History Main / PerfectPacifistPeople

** The Seraphim are an alien race that was the source of all these ideas, giving The Way to human colonists who met them. Seemingly wiped out by the Earth Empire, Seraphim return with a vengeance after [[Superweapon Black Sun]] has been used, giving them an opportunity to open the Quantum Rift where the fabric of space has been thinned. The Way causes its followers to be truly incapable of violence, so to even have a military they depend on sacrifices of self-exiled Seraphim who cut themselves off of The Way, forsaking their souls.

* ''Franchise/{{Mistborn}}'': The Terris people have always been pacifists. Part of this was because the Lord Ruler spent a thousand years breeding them to be servants, but even after they regain their lost culture, they are still quiet and peaceful. By the time of ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'', most Terris live in the Village, an untamed forest in the middle of the largest city in the world. The subversion comes in when it's clear that they mostly maintain their peace by kicking out anyone who threatens it. Wax is treated as a bloodthirsty murderer because when he was a child he killed an older boy. The older boy had been torturing someone to death and tried to kill Wax when he interrupted, but Wax's grandmother still blames the whole thing on Wax.

* ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander''. The Aeon Illuminate are this on the surface, being a theocratic society based on tolerance, forgiveness, and love, but one thousand years of war have seen many Aeon turn that doctrine on its head: quasi-telepathic empathy and understanding of another person means you can predict them and know how to kill them, with the result that the Aeon are seen as [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Scary Dogmatic Humans]] by the galaxy. The Aeon civilian leadership hopes to return their society to Perfect Pacifist People, though.

* Lampshaded and subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Treehouse of Horror II. Lisa wishes on a monkey paw for world peace. The Earth is then immediately taken over by Kang and Kodos using only a slingshot and a club. When Ned Flanders unwishes it, Moe chases them away with a board with a nail in it.

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* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', the people of the island of Naath worship the God of Harmony and reject all forms of violence; they don't even kill animals and live mostly on fruit. They were protected from conquerors by "butterfly fever" a disease they're immune to but every foreigner gets who spends time on Naath. However, they became a target for slavers who found out that they don't get sick if they only stay for a short time.

* The [[ThePowerOfRock musically-inspired future]] in ''Film/BillAndTed's Bogus Journey'' appears to be a textbook example of this trope. Even a classroom invasion by De Nomolos to destroy their world elicits nothing worse than insults.

* The Air Nomads from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' were a great example of this, having no army and preaching peace and harmony. That is, until the Fire Nation killed them all [[GenocideBackfire save one boy]]. Not that they went down without a fight. The skeleton of the hero's mentor, Monk Gyatso, was found surrounded by at least a dozen dead soldiers. Keep in mind, Gyatso killed those soldiers when they had each been empowered by a [[GeoEffects passing comet]] with the strength of ''one hundred'' firebenders. And Avatar Aang himself, although he had a strict No Killing policy, never showed an aversion to fighting or harming people.

* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', the Minbari homeworld is [[ApeShallNeverKillApe startlingly peaceful]], despite the Minbari's warlike reputation off-world. In the 4th season, however, {{half truth}}s galore are used to technically claim that they weren't actually killing one another during their civil war.

** Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin was fond of this trope and its subversion in general, particularly of societies where interpersonal violence occurs but state violence does not. ''Literature/TheDispossessed'' has the Annaresti who have no standing army or police, but still engage in interpersonal violence on occasion. In ''Always Coming Home'', Kesh youth sometimes engage in "war" (really minor raids), and as a result it's seen as immature and disgraceful for an adult to engage in violence.

* The Elven Kingdom in ''WebOriginal/ElfslayerChronicles''. The elves are generous, pacifistic, have no real warmaking ability, and are so peaceful in general that crime is extraordinarily rare. This, unfortunately, means that they're very vulnerable to the [[HumansAreBastards evil humans]]. The party was ''intended'' to save their kingdom by stopping the war, but then a human player [[OffTheRails got other ideas]].

* ''Series/StargateSG1'' has the Nox, a highly advanced species disguised as simple naturalists. They refuse to participate in anything that may harm others, and won't even fight to defend themselves. Then again, they can cloak themselves and revive the dead. They also tend to get very snotty toward people who have every reason to be extremely wary and who literally have no other option other than to fight to survive. Oddly enough, [[CantArgueWithElves the humans act as if the Nox are right to virtually condemn them]] - though this doesn't mean that they aren't occasionally frustrated by the Nox.

** In fact, the first Nox that SG-1 meets would have been killed if the humans had not fought to protect them. The Nox don't really acknowledge this, and still believe that fighting is unnecessary. But not all of them are ''quite'' completely pacifistic: one of them helps fight off a Goauld attack by cloaking a gun ([[RulesLawyer she didn't fire the gun, so it didn't count as fighting]]), and of course the race is/was allies with some other advanced races who were definitely not pacifists.

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** The Organians. [[spoiler: Pacifism is easy when you're a race of immortal EnergyBeings several magnitudes more powerful than any would-be invaders.]]
** Subverted in "A Taste of Armageddon": The people of Eminiar (and the neighboring planet) have fought their war so long that they stopped using real weapons, lest the war destroys both civilizations; instead, computers simulate attacks and the designated casualties report to [[DisintegrationChamber convenient booths for routine disintegration]]. Their aversion to weapons does not keep them from using deadly force against the ''Enterprise'', but does frighten them into opening communications and peace talks when their war computers are destroyed.
** The natives of the planet Neural in "A Private Little War" ''were'' pacifists, until [[spoiler: the Klingons start arming some of them, and Kirk decides to arm the others to even things up.]]
** A race of telepaths encountered by the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' has outlawed violent thought in order to protect society from unintentional violence. Unfortunately, they forget to tell this to their visitors, resulting in B'Elanna (a fiery half-Klingon) "infecting" a passerby with a violent thought (it's later discovered that he is from an underground community who ''sell'' violent thoughts and specifically provoked B'Elanna. A few minutes later, a local murders another local over a tiny disagreement due to the influence of B'Elanna's thoughts. She is arrested by the local police and sentenced to have her mind purged of violent thoughts. Realizing that there's very little to B'Elanna besides violent thoughts, the crew fights to prevent this.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''
** Like the example of the Mizarians above, the episode "The God Complex" featured one alien, a man named Gibbis, from a planet that had been conquered so many times, their entire culture had developed around surrendering without a fight. Their national anthem is "Glory to Insert Name Here," and at the time he was kidnapped he was working on a project to line the road leading into their capital with trees so that invading armies could march in the shade.

* Series/WonderWoman: In this incarnation, Paradise Island’s amazons are this because they are a {{Proud Scholar Race|Guy}}. In contrast with the {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} from the comics, the amazons were overpowered by the Nazis in “The Feminum Mystique”. However, the Amazons easily overpower the Nazis once Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl came back to liberate the Isle.

** Given that The Federation has plenty of war on its frontiers, one might wonder if it has really achieved more than an interstellar version of a Pax Romana. Which may be something to be proud of from some points of view but is hardly Pacifist. But as the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien good Squire]] said in the episode ''The Squire of Gothos'' "That's the official story".

** The Angosians of TNG eschewed violence for intellectual development. When threatened by the Tarsian War, they genetically engineered some of their citizens into SuperSoldiers. Rather than actually attempt to reverse the procedure afterward they simply dumped all of them to a penal colony ("We may need them again someday"), which bit them in the ass when a mass breakout occurred and the soldiers seized the capital.
** Averted. At first, the isolationist Metrons appear to be simply a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien sufficiently advanced version]] of Captain Kirkian GunboatDiplomacy, making it is hard to tell how they were any different from TheFederation except in power, and Kirk calls them out on it. However, the denouement of the episode reveals that the Metrons are actually a PhysicalGod race of [[TricksterMentor Trickster Mentors]]; though they stop the starship conflict by transporting Captain Kirk and a Gorn captain to a nearby world to settle their dispute without the permission of either, [[DefeatMeansFriendship they later reveal they did so to give a bloodthirsty Kirk a chance to calm down and regain his compassion and to give the paranoid Gorn captain a chance to experience the merciful side of humanity]]. After Kirk spares the Gorn, [[SecretTestOfCharacter the Metrons test him by offering to destroy the ship of the loser (though it is clear they knew ahead of time that Kirk would turn down their offer)]] and then, chuckling, suggest that humanity ''may'' become civilized enough to warrant their attention in several thousand years. The episode verges on going overboard when the Metron is revealed to have [[OurAngelsAreDifferent the outlines of angel wings]] (though this outline is visible only on the larger television screens).
*** Another example of Cleaned Up for TV - in the original story ("Arena" by Creator/FredricBrown) there's [[spoiler: no quarter given or asked. The human wins and the alien society is destroyed. Of course we're the good guys so who cares. The story was published in 1944 so there's that]]

->''"Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial. A boundless and generous contentment, a magnanimous triumph felt not against some outer enemy but in communion with the finest and fairest in the souls of all men everywhere and the splendor of the world's summer: This is what swells the hearts of the people of Omelas, and the victory they celebrate is that of life.."''

->''"And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."''
-->-- '''[[Literature/BookOfIsaiah Isaiah 2:4]]''', ''Literature/TheBible''

* The world government in ''VideoGame/HostileWatersAntaeusRising'' has used NanoMachines to [[NoPoverty remove poverty]] and need, effectively removing all reasons to go to war. This brought along with it a paradigm shift in the way people viewed the world, creating a peaceful world. The player controls the last warship on Earth, beating down a piece of TheRemnant that has re-surfaced and is planning to bring it all down again.

* The ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse has the inhabitants of the planet Pacificus, who live an idillic life on their world and disapprove of the Earthlings' violence and other bad habits... Including cowardice. They're also perfectly aware that their way of life is imperfect and harder than it seems, especially as others would try and take advantage of their peaceful ways, so [[BewareTheNiceOnes they developed ways to defend themselves without harming their enemies]]. And [[GodzillaThreshold when those fails]], their queen Reginella is willing to summon Donald rather than let her people be enslaved or worse.