History VitriolicBestBuds / WesternAnimation

* The Trix can be nasty and competitive towards each other, sometimes even hurting each other's feelings, but, at the end of the day, they still see themselves as a Coven and sisters (even if not blood-related). When they disagree, they still follow each other and, if they leave, they leave together. With an exception with Tritannus, but Icy makes it up for Darcy and Stormy afterward.

** Chet and Lorenzo. They are step brothers who happen to become family by the marriage of their parents but they hated each other guts and constantly had bickers spats with each other while calling each other immature names. They got better at being friends after eventually realizing that they both had more in common with each other than they previously thought.

* Buck Tuddrussel and Larry from ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad''. Larry frequently is very kind to Tuddrussel with his actions (much less with his words), cooking him meals, cleaning his weapons, sewing clothes for him and, according to Otto, disinfecting his underwear. Tuddrussel usually shows no gratitude whatsoever -- in one episode, after exclaiming that "since Larry cooked us such a tasty dinner, I'll now amuse him with some anecdotes" takes out a diary he stole from Larry's room. However, Larry isn't blindly devoted to Tuddrussel whatever venom he spits at him; they regularly participate in old-married-couple-like quarrels, mainly throwing insults at each other, though sometimes Larry complains about being overworked and underappreciated. Usually Tuddrussel will reply [[GetBackInTheCloset telling him that he's just a robot and he's supposed to do what robots do.]] Larry then goes on about how he can't believe he is just a robot to Tuddrussel, and how [[DidYouThinkICantFeel he has dreams, needs and feelings too.]] But they have moments of AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther (usually then spoiled by Tuddrussel, but not always) and blatant HomoeroticSubtext.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': Scratch, the eponymous ghost, accidentally binds himself to optimistic middle-schooler Molly [=McGee=] with a curse to follow her to the end of her days unless she leaves the house Scratch was haunting. Molly immediately declares Scratch her new best friend, and despite Scratch's best efforts he starts to grow attached to Molly.

* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Samy is Lucius' YesMan whom he [[ButtMonkey treats like garbage]]. However, Lucius states in "Best Bud Battle" that Samy is his best friend. Though he seems [[CardCarryingVillain to bemoan even having friends]]. This may be based in a technicality, since Samy is also Lucius' ''only'' friend (or at least the closest thing to one).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': [[[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Francine and Muffy]]. Despite being best friends, they bicker frequently and have many {{Feud Episode}}s between them.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': Zeb, Ezra, and Chopper. Though all three pretty much constantly bicker and rib each other (usually involving two ganging up on the third) they have each other's backs when it really counts. Zeb even develops BigBrotherInstinct for Ezra, in a "the only one allowed to mess with you" way.

* Vinnie Dakota and Balthazar Cavendish from ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw,'' also a classic SlobsVsSnobs OddCouple. Cavendish is frequently condescending toward Dakota, who is [[HiddenDepths actually]] [[BrilliantButLazy the more competent member of the team]] and gets a huge kick out of needling him, but [[spoiler:has broken the rules to save Cavendish's life hundreds of times [[CloningBlues at enormous cost to himself]] and [[WhatYouAreInTheDark without ever telling him]], for no other reason than that "[[HeterosexualLifePartners he's Cavendish; what're ya gonna do?]]"]] For his part, Cavendish respects Dakota far more than he lets on.

** Notably, [[TalkingToHimself both characters are voiced by]] Creator/ScottMcNeil.

** The show has quite a few including ComicBook/BlackCanary and ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, Hawkgirl and Franchise/WonderWoman, and [[SmugSuper the Flash]] and... anyone. As Hawkgirl described her relationship, "We're like oil and vinegar. We go together, but we don't mix."

* Tom of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' has this relationship with Butch. And sometimes with Jerry. The 1975 H-B reboot started this way and eventually made them HeterosexualLifePartners.
** DependingOnTheWriter Tom and Jerry themselves can be this. Some shorts portray Tom as genuinely wanting to certainly kill and possibly eat Jerry, and/or Jerry as wishing to inflict as much sadistic torment upon Tom as possible, but just as many have them mutually enjoy their feuds and willing to [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou go out of their way to rescue their counterpart from any scrapes]]. Of course, even when this tropes ''is'' in play, ''other'' cats are still usually fair game to Jerry, and other small, cute animals for Tom. These rules hold pretty much entirely constant bar intentional Subversions where the whole gag is based on the out-of-character nature of the act.