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[[File:The Intervention of the Sabine Women.jpg|thumb|400px|"Les Sabines", by Jacques-Louis David, 1798]]
Right before a duel, brawl, battle, or war would start between two misled fractions, the heroes arrive just in time, and tell everyone to try and be friends instead. They might reveal some sinister [[Big Bad]] who manipulated them into the fight, explain to them how the [[Cycle of
It could be considered a [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|missed opportunity]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|if you would prefer to watch a badass battle, but also a]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for the characters at the middle, who dared to stand up against two forces that are stronger than the heroes.
If it's a fight between two people, more than likely over a love interest, and the love interest or a side character intervenes at the wrong moment, this trope can lead to a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment.
A common subversion is a [[Shut Up, Kirk]] reply from the opposing leaders, who will then start the battle anyway. This is often [[Played for Laughs]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* In an ad for
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx6lUxMjgQE This commercial for Ritz crackers], Clara convinces the Nutcracker and Mouse King to stop fighting by offering them Ritzes and cheese.
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* Happened at the climax of [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[DR and Quinch|D.R. & Quinch]] Get Drafted'' with the entire gang caught between the enemy Ghoyogian Army and their own Space Marines platoon {{spoiler|with whom they're in trouble for creating a friendly fire incident with a tactical nuke}}. Waldo attempts one plea for sanity by stepping up to "cry out at the horror and injustice of war..." It doesn't work.
== [[Film]]
* In ''[[The Lion King]] II'', Kiara and Kovu burst out to stop the fighting, just after it has narrowed down to a Simba vs. Zira duel to the death. Both are told to get out of the way, though [[Evil Is Petty|Zira is less polite]].
* At the climax of ''[[Ace Ventura]]: When Nature Calls'', Ace stops two mounting armies by running between them holding the sacred bat they had been about to fight over.
** He was also yelling said bat's sacred name (which everyone instantly bows to upon hearing it earlier in the film) at the top of his lungs for maximum effect.
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