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So you have two characters who seem to work well together and they seem to have a decent relationship going on. They are loyal to one another and seem to respect each other very well. You can tell that they're friends, right? Well, in the case of one particular character, not exactly. This is the trope where a character flat-out denies their friendship with one (or more) characters for some reason. Perhaps the character is The Lancer who has trouble getting along with The Hero and doesn't like working with them that much. They may be a natural-born loner who isn't concerned about intimate friendship. They may be a prideful Jerkass who thinks that having friends makes them uncool and weak. When the chips are down, they still do help out their "friend" because it's the right thing to do. Sometimes, in other variants, the character may not be in denial after all. Reasons being that the character doesn't fully know the hero since in order to be a friend, you must be intimate to know who they are; most examples of this would have a Nice Guy call the other "buddy", "pal", or "friend", but the offended character responds with "I'm not your buddy/pal/friend." A character in the workforce is appointed to work with a group of people, but friendship isn't a part of his job description since Being Personal Isn't Professional. Even to the extremes, the character in question is actually the hero's arch-nemesis either by honesty or revelation. Obvious, isn't it? On a brighter note, there are high chances for the character to consider that the other character is truly their friend, and from that point on, the bond will become stronger and better than it was before. If they are not technically friends, they will soon become closer as the series progresses. This is often common in crime scenes where a character denies friendship with the second party as a ruse to escape responsibility for their crimes, especially in a trial. There is also the reverse situation, where a character doesn't want their enemies to find out about the friendship to protect the friend from becoming a target. This could be the character trait of one or two characters in duo of Vitriolic Best Buds. A group of characters can do this to one particular person in their group, which is The Friend Nobody Likes. Can be the kind of relationship the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits would have. Often related to Hidden Heart of Gold. Can be utilized as the tool to permanently end a friendship, which is We Used to Be Friends, or at least temporarily in a Feud Episode. Compare She's Not My Girlfriend and Just Friends for the more romantic versions, Loser Friend Puzzles Outsiders for times when other people might allege (incorrectly) that two people couldn't possibly be friends, and Arranged Friendship when they're only "friends" for reasons beyond genuine companionship. See also We Do Not Know Each Other, its subtrope Acquaintance Denial, and Mutually Unequal Relationship (where one character thinks they're friends, the other definitely doesn't). |
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After getting a haircut and growing a mustache to mark the beginning of Unraveled season 2, Brian briefly claims to have been just kidding because he knows changing his appearance would disappoint his friends, before declaring that actually that was a joke and the viewer is not his friend and has no say over what he does with his body. | |
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Sherlock: In The Hounds of Baskerville, the interaction between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson skirts around this. Sherlock outright states to John that he has no friends, though he later amends that by saying "I don't have friends, I just have one." From The Blind Banker, when Sherlock introduces John to an acquaintance of his from university, Sebastian Wilkes: |
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Falco has something to say to the lava birds in Star Fox 64: | |
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In Role Models, Wheeler begins a rather rocky bond with Ronnie Shields: | |
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In Bleach, Uryu Ishida will make it very clear that he and Ichigo are not best friends, despite being a frequent ally to him and the other Soul Reapers. | |
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The Cosby Show: A parental example has Cliff trying to tell Rudy that he's her friend, but Rudy responds that he's her dad. | |
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In chapter 27, Wesley also makes it clear that he still holds a grudge against the rest of Angel Investigations for abandoning him due to the situation with Holtz and Connor back during Angel Season 3. He states that he's only there to help stop the First and prevent Armageddon, he's not their friend or comrade in arms, and he's not Angel's flunky anymore; once this is over, he plans to go his own way. | |
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That '70s Show examples: In "Jackie's Cheese Squeeze" in where Eric tells Jackie not to tell anyone they're friends after their talk about setting things straight with Eric whom Jackie had kissed. In "Bring It Home", when Jackie needs a place to stay: |
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Disgaea: Laharl will fervently deny being friends with any of his party, instead declaring that they are just his vassals. Anyone with half a brain can see that he, Etna, and Flonne are practically family to each other. Mao seems to have this kind of attitude in Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice. He would throw a temper tantrum whenever someone offered kindness or friendship. He also denies having an arraigned Friendly Rivalry with Raspberyl. |
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The Simpsons: In an episode set on the first day of school, class nerd Martin greets class bully Nelson as an old friend, since they had spent their summer together at space camp; but Nelson tries to downplay their relationship. In "Lemon of Troy," the kids of Springfield go to Shelbyville to find their missing lemon tree, and Nelson and Martin are paired up. When Martin gets in trouble, he calls upon Nelson for help: Subverted in "Treehouse of Horror XX", when Dracula, the Mummy, Frankenstein's monster, and the Wolfman arrive at the Simpsons' house. A more subtle example occurs in "Lisa's First Word" in the scene where Homer first meets Ned Flanders, which also explains why Homer is on a Last-Name Basis with him. |
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The Sandman (2022), "The Sound of Her Wings": Once every hundred years Dream meets with Hob Gadling, an immortal human. When Hob suggests that Dream is doing this because he just wants a friend, Dream is outraged and walks out on him, promising never to return just to prove him wrong. After Dream is imprisoned (causing Dream to miss their next appointment) he learns a bit of humility and makes a point of looking up Hob to apologise. | |
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At the end of the second episode of Luther, the titular character and Alice Morgan have this conversation: | |
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Rippen of Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero is somewhat fond of his henchman Larry (who is both absurdly loyal and very affectionate) but refuses to admit this to anyone, even himself. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS: Many times in the series, Yusaku insists Ai is his captive when asked by other characters if they are partners. While this is true in the first season where he only sees Ai as a hostage, it doesn't hold in later seasons when they become closer and even have some genuine Friendship Moments. | |
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Lightly teased in the Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC The Descent. Renn and Valta's actual relationship is unclear - they're either Best Friends, Like Brother and Sister, or Belligerent Sexual Tension - but it's very obvious that they care about each other deeply. In conversation with Renn, the Inquisitor may comment on their friendship, leading Renn to snark, "What makes you think we're friends?" | |
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In Koi to Uso, Nejima becomes concerned when his best friend Nisaka is becoming distant and confronts him after he leaves upon hearing a hurtful conversation in the classroom. Nisaka promptly tries to push Nejima away and says that they were never true friends because Nisaka cares for him in a different way than Nejima does him. | |
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Dragon Ball: This happens in Dragon Ball Z when Piccolo became infuriated at being defeated by the androids, but the others try to calm him down: Dragon Ball Super: During the Future Trunks Saga, Future Zamasu states that he and Goku Black are not friends, just kindred spirits working together on the same dream. Goku points out that that's basically the same thing. It's later revealed that Goku Black is in fact an alternate version of Zamasu who used the Dragon Balls to steal Goku's body; they don't see each other as friends because they're literally the same person. |
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Yugami from Yugami-kun ni wa Tomodachi ga Inai is a deliberate loner who happily defies The Power of Friendship and is ignored by his classmates because they find him a pain to deal with. Despite his Brutal Honesty, New Transfer Student Chihiro talks to him often. Classmates start wondering if the two are friends because no one has been able to talk to Yugami for more than five minutes — except Chihiro. Any suggestion of a friendship between them is shot down by both parties, however. | |
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Food Wars!: Satoshi Isshiki and Nene Kinokuni grew up together and seemed rather close as children. However, Nene became resentful that he was able to take so easily to the arts and crafts that she took so many years of hard work and practice to master. At the start of the story, while Satoshi is still friendly to her (then again he's friendly to pretty much everyone), she's bitter because he has a lower seat in the Council of Ten Masters than her only because he doesn't take things as seriously, so she not only refuses to see him as a friend but even denies they ever were friends. | |
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In Bloom Fully on the Tall Wall, Homura isn't used to friends and her depression doesn't help. As a result, she initially denies being Togo and the other girls' friend. | |
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Animaniacs: An arrogant businessman sitting next to the Warners on a plane declares that "I'd rather be eaten by cannibals than be your 'special friend'!" He soon comes to regret his words. Doubles as a Brick Joke when he escapes the plane to land on a desert island. | |
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In Pineapple Express, Dale and Saul fall into this trope after Dale gets himself arrested for smoking a joint and selling weed to middle school kids, also escaping from the police. The two got into an argument, in which Dale tells Saul that they were never friends and never will be. The two did reconcile at the end of the movie, however. | |
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In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, there are two girls of around thirteen. Each is the alpha in her own group. Famke Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons is a student Assassin regarded as an outstanding pupil with a sketchy attitude to School rules. Alexandra Mumorovka is a Air Watch cadet who is regarded as the outstanding best of her intake. The two become Best Enemies from the time of first meeting, delight in devising new insults for each other, are casually rude and off-hand, and cover each other's backs in a street fight. And hotly and indignantly deny they are friends in any way at all. | |
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In the The Big Bang Theory episode "The Excelsior Acquisition", we have Sheldon and Penny introducing themselves to Stan Lee. There's also the episode where Sheldon runs away and leaves a goodbye video addressed to "three friends and one acquaintance." The end of the episode reveals that the "acquaintance" is Howard. Happens in the Spin-Off Young Sheldon. In the episode " A Stunted Childhood and a Can of Fancy Mixed Nuts", Sheldon's academic rival, Paige Swanson, comes over to spend the night with Missy. Georgie says that he thought Paige was Sheldon's friend. Sheldon replies that he views Paige as more of a colleague. Georgie, hilariously, asks what the heck is a colleague. |
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Jack of 48 Hrs. has this quote that comes in mind as he forms a grudging partnership with Reggie, a convict, to hunt down Ganz: | |
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Spider-Man (PS4): Yuri Watanabe, Spider-Man's Friend on the Force, states more than once that she doesn't actually like Spider-Man and they're not friends. As far as she's concerned, Spidey helping her catch criminals that she can't handle is simply "payment" for her not arresting him and throwing him in jail for vigilantism, nothing more and nothing less. | |
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At the beginning of Wicked, Glinda has to deny her friendship with the recently deceased Elphaba for political reasons. | |
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Hating the Hand Life has Dealt Us: Despite getting along quite well privately, Jiang Cheng and Jin Zixuan both deny that they're friends. Being asked for clarification doesn't help much: | |
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Lina Inverse and Naga the White Serpent in Slayers OVAs and movies are Vitriolic Best Buds who will vehemently deny that they are best buds or any kind of buds. Both claim that the other is their sidekick. Or rival, depending on the mood. | |
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Mao seems to have this kind of attitude in Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice. He would throw a temper tantrum whenever someone offered kindness or friendship. He also denies having an arraigned Friendly Rivalry with Raspberyl. | |
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Oyasumi Midoriya: Katsuki repeatedly denies that he has any kind of positive feelings towards Izuku whatsoever. Momo eventually decks him over this. | |
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In The Owl House, The Heroine Luz Noceda gets off on the wrong foot with Amity Blight, a girl at the local witch school, and wants to make up with and befriend her. When Amity's twin older siblings, Edric and Emira—who love to playfully tease her—embarrass her in front of Luz and tell her she should stop being a jerk to her "her friend", Amity angrily replies, "She is not my friend!", clearly saddening Luz...though, thankfully, by the end of the episode, the two somewhat mend fences, and Amity promises to rethink her behavior and try to be nicer to her. Ironically enough, she ends up falling in love with Luz by the end of the first season, and they begin dating in Season 2. | |
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The plot of Dear Evan Hansen revolves around an inversion of this trope. After Connor's suicide, the Murphys believe that he and Evan were friends, and Evan is unable to tell them that they're wrong. (Blame the anxiety.) The rest of the show is caused by this event. | |
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Monsters, Inc.: During their Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure, Mike does this when he and Sulley are banished to the human world and, after almost coming to blows with each other, take shelter in the Abominable Snowman's cave. | |
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: Karen regularly interacts with Ishigami in We Want to Talk About Kaguya and looks on happily when he's being comforted by the Cheer Team during the sports festival, but she states that they have a strict business relationship when Erika asks if they're friends (he's acts as the editor for her KaguyaXShirogane doujinshi). This denial is probably for continuity purposes since Maki is established in the main series to be the first girl to consider him a friend. Due to Out-of-Context Eavesdropping, Ishigami understands she doesn't want to be associated with him, but in context, Karen mainly said she's not close enough to Ishigami to ask for another favor since she's already the one "indebted" to him. | |
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Arthur: Arthur and Molly (one of the Tough Customers bullies) spend time and get along together when Molly's mom makes her let Arthur & DW use their backyard pool. They agree to act like they hate each other when there are other people around. | |
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Jade West does this often on Victorious, she's always denying her friendship with Tori. At one point, she denies any attachment to almost the entire gang. | |
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Ookurikara of the Touken Ranbu franchise lives and breathes this; his catchphrase is literally "I'm not here to make friends" and he turns down all socialisation at any given opportunity. Despite this, he's well-liked amongst the sword warriors, especially by his fellow Dategumi, because although he has a prickly exterior almost everyone he meets is able to quickly figure out that he's a good guy underneath. It's revealed in Musical Touken Ranbu that his loner act is due to being afraid of the pain that comes with losing loved ones. | |
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Vincent and Butch have a short conversation about this in Pulp Fiction: | |
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Season 1 Episode 8 of Wrecked sees Owen finally reach his breaking point with Danny, culminating in this: | |
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Nightmare Time In the episode "Abstinence Camp", Grace believes that she is Steph's friend, telling the adults in their life about Stephanie's "sex addiction" in order to get her help. From Steph's perspective, Grace is a nerdy prude who tattles and gets her in trouble. | |
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Ray Jackson of Blood Sport has this memorable phrase: | |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance: During "The Stolen Century," Merle meets and talks with John, the Mouth of Sauron for The Hunger several times, and the two develop a rapport and start to genuinely enjoy each other's company. However, when Merle straight-up asks if they're friends, he gets a "no" in response. John's reasoning is that he's become so inhuman and disconnected from any other person that he's incapable of love or friendship. However, it's apparent by the end of the campaign that this is a load of crock; when they meet again after ten years, John's openly glad to see Merle and even calls him "old friend," and in the end, he requests that Merle stay with him until he dies. He does. | |
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Hogan's Heroes: Klink has an epic one in the episode "The Big Picture", mixed with Digging Yourself Deeper, when a friend of his is accused of complicity in the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and a Gestapo agent confronts Klink with a picture of Klink and the conspirator: | |
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Shortly after the escape from Fox River in Prison Break, Michael makes Tweener travel solo away from the other members of the escape team since he was known to be a snitch. When Tweener pleads with him and calls him a bro, Michael has something to say about it. | |
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A more subtle example occurs in "Lisa's First Word" in the scene where Homer first meets Ned Flanders, which also explains why Homer is on a Last-Name Basis with him. | |
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Dragon Ball Super: During the Future Trunks Saga, Future Zamasu states that he and Goku Black are not friends, just kindred spirits working together on the same dream. Goku points out that that's basically the same thing. It's later revealed that Goku Black is in fact an alternate version of Zamasu who used the Dragon Balls to steal Goku's body; they don't see each other as friends because they're literally the same person. | |
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The Boondocks has Huey being interviewed about him teaming with Uncle Ruckus after they decide to leave town and go to Canada due to the election of Barack Obama: | |
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The Good Place: In "Help is Other People", when Brent says "you're my only real friend", Chidi is finally irritated enough to bluntly tell Brent that they are not friends and he doesn't even like Brent. | |
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One Piece: When Luffy forms an alliance with Trafalgar Law in the Punk Hazard arc that's supposed to be an Enemy Mine, it's pretty clear right from the get-go that Luffy thinks of them as pals, and by the time of the following Dressrosa arc, he uses the same Japanese word for "friend/comrade" ("nakama") when referring to Law that he uses for his crewmates, making it clear that he sees him as a very close friend. Law, however, always denies that they're friends, insisting that they're just allies and nothing more. While his initial protestations feel sincere (since he was fairly pissed with Luffy at the time), it's implied by the end of the Dressrosa arc and beyond that he does see Luffy and the rest of the Straw Hats as friends and is just in denial about it. | |
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The episode "It's A Book" from Jon & Kate Plus Eight has the young Leah Gosselin saying this: | |
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Rugrats: In the "All Growed Up" special that would later be spun off into All Grown Up!, Angelica spends most of the episode denying that she's related to Tommy, insisting that they just happen to have the same last name. She finally admits it near the end, however. | |
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The pilot episode of The West Wing: | |
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Subverted in Code Geass: when Suzaku first shows up at Ashford Academy, he tells Lelouch that it's better for them to do this since being associated with an Eleven might raise too many questions; Suzaku is one of the few people who knows Lelouch is an exiled Britannian prince, which is how they met in the first place seven years earlier. Lelouch goes along with it for a while, but after Suzaku saves him from falling out of the school's clocktower, he openly declares in front of the student body that they're friends and asks Student Council President Milly to give Suzaku a position on the council. This wasn't just motivated by the life-saving, but because Lelouch knew Suzaku was being bullied and harassed for being Japanese and wanted to put an end to it. | |
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Ice Age: Happens at least twice in though it isn't a real denial since Manny knows neither Sid nor Diego at this time. When Manny and Sid meet Diego for the first time |
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Puss in Boots: When Humpty Dumpty asks Puss if he wants to be friends with him again (they stopped being friends as teens after going too far with their thieving tendencies and Puss blaming Humpty), Puss replies that he and Humpty are not friends. | |
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As Sonic the Hedgehog's Friendly Rival and Vitriolic Best Bud, Knuckles tends to deny being friends with him. One of the verses in his very Image Song has him saying this line regarding working with Sonic: | |
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Chuck Dixon's Avalon: Happens after Fazer mistakenly thinks he and Angela are having a "moment". | |
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: After hearing the story of how Tohru and Elma became acquainted and their heated rivalry, Kobayashi comments their relationship is now akin to Vitriolic Best Buds. Tohru and Elma promptly freak out and try to deny it, only to launch into an argument that proves Kobayashi's point. | |
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Good Omens (2019): Aziraphale repeatedly denies being friends with Crowley, partly because he's an angel who's not supposed to be friendly with a demon and partly because he's afraid of what Hell might do to Crowley if they found out that he was getting too chummy with an angel. | |
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The Proud Family: LaCienega often claims she and Penny aren't friends. Penny fully acknowledges this and hates hanging around LaCienega at the start of the series because of how LaCienega is both rude and mistreats Penny. But the problem was that they have a mutual friend in Dijonay Jones who insists that they both hang around each other; another problem is that Penny and LaCienega parents are best friends, so they often have to hang around each other. Eventually, Penny and LaCienega relationship cools down, and they become more civil to each other even if they don't admit their friends, and there are even signs that they have a soft spot for each other more than they realize. | |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku is mistaken for Lexi's friend because of how much she knows about him and her insistence on hanging around him whenever possible. Pony is relieved when he flatly denies it, as Lexi used to bully her back in America when they met at parties. | |
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In the first season of Sonic X, Knuckles would occasionally deny being friends with Sonic, but this is due to his disapproval of the hedgehog's reckless nature and snarky attitude. It also doesn't help that Knuckles is quite jealous of Sonic's freedom and popularity while he is a loner tasked with guarding the Master Emerald. | |
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In To Try For The Sun, Luna asserts that Star Swirl is their friend, only for Celestia to deny it. | |
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From the Two and a Half Men episode "An Old Flame With A New Wick": | |
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Roys Bedoys: Loys claims to have no friends and that Roys's friends aren't his own, but they seem very close to him. He hangs out with them a lot, and he even invites them to his birthday party. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Fluttershy does this to Discord in the episode "Keep Calm and Flutter On" after he starts causing havoc in Ponyville. This actually pivots his Heel–Face Turn as he realizes he actually wants her friendship (being the first he's ever had due to his callous pranks), after which she is perfectly happy to take him in. In the episode "A Friend In Deed", Pinkie Pie's attempts to befriend Cranky Doodle Donkey lead to a few of these. Eventually, Cranky yells at her that he will never, ever, ever, ever, ever be her friend. That's four "ever"s. That's...forever. |
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Two Letters: Marinette and Alya used to be friends, but Marinette broke it off after Alya betrayed her trust one too many times. Despite Marinette actively avoiding her and changing her number, Alya convinces herself that her "strange behavior" must have something to do with the new Ladybug. When the two finally end up talking, Marinette repeatedly stresses to Alya that they're not friends, eventually spelling out in exhaustive detail why: because despite knowing the importance of keeping their identities secret, Alya told Nino that she was Rena Furtive. | |
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In Baccano!, Chi tells Christopher that he doesn't consider him as a friend, but he considers him as somebody he wants to kill despite never actually having gone through with it due to circumstances. | |
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The Pebble and the Penguin: The duet "Looks Like I've Got Me A Friend" has Hubie trying to get Rocko to admit that they've become friends and Rocko denying it until he finally admits it in the end: | |
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Ocean's Eleven has the two Malloy twins having this exchange: | |
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In Dumbing of Age, Dorothy sees Becky as her friend because she and Joyce are friends, Becky and Joyce are friends, Becky's a good person, and she believes in the transitive property of friendship if there's no reason not to. As far as Becky is concerned, she's Dorothy's nemesis, who will never rest until she's reclaimed the title of Joyce's best friend from this usurper. This gradually goes from something she actually believes to something closer to a shared joke between them. | |
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Gladion of Pokémon Sun and Moon goes out of his way on at least two separate occasions to state that he's not friends with your character, even after growing to consider you a Worthy Opponent. Although his exact words are "I know we aren't friends," which makes it sound less like denial on his part and more like acknowledging what he believes to be your stance on the matter. | |
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South Park: From the episode "Canada On Strike": In "The Death Of Eric Cartman" the other boys deny Eric as their friend and state that they will start ignoring him from this point on. |
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In the episode "Unjustly Neglected Drama" of The Life & Times of Tim, an actor is interrogated by a detective about whether or not is he friends with Tim. He denies it. In fact, the denial was a line that was used from a play: | |
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Bring Me to Life: On two separate occasions, Pearl and Nash refer to Angel and Spike as friends. Both respond that they're not friends and never will be. In chapter 27, Wesley also makes it clear that he still holds a grudge against the rest of Angel Investigations for abandoning him due to the situation with Holtz and Connor back during Angel Season 3. He states that he's only there to help stop the First and prevent Armageddon, he's not their friend or comrade in arms, and he's not Angel's flunky anymore; once this is over, he plans to go his own way. |
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From Jerry Maguire: | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Lover's Walk", Buffy and Angel try to act like they're Just Friends, but Spike calls them on it, telling them they'll never be just friends. Buffy is forced to acknowledge that Spike's right, and tells Angel as such near the end: | |
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In The Kite Runner, Hassan considers Amir a friend, but Amir considers him anything but. This is only because Hassan is Amir's servant, as he points out to Assef. He's also a bit jealous of how his father treats Hassan. | |
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Before teaming up with The Rock in a match, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin states in an interview that both arch-rivals are partners for the main event and do have respect for one another, but as for the friends part, "Hell No!". The Rock was thinking the same way, too. | |
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Family Guy: In one episode Peter and Meg are forced to spend time together and realize that they actually like each other; but they agree that Peter will still act like a jerk to her when they're not alone. | |
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This happens in Dragon Ball Z when Piccolo became infuriated at being defeated by the androids, but the others try to calm him down: | |
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Wander over Yonder: Lord Hater is the king of this trope—justifiably at first, as he's not Wander's friend, but far less plausibly as Season 2 progresses and he begins doing things like ask for Wander's help to get him a date with his crush. He similarly denies his friendship with Peepers in Season 1 ("Got it, pal? Psych! We're not pals! Hater out!"), despite the fact that they both consider each other friends. Lampshaded by Wander in the Musical Episode. Likewise, Peepers with Sylvia. |
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Merlin: Frequently between the titular character and Arthur. | |
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Spongebob Squarepants: On occasions, Spongebob just can't take a hint of the fact that Squidward is everything but his friend. | |
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They Cage the Animals at Night: At the orphanage, there's a "kid rule" that everyone abides by but no one talks about: Don't make friends. It's used so that they don't get hurt when their friends leave the orphanage. Jennings learns this the hard way when his buddy Mark won't agree to be his friend. | |
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Noir: Mirielle needed Kirika to stay alive to help her find the answers to Soldats, but this doesn't change the fact that both are Heterosexual Life-Partners with a dose of Ho Yay. | |
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