History Main / ApologyGift

* In ''Series/Degrassi|TheNextGeneration'', to "apologize" for his abusive actions, Rick presented Terri with roses. The first time he hurt her, he gave her a ''huge'' bouquet of them. Unfortunately, this is TruthInTelevision as some abusive spouses/significant others use gifts to keep the victim with them longer.

* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': In Episode 14, Ange inadvertedly insults the memories of Tusk's parents, who sacrificed their lives in their attempt to defeat Embryo and free the Norma. She gives him a necklace as a token of apology, which later becomes a symbol of their love for each other.

* In ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', to "apologize" for his abusive actions, Rick presented Terri with roses. The first time he hurt her, he gave her a ''huge'' bouquet of them. Unfortunately, this is TruthInTelevision as some abusive spouses/significant others use gifts to keep the victim with them longer.

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': In "Chasing Nightmares", Chetney treats his new comrades to a [[PublicBathhouseScene luxury spa visit]] as a good-faith gesture after it's revealed that he hid [[spoiler:his lycanthropy]] from them. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d, thanks in part to his knee-jerk curmudgeonliness:

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]", after Louis de Pointe du Lac barely survived a [[DomesticAbuse violent thrashing]] from his boyfriend Lestat de Lioncourt, the latter attempts to buy the former's forgiveness with expensive gifts, such as an extremely rare 15th-century antique book and a brand new Rolls-Royce. For over six years, this strategy is unsuccessful because Louis continues to [[SilentTreatment ignore him]], but Lestat then switches gears and records a love song entitled "Come to Me" that he penned himself. Louis [[GiftOfSong receives it on Valentine's Day]], and it finally provokes the reaction that Lestat had yearned for because Louis takes him back after a heated bout of [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence hate-sex]].

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]", after Louis de Pointe du Lac barely survived a [[DomesticAbuse violent thrashing]] from his boyfriend Lestat de Lioncourt, the latter attempts to buy the former's forgiveness with expensive gifts, such as an extremely rare 15th-century antique book and a brand new Rolls-Royce. For over six years, this strategy is unsuccessful because Louis continues to [[SilentTreatment ignore him]], but Lestat then switches gears and records a [[GiftOfSong love song]] entitled "Come to Me" that he penned himself. Louis receives it on Valentine's Day, and it finally provokes the reaction that Lestat had yearned for because Louis takes him back after a heated bout of [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence hate-sex]].

* After driving Ed away in ''Series/LasVegas'' and realizing she needs him Monica gifts him a hundreds and thousands of dollars' worth of super car. Being well...[[JustForPun driven]] up the wall by her antics and wanting nothing to do with her Ed sends a car of his own, a little gourmet chocolate car, with a note: [[DeadpanSnarker BITE ME.]]

* The video for Ruben Studdard's "Sorry 2004" features the protagonist repeatedly leaving these for his ex-girlfriend to atone for whatever he did to hurt her. Unfortunately, by the time he ''spray paints an apology'' on the wall opposite her job, it's essentially crossed over into stalking.

* ''Literature/BabylonBerlin'' by Creator/VolkerKutscher. Gereon Rath's LoveInterest has been giving him the cold shoulder because he slept with her and then [[CalledOutForNotCalling failed to follow up]]. It's because he's wrapped up in a murder case, not because he's a cad, so he buys FlowersOfRomance and waits for her to leave the office, walking behind her while brandishing them [[DefrostingIceQueen until she cracks a smile.]]

* ''Fanfic/AWintersTale'' a {{Series/Supernatural}} had Sam and Dean buy Castiel to make up for their behavior and because he was their family: new clothes, fresh bedding, new tires and stuff for Cas' car, and lots of fluffy pillows.

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* ''Nest Heads'' strip for [[http://www.gocomics.com/nestheads/2013/07/19#mutable_976443 July 19th, 2013.]] A guy gives his girlfriend flowers and a balloon with the word "Sorry" on it after having a spat with her over their relationship.

* Referenced, and slowly deconstructed in ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10072889 I'll use you as a makeshift gauge, of how much to give and how much to take.]]'' Laurel recalls how Oliver slowly stopped buying her flowers as a gift and started getting them only as an apology. To the point that the mere sight of him with flowers became an omen. Now, she can't stand to be given flowers at all.
* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/5235527/chapters/12075464 Trading Secrets,]]'' a fic of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition,'' plays with the idea of Leliana being a romance option. After Evelyn Trevalyan pushes for mercy she realizes her Spymaster is rather pissed at her interference, and later seeks to apologize with...what else, [[AllWomenLoveShoes shoes.]]
* In ''Fanfic/TheVow'', the initially hostile relationship between Lord Shen and Lady Lianne begins its improvement after she openly defends him against an official's low insults. To apologize for his earlier treatment of her, he gives her a book that tells about her mother's homelands (something she knows very little about). The gift is accepted gratefully, and they begin to be civil to each other.

* Referred to in ''Film/LoveStory'' when Oliver insists on taking his wife to dinner. Jenny jokingly asks, "What's her name?", declaring that if a man wants to take his wife to dinner in the middle of the week he must be cheating on her and trying to assuage his guilt.

* In the Creator/DanielleSteel novel "The Wedding Dress", the current bride (the dress has been passed down through generations) is initially thrilled at receiving a random expensive present from her husband, but her grandmother's alarm bells go off. Sure enough, she goes to visit him at his office one day and finds him flirting with an intern. Though he swears it was harmless and never went beyond that, several years later, he gifts her a very pricy handbag and she instantly knows that he's been unfaithful again.

--> '''Brooks''': Blimey. What's ''he'' done wrong?

* In ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', after Lois and Hal miss Dewey's big performance in the school play, they try to buy his forgiveness, first by giving him a new video game, when that is not enough, Hal gives him Malcolm's birthday present, a rare, and expensive, comic book. When Dewey ponders forgiving Hal and Lois, he walks back to his room to read his new comic and play his new game, [[ABirthdayNotABreak and wishes Malcolm a happy birthday as he and Reese do menial labor around the house]] as part of their punishment [[EscalatingWar for engaging in a fight]] that [[HowWeGotHere landed them in the hospital.]]
* ''[[Series/{{Mash}} M*A*S*H]]'':

* ''Series/BigLove'''s Bill impulsively buys beautiful bouquets for all three of his wives. Second wife Nikki concludes that he's courting a ''fourth'' woman and is compensating. She's RightForTheWrongReasons--he's having an "affair" with ''Barb'', his first wife.
* ''Series/TheNanny'''s Maxwell Sheffield buys several expensive gifts for his fiancée Fran ''before'' doing something that's going to upset her--asking her to sign a [[PrenupBlowup prenuptial agreement]].

* In ''Webcomic/WildeLife'', Oscar [[http://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/160 sends a bouquet of blue roses]] to his sister as an apology for his random disappearance. However, he still doesn't want her to come looking for him, so he [[http://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/164 doesn't include a return address.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.'' In the episode "Marks for Effort," Twilight bans the Cutie Mark Crusaders from the School of Friendship after she accuses them of deliberately teaching Cozy Glow the wrong things for a test, believing that they did it to get back at Twilight for not letting them become students at the school. But then Twilight soon finds out the truth; Cozy Glow failed the test on purpose, thinking that it would show Twilight that the CMC need to learn more about friendship and let them become students. Twilight then apologizes to the CMC by making them tutors at the school.

(''The jellyfish chases after [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick, stinging them repeatedly as they sprint into the distance'')

Compare BuyThemOff, in which the apology is not sincerely intended. If the screw up is one of epic proportions and requires considerably more than roses or jewelry to make up for it, see MustMakeAmends or RedemptionQuest.

* Subverted in ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}''. Dagwood goes to buy some flowers for Blondie. The florist initially thinks it's for her birthday, or their anniversary, but Dagwood says no saying he wanted to buy her flowers just because. The florist refuses to believe this and she, along with several other nearby ladies, begin grilling into him, demanding to know what he did.

* Referenced, and slowly deconstructed in ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10072889 I'll use you as a makeshift gauge, of how much to give and how much to take.]]'' Laurel recalls how Oliver slowly stopped buying her flowers as a gift, and started getting them only as an apology. To the point that the mere sight of him with flowers became an omen. Now, she can't stand to be given flowers at all.

** After finding Myne unconscious in the temple's repentance chamber after having locked her in it for a day as punishment, Ferdinand gifts her a bedding set for her orphanage director chambers. There is a pragmatic element to it because only the wood part of the bed was left from the previous owner. By that point, Myne has already collapsed because of her poor health while in the temple too many times to be able to use the fact that she sleeps in her own home as a pretext to not have a proper bed in her chambers.
** After Rozemyne (Myne's noble identity) collapses while trying to keep up with Wilfried's impromptu "DitchTheBodyguards 101" lesson that involves at lot of running, Wilfried's bodyguard Lamprecht feels responsible for the situation. When Rozemyne wakes up, Lamprecht gifts her with a book she will be able to finish before the end of the period during which she's expected to rest, which was given to him by Ferdinand when he asked him for advice on what would make a good gift for Rozemyne.

* Happens in the end of the ''Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho'' novella "A Talkative Dead Man": a stranger who accidentally broke Sir Max's favorite cup earlier pops up unexpectedly and presents him with a new one. It quickly turns out that nobody except Max recalls ever seeing this man and that the cup once belonged to the legendary King Mönin.

* ''Series/AlteredCarbon''. After the Ghostwalker frees a prisoner, kills two cops and puts Detective Ortega in hospital, [[DaChief Captain Tanaka]] turns up to give Ortega an expensive bouquet of flowers. However Kovacs quickly works out that this is an act of guilt, because Tanaka has been taking bribes from the same people who sent the Ghostwalker.

** In season 4, when Rita is annoyed that Dexter doesn't spend time with his family, he buys them all presents. Astor gets a small laptop, Cody some video game, baby Harrison a geeky item of clothes and Rita a home oven for baking bread. Dexter says they are always out of bread, but it only makes Rita angrier -- she would have to bake it. She also thinks that presents cannot fix everything that is wrong in their relationship.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In season four Chandler and Joey's apartment is burgled forcing them to use garden furniture borrowed from the superintendent. A few episodes later Chandler kisses Joey's girlfriend. Out of guilt he blows his savings refurnishing the entire apartment. When Joey learns the real reason behind Chandler's generosity he angrily declares that the apartment is empty to him.

* After driving Ed away in ''Series/LasVegas'' and realizing she needs him Monica gifts him a hundreds and thousands of dollars worth of super car. Being well...[[JustForPun driven]] up the wall by her antics and wanting nothing to do with her Ed sends a car of his own, a little gourmet chocolate car, with a note: [[DeadpanSnarker BITE ME.]]

** In one episode, Hawkeye and Trapper try to butter Frank up with a handful of wild flowers, after they secretly drew a pint of blood from him to give to a wounded POW; Frank is touched, but then they kill the moment when Hawkeye says, "Glad there's no hard feelings Frank, because there's a new heart procedure we'd like to try, and you're just the right type."

* One episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' has Alan teaching Charlie how to apologize to a girlfriend. He advises that you ''must'' bring a gift, but keep in mind that anything you bring will probably be thrown at you in anger, which he learned the hard way after apologizing with a waffle iron. He suggests flowers instead, since they're a standard romantic gesture and won't hurt.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Fairy Idol" had Timmy give his fairies apology cookies because he had been overusing their magic at the beginning of the episode. Cosmo, being TheDitz, accepts the apology, but Wanda does not accept until a later scene where Timmy cries because he thinks that they are dead.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "Golf War", after Dipper, Mabel and Pacifica escape from the golf course, Mabel gives to her former rival a sticker of "A-Paw-logize" to apology her about the Lilliputians. Pacifica accepts, claiming [[{{Tsundere}} its just because it looks good on her]].

** In "Squidville", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick went to find Squidward in Tentacle Acres while bringing a cake which the word "sorry" was engraved on with frosting as compensation for having destroyed his house, although they never actually give him the cake as both can't tell which of the Squidward-like characters is the real Squidward.

* George Burns tells a story how his wife Gracie had discovered he was cheating on her. He ended up buying her a brand-new stove over it. Later, Gracie apparently told one of her girlfriends, "I hope George cheats on me again. I could use a new refrigerator."

* Following the rape allegations against Kobe Bryant, his wife was noticed to be wearing several very expensive pieces of jewelry (he vehemently denied the accusations, but admitted to infidelity), prompting some people to crudely comment that she was enjoying the unexpected benefit.

* ''Series/AlteredCarbon''. After the Ghostwalker frees a prisoner, kills two cops and puts Detective Ortega in hospital, [[DaChief Captain Tanaka]] turns up to give her an expensive bouquet of flowers. [[spoiler:However Kovacs quickly works out that this is an act of guilt, because Tanaka has been taking bribes from the same people who sent the Ghostwalker.]]

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]", after Louis de Pointe du Lac barely survived a [[DomesticAbuse violent thrashing]] from his boyfriend Lestat de Lioncourt, the latter attempts to buy the former's forgiveness with expensive gifts, such as an extremely rare 15th-century antique book and a brand new Rolls-Royce. For over six years, this strategy is unsuccessful because Louis continues to [[SilentTreatment ignore him]], but Lestat then switches gears and records a love song entitled "Come to Me" that he penned himself. Louis receives it on Valentine's Day, and it finally provokes the reaction that Lestat had yearned for because Louis takes him back after a heated bout of [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence hate-sex]].

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': After Louis de Pointe du Lac barely survived a [[DomesticAbuse violent thrashing]] from his boyfriend Lestat de Lioncourt, the latter attempts to buy the former's forgiveness with expensive gifts, such as an extremely rare 15th-century antique book and a brand new Rolls-Royce. For over six years, this strategy is unsuccessful because Louis continues to [[SilentTreatment ignore him]], but Lestat then switches gears and records a love song entitled "Come to Me" that he penned himself. Louis receives it on Valentine's Day, and it finally provokes the reaction that Lestat had yearned for because Louis takes him back after a heated bout of [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence hate-sex]].

* After Bailin unintentionally mangles Yi Lun's field workstation in ''Webcomic/BailinAndLiYun'', he dives back into the sea to collect a huge pile of fish as an apology.

** In "Squidville", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick went to find Squidward in Tentacle Acres while bringing a cake which the word "sorry" was engraved on with frosting in compensation of destroying his house, although they never really done it since both are confused on which Squidward-like characters is the real Squidward.

* In ''Literature/{{Boundary}}'' Madeline gives a gift of chocolate and hand-made artificial flowers to Joe as an apology after they have an argument. She acknowledges that it's GenderFlipped from the traditional format, but she's not aware of a traditional gift for a woman to give a guy as an ApologyGift.

--->'''Micro:''' Why did you have to bring her ''flowers?''

---> "There's "Honey, I was just thinking of you" flowers, and there's "Honey, I'm sorry, I fucked up" flowers. These were "I fucked up" flowers." [[note]] Indeed, Lori had discovered that Mark had been lying to her for several years about attending college and being accepted into medical school and was planning to leave him. He promptly murdered her and their unborn child.[[/note]]

* In the second ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' book, [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Manny]] does this to make up for putting a cookie in the disc drive of Greg's game console. However, since his "gift" is a tinfoil ball with toothpicks sticking out of it, [[UngratefulBastard Greg wants nothing to do with it]].