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Two or more characters or groups are involved in a "conflict" that they at first glance seem to take very seriously. Yeah, there's a huge war going on here. They really hate each other. Well, except that they don't. It's just a game, and there's actually no hard feelings involved. They simply fight each other because they know they all enjoy it and are comfortable to trust that no one gets hurt for real. They might even have a Safe Word. It can also apply to rivals or enemies in wrestling, as in real life, the relationships between two wrestlers can be different in comparison to what it seems, the way they act torwards each other may just be because of the script. If everyone involved makes sure no one gets hurt, it can be narrowed down to a Harmless War. However, not all friendly fighters are so considerate. If they are in it For the Evulz, the collateral damage might be considerable. (For the other kind of "Harmless War", see Nonlethal Warfare and Nobody Can Die.) Can lead to Abuse Mistake, as people don't understand that the whole thing is actually friendly. If any of the people involved are lovers, then this "conflict" is very likely to overlap with Casual Kink. Outsiders might view it as The Masochism Tango or Belligerent Sexual Tension, and in the latter case it might be entirely intentional: the lovers keep their relationship secret behind a role-played façade of constant bickering. Compare & Contrast Running Both Sides, where the faux enemies aren't merely friends, instead, they are actually the same person. See also Friendly Enemies for the individual version of this. Examples |
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In Razor Blade Smile, the heroine is a vampire who have spent the last 50 years fighting a conspiracy led by another vampire, who is assumed to be her ex-husband. In the end, after they have killed most of each other's minions, it is revealed that they are still lovers and that the entire conflict was just for fun. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin and Hobbes are often at each other's throats, but it's usually only in good fun. Calvin and Hobbes also gives us Calvin vs. Susie Derkins. After a shouting match, Calvin Breaks The Fourth Wall and says, "It's shameless how we flirt!" Could be Belligerent Sexual Tension if they weren't 6 years old. Then again... |
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Dog Days: The "wars" in Flognyard are televised competitions that resemble a mix of grade school field days, Ninja Warrior, and LARP (with a touch of Lyrical Nanoha thrown in). Nobody suffers permanent injuries; Mooks are temporarily reduced to "Beast Balls" when defeated, while named characters are taken out by destroying their weapons or armor (with their clothing usually getting shredded too). Since it involves actual combat, this serves the dual purpose of keeping the military and militia in fighting form so that if a real threat (like a rampaging demon) shows up, they're ready for it — and because the nations are all on good terms, if one gets in trouble they don't even need to ask for help, since their neighbors are most likely already on the way. | |
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The prank wars between the Winchester brothers of Supernatural are not so harmless at times, but certainly friendly. | |
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Out of universe example: The regular 'wars' between factions of the Forever Knight fandom. They're essentially round robin style fics that include the fans and the characters and factions kidnapping items and characters and things like that. | |
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In Attenberg, it is likely that much of the conflict and cruelty between Marina and Bella is actually neither conflict nor cruel. | |
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According to Scandinavia and the World, Canada and Denmark are fighting an epic battle for Hans Island. The weapon of choice; flags. (See also below under Real Life.) | |
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In The Order of the Stick, there are three desert empires that always struggle against one another. However, they are secretly allied with one another. The official rulers are unaware of this. The conflict among them is merely an excuse to take over other nations, as well as a safeguard to keep the other peoples from uniting against them. The whole thing is orchestrated by six friends who were previously an adventuring party, who act as a collective Man Behind the Man to a series of puppet rulers. | |
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In Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch (Series), the Night and Day Watches respectively represent the interests of the Light and Dark Others. The two have been working to undermine and discredit the other side for the entire series, with the non-aggression Treaty apparently being the only thing preventing them from breaking into all-out war. But eventually the main character realises that it's all little more than counting coup, and that they're both working together against anyone that might upset the balance. | |
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In Peter Pan, the Lost Boys and the Indians take turns attacking each other as a game. It turns serious when the Chief accuses the Boys of kidnapping Tiger Lily, who was actually taken by Captain Hook for the purpose of trying to get the location of Peter Pan's hiding place out of her. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons adventure EX2 The Land Beyond The Magic Mirror: The PCs can encounter a huge lion and a gigantic unicorn fighting each other. They're actually having a contest to see who will receive a valuable crown. The Outer Plane of Ysgard is a Warrior Heaven that's pretty much a stand-in for Valhalla, where anyone who "dies" in combat returns to life after 24 hours. |
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Moongobble and Me: Discussed in book 4, where Fazwad the Mighty explains that if the Queen of the Mischief Monsters (a race of notorious pranksters) thinks her daughter's being held hostage, she'll start a "Mischief War", and "You don't know the meaning of 'annoying' until you've been caught in a Mischief War." It can be inferred from his remarks that said war is more irritating than harmful. | |
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In Peter Pan, the Lost Boys and the Indians take turns attacking each other as a game. | |
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In Runescape, the neighboring island nations of Miscellania and Etceteria are in a state of perpetual war, despite neither side having an army and nobody ever actually fighting. | |
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Happens at the end of Episode 12 in Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation. Neptune declares that she and the other goddesses/CPU's have become True Companions, due to all the trials and tribulations they went through together during the show—therefore, the treaty of friendship signed at the very start of the anime is rendered null and void as it is now unnecessary, and competition starts anew, now to be a friendly rivalry. The goddesses then put on an Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny for fun and as a show before retiring to a meadow to rest together. | |
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Red vs. Blue, though it later turns out that the whole thing is actually a training simulation for Freelancer agents. | |
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In Boarding School Juliet, the sides fight with real swords only on very specific, prearranged occasions, and fiercely punish "war crimes" committed by their own people. Their motivation for fighting at all? Their parents did it, it's fun, it makes internal politics simpler, and none of the students want to actually attend class. | |
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In Good Omens, this is how Aziraphale and Crowley (an angel and a demon, respectively,) tend to view the war between Heaven and Hell. Of course, then things get serious. | |
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This trope is part of the very foundations of Gensokyo. Created originally as a refuge for fantastic creatures, the Great Barrier cuts off Outside World beliefs and superstitions (which could change the nature of the residents), enabling them to naturally develop their own thoughts and personalities without interference. The Spell Card system present in the games is actually a way for youkai to sustain themselves by "attacking" humans without actually harming them or risking their own lives. There are still a few things they have to grow out of before they can ever dream of returning, though... | |
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In the Anne of Green Gables series, Anne and Gilbert's academic rivalry is played up as this, as least on Gilbert's side. Anne, though, takes it very seriously. | |
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In Doom 2099, it is ultimately revealed that this was the cause of Doctor Doom's amnesia: His 'lover' had erased his memories as part of their "game". Subverted in that he was not happy about it afterward... | |
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DSBT InsaniT: In 'Store Story', Bear, Duck, and Balloon have a "toy store war", which they treat as a completely serious life-or-death situation. | |
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In GURPS Banestorm, the land of Sahud recognizes two kinds of "war". High war is essentially a tournament between two noble families disguised as warfare. Low war is actual life-or-death fighting. The book notes that sometimes a high war can turn into a low war, but hardly ever the other way around. | |
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Plenty of the battles in Negima! Magister Negi Magi read as this, as characters who are on the same side and often very good friends throw shockwave-producing punches, gravity orbs, warship-sized swords and violations of the laws of thermodynamics at each other. And that's just the training! Even in more serious conflicts, characters often acknowledge to each other that while they can't betray their ideologies, they bear each other no ill will, and usually Defeat Means Friendship. | |
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Becomes somewhat tragic in the Dragonlance novel Doom Brigade. Kang and his draconians are in conflict with a neighboring village of dwarves, with each settlement raiding the other for booze or sheep as needed. While earlier raids were taken dead seriously, Kang decided to take a chance and initiate one raid with only wooden training weapons, making sure to only use lethal force if necessary. To his delight, the dwarves responded in kind when they conducted their next raid, causing the casualties to be reduced to concussions and bruises over lacerations and dead bodies. While not naive enough to view the dwarves as friends, Kang is willing to believe this has resulted in a certain amount of tolerance between the two, so when he and his people leave to rejoin the Army of Takhisis, he's willing to leave behind the village they've made for the dwarves, hoping they'll make use of it. When the draconians return after the army doesn't go as planned, he's horrified to discover that the dwarves have instead decided to raze the place to the ground instead, unwilling to tolerate even the memory of their former neighbors. | |
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