History PlayingWith / ActualPacifist

** Peaceful Pete is [[PersonOfMassDestruction so abhorrently powerful]] that he [[PowerIncontinence can't even lift a finger in combat without]] [[WalkingWasteland risking many innocent lives]].
*** Or Peaceful Pete isn't all that powerful, but is under the delusion that he is.

** Peaceful Pete just smiles politely as he's [[CurbStompBattle getting his ass handed to him and his wife is being gang-raped by a bunch of Mooks.]]
** "Excuse me, kind sirs? Would you please stop raping my wife and beating me up? I'd really appreciate it."

** Peaceful Pete spends his life in happy ease while other men are defending the country from monsters that would cheerfully tear him to shreds and are currently massacring innocents, men, women, and children. He takes advantage of it to get ahead in his career and sneers at all soldiers as violent and crude.\\
Then he's personally attacked and runs away shrieking like the DirtyCoward he is, to find a weapon he can use from a distance, which also kills many innocent bystanders, rather than bring it close enough to use with some discrimination.

*** Peaceful Pete is a priest of the healing goddess and will forfeit her favor if he turns to inflicting harm.

*** Or Peaceful Pete isn't all that powerful, but is under the delusion he is.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Pete used to be quite a KnightTemplar, but felt bad about it and resolved to stop, but then sees Vic Villain KickTheDog and goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Then feels bad about it and resolves to fight no more. Then is attacked by HighlyVisibleNinja and...well, you get the idea.
* '''Averted''': Pete will fight you if you give him a good reason.
* '''Enforced''': This is a children's show. We can't have violence.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Peaceful Pete really lives up to his name. He brought that fly outdoors personally and released it instead of killing it!"
* '''Invoked''': The woman who raises the long lost son of an incredibly violent EvilOverlord teaches him to be an ActualPacifist so he won't TurnOutLikeHisFather.
* '''Exploited''': A mugger cites scriptures while fighting Peaceful Pete to keep him from fighting back.
* '''Defied''': [[Literature/TheBible Turn the other cheek?!]] Bah! That's for wimps! If someone hits me, I'll MegatonPunch him into last week!
* '''Discussed''': "Man, Peaceful Pete just took a beating and didn't even fight back. He must be a hardcore pacifist."
* '''Conversed''': "Don't you hate when certain shows have a character who is such a devoted pacifist, they won't even lift a finger, even when the villain is beating the everloving crap out of them?"

Back to ActualPacifist and...could you not click so hard?
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** Peaceful Pete spends his life in happy ease while other men are defending the country from monsters that would cheerfully tear him to shreds and are currently massacring innocents, men, women, and children. He takes advantage of it to get ahead in his career and sneers at all soldiers as violent and crude.

* '''Justified''': Peaceful Pete is of a religion that forbids violence, even when one's life is at stake.

* '''Subverted''': Peaceful Pete was only pretended to be a pacifist. He was just trying to catch his enemies off guard.

* '''Parodied''': Peaceful Pete just smiles politely as he's [[CurbStompBattle getting his ass handed to him and his wife is being gang-raped by a bunch of Mooks.]]

* '''Deconstructed''': Peaceful Pete just saw his wife get gang-raped and killed by the Mooks and wanted to save her, but his ideology wouldn't allow it because that would mean fighting them. This takes a heavy toll on him, and he may even start to question whether he did the right thing or not.

* '''Reconstructed''': Peaceful Pete does not fight, but has such strength of HeroicResolve and willpower that [[BadassPacifist he doesn't have to]], and clearly says ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies to anyone who he'd be unable to protect.

Back to ActualPacifist

* '''Defied''': [[TheBible Turn the other cheek?!]] Bah! That's for wimps! If someone hits me, I'll MegatonPunch him into last week!

** He learns how to [[BadassPacifist "fight" by using his wits and learns how to manipulate the system.]] Pacifism does ''not'' mean you have to be passive.

** Peaceful Pete is a skilled fighter, but the Mooks are zero effort.
** Peaceful Pete is a skilled fighter, but has come to believe that violence only begets vengence.

* '''Subverted''': Pete might participate in the fighting, but only against those that are an actual and immediate threat, after nonviolent approaches have failed. He also will not kill them, though he might hurt them. And he doesn't make a habit of fighting in the first place. In other words, he's a TechnicalPacifist.
** Peaceful Pete was just trying to catch them off guard.

** Alternatively: Everybody knows that Pete never use violence, even at his enemies, and so his "friends" take full advantage of him, makes fun of him for his cowardly behavior because ARealManIsAKiller and don't have any real respect for him at all, while his enemies kills him even in their first meeting.

** He learns how to "fight" by using his wits and learns how to manipulate the system. Pacifism does ''not'' mean you have to be passive.

* '''Invoked''': A mugger cites scriptures while fighting Peaceful Pete to keep him from fighting back.

* '''Subverted''': Pete might participate in the fighting, but only against those that are an actual and immediate threat, after nonviolent approaches have failed. He also will not kill them, though he might hurt them. And he doesn't make a habit of fighting in the first place. In other words, he's a TechnicalPacifist

** Peaceful Pete is [[PersonOfMassdestruction so abhorrently powerful]] that he [[WalkingWasteland can't even lift a finger in combat without risking many innocent lives]].

** Peaceful Pete is so abhorrently powerful that he can't even lift a finger in combat without risking many innocent lives.

Basic Trope: A character chooses to resolve conflicts peacefully rather than through fighting, and actually sticks to those beliefs.

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Discussed''': "Peaceful Pete is the perfect pacifist. He lives up to his ideals, no matter what. He's a good role model."
* '''Conversed''': But he's always getting his ass handed to him. It's embarrassing to watch! And he's so preachy! He even [[MoralEventHorizon let his own wife get gang-raped all in the name of his ideology!]]