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Or ''is'' there?
They are not a pendulum swinging from one team to the other. Instead, they are an immovable object that maintains solid ground and an objective opinion. Bonus points if a member from
In a fandom, members of
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* [[Shipping]] [[Fandom]], [[Ship-to-Ship Combat|if it's not obvious enough]], (usually) there are TWO
** Strangely, [[Asexuality]] has (hypocritically) a [[Broken Base]] on its own, claiming either [[Relationship Writing Fumble|Shipping-matters getting in the way of plot]] or [[No Hugging, No Kissing|there are no ship tease at all]]. But living up to this trope, [[Awesome Moment|THEY NEVER FIGHT EACH OTHER OR ANYONE ELSE]].
* In the vast, blasted landscape of the [[Console Wars]],
* In ''Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume'' for the DS, if Wylfred takes the "A" path, then he finds himself a member of Team Switzerland who actually DOES get their hands dirty to - what else? Stop the succession Crisis that's ruining Artolia. Sadly this doesn't work...
* The Church of Lorelei in ''Tales of the Abyss'' would not at all benefit from a war started between Kimlasca and Malkuth. Even though there are factions within this Team Switzerland.
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* For the most part in the storyline of ''[[Guild Wars]]: Nightfall'', this is the role of Vabbi. After the princes of Vabbi are rallied, this role is taken by Palawa Joko's undead army who acts as their own faction and only really teams up with the player and the sunspears because Varesh is in his way.
* The player can join a Team Switzerland in ''Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together'' in Chapter 2 Chaotic.
* Astoria's faction in the fifth game of [[Geneforge]] is a variant, trying to end the war (by [[I Did What I Had to Do|any means necessary]]) rather than to impose their philosophy. Spiderweb itself can be considered this in due to its dedicated maintenance of [[Grey and Gray Morality]] in [[Geneforge]]
* In ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' fans stated using this trope by name to refer to anyone who refused to declare that anyone should [[Die for Our Ship]]. Bella in ''Eclipse'' [[Invoked Trope|likens herself to Switzerland]] when she states her neutrality in the [[Fur Against Fang|feud between vampires and werewolves.]]
* Multi-Shippers of any fandom tend to fit this trope well. Since they'll ship practically anything, they don't tend to take sides in [[Die for Our Ship|those wars]] and are easily flexible with people disagreeing with them. They might chip in their opinion concerning a shipping war, but only to come out and say they happen to like both and ships are just ships.
* The ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' fandom is like this, minus a little wank or two. In fact, there are really no shipping wars in it at all.
** Which makes sense because there's only one female character in the main [[Homestar Runner]] universe.
* The rarest members of
* For all of the [[Broken Base]] screaming and whining about whether the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga is better than the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|2003 anime]] or vice versa, there actually is a [[Silent Majority]] of fans who like both.
* There ''are'' fans who simply do not feel the need to rave about every single JRPG or FPS they play. There actually ''do'' exist gamers who simply think "...Nah, I don't think I'll like this game" and don't play them. Not all gamers are people who act like "The big bad ''*insert company here*'' will enter my house at night and ''replace ALL my games with stuff I DON'T LIKE!!!'' or feel the need to [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like|scream at the top of their lungs about games being made without them in mind.]]
* Anytime a [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] game is announced. There are people who will immediately get excited and hype the game to oblivion, to the point where [[Hype Backlash]] in inevitable if/when the game fails to meet their expectations. There will also be people laughing and bring up the [[Memetic Mutation|Sonic Cycle]] and come across as [[Fan Hater
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' has in the background a millennium-long conflict between [[God and Satan Are Both Jerks|a devil who deliberately promotes suffering, and a god who refuses to prevent it]]. Then there's the Buddha, who just wants everyone to chill out, and the Dragon, whose typical response involves [[Pass the Popcorn|popcorn]].
* During the [[Tonight Show]] conflict, [[Jimmy Fallon]] was the only major late night host to refuse to take sides, calling O'Brien and Leno "two of my heroes and two of my friends."
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