History WeUsedToBeFriends / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': In ''ComicBook/AquamanNew52'', Aquaman and his brother Orm (Ocean Master) are portrayed as having been very close as teenagers, and when Arthur left the throne, Orm grudgingly took his place. The relationship deteriorated when Orm attacked the surface world in ''ComicBook/ThroneOfAtlantis'', forcing the Justice League into action, thus forcing Arthur to pick a side (he was talking both sides down). Afterwards, once Orm is imprisoned, they still don't particularly hate each other, but it's just the way it has to be.

* This is a major plot thread of ''[[ComicBook/SunnySeries Sunny Rolls the Dice]]''. Deb and Sunny, after still being ChildhoodFriends through the first two books, start to drift apart and onto different friend paths. Deb starts having interest in more "mature" to her things like crushes on boys, fads and fashion, makeup, and teen magazines; meanwhile Sunny, with her love of comic books, still wants to dress up for Halloween (where Deb thinks they're TooOldToTrickOrTreat) and finds fun in playing ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' with her new friends Lev, Brian, and Arun. Deb finds D&D boring; she calls it a game the "boys" play with Regina and drops out later on by saying she's too "old" to play games like that. Sunny briefly tries to go along with Deb and quits D&D to try and hold on to her friendship, but reunites with the others at the awkward middle school dance where she has more fun with them than at the dance proper. The two finally go their separate ways when, instead of saving her money to split a pair of Gloria Vanderbilt jeans with Deb, Sunny buys the D&D fighter figurine she wants and shows Deb, and afterwards she [[ProudToBeAGeek embraces her geeky ways]] and returns to playing D&D.

** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}, for apparently [[WeAreAsMayflies over a hundred years]]. But then Wolvie got Creed's girlfriend killed, taking away his happy ending, and Creed swore to dedicate his life to making sure Logan would never get one of his own.

* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': In the ''ComicBook/New52'', Aquaman and his brother Orm (Ocean Master) are portrayed as having been very close as teenagers, and when Arthur left the throne, Orm grudgingly took his place. The relationship deteriorated when Orm attacked the surface world in ''ComicBook/ThroneOfAtlantis'', forcing the Justice League into action, thus forcing Arthur to pick a side (he was talking both sides down). Afterwards, once Orm is imprisoned, they still don't particularly hate each other, but it's just the way it has to be.

** In ''ComicBook/WarWorld'', Comicbook/MartianManhunter warned Superman that if he took another step closer to a crypt J'onn was tasked with guarding it might mean the end of their friendship. Superman didn’t listen and J'onn attacked him. Later Clark endeavored to retrieve an artifact stolen from that crypt in hopes of being forgiven by J'onn. [[spoiler:His fellow Leaguer eventually did so]].

** In the ''Post-ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' continuity, Supergirl befriended Siobhan "Silver Banshee" Smythe shortly after arriving in Earth. However she broke it off when she thought Siobhan was using her. When they meet again during the events of ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', they fought. Siobhan blamed herself for their friendship's end, but after a while Kara blamed herself for ruining it. In ''ComicBook/{{Crucible}}'', Kara listens to Siobhan's music from afar as regretting their friendship's ending.

* In the ''ComicBook/New52'', ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} and his brother Orm (Ocean Master) are portrayed as having been very close as teenagers, and when Arthur left the throne, Orm grudgingly took his place. The relationship deteriorated when Orm attacked the surface world in ''ComicBook/ThroneOfAtlantis'', forcing the Justice League into action, thus forcing Arthur to pick a side (he was talking both sides down). Afterwards, once Orm is imprisoned, they still don't particularly hate each other, but it's just the way it has to be.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** Depending on the mythos of that universe -- and DependingOnTheWriter -- Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr (Professor X and Magneto, respectively) started out as best friends and bosom buddies, until they broke off because of differing opinions (Charles with the opinion that mutants and humanity are not enemies and Erik believing they are with mutants poised to become the dominant force).
** In at least ''one'' universe, the 'bosom buddies' business caused (or at least helped) both of their respective marriages to break up. This has not helped the people who protest the HoYay between the two ''at all''.
** The Juggernaut and Black Tom Cassidy, thanks to Juggy's HeelFaceTurn.
** Colossus and Magik. Especially after he sacrificed everything (including his humanity and the love of Kitty Pryde) to save her from evil by taking on the power of Juggernaut only to find that she encouraged him to become the Juggernaut because he still loved her and she wanted to show him what it was like being damned so he could understand her. At the end of ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', Peter told Illana, "If I ever see you again, I will kill you." They have since made amends and are back to being a family.
** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}, for apparently [[WeAreAsMayflies over a hundred years]]. But then Wolvie got Creed's girlfriend killed, taking away his happy ending, and Creed swore to dedicate his life to making sure Logan would never get one of his own.

* In ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheRift'', General Old Iron and Lady Tienhai were friends until General Old Iron tried to kill the humans.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Harvey Dent was a friend of Batman and one of the first people of authority to support him, but after an incident which caused his transformation into Two-Face, the two become enemies. Notably, Batman is lighter in his dealings with Dent compared to his other villains.
** Bats and Thomas Elliot/Hush have this going as well. The two were childhood friends, but Tommy's mother would constantly tell him to be more like Bruce, which annoyed him. Eventually, Tommy tried to murder his own parents (his father was abusive) and gain their fortune, but Bruce's dad saved Tommy's mom, which he never quite got over. When Bruce's parents later died, Bruce went around travelling the world and living the life Tommy wanted to live, while Tommy was stuck at home caring for his now frail mother. After his mother tries to cut Tommy off from the fortune, Tommy kills her. He leaves for med school and to travel the world soon after, and when the Riddler eventually tells Tommy that Batman is Bruce Wayne, he tries to ruin his life on a consistent basis.
* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', the Pantheon tries to reason with [[spoiler:Pronto]] this way. They don't quite succeed.
* [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] and [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] in ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', which was basically portrayed as a particularly volatile break-up/divorce. With Steve [[DeathIsCheap coming back from the dead]], their relationship has since improved, not a little because fighting each other tore them both up pretty badly in the first place.
** And again during ''ComicBook/TheAvengersJonathanHickman'', when Steve realises Tony reformed the Illuminati, and then wiped his memory about it. The last arc of the run, ''ComicBook/TimeRunsOut'', involves Steve relentlessly pursuing Tony over everything else, including the imminent end of all existence.
** This has been going on ''long'' before those two events. Back during the ''ComicBook/ArmorWars'', Tony was attempting to get into the Vault to shut down the Guardsmen using his tech. Steve, here operating as The Captain, tried to come between them, but when a Guardsman begins suffocating and Steve goes to help him, Tony stuns Steve so he can disable to the last armor. Tony knows doing that damaged their friendship.
* John Walker, a former Captain America and current [=USAgent=], was once a member of the Bold Urban Commandos alongside Battle Star, Left-Winger and Right-Winger. When the US Government decided to only take John and Battle Star, Left and Right were so furious at this that they opted to reveal John's identity, leading to John's parents getting murdered at the hands of the PoliticallyIncorrectVillain group the Watchdogs. The end result leads to John pummeling the two to a pulp and leaving them to die in a burning oil refinery.

* The eponymous character of ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' and his adopted brother, Loki, of the CainAndAbel variety.
* Subverted in ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' storyline ''ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern'' with Sinestro and Hal Jordan. Hal asks Sinestro if they were ever truly friends. Sinestro responds with, "That's the tragedy of all this. We'll always be friends."
* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'':
** ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'' presents Veronica's and Betty's relationship as this. Veronica and Betty were friends in middle school until Archie came to town. After that Veronica's AlphaBitch personality became directed at Betty. They usually hate each other.
** ''ComicBook/ArchieComics2015'':
*** Josie and Alexandra were childhood friends until middle school, when they drifted apart and Alexandra turned mean. According to Josie, it was because Alexandra was too spoiled and selfish to handle it when Josie made other friends that weren't her--but according to Alexandra, Josie was mainly friends with her because she was rich and "the minute I couldn't buy you some talent you bailed on me like Hollywood after an actress turns thirty."
*** Reggie and Archie, if ''Reggie and Me'' is any indication, were good friends when younger, but a near-drowning incident combined with Betty's suspicion of Reggie led to their friendship souring.
* ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' shows that Batman and Superman used to be very close, enough so that Superman asked Batman to [[spoiler: be his unborn son's godfather.]] Unfortunately, when [[spoiler: the Joker broke him,]] Superman's increasingly-rapid fall down the slippery slope eventually culminated in [[spoiler: Superman breaking Batman's back, ending the World's Finest once and for all.]]
* Franchise/TheFlash III (Wally West) and Reverse-Flash II/Zoom (Hunter Zolomon) used to be friends. Hunter was a police profiler who met Wally when he'd already been the Flash for a few years, and Hunter had a bad knee. Hunter's knee was shot by a B-list Joker knock-off early in his career due to a bad call he made, which caused the death of his father-in-law, Hunter's divorce from his wife Ashley, and his firing from the FBI. Hunter liked Wally because he had a public identity and was an open-book, while Wally liked Hunter because Hunter reminded him of his dead mentor Barry Allen (The Flash II). Eventually, Hunter's spine was damaged by Gorilla Grodd, which Wally blamed himself for. Hunter lost his ability to walk, and asked Wally to use the Cosmic Treadmill to go back in time and stop him from making his bad call with the FBI. Wally refused, citing examples like the villain Professor Zoom (Reverse-Flash I) as to why time travel is dangerous and unpredictable. Hunter says Wally refused because he has never experienced personal tragedy, and later tries to use the treadmill himself which ended up giving him time-based powers which effectively gave him superspeed (though he can't time-travel). With his new powers, Hunter decided that in order to make Wally a better hero, he must give Wally not only a great villain to face (which is why he took up the Reverse-Flash moniker), but also as much tragedy as possible. Hunter never outright tries to kill Wally, since this would defeat the purpose of why he does what he does, and Wally still feels responsible for Hunter's fall from grace.
* ''ComicBook/DruidCity'': Jack and Hunter. In the backstory, Hunter and Jack were colleagues, roommates, and fast friends. After Hunter betrayed Jack's trust to get the jump on submitting a groundbreaking article, all of that changed. In the present storyline, Jack is presented as a rather justified antagonist. The two characters are still willing to talk things out over the course of the series, but the point of each interaction is ultimately one-upmanship.
* In the ''[[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFiendshipIsMagic Fiendship is Magic]]'' tie-in comics based on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Sombra punishes his only childhood friend for what he saw as betrayal by making her home town ''vanish'' while she was away.
* Adam Brashear, the Blue Marvel, and Connor Sims, the Anti-Man, were once war buddies who wound up assigned to the same super-science project, which ended up going wrong and giving them superpowers. However, Connor's powers ended up driving him insane, which eventually resulted in the death of Adam's wife Candace. [[ComicBook/TheUltimates2015 When they meet again]], the normally good-natured Adam is furious at seeing him, even though Connor can't remember what happened.
* In ''ComicBook/SwordquestRealworld'', Peter and Alvin were best friends growing up, and almost became more than friends, but it was the 1980's and Alvin chose to become an ArmoredClosetGay instead. Peter never forgave him for this, especially not after Alvin ended up publicly coming out of the closet years later in a cynical attempt to avoid getting kicked off of a reality TV show.
* In IDW's ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics, BigBad Megatron [[FromNobodyToNightmare started out as a miner]], working alongside Impactor, who would later join the Autobots. At one point Impactor manages to buy himself an extension to his life by telling a marauding Megatron "Not more of your poetry," causing Megatron to back down rather than kill his old friend.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': As seen in ''Endless Nights'' (which is set a long time before the main events), Dream and Desire of all people used to be quite close, with Dream referring to Desire as his favorite sibling. Then Desire meddled with one of Dream's love affairs, and it messed up their relationship ever since.
* ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'': Mortimer and Sushil were best friends since childhood. By the time Mortimer returned to India from his studies, Sushil had changed greatly and joined an Indian extremist group, having grown to consider Mortimer his enemy, but the feeling is one-sided as Mortimer still sees Sushil as his friend.
* In ''[[ComicBook/EmmieAndFriends Remarkably Ruby]]'': Ruby and Mia, the two narrators, used to be close friends but as Mia became popular and made new friends, she started to push Ruby away from her--especially after Ruby started middle school behind her and her awkwardness kept embarassing Mia. [[spoiler:It's also hard on Ruby--and their parents--because the two are sisters.]]
* ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'' gives us Skinner Sweet and Jim Book. They were raised together after Jim's parents took the orphaned Skinner in and went on to serve together in the U.S. Cavalry. Later, though, Skinner became a psychotically evil outlaw and Jim became a lawman. [[spoiler: After Skinner rises from twenty-five years entombed, he makes a point of making Jim an American Vampire like himself. And even years after Jim's death, Skinner [[WorthyOpponent respects him,]] telling an actor playing Book's role in a Wild West show: "You ain't fit to wear Jim Book's name!"]]
* ''ComicBook/KaZar'': Ka-Zar had this relationship with Sauron's alter ego Karl Lykos, back before the latter had surrendered completely to the Sauron identity.

** Zigzagged in ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade''. Linda and Lena are friends. When Lena finds out that Linda is Supergirl, she breaks their friendship off and tries to kill Linda. Then she loses her memories and they are friends again. Then she gets them back and goes back to want to kill Linda. At the end, she lets her hatred go. On Linda's side, though, she never stops from considering Lena her friend.

--->'''Captain Marvel:''' Sorry about this, Superman! We were friends once-- but not any more!

--->'''Lena Thorul:''' Now I know the secret you've been keeping from me-- that Lex Luthor, one of the world's most monstrous criminals... is my brother! We were friends... I trusted you... But you betrayed me! Now get out of my sight, Supergirl... GET OUT!

*** Josie and Alexandra were childhood friends until middle school, when they drifted apart and Alexandra turned mean. According to Josie, it was because Alexandra was too spoiled and selfish to handle it when Josie made other friends that wasn't her — but according to Alexandra, Josie was mainly friends with her because she was rich and "the minute I couldn't buy you some talent you bailed on me like Hollywood after an actress turns thirty."

* In the ''ComicBook/New52'', ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} and his brother Orm (Ocean Master) are portrayed as having been very close as teenagers, and when Arthur left the throne, Orm begrudgingly took his place. The relationship deteriorated when Orm attacked the surface world in ''ComicBook/ThroneOfAtlantis'', forcing the Justice League into action, thus forcing Arthur to pick a side (he was talking both sides down). Afterwards, once Orm is imprisoned, they still don't particularly hate each other, but it's just the way it has to be.

* [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] and [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] in ''Comicbook/CivilWar'', which was basically portrayed as a particularly volatile break-up/divorce. With Steve [[DeathIsCheap coming back from the dead]], their relationship has since improved, not a little because fighting each other tore them both up pretty badly in the first place.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

* ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'' gives us Skinner Sweet and Jim Book. They were raised together after Jim's parents took the orphaned Skinner in and went on to serve together in the U.S. Cavalry. Later, though, Skinner became a psychotically evil outlaw and Jim became a lawman. [[spoiler: After Skinner rises from twenty-five years entombed, he makes a point of making Jim an American Vampire like himself. And even years after Jim's death, Skinner [[WorthyOpponent respects him,]] telling an actor playing Book's role in a Wild West show: "You ain't fit to wear Jim Book's name!"]]

* ''[[ComicBook/AmericanVampire]]'' gives us Skinner Sweet and Jim Book. They were raised together after Jim's parents took the orphaned Skinner in and went on to serve together in the U.S. Cavalry. Later, though, Skinner became a psychotically evil outlaw and Jim became a lawman. [[spoiler: After Skinner rises from twenty-five years entombed, he makes a point of making Jim an American Vampire like himself. And even years after Jim's death, Skinner [[WorthyOpponent respects him,]] telling an actor playing Book's role in a Wild West show: "You ain't fit to wear Jim Book's name!"]]

* In ''[[ComicBook/EmmieAndFriends Remarkably Ruby]]'': Ruby and Mia, the two narrators, used to be close friends but as Mia became popular and made new friends, she started to push Ruby away from her--especially after Ruby started middle school behind her and her awkwardness kept embarassing Mia. [[spoiler:It's also hard on Ruby--and their parents--because the two are sisters.]]