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* [[RebelliousPrincess Relena Darlian-Peacecraft]] from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing''. [[GoThroughMe Jumps in front of a gun]] to save a guy who had a gun pointed at ''her'' just a minute ago and tells her would-be saviour off for his crude methods. Later flies an airplane in between two [[HumongousMecha gigantic machines of mass destruction]] in mid-combat to save the same guy's ass once again and tell his attacker that his cruelty and underhanded tactics are a disgrace to the name, country, and ideals he claims to stand for (namely, hers). Would rather have her country surrender than let her pacifist ideals be the cause of bloodshed, and makes such a large impression while doing exactly that that the people attacking her country promptly "invite" her to become their figurehead, so they can convince the masses that they were on the side of the good guys all along. [[spoiler:She accepts and [[ReassignmentBackfire makes them regret it.]]]] Physically insignificant, but her sheer strength of will and unwavering idealism earn her the admiration of everyone from the guy who started out wanting to kill her to the resident MagnificentBastard, as well as a promising career as a politician. [[spoiler:Lady Une, the woman who assassinated her father]]. To drive the point further, by the end of the series [[spoiler:Lady Une ''gives'' Relena a gun and asks her to take revenge properly, but she ''refuses'' to do so and says it's useless.]]

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Android 16 is very friendly and gentle with animals. However he is also considerably more powerful than Androids 17 and 18, and when finally brought to fight he proves to be equally as powerful as Cell, giving the abomination the fight of his life and even ripping off his tail (something that would have stopped Cell outright if he didn't have his HealingFactor). Despite 16's valiant efforts, Cell manages to absorb 17 and with his newfound Semi-Perfect Form he beats 16 easily, but 16's head still manages to pull an ObiWanMoment by giving [[NiceGuy Gohan]] final words of encouragement and urging him to drop his restraints against Cell to fight to protect the life he came to love.
* ''Literature/DemonCityShinjuku'': Think kind people are weak? Then you haven't met Sayaka Rama. She is SilkHidingSteel and able to stop a fire-demon formed from the condensed hatred and grief from 10 years of murdered and orphaned children from killing TheHero ''with sheer kindness and love alone,'' and redeeming the demon so she can go to heaven to reunite with her mother. ''Don't'' underestimate kindness.
* Since ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is quite the poster child for the WorldOfBadass, it of course has some of these as well.
** Scar's older brother is an amazing, ''self-taught'' alchemist. He never took part in battle yet he's brave enough to confront Kimblee and then amputate his own arm to save his brother.
** Winry and her entire family also count since they are {{Combat Medic}}s. Her parents jumped into a war and started healing people on both sides.
* Dr. Kenzo Tenma of ''Manga/Monster1994'' can take a beating, get hit by a car, jump off a bridge, stop fires, and save people everywhere. Then again, he does spend a lot of time planning to commit a vigilante execution on the title character. [[spoiler:And then he ends up saving him. Again.]]
* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'': Prince Phil '''thinks''' he embodies this trope. He has the badass part down pat, but [[BoisterousBruiser fails on the pacifist part]]. He's known for ironically-named martial arts moves like "PACIFIST CRUSH!" and "GOODWILL TO ALL MANKIND KICK!".
* [[RebelliousPrincess Relena Darlian-Peacecraft]] from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing''. [[GoThroughMe Jumps in front of a gun]] to save a guy who had a gun pointed at ''her'' just a minute ago and tells her would-be saviour off for his crude methods. Later flies an airplane in between two [[HumongousMecha gigantic machines of mass destruction]] in mid-combat to save the same guy's ass once again and tell his attacker that his cruelty and underhanded tactics are a disgrace to the name, country, and ideals he claims to stand for (namely, hers). Would rather have her country surrender than let her pacifist ideals be the cause of bloodshed, and makes such a large impression while doing exactly that that the people attacking her country promptly "invite" her to become their figurehead, so they can convince the masses that they were on the side of the good guys all along. [[spoiler:She accepts and [[ReassignmentBackfire makes them regret it.]]]] Physically insignificant, but her sheer strength of will and unwavering idealism earn her the admiration of everyone from the guy who started out wanting to kill her to the resident MagnificentBastard, as well as a promising career as a politician. [[spoiler:Lady Une, the woman who assassinated her father]]. To drive the point further, by the end of the series [[spoiler:Lady Une ''gives'' Relena a gun and asks her to take revenge properly, but she ''refuses'' to do so and says it's useless.]]

* Lucy from ''Manga/FairyTail'' is a bit of a subversion but she has several moments of this. For example, she managed to convince the SPIRIT KING not to punish Loke. Also, she took a vicious beating from Gajeel and still taunted him.
* Buddha from ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok'', while being a pacifist and the only one of the fighters so far to spare his opponent when he thought he defeated him, Buddha is incredibly skilled in combat, so much so that he defeated Zerofuku without taking a single injury.
* Nausicaa from ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' falters on this a little from time to time, [[spoiler: violently killing a Torumekian soldier in the first book,]] but she still manages to be an intense [[MessianicArchetype Messiah-figure]]. She once stopped a swarm of stampeding [[BigCreepyCrawlies Ohmu]] by blowing a bug whistle and ''talking them down.''
* Yugi Mutou of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' fame. He might beat you in a children's card game, sure, but he'll never use violence-- he hates it-- and, for the most part, tries to talk villains out of their evil ways, even befriending them.
* Vash the Stampede from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''. Anyone who can win so many battles without spilling so much as a drop of blood deserves all kinds of respect.
* The main character of ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'', Kitano Seiichiro, mostly qualifies for this. His fighting style consists of letting people hit him until they grow tired. Usually because he misunderstands the situation and believes himself to be deserving of the pain or, in one instance, ''not'' understanding the reason he's being attacked and thus refusing to give up. Of course, he typically finishes off his opponents with a double palm strike, but he is actually attempting to push them out of the way, for one reason or another, not hit them. [[spoiler:Only towards the end of the series does he intentionally hit enemies once and even then only in order to prevent further violence and protect his friends.]]

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In the [[{{filler}} anime only]], Sado/"Chad's" grandfather, Oscar Joaquin de la Rosa, is a giant hulk of a man who despite his apparent old age is '''very''' muscular and can take a beating from two men with two-by-fours without flinching, almost without even ''moving''. He refuses to ever raise his hands against anybody and takes the aforementioned beating to protect Chad from two guys coming for revenge for Chad beating up their little brothers.

* Henry of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' is this trope and like many things in his series, is a Deconstruction. He focuses so thoroughly on the Pacifist part (due to a traumatic incident where he misused his martial arts skill and injured another child badly) that he endangers himself and others. His character arc is learning that there are times when you have to fight for the greater good.
** Henry is also something of a MartialPacifist or at least that's what he becomes. Before the story, he was an avid computer gamer and one of his faves was a Digimon fighting game, where he chose Terriermon. However, one of these battles went wrong and Henry became overwhelmed with guilt for making Terriermon fight in the first place. This outburst of compassion led to him getting his Digivice and Terriermon entered into the real world and becoming his partner. This incident is why he is initially adamant about not letting Terriermon fight. Fittingly, he is also a martial arts student.
* Euphemia vi Britannia from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is one of the nicest people you could ever meet, would never hurt a fly, and dreams of peace and equality between Britannians and Japanese. And being so good and noble, even [[TheChessmaster Lelouch]] can't bring himself to kill her, and her path to giving the Japanese their rights utterly derails his ambition to take power through bloody revolution. [[spoiler:Sadly, it wasn't meant to be.]]

* Queen Otohime in ''Manga/OnePiece'' is a much-beloved monarch, who despite her poor health, can convince criminals to turn their life around. Her crowning moment of achievement is when she managed to gain the Celestial Dragons' support for the motion for Fishmen to live on the surface. Let that sink in a moment. She managed to convince the most despicable, cruel, yet ''immensely'' influential tyrants of the setting to help her. Even better, when said tyrant returns later in the series he saves Shirahoshi (Otohime's daughter) from another Celestial Dragon and reveals that he's changed his attitude completely. She didn't just convince him to help her, she made him completely reform.
* Prince Halkenburg in ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' abhors violence of any sort. He discovers he's been forced into a succession battle for the throne with a Last Man Standing format, and this disgusts him to no end. To that extent, he uses his charisma and genuine concern for the well-being of his subordinates to talk his way into and out of positions to gain political upper hands and survive dangerous situations unscathed. However, when he tries his negotiation skills against his father, the reigning king, and fails completely, he awakens a superpower inside of him--true to his nature, despite it being incredibly overpowered as far as powers go, it deals absolutely no damage at all.[[note]]Said power consists of an arrow made of his [[FightingSpirit life aura]], which can penetrate any defense, but at the sacrifice of one person who has sworn total dedication to him. The arrow does no damage but instead carries the soul of that dedicated person, and that person then inhabits the body of the target. Should lethal harm come to the target, the soul will return to its original body, provided the body is still alive.[[/note]] Usage of said power causes rumbling in the surrounding area, which puts everybody nearby on high alert, as this rumbling is typically the sign of a person with tremendous power--and indeed, this much is true of Halkenburg.
* In episode 11 of ''Manga/KotouraSan'', [[spoiler: the criminal, Detective Tsukino's EnemyWithin, had nearly killed Haruka [[BigDamnHeroes if Yoshihisa didn't appear right then and there]]. Haruka "counterattacks" by [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight giving a speech about how]] YouAreNotAlone, all with a TearfulSmile on her face]]. '''It works'''!
* Nekki Basara of ''Anime/Macross7''. An AcePilot who only uses violence if pushed to the absolute limit, and uses ThePowerOfRock to communicate with his enemies instead of fighting them.