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-->-- '''Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott''', ''LightNovel/DateALive''

-->-- '''[[BigBad Sir Isaac]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ray Peram Westcott]]''', ''LightNovel/DateALive''

* [[spoiler:Ozymandias]] of ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' is said to be a pacifist and a vegetarian, although his final plan for world peace isn't exactly non-violent. However, this being ''Watchmen'', he's really more of an AntiVillain, and whether what he does is considered "evil" is open to interpretation.
** Rorschach does point out that Hitler was also a vegetarian, averting HitlerAteSugar while reinforcing this trope.
** Not totally pacifistic, as he was also [[spoiler:a former super hero.]]

* In the Creator/ValLewton film ''The Seventh Victim'' the antagonists are pacifist [[spoiler: Satanists]] who refuse to kill, and instead find ways to drive the title character to kill herself.

* The ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' infamously has evil pacifists, although they are closer to a [[StrawmanPolitical different trope]].

* Subverted in the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' novels, at least initially; [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Nicolae]] [[DesignatedVillain Capathia]] starts his political career as an outspoken pacifist pushing for global disarmament.

* Grí­ma Wormtongue in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' is notably in favour of peace... or at least of Rohan refraining from military action. However, this is [[TheMole just an act]] to allow his true master, Saruman, to pillage Rohan's countryside and slaughter its people with impunity.

* Aiber from ''Manga/DeathNote'' is a conman who absolutely abhors violence of any kind.

-->-- '''Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott''', ''LightNovel/DateALive''

->Ellen, with this I am certain. A peace-loving idiot is much scarier than anyone with dementia. Let's check it our way.

Please list only aversions and subversions. Compare and Contrast TheUnfought, where the villain may or may not be pacifist, but the main character never fights him.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' Decadent Hierarchy-type AI empires are pacifists, and slavers.

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* In ''Film/SpiderMan3'', Sandman tries to talk Spider-Man out of battling him.
* Grí­ma Wormtongue in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' is notably in favour of peace... or at least of Rohan refraining from military action. However, this is [[TheMole just an act]] to allow his true master, Saruman, to pillage Rohan's countryside and slaughter its people with impunity.
* In the Creator/ValLewton film ''The Seventh Victim'' the antagonists are pacifist [[spoiler: Satanists]] who refuse to kill, and instead find ways to drive the title character to kill herself.
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* Overlapping with AMillionIsAStatistic, the Komarran terrorists of the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' novel ''Komarr'' are pleasant, non-violent intellectuals who are very distressed when they inadvertently cause the death of a colleague and the other deaths they cause in the novel are similarly accidental. They are also oblivious to the fact that their plan to cut off all interplanetary travel to Barrayar would kill ''millions'' of people via starvation and technological collapse.
** To be perhaps overly fair, [[NecessarilyEvil they fully expect to be killed for their deeds]], either by Barrayarans or their own countryman who aren't grateful for their actions.

* The ''SwordOfTruth'' infamously has evil pacifists, although they are closer to a [[StrawmanPolitical different trope]].

Bad guys aren't usually pacifists, [[TechnicalPacifist technical]] or [[ActualPacifist otherwise]]. Even if their goals don't necessarily require force (such as embezzlement or fraud), then there's still a good chance they either resort to violence or indicate that violence is a desirable option for them ("You cross me, you're finished.") in the course of the story. Being any sort of pacifist is a sign the villain is an AntiVillain, HarmlessVillain, or at least AffablyEvil.

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->[[TheDragon Ellen]], with this I am certain. A peace-loving idiot is much scarier than anyone with dementia. [[WarIsHell Let's]] [[WarForFunAndProfit check]] [[MurderIsTheBestSolution it]] [[ColdBloodedTorture our]] [[ChaosIsEvil way]].

* Akio Ohtori from ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' avoids violence to the last moment, preferring to talk his victims down. He only grabs a sword personally when the heroine leaves him absolutely no choice, and even then he leaves the ''coup de grace'' [[spoiler:to his sister.]]

* In WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego Carmen would rather get caught than kill or severely injure anyone while committing her thefts.