she replies. "I am sorry... that thou art so hairy." (The last part said very quickly and apparently unnoticed by Jaydes, though Mario reacts.) | |
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The Closer: Assistant Chief Pope has received numerous complaints about friction between Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson and other legal departments, and so has ordered her to apologize to the offended parties. Pope himself delivers a nice one in season 4 to a man accused of killing his wife due to past domestic abuse: |
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Total Drama Island (2024): Bowie's apology to the people he screwed over last season quickly turns into him telling them they should thank him for showing them how Total Drama should be played. Bowie is glad to have that off his chest, even though no one is mollified. | |
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Mean Girls: There's a scene where each girl is supposed to apologize and do a trust fall. One of the Girl Posse members makes this excuse for an apology, which leaves few willing to stand behind her to catch her when she falls: In the same scene, there's also the girl in the wheelchair: And this gem: Janis also does this with Regina when she "apologizes" for helping Cady in sabotaging her and says she did it because "I guess I've got a BIG, LESBIAN CRUSH ON YOU!" Really, save for Karen's apology and the over-emotional girl, it seems like most of the trust fall scene is this trope. |
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Beast Tamer: The hero party led by Arios needs Rein to do a quest for them, but they cruelly fired him, confiscated his equipment, and let him with few, if any, viable options. When they seek him out they try to recruit him with an insincere "apology" that goes along the lines of "sorry we had to fire you for being weak and useless." Rein and his party rightly take it as an insult and try to walk away before the heroes state that humanity will suffer greatly if Rein doesn't go to Lost Forest and get the Shield of Truth. When Rein agrees under those conditions, they insult him in just about every way imaginable for wasting their time. Cue a Curb-Stomp Battle on Arios and his party when Rein's party takes offense to that. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: After the guys act like Jerkasses to Penny's boyfriend Zack Leonard asks how they should apologize, Sheldon suggests "Zack, I'm sorry you're stupid. Have a Milk Dud". Sheldon tries to do this to Amy, but she doesn't accept it: |
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Happens in Video Game High School. The Law is such a jerk. | |
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In Donnie Darko, when the independent-minded teacher complains to the head about being fired, all he says is "I'm sorry you have failed." | |
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Late 2011 presented an archetypal example from Paul Christoforo of Ocean Marketing who, in the course of publicly abusing some customers, did not believe that one of the people he was talking to ran Penny Arcade. Hilarity ensued. The series of non-apologies was summarized as "Sorry, I wouldn't have done that if I had known I couldn't get away with it." | |
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This Hour Has 22 Minutes's Apology to America, in which Anthony St. George walks around Washington D.C. and passive-aggressively apologies on behalf of Canada for such things as calling George W. Bush a moron, burning down The White House during the War of 1812, various terrible Canadian celebrities and music inflicted on the U.S. over the decades, and, finally, for "apologizing for things in a passive-aggressive way which is really a thinly-veiled criticism, because we've seen what you do to countries you get upset with." | |
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Not Always Right: In this story, a customer, enraged about being asked if he was interested in the loyalty program, rants that it's a scam, and when the submitter tries to say it isn't, says the only thing he wants to hear from the submitter is an apology for trying to scam him. The submitter comes up with "Trust me, sir, I am very sorry I ever started this conversation," which he accepts. This customer demands an apology from the cashier for daring to tell him he's in the express lane with too many items. She says "Sir,I am sorry that you can't count to twelve." She gets written up for this, but says it was Worth It. |
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In episode 11 of the English dub of Beyblade G-Revolution, after losing a tag match against Ray and Lee, and a spat between Tyson and Daichi, Hilary orders the former to apologize to the latter for saying he'd "be better off beyblading alone". His response: | |
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Turning Red: Mei gives one to her mother Ming during the confrontation at the 4*Town concert. | |
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The launch of Warcraft III: Reforged was a complete disaster, rushed to release in time for 2020's fiscal year, with many features missing from the original Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos while lacking the cinematic cutscenes shown in its 2018 trailer, Game-Breaking Bugs and disconnections galore, and updating the EULA to grant Blizzard exclusive ownership over any and all custom content for fear of another DOTA scenario. To make matters worse, Reforged was merged with and overwrites the original game, meaning all of the problems with Reforged retroactively affect the original game regardless of whether the user buys Reforged or not. Fans were understandably furious, and eventually Blizzard issued an official statement addressing complaints... that refused to accept responsibility and attempted to shift blame to the fans for their high expectations that Blizzard themselves set with their 2018 trailer. It went about as well as you'd think it would, with Blizzard's reputation being self-damaged further. | |
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In Saints Row: The Third, one of the taunts for male voice is this: | |
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Erased Potential: After Nedzu repeatedly manipulates Toshinori, tricking him into revealing Izuku's status as a Recommended Student to the whole class, Izuku wants an apology. Nedzu initially pretends he didn't hear what he asked, followed by a pithy "Then I am sorry that I caused you trouble, Midoriya-kun." Aizawa immediately calls him out on this non-apology, and Nedzu affirms that he still thinks his actions were completely justified. This dismissive attitude only serves to irritate everyone else involved. | |
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Throughout Watching Amphibia, Sprig harshly judges everything Sasha and Marcy do. While they're watching "Marcy at the Gates", seeing how distressed Marcy is, he finds himself feeling like he needs to apologize for something, but isn't sure what — for the way he's been acting, or for ever trusting them in the first place? Ultimately, he keeps that thought internalized rather than voicing it. | |
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During her BlazBlue: Continuum Shift bad ending, after listing off everything that bores her, Terumi demands Rachel explain how "his existence" is on that list. She does apologize that "You can't help being so dull" in response. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Vegeta gets one in at the end of the first season, due to Goku's insistence that if Vegeta says he's sorry, he can leave Earth unmolested. The result? | |
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April 2018 presented a rather infuriating example of this as well; Former contributors of Channel Awesome put together an extensive document blowing the whistle on the site's terrible management, abuse (from the verbal to the physical to the sexual) from the higher-ups (especially CEO Mike Michaud), and poster boys Rob and Doug Walker's lack of will or care to do anything about it. Shortly after the mess became public and they could no longer ignore it, Channel Awesome posted an "apology" on their Twitter account where they told their viewers and their former contributors that they "sincerely regret that you felt that way", attempting to evade responsibility for nearly ten years of behind-the-scenes abuse. This resulted in disillusioned/disappointed fans leaving in droves and all but three of their remaining contributors leaving in less than a week. | |
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In The Umbrella Academy (2019), a retired Marine at the veterans' bar gets offended when twenty-something Klaus claims to be a Vietnam vet (which Klaus actually is, but there's Time Travel involved, so he doesn't look it) and demands an apology for this perceived lie. Klaus calmly agrees: | |
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The Arthur episode "So Funny, I Forgot to Laugh" centers around the title character making fun of Sue Ellen because of a fur sweater she wore to school; claiming that she looks like a sheepdog. Sue Ellen then tells Mr. Ratburn about this and he tells Arthur to write Sue Ellen an apology letter. Arthur does apologize in the letter, but also points out that he thinks that Sue Ellen is just overreacting. He does eventually give her a sincere apology however. | |
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In Jake and Amir, Jake calls out Amir for giving one of these to his cousin, Micah. | |
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Steven Universe: In "Barn Mates", Peridot tries to write an apology card to Lapis Lazuli. Unfortunately, Peridot is so asocial that even when she tries to be heartfelt, it comes off as insincere. | |
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The "Soup Nazi" episode of Seinfeld spawned one of these. Apparently, Jerry Seinfeld and several writers went to the restaurant of the man (Al Yeganeh) that the character had been based on. He recognized them and launched into a rant about how the episode had "ruined his life" and demanded an apology. Seinfeld stood up and gave, to quote, "the most sarcastic, insincere apology" he'd ever heard. Yeganeh then yelled "No soup for you!" and threw them out of the restaurant. | |
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The Colbert Report: Stephen likes to invert this by proclaiming "I accept your apology" to someone who has not, in fact, apologized in any way. Given that he's playing a satirical character, almost every apology to people he offends comes off as this. | |
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The Flash (2014): In the first Season Finale, Cisco reveals to Thawne that he has memories of Thawne killing him in an alternate timeline. Thawne says he's sorry...not for killing him (he's confident he had a good reason) but for him being able to remember it. | |
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Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Abridged has a subverted example of this trope. Rather than hitting her for Archer nearly killing him, Shirou suggests to Rin that he apologizes for the above event. While Rin complies, and genuinely, nonetheless, it doesn't stop her from throwing shade at Shirou for his actions during said event. | |
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Girl Genius Tarvek "complements" Gil on his deception in Paris: | |
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In the Murdoch Mysteries episode "Porcelain Lady", Detective Watts combines this with Backhanded Compliment when Constable Higgins makes a deduction: | |
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The most recent one is when The Miz speaks to CM Punk after the latter forces him to apologize to Paul Heyman for calling him a human walrus. So he replies with this: | |
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Glee: Santana is the absolute queen of this. Unfortunately, this leads to Finn asking the one question designed to hurt Santana where she lived: "Hey Santana, why don't you come out of the closet?" |
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Shrek: | |
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The title character's apology in Patton for slapping a soldier under his charge, which is based off something Patton did in real life. | |
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Miraculous Ladybug Salt-Shots: Downplayed in A Price to Pay. After betraying Marinette and helping his father make a reality-altering Wish, Adrien learns that said Wish didn't turn out as he expected: his mother was brought back to life, but wants nothing more to do with him or his father. He entreats Marinette for help, despite learning that she recalls the original reality and is fully aware of his betrayal... and that her own father was sacrificed as fuel for the Wish, apologizing in a way that implies he thinks she's in the wrong for even wanting an apology: | |
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In The Boondocks episode "The Itis", during a Sunday dinner at the Freeman house, Riley rudely complains about Sarah Dubois' food. Robert orders him to apologize, to which Riley responds: | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: In "The Trouble with Tribbles", Scotty makes it clear to Korax that he's treading on dangerous ground when he compares the Enterprise to a garbage scow. Instead of backing down, the Klingon doubles down: | |
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Bewitched: Maurice and Endora are not known to fully admit they're in the wrong. | |
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In The Good Place, Brent does this to Tahani after he write a book, where the main characters love interest is a racist, sexist caricature of her. After a few "attempts", he gives up and rants about how there was nothing wrong with his portrayal of Tahani, and accuses the rest of the gang of bullying him and infringing on his rights. | |
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Ally McBeal: In episode 5 of season 1, during Ally's hearing, with her lawyer license being at stake, her representative colleague heatedly argues to what he calls unfair process. Interrupting, their law firm boss (present, as he says earlier in the episode, as backup) declares to be in agreement with the board on this one, cheerfully continuing to elaborate that their hothead is being constantly reminded of the need for civility and yet keeps getting these reactions to witch-hunts, especially this blatant. | |
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In Tintin (at least the French version), Haddock has to apologize to the Thompsons for saying that a circus (actually a Moon crater, called a circus in French) needed two clowns, and that they would suit perfectly. He then proceeds to say: "The circus does not need two clowns. Therefore you would not suit perfectly." One of the Thompsons tries to ponder on what that actually implies, but the other is perfectly happy with this "apology". The English version changes the confusion to the Thompsons thinking the Sea of Nectar is the seaside, and Haddock claims that they're looking for two Punch and Judy men on the pier, for which they would suit perfectly. The apology goes about the same way, with Haddock "explaining" that they're not hiring after all, which doesn't address the insult at all. | |
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In Best of My Love, Lan Xichen demands that Jin Zixun apologize to Meng Yao after beating him up for insulting Meng Shi. Jin Zixun's response gets him whacked by Meng Yao with a trashcan lid. | |
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In Peaky Blinders, every apology made by Tom Hardy's character Alfie Solomons is either utterly flippant, sarcastic, or a transparent means of manipulating someone. The closest he gets to apparent sincerity is his apology to Arthur in season 3 for previously trying to frame the guy for murder, and even that is a blatant act of self-preservation, which he goes on to undermine anyway by trolling Arthur for several minutes afterward and keep mocking him. As a rule, a "good" apology probably doesn't end with the other person so irate they're inches away from smashing you over the head with an ashtray... | |
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In a flashback in Harpy Gee, queen Argema ordered Gigi and Lily to apologize to each other: | |
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In Saturday Night Live, Melissa McCarthy's impersonation of Sean Spicer opens with one of these: | |
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Non Sequitur: Danae loves this concept. | |
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Dogma Opening Disclaimer: | |
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Couturiere: Lila Rossi successfully manipulates all of Marinette's classmates into believing she's a bully, pushing her past her breaking point and causing her akumatization into the titular villain. When Couturiere corners Lila, she proceeds to offer up a non-apology wherein she pins all the blame on their classmates for being so easily tricked, as well as blaming Marinette for actually being hurt. Needless to say, Couturiere isn't amused, repaying her with a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. | |
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For His Own Sake: After Keitaro declares why he's leaving the Hinata Inn, calling out each of the girls on how much they hurt him, the only ones who attempt to apologize to him are Shinobu and Mutsumi. While neither one had hurt him directly, they generally failed to intervene when the other residents were abusing him. Shinobu apologizes honestly for not doing more to stop the others; Mitsumi, by contrast, talks more about how she's sorry that he's hurt Naru and the others by rejecting them, declaring that they should let bygones be bygones. This foreshadows their respective character arcs: Shinobu recognizes and accepts the part she unwittingly played in driving him away and works on being less of an Extreme Doormat, while Mutsumi convinces herself that Keitaro and Naru need her help to get back together. | |
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Used in a The Wizard of Id Sunday strip, where a peasant is loudly claiming that the king is a fink, for which he is brought before the king to apologise. | |
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Basic Instructions provides instructions on How to Apologize Without Accepting Any Blame. | |
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Anger Management: When Lincoln is made to apologise to Lynn, he says, "Sorry I didn't hurt you more". When Lynn is made to apologise to Lincoln, she thinks, "Sorry you aren't lying on the floor crying like a baby." |
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In Sonic X, Knuckles tells Eggman to release Amy from his clutches or he'll be sorry. Eggman then says that he's sorry that the heroes are still alive in the other world. | |
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In Black Books Manny has finally left Bernard's shop after one mistreatment too far. All Manny wants is an apology and Fran finally gets them in the shop together so Bernard can say sorry: | |
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Zoolander: Though it's possible that in Derek's case, he is being genuine. | |
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CONSEQUENCES (Miraculous Ladybug): In TEACHERS: EYES OF THE OWL, Lila's true nature is exposed and she's ordered to apologize to Marinette in front of the whole school. She opts to apologize for how she didn't keep her promise and completely ruin Marinette's life. | |
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Karma in Retrograde: When Katsuki's classmates pressure him to apologize to Touya after he repeatedly insults him, Katsuki declares that he's "sorry" he doesn't want to make nice with a former villain who just happens to have suffered Laser-Guided Amnesia. This pushes Touya past his Rage Breaking Point. | |
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A rare accidental example in Doctor Who, when the Doctor attempts to apologise to Barbara for kidnapping her and accusing her of trying to kill him. Because he has No Social Skills it comes out as self-aggrandisement and blaming her for everything and he never actually says the word "sorry". Barbara's facial expression suggests she notices this, but at the same time she sees that it's meant sincerely and he's just communicating it badly, and accepts it. | |
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Two Letters: In her letter to Luka, Marinette recounts an incident where Xavier Ramier offered her one of these after one of her many fights with his akumatized alter ego Mr. Pigeon. He simply tossed a pithy "Sorry" over his shoulder while strolling over to the nearest cluster of pigeons, ready to continue illegally feeding the birds. When Alya finally learns why Marinette is so upset with her — due to her betraying her trust in a way Marinette finds utterly unforgivable — she cluelessly asks "Yeah, but why do you care?" before begging for forgiveness, declaring "Everyone makes mistakes!" |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: One episode has this impressive demonstration of the rhetorical device of paralipsis: The Architect sketch has the Freemasons answering John Cleese's angry tirade with "Well we're sorry you feel that way." |
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In the night before Money In The Bank 2011, CM Punk demands Vince McMahon to apologize to him and the fans for not giving them what they wanted. He finally relents and gives CM Punk a rather furious apology: | |
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iCarly (2021): In the third episode "iFauxpologize", an image of Carly spitting out a rotten meatball goes viral and, at Harper's insistence, Carly milks the popularity of the meme for all its worth. Spencer gets angry at her for doing so since his latest sculpture was in the background of the photo and many viewers thought her cringy expression was aimed at the sculpture. When Spencer demands an apology from Carly for the meme, her response is "I'm sorry if your feelings were hurt. I didn't realize you were so sensitive." Spencer deems it a "Fauxpology", hence the episode title. She does apologize for real at the end of the episode. | |
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Because sarcasm and sadism are the modus operandi of Cutthroat Kitchen, Alton's request that a losing cheftestant return his or her remaining cash to the briefcase often reeks of this. | |
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Time To: Defied in "Time to Say, 'Please!'", which says that "sorry" is another useful word, but you have to mean it. | |
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In the English dub of My Bride is a Mermaid, Mawari apologizes after cockblocking two guys, saying "I'm sorry you guys thought you had a chance with them." | |
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In Sonic Lost World, Zeena gripes to Sonic that she has to reapply her nail polish because of him. Sonic says he's sorry, which Zeena takes at face value until Sonic explains that he's sorry that she "has nothing more important to do in life." | |
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In Missy Piggy-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure, the first stage of said Whatever Cure involves the child being cured being magically placed in a floating bubble whenever they do something inconsiderate. They can get out of it if they apologize, but as Frankfort Freeforall discovers, "Veronica, I'm sorry you're such a crybaby" won't work. It just causes the bubble to swoop up even higher. | |
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In the Warrior Cats book The First Battle, Clear Sky is infuriated enough to claw Falling Feather across the face, shocking them both. His "apology" is basically "I'm sorry you don't understand that questioning me puts us in danger." | |
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Paths of Glory. Colonel Dax's epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech to his commanding officer. | |
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The Pros and Cons to living a triple life After two older women insult Kairi and Sora for their public displays of affection: | |
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Encanto: When Isabela forces Mirabel to apologise to her after "ruining" the family dinner: | |
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Family Guy: Mel Gibson's "apology" to the Jews, and also: There was also the episode where Brian writes a best-selling book and Stewie becomes his agent. But soon, all the fame goes to Brian's head and starts acting really mean towards Stewie and going as far as to firing him. At the end of the episode, Brian tries to apologize to Stewie, but claims that Stewie was the reason he acted like that. Realizing that's the best he'll get, Stewie simply tells Brian he can't write. |
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The Interview Sketch on Season 5, Episode 3 of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme features the Shadow Minister for Saying Stupid Things and Refusing to Apologise For Them, who first says he's "sorry if people were offended", then, when Patsy Straightwoman says they definitely were, shifts it to "sorry that they were offended". When she directly asks if he's sorry he offended them, he comes up with circumlocations like "Sorriness is being experienced by a number of people, not necessarily excluding me." She eventually gets an Ordered Apology out of him. | |
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In Frasier, Niles bears some animosity towards Frasier's ex-wife Lilith after she sniggered during Maris' wedding vows. When Frasier tries to get the two to reconcile, Lilith declares that, "if he is in such need of validation, then I guess for some sense of familial harmony, I do apologize." Niles joyfully accepts. | |
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In the Babylon 5 episode "The Fall of Night", Sheridan is ordered to apologize to the Centauri for something that was the Centauri's fault. Sheridan is shown practicing an epic backhand apology to a mirror in his quarters. It's just too bad he never got the chance to actually deliver it. | |
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Rock and Rule: Omar and Toad's first encounter has Omar call him one of "Mother Nature's finest freaks", which Toad doesn't take kindly to. A few minutes later when he's holding up Omar by his shirt collar: | |
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