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{{quote|Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the Sun now stands, I will [[Trope Namer|fight no more forever]].|'''Chief Joseph''', of the Nez Perce, surrendering.}}
[[Everything's Better
The reasons for this vary. Perhaps Bob now has (or gave someone) a [[Dead Little Sister]], or maybe they just think their [[Quest]] has come to an end (though their opponents probably would [[Cycle of Revenge|beg to differ.]]) They may have simply [[Morality Chain|met the one person who could convince him that murder is not always the answer]]. It could be a simple case of being beaten so badly and so often that they just [[Despair Event Horizon|give up completely]].
Frequently, this becomes a [[Ten
When they don't give up long past where it's insane to continue, that's [[I Will Fight Some More Forever]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
* Kenshin Himura from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', {{spoiler|after he accidentally killed his wife Tomoe.}}
** Though in his case, he swore off killing, not fighting or even swordsmanship. He got himself a custom-made reverse-blade katana so that he could use his sword to rescue people from their oppressors and attackers, but never again kill.
* Train from ''[[Black Cat (
* Mewtwo from ''[[Pokémon (
* Shinji in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. ''Three times''.
* At the end of the Cell arc, Vegeta from ''[[
* In ''[[Gundam Wing]]'''s [[Grand Finale]] ''Endless Waltz'', the last line [[Hitman
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* Thorfinn goes from a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] in the [[Prolonged Prologue]] of ''[[Vinland Saga]]'', to this in the [[Fan Nickname|Farmland Saga]] arc.
== [[Comic Book]] ==
* The [[New Gods]] story "The Pact" has a pretty awesome example. Izaya, the leader of the New Gods of New Genesis, renounces the ways of war after figuring out that the entire war was Darkseid's gambit to remove the obstacles in his rise to power.
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* In IDW's ''[[Transformers]]'' #125, {{spoiler|Optimus Prime gives up the Matrix and the responsibilities of being the leader of an army so he can be Orion Pax again.}}
== [[Film]] ==
* Jules from ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''- The end of the movie (and if you listen closely, the beginning) {{spoiler|has him wanting to retire from killing}} and [[Walking the Earth|walk the earth]], {{spoiler|and in fact, refusing to kill "Honey-Bunny" and "Pumpkin" who just held up the diner he's in, though that would have been the easier option. }}
* Death himself from ''[[Death Takes a Holiday]]''. He falls in love and gets preoccupied no longer wants to perform his duties.
* The knife-wielding guy in ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]''. It ends badly for him.
* [[
* ''[[Hot Shots Part Deux]]''
** Before the movie starts Topper Harley has resigned from the military and joined a monastery. Where he engages in martial arts contests. Okaaaay...
** Harbinger gives up killing, but Topper Harley teaches him the joy of slaughter once again. [[Ten
* Roy Batty the killer robot in ''[[
* In ''[[Danny the Dog]]'', Danny chooses not to kill his opponent, and yells "No more killing!" to the man holding the forced gladatorial combat, who replies "I'm the only one that calls "'no more killing.'"
* Quirt Evans (John Wayne) tells the marshal (Harry Carey) that he is no longer a gunslinger, but a farmer, in ''Angel and the Badman''.
* Notorious gunslinger/town marshal Clay Blaisedell (Henry Fonda) tosses his two gold-handled revolvers in the dirt before riding out of town in “Warlock.”
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Subverted by [[Rudyard Kipling]] in ''[[The
* In [[The Night Angel Trilogy]], Kylar the assassin tries to retire at the start of the second book - motivated in good part by his love interest not liking what he does. Both the goodies and the baddies are fairly insistent that he can't just walk away, though, and he does indeed return (although not by any means happily). His love interest eventually decides that it is indeed something that he has to do.
* In [[Moses, Man of the Mountain]], Moses, a military genius in his youth, vows to never fight again after murdering an Egyptian overseer and fleeing Egypt.
* In ''[[The Children of
* In ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
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* Karel in ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Sword of Seals''. ''Blazing Sword'', the prequel, shows us what he retired ''from''.
** Ike from ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Path of Radiance'' and ''Radiant Dawn'' also left Tellius after the war was over.
* Lt. Velasquez near the end of ''[[Traffic Department 2192]]''... after having spent most of her life on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] over her father's death, she's looking at an absolute victory, having defeated a galaxy-spanning army practically singlehandedly - but losing countless friends along the way. When the opportunity offers itself to actually kill the Emperor, she demurs - all she wants at that point, is for the war to end, and killing him would merely create a vacuum for some other power-mad leader to step into.
* The {{spoiler|Vell-os}} from ''[[Escape Velocity|Escape Velocity: Nova]]'' surrendered to the Federation and became {{spoiler|slaves of the Bureau of Internal Investigation, because the alternative was to fight the Federation and ''win'', causing immeasurable death and destruction.}}
* At the end of ''[[Assassin's Creed
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Leegolas from ''[[Futurama|Bender's Game]]'' vows not to kill anymore after slaughtering the obnoxious but innocent Zoidberg monster.
* Parodied in ''[[Rugrats]]'' in which Chuckie, scared out of his wits after a slide accident
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