Actual Pacifist: Difference between revisions

* The title character from ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' started out as this [[Character Development|before becoming a]] [[Martial Pacifist]].

* Despite his [[Martial Pacifist|significant skill in martial arts]] (which he uses purely to break up fights with minimum force), Simon Brezhnev of [[Durarara!!]] sticks very firmly to pacifist ideals {{spoiler|probably to [[The Atoner|atone]] for his past both in the KGB and [[The Mafiya]]}}. He doesn't even like ''talking'' about fighting.

* Gennosuke from ''[[Basilisk]]'' is an interesting example of this. He never starts a fight in the whole show and even orders his own people not to kill the Iga ninjas. On the other hand he eventually decides he has no choice but let the Kouga annihilate the Iga. The few times he does fight (quite brutally in fact) his power means that he never has to engage in any actual violence.

*** Considering this was after his turn to the Dark Side and during the period Luke was still very much "Must use Force for everything, no matter how trivial or invasive!"(like wiping memories from innocents...)? Well, let's face it. She was on to something, as Mara pointed out to him years later.

*** Of course, they apparently have no problem with lying to Luke about his [[Action Girl|mother]].

* Jessamyn West's novel ''Friendly Persuasion'' is about Quakers in Southern Indiana during the American Civil War.

* In [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' The goal of Arm was to turn all of humanity into such, as it was the only way we'd survive. It was working pretty well using mandatory drugging and population controls to breed out much of the violent tendencies. Some violent folks are kept inside ARM to react to situations as they come up, but can't leave the building until medicated. Then we meet the Kzini and pacifism is a trait that becomes a luxury...

* [[GURPS]] has two levels of this: Self Defense Only and Total Nonviolence. With Total Nonviolence you can only even defend yourself against things that aren't sentient.

** Eldath, a goddess from the ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' setting forbids her clerics from violence (in self-defence they aim to subdue).

** ''Book of Exalted Deeds'' has "Vow of Non-Violence" And "Vow of Peace", the first makes you into a [[Technical Pacifist]], the latter into an actual one, though the Vow of Peace does allow for non-lethal damage to be dished out to living enemies, which moves the feat out of the area of this trope depending on how [[Good Is Not Nice|willing a particular character is to use this loophole]].

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