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See also [[Actual Pacifist]], [[Too Dumb to Live]] for when this gets to the point of genuine stupidity, and [[Perfect Pacifist People]].
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== [[Anime]]/[[Manga]] ==
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** Which makes their condemnation of the heroes seem a bit hypocritical or at least unfounded. It's all well and good to practice total pacifism when you have impenetrable defenses and perfect cloaking abilities (not to mention the ability to raise the newly dead) to survive, avoid, or undo the damage of any aggressor, but the people they condemn for using violence in self-defense have little choice other than simply being wiped out or enslaved.
** They are of course a great example of being Starfish Aliens.
* After nearly being wiped out in an atomic war (and exterminated by the Daleks) the Thals from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' turned to absolute pacifism. In their first appearance (in the series' very second serial, ''The Daleks'') Ian told them that they had to resist the Daleks or the Daleks would exterminate them; their leader Alydon gravely replied that in that case the Daleks would have to exterminate them. Fortunately, Ian was able to [[Teach Him Anger]] and make him acknowledge that there were some things worth fighting for and they defeated the Daleks. By the next appearance (several generations later) they had not returned to pacifism.
 
== Religion ==
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* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' the [[Another Dimension|Dimension of Lame]] (which is populated entirely by sickeningly sweet, naive, and innocent people) gets [[Demonic Invaders|invaded by demons]] from the [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Dimension of Pain]], who proceed to kill, devour, and rip out the souls of every human being who crosses their path. However, when a resistance group tries to organize, even the most psychotically violent individual on the planet can't do anything more than stub a demon's toe in self-defense without feeling unbearable guilt.
** Eventually the demons ''did'' begin to cooperate with the humans to a slight degree, but because the sheer number of helpless sheep to slaughter necessitated some organization on their part.
* Celia from [[Order of the Stick]] has shades of this. She's perfectly willing to use her flight to help other survive, but won't harm anyone alive even when they're trying to kill her and reanimate her corpse as a golem (she will zap golems, [[Stop Helping Me!|but that just made things worse]]). She also has no problem using her lightning zappy beams to create an impressive display as a set up to legally negotiating her way out of the situation.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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