Enforced Cold War: Difference between revisions

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* 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]]'' 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.

== 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 ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' boards in particular are known to clamp down heavily hard on flame wars between Kataang and Zutara shippers.

* This editor once wrote a short story centering around a pirate/ninja cold war, which had to be that way because all the cowboys, robots, samurai, and other cool things were forcing them to play nice on the surface.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** 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 genocide—and [[Gods Need Prayer Badly|she needs them alive]].

** 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.

* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'''s Ravnica Block, the different guilds keep the peace using the Guildpact. It sets statutes and ordinances for each guild so that each of the ten guilds has its own place. Of course, this doesn't stop the various guild leaders from trying to find as many loopholes as possible.

 

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