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In [[Real Life]], [[War Is Hell|warfare is hardly an entertaining and carefree experience]], and [[Harmful to Minors|can seriously mess with kids' heads]]... [[Child Soldier|not to mention their bodies]]. However, warfare and fighting can easily make for good, clean fun in entertainment media, and is often marketed to children. Most parents and [[Media Watchdogs]] are okay with media portraying Non-Lethal Warfare, regardless of the nature of the combat, its origins, the fridge logic or the unfortunate implications it may engender. No matter how lethal the weapons are, how dangerous the environment is, what the attitudes to enemy combatants and civilians are, [[Bloodless Carnage|no-one gets hurt]] and no-one dies. At least, not on-screen.
Commonly, the combatants will [[Inverse Law of Sharpness and Accuracy|use weapons]] or [[Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality|powers]] that [[Tap
We should mention the rules set out above assume that the setting allows for the possibility of death at all, and that it can happen off-screen. If the target audience is too young even for that, the scale of Nerfed violence increases (er, decreases?). No one will use bladed weapons or guns (arrows [[Incredibly Lame Pun|might fly]], though.), traps, tanks, and other large scale weapons will be completely non-lethal, perhaps even designed to humiliate the enemy rather than knock them out. Likely "weapons" for use will be "[[Pure Energy|energy]]" guns that are about as dangerous as laser tag guns... scratch that, ''less'' dangerous. Laser tag guns can at least potentially blind you. Or perhaps blunt weapons that "can't kill" because they don't cause bleeding.
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** They also schedule their battles and give the population time to evacuate before they start.
* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Lance]] blows up a large section of Vermilion City. When [[Friend to All Living Things|Yellow]] protests to the lives lost, Lance points out since a major event was happening at the bay, the city itself was currently empty. In a slight aversion, he admits that there probably ''were'' a few people caught up in the blast, but not that he cares.
* Zigzagged in [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]. The fluff details horrifically violent conflicts in the distant past featuring -- among other things -- [[Night of the Living Mooks|armies of cyborg zombies]], universe-destroying starships, and [[Person of Mass Destruction|human WMDs]] under every freaking rock, all used at one point or another in a series of interdimensional wars which lasted thousands of years and devastated countless universes. It's enough to make a [[Warhammer
* ''[[Toshokan Sensou]]''. All the beligerents wear military-grade body armour. With few exceptions, their guns appear chambered for handgun bullets. Result: People get shot, people fall down with nasty bruises and possibly some cuts and are out of the fight. Few, if anyone, actually dies. This system seems to have been implemented on purpose since the Media Cleansing Comittee and the libraries are, essentially, involved in an institutionalized [[Civil War]] under state supervision.
* The entire premise of ''[[Dog Days]]'': war is literally a sport, complete with commentators, live coverage, betting and quite a lot of fanfare. When someone is slashed by a sword, they don't die, they temporarily turn into a cute ball-shaped kitten/puppy. Justified, in that they wage their wars in a protected space that grants this ability to everyone there (except Shinku, [[Informed Flaw|supposedly]]).
** Of course this becomes a plot point later on as wild monsters are not subject to this rule.
* [[
== Board Games ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[
* ''[[The A-Team]]'': Though there was lots of gun play and death threats throughout the show's run, fire fights never actually resulted in anyone getting killed or even injured.
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== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* ''[[Maji
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*** ''Resolute'', an 11-episode miniseries created to hype the movie, averted this. The guns actually do fire bullets (they did feature red muzzle flash and blue muzzle flash as a shoutout). There's plenty of [[A-Team Firing]] and the [[Mooks|Cobra Blueshirts]] are [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|still unable to hit anything]], but the Joes do manage to gun them down often.
*** Most other adaptations (like the comics and the movie) brutally avert this, as we've got characters on both sides firing real bullets and actually scoring some kills against enemies.
* Battles in ''[[Transformers]]'' tend to involve lots of lasers and big weapons, but characters rarely die outside the movies and some of the comics. Even if they do, [[Death Is Cheap]] in ''Transformers''. This was averted most visibly in ''[[
** However, one episode of ''[[
** Heavily averted during the first act of ''Transformers: [[The Movie]]''
** ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' seems to instead largely avoid showing direct warfare: most of the battles we see are small scale, and all of the fighting in [[Shell Shocked Senior|Ratchet's]] flashbacks are implied instead of shown.
* The ''[[Sonic
** Early in the second season, a temporarily de-roboticized Uncle Chuck explains that the mind actually ''doesn't'' go away, and the roboticized person is simply aware of what is going on around them [[And I Must Scream|without any way to control themselves.]] It's debatable as to whether this made it better or [[Fate Worse Than Death|worse]].
** There's also the first episode, where the Freedom Fighters fend off Robotnik's robots with catapults shooting water balloons at them.
* ''[[
* ''[[Rambo the Force of Freedom]]'' has a very low body count compared to the latter movies.
* In ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West'' the final climactic battle is fought with slingshots rather than real guns.
* ''[[WITCH (
* In ''[[
** Although they then blow the entire mountain face away with the war balloon's engine, so there's not a whole lot of room to get around how very dead the attackers are. Sokka's probably a better example: in the first two-and-a-half seasons, he favors his boomerang and is reasonably good at hitting people, generally resulting in knockouts. Once he has his sword, though, he's limited mostly to hitting terrain and weapons. This despite him sharpening his boomerang on several occasions...
* Codename:[[Kids Next Door]] Has the [[Badass Army]] of [[Badass Adorable|kids]] at war with various adult villians who wish to oppress, harm, and enslave the world's children, and while most villians don't seem to shy away from trying to kill their KND foes, you never see it happen, nor do you see any KND Operatives [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|doing any of the sort to them]].
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