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Everyone knows when you see two dogs tearing into each other, the last thing you should do is try to get between them. What some don't realise is that the same can be true of people, too. This trope is when two characters in the middle of a bitter argument make up their differences over a common love of abusing someone else — usually the first person who intervenes to get them to make up. They'll tend to start out with grudging Dumbass Has a Point and Actually Pretty Funny's, before really warming to the tag-team beatdown. Can cross over with Truth-Telling Session. It may be the result of the failed efforts of a Third-Party Peacekeeper. Subtrope of No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, and related to Unwanted Assistance, Pacifism Backfire and Contempt Crossfire. Inversion of Apple of Discord, when a third party makes two allies start arguing - this is about making two arguers temporarily join forces against the intruder. Compare/contrast Enemy Mine (when two mortal enemies join forces to defeat a mutual threat) and Genghis Gambit (where the mediator deliberately invokes this). Contrast Reconcile the Bitter Foes and Threatening Mediator (where the belligerents are united in their fear of the mediator). |
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In one Dork Tower/Shop Keep strip in Dragon, Bill is tired of the wargamers, roleplayers, boardgamers and cardgamers calling each other "freak" and "weirdo", and explains to them all that they can all get on, as illustrated by the fact he enjoys playing all those games. The shop concludes that he's a freak and weirdo. | |
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Tuca & Bertie: In "The Sex Bugs", two squabbling birds smash their grocery carts together when arguing over smoothies. When a worker interrupts them to claim that smoothies aren't food, the birds promptly start smashing him with their carts. (The man is later seen in casts and a wheelchair.) | |
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3DBotMaker: During the first race of the second round of the all-truck event for the 2021 DRC season, Travis Wheeler crashes into the 3DBotMaker merchandise stand at trackside after getting launched off the finish line jump at an awkward angle, causing him to land on the first person in line. 3D forces the director to cut to a commercial. 2D, however, believes that 3D is disrespecting Wheeler's opponent, Truck Norris, whom 2D believes is actually Chuck Norris. During the break, various clips of different ads for 3DBotMaker merchandise are interspersed with continuous cut-ins to replay footage, and 2D's hot mic can be heard, ripping 3D for his perceived disrespect. 3D, busy with the situation at the merch stand, asks Susan to step in: | |
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Ranma ½: When Gosunkugi gets ahold of paper dolls capable of controlling anyone he wishes, he tries to use this opportunity to win Akane's heart. Unfortunately, after he test-drives a few of his dolls on Ranma to see if they actually work, Ranma's suspicions are raised to the point where he openly confronts him about it. Akane immediately rushes to Gosunkugi's defence and our two opposing sides begin to bicker. | |
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The Simpsons: When Marge went after Itchy and Scratchy, the series staff did an episode where a squirrel character based on Marge tries to stop a fight, but the duo decides to knock her head off instead. Given that the only other time they've worked together against someone else was an old wartime special where they beat up Hitler... In "Treehouse of Horror XIX", Marge nags at a group of Autobots and Deceptions expies to end their war. Time Skip to a short time later where it's revealed that they teamed up to conquer the planet. |
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Discussed and defied by the Feegles in I Shall Wear Midnight - "Any man who interferes with the arguin' of women is gonnae find himself with both of them jumpin' up and doon on him in a matter of seconds". | |
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In an early Doonesbury comic strip, activist Mark Slackmeyer tries to quiet down an unruly crowd of disorganized and divided protesters by having them unite under a common goal, and they end up shouting "KILL THE MODERATOR!" | |
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Tenchi Muyo!: This is a pretty common fate for anyone who steps in between Ryoko and Ayeka. The biggest one comes towards Tsunami, who finds her explanation about herself and Sasami interrupted because the two are more worried that Tsunami is gonna be Sasami in the future and when she tries to get their attention, they both tell her to shut up! | |
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Scrubs: After J.D. intervenes in an argument between Dr. Cox and Jordan; In a Cold Open, J.D. gets an earful from Carla and Elliot after commenting on their argument. When he realizes what he's gotten into, an Imagine Spot shows him pulling a lever that rewinds time to before he to involved. He makes the same comments and gets roped in again. |
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One Garfield strip had Garfield and Odie facing each other, ready to fight, when Jon comes in and tells them that they should get along by focusing on something they have in common. They face Jon and angrily leer at him. | |
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In the Xena: Warrior Princess episode "Been There, Done That", Joxer attempts to invoke this trope in order to stop the feuding families. He gets a couple dozen arrows to his face for his trouble (but again, this being a "Groundhog Day" Loop, he gets better). | |
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In the Azumanga Daioh comic strip, Sakaki once sees two cats about to fight. She instantly rushes in to stop them, but since the affection is one-sided on Sakaki's part, they both settle for chomping her hands instead. | |
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In the Mutants & Masterminds forum, one post about a crossover setting notices that between the Fandom "Odds and Ends of the Freedomverse" and Fires of War for The Algernon Files, there are two incompatible Golden Age heroes with a connection to the Count of Cagliostro. According to the post, supporters of both heroes in-universe claim the other one was lying: | |
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Invoked by Phule in the first Phule's Company book, where he tells his feuding lieutenants to find common ground "even if it's just what an unreasonable son-of-a-bitch your commanding officer is". | |
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As Revy and Roberta are beating the nine hells out of each other in Black Lagoon, Rock gets the bright idea to try to get them to talk about their problems. Being as both of them are in full-on violent mode, the response from the two is unsurprising: | |
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In Exodus chapter 2, when Moses sees two Israelites fighting with each other, he tries to break it up through mediation, and one of them ends up shouting, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" That resulted in Moses running for his life and hiding out in the wilderness of Midian for forty years. | |
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Ménage à 3: When Sonya and Yuki are fighting over which one should get to be Gary's girlfriend, Gary's suggestion of "both" instantly redirects their anger towards each other at him. | |
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In The Class Menagerie, Tony at one point tries to get his best friend Kevin and his roommate Brad to stop flinging Your Mom jokes at each other by pointing out that neither of them even likes their mothers. They promptly switch to flinging "your roommate" jokes and "your best friend" jokes (respectively) at each other instead. (which is admittedly a sort of stealth compliment, but Tony still clearly wishes that he'd never gotten involved) | |
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In the Malcolm in the Middle episode where Grandma Ida loses a leg after saving Dewey, one of her grandsons, from being run over by a truck, Lois forces her oldest son, Francis, to take care of Ida until she fully recovers, citing that since he's unemployed at the time he has plenty of time to do so. Francis tells Lois that's a terrible idea because of how much they hate each other, but Lois responds that she doesn't care what it takes for them to get along but he's going to stay with Ida no matter what. When Francis starts pointing out Lois' flaws, Ida adds several other flaws that she's noticed while raising her. | |
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The Bible: In Exodus chapter 2, when Moses sees two Israelites fighting with each other, he tries to break it up through mediation, and one of them ends up shouting, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" That resulted in Moses running for his life and hiding out in the wilderness of Midian for forty years. Proverbs 26:17 states, "A passerby who gets embroiled in someone else’s quarrel is like one who seizes a dog by its ears." |
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One Peanuts strip◊ sees an exchange of snowballs over Snoopy's dog house while he's lying on it. He stands up and gently cautions, "peace." Cue a hail of snowballs striking him from both sides. | |
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In the Arthur, King of Time and Space version of the scene in Arthurian myth where Sir Beloberis de Ganis gets between Lamorak and Meliagrant, who are dueling over whether Morguase or Guenevere is fairer, pointing out that any knight would consider his own love to be the fairest, they both take this as an insult and turn their lances towards him. | |
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In Black Books, Bernard and Mannie take time out from an argument to insult Fran, and end up resolving their own differences in the process. Until Fran leaves the room, at which point things go back to normal. | |
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Both The News Quiz and Private Eye pointed out that William Hague made it his mission to unite the factions of the Conservative party and succeeded; Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath both hated him. | |
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Proverbs 26:17 states, "A passerby who gets embroiled in someone else’s quarrel is like one who seizes a dog by its ears." | |
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Implicitly defied by Ash in Chapter 16 of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines. He overhears Misty and Iris having an argument about clothes, and decides not to get between them presumably for fear of this happening. | |
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In Family Guy, Peter is upset that he can't find way to bond with Stewie, until he discovers that beating up Lois is the perfect way to do it. Crosses the Line Twice when they lock her in the trunk of a car and sink it in a lake. | |
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In the Friends episode "The One With The Racecar Bed", Ross' attempts to endear himself to Rachel's father (who already didn't like Ross before he found out he'd gotten Rachel pregnant out of wedlock) aren't going well. Rachel's attempts to get them to try and warm up to each other segue into a conversation about Rachel's "specialty" chiropractor, and the two soon find common ground... criticizing Rachel's questionable life choices. | |
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In the Pokémon: The Original Series episode "Showdown at Dark City," Ash and his friends decide to break up a gang war between rival gyms that's destroying the titular city. After he gives them "The Reason You Suck" Speech, the leaders of both gyms bury the hatchet—and decide to attack Ash. Good thing Nurse Joy was there to save the day. | |
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West Side Story: Tony's attempt to break up the rumble between the Jets and Sharks at Maria's request only serves to raise everyone's tempers, until the situation devolves from what could have been a begrudgingly-honorable, non-lethal fistfight to a knife fight that leaves both Bernardo and Riff dead and sets of the tragic chain reaction of the final act. | |
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In the Spongebob Squarepants episode "The Other Patty", Mr. Krabs and Plankton grudgingly team up to try and steal a new competitor's secret formula. Throughout the episode, the two spend their time disagreeing and bickering with each other. It's eventually revealed that SpongeBob started the competing restaurant to help Krabs and Plankton's friendship. The two respond by chasing after him, with intent to beat him up. In the pilot, "Help Wanted", Squidward attempts to calm down a huge mob of rampaging anchovy customers with a Big "SHUT UP!", and then asks them to form a neat single-file line in front of the register. They proceed to rampage harder and wreck the place. And they possibly would have killed Squidward and Mr. Krabs and if SpongeBob hadn't shown up. |
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