Technical Pacifist: Difference between revisions

* Speaking of ''Gundam Seed'', Lowe Guele of ''[[Gundam SEED Astray]]'' is like this. The charter for the Junk Guild says that members can only attack if ''they'' are attacked and when Lowe fights back in the Red Frame, it's usually to disable. Of course, this is a guy who repaired a mecha-sized katana, built a 150 meter version of the same weapon and designed an all-purpose sword of a mercenary. It gets even funnier when you play him in an [[Super Robot Wars|SRW]] or a G-Generation game.

** To quote the man himself in his promotional anime short: "Don't worry, I'm a Junk Tech. I don't kill."

* [[Legend of the Galactic Heroes|Yang Wen-Li]] would love to live in a universe in peace and claims to be totally inept when it comes to guns and actual fighting. He is also directly responsible for the death of tens of millions of imperial soldiers and is quite aware of the contradiction.

* ''[[Trigun]]'' anime's lead Vash the Stampede lives this trope as his essential gimmick. Outlaw with a very big gun and [[Improbable Aiming Skills]], does a lot of ass-kicking when required, but goes to great and painful lengths to avoid letting anyone be killed. Likely to whack someone with his gun, throw the bullets out the back of the gun, shoot their pants off, get bubblegum into their gun, or let the terrain clobber them if engaging, also very likely to run away. Will deliver non-fatal shots if necessary. Gets sneered at and called either a moron or a hypocrite a lot. Starry-eyed idealist, but scary if pushed far enough. {{spoiler|The [[Big Bad]]'s evil scheming more or less culminates in sending his fanatically loyal psychic [[The Dragon|Dragon]] to force Vash to shoot him dead to save his remaining best friends. Object: 'Eternal Suffering to Vash the Stampede.' In the end, shoots [[Big Bad]] through all major limbs and carries him into the desert over his shoulder.}}

* [[The Culture]] epitomize this trope: they are a bunch of hippies with WMD who built a galactic empire and they [[Beware the Nice Ones|don't take it very well]] when someone tries to stop them from spreading their way of life.

* [[Twilight (novel)|The Cullens]] spend their eternal lives trying to coexist peacefully with people, giving up their human-chomping ways. They apparently have absolutely no problem letting other vampires eat humans in the area or even supplying them with transportation to do so. They also have no problem tearing another vampire to pieces and burning it if it tries to kill Bella.

* Durnik starts out this way in the [[Belgariad]]—letting an attacker be sucked down by [[Quicksand Sucks|killer quicksand]] rather than axe the guy's head in, for instance.

** He generally uses a club in combat rather than a sword or axe. "I really don't like chopping into people. If you hit a man with a club, there's a fair chance he won't die, and there isn't all that blood".

** Except [[Dark and Troubled Past|that one time]].

* [[Leverage]]: Elliot Spencer fits the sub-trope of "doesn't use guns" technical pacifist. But in one episode, after being backed into a corner and being told to survive, he reluctantly uses his opponent's dropped handguns, and reluctantly kills 15+ assailants. He says he doesn't use them because of his "past". It is also likely that he dislikes guns because he believes it makes things too easy.

* Rev. Bem in ''[[Andromeda]]'' being a Wayist priest and a Magog, tries to avoid killing people despite being an obligate carnivore who needs to kill his prey. In fights he usually just paralyzes people with his venom and generally refuses to eat anything but fish, even if it means starvation.

 

== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==

* Whenever pacifism is an option, [[Min-Maxing]] does this. As [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost3354-motivator5e43cd84210c42a9c48ef72a85%2Ejpg one poster] puts it -- "Pacifism. A commonly taken character trait. Confers +200 [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost12561-gunslingerni8%2Ejpg to revolvers]."

** This conception was actually inspired by [[wikipedia:Mace (club)#The European Middle Ages and Beyond|a real world example]] and simply popularized by said roleplaying game.

*** Although to be fair, Odo of Bayeux's use of the mace wasn't quite a "technical pacifist" position, but more of a cynical attempt to get in on the glory of the English Conquest yet still be considered a "holy servant of god." Basically, Odo was a [[Rules Lawyer]].

== Toys ==

* LEGO claims to never produce war toys. This is only true in a certain point of view, because they still have lot of toys featuring conflict like [[Indiana Jones]] and [[Star Wars]] and produce a wide array of guns.

** There is also some kind of undergroundmarket around military LEGO. Sites like Brickarms and Brickforge sell custom-made LEGO-compatible elements, resembling authentic guns and rifles like AK-47 and Bazzokas to arm your figures. They are in no way affilated with LEGO other than that their products are compatible with each other, but still.