History Main / IWillFightNoMoreForever

Frequently, this becomes a TenMinuteRetirement, and Bob's once again forced to draw his sword and kill again.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', the colonists of a Tomb World might start to adopt the Pacifist ethos after taking in the horrific devastation that war brought to their new home. [[TheAtoner This is especially poignant if they come from a Militarist empire]].

Bob, possibly a FallenHero or [[TheAtoner Atoner,]] refuses to fight any longer. He decides he would rather become an ActualPacifist or TechnicalPacifist, or retreat from the world all together.

** Played straighter in the movie ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBojackUnbound Bojack Unbound]]'' which explicitly shows Vegeta lazing about in bed while everyone else is fighting. At least, [[TenMinuteRetirement until he realizes that Trunks is in legitimate danger...]]

* Thorfinn goes from a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in the ProlongedPrologue of ''VinlandSaga'', to this in the [[FanNickname Farmland Saga]] arc, before finally maturing into a MartialPacifist willing to fight (but not kill) as a last resort.

* At the end of the Cell arc, Vegeta from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' has the AntagonistInMourning version. With Goku dead and no chance of ever settling their score, Vegeta is so crushed he flies away vowing to never fight again. Until the story skips seven years later to reveal that he ''kept training the whole time'' and becomes extremely fixated on having one last fight with Goku (who has been allowed to return to Earth for one day).

* Melissa Petilius in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', a local hero, swore to never pick up a weapon after his wife's death of fever and blamed himself for it. In order to change his mind, you must give him a cursed mace from Molag Bal and provoke him to attack you. Once you're almost dead, Molag Bal will reward you his mace, and Petilius will be stricken with grief, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone believing that he killed you]].

* Melissa Petilius in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion ]]'', a local hero, swore to never pick up a weapon after his wife's death of fever and blamed himself for it. In order to change his mind, you must give him a cursed mace from Molag Bal and provoke him to attack you. Once you're almost dead, Molag Bal will reward you his mace, and Petilius will be stricken with grief, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone believing that he killed you]].

* Zigzagged in ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' episode "Jack and the Smackback", where Jack is conscripted into a sadistic gladiatorial fight. He defeats the first two champions, but is sickened by it, and refuses to fight further for the crowd's entertainment. Unfortunately, the announcer won't let him quit; he sends out a third champion, the gigantic Sumoto. After nearly being crushed by the huge Sumo, Jack discovers he's ''ticklish'' and is able to "defeat" him that way. But the announcer decided to TemptFate and bring out six ''more'' champions. Jack becomes enraged, forgets what he says a minute earlier, recovers his sword, and makes short work of all six of them.

* Notorious gunslinger/town marshal Clay Blaisedell (Henry Fonda) tosses his two gold-handled revolvers in the dirt before riding out of town in ''Film/{{Warlock}}''.

* Invoked by Mad Dummy and [[spoiler:Sans]] in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' for pragmatic reasons, both [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy chose not to end their turns]] so the player cannot enter the next turn and retaliate.

--->'''Izaya:''' I tear off my armor!! I reject this war-staff as a weapon!! I reject the way of war!! Darkseid's game is not mine! Where is Izaya!!!? Where is Izaya!!? IZAAYAA!

* BA has a TenMinuteRetirement of this sort in the A-Team Movie.

* Karel in ''Franchise/FireEmblem: Sword of Seals''. ''Blazing Sword'', the prequel, shows us what he retired ''from''.

* Invoked by Mad Dummy and [[spoiler: Sans]] in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' for pragmatic reasons, both [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy chose not to end their turns]] so the player cannot enter the next turn and retaliate.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' has this happen to Gus. Formerly known as "[[TheDevil El Diablo]]" for his skilled, yet ruthless [[PlayingWithATrope dodgeball playing]], he vows to never play again after accidentally injuring an innocent bystander.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'', this is the eventual decision by [[spoiler: Peng]] in his second appearance, as he's afraid kung fu will fuel his inner darkness and he must forever give it up to protect the people he cares about, despite Po's objections. With the whole premise of the show being kung fu, this is shocking for how it was played straight.
* In the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', [[BatmanGrabsAGun grabs a gun to ward off a thug]] when he suffers heart problems. When he gets back to the Batcave, he immediately throws the gun away in disgust, hangs up his suit, and closes the entrance to the cave, saying "Never again".

* Thorfinn goes from a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in the ProlongedPrologue of ''VinlandSaga'', to this in the [[FanNickname Farmland Saga]] arc, before finally maturing into a MartialPacifist willing to fight as a last resort.

* Thorfinn goes from a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in the ProlongedPrologue of ''VinlandSaga'', to this in the [[FanNickname Farmland Saga]] arc.

* Invoked by Mad Dummy and [[spoiler: Sans]] in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', both [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy chose not to end their turns]] so the player cannot enter the next turn and retaliate.

* Invoked by Mad Dummy and [[spoiler: Sans]] in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', both [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy chose not to end their turns]] so the player cannot enter the next turn and retailate.

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** Played straighter in the movie ''Anime/BojackUnbound'' which explicitly shows Vegeta lazing about in bed while everyone else is fighting. At least, [[TenMinuteRetirement until he realizes that Trunks is in legitimate danger...]]

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* The ComicBook/NewGods story "The Pact" has a pretty awesome example. Izaya, the leader of the New Gods of New Genesis, renounces the ways of war after figuring out that the entire war was Darkseid's gambit to remove the obstacles in his rise to power.

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* An identical incident to Gus Griswald below occurred with Moze in ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide''.

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* Music/PhilOchs' song "I Ain't Marching Anymore", written during the VietnamWar is told from a perspective of a soldier who was present at every American war since the War of 1812, but refuses to fight anymore.

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* Karel in ''FireEmblem: Sword of Seals''. ''Blazing Sword'', the prequel, shows us what he retired ''from''.
** Ike from ''FireEmblem: Path of Radiance'' and ''Radiant Dawn'' also left Tellius after the war was over.

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* Kenshin Himura from ''RurouniKenshin'', [[spoiler:after he accidentally killed his wife Tomoe.]]

* Lt. Velasquez near the end of ''TrafficDepartment2192''... after having spent most of her life on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge over her father's death, she's looking at an absolute victory, having defeated a galaxy-spanning army practically singlehandedly - but losing countless friends along the way. When the opportunity comes to actually kill the Emperor, she demurs - all she wants at that point is for the war to end, and killing him would merely create a vacuum for some other power-mad leader to step into.

* An identical incident to Gus Griswald below occurred with Moze in ''NedsDeclassified''.

* The NewGods story "The Pact" has a pretty awesome example. Izaya, the leader of the New Gods of New Genesis, renounces the ways of war after figuring out that the entire war was Darkseid's gambit to remove the obstacles in his rise to power.

* In ''GundamWing'''s GrandFinale ''Endless Waltz'', the last line [[HitmanWithAHeart Heero Yuy]] says:

* ''I Will Fight No More Forever'', [of course, which is the story of Chief Joseph.

* Possible Trope Namer, "I Will Fight No More Forever" is a 1975 made-for-television movie starring Ned Romero as Chief Joseph. It is a dramatization of Chief Joseph's resistance to the U.S. government's forcible removal of his Nez Perce Indian tribe to a reservation in Idaho.