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Often allows the Bad Guys to taunt the heroes with impunity. If so, there will almost certainly be at least one scene where one of the heroes has to be held back by their teammates, usually while they shout something like "Let me at em!"
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== 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! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' universe, actual battle between the gods and demons is prevented by the Doublet System. Kill someone from either side and someone else from the opposite side would literally drop dead on the spot. As no one (save one notable exception) knows who their doublet is, this prevents the saner ones from simply starting Ragnarok early. For the insane ones there's always the direct intervention of the Daimakaichou or the Almighty.
* [[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.}}
* [[Dual Parallel Trouble Adventure]] utilized a very literal example of this trope. The two waring [[Humongous Mecha|mecha]] factions in the show only fought at pre-scheduled places and times, and the pilots were allowed to [[Graceful Loser|tap out]] when it looked like were going to lose. As in the [[Truth in Television|real life]] Cold War, the point of this was to keep the world from being [[Story Boarding the Apocalypse|wrecked]] by the [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|weapons of mass destruction]] possessed by both sides.
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