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Preemptive Apology
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One of the Stock Phrases. Character A apologizes in some way. Character B is confused, as A hasn't done anything worth apologizing for, and usually asks "For what?" or just gives a rousing "Huh?" Then Character A does whatever it is he was apologizing for - usually attacking the other character and knocking them out. Sometimes this precedes a hero making the decision about a Heroic Sacrifice whether the other person likes it or not, but not always. It can overlap with Percussive Prevention. See also Pre-emptive Declaration and Apologetic Attacker. |
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Taken to the extreme in Sluggy Freelance, Bunbun once apologized to Torg for taking him off life support and letting him die. This has yet to happen. (Torg was on life support for awhile in 2000, but Bunbun was busy.) | |
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From Angel, when the titular character is being arrested for a brutal murder. | |
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When Casey does this on Chuck, Chuck assumes it's for one of the many things Casey has already done—nope, it's for being about to handcuff Chuck to a table. | |
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In Into the Woods, the Baker's Wife apologizes to Rapunzel right before pulling out a lock of her hair. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), Donatello is trying to evacuate a power plant that is about to explode but is confronted by a worker. | |
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In one of the Night Huntress books, Bones says "I'm sorry" before knocking Cat out. Lampshaded later, when he says it again in reference to the situation in general, and she caustically inquires if that means he's about to knock her unconscious. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: After behaving particularly recklessly, the adults entrusted with the care of Edward Elric call him out on it. The adults in question, of course, are a Sergeant and a 2nd Lieutenant serving as the Elrics' escort, while as a State Alchemist Ed holds the rank of Major. Hence the apology, followed by acknowledgment that Ed was well within his rights to formally reprimand them for their insubordination. |
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Phoebus does this to Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame when she has him pinned to a pillar with his own sword at his throat, before kicking her and taking back his sword. | |
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There's a slight variation in Dragon Ball, where Vegeta gives a little speech about taking care of the family and then apologizes, right before knocking out both his kid and Goten and then doing a Heroic Sacrifice in an attempt to take out Buu. | |
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Used by Father Brown in G. K. Chesterton's story "The Blue Cross." The priest was trying to get police detectives to follow him before any crime has been committed. | |
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In the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Mai gives Jounouchi one before she slaps him to get him to stop agonizing about being possessed by Marik. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari would probably have been much better off without this tick, as it is what pisses Asuka off the most. Other than this personality difference, their backgrounds and current status would probably have resulted in some sort of relationship. | |
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The 2012 edition of Big Fat Quiz of the Year, which covered the '90s, had Jack Whitehall mention that he'd been afraid of Mr. Blobby since he was a child. No points for guessing who the guest was that night, which even Jimmy Carr apologized for before inviting him out. | |
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Y: The Last Man has an interesting variation, where the apology is not over anything violent... Yorick apologizes to a girl for the two times he kissed her. Then he interrupts her confusedly asking when the second time was, with a kiss. | |
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From The Cowboys, Jebediah Nightlinger is about to be killed by Asa Watts. Knowing that the Big Damn Heroes are on their way, he asks for a moment to make peace with God, then he prays aloud: | |
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In Superman Family #173, Jimmy Olsen realizes that Superman is infected with the virus that is wreaking havoc through Kandor. He mentally says "Sorry for what I'm about to do, pal" before knocking him out. | |
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Rikku pulls this before knocking Tidus out early in Final Fantasy X, though it means even less than usual since she does it in Al Bhed ... which Tidus doesn't speak. | |
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An episode of Human Target, in which Chance pretends to be a "cleaner" taking part in a jewel heist: | |
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In The Walking Dead, Shane says this to Otis, before shooting him and leaving him for the walkers. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Worf tells Morn "I will apologize for this at a later time," before shoving him off his barstool. | |
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In Interesting Times, Rincewind gets a fortune cookie that reads "Many Apologies". He just has time to wonder what it means before the Red Army knocks him out. | |
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In an episode of The A-Team, Murdock said the line, "Bless me father, for I am about to sin," before punching out a priest. The reason was the team had just been convicted in their trial and sentenced to death. The priest Murdock hit was the priest who was slated to give them last rites before their execution, and was one of the few people who would a) be allowed on the island prison the team were held at and b) have unsupervised access to them. | |
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In What If? "Alien Astronomers", it's suggested that sending a high-speed probe to an alien planet would be one way to make them notice us. And if we didn't provide any way to slow it down, they'd definitely notice us. The accompanying cartoon shows the probe with "Sorry!" and a frowny face on the front. | |
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In Girl Genius, Mr. Rovainen stabs Dr. Vg to death after (or while) apologizing for it. | |
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Subverted in the Murdoch Mysteries webseries The Murdoch Effect. Just before the Cowboy Cop 21st century version of George punches Murdoch, he snarls "I would say I'm sorry for this, but I'm not!" | |
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In the Lost episode "He's Our You", Sawyer walks into Sayid's cell, apologizes, and then head-butts him. And before that... And in "The Man From Tallahassee" Locke apologizes to a confused Jack seconds before the submarine explodes. This happens so often on Lost that the characters really should have learned to take cover whenever they were offered a seemingly unwarranted apology. |
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The Legion of Super Heroes cartoon has a creepy example; at the end of "Message In A Bottle" Brainiac 5 apologizes to Superman before wiping his memory, after Superman learns too much about his future. | |
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In Kill Six Billion Demons, aeons who belong to the Order of Concordant Knights engage in the Prayer for Forgiveness before battle, where they invoke the gods of the setting (which ones vary depending on the situation, but Prim (who taught the first angels self-determination), Het (goddess of police and watchmen) and Aesma (God of Evil, to invoke Even Evil Has Standards) are common), always ending it with "forgive me for this violence I am about to inflict". After that, they will begin fighting back. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: The Sorrowful Men are a league of assassins who always apologize to their victims. | |
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The Maze Runner: In The Scorch Trials, in the Scorch, Teresa apologizes to Thomas in advance for betraying, torturing, and attempting to kill him — we later learn that WICKED had promised that both she and Thomas would be safe if she played along. Needless of her motives, Thomas never fully accepts the apology. | |
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In the Bizarrogirl story arc, Supergirl apologizes to Dr. Light before knocking her out and making off with her Bizarro clone. | |
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In Spiderman Far From Home, Mysterio briefly apologizes to Peter... AFTER tormenting Peter with his various illusions and tricking Peter to get run over by a bullet train. Also he's going to eliminate all of Peter's friends because they knew too much. | |
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In Star Trek Into Darkness, right before he's about to open the airlock for Kirk and Khan on the Vengeance, Scotty is discovered by a mook and tells the mook that "[he is] so sorry" just before he opens the airlock to allow Kirk and Khan to enter the ship and lets the guard exit the same way, and you can tell he's genuine. | |
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Near the end of season 2 of Leverage, as Nate sets into motion a plan to find evidence linking a corrupt mayor to the gunrunner, Kadjic: The first episode of season 3 also features Nate apologizing to someone, then stabbing them. Leverage loves this trope. In the second episode of season 4, Elliot goes up to a murder suspect, and out of the blue says, "I'm not gonna lie to you, man, this is gonna hurt for a second." The suspect justifiably acts confused, and Elliot explains: he knocks his head against the table, hard. |
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In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Hermione apologises to Neville before putting the full body-bind curse on him. | |
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Doctor Who: "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry," is used by Tenth Doctor so often that it becomes a catchphrase. Generally he's saying it to the Villain of the Week just after they reject the Last-Second Chance and just before he kills them. "Smith and Jones": He says it to Martha before the kiss "genetic transfer", though she doesn't have time to be confused about the apology. "Blink": He says it to Billy Shipton before asking him to deliver a message to Sally Sparrow because "it's gonna take you a while." "Journey's End": He says this to Donna just before he wipes her memory of their time together to keep her alive. "The Eleventh Hour": The Eleventh Doctor apologizes to Rory about his phone bill before using Rory's phone to call the Atraxi. The Eleventh Doctor also apologizes just before doing something incredibly reckless. From "The Pandorica Opens": |
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Superman: In Superman Family #173, Jimmy Olsen realizes that Superman is infected with the virus that is wreaking havoc through Kandor. He mentally says "Sorry for what I'm about to do, pal" before knocking him out. In the Bizarrogirl story arc, Supergirl apologizes to Dr. Light before knocking her out and making off with her Bizarro clone. |
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In The Matrix Reloaded Seraph (the Oracle's bodyguard) pre-emptively apologizes for attacking Neo, as he needs to be certain Neo is the One. | |
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Dean in The Iron Giant: "Excuse me! I'd like to apologize to everyone in advance for this!" He then unzips his fly to let out the squirrel that crawled up his pant leg, and Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Merlin (2008): In "The Drawing of the Dark" While Mordred is technically apologizing to Arthur for what he's already done (tried to help Kara evade capture), it is strongly implied that he's truly apologizing for what he's about to do: Break Kara out of the dungeon and flee Camelot with her. Arthur is oblivious to the true meaning of Mordred's words, but Merlin catches on. | |
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In the last Artemis Fowl book, Artemis apologizes to Holly before sacrificing himself to save the human race from Opal Koboi. | |
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Friends: Chandler attempts to face his Commitment Issues by overcompensating with Janice and making big gestures like offering to move in together even though they've only been back together for a few weeks. Janice freaks out at this and runs out of the apartment. Chandler picks up the phone, leaves a message on her answering machine telling her he's sorry for having chased her down the street, hangs up, and runs out of the apartment after her. | |
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Transformers: Beast Wars plays with this in one episode, when Silverbolt apologizes to Cheetor before knocking him out. When Cheetor doesn't go down, Silverbolt helps him back up, makes sure he's okay, then does it again, this time knocking him out. | |
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