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Some people (or, in some cases, [[PerfectPacifistPeople entire nations]]) believe that [[ActualPacifist actual pacifism]] is worth dedication even when the call for resistance is a MatterOfLifeAndDeath. This highly principled stance, in both fiction and in real life, tends to get the conflict equivalent of ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere, in which the pacifists are constantly assailed by dire threats. Oftentimes, their options are reduced to a SadisticChoice between [[FrequentlyBrokenUnbreakableVow breaking their unbreakable vow]] or dying for it.
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Some people (or, in some cases, [[PerfectPacifistPeople entire nations]]) believe that [[ActualPacifist actual pacifism]] is worth dedication even when the call for resistance is a MatterOfLifeAndDeath. This highly principled stance, in both fiction and in real life, tends to get the conflict equivalent of ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere, in which the pacifists are constantly assailed by dire threats. The threats they face are rarely minor or "moderate" aggression to which they can TurnTheOtherCheek. Oftentimes, their options are reduced to a SadisticChoice between [[FrequentlyBrokenUnbreakableVow breaking their unbreakable vow]] or dying for it.
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* During ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "Freedom Ride or Die", we learn that when Robert Freeman was young, he ''accidentally'' boarded a [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement Freedom Rider]] bus. The leader of the group, Reverend Sturdy Harris, was a very [[BadassPacifist brave]] (yet [[FearlessFool foolish]]) [[ActualPacifist devout pacifist]]. Sturdy eagerly led his group right through angry racist mobs and trigger-happy policemen, while [[GotVolunteered forcing Robert to endure all these ordeals against his will]]. Robert even outright accuses Sturdy of being [[DeathSeeker a wannabe martyr with a death wish]].
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* During ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "Freedom Ride or Die", we learn that when Robert Freeman was young, he ''accidentally'' boarded a [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement Freedom Rider]] bus. The leader of the group, Reverend Sturdy Harris, was a very [[BadassPacifist brave]] (yet [[FearlessFool foolish]]) [[ActualPacifist devout pacifist]]. Sturdy eagerly led his group right through angry racist mobs and trigger-happy policemen, while [[GotVolunteered forcing Robert to endure all these ordeals against his will]]. Robert even outright accuses Sturdy of being [[DeathSeeker a wannabe martyr with a death wish]]. Furthermore, Harris had a [[MadeOfIron Superman-level degree of physical toughness]] that allowed him to take the racists' beatdowns with extreme ease (if anything people trying to assault him had a better chance to shatter their hands than injure him) while he seemingly had no understanding that the average member of the civil rights movement was not as invulnerable.
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How this turns out often depends on [[WriterOnBoard the writer's agenda]]. If the writer wants to push an anti-violence message, then the hero and the pacifist will work together to find a way [[ToWinWithoutFighting to win without fighting]], or the hero's use of violence [[NiceJobBreakingItHero will backfire]], leading to an anti-violence {{Aesop}}. If the writer favors a ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption message, then once the BigBad or {{Mooks}} arrive, the hero will be forced to take care of the problem for them, [[UngratefulBastard which the pacifists will be ungrateful over]] and even [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike complain about]]. Or they may reach a compromise, where the hero [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers trains the peaceful villagers]] in [[TechnicalPacifist non-lethal violence]], and the pacifists reluctantly accept.
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How this turns out often depends on [[WriterOnBoard the writer's agenda]]. If the writer wants to push an anti-violence message, then the hero and the pacifist will work together to find a way [[ToWinWithoutFighting to win without fighting]], or the hero's use of violence [[NiceJobBreakingItHero will backfire]], backfire]] (usually the [[OhCrap discovery]] that as many guns and violence the villains had on display at the beginning, [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant it was not even close to what they can unleash if they decide to escalate]]), leading to an anti-violence {{Aesop}}. If the writer favors a ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption message, then once the BigBad or {{Mooks}} arrive, the hero will be forced to take care of the problem for them, [[UngratefulBastard which the pacifists will be ungrateful over]] and even [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike complain about]]. Or they may reach a compromise, where the hero [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers trains the peaceful villagers]] in [[TechnicalPacifist non-lethal violence]], and the pacifists reluctantly accept.
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How this turns out often depends on [[WriterOnBoard the writer's agenda]]. If the writer wants to push an anti-violence message, then the hero and the pacifist will work together to find a way [[ToWinWithoutFighting to win without fighting]], or the hero's use of violence will backfire, leading to an anti-violence {{Aesop}}. If the writer favors a ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption message, then once the BigBad or {{Mooks}} arrive, the hero will be forced to take care of the problem for them, [[UngratefulBastard which the pacifists will be ungrateful over]] and even [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike complain about]]. Or they may reach a compromise, where the hero [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers trains the peaceful villagers]] in [[TechnicalPacifist non-lethal violence]], and the pacifists reluctantly accept.
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How this turns out often depends on [[WriterOnBoard the writer's agenda]]. If the writer wants to push an anti-violence message, then the hero and the pacifist will work together to find a way [[ToWinWithoutFighting to win without fighting]], or the hero's use of violence [[NiceJobBreakingItHero will backfire, backfire]], leading to an anti-violence {{Aesop}}. If the writer favors a ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption message, then once the BigBad or {{Mooks}} arrive, the hero will be forced to take care of the problem for them, [[UngratefulBastard which the pacifists will be ungrateful over]] and even [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike complain about]]. Or they may reach a compromise, where the hero [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers trains the peaceful villagers]] in [[TechnicalPacifist non-lethal violence]], and the pacifists reluctantly accept.
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* ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'': A SideQuest chain has the Eden Committee, a group of people who think violence is not the answer, and that the various thugs who infest the city can be dealt with peacefully. Kenshiro keeps having to save their chairman from being murdered. [[spoiler:In the last quest in the chain, the chairman is mortally wounded, realizing as he dies that some people are beyond peaceful solutions. The committee breaks up, but Kenshiro admits they have a point... they just aren't in a time or place where it works.]]
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* ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'': A SideQuest chain has the Eden Committee, a group of people who think violence is not the answer, and that the various thugs who infest the city can be dealt with peacefully.peacefully by trying to appeal to their consciences. Kenshiro keeps having to save their chairman from being murdered. [[spoiler:In the last quest in the chain, the chairman is mortally wounded, realizing as he dies that some people are beyond peaceful solutions. The committee breaks up, but Kenshiro admits they have a point... they just aren't in a time or place where it works.]]]]
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem''
** Emmeryn, the Exalt of the Halidom of Ylisse from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', is such a pacifist that she doesn't even have a proper army. The closest thing to an army she has are the Shepherds, led by her younger brother [[TheHero Chrom]], which are a group dedicated to ''protecting'' Ylisse from bandits and Plegian barbarians, not invading other lands. This turns out to be a problem as one of their main enemies King Gangrel of Plegia, is TheCaligula with no motivation other than ForTheEvulz. Their other foe, the Grimleal, is a ApocalypseCult and ReligionOfEvil that is even more unreasonably evil than Gangrel himself with [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption violence being the only option with them]]. In later spotpass content, [[spoiler: Emmeryn returns with LaserGuidedAmnesia and [[BewareTheNiceOnes gains the ability to actually kill people, having realized some people are beyond saving.]]]]
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem''
** Emmeryn, the Exalt of the Halidom of Ylisse from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', is such a pacifist that she doesn't even have a proper army. The closest thing to an army she has are the Shepherds, led by her younger brother [[TheHero Chrom]], which are a group dedicated to ''protecting'' Ylisse from bandits and Plegian barbarians, not invading other lands. This turns out to be a problem as one of their main enemies King Gangrel of Plegia, is TheCaligula with no motivation other than ForTheEvulz. Their other foe, the Grimleal, is a ApocalypseCult and ReligionOfEvil that is even more unreasonably evil than Gangrel himself with [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption violence being the only option with them]]. In later spotpass content, [[spoiler: Emmeryn returns with LaserGuidedAmnesia and [[BewareTheNiceOnes gains the ability to actually kill people, having realized some people are beyond saving.]]]]
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* ''VideoGame/StellaDeusTheGateOfEternity'': The Aeque teach that the advancing mist (that ''erases the existence'' of every living thing it touches) is the will of the gods and that everyone should accept their fate.
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* ''VideoGame/StellaDeusTheGateOfEternity'': The Aeque teach that the advancing mist (that ''erases the existence'' of every living thing it touches) is the will ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has Captain Ironsides, sentry bot captain of the gods ''USS Constitution'', keeps his crew from fighting scavengers and that everyone should accept raiders beyond defensive actions despite their fate.constant attacks as his programming registers them as citizens of the Commonwealth, which means that he's to protect them (to an extent, as he can self-defense them to death if need be. In any case, no pursuit). He's actually aware of this and laments the fact that he can't do anything about it.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' had the residents of Vault 94, which was designed to test the adaptability of non-violent ideological groups AfterTheEnd. They refused to change with the new world or isolate themselves from it, resulting in them being frequently preyed on by raiders taking advantage of their passivity. In the end, they ended up being slaughtered by suspicious wastelanders who believed their kindness to be a trap, with their [[{{terraform}} Garden of Eden Creation Kit]] exploding in the attack and transforming the region into [[SwampsAreEvil the Mire]].
* ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' had the residents of Vault 94, which was designed to test the adaptability of non-violent ideological groups AfterTheEnd. They refused to change with the new world or isolate themselves from it, resulting in them being frequently preyed on by raiders taking advantage of their passivity. In the end, they ended up being slaughtered by suspicious wastelanders who believed their kindness to be a trap, with their [[{{terraform}} Garden of Eden Creation Kit]] exploding in the attack and transforming the region into [[SwampsAreEvil the Mire]].
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* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', part of the motivation for Revan and his followers to break away from the Jedi Order was the [[BystanderSyndrome stubborn refusal]] of the Jedi Council to get involved in the Mandalorian Wars, which threatened to topple the entire Republic. In the second game, the Jedi Exile was one of those who fought in the war and frequently has the option [[ShutUpHannibal to respond]] to the Jedi Council's scorn, by pointing out their actions ''[[TheExtremistWasRight did]]'' save the galaxy, unlike the Council who preferred to stick their heads in the sand like cowards.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has Captain Ironsides, sentry bot captain of the ''USS Constitution'', keeps his crew from fighting scavengers and raiders beyond defensive actions despite their constant attacks as his programming registers them as citizens of the Commonwealth, which means that he's to protect them (to an extent, as he can self-defense them to death if need be. In any case, no pursuit). He's actually aware of this and laments the fact that he can't do anything about it.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' had the residents of Vault 94, which was designed to test the adaptability of non-violent ideological groups AfterTheEnd. They refused to change with the new world or isolate themselves from it, resulting in them being frequently preyed on by raiders taking advantage of their passivity. In the end, they ended up being slaughtered by suspicious wastelanders who believed their kindness to be a trap, with their [[{{terraform}} Garden of Eden Creation Kit]] exploding in the attack and transforming the region into [[SwampsAreEvil the Mire]].
* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has Captain Ironsides, sentry bot captain of the ''USS Constitution'', keeps his crew from fighting scavengers and raiders beyond defensive actions despite their constant attacks as his programming registers them as citizens of the Commonwealth, which means that he's to protect them (to an extent, as he can self-defense them to death if need be. In any case, no pursuit). He's actually aware of this and laments the fact that he can't do anything about it.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' had the residents of Vault 94, which was designed to test the adaptability of non-violent ideological groups AfterTheEnd. They refused to change with the new world or isolate themselves from it, resulting in them being frequently preyed on by raiders taking advantage of their passivity. In the end, they ended up being slaughtered by suspicious wastelanders who believed their kindness to be a trap, with their [[{{terraform}} Garden of Eden Creation Kit]] exploding in the attack and transforming the region into [[SwampsAreEvil the Mire]].
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* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', part of the motivation for Revan and his followers to break away from the Jedi Order was the [[BystanderSyndrome stubborn refusal]] of the Jedi Council to get involved in the Mandalorian Wars, which threatened to topple the entire Republic. In the second game, the Jedi Exile was one of those who fought in the war and frequently ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'': A SideQuest chain has the option [[ShutUpHannibal to respond]] to Eden Committee, a group of people who think violence is not the Jedi Council's scorn, by pointing out answer, and that the various thugs who infest the city can be dealt with peacefully. Kenshiro keeps having to save their actions ''[[TheExtremistWasRight did]]'' save chairman from being murdered. [[spoiler:In the galaxy, unlike the Council who preferred to stick their heads last quest in the sand like cowards.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has Captain Ironsides, sentry bot captain ofchain, the ''USS Constitution'', keeps his crew from fighting scavengers and raiders chairman is mortally wounded, realizing as he dies that some people are beyond defensive actions despite their constant attacks as his programming registers them as citizens of the Commonwealth, which means that he's to protect them (to an extent, as he can self-defense them to death if need be. In any case, no pursuit). He's actually aware of this and laments the fact that he can't do anything about it.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' had the residents of Vault 94, which was designed to test the adaptability of non-violent ideological groups AfterTheEnd. They refused to change with the new world or isolate themselves from it, resulting in them being frequently preyed on by raiders taking advantage of their passivity. In the end,peaceful solutions. The committee breaks up, but Kenshiro admits they ended up being slaughtered by suspicious wastelanders who believed their kindness to be have a trap, with their [[{{terraform}} Garden of Eden Creation Kit]] exploding point... they just aren't in the attack and transforming the region into [[SwampsAreEvil the Mire]].a time or place where it works.]]
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* ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' had the residents of Vault 94, which was designed to test the adaptability of non-violent ideological groups AfterTheEnd. They refused to change with the new world or isolate themselves from it, resulting in them being frequently preyed on by raiders taking advantage of their passivity. In the end,
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* ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'': A SideQuest chain has ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'': When Rhett offers them to join his and Vace's hunting party, Sol can decline on the Eden Committee, a group of people who think violence is not the answer, and grounds that the various thugs who infest the city can be dealt with peacefully. Kenshiro keeps having to save their chairman from being murdered. [[spoiler:In the last quest in the chain, the chairman is mortally wounded, realizing as he dies they would never kill an animal. Vace then scoffs at them, believing that some people are beyond peaceful solutions. The committee breaks up, but Kenshiro admits they have a point... they just aren't in a time or place where it works.]]wouldn't even fight back against an animal that's trying to kill them.
--> '''Vace''': I knew you Strato kids were soft... I didn't know you were suicidal, too.
--> '''Vace''': I knew you Strato kids were soft... I didn't know you were suicidal, too.
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* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsKnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', part of the motivation for Revan and his followers to break away from the Jedi Order was the [[BystanderSyndrome stubborn refusal]] of the Jedi Council to get involved in the Mandalorian Wars, which threatened to topple the entire Republic. In the second game, the Jedi Exile was one of those who fought in the war and frequently has the option [[ShutUpHannibal to respond]] to the Jedi Council's scorn, by pointing out their actions ''[[TheExtremistWasRight did]]'' save the galaxy, unlike the Council who preferred to stick their heads in the sand like cowards.
* ''VideoGame/StellaDeusTheGateOfEternity'': The Aeque teach that the advancing mist (that ''erases the existence'' of every living thing it touches) is the will of the gods and that everyone should accept their fate.
* ''VideoGame/StellaDeusTheGateOfEternity'': The Aeque teach that the advancing mist (that ''erases the existence'' of every living thing it touches) is the will of the gods and that everyone should accept their fate.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'''s family friend [[TheMedic Dr. Leslie Thompkins]] was based on the Catholic saint [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day Dorothy Day]], and was a pacifist who was critical of his [[TechnicalPacifist usage of violence to keep the peace]]. In ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' she goes out of her way to save the life of psychopathic SerialKiller Victor Zsasz ''twice'', [[HonorBeforeReason despite knowing full well he's liable to make her his next victim the moment he wakes up]]. However, she manages to [[BadassPacifist talk him down, as well as Killer Croc]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': A race of highly advanced dinosaurs arrive on Earth to share their technology as well as their suffocatingly pacifistic ideology. When Rick discovers that there's a race of sentient meteors dedicated to wiping out dinosaurs on any planet they go to, and that one is headed toward Earth right now, the dinosaurs refuse to destroy the living meteor and instead exile themselves to Mars to patiently await death by meteor so that nobody except themselves have to die. Rick, [[ScrewYouElves finding this idiotic and wanting to prove a point]], joins them on Mars to force them into a Trolley Problem-esque dilemma where they can either kill the meteor or [[MurderByInaction "kill"]] Rick. [[spoiler:The dinosaurs finally cave in and kill the meteor before it can strike, but are not happy about it and finally break their polite facade to cuss Rick out.]]
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* ''Series/TheOutpost'': Talon's people were a group of Blackbloods who firmly believed that to kill anything (animals for food included) [[ThouShaltNotKill was wrong]]. Sadly, they were slaughtered by humans who empathically didn't share this view with none fighting back.
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* ''Series/TheOutpost'': Talon's people were a group of Blackbloods who firmly believed that to kill anything (animals for food included) [[ThouShaltNotKill was wrong]]. Sadly, they were slaughtered by humans who empathically emphatically didn't share this view with none fighting back.
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* Zachary from ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' will continue his merchant duties without lifting a finger [[spoiler:even when the Batter is minutes away from turning off the switch, and the world with it, and he still opts to indirectly help do the deed]]. This is quite in contrast that, through HiddenDepths, it's implied that he's a lot more important than the story lets on.
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* The [[BadassPacifist people of Ammon]] in Literature/TheBookOfMormon were once bloodthirsty Lamanites until they converted to Christ and vowed never to shed blood again. When their Lamanite brothers came to fight them, the people of Ammon didn't take up arms; instead, they prayed. Miraculously, the number of Lamanites who repented and joined the people of Ammon that day exceeded the number slain. Note that they didn't believe violence is ''never'' justified; they merely [[TheAtoner didn't trust themselves after their violent past]].
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* The [[BadassPacifist people of Ammon]] in Literature/TheBookOfMormon were once bloodthirsty Lamanites until they converted to Christ and vowed never to shed blood again. When their Lamanite brothers came to fight them, the people of Ammon didn't take up arms; instead, they prayed. Miraculously, the number of Lamanites who repented and joined the people of Ammon that day exceeded the number slain. Note that they didn't believe violence is ''never'' justified; they merely [[TheAtoner didn't trust themselves after their violent past]].past]] - the children that had been too young to have participated in the bloodshed prior to their conversion were not subject to the vow of pacifism and would go on to take up arms in self-defense.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarComTheUSSpaceForce'': Episode 8 features a farming community that is regularly plundered by bandits. The townsfolk hate being exploited this way, but their pacifist traditions prevent them from taking up arms to defend themselves, even though some of them clearly want to. They become {{Technical Pacifist}}s after discovering that they can use their solar mirrors to [[AttackReflector reflect the bandits’ own lasers back at them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarComTheUSSpaceForce'': ''WesternAnimation/StarcomTheUSSpaceforce'': Episode 8 features a farming community that is regularly plundered by bandits. The townsfolk hate being exploited this way, but their pacifist traditions prevent them from taking up arms to defend themselves, even though some of them clearly want to. They become {{Technical Pacifist}}s after discovering that they can use their solar mirrors to [[AttackReflector reflect the bandits’ bandits' own lasers back at them]].
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* An episode of ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' has one of Rev Bem's fellow priests mentoring a colony of humans with genetic memory that's being threatened by slavers, and asks Dylan Hunt for help. Dylan, outnumbered and outgunned, brings the colony some Force Lances and starts TrainingThePeacefulVillagers, so that the colonists can have ''options'', maybe even scaring off the slave raiders with a nice show of force, a wall manned by a legion of force-lanced equipped soldiers is very intimidating. The priest mentoring the colony '''destroys''' the force lances in a fire in the middle of the night, with the slavers on the way, and no time for Dylan to get more. '''REV BEM''' chews the guy out on how stupid and ''violent'' towards his charges that action was. The priest winds up getting killed, like an idiot, by walking over to the slavers, chanting prayers, as the slavers are openly firing on the colony. The colony survives only because one of the colonists used Dylan's med-kit to steal Rev Bem's DNA and infect herself with it, giving rise to a branch of Magog with genetic memory, that killed the slavers, and then had to be stopped from preying on the colonists.
---> '''Dylon''': "We rescued Eden, by introducing The Serpent."
---> '''Dylon''': "We rescued Eden, by introducing The Serpent."
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* ''Literature/JapanSummons'': At first Japan didn't want to boast their firepower and be humble as possible when dealing with other countries. Unfortunately this made them look weak especially to warmongering countries like Parpaldia. After a hard learned lesson, the Japanese got the message that they need to "demonstrate" their technological advancement to prevent other countries belittling them and even considers to make a nuclear weaponry as a deterrent.
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** Anakin, his apprentice Ahsoka Tano, and some of their troops crash-land on Maridun, where they encounter a village of refugees. When the Separatists arrive, their leader blames the Republic for bringing them there and refuses to fight them for any reason. And when they are told that the Separatists are going to use their village as target practice, he decides to just sit there and let it happen. Some of the younger Lurmen go against his wishes and help the Republic forces defend their village though, meaning that this is was caused by a ruling ideological dogma, rather than it being a PlanetOfHats trait. This is egregious for two reasons. One is that, realistically, they should try to ''run away'' instead of fighting, due to Fight or Flight instincts (the leader does not indicate that he thinks the protagonists are lying about the attack). Secondly, the forces attacking the village ''[[MechaMooks are droids]]'', removing any ThouShaltNotKill justification. Also, this is just as much an example of a StrawCharacter.
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** Anakin, his apprentice Ahsoka Tano, and some of their troops crash-land on Maridun, where they encounter a village of refugees. When the Separatists arrive, their leader blames the Republic for bringing them there and refuses to fight them for any reason. And when they are told that the Separatists are going to use their village as target practice, he decides to just sit there and let it happen. Some of the younger Lurmen go against his wishes and help the Republic forces defend their village though, meaning that this is was caused by a ruling ideological dogma, rather than it being a PlanetOfHats trait. This is egregious for two reasons. One is that, realistically, they should try to ''run away'' instead of fighting, due to Fight or Flight instincts (the leader does not indicate that he thinks the protagonists are lying about the attack). Secondly, the forces attacking the village ''[[MechaMooks are droids]]'', removing any ThouShaltNotKill justification.justification (though notably the leader’s objections are often against violent acts in themselves regardless of target or outcome, and Star Wars often plays loose with whether droids are machines or [[AndroidsArePeopleToo are also living beings]]). Also, this is just as much an example of a StrawCharacter.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' added an [[MultipleEndings alternate ending]] in 1.7 that allows Iji to go ''too'' far with pacifism. By having fewer than 270 kills and refraining from meeting Ansaksie in Deep Sector (who would normally kill Iosa herself in this scenario), Iji gets the choice to spare Iosa at the end of Sector 9. If she does, then [[spoiler:after she defeats Tor, Iosa will show up with an illegal Nanogun and [[TheHeroDies blast her to smithereens]]. Iosa then tries to threaten Tor into going through with the Alpha Strike, stopped only by the fact that [[EngineeredPublicConfession Tor's second-in-command has been listening in on the whole conversation]] and strips her of her rank.]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' added an [[MultipleEndings alternate ending]] in 1.7 that allows Iji to go ''too'' far with pacifism. By having fewer than 270 kills and refraining from meeting Ansaksie in Deep Sector (who would normally kill Iosa herself in this scenario), Iji gets the choice to spare Iosa at the end of Sector 9. If she does, then [[spoiler:after she defeats Tor, Tor (his pre-fight dialogue will change so that he receives report of a stolen weapon instead), Iosa will show up with an illegal Nanogun and [[TheHeroDies blast her to smithereens]]. Iosa then tries to threaten Tor into going through with the Alpha Strike, stopped only by the fact that [[EngineeredPublicConfession Tor's second-in-command has been listening in on the whole conversation]] and strips her of her rank.]]
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* Mob in ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'' at first. He won't use his psychic powers against other people in the beginning. When challenged by Teruki, he refuses to fight back with his powers, even when Teruki starts to choke him.
