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** His [[Split Personality]], on the other hand has little problem with killing people (one early manga story has him blowing up a school bully with nitroglycerin and in another he sets a gang of toughs on fire), though this becomes less prominent as the series goes on.
* The title character from ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' started out as this [[Character Development|before becoming a]] [[Martial Pacifist]].
* Despite his [[Martial Pacifist|significant skill in martial arts]] (which he uses purely to break up fights with minimum force), Simon Brezhnev of [[Durarara!!]] sticks very firmly to pacifist ideals {{spoiler|probably to [[The Atoner|atone]] for his past both in the KGB and [[The Mafiya]]}}. He doesn't even like ''talking'' about fighting.
* [[Rebirth the Lunatic Taker]] 's Renji is completely unwilling to fight... Too bad no one else in this sick game agrees with him.
* Gennosuke from ''[[Basilisk]]'' is an interesting example of this. He never starts a fight in the whole show and even orders his own people not to kill the Iga ninjas. On the other hand he eventually decides he has no choice but let the Kouga annihilate the Iga. The few times he does fight (quite brutally in fact) his power means that he never has to engage in any actual violence.
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* Amusingly used in the French comic ''[[Captain Biceps]]'': the hero [[Actual Pacifist|Pacific Man]] is incapable of doing any harm to another person/animal/object (including the bad guys, yogurt and ''his own tooth cavities''), but when he goes into his wimpy [[Alter Ego]], he is held up by the Terminator, starts giving him the nonviolent speech, then realizes what he's saying and suddenly ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|punches out the goddamn Terminator in a single blow]]'' before running away. Then he says "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Whew! I barely escaped being recognized there]]!"
* ''[[Orient Men]]'', in the beginning of his appearances, was the kind of superhero who attempted to combat crooks by waxing poetic to them about the error of their ways. Later on, when the superhero status became [[The Artifact]], many his adventures involved helping epople solve their conflicts peacefully.
* Reese from ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]''. In real life she is an ER nurse and so refuses to take part in any act of violence, even in game. She plays a cleric of a pacifist god.
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** Likewise, Moist von Lipwig is a con man and oftentimes [[Magnificent Bastard]] who is nonetheless much more comfortable with being threatened by violence than the other way 'round. He never physically attacks anyone, and becomes extremely nervous when put into the position to freely do so.
*** He is so against violence that he's profoundly disturbed when his parole officer, the logical golem Mr. Pump, calculates his white-collar crimes have indirectly killed 2.338 people.
* In the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]], the Halkans insist there is no violence of any kind in their hearts. As a result of this, anyone capable of violence cannot be truly Halkan. In [[Star Trek: The Lost Era]], Halkan character Lojur is even exiled from the planet for using violence in defense of his village. It was under attack by murderous raiders, but even then the majority of his people found fighting inconceivable.
** The Caeliar from ''[[Star Trek: Destiny]]''. They would rather die in the millions than harm another being, or even allow harm to come to another if they can prevent it. When the human characters they're holding captive rebel, they're convinced to co-operate when a human shoots his own colleague.
* [[Anne of Green Gables|Anne Shirley's]] middle son Walter is absolutely opposed to fighting, and hates the idea of violence. All well and good, until the beginning of World War One.
* Matteo in ''[[Someone Else's War|Someone Elses War]]''. Granted, as a forced [[Child Soldiers|child soldier]], he ''has'' killed before, but once he realizes how much he hates violence, he dedicates the rest of the novel to freeing his fellow child captives without any violence.
* ''[[Phule's Company]]'' had a recruit nicknamed "Mahatma" included in the last batch of unfit recruits dropped into The Omega Company. Why he joined the mercenary corps was never explained, but when their drill sergeant got to "you'll have to shoot back" part, he tried to ask something that obviously bothered him, but was was told to hold it for a while and... never brought up his problem again, the next part being a demonstration of [[Stun Guns|Zenobian stun-ray]] the company got for rent-a-cop job. The sergeant was left to puzzle over why they were given a recruit who acts slightly strange, but physically is in better-than-average shape, shows neither uncooperative attitude nor crippling mental problems and diligently studies the weapon issued to him.
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
** The Argolins from "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18
** Also, the Ood, who (prior to being neutered and enslaved by [[Humans Are Bastards|the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire]]) are born with secondary brains that they hold ''in their hands''. Therefore, they have no choice but to be peaceful and docile and hope other species return the favor, despite looking like Lovecraftian squid-monsters.
** In the [[Made for TV Movie]], the Eighth Doctor is definitely like this. [[Chaotic Good|However]], he's a [[Kleptomaniac Hero]], and steals whatever the hell he thinks he needs (and stealing [[Gorgeous Period Dress]] from someone's locker probably counts as just stealing whatever he ''wants''). As he needs to get someplace in a hurry, he steals a motorcycle from a cop. It's possibly the most [[The Messiah|endearing]] armed robbery ever:
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* A impressive military actual pacifist was WWII veteran Desmond T. Doss, who refused to bear arms or drill on Saturday due to his Seventh-Day Adventist beliefs. Doss was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for single-handedly rescuing 75 of his fellow soldiers from an escarpment under fire from the Japanese on Okinawa. From his medal citation, "As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machine gun fire crashed into them, inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Pfc. Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the many stricken, carrying them 1 by 1 to the edge of the escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face of a cliff to friendly hands." Truly a kick-behind pacifist.
* [[wikipedia:Ahimsa in Jainism|Jains]]. Jainism includes the precept of "Ahiṃsā"; the absence of the desire to harm ''any'' life. How strictly this precept is adhered to varies, but all Jains observe it to some degree.
* The now-extinct religion of Manichaeism took this to an extreme. While lay members were permitted to live their lives normally, members of the clergy were forbidden to harm any living being. Strict vegetarians, they were expressly forbidden to prepare their own food, as cooking and chopping vegetables was believed to harm the spirit particles residing within the food.
* As the page quote implies, doctors are ideologically against harming others, but in modern medicine this is sometimes easier said than done. For example, chemotherapy (used to treat many cancers) is basically the use of poisons, chosen to kill cancer cells ''faster'' than they kill the rest of the patient. This is why cancer patients lose their hair (among other problems). So, doctors are sworn to do no harm, but in an effort to treat their patients' cancer, they must harm them with the chemo drugs.
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