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Jim Henson hated violence and it was a recurring theme of one of his final projects, Dog City, in which cartoon and animator would often converse with one another. Films like Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal check off all of the boxes on a typical hero's journey, but there's very little in the way of actual fighting. In The Dark Crystal, the protagonist loses an easily avoidable fight to the second tier villain in a scene which seemingly serves no purpose except to show that it's not the ability to win a fight that makes a hero, it's the courage to do what is right.

In Hayao Miyazaki's filmography, violence is either a brutal and ugly thing, like in Princess Mononoke, or it's treated as the height of stupidity. Such was the case with the fist fights in Porco Rosso and Castle in the Sky. It's just two men trying to prove whose manlier with their fists and for comedic effect. Any other time we see fighting in his films, the contest is brief, one-sided, and meant only to move the story forward.

Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn has characters fighting off-screen (off-page in the novel) or else a battle ends abruptly. A harpy makes a single dive to attack the unicorn, then finds a new target. A prince performs several heroic deeds, such as slaying dragons and ogres, that we never actually get to see. The evil king clumsily swings his sword, etc.

What other examples are there of adventures stories in which it's evident that the person behind the story dislikes violence being portrayed as something cool and exciting?