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* Roxy and a rhyming biker called Poet in the ''Superboy'' comic.

* In the ''CowboyBebop'' episode [[TheRollingStones "Sympathy for the Devil"]], Jet yells "Hey fatty!" at a fat man in the bar. It seems like he is trying to distract him or start a fight, but it turns out they're old friends and "fatty" is an affectionate nickname.

* In the opening sequence of ''Different for Girls'', two schoolboys — one athletic, one sensitive — are stigmatized by their classmates because they seem to like each other a little bit ''too'' much. They go their separate ways. A few years later, the athlete (now a young man) meets an attractive young woman who turns out to be his sensitive schoolboy friend, after a sex-change. Romance ensues.

* Ued in the ''StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' novel ''[[TheThrawnTrilogy Heir to the Empire]]'' with Chewbacca and an old pal.

* Happens in ''{{Braveheart}}'' where the audience believes William Wallace and the big Scottish guy are old enemies when they're actually best friends.
** A bigger version happens when the Scottish and the Irish army charge at each other. When it seems that they would gut each other, they stop right at each faces and start hugging and shake hands and later join forces together against the English army. Too bad they lost the battle.

* In ''[[Film/LordOfTheRings the Fellowship of the Ring]]'', Aragorn was hurrying to find a herb to heal Frodo that he didn't notice that someone had snuck behind him and held a blade to his throat. Said person happened to be his lover Arwen.

** Not to mention the pilot episode. We have a scene of two little boys escaping a burning house and their mother dying, cut to 22 years later. The younger of the boys (now an adult) and his girlfriend have some exposition conversation, go to a party, go home, and that night, he hears a noise downstairs. He goes down, gets into a fight with the intruder, who, after wrestling him for a few minutes, starts making snide remarks, revealing himself to be the older brother. Somewhat subverted in that Sam didn't know it was Dean at first.

* In Thane's loyalty mission in MassEffect2, the player encounters a character named Mouse, who, as the conversation plays out, is revealed to have been raised by Thane
** Not precisely. Mouse was an orphan that Thane knew from his days as an assassin, not someone that he'd raised. And while they'd once been friends, their relationship had long since cooled.

* In Thane's loyalty mission in MassEffect2, the player encounters a character named Mouse, who, as the conversation plays out, is revealed to have been raised by Thane

* Maverick and the Indian chief in the 1990s movie ''{{Maverick}}''.
** Also in the ''Maverick'' movie: Maverick pulls a gun on a bank manager, causing an employee to think that the bank's being robbed. Maverick and the manager then reveal that they're really friends.

* Between the initial pranks, the insults, the food-stealing and the general snarkiness, an unfamiliar viewer would think ''{{House}}'' was Wilson's office bully, not his "best-friend", thus using this trope on [[OnceAnEpisode a weekly basis]].

* In ''{{Torchwood}}'', between Captain Jack and Captain John. They walk towards each other with severe expressions, like they're about to start fighting - then they start making out. Then, they do start fighting each other, so it may be a subversion... Then again, after that, they start catching up about life since the Time Agency...

* In ''Ocean's Eleven'' (the remake), Danny Ocean turns out to be old friends with [[spoiler: the [[GentleGiant huge bruiser]] the villain hires to beat him up]]
* Happens in ''Braveheart'' where the audience believes William Wallace and the big Scottish guy are old enemies when they're actually best friends.

** What about his ''father'' being revealed!?

* Such scene Between Haddock and Chester freaks out {{Tintin}} in ''The Shooting Star''.

** After this revelation, another character wonders aloud about [[{{Heavyworlder}} Hoffmanite]] courtship, and is told that it starts with high explosives...

* In Episode 5 of ''{{Leonardo}}'' "The Lightning Box", Mac arrives at his home to find someone waiting for him.

* In Episode 5 of ''{{Leonardo}}'' "The Lightning Box". Mac arrives at his home to find someone waiting for him.

* Something like this happens in ''TeenTitans.'' When the Titans go to Starfire's birthplace, she immediately gets into a shouting match with a huge, haggard, tough-looking guard. With the rest of the Titans on their guard, the huge guard starts tickling Starfire, and the two embrace. Turns out he was her nanny.

* Kinda what happens between Subaru and Ginga in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha StrikerS'' (episode 15): Nanoha orders Ginga to spar with Subaru, who immediately gets a strange expression on her face. The two begin the mock battle and at some point, it starts looking so real, the observers begin to wonder if there's TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry going on under their usual friendly facade... but then, they both smile and Caro comments that in reality, they love each other very much. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Awwww...]]

** It's also used in the ''StarWars'' novel ''[[TheThrawnTrilogy Heir to the Empire]]'' with Chewbacca and an old pal.

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** A bigger version happens when the Scottish and the Irish army charge at each other. When it seems that they would gut each other, they stop right at each faces and start hugging and shake hands and later join forces together against the English army. To bad they lost the battle.

A good way to add some fake conflict on otherwise boring conversation scenes and to prepare hilarious pranks.

* In ''{{Preacher}}'', this happens between Cassidy and Si in the first book. [[spoiler:Si turns out to be the [[SerialKiller Reaver Cleaver]] and tries to kill them all... SoYeah.]]