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* ''Manga/NanaToKaoru'' are {{Tsundere}} and JerkWithAHeartOfGold, respectively.

-->"Ho ho mousey boy, this pretty maid your girlie friend - yes?"

* Piccadilly and Audrey in Creator/RobinJarvis' ''Literature/DeptfordMice'' trilogy. Neither will admit their romantic feelings to the other, and Audrey especially shows hostility toward Piccadilly. [[spoiler:By the time they do confess their love, it is [[StarCrossedLovers too late]].]]

* Piccadilly and Audrey in Creator/RobinJarvis' ''Literature/DeptfordMice'' trilogy. Neither will admit their romantic feelings to the other, and Audrey especially shows hostility toward Piccadilly. By the time they do confess their love, [[spoiler:it is too late, as Piccadilly has died and come back as a ghost.]]

* Oh, boy. Loads of this between Joe Carter and Connie Milligan in ''Film/TheMoreTheMerrier''.

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* Creator/JamesCagney and Joan Blondell in ''Film/BlondeCrazy''.

* [[BadAss Quarterback]] [[MagnificentBastard Hiruma]] [[PapaWolf Youichi]] and [[TeamMom Manager]] [[PetTheDog Mamori]] [[MamaBear Anezaki]] from ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' are [[ShipTease hinted]] to be like this; by the end of the series a lot of their scenes together are more of the AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther kind though.

* ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' (second book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): Kaladin and Shallan begin to develop a touch of this after nearly dying in the chasms, but they both seem to have decided that it's not going anywhere, since Shallan is already engaged to a man she cares for deeply.

** Robb and Talisa show an undeniable attraction to each other even as they argue about the death and destruction his campaign has wrought.

** Jaime's frustrated declaration, "You're a hateful woman. Why have the gods made me love a ''hateful'' woman?!" certainly places his relationship with Cersei in this territory.

* Jon and Ygritte in ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Aside from the fact that he's on the Night's Watch and sworn to defend the rest of Westeros from Wildlings like her, he's also sworn a vow of celibacy - something she doesn't hesitate to needle him on constantly. They're also both fully aware of Jon's unspoken attraction to her, and Ygritte keeps baiting him endlessly.

* ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'': Shinji and Asuka fought and argued several times during the three first chapters. Asuka was angry at the rookie who had arrived, threatened her top pilot position and managed beating her; however she was strongly attracted to him, too. And Shinji did not know what thinking of that beautiful woman that first beams at him and later punches him (or climbs into his bed shortly after declaring that she wants to destroy him). In chapter 4 they began to get along and in chapter 5 they became lovers.

** Most America/England fanworks accurately portray the pairing as this. It helps that both characters have JerkWithAHeartOfGold ''and'' {{Tsundere}} qualities. This was even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the dub with [[EveryoneCanSeeIt France's]] remark, "When you two are done releasing sexual tensions, we have a meeting to finish."
** France/England fanworks are often portrayed as this as well, due to their tendency of taking potshots at each other. This is lampshaded in the dub of [[TheMovie Hetalia: Paint It White]] when an alien machine is describing Britain

** Also for Denmark/Norway with Denmark as the [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold thick-headed but ultimately good-hearted]] BoisterousBruiser and Norway as a mostly stoic DeadpanSnarker who can [[{{Tsundere}} get quite violent]] with his {{Armor Piercing Slap}}s when Denmark is being particularly tactless.

* In the second ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' film, ''everyone'' keeps giving Jack and Elizabeth crap about having the hots for each other. Do they admit it? No way in hell.

This can even be true in established long-term relationships; see LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. If the whole relationship is defined by the belligerence, it can become TheMasochismTango. If a pair of outright enemies has this sort of attraction, it's a case of FoeRomanceSubtext. See also SlapSlapKiss, NoAccountingForTaste, and DefrostingIceQueen. If we're lucky, at the end we may get to see a moment of AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther.

* [[NotThatKindOfDoctor Doctor]] Doppler and Captain Amelia of ''Disney/TreasurePlanet''. In the beginning, they fight like cats and dogs, but by the end of the movie, they've developed a fondness for each other and bicker LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. Heck, they even have four kids together!

* The relationship between Pearl and Lewt in ''Duel in the Sun'' (1946). It ends tragically with them killing each other.

** Sandor Clegane clearly cannot decide whether he is more attracted to Sansa Stark or annoyed by her idealistic outlook on life, so in turns: mocks her, tries to help her survive in the court, threatens to kill her and saves her life. Although the sexual tension is mutual, belligerence comes solely from him, as Sansa tries her best to be polite to him (which he usually finds annoying).

* Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight''.

* Von Mackwitz und Fräulein Eleonore from ''VideoGame/DieReiseInsAll''. They start as an military loving buff and an journalist, who thinkt that military shouldn't influence politics or people at all. In the end, they are married and parents as well.

* Madeleine Urban & Abigail Roux's M/M crime romance series ''[[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5199022-cut-run Cut & Run]]'' gives us FBI [[CowboyCop Special Agents]] [[CrazyAwesome Ty]] [[SemperFi Grady]] and [[PhotographicMemory Zane]] [[FunctionalAddict Garrett]], who bicker LikeAnOldMarriedCouple, engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat, even flat-out brawl at times, and - over the course of the series - risk their lives for one another, all while sexy times ensue.

** The video game of the show, ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets'', shows [[spoiler:That Pacifica and Dipper seem to be falling into this trope as well. When Mabel points out that the two hugged at Northwest Manor, they both immediately deny it ever happening and act disgusted towards one another]].

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Jenny with Giles, at first.
** Buffy and Faith after Faith's FaceHeelTurn.