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* The {{spoiler|centaurs}} in Harry Potter are pretty much this, continually declaring their refusal to meddle in human affairs until {{spoiler|they show up firing arrows everywhere in the Final Battle.}}
** After {{spoiler|Hagrid, carrying a dead Harry, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|berates them for being a "cowardly bunch o' nags"]].}}
* [[The Lord of the Rings|The Ents]].
** In the book, not as much. The Ents hold Entmoot, and decide to attack Saruman. In the movie, though, they initially decide to remain neutral, and only change their minds when Tree beard comes across a [[Berserk Button|field of felled trees]]. Either way, the outcome is an awesome [[Curb Stomp Battle]].
* ''Night'' by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel pleads the readers to turn to this trope.
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* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', the Faerie Courts of Winter and Summer are neutral to the war between the White Council of Wizards and the Red Court of vampires. They offered the Council access through their territory (letting the wizards take advantage of the [[Alien Geometries]] of Faerie) but were otherwise neutral. Then in ''Dead Beat'', the Red Court {{spoiler|invaded Faerie in an effort to wipe out the senior leadership of the Council after an already-devastating victory}}, and Summer immediately fell all over the Reds, with Summer declaring war on the Red Court for the transgression. However, the Summer forces could not go on the offensive because Winter refused to move against the vampires and made to threaten Summer's borders, which only allowed the Summer fae to provide limited support to the wizards.
* In the [[Dragaera]] universe, a rival Dragonlord attempts to start a war with Morrolan, who employs Vlad as a security consultant. Vlad makes no effort to support Morrolan until Fornia's men [[Berserk Button|come to his house and threaten him]] to make sure he stays out of it. Now that they've threatened him, and, further, have broken a rule he and the rest of the underground criminal syndicate hold sacred, [[It's Personal|he is]] ''[[It's Personal|pissed,]]'' [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|joins Morralan's army out of pure spite]], and winds up being a central figure in the final battle of the war.
* In one of Michael Gilbert's stories of [[Spy Fiction|British secret agents]] Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens, the two got involved with student vs. administration politics at a university, and helped a student agitator humiliate the school's rector under circumstances likely to get him fired. When their boss, Mr. Fortescue, reprimanded them for exceeding their mission, they explained that the rector made them furious by using bigotry to get another agitator pulled out of the university: he'd told the young fellow's '''Arab''' father that his son was "in danger of being debauched by a girl of Jewish parentage." Mr. Fortescue thought that over for a few seconds, and his final words implied he no longer regarded embarrassing the rector as the wrong thing to do.
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* [[Breakfast of the Gods]]: [[It Makes Sense in Context|Toucan Sam]] throws his lot in with Tony and the rest of the kingdom's defenders, after witnessing Count Chocula {{spoiler|set Cap'n Crunch up to be murdered.}}
* [[Pibgorn]] [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2004/01/14/ There's no way to be neutral with demons].
* ''[[Crimson Dark]]'' had it played out "World War [[In Space]]" style over the Farhaven blockade. Once the situation got stirred, semi-autonomous [https://web.archive.org/web/20160329232603/http://www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/index.php?view=comic&strip_id=440 Nyardeen Ward] condemned Daranir's slaughter of civilians and demanded that UTC (leaning toward supporting Republic of Daranir) pulled the Republic's leash. Then [https://web.archive.org/web/20160330015823/http://www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/index.php?view=comic&strip_id=466 UTC decided to intervene], {{spoiler|playing peacekeepers, but making clear they're for all intent and purpose on the side of Republic, and stopped the Coalition's fleet rescuing their own colony}}. Then Souri Collective, that {{spoiler|already sponsored the Coalition (what's with it being an obvious barrier for the other powers) and was in cold war with UTC... well, they [[Beware the Quiet Ones|said nothing]], but when UTC intervened, they chose to make their point simply by jumping a ''huge'' ship into the ongoing battle and punching a few holes ''through'' UTC battleship leading the attack, and then their flagship for good measure.}} Naturally, everyone else decided it's a good time to fall back. After the battle, Nyardeen Ward {{spoiler|''became'' a neutral state by finally seceding from UTC}} (they are [https://web.archive.org/web/20160329205834/http://www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/index.php?view=comic&strip_id=278 mostly ''behind''] the Coalition), which immediately elicited a comment:
{{quote|'''Sarah''': Yeah, that'll last. The war's going total. }}
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* Italy in both World Wars. In [[World War I]], Italy was supposed to immediately enter the war on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary, but refused due a loophole and stayed neutral for about a year before entering the war AGAINST them. In [[World War II]] it happened TWICE: first Italy was supposed to join Germany as soon as France and Britain declared war, but stayed neutral until the war appeared to be already won and attacked France and a small British colony just for the show, only to find out that the British Empire wouldn't surrender; in 1943 an invaded Italy sued for peace and became neutral again until the German reinforcements sent to help the defense were ordered to become an occupation force.
* To protest against [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|SOPA and Protect IP]], [[The Other Wiki|Wikipedia]] blacked out their website on January 18, 2012. Wikipedia is notable for claiming to be [[True Neutral]] as much as possible, making this a ''huge'' change in their policy.
* [[Switzerland]] is a country who, since 1515, always cherished its neutrality (it is ''their'' "Hat"), never taking sides in any international conflict or dispute. In 2022, however, it broke this tradition, siding with the United Nations in their decision to impose sanctions on Russia after the invasion of the Ukraine.
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