Technical Pacifist / Western Animation

• The titular Gargoyles from Gargoyles are very opposed to guns, and killing in general beyond that. Broadway in particular had an experience in which he accidentally shot and nearly killed Elisa, one of the main characters and a close friend, but for the others their hatred of guns was specifically linked to their dislike of killing. In the episode "Awakening", Goliath actually mentions that a killing that occurs in the heat of battle is all right; it's deliberate (i.e. premeditated) attacking with intent to kill what they actually hate.
• Justice League Unlimited:
  • In the episode "Hawk and Dove", one of the title characters is a superhero named Dove who is an ardent pacifist as befitting his name. He is ready to mix it up as necessary, but largely with soft martial arts like aikido that allow him to take down the toughest foes without much injury and with a focus on subduing and disarming. In addition, when facing an unstoppable machine that feeds on aggression for its strength, he is the only one who keeps a cool enough head to realize that a passive stance against it could shut it down.
  • Also, Deadman, the aforementioned specter that possessed Batman was trained to abhor killing as well. The killing mentioned above happened entirely by accident. He used the gun to blast the gun Devil Ray was aiming at somebody, and DR just happened to stumble backwards in surprise...right into a mess of exposed wiring and electrocuted himself. Nonetheless, Deadman still got called out by the Powers That Be for causing it.
• Jackie Chan, from Jackie Chan Adventures does not fight for the sake of fighting, and he clearly points this out, despite the fact that he is obviously a badass at doing it. He states that he will resort to fighting only when there is no other alternative. Of course since one of the points of the show is to show off Jackie's badassery of the martial arts, this typically means every episode. But still, he usually fights only when threatened and only enough to prevent the villains from actually doing anything bad.
• Given a bit of a lampshade hanging in the usually Family-Unfriendly Violent Transformers Beast Wars, when the two sides have a truce. The terms of the truce ban weapons, but a fight begins anyway using cartoony but equally violent slapstick (Example: sabotaging an enemy's flight systems, causing them to plummet to the ground Wile E. Coyote-style). Optimus and Dinobot even comment on how peaceful it is, while watching an enemy get crushed by the rear end of a rhino.
• Played for Laughs in an Animaniacs short. At the beginning of the short, Flaxseed, the Jerkass candy-shop owner who hates kids, is confronted by a kindly-looking nun in his store, pleasantly asking that he donate some of his candy to her Orphanage. He kicks her out onto the street. Near the end, about a half-dozen nuns come in, demanding he unhand the Warner Siblings that were running amok in his store, and get this close to beating him senseless with rulers when he calls them on it.
  Flaxseed: Wait, wait! You're nuns! You're not supposed to resort to physical violence!
  Nun: He's right girls, let us pray.
  All of them drop to their knees, praying. A bus full of Notre Dame football players show up and immediately surround Flaxseed with angry scowls.
  Nun: Our prayers have been answered!
  The players dogpile Flaxseed
• In The Zeta Project, the titular robot goes from being an assassin to having a strict no-kill policy. Unfortunately, everyone is after him and his human friend, so he is forced to use his badass fighting skills to crash cars, destroy buildings, and lots more in the 'CLEARLY DANGEROUS' category, though he makes sure that nobody actually dies.
• Stripperella. Parodied in "Curse of the Were-Beaver". Superhero Stripperella has no problem with beating the crap out of people, but loves furry animals. This causes problems when she's charged with stopping a man who keeps mutating into a giant rampaging beaver.
• In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang is a technical pacifist, which brings up problems when the only apparent way of stopping Fire Lord Ozai is killing him. The previous Avatars were decidedly not technical pacifists, for example; Kyoshi, who could have a decent claim to being one (her victim died by freak accident when she split her island from the main continent), is steadfast in her belief that she might as well have done it herself, and even his immediate Air Nomad predecessor Yangchen was quick to advise him that his needs as a monk take second place to the needs of the world at large. Aang grapples with this decision but sticks to his guns and takes a third option and depowers Ozai leaving him alive but harmless.
  • The greatest example of this trope would have to be Iroh, who used to be a general to the Fire Nation, is currently the leader of a whole gang of Old Masters, and is quite likely the second most skilled and powerful bender in the world after the Avatar himself. He is, however, also one of the nicest people in the entire series, preferring to talk his way out of trouble, and has no problem giving advice to even his enemies on how to find peace and balance. All this started because he lost his son to a war he had been leading, and since then has changed his attitude, and in some ways is trying to atone for his past mistakes. That said, if you pose a serious enough threat, he will take you down faster than you can blink, and at full power, he can demolish city walls singlehandedly.
• The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Ant-Man will go out of his way to try every possible option before resorting to blows. He maintains that he is scientist first and a superhero second, but if he presses that button on his belt, you better hope he's not aiming that gigantic fist at you. This becomes a serious issue for him towards the end of the first season because he'd much rather be an Actual Pacifist. Come season two he's left the Avengers because of it.
• In ReBoot, the protagonist, Bob, mostly plays this straight in regards to viruses. He'll certainly fight a virus if necessary, but is completely against deleting them and instead advocates containment and rehabilitation. This eventually leads to some conflict with Matrix and Turbo. Bob's policy pays off big time with Hexadecimal, who eventually has a Heel–Face Turn and saves the net. On the other hand, not deleting Megabyte certainly didn't pay off...
• In Winx Club Helia plays this straight. Though Saladin, the headmaster of the Redfountain School, is his uncle, he transferred out for a time to go to art school, writes poetry, loves nature, and is a pacifist, even after he joins the Specialists. His weapon is Spider-Man-like gloves that shoot ropes to incapacitate but not injure his opponents.

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