History Main / StandingBetweenTheEnemies

* At the climax of ''AceVentura: When Nature Calls'', Ace stops two mounting armies by running between them holding the sacred bat they had been about to fight over.

* In ''Film/SonOfGodzilla'', the titular son and the little kids that befriended it simultaneously stand between the furious Godzilla and the armies amassed to fight the beast.

* Ash tries this in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''. It ''does'' stop the battle, though he probably should have waited until ''after'' the BeamOWar had ended before running in. [[spoiler: He dies. Momentarily.]]

* Obi-Wan, Luminara Unduli and her apprentice attempt that in ''{{Star Wars Expanded Universe}}''. The armies attack THEM instead, but they somehow manage to destroy all their weapons without killing anyone. Must be the Force.

* In Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick, Hinjo stands between Miko and Belkar just before she can kill him. Only two characters and not two armies, but the lines are awesome:
-->'''Miko:''' You would stand between me and this murderer?
-->'''Hinjo:''' I'll stand between any two murderers I wish.
** In a later strip, Elan attempts this by telling his ArchnemesisDad (who is trying to kill the leader of Elan's team because TheyWereHoldingYouBack) that "If you want Roy dead, you'll have to kill me first." Bone-chillingly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when the dad stabs his sword ''through Elan and into Roy'', after confirming that Elan is [[RPGMechanicsVerse at full health and hence will survive the blow.]]

* In ''SoraNoWoto'', [[spoiler:Sorami stops a battle by playing AmazingFreakingGrace ]]

* Happened at the climax of Creator/AlanMoore's ''[[DRAndQuinch D.R. & Quinch]] Get Drafted'' with the entire gang caught between the enemy Ghoyogian Army and their own Space Marines platoon [[spoiler: with whom they're in trouble for creating a friendly fire incident with a tactical nuke]]. Waldo attempts one plea for sanity by stepping up to "cry out at the horror and injustice of war..." It doesn't work.

* In ''SoraNoWoto'', [[spoiler: Sorami stops a battle by playing AmazingFreakingGrace ]]

* In ''{{Escaflowne}}'', as Van's HumongousMecha is getting [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomped]] by the Phlebotium-enhanced leopard twins, Merle runs out and interposes her tiny little self in front of him. The twins back off from delivering the killing stroke because she's a catgirl like them.

* Ronnie from ''TheLastSong'' stood between Marcus and Scott to stop them from fighting.

* Mr Pink gets between Mr Blonde and Mr White, who are approaching each other with murderous intent, in ''ReservoirDogs''.

* Near the beginning of ''TheMalloreon'', the sequel-series to DavidEddings' ''TheBelgariad'', Belgarion pulls this, mostly to demonstrate how much he's grown up since the previous series. He stops a civil war in Mimbre by basically riding out between the two armies, unhorsing everyone who gets in his way, and then calling down a cataclysmic thunderstorm between them, while suggesting that anyone who wants to start fighting, can start by fighting HIM. Considering how eager [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mimbrates]] are to go to war, nothing less would have done the trick, probably.

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Right before a duel, brawl, battle, or war would start between two misled fractions, the heroes arrive just in time, give a BattleInterruptingShout, and tell everyone to try and be friends instead. They might reveal some sinister BigBad who manipulated them into the fight, explain to them how the CycleOfHatred leads nowhere, or just [[ShamingTheMob break the ice by being heartwarmingly idealistic]]. The speech itself may share rhetorical devices with the WhoopiEpiphanySpeech, the KirkSummation, ShamingTheMob or a NotSoDifferent speech.

* Buffy does this once with Angel and Riley in ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' , saying she'd put them (well, Riley, since Angel is a vampire) in the hospital if they kept arguing and wanting to get physical.

* The almost-battle of Casal, October 26, 1630. The Spanish and French armies (about 50 thousand soldiers put together) had already begun to exchange cannon fire when Vatican diplomat Jules Mazarin rode out between them declaring that peace had been made.

* In the ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' sequel, the titular heroine does this when it looks like the natives and the colonists are about to get into a battle. It doesn't seem to work until John Rolfe orders his side to stand down, prompting the natives to do the same.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars'' episode "Transmutate", Transmutate tries to stop its new friends Silverbolt and Rampage from killing each other by standing between and holding off their missiles. [[spoiler:It ends tragically with Transmutate exploding. Transmutate's head lasts long enough to say goodbye to its friends. This does briefly stop the violence as Rampage howls in anguish and Silverbolt convinces the other Maximals to leave him alone since "for the moment, we are brothers".]]

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* ''StarWarsDownunder''. After killing the evil Darth Drongo who has been hoarding all the beer on the planet, Jedi Knight Merve Bushwacker emerges from his base brandishing a beer can, and calls on Drongo's mooks and the rebel forces to stop fighting.
-->'''Merve:''' Look! Look at it! It's cold! It's frosty! [[{{beergasm}} It's beautiful!]] And you're all about to kill each other for it! Stop this madness now, ya boofheads! ''There is enough for everyone!''
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* Mr Pink gets between Mr Blonde and Mr White, who are approaching each other with murderous intent, in ReservoirDogs.

* Happened at the climax of AlanMoore's ''[[DRAndQuinch D.R. & Quinch]] Get Drafted'' with the entire gang caught between the enemy Ghoyogian Army and their own Space Marines platoon [[spoiler: with whom they're in trouble for creating a friendly fire incident with a tactical nuke]]. Waldo attempts one plea for sanity by stepping up to "cry out at the horror and injustice of war..." It doesn't work.