History Main / TheWarToEndAllWars

** Also could describe Tobi's plan, [[spoiler: as his victory would leave the entire world trapped in a LotusEaterMachine of world peace and dead loved ones brought back to life]].

* Subverted in {{Naruto}}. It seems Nagato's plan was [[spoiler: to create a weapon so powerful it could (and would) destroy an entire country in a single attack. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Thus ending all wars out of fear of the weapon's use]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist ushering in an era of true peace]]. Of course, he's also cynical/realistic enough to expect that this won't really last as people begin to forget how terrifying the weapon is, requiring that it be used once again to enforce peace, over and over…]]

* Subverted in {{Naruto}}. It seemed Nagato wanted to bring about these, but he apparently was cynical enough to believe it wouldn't stick. But he was assured that periods of peace before wars heat up again to go through his plan.

--> ''"They said... it's a war to end all wars."
--> "See her, boy? This is Evangelina Parr. She's big. Perhaps even great. But by no means, she is the whore to end all whores."''

* One of these is a major part of the backstory in ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''; it ended with humankind forced to live underground [[WellIntentionedExtremist in a misguided attempt to save it]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens from the Anti-Spiral.]] [[spoiler: A more literal example takes place during the course of the series, in which humanity [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu fights back against the Anti-Spiral and defeats it]], and the newly-liberated civilizations of the universe join with humanity in peace.]]

--> "They said... it's a war to end all wars."
--> "See her, boy? This is Evangelina Parr. She's big. Perhaps even great. But by no means, she is the whore to end all whores."

* In {{Naruto}}, Nagato wanted to start one of these.

* As of now it really is final but really, what are the odds that the DC multiverse won't have a crisis after ''FinalCrisis''?

* In Creator/KeithLaumer's {{Bolo}} series, the FinalWar really is. Both interstellar empires are annihilated, each [[{{ApocalypseHow/Class6}} sterilizing]] all known worlds of the other. The few overlooked colonies have neither the desire nor the ability to keep fighting.

* In KeithLaumer's {{Bolo}} series, the FinalWar really is. Both interstellar empires are annihilated, each [[{{ApocalypseHow/Class6}} sterilizing]] all known worlds of the other. The few overlooked colonies have neither the desire nor the ability to keep fighting.

** FromACertainPointOfView, WW2 itself was a final war. Before then a new conflict between at least two of the major powers would pop off every few decades, but since the war two major political organizations- the EU and the UN- have come into existence to ensure that economic ties are too close for another war and diplomacy is maintained, respectively. The world isn't at peace, and proxy wars have happened, but the major powers and all of Western Europe have avoided war for nearly 70 years.

* ''TheProphecyOfTheStones'' seems to be leading up to a FinalWar but the ending reminds us that evil cannot be permanently defeated.

* The Armageddon of Christianity.

* The Nine Years War in ''BraveNewWorld'', which happened approximately 500 years before the novel sets.

* The war between the {{[[TheEmpire]] the Draka}} and the {{[[TheAlliance]] Alliance for Democracy}} in S.M. Stirling's {{[[The Draka]] The Stone Dogs}} is called "The Final War", as afterwards there is no power left on Earth capable of challenging Drakan dominance. From the ashes of the Final War emerges the ''Final Society'', as the Draka genetically engineer themselves and their serfs into two codependent post-human races. Afterwards, the Draka still find themselves in conflict with the descendants of defeated Americans who fled the Solar System to found a colony on Alpha Centauri.

* The war between the {{[TheEmpire the Draka]] and the {{[[TheAlliance]] Alliance for Democracy}} in S.M. Stirling's {{[[The Draka]] The Stone Dogs}} is called "The Final War", as afterwards there is no power left on Earth capable of challenging Drakan dominance. From the ashes of the Final War emerges the ''Final Society'', as the Draka genetically engineer themselves and their serfs into two codependent post-human races. Afterwards, the Draka still find themselves in conflict with the descendants of defeated Americans who fled the Solar System to found a colony on Alpha Centauri.

* The war between the TheDraka and the Alliance for Democracy in The Stone Dogs is called "The Final War", as afterwards there is no power left on Earth capable of challenging Drakan dominance. From the ashes of the Final War emerges the "Final Society", as the Draka genetically engineer themselves and their serfs into two codependent post-human races. Afterwards, the Draka still find themselves in conflict with the descendants of defeated Americans who fled the Solar System to found a colony on Alpha Centauri.

* {{Drakon}} -- "The Final War, which turns out not to be so final..."

** The war between Manticore and Haven was initially supposed to be this, too. TIme and again, DavidWeber reminds us that the only possible outcome is the extermination of one side, or the other.

* {{Honorverse}}. Another non final FinalWar.

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* Ragnarok was expected by the Norse to be the final battle between the gods and their opponents (the giants, Fenrir, etc.)

* Armageddon of Christian mythology.

* Honorverse. Another non final FinalWar.

* WW1 was said to be this by some. Obviously, not quite.