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Prevent the War

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Prevent the War	comment	No one wants a war; War Is Hell, after all. Yet there's always someone out to start a war, leaving it to the heroes to stop hostilities from escalating. The factions can be anything from galactic empires down to street gangs. They might have originally been allies or begrudgingly upholding a tense peace. Usually there's a third party, a villain who wants to start a War for Fun and Profit and sets out to trick the factions with a manufactured Pretext for War. Sometimes a leader or member of one of the factions is a villain themselves, a General Ripper who wants there to be war to prove a point or for patriotism. Other times, a Blood Knight, a Warlord, or a Proud Warrior Race Guy will actively incite wars for the sake of their war-loving culture and glory. In the worst cases, the entirety of both factions is filled up with people raring to fight, and only the efforts of a Reasonable Authority Figure and the heroes is holding the peace. And sometimes, a nation supported by entirely Arms Dealer and war economy would demand more wars. If there aren't any villains out to incite and really want war, then it's likely a morality play about how even good people can act foolish and go to war. In such cases, the provocation itself might not even be a slight or offense, it could be a pair of Star-Crossed Lovers from each side choosing to elope (and each side assuming the other one kidnapped their lover), a natural resource about to run out (and neither side wants to share), or a misunderstanding. Though the heroes usually succeed, stories where they fail are not unheard of. It can easily turn into a Tragedy (Impulsiveness optional but common). In these cases, one or both sides may have hawks who believe War Is Glorious and seek to start one by whatever means possible. If the characters are trying to prevent a historical war, there can be overlap with You Can't Fight Fate and You Can't Thwart Stage One (unless it's an Alternate History). Another popular plot during the Cold War was to stop the West and USSR from starting World War III, or Avoiding the Great War in the case of WWI. World War II is less prone to this trope because of Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act.
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Prevent the War / int_12300cc3	comment	In Watchmen Ozymandias fakes an alien attack on New York to prevent a nuclear war between the USA and the USSR.
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Prevent the War / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): Diana Prince gets kidnapped by a woman who is part of a conspiracy to ensure WWIII starts within two years of the end of WWII to be pumped for military secrets. Fortunately Diana Prince is Wonder Woman, so bringing her to the conspiracies' headquarters ensures the lot of them are rounded up and imprisoned in short order with Di transporting the men to Venus for imprisonment and the women to Reformation Island.
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Prevent the War / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): Diana's very first mission off the island is to stop Ares from starting World War III in the form of a nuclear war between the USA and USSR. Diana, Artemis and Philippus see the U.S. warships parked off the coast of Themyscira to be a sign of the U.S.'s willingness to escalate things into a military conflict. Their meeting to try diplomatically heading this off was going poorly already and then was interrupted by Medusa, but due to the timing of the next Crisis their talk ended up more successful than originally planned.
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Prevent the War / int_16b2627	comment	The Queen's Mercy: When copper mines are discovered in a contested territory, Anna convinces Elsa to step in and try to prevent war from breaking out between Albion and Lucrania by threatening both of their kings. This technically works, but King David attempts to kill Elsa in retaliation for her threats, along with torturing Anna.
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Prevent the War / int_1be9854a	comment	The overarching conflict of Sound of the Sky, which comes in full-force in the last two episodes, is the 1121st Platoon trying to prevent a war between Helvetia and Rome, eventually coming into conflict with Big Bad Colonel Hopkins who intentionally tries to spark the war by killing a Roman soldier under their care just to satisfy his love of war, which he believes advances human civilization.
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Prevent the War / int_2372359	comment	The Belgariad: Smaller-scale than some of these examples, but early in the Malleoreon, Garion gets to bully two armies into going home and not (potentially) starting a civil war.
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Prevent the War / int_25d97c04	comment	James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies has Bond and Chinese agent Wai Lin try to stop a media mogul from manipulating the United Kingdom and China into war for better ratings and exclusive media rights in the latter. This is actually a recurring plot in the Bond movie franchise. The first time it appears is in You Only Live Twice, before being repeated in The Spy Who Loved Me and Tomorrow Never Dies. In the first film, the villain is trying to provoke a war between the United States and the Soviet Union, for the benefit of his employers (implied to be Red China) who hope to dominate the world once the superpowers have destroyed themselves. In the second film, the villain is an Eco-Terrorist trying to provoke a nuclear war that will destroy civilization, so that he can rebuild it to his own specifications. Octopussy is a twist on this. The villain wants to explode an atomic bomb in West Germany and blame U.S. carelessness with its nuclear arsenal, so that European populations will insist on unilateral disarmament, and therefore leave themselves exposed to a Soviet invasion. So, really, it's "prevent the peace... lest it lead to an actual war." The Living Daylights is a toned down version of this. Again, the villains are provoking the British and Soviets into a confrontation with each other; however, they're not trying to provoke a war, just trick the British into eliminating a senior KGB general before he can bring them down. Ironically, they do this by trying to convince the British that he might provoke a world war, being a homicidal maniac who's targeting Western intelligence officers for elimination in a policy that might easily escalate into nuclear war.
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Prevent the War / int_2c2a56e3	comment	The Phantom Menace: The theatrical film opens with the two heroes, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, arriving on a space station to negotiate a peace between the spaceship's owner and the planet it orbits. As soon as gas start pumping into the waiting room, the heroes grab their weapons and leave diplomacy behind for the rest of the movie.
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Prevent the War / int_38c57aa2	comment	Eberron has a suggested hook in the "Forge of War" sourcebook that the players could either travel through time or play characters at the beginning of the Last War, and thereby attempt to prevent it.
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Prevent the War / int_3d776ce3	comment	Alpha Protocol is a Spy Fiction story revolving around Agent Thorton of the eponymous No Such Agency, who's tasked with stopping an Evil, Inc. from triggering World War III for the sake of War for Fun and Profit.
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Prevent the War / int_405243c7	comment	The first season of The 100 has several violent skirmishes between the 100 and the Grounders whose territory they've landed, motivating Finn to arrange a meeting between Clarke and the Grounders' leader to discuss a peaceful resolution. However, the peace talks collapse because both Clarke and the Grounders' leader expected the meeting to be a trap, and so they both had gunmen or archers hiding just outside the peace conference. When those soldiers spot each other, the shooting starts, and the Grounders declare an all-out war of extermination on the 100.
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Prevent the War / int_468bebb0	comment	This is the plot of Discworld book Jingo. Ankh-Morpork and Klatch begin preparing for war over their respective claims to a tiny island that rises up from the sea randomly, and Vimes and Vetinari are on their own separate paths to preventing it. Their plans work with only minimal loss of life, but there are glimpses of another timeline where Vimes stayed put and Ankh-Morpork was invaded.
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Prevent the War / int_46a4b34d	comment	In The Elenium, after Sparhawk destroys Azash, the heroes are at pains to prevent King Wargun from launching a genocidal war against Zemoch anyway, despite the Zemochs being entirely nonthreatening without the lash of their dark god.
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Prevent the War / int_47f0eac3	comment	In Metalocalypse, the band books a gig in Syria on the same day as their gig in Israel. Tensions rise between the two countries and the other countries of the world fear this could potentially even cause a third World War. Luckily, Charles Foster Offdenson saves the day using giant holographic technology and snow cones.
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Prevent the War / int_4f46b380	comment	In X-Men: First Class, Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr must stop Sebastian Shaw, who is playing both the United States and the Soviet Union into starting World War III.
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Prevent the War / int_5267111a	comment	Gulliver's Travels (1939). The kingdoms of Lilliput and Blefuscu are on a path to war. Gulliver must find a way to stop the war before it destroys both countries.
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Prevent the War / int_59151283	comment	Virtually every Metal Gear game revolves around this, with Solid/Naked/Venom Snake and Raiden working to stop megalomaniacs with Humongous Mechas from triggering World War III. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker in particular saw the world come uncomfortably close to total atomic annihilation.
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Prevent the War / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary has an unusual variant, in that the people trying to prevent a civil war in the UNS mostly function as the bad guys. Admittedly, this is because their strategy for preventing it involves remotely erasing the minds of innocents to serve as meat puppets for the mind of a ruthless killer, clawing for any advantage they can, and more than a few mass murders. Occasionally they even risk starting other wars in order to ensure it.
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Prevent the War / int_620204a7	comment	In Sin City (as well as the film version), Dwight has to cover up the death of a Corrupt Cop to avoid a war between the police and the girls of Old Town. The event is being orchestrated by a local crime lord, since the war with the cops will leave Old Town vulnerable to a takeover by his forces.
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Prevent the War / int_637b4984	comment	Throughout the first season on Mob City, Stax, an Amoral Attorney for the Mob, tries to prevent the situation in Los Angeles from escalating into a Mob War. He invokes Pragmatic Villainy to convince rival mobsters to not hurt the patrons and staff at a casino run by Mickey Cohen and later arranges a sit-down between Cohen and rival mob boss Dragna where they agree to a temporary peace. However, his efforts seem to be for naught when at the end of the season Teague kills Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel and a massive power vacuum opens up.
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Prevent the War / int_648aebfb	comment	Timequest involves saving the life of President John F. Kennedy, who pulls the US out of Vietnam. Vice President Lyndon Johnson (who in reality escalated the war as President) has a fit that JFK will look like a "Communist appeaser" but Kennedy is adamant that no war be waged. Kennedy had been shown the future by the Time Traveler that had saved his life, so he had a chance to correct history.
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Prevent the War / int_696b75c2	comment	In A Brother's Price preventing a second civil war is a major plot point, this is why the princesses may not marry as they choose: They cannot, under any circumstances, split the family. (Splitting the family means that the elder set of sisters have one husband and the younger ones have another - men are rare) The princesses are also shown acting as judges, which is important to avoid people taking conflicts about land rights into their own hands.
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Prevent the War / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: This is basically the reason the Avatar exists. Avatars try to maintain a balance between the four Elemental Nations in the world. In the first series Aang rather tries to stop an ongoing war but in the sequel series, The Legend of Korra, the new Avatar tries first to prevent a war between benders and non-benders, then another one between the Southern and Northern Water Tribes. It is even revealed in an Origins Episode that the cycle of the Avatar begun for the sole reason that the first Avatar couldn't stop people from fighting each other after he himself had accidentally released chaos into the world.
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Prevent the War / int_933be5cb	comment	Octopussy is a twist on this. The villain wants to explode an atomic bomb in West Germany and blame U.S. carelessness with its nuclear arsenal, so that European populations will insist on unilateral disarmament, and therefore leave themselves exposed to a Soviet invasion. So, really, it's "prevent the peace... lest it lead to an actual war."
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Prevent the War / int_95d534e1	comment	This theme comes up as well in The Dragon Prince, by the same writers as Avatar. Various characters all try, in different ways, to prevent a cold war situation (between the human kingdoms in the west and the magical kindoms in the east) from seriously warming up. The main Power Trio intends to return the dragon heir to Xadia to discourage further Xadian retaliation. The king of Katolis, the kingdom that shares its border with Xadia, accepts his own assassination by Elvish assassins in the hope that his death will disarm the diplomatic tension. Viren, interestingly, initially stole the dragon egg after killing the Dragon King, in order to use it either as a weapon or a means of pressure should Xadia decide to attack. He also wished to secure the humans' situation, freezing the political situation as it was. When the king is killed and the heroes steal the egg again and wish to return it to Xadia, however, he's convinced that fighting a war and winning it is the only way out, and acts in this direction. Downplayed with Queen Aanya of Duren, who doesn't actively try to prevent the war, but shows to be far less inclined than the other monarchs to wage it just because everyone is vaguely agreeing with it.
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Prevent the War / int_996edf24	comment	Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): Diana Prince gets kidnapped by a woman who is part of a conspiracy to ensure WWIII starts within two years of the end of WWII to be pumped for military secrets. Fortunately Diana Prince is Wonder Woman, so bringing her to the conspiracies' headquarters ensures the lot of them are rounded up and imprisoned in short order with Di transporting the men to Venus for imprisonment and the women to Reformation Island. Wonder Woman (1987): Diana's very first mission off the island is to stop Ares from starting World War III in the form of a nuclear war between the USA and USSR. Diana, Artemis and Philippus see the U.S. warships parked off the coast of Themyscira to be a sign of the U.S.'s willingness to escalate things into a military conflict. Their meeting to try diplomatically heading this off was going poorly already and then was interrupted by Medusa, but due to the timing of the next Crisis their talk ended up more successful than originally planned.
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Prevent the War / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The entire Alabasta Arc follows this plot: The leader of Baroque Works plans to plunge the kingdom into civil war so he can steal a superweapon in the confusion.
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Prevent the War / int_a6658fee	comment	The Hunt for Red October plays with this. The U.S. Navy believes that this is what they're trying to do, having been told by the Kremlin that the titular submarine is commanded by a rogue officer who intends to fire nuclear missiles at the United States. In reality, he's trying to defect to the United States, and much of the film revolves around the protagonist's efforts to convince the Navy of this. (Note that the novel averts this plot entirely. The U.S. government comes to the right conclusion almost immediately: their main dilemma is what to do about it).
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Prevent the War / int_aba7ffb9	comment	In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III & IV, the biggest objective of the main characters is to prevent the execution of Operation Jormungandr, the Erebonian Empire's ultimate plan to launch a full-scale invasion of the Republic of Calvard that will end up getting almost every country on the continent involved and igniting a world war. The war does end up kicking off, but thanks to the efforts of our heroes, a ceasefire is called after only 24 hours of fighting.
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Prevent the War / int_afc86b0a	comment	Ender's Game: Ender's siblings Valentine and Peter pick up evidence of the New Warsaw Pact gearing for war, as the current peace is based solely on fear of the alien Formics, who are about to be defeated. They adopt false identities as the demagogues "Locke" and "Demosthenes" to warn citizens over the nets about the broiling situation in Russia. The P.O.V. Sequel Ender's Shadow has Bean, a Battle School graduate, do research of his own and see it's not just Russia who's preparing for war. He contacts Locke and Demosthenes (unaware that they're the siblings of his classmate) warning them about other nations to look out for, and also to petition to let the Battle School children come home after the war.
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Prevent the War / int_b3710362	comment	At one point in Troy, Helen says she would rather go back to her husband Menelaus, whom she didn't love, than stay in Troy and risk war and loss of life. Paris even suggested a duel with Menelaus as this was (theoretically) a personal quarrel. Both were refuted by Hector and Priam since Agamemnon, Menelaus' brother, was using Helen's cuckoldry of Menelaus as a Pretext for War. They let Paris try his duel though insisted Helen stay. Agamemnon told Menelaus to accept, because it would give him personal satisfaction and they'd attack the city regardless.
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Prevent the War / int_b3e0e2e0	comment	In both the book and film versions of The Sum of All Fears, the villains are attempting to provoke a war between the USA and the Russians by detonating a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl, and by instigating another attack; in the book, East Germans disguised as Russian commanders get the Russian tanks to fire at the American tanks near Berlin, in the movie, a well-bribed Russian air force general instructs his air wing to attack a US aircraft carrier. Jack Ryan and John Clark have to find out what really happened before one side starts nuking the other.
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Prevent the War / int_b42811ef	comment	The Thirty-Nine Steps begins with this as Richard Hannay's motivation, trying to warn the authorities of the impending assassination of the Greek Prime Minister, Karolides, while being pursued by those responsible. Given Karolides is an expy of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, you can imagine how things play out... After this, instability in Europe leading to war becomes almost inevitable, and the rest of the plot is Hannay working with the British Military to prevent the Germans obtaining vital military secrets.
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Prevent the War / int_b53b86fa	comment	The Princess Bride has Prince Humperdinck try to start a war with a neighboring country by staging the kidnapping and murder of his fiancée and blaming it on them. It's stopped, albeit the Dread Pirate Roberts' attempt to stop the war be purely coincidental to rescuing Princess Buttercup.
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Prevent the War / int_b5ab36eb	comment	This is actually a recurring plot in the Bond movie franchise. The first time it appears is in You Only Live Twice, before being repeated in The Spy Who Loved Me and Tomorrow Never Dies. In the first film, the villain is trying to provoke a war between the United States and the Soviet Union, for the benefit of his employers (implied to be Red China) who hope to dominate the world once the superpowers have destroyed themselves. In the second film, the villain is an Eco-Terrorist trying to provoke a nuclear war that will destroy civilization, so that he can rebuild it to his own specifications.
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Prevent the War / int_bbb60ba2	comment	We Are All Pokémon Trainers The main point of the Abbyfall quest in PMD-B was to prevent the Bay region of Hoenn from exploding into war once again. Tagg's group in PMD-B hands over the letter stating the Hoennese royal family's claim to the Pokepanese throne to the Hoennese emperor in order to head off any wars of regional supremacy by powers who would view it as a threat.
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Prevent the War / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun adventure Elven Fire. Someone is trying to start a gang war in Seattle between the Ancients and other gangs. The PCs are hired by a Lone Star detective to prevent this from occurring.
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Prevent the War / int_c34ab4c	comment	In This Bites!, Self-Insert Cross, having fore knowledge of future events in the One Piece world, was determined to stop the canon "War of the Best". Despite his best efforts, the War still comes, even worse now.
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Prevent the War / int_c35cdb19	comment	Diana, Artemis and Philippus see the U.S. warships parked off the coast of Themyscira to be a sign of the U.S.'s willingness to escalate things into a military conflict. Their meeting to try diplomatically heading this off was going poorly already and then was interrupted by Medusa, but due to the timing of the next Crisis their talk ended up more successful than originally planned.
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Prevent the War / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Several stories, especially "Frontier In Space", in which the Master is trying to start a war between the Earth and Draconian Empires so that the Daleks can attack both when they're exhausted. There's actually a DVD special feature on that story which draws attention in a rather Take That! way to the fact that Doctor Who had stories in which war was actually prevented, whereas certain more recent American space opera shows (ahemseeaboveahem) like to depict the heroes fighting unsuccessfully for peace for just long enough to allow a war to break out, so that they can have an exciting war arc without making the heroes look too aggressive and jingoistic.
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Prevent the War / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In Nomine supplement The Final Trumpet. Two Demon Princes are trying to start a war between Heaven and Hell before its appointed time. The PCs' job is to stop them from succeeding. If they fail, Armageddon will occur.
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Prevent the War / int_da52a723	comment	In the first Rivers of London book the B-Plot is that the two Anthropomorphic Personifications of the Thames, and their families, are gearing up to go toe-to-toe with each other (with the implication that it will be very unpleasant for everyone living in the Thames valley, estuary, and catchment area) and our heroes need to find a way to force a truce.
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Prevent the War / int_da73059	comment	The Living Daylights is a toned down version of this. Again, the villains are provoking the British and Soviets into a confrontation with each other; however, they're not trying to provoke a war, just trick the British into eliminating a senior KGB general before he can bring them down. Ironically, they do this by trying to convince the British that he might provoke a world war, being a homicidal maniac who's targeting Western intelligence officers for elimination in a policy that might easily escalate into nuclear war.
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Prevent the War / int_db30cf92	comment	In Warrior Cats, WindClan and ThunderClan nearly go to war over three missing WindClan kits, and Hollypaw, Lionpaw, Jaypaw, Breezepaw and Heatherpaw team up to rescue them from the tunnels and bring them back in time to stop the battle.
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Prevent the War / int_e1019061	comment	Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song follows the adventures of a robot songstress named Diva, as well as an AI named Matsumoto who has traveled back in time from 100 years in the future, to change history and prevent a world-ending war between humans and AI that breaks out on April 11, 2161.
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Prevent the War / int_e235270c	comment	In Stellaris, when spying on nuclear-capable pre-FTL civilizations a random event can occur where they're on the brink of their own World War III. You then have the choice of covertly infiltrating their governments to deescalate tensions, or leaving them to their own devices.
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Prevent the War / int_ea1d8a5	comment	it feels more like a memory: One story arc focuses on Aaron attempting to prevent the Civil War from breaking out during his second lifetime. He also negotiates America away from experiencing the War of 1812.
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Prevent the War / int_ecd2d797	comment	This appears in the Baldur's Gate series, although since the games don't force a particular moral outlook or motive for the Player Character, it's up to the player whether stopping a war is actually a goal for them or something they just do on the side while defeating their enemies. The plot of the first game ultimately revolves around preventing a war between the city-state of Baldur's Gate and the nation of Amn. The tensions leading towards war are being purposefully stoked by the merchant—criminal organisation Iron Throne — though, somewhat ironically, most of the leaders of the Iron Throne in Baldur's Gate start to actually smooth down relations towards the end of the plot because they think they've gone far enough in benefiting from what has already happened and want to avoid the actual war. This doesn't suit the plans of the real Big Bad, who wants the war for more sinister reasons. In BG II: Shadows of Amn, a side plot involves stopping the invasion plans of the drow elves against their surface elf enemies. In BG II: Throne of Bhaal, the war is already going on, but prophecy indicates that the player character's success will prevent it getting worse by a whole magnitude.
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Prevent the War / int_ed0803a7	comment	The plot of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country reveals that there is a conspiracy of old die-hards ironically composed of both Starfleet and Klingons who want to stop the peace movement between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. If the peace talks failed, odds are the resource starved Klingons would start a war with the Federation. Captain Kirk takes up the cause of thwarting the conspiracy after coming to terms with his own hatred of the Klingons, and ends up securing the accord in the end.
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Prevent the War / int_f4e8dd04	comment	Along Came a Spider: While the Federated Commonwealth and the Draconis Combine are both already waging war against the Clans, they have to deal with elements within each of their factions who are angling to start a war with each other. This forces them to divert various strategic assets around in order to convince the would-be warmongers that such a conflict would be too costly.
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Prevent the War / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 was supposed to be a Space Station to prevent war after the Earth-Minbari war. As the later seasons show, it failed.
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Prevent the War / int_faea2e0	comment	Tomorrow Never Dies has Bond and Chinese agent Wai Lin try to stop a media mogul from manipulating the United Kingdom and China into war for better ratings and exclusive media rights in the latter.
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Prevent the War / int_fb30b250	comment	Jack Strong has preventing World War III as his primary motivation for working with the CIA.
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Prevent the War / int_fcacaa36	comment	The Man in the High Castle: Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire were the victors of World War II, but have been in an uneasy truce with each other ever since. The Nazis in particular want to take the Master Race idea to the next logical step and wipe out their last potential enemy to achieve total world domination. Since the aging Adolf Hitler is one of the few opposed to this, his death may spell more disaster for the world. Throughout the series, members of both the German and Japanese governments conspire with each other to prevent a devastating nuclear war.
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