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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[SoSora Rano No wo ToWoto]]'', {{spoiler|Sorami stops a battle by playing [[Amazing Freaking Grace]] }}
* This happened to the title characters in an episode of the 1960s ''[[wikipedia:Amazing Three|The Amazing Three]]'' anime.
* The Three Ships Alliance does this to the Earth and ZAFT armies in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Gundam SEED]]'', but it soon devolves into a [[Melee a Trois]].
** They try to do the same thing in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (Anime)|Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', too, and mostly fail (until the final episodes).
* In ''[[Escaflowne]]'', as Van's [[Humongous Mecha]] is getting [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomped]] by the Phlebotium-enhanced leopard twins, Merle runs out and interposes her tiny little self in front of him. The twins back off from delivering the killing stroke because she's a catgirl like them.
* Ash tries this in ''[[Pokémon: theThe First Movie (Anime)|Pokémon the First Movie]]''. It ''does'' stop the battle, though he probably should have waited until ''after'' the [[Beam-O-War]] had ended before running in. {{spoiler|He dies. Momentarily.}}
== Literature ==
* Near the beginning of ''[[The Malloreorn]]'', the sequel-series to [[David Eddings]]' ''[[The Belgariad]]'', Belgarion pulls this, mostly to demonstrate how much he's grown up since the previous series. He stops a civil war in Mimbre by basically riding out between the two armies, unhorsing everyone who gets in his way, and then calling down a cataclysmic thunderstorm between them, while suggesting that anyone who wants to start fighting, can start by fighting HIM. Considering how eager [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Mimbrates]] are to go to war, nothing less would have done the trick, probably.
* At the end of ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]'', {{spoiler|Shadow manages to stop the battle between the Old and New Gods by telling them both how they were [[Playing Both Sides|manipulated into fighting by Mr. Wednesday and Loki]] so that they could gain power from the deaths of the other gods.}}
* In ''[[The Hobbit]]'', Gandalf stood between the Three Armies (Human, Elf, and Dwarf) to point out their common enemies the Goblins were approaching on Warg-Back.
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'', Carrot had a truly epic example when he successfully shamed two armies of trolls and dwarves. They were ready to rip each other apart until he came and basically told them that their dear old mothers would not be proud.
** There is also a similar event in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Jingo|Jingo]]'' when Vimes places himself between two armies by [[Refuge in Audacity|arresting the whole of both sides]]. After that, Carrot organizes a football match for them instead.
** Brutha in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Small Gods|Small Gods]]'' arrives alone on the beach where the armies of half a continent are expecting to fight the Omnian Divine Legion, and explains that the reasons for the war have gone. Almost subverted when one of the enemy generals explains, not unkindly, that sometimes there's just going to be a war and there's nothing anyone can do about it, certainly not by invoking "reasons" or lack thereof. Luckily Brutha has [[Physical God|more persuasive allies]].
* Ronnie from ''[[The Last Song]]'' stood between Marcus and Scott to stop them from fighting.
== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', Trip (currently commanding the Enterprise, as Archer and T'Pol are on the surface) stops the Vulcan and Andorian ships from firing on each other by targeting both sides, and saying that he will fire on whoever shoots first.
== Video Games ==
* From ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius (Video Game)|Fire Emblem 10]]'': Elincia tries to prevent the Begnion Army and the Laguz Alliance to stop fighting. It succeeds as far as averting the battle by convincing the generals of both sides to back off, but then Senator Valtome of Begnion gets so mad that she thwarted the battle that he sends his own personal troops for her head.
* ''[[Guild Wars]]'' has this, at the end of the Gyala Hatchery mission.
* In ''[[Mitsumete Knight (Video Game)|Mitsumete Knight]]'', in order to avoid a bloodshed, the heroine of the game, Sophia, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRYr2tERs2c interposes between] the man she loves, the Asian (aka the player character), and [[Arranged Marriage|her promised fiance]], [[Aristocrats Are Evil|Johan]], as Johan, defeated in the duel for Sophia's hand, begs to be given the [[Coup De Grace]], and the Asian was about to oblige.
* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Videovideo Gamegame)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'', if your [[Player Character]] chooses to spare Freyyr and give him Bacca's Blade, the party will enter the Chieftain's Hall to find Chuundar standing with his Czerka allies on one side, Freyyr and some Wookiee loyalists on the other, and Zaalbar trying to keep his brother and father from killing one another. You can't prevent the inevitable brawl, though trying will net you some light side points, but you can tip the balance in favor of one of the factions.
* Obi-Wan, Luminara Unduli and her apprentice attempt that in ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]''. The armies attack THEM instead, but they somehow manage to destroy all their weapons without killing anyone. Must be the Force. *shrug*
== Visual Novels ==
* In ''[[Clannad (Visual Novel)|Clannad]]'', {{spoiler|Yukine stopped two gangs from fighting by revealing that her brother was [[Dead All Along]]}}.
* During Miyako's storyline in ''[[Maji Dede Watashi Nini Koi Shinasai (Visual Novel)!|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'', in order to atone for having let things get so far out of hand while {{spoiler|Cap was away}}, Yamato stops a four-way fight between {{spoiler|Wanko, Miyako, Mayucchi, and Chris}} - with his body. {{spoiler|Mayucchi}} reacts fast enough to pull back at the last moment, but between the other three, Yamato is very much Not OK.
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