Basic Trope: A character manages to achieve great feats through explicitly nonviolent means.
- Straight: Bob succeeds in overthrowing Evulz through a completely nonviolent revolution.
- Exaggerated: Bob becomes the new leader of Tropeville, and leads the country to new heights of prosperity by building alliances, negotiating shrewdly and never resorting to invading Tropeville's neighbours.
- Downplayed: There are a few casualties due to diehard supporters of Evulz having to be put down, but nothing remotely approaching the scale of a war, and none of them were caused or authorised by Bob personally.
- Justified:
- Enemies don't always want to use violence either.
- A form of White Magic exists in the setting which can bind or exhaust opponents without ever inflicting injury or death. Bob is a skilled practitioner.
- Bob is a Combat Medic and fighting the enemy gets in the way of his real job - saving lives. But just because he's not fighting doesn't mean he's not in a high risk position that requires great courage and Nerves of Steel.
- Inverted: Bob advocates violence, and is extremely good at maiming and killing opponents specifically.
- Bob endorses violence, but is completely incompetent at everything violent he tries to do.
- Subverted: Bob is said to be a pacifist, but Alice sees him killing a Mook.
- Double Subverted: ....that was just a stranger that looked like him. Bob is indeed actually a pacifist.
- Parodied: In battle, we see Bob eating, or reading a book, with dozens of Mooks around Bob. Nothing happens to Bob.
- Zig Zagged: Bob rarely uses violence but he uses it during emergencies.
- Averted: Bob uses violence or turns out to be less of a bad-ass.
- Enforced: "We need to show that Bob is a badass, but he's a pacifist! Let's make him defeat Evulz without even attacking him!"
- Lampshaded: "Have you noticed that Bob does great things with no violence?"
- Invoked: Bob is practicing pacifism.
- Exploited: An enemy takes an advantage and attempts to attack Bob, knowing he won't attack back.
- Defied: Bob considers not using violence but uses violence anyway.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Soldiers begin to feel out of place after the revolution, and return to civilian life, resulting in a flood of unemployment.
- The new government is not skilled in matters of war. A neighbour of Tropeville invades, inflicts significant damage and forces Tropeville to capitulate.
- Reconstructed:
- A program is put in place to train soldiers to be diplomats, researchers and other professionals.
- Bob forms a group to offer haven for individuals fleeing from the battle, and pressures the invaders to atone for attacking Tropeville. They do, in the form of a large number of resources that Tropeville needs to regrow. Eventually a treaty is worked out that incentivises the other country to demilitarise as well.
Hold your head high, put your weapons down and head back to Badass Pacifist.
