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* 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
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== Fan Works ==
* In fandoms where [[Ship
* [http://www.mst3kinfo.com/history/page9.html The Great Joel vs Mike Flamewar] that broke out in [[MST3K]] fandom when the latter took over hosting duties for the former in 1994 pitted MSTie against MSTie and very nearly wiped out all life as we know it. These days on [[MST3K]] message boards, it's generally a topic discussed in only the most coldly logical, unemotional terms lest ancient hatreds come to the fore. Flaming people over it is swiftly and brutally punished by moderators.
* 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.
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** ''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 5.
* In the 1970s ''[[
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