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...Who Needs Enemies? Two people are supposedly friends, except they seem to hate each other. Like, a lot. They're always bickering, insulting each other or outright whupping each other, which leaves the audience wondering, "How the hell are these people friends?" This is often because one or both are Jerkasses, though sometimes it seems that they reserve all their hostility for one other. Once in a while, they'll have a heartwarming moment which will make the audience go "Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other." Then it's back to business as usual. The other option is that one will eventually go for a Uriah Gambit. Note that the conflict does not create serious problems when dealing with worse enemies — that is Divided We Fall (which is often enough also polite). Related to Vitriolic Best Buds, who are confirmed to actually care about each others and whose bickering is more a case of brutal teasing. Not to be confused with Don't Shoot the Message. For the romantic version, see The Masochism Tango and Belligerent Sexual Tension. Compare/contrast Friendly Enemy which has enemies acting like friends are used, and when both are used you may end up with Polite Villains, Rude Heroes. Compare Acquaintance Denial, and Odd Friendship. Contrast Who Needs Enemies?, where two characters really ought to be friends given their similar goals, but somehow aren't. May be due to coming from a Friendless Background. If one friend in particular gives or gets this treatment, there's a chance they're The Friend Nobody Likes. Compare to Arranged Friendship and Fair-Weather Friend (which one could say is a Sub-Trope to this one). See also We Used to Be Friends, where the relationship evolves from "friends" to "enemies", but isn't both at once. Contrast Undying Loyalty. |
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In Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair, the friendship between Momoko and Kamen can come off as this upon closer examination. Kamen is one of the few people Momoko trusts after many people took advantage of Momoko's helpful nature to force her to do things for them, but even she notes that eventually, she was the one always doing things for Momoko. What really indicates them as being this trope, though, is that not long before the start of the game, Kamen, having been asked out by Momoko's boyfriend Hiro, tried to warn Momoko about Hiro's infidelity, but Momoko refused to believe her, even threatening to end their friendship if Kamen persisted. Some time later, Momoko snuck a peek at Kamen's phone while Kamen was in the bathroom, and found texts from Hiro on it. She assumed Kamen was seeing Hiro behind her back and plotted to kill Hiro and kill herself to frame Kamen for their deaths. | |
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X-Men: Cyclops and Wolverine. Somewhere beneath the bickering, insults, fights, differences, and rivalries are two men that actually do respect one another, care about each other, and are even friends. In fact, Logan's entire position over Schism is revealed in Wolverine and the X-Men #40 to ultimately come down to Logan believing Scott actually is the better man, and that it's not right for him to be taking the darker approach. Logan genuinely wants to protect Scott from dirtying his hands and conscience with the ugly things that Logan generally does on the X-Men's behalf. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: Since Bun-Bun is a sociopathic Jerkass, this trope applies to just about any "friendship" he has. | |
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A.J. Raffles often treats his faithful sidekick and chronicler, Bunny, less than kindly. But he does eventually admit that Bunny's utterly dependable in a crunch. | |
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Sub-Mariner - Namor and Doctor Doom have had this going for decades. Both are leaders of small, isolated nations, and both are considered ruthless by the outside world, so they relate to each other quite well. However, Doom's a true villain and Namor's just determined to protect his people, so they often wind up on the opposite side of conflicts. Namor is also strained friends with the Fantastic Four, in spite of fighting against them countless times. No matter how many times they seem to clash, the Four still come to him if he can help them, and vice-versa. Granted, it's not clear just how much of his willingness to help the group comes from thinking Sue is hot. |
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The Big Lebowski. The Dude and Walter spend most of the time bickering, but they're good enough friends to see it through. Even verbally said by an exasperated Dude at one point: | |
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How Mary, Charley, and Frank end up in Merrily We Roll Along. Frank and Charley especially. | |
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In Pokémon Live!, Ash, Misty, and Brock spend as much time arguing as they do traveling to the city. Their journey isn't helped by Brock throwing away the map and Misty being unable to confess her feelings towards Ash. | |
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Hamlet has the title character's "old friends" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who have no trouble spying on their friend for his uncle/stepfather. Hamlet, in turn, has no trouble forging his uncle's orders to have England kill them in his place. | |
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Despite Mario letting him stay at his house, Shrek tends to treat Mario very poorly, always clogging up his toilet, begging him to buy him more toilet paper and cheesecake, and getting his possessions very dirty at times. | |
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In Paranoia, Troubleshooters, those whom Friend Computer deems to be its "trusted agents" in the face of an unusual crisis, have a death rate 270 times higher than regular people. And the people you should fear the most are your "teammates" who will kill you faster than you can say "Commie Mutant Traitor" the moment your back is turned. | |
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This is Heihachi and Kikuchiyo's dynamic in Seven Samurai. Kikuchiyo is a boisterous and energetic wannabe samurai who likes to show off, and the wittier and more reserved Heihachi is Kikuchiyo's most outspoken critic who laughs at and makes fun of him constantly. | |
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Harry Potter: Hermione likes a little bickering, which is why she prefers Ron to Harry, who backs down just to get her to shut up. Harry doesn't have any middle gears; he either backs down or he treats it as a verbal duel to the death, often reducing Hermione to tears before he's finished ranting at her. Ron, however, will jab back but rarely goes past the limit like Harry does; the extreme difference between their upbringings may explain this. Harry never saw 'playful bickering', pre-Hogwarts — just deadly-serious insults. It goes to the point where, when Harry tells them to grow up and stop bickering, they're offended and take it as a sign that there's something wrong with him. In the previous generation, Peter Pettigrew was that kid who let his friends — namely James and Sirius — pick on him just so he could remain in their group, and Remus failed to intervene for the same reason. And it seems that for a long time before she finally broke it off, Snape and Lily had a relationship where she was always standing up for him to others and he was always letting her down. |
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Yellowface: Struggling writer June is deeply resentful of her "friend" Athena's success, and is prone to very mean-spirited and petty thoughts of jealousy. On the flipside, Athena once wrote and published a story based on June's sexual assault, which June told her in confidence. | |
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Schooled: Hugh Winkleman, who demonstrates that being a middle-school outcast does not make you a nice guy. Instead of warning his new (and only) friend Cap about being bullied, he uses Cap to shield himself from abuse, although he admits to not being proud of it. When Cap starts gaining popularity, Hugh jealously turns on him and sets him up get to get brutally tackled by the football team. Hugh then takes advantage of rumors of Cap's death to manipulate the student body into liking him. | |
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It's sometimes difficult to tell why the titular Calvin and Hobbes are friends at all. Hobbes condescends to Calvin, attacks him for no reason, occasionally bullies him, and has betrayed him for his own gain multiple times, while Calvin tends to see Hobbes as little more than a partner for his own schemes and often treats him no better than Hobbes treats him. The implication seems to be that because Calvin is so terrible, he has to take what friends he can get, and even Hobbes may or may not be imaginary. | |
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In Discworld, the rather uptight Granny Weatherwax and Dirty Old Woman Nanny Ogg are best of friends, despite constant bickering. In Witches Abroad, when Granny is making a list of why she disapproves of all the other witches in the area, it concludes "And she really couldn't be having at all with Nanny Ogg, who was her best friend". | |
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Kendra and Lucy in 13. Poor Kendra is too much of a ditzy sweet girl to realize that Lucy is trying to usurp her position as Queen Bee and steal her Love Interest. | |
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Mean Girls has Regina to Karen, Cady, and (especially) Gretchen. "Frenemies" indeed! | |
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Cry_Wolf. The group of friends in the film love scaring each other very often for several reasons and don't have complete trust in each other. Despite all that, they're still friends. | |
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Ace Attorney according to an AI: Despite having been Trucy's friend since infancy, Athena Voss(not to be confused with Athena Cykes), willingly testifies that she saw Trucy murder Valant and commit other crimes in #1. In #5, Matt claims that Juan was his best friend, but murders him for using expensive cooking oil. Maggey can't seem to decide whether they're actually supposed to be friends. |
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Ultimate Warrior: Famously in the setup for a planned feud with Jake Roberts, who presented himself as a friend who wanted to help him in his feud with The Undertaker. Roberts eventually revealed this was a trap and that he was in cahoots with Undertaker all along. Nothing ever came of it, as Warrior was fired shortly after the last segment - an obviously fake snake bites Warrior's arm, causing him to "pass out" due to the venom - was aired days before SummerSlam 1991. (Meaning a possible kayfabe explanation might be that Warrior was traumatized by his experience with Roberts and the "bad" outcome of his feud with Undertaker.) | |
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Red Zone Cuba: Griffin regularly beats his so-called friends, who laugh at each other's suffering. | |
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J. Wellington Wimpy has sold out Popeye on multiple occasions for the promise of food, safety, or money. Not to mention that Wimpy mooches off Popeye on a regular basis. The rest of the town hates him, and Olive seems to only put up with him because he's friends with Popeye. Wimpy does, however, draw the line at killing. | |
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Homestuck: The trolls, coming from a race of jerkasses, often bitterly bicker and fight with one another. In most cases, it's simply how they interact, and in the end they'll work together. In others, not so much. This is the entire point of the trolls' Ashen and Caliginous quadrants, A.K.A blackrom romance, a relation based on mediation and hate-love respectively. | |
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In The Machineries of Empire, the six Hexarchate factions are mired in infighting, and Kel Command is as dangerous to Kel Cheris as the heretics she's supposed to be fighting are, if not more so. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Belkar and Vaarsuvius. Vaarsuvius actually attacks Belkar at one point simply due to the fear that Belkar liked V too much. This is a borderline example, though; Belkar and V are part of the same group, but never actually considered each other friends. Then again, V considers very few people to be his/her friends, and the only creature that Belkar might see as one is his cat. It might not be so borderline after all. However, as V postulates, Belkar only hates or lusts after everyone in a binary fashion, so he probably has a very large number of these. | |
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Quantum and Woody - The title pair. Compounded when they casually throw racial insults at each other. | |
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Title Pending: In the third episode Bayden invites childhood friends to a cinema, while listing a lot of their negative traits. When asked about the show, they comically think poorly about it and the creators. | |
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La Perra Del Mal Taya Valkyrie is often very rude and unhelpful to her fellow stablemates outside of Perros Del Mal Producciones shows or AAA. In AAA, she's still very unhelpful and sometimes actively hindering to Ivelisse Vélez (though The World Wrestling League had already pitted the two Perras Del Mal against each other as part of its dream matches tour, so it probably didn't come as much surprise to the fans) | |
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xkcd: The Black Hat Guy. His friends are just people he likes enough to either ask to join him in his "classhole" shenanigans, or people he treats marginally better than the average victim. In fact, what he loves about his girlfriend is that they're this to each other. | |
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In the Star Trek Novel 'Verse overall, the Federation/Klingon alliance tends to be this more often than not - Chancellor Martok is a staunch supporter of the alliance after Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but this tends to create a lot of tension between segments of the Klingon High Council who still can't get over the fact that the historical conflicts with the Federation have never been resolved by battle, regardless of how worthwhile the alliance has proven. Meanwhile, on the Federation side of things, during the special election for Federation president in 2379, while canny enough to not outright say he wanted to dissolve the Khitomer Accords, candidate Fel Prago still openly made many questions about why the Federation was allied with a species and government who openly engage in campaigns of conquering other races and are constantly seeking a fight with their stellar neighbors such as the Romulans. There are times that the Federation-Klingon alliance seems to persist more because the two sides don't quite want to get caught up in a losing war, as opposed to a genuine desire for peace between the two nations. | |
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Hannah and Her Sisters: Holly and April. They compete over acting roles, men and everything — and the latter usually wins. However, they still do projects together, like catering. | |
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Be Prepared: When Vera gets to summer camp, she has difficulty making friends at first. She manages to gain some when she shows off her artistic skills. However, one of the counselors, Natasha, tells her that real friends aren't the ones you buy with things like that. True to Natasha's word, when Vera accidentally exposes her candy stash in her tent, which gets it confiscated, all her "friends" turn their backs on her and start bullying her mercilessly. | |
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Leo, Clementine and Sarah. Even if one can ignore their (occasionally justified) tendency to tattle on Caillou, they often tend to verbally abuse him as well. On Caillou's side, he often tends to beat them up and insult them as well. | |
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In Star Trek: Titan, the belligerent Fethetrit to the other races in the Pa'haquel's hunting alliance. Besides considering the slow torture of sapient beings a game (they can win trophies), Fethetrit love to theatrically bluster about their imperialist past in an insanely over-the-top manner: "we raped worlds until they begged for mercy, then raped them harder until they screamed for death!!" At this point, a Pa'haquel usually face-palms (well, the equivalent, anyway) and tells the Fethetrit in question to "sit down, you fool!" In the Star Trek Novel 'Verse overall, the Federation/Klingon alliance tends to be this more often than not - Chancellor Martok is a staunch supporter of the alliance after Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but this tends to create a lot of tension between segments of the Klingon High Council who still can't get over the fact that the historical conflicts with the Federation have never been resolved by battle, regardless of how worthwhile the alliance has proven. Meanwhile, on the Federation side of things, during the special election for Federation president in 2379, while canny enough to not outright say he wanted to dissolve the Khitomer Accords, candidate Fel Prago still openly made many questions about why the Federation was allied with a species and government who openly engage in campaigns of conquering other races and are constantly seeking a fight with their stellar neighbors such as the Romulans. There are times that the Federation-Klingon alliance seems to persist more because the two sides don't quite want to get caught up in a losing war, as opposed to a genuine desire for peace between the two nations. |
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Where the Bears Are: While the bears always make up when they fight, they are occasionally horrible to each other. Examples include Reggie having jailhouse sex with the serial killer who tried to murder Nelson, and Wood neglecting to tell Nelson that said serial killer had escaped from prison months ago. | |
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Dead Ringers: Queen Elizabeth II is totally willing to sell her own son out to the FBI in exchange for the opportunity to go into the Witness Protection Program. Failing that, she's quite content to sit back and laugh at his self-inflicted misfortune. | |
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On the rare occasion he appears in Dora the Explorer related videos, Boots is usually depicted as a Dirty Coward who throws Dora under the bus whenever it's convenient for him. | |
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Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts: Out of all of Akihisa Yoshii's friends, the only one to treat him with any kind of dignity or respect would be Hideyoshi. The rest just generally treat him like crap, and in Minami's case, beat the ever-loving shit out of him. Is it any wonder Akihisa finds Hideyoshi attractive? | |
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In Noob, Sparadrap considers all his guildmates to be his friends. This can be understandable for his Guild Master and the two later recruits, but Gaea and Omega Zell tend to be quite mean to him. Gaea and Omega Zell, who qualify for both Jerkass and Too Much Alike, are also this to each other and closer to being rivals. | |
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Ari the Gorgon and Tess the Succubus have this dynamic in The Demon Mages, according to the Character Blog. | |
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In Preservation, the hunter leader doesn’t treat his cohorts the best, even stealing the inhaler of the asthmatic one, silently threatening not to give it back and beginning to drown him until he complies to stay and keep searching for Wit. The third hunter just quietly ignores this quarrel, clearly not wanting to get involved. | |
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In The Secret History, Henry and Bunny are thought to be best friends. Henry engineers Bunny's murder in the middle of the book. The rest of the main characters, despite being a near-impenetrable clique of supposed friends, aren't exactly models of love and caring either. Possibly the constant scheming makes it difficult to trust each other... | |
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Rebuild World: Viola, a Knowledge Broker with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, and Carol, a Femme Fatale Action Girl, are supposed to be best friends. Each of them tell some of the other's prospective business partners/victims about the other's disreputable nature. Carol also gives Viola An Offer You Can't Refuse for her information sometimes, and her work as Viola’s bodyguard is quite questionable when it comes to people Carol likes such as Akira and Sheryl (which eventually leads to Viola getting a new bodyguard). | |
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The Ricky Gervais Show: Ricky and Steve constantly ridicule Karl and his crazy ramblings. Still, at times there seems to be a genuine friendship between the three. | |
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Batman: The Joker and The Penguin, believe it or not. Between regularly scheduled betrayal, multiple acts of attempted murder, and verbal and physical abuse (both men seem to really enjoy watching each other suffer), they still insist they're friends. Joker even cried when he thought Penguin had died and worked with Batman to catch the culprit. When he found out Penguin was Faking the Dead he did try to murder him for real, but this being the Joker the Penguin was lucky it was only a token attempt. At times, the role of The Joker has been replaced by The Riddler (not the first time this has happened in a Batman franchise) as best frenemies with Penguin. | |
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It's hard to call Bad Boys (1995) a Buddy Cop film, since Mike and Marcus spend so much time fighting and throwing insults at each other, with few moments of peace and friendship. In Bad Boys II, on the other hand, they're practically Heterosexual Life-Partners. | |
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The Neapolitan Novels: Lila gets Elena into a fair amount of trouble, despite being her best friend. Throwing Elena's doll down into the basement of the house where the dreaded don Achille lives and talking Elena into skipping school specifically so Elena's parents will be mad at Elena (so that, since Lila is denied middle school, Elena will be as well) is only the start. | |
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Lackadaisy: Mordecai kneecapped his partner Viktor on the way out the door when switching from working for Lackadaisy to the Marigold Gang. He refers to this as reasoning with Viktor to retire and seems to view this as looking out for a friend rather than a betrayal. | |
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Red vs. Blue: Most obviously, the Reds and Blues. They spend as much time fighting each other as the "enemy". Whichever Freelancer is currently hanging out with the Reds and Blues. Whether it's Tex with her constant backstabbing, Wash working out his psychoses, or Carolina, the Freelancers are always at least as much trouble as help. Except the ones they're fighting, who are at least as much help as trouble. The Reds and Blues are some of the worst-ranked soldiers humanity hasn't kicked out of their militaries, and the Freelancers are each a One-Man Army. Among the Freelancer organization itself; Carolina, South, and CT all get special mention. Between them, they're abusive, cold, and occasionally shoot teammates in the back or betray them to the enemy out of spite. Maine and Wyoming are willing to frag teammates to stay on the leaderboards. Tex. She gets her own mention. She backstabs her teammates and loved ones, steals from them, physically abuses them, demeans them, uses live rounds and other military hardware on and around them, beats them up in humiliating ways, shows up other Freelancers in personal and demeaning fashions, and steals credit/lays blame on her direct rival whenever possible. |
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Quoted words by words in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney regarding the relationship between Phoenix Wright and Kristoph Gavin, as the former tries to pin the latter for a murder charge while the latter desperately tries to make Phoenix look as bad as possible, although it's briefly mentioned in passing that Kristoph was the only one who defended Phoenix when he lost his badge. In the flashback case, Kristoph is the one who manipulated his friend into losing his career, meaning the bad blood has been maintained over years before Phoenix finally has an opportunity to take revenge. | |
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Roommates: Almost the entire cast, as well as those of and the Spinoffs Girls Next Door and Down the Street, especially Jareth and Erik, who co-exist in a state of open warfare punctuated by occasional bouts of empathizing with each other's relationship drama. | |
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Despite having been Trucy's friend since infancy, Athena Voss(not to be confused with Athena Cykes), willingly testifies that she saw Trucy murder Valant and commit other crimes in #1. | |
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Talia and Brody in Brody's Ghost; the former is pushy, snarky, turns Brody's life completely upside down, lies to him and cruelly manipulates him, and the latter is crusty, often unsympathetic, and constantly bemoaning running into the former. Somehow, they remain friends even at the end of the series. Sort of. | |
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Max Fischer and Herman Blume in Rushmore. There's a reason though. | |
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In the Archie Comics, Archie and Reggie are sometimes described as being friends, but Reggie is very antagonistic towards Archie, verging on bullying. Additionally, Betty and Veronica are close friends, yet are regularly seen fighting, often over Archie himself. Not to mention Big Moose going off like a volcano whenever whenever somebody even accidentally looks at his girlfriend Midge and pounding them into hamburger. Archie even frequently uses the phrase "with friends like these who needs enemies". | |
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Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels: Okay, Jack Emery and Harry Wong have a relationship where they supposedly love each other like brothers, but you might have a hard time believing that! Ted Robinson and Maggie Spritzer are both reporters, which is a dog-eat-dog career, and despite them living together, having sex and all that fine stuff, they have resorted to stealing stuff from each other. Later, Maggie becomes Editor In Chief of the Washington Post and Ted's boss, and she loves to ''boss' him around! Honestly, it's hard to believe those two are on good terms! | |
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Outsider: This is a big part of Alex's reasoning for preferring to join the Loroi over the Umiak. While both sides have done terrible things in the war (with various justifications trotted out), the Umiak treat their "allies" as little better than slaves to feed the war machine. The Loroi do go on about their cultural superiority and their interspecies alliance is clearly weighted in their favor, but at least they treat their allies as people who deserve their own opinions. | |
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8-Bit Theater: The Light Warriors push this trope to the breaking point. Whenever they're not bickering, insulting, swindling, and trying to kill each other, they're... doing the same, only to other people. They have very rare bonding moments, usually in the form of Casual Danger Dialogue. The only exception is Fighter, but only because he's such a Horrible Judge of Character that he doesn't notice his teammates' worser (IE, True) natures. | |
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Fred. He always gives concussions to the rest of Mystery Inc. even for doing things that any sane person would consider harmless. Makes one wonder why they don't just get a restraining order on him. | |
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Why does Nella put up with The Nostalgia Chick's abuse? Because she gets paid, of course. She's not totally innocent, however, as Maven complains that if she forces Nella and Chick to see The Moth Diaries again, they'll put her coffin in the sun just to freak her out. | |
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Exterminatus Now: The main cast are pretty willing to torment each other on the spur of the moment, steal from each other, and generally be terrible to each other. They will work together when under pressure, and only when under pressure. | |
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SuperMarioLogan: Despite all the nice things Mario has done for Black Yoshi, like give him food and shelter and hide him from the police whenever he commits crimes, Black Yoshi treats Mario very poorly. He always begs Mario for money and the latest Call of Duty games when the latter gets released, he is very ungrateful when Mario gives him things he doesn't like (like the (fictional) Call of Duty: Black Ops III Wii U bundle), and he has gotten Mario arrested on several occasions. The few times he does save Mario, it's usually because Mario is the one who pays the bills and lets him live in his house. Despite Mario letting him stay at his house, Shrek tends to treat Mario very poorly, always clogging up his toilet, begging him to buy him more toilet paper and cheesecake, and getting his possessions very dirty at times. |
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Akbar and Jeff from Life in Hell may love each other, but they have quite a few desires to physically destroy each other. | |
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In On the Buses, Jack ruins Stan's chances at having it off with Sally, only to swoop in and take her for himself once she's available. | |
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Peanuts: Lucy's treatment of Charlie Brown is utterly horrible, constantly calling him a "blockhead" and other insults to his (bad) luck, lack of intelligence and plainness, the Running Gag of pulling the football away (which she just won't stop doing even if that means making their team lose at a game in It's Your First Kiss Charlie Brown), blaming him for everything that goes wrong ever and even gloating about his humiliation over discovering he got the worst test grades in the whole school in The Peanuts Movienote as well as driving herself crazy during the period it seems Charlie had the best scores in the whole school, repeatedly saying "there must be some kind of mistake!" and demanding the test to be rechecked(and her one line in the film Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown being the Title Drop's subtitle, "and don't come back!"), but they still consider each other friends and she occasionally tries to help him (in her own way). | |
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Sailor Moon Abridged takes it to the extreme. Serena is constantly picked on for being fat, while Amy can never get a word in and is always being forgotten. Then there's Raye, who is constantly yelling at the others and is the main source of the group's in-fighting. | |
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Hector to Jeremy from Zits. Most times, he isn't very supportive, preferring to be a Deadpan Snarker instead. Not very helpful for Jeremy's self-esteem. Emblematic in this sense, the series of strips in which both guys do an IQ test, and Jeremy scores only 38. All that Hector (who scored 108) can say in response to the depression of a friend, is more or less: "Hey, what should I say, I have an underdeveloped as a friend." For the record, at last Jeremy discovers that the test is not reliable at all: his father did the test too, and he scored a little bit too high, for a guy who doesn't even know how to use a computer. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Lucy is quite critical of Rhoda. And anyone else, for that matter. To a lesser degree, even Diane. | |
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Unsounded: When Prakhuta realizes he's not going to be able to leave with Duane under his control like a pain-filled puppet to help feed his magical superweapon he shouts that the whole affair is Bastion's fault, his friend who he tricked into helping him by framing his genocidal ambitions as a noble revolution to free his people who have been treated worse than slaves, slaughtered and had their homes stolen since humans first discovered their underground cities seventy years ago. | |
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Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name: Doc Worth and Conrad. In the February donation comic Doc says he thinks of the two of them as friends, though Conrad may not see it that way. Their constant yelling and shoving matches might have something to do with that, along with Doc's constant stream of belittling comments. Definitely has Doc Worth and Lamont Toucey. They make a hobby out of beating the everliving shit out of each other (such beatings may end in childish apologies) and insulting each other. They first met when they were kids, and Lamont sneaked into Worth's backyard to get a ball he had thrown too far, and Worth beat him up just for the hell of it. They just started hanging out after that, and they've been best friends ever since. |
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Hulk Hogan: Several of his "friends" have turned on him for various reasons, most notably "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff, André the Giant, and Randy Savage (all because they thought Hogan was too much of a bigshot, was using their friendship to avoid offering a shot at the WWF World Championship, or was behaving inappropriately with his manager). When another of Hogan's "buddies," Tugboat, turned heel, Tugboat (who would rechristen himself Typhoon and join forces with Earthquake, another of Hogan's enemies) made a passing derogatory reference to Hogan, but nothing ever came of it other than a few short encounters in various battle royals. | |
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Lions & Liars: Frederick's initial friends, Joel and Raj, are pretty quick to make fun of him. | |
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Despite all the nice things Mario has done for Black Yoshi, like give him food and shelter and hide him from the police whenever he commits crimes, Black Yoshi treats Mario very poorly. He always begs Mario for money and the latest Call of Duty games when the latter gets released, he is very ungrateful when Mario gives him things he doesn't like (like the (fictional) Call of Duty: Black Ops III Wii U bundle), and he has gotten Mario arrested on several occasions. The few times he does save Mario, it's usually because Mario is the one who pays the bills and lets him live in his house. | |
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Devil in a Blue Dress: Almost all of Easy's friends wind up manipulating and betraying him for their own ends, and in some cases try to murder him outright. The only exception is Mouse, who is genuinely looking out for him, though Easy isn't particularly happy about this since Mouse is a ruthless and unhinged thug whose idea of helping Easy is to murder anyone who crosses him. | |
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In The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, before Rufus's arrival, the only kid Kenny regularly played with was a boy named LJ Jones who kept stealing his plastic dinosaurs. Kenny initially tolerated it because he had no one else to play dinosaurs with, but cut ties with him for good after LJ tricked him into letting him steal half of his entire collection (namely, by telling him they needed to bury the dinosaurs because they were "radioactive" in their game about playing a war between American dinosaurs and Nazi dinosaurs, then going back late at night to dig up the dinosaurs from their mass graves). | |
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Ford and Arthur in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's safe to assume that Arthur is the best friend Ford had during his fifteen years on Earth since Ford chose him to rescue from the Vogons, but they both generally seem to find each other extremely trying. Ford often remarks on how Humans Are Morons and Arthur ascribes several negative qualities to Ford. ("How reliable [is he]?" said Arthur. He gave a hollow laugh. "How shallow is the ocean?" he said. "How cold is the sun?") They bicker almost constantly. Given the least opportunity, they tend to go their separate ways. But somehow they generally tolerate each other; Ford hitchhikes across half the galaxy just to see Arthur in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish and often tries to keep Arthur out of danger, and once they get the bickering out of the way they occasionally manage to hang out quite peaceably. | |
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DSBT InsaniT: Koden says this in the Special Info Episode after Andy and Bill tease him. | |
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The main four of Monica's Gang are friends... and yet each one of them screws up the others pretty often. Monica always forces everyone to do things her way, Jimmy Five can't go on for a full minute without insulting anyone, Smudge is very frustating to talk to due to him constantly missing the point of what he's told, and Maggy always mooches off snacks from her friends. They seemed to have cleared up their acts in recent years, though. | |
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Sherlock Holmes — Holmes takes every opportunity to belittle Watson, sends him off on fact-gathering missions only to tell him he's brought nothing back of any use, tricks him into thinking Holmes is dead for three years, and often uses him as an intellectual punching-bag. Watson, however, remains faithfully devoted. This dynamic is recreated by a number of later mystery authors, notably Agatha Christie's Poirot and his sidekick Hastings. But for all his snarking, Holmes does actually deeply care for him — see ''The Three Garridebs''. He trusts Watson is watching his back and trusts no one else so implicitly. Holmes also appreciates his friend for giving him an insight into how a normal person would interpret a situation. | |
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Namor is also strained friends with the Fantastic Four, in spite of fighting against them countless times. No matter how many times they seem to clash, the Four still come to him if he can help them, and vice-versa. Granted, it's not clear just how much of his willingness to help the group comes from thinking Sue is hot. | |
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In Destroy the Godmodder, the AGs sometimes end up doing more damage to their buddies than the PGs do. | |
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All of the Sidemen with one another, considering they run on the principle of banter. There are many times when this bantering leads to them messing with each other. The entire group is full of ham and kooky personalities and even the Only Sane Men of the group (Tobi and Josh) aren't immune to this. | |
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John Morrison had the nerve to berate R-Truth for his lack of conditioning and supposedly undeserved WWE title shot when part of what got Truth that title shot was beating Morrison, clean. However, R-Truth's reaction to falling for Morrison's attempt to goad him into giving up said title shot ranged into Disproportionate Retribution. | |
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Deadpool: Deadpool's "friends" are usually either maiming, insulting, trying to kill him, trying to arrest him, or just getting away from him. As said by Deadpool himself during Way's run: "There is nobody I hate more than my friends." | |
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Sturgeon's Law: Max is in a one-sided version of this trope. | |
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Inception has Eames and Arthur. One is a chilled-out thief, the other is a slightly stuck-up researcher type. The fangirls loved this. | |
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A large part of Superdickery is taking out-of-context (or just plain bizarre) images to make it look like most of DC's superheroes and supporting casts have it out for each other. The most famous examples are of course Superman being a complete dick to everyone he knows (especially Lois and Jimmy), but Batman, Supergirl, Lois, Jimmy, and even Clark Kent get in on the action. And yes, there are covers where Clark and Superman are dicks to each other. Somehow. | |
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