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* In ''[[To
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* In ''[[To Love Ru]]'', Rito is forced to go to school with Yami, the infamous alien assasin known throughout the galaxy who wants to kill Rito, but doesn't because she's best friends with his sister. She will however try if he does anything ecchi towards her [[Accidental Pervert|which has Rito narrowly escaping death on a daily basis]]
* In ''[[Last Exile]]'', the countries of Anatoray and Disith are engaged in a long and bloody war under the supervision of the mysterious Guild, which directs the official battles which take place in the air between the country's respective air forces. The enforcement comes into play when one side gains too much of an advantage and is stopped forcefully by the forces of the Guild, in order to maintain the [[Status Quo Is God|status quo]].
* In the ''[[Ah!
* ''[[One Piece]]'': {{spoiler|The Whitebeard War ends this way, as Shanks intervenes and threatens to take on any side if they don't stop the senseless violence. In this case, this is likely a short-term solution, as Shanks and his crew are about equal in power to the other factions. The only reason Shanks' threat held weight is because all the factions (Luffy's allies, The Whitebeard Pirates, the Blackbeard Pirates, and the World Government) were too weakened from the fighting up till that point.}}
* ''[[
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* The planets Apokalips and New Genesis in [[The DCU]]. The first issues of ''[[New Gods]]'' and ''Mister Miracle'' explained the peace treaty between them, which additionally resulted in the characters of Orion and Mister Miracle.
* "The Baron's Peace" in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' is one of these. Said Baron is a Type 1 [[The Unfettered|Unfettered]] who will do anything to maintain peace, and he controls an unequalled superpower that lets him do so. He is an old and very experienced mad scientist, in a setting where most of them tend to die quite young. He leads the continent's largest military force, overwhelming air superiority, and the most advanced military hardware/clockwork troops/mutant brigades. After a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] he was personally responsible for rebuilding European society through willpower and force, and for sectioning off the parts of it which are toxic or infested. He doesn't care how much the nobility squabble over land or ancestry, but if a battle ever breaks out, he shuts down both sides with [[Theres No Kill Like Overkill|complete overkill]]. That is ''The Baron's Peace''.▼
== Fan Works ==
* In fandoms where [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] is prevalent, many of the major message boards have rules against flaming other members or ships, preventing the ship wars from becoming too terribly violent. The major ''[[
* [http://www.mst3kinfo.com/history/page9.html The Great Joel vs Mike Flamewar] that broke out in ''[[
== Literature ==
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** Comes out in full force around Quidditch matches, where Gryffindors and Slytherins usually end up in the hospital wing with antlers and leaks in their body. During the fifth book Harry had to walk with a protective guard of Gryffindors because the Slytherins kept trying to sabotage him.
* The treaty between Watches in the ''[[Night Watch]]'' 'verse, which is openly inspired (bordering on the [[Anvilicious]] actually) by the actual Cold War. Add two millennia-old [[The Chessmaster|Chessmasters]] with magic powers enough to make the most absurd [[Gambit Roulette]] seem timid. {{spoiler|The Inquisition is the higher power here.}}
* In ''[[
* Inverted in the [[Isaac Asimov]] story, "The Gentle Vultures". In it, pacifist, herbivorous aliens go from world to world to help the survivors of the nuclear war that inevitably breaks out in every intelligent
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
** The Organian Peace Treaty, forced on the Federation and the Klingons by [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien
** ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' also had the sixth season opening arc in which the Dominion was in control of the station. To avoid collateral damage, Bajor did not ally with the Federation, so the main characters affiliated with the Bajoran government stayed on-board and worked side by side with the occupation forces. (Then again, they did eventually form an active resistance cell.)
** Though in general, [[Deep Space Nine]] subverted this, as the Dominion and the Federation, who were hostile toward each other since they met in season 2, eventually did go to war at the end of season
* In [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|the original 1970s ''
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** Most drow lives like that, in the framework of [[Evil Matriarch|Lolth]] [[Religion of Evil|theocracy]]: otherwise infighting turns into [[Ax Crazy]] all-out war and then
** In ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' setting: enforced in the House wars of Menzoberranzan: espionage, conspiracy and secret raids against rival houses are permitted, even encouraged, but woe be to those who get caught. Failures to enforce it caused whole cities to be utterly destroyed (Golothaer, [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Bhaerynden Bhaerynden aka Telantiwar] aka ''Great Rift''), ruined and taken by external force ([http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Insurrection Ched Nasad]) or weakened and massacred by neighbours ([http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Maerimydra Maerimydra]). Menzoberranzan barely escaped the same fate ''twice'' during Silence of Lolth (seven months) alone. And Baenre rule Menzoberranzan because it was their matron who said "stop the madness" when all-out fight began, Menzoberra was killed and the cavern itself seriously reshaped. They are ''that'' aggressive.
* ''[[Warhammer
* In ''[[Magic:
== Theatre ==
* [[Older Than Steam]]: ''[[
== Video Games ==
* An interesting variant shows up in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'': the Republic and the Sith are very much openly at war with each other, but both sides are dependent on trade with the neutral planet of Manaan, which supplies a unique and very valuable mineral used in medical supplies that neither army can do without. Thus, both the Republic and the Sith maintain a military presence and an embassy on Manaan, but have to avoid direct conflict lest the government cut off trade with the aggressor, and many of the quests on the planet are outright illegal acts of espionage against the Sith.
* Heavily implied to be the sole purpose of Ravens' NEST in ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'':
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'': [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091012 here] one case is shown and another is mentioned.▼
▲* "The Baron's Peace" in
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[
* In the late second season of ''[[WITCH (
* In the third season of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', The [[Weird Trade Union|Guild of Calamitous Intent]] forces [[Affably Evil]] supervillain The Monarch to give up Dr. Venture as his arch-nemesis and find somebody else to antagonize. He doesn't take it well.
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'': The Supercomputer is the team's main resource, and Aelita's survival is
== Real Life ==
* Anthropologists claim to have discovered tribes in which it was a common custom for the young [[Glory Seeker
▲* Anthropologists claim to have discovered tribes in which it was a common custom for the young [[Glory Seeker|GlorySeekers]] of rival tribes to fight each other until the elders decided it was enough and ordered it stopped. This sounds more like a tournament then a war (though with real weapons like the earlier knightly tournaments). However the fine distinctions between crime sprees, war, sport, and comparatively normal mayhem might be difficult with tribal relations given the low organization.
** Note however that claims of this sort of thing are generally ''very'' contentious and heavily laced with [[Unfortunate Implications]]. Anthropology has a lot of variant mileage.
* Arguably, the ''original'' Cold War was enforced as well, not by God or [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] but by fear of the consequences -best-case scenario was a bodycount to rival the First World War, worst-case was the end of human civilisation - if it went hot.
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