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[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused with]] [[Mooning]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Dr. Tenma in ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' seems to hold this attitude in general, and {{spoiler|he eventually saves the life of the main villain, knowing full well what he's done}}.
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* It didn't work in a [[Harry Turtledove]] story where Britain had been conquered and after some tough fighting the Germans had defeated the British Army in India. Non-violent protest proved not to work so well when attempted with an occupying power whose officers are willing to order the machine gunning of your protest march and whose superior officers and government regard that as a fine method to deal with civil disturbance.
* The second variation is played with in [[Discworld]]'s Small Gods. When the god Om gets his powers back, he and Brutha have a minor disagreement over some new laws. Om comments on how he can simply blast Brutha into a little smear on the floor, and Brutha cheerfully agrees that he could, couldn't he? And how Brutha would have absolutely no way of defending himself, whatsoever. Om grumbles that it's not right for someone to use defenselessness as a defense.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825014316/http://www.101zenstories.com/index.php?story=44 This Zen parable] - a thief entered the house of a priest who was meditating and threatens him, the priest tells him where the money is, asks him to leave enough for the priest to pay taxes and makes sure the thief thanks him when he leaves. A few days later the thief is arrested, but when the police ask the priest to testify against him, the priest tells them that he gave the thief the money and the thief thanked him. The thief still goes to prison, but when his sentence is over he comes back to learn Zen under the priest.
* Subverted heavily in [[Aesop's Fables|Aesop's fable]] "[[The Farmer and the Viper]]". The titular farmer shows compassion to the snake, but his [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|good deed]] [[Just for Pun|comes back to bite him]]. The moral? [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|"Kindness is thrown away upon the evil."]]
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== Music ==
* The protagonist of the Kenny Rogers song "[[The So-Called Coward|The Coward of the County]]" is this, until the Gaitlin boys go after his wife. They soon find out why this is a [[Beware the Nice Ones|seriously bad idea]].
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are both famous for practicing nonviolent resistance against oppressors. Whi**le this didn't make the people that oppressed them pull a [[Heel Face Turn]], it allowed everyone else to see a clear moral contrast between the peaceful protesters and their barbaric tormentors, which drastically swayed public opinion in their favor.▼
**Which by definition makes this [[Subverted Trope]]. Propagandism, even propagandism in a good cause is a ''weapon'' and therefore not nonresisting. Furthermore Ghandi was trying to gain control of the Indian state which ruled and still rules by force of arms like every other state and therefore can hardly be said to have had nonviolent ends. ▼
* It didn't work for Nelson Mandela in South Africa. When Mandela realised this, he moved to Plan B, sabotaging industrial targets, making sure nobody got hurt. Plan C was to be active resistance against the military, although he was imprisoned before that came to pass.▼
* Ditto with Burma: the monks are pretty much dead now and Burma is the North Korea of Southeast Asia now.▼
** Myanmar got better.▼
* Some early Christians took this [[Up to Eleven]], following almost a manic desire to be martyred. There is a Roman record where an official so freaked out by this behaviour that after executing few Christians for refusing to follow the Roman customs, he disgustedly told the rest to kill themselves if they were so eager to die, and let them go.▼
* An amusing historical example is told of Governor John Winthrop in the [[The Colonial Period|Massachusetts Bay colony]]:▼
{{quote|On one occasion it was reported to him that a man had been stealing from his store of winter's firewood, and he was urged to punish him. "I will soon put a stop to that bad practice," said the governor sternly. He sent for the offender. "You have a large family," he said to the offending culprit, "and I have a large magazine of wood; come as often as you please, and take as much of it as you need to make your dwelling comfortable." Then turning to his accusers, he said: "Now I defy him to steal any more of my firewood."}}▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
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** The one time Eric Raymond got arrested he was released the next day, citing that lawyers can practically do anything you pay them enough. Chances are even if Jem did have the Misfits arrested Eric would have them out in no time flat. What's more infuriating is that the one time they actually were arrested, in ''KJEM'', they weren't responsible.
* [[Strawberry Shortcake]]: All three versions, but especially the first two.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are both famous for practicing nonviolent resistance against oppressors. Whi**le this didn't make the people that oppressed them pull a [[Heel Face Turn]], it allowed everyone else to see a clear moral contrast between the peaceful protesters and their barbaric tormentors, which drastically swayed public opinion in their favor.
▲**Which by definition makes this [[Subverted Trope]]. Propagandism, even propagandism in a good cause is a ''weapon'' and therefore not nonresisting. Furthermore Ghandi was trying to gain control of the Indian state which ruled and still rules by force of arms like every other state and therefore can hardly be said to have had nonviolent ends.
▲* It didn't work for Nelson Mandela in South Africa. When Mandela realised this, he moved to Plan B, sabotaging industrial targets, making sure nobody got hurt. Plan C was to be active resistance against the military, although he was imprisoned before that came to pass.
▲* Ditto with Burma: the monks are pretty much dead now and Burma is the North Korea of Southeast Asia now.
▲** Myanmar got better.
▲* Some early Christians took this [[Up to Eleven]], following almost a manic desire to be martyred. There is a Roman record where an official so freaked out by this behaviour that after executing few Christians for refusing to follow the Roman customs, he disgustedly told the rest to kill themselves if they were so eager to die, and let them go.
▲* An amusing historical example is told of Governor John Winthrop in the [[The Colonial Period|Massachusetts Bay colony]]:
▲{{quote|On one occasion it was reported to him that a man had been stealing from his store of winter's firewood, and he was urged to punish him. "I will soon put a stop to that bad practice," said the governor sternly. He sent for the offender. "You have a large family," he said to the offending culprit, "and I have a large magazine of wood; come as often as you please, and take as much of it as you need to make your dwelling comfortable." Then turning to his accusers, he said: "Now I defy him to steal any more of my firewood."}}
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