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15	* Occurs in the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' story "Wish I May...", when EvilNerd Simon Says helps [[TheCape Starbright]] fight crime for 24 hours to prove his sincerity in asking for Starbright's help [[spoiler:to organize Simon's birthday party]].
16	* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': After Fratus Sinister is defeated by Lord Parsifal and has to go on the run, he joins up with the Black Moon to get revenge on both the emperor and on the dragonlords who abandoned him. Wismerhill even uses the trope word-for-word, stating that the enemy of his enemy is his friend.
17	* In the ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck'' comic revival, Steelbeak teams up with Darkwing to stop F.O.W.L. High Command's plan to unleash [[EldritchAbomination Duckthulu]], because EvenEvilHasStandards.
18	* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': One story features the Beagle Boys hosting a family reunion where Beagles from the whole world will pick a rich target in Duckburg to rob. Scrooge [=McDuck=], Flintheart Glomgold[[note]]He's South African but holds enough ventures in Duckburg to be a potential target[[/note]] and John D. Rockerduck set their differences aside to make a mutual defense pact since each one knows how to defeat the Beagle Boys the other billionaires never faced before. After being defeated, [[spoiler:the other Beagle Boys team up with a rival criminal family for another raid at the Money Bin but it lasts less than five minutes because Glomgold and Rockerduck tricked them into thinking each family betrayed the other]].
19	* In the ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' series, when two elf tribes -- the Wolfriders and the newly-introduced Go-Backs -- join forces to wage war against the trolls of King Guttlekraw, the elves form a grudging alliance with the trolls formerly led by the late King Greymung, who have been enslaved by Guttlekraw, even though Greymung's trolls have been the hated enemies of the Wolfriders ever since betraying them back at the start of the storyline. The Go-Backs, meanwhile, would never have thought of teaming up with trolls of any kind, period... But it's probably only because of this uneasy alliance that Guttlekraw's trolls are defeated.
20	* Happens on a massive scale in the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' comic book arc "The War for the Uncharted Territories", when essentially all the factions in the Uncharted Territories have to put aside their rivalries and join forces in order to stand the slightest chance of defending against conquest by the Kkore, which up until then has been defeating everyone in {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s.
21	* Cassie and Film/{{Ch\|ildsPlay}}ucky in ''ComicBook/HackSlash Vs. Chucky''.
22	* ''ComicBook/InvaderZimOni'': Not to the extent of the [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim original cartoon]], but there have been a couple of examples of this:
23	** Issue 12 sees Zim and Dib accidentally slingshotted into a BadFuture where Zim has conquered the world. However, since [[OtherMeAnnoysMe the two Zims don't get along]], the present day one teams up with Dib to defeat Emperor Zim and escape back to the past.
24	** During the Battle Void arc, [[spoiler: Dib teams up with the [[AlternateSelf alternate Zims]] of the [[LaResistance Zim Resistance]] to overthrow [[EvilOverlord Zim Number 1]] and escape the Zimvoid. And when it turns out that "Number 1" is really an insane alternate Dib who might accidentally destroy TheMultiverse, all the loyalist Zims join the team up against him.]]
25	* The ''Three Amigos'' storyline in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' is purely an excuse to team him up with his nemeses, Judge Death and Mean Machine Angel. The creators themselves considered this VillainDecay for Judge Death in particular (who's known mainly for killing everything in sight).
26	* In ''ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangersShatteredGrid'', the threat Lord Drakkon poses to the entire multiverse is so bad that Zordon and Commander Cruger approach Rita Repulsa and her minions for help.
27	* In ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', Paperinik or Pk (WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's superhero alter ego in the comics) is forced to work together with a notorious time pirate known as The Raider early on in order to save a large part of Duckburg from being destroyed. Later on, they actually find themselves in EnemyMine situations so often that they build up a strange kind of friendship. The Pikappa reboot has a full story centered around this, with Donald teaming up with the Evronian Soldier Ekdon to take down a StarfishAlien, which the Evronians once planned to use as a LivingWeapon against the [[SpacePolice Guardians of the Galaxy]], being motivated in the bigger picture against the Imperial Adviser Gorthan (revealed to have been Bitter Rivals with Ekdon, [[KlingonPromotion having gotten rid of him to ascend in the Evronian Hierarchies]]. Lampshaded by the Hero near the end "The best ally is an enemy who has a score to settle with your own adversary".
28	* ''ComicBook/{{Pathfinder\|DynamiteComics}}: Hollow Mountain'' has the Good-to-Neutral-aligned main Characters/PathfinderIconics party, exploring the Thassilonian Runelord ruins in the mountain for the Pathfinder Society, collide with a Neutral-to-Evil party comprised of Seltyiel (Iconic Magus), Damiel (Iconic Alchemist), Meligaster (Iconic Mesmerist), and Oloch (Iconic Warpriest), who are just there to loot the place. The two parties briefly come to blows before Seoni and Seltyiel talk them into working together since they don't have ''exactly'' the same goal. In a further twist, they then get [[PartyScattering Party-Scattered]] into two jumbled groups of both parties after encountering [[TheHeavy Alaznist's Castellan]].
29	-->'''Ezren:''' You can't trust them.\
30	'''Seoni:''' I don't. But we Varisians have a saying: "A road shared is better than a road alone--but a road short-shared is best." We'll part ways as soon as we can. Hollow Mountain is big enough for all of us.
31	* The DC run of ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'' introduced the Micro-Puffs, three sprite avatars of the girls who show up to cause trouble. In "Micro-Managing" (issue #64), the Micro-Puffs brainwash Buttercup and Bubbles into thinking they should be the PPG leader (it doesn't work on Blossom since she's ''already'' the leader). Blossom gets help from Mojo Jojo, who counters with Mini-Micro Puffs who drive the Micro-Puffs absolutely crazy. (Mojo's motive for helping was because he didn't get a Micro-Mojo). It ends with Mojo and Blossom shaking hands in the pulsating hearts panel.
32	** Similarly in the DC finale "Smart and Smarter," Mojo defeats Blossom with Bubbles' and Buttercup's blessings. Blossom became insufferable after being admitted to a school for smart children and wound up alienating her sisters and Mojo in the process. Ends with Mojo shaking hands with Buttercup.
33	* In Volume 2 of ''ComicBook/{{Redman}}'', Redman is forced to team up with Telesdon and Beacon to defeat Birdon. [[spoiler:It ends badly for the latter 2]].
34	* ''ComicBook/RickAndMortyOni'': To defeat Doofus Jerry, Rick is forced to call the aid of the Citadel of Ricks. Unfortunately, this still doesn't work, and Doofus Jerry just defeats ''all'' of them.
35	* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story "The Gambler Smurfs", the Smurfs' constant BigBad Gargamel temporarily aligns himself with them to help save a forest from a count whose love of gambling leads him to turning the entire Smurf Forest into a gambling complex. After the crisis has been averted, Gargamel returns to his desire to capture the Smurfs.
36	* In ''ComicBook/{{Sojourn}}'', Arwyn and Gareth find an unlikely alliance with a dragon against Mordath.
37	* ''Franchise/StarWars''
38	** ''ComicBook/StarWarsCloneWarsAdventures'': In ''Order of the Outcasts'', the Jedi Padawan Joc Sah is attacked by a group of rugged individualists who don't want either the Republic or the Separatists on their (strategically important) planet. The settler militia goes from trying to kill Joc to saving his life when Palpatine issues Order 66. They then join forces to fight off the next waves of arriving clones.
39	--->'''Gaan:''' You've been betrayed. You're one of us now, Jedi, an unwanted outcast. The enemy of your enemy is your friend. We're all you've got now.
40	** ''ComicBook/StarWarsInfinities'', a series of non-canon what-if comics, has an issue specifically the one taking place during the Mortis Arc of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', where, of all people, Yoda and ''Darth Sidious'' (the latter presumably having revealed his Sith identity to Yoda) have to forge a temporary alliance to stop Anakin Skywalker, who became exceptionally powerful via the Dark Side thanks to the Son. The allegiance does them no good, though, as Anakin effortlessly kills them.
41	** ''ComicBook/StarWarsInvasion'': During the battle at Shramar, Admiral Bylsma's distress call results in almost every vessel in the area arriving to defend the planet, resulting in a ragtag fleet of Republic vessels, Imperial vessels, pirates, mercenaries and private ships joining together to oppose the common threat of the Yuuzhan Vong.
42	** ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'' has some examples. In one comic Leia and one single stormtrooper from Alderaan are the only respective survivors of disaster on both sides; the stormtrooper claims to be taking her prisoner but by the time anyone finds them it's not the case anymore.
43	** ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'': The penultimate arc features the Jedi Dass Jennir surviving Order 66 and fighting back against the Empire alongside the Nosuarians, local Separatists he'd recently been at war with. Their interactions have less TeethClenchedTeamwork than most examples of the trope. Dass is genuinely sympathetic to how that particular Separatist planet got ForcedIntoEvil. In the meantime, the Nosaurian leader respects for the Jedi Order and believes Dass's claims that Palpatine is lying about their role in the war.
44	** ''ComicBook/WorldOfFire'': Luke and Leia and a small party of Imperials team up to try and shut off a lethal planetary security system; here, it starts with the Imperials making a threat-offer, but the head of the group soon feels they're trustworthy and starts getting friendly, while one of his men plans to kill them.
45	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
46	** The Freedom Fighters team up with their enemies against a common threat so often that Sonic's started {{lampshad\|eHanging}}ing it. At different points throughout the series, they've teamed up with [[BigBad Robotnik/Eggman]], [[TheStarscream Snively]], their [[EvilTwin Suppression Squad]] counterparts, the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Destructix]], the [[MachineWorship Dark Legion]], [[EvilSorcerer Ixis Naugus]], and Dr. Finitevus. They usually end up getting backstabbed in these situations, to the point that Sonic's started lampshading ''that'' too.
47	** Non-Freedom Fighters examples include as the AntiHero Babylon Rogues teaming up with their rivals the Battle Bird Armada to find their ancestral homeland of Babylon Gardens -- ironically, this puts them in opposition to the Freedom Fighters, as the entrance to the Gardens is apparently in their home of New Mobotropolis.
48	** The [[CosmicRetcon Post-Super Genesis Wave]] reality provides an interesting example in the case of the Midesta Freedom Fighters, and the local Egg Army Boss, Nephthys the Vulture. She's an old friend of theirs, who only joined Eggman for the sake of keeping his oppression to a minimum, with the Fighters going along with it and only putting up a facade of resistance, in order to keep the region stable and not draw too much attention from either side in the grander conflict. Notably, both groups see Sonic as more trouble than anything, as his fight with Eggman just brings the latter's heel down harder on his victims.
49	** A funny example from the comic's early days in issue #23 has the Freedom Fighters, Original Robotnik, and Snively captured by an alien named [[PunnyName Car-heem of Weeet]] so he can study them as representatives of Mobian life. Of course Robotnik offers a temporary alliance to escape, but the Freedom Fighters point out that they don't actually NEED him to escape and that he could only come with them if he agreed to become an official Freedom Fighter. Cue a panel of a teeth clenched Robotnik swearing to "fight for freedom, justice, and good manners and oppose all evil tyrants... especially those with cheap red costumes and pointy heads."
50	--->'''Snively''': Congratulations, sir! Let me be the first to shake your...\
51	'''Robotnik''': Shut up, Snively!
52	** In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsUnite'', heroes and villains of various worlds have to team up and work together to protect their worlds from being destroyed by Sigma.
53	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'':
54	** Issue #25 sees the [[ZombieApocalypse Metal Virus arc]] get hijacked, as the Deadly Six manage to take control of Eggman's resources and the Zombot horde. With no other choice if they want to survive, Eggman teams up with Sonic and the other heroes to steal the Chaos Emeralds back from the Zeti so they can be used to cure the plague. Furthermore, Amy also recruits the Babylon Rogues to help, who only agree out of pragmatism (since if the world gets completely overrun, they'll eventually run out of supplies and be infected too).
55	** In Issue #55, Sonic and Tails are forced to team up with Eggman and Metal Sonic to stop Surge and Kit. The heroes just want to stop their rampage, while Eggman wants back the Dynamo Cage that Surge stole from him, and both sides make it clear that this alliance will end the minute they've won.
56	* ''ComicBook/StarTrekEarlyVoyages'':
57	** In "The Fallen, Part Two", Gabrielle Carlotti is sorely tempted to kill the injured Chakuun Cohort General on Theta Kalyb in revenge for the Chakuun destroying the New Milan colony. However, she can't bring herself to do it. The experience teaches the Cohort General that humans are not as primitive and savage as she believed while Gabrielle learns that the Chakuun attack planets which the Tholians consider part of their territory. When the Cohort General is rescued by her troops, she stops them from killing Gabrielle and calls off the attack on Theta Kalyb.
58	** In "Nemesis", after being attacked by the Temazi, Captain Pike, Spock and Dr. Boyce are forced to cooperate with Commander Kaaj and Virka so that they can all escape the Temazi homeworld. Kaaj's motivation for helping is that [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he will not allow anyone to rob him of the chance of killing Pike.]]
59	* The 'Dogs of War' arc for the ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}'' comic has Lion-O offer one of these to the Mutants and Mumm-Ra when the titular canines invade Third Earth. Of course things go awry when the bad guys betray their allies. [[spoiler: Except they didn't, and it was Jackalman and Ma-Mutt who betrayed both groups to side with the War Dogs. Once freed, both Mumm-Ra and the Mutants are instrumental in taking down the invaders, with Mumm-Ra even opting for BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork when Lion-O tries to reason with the Dogs' Alpha.]]
60	* ''ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2'' has the Autobots and Decepticons team up against Jhiaxus' new Cybertronian empire. The team-up actually gets some of the newly-created 'cons to [[HeelFaceTurn switch sides permanently]].
61	* In IDW's [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries Transformers comics]], the threat of [[TheJuggernaut Thunderwing]] was bad enough for the Autobots and Decepticons to team up to try and stop him. Both times, in fact. And it still barely slows him down.
62	* In ''Franchise/{{Transformers}} Mars Attacks'', the Martians from ''Film/MarsAttacks'' invade Earth, forcing Optimus Prime and Megatron to put aside their differences and deal with the alien menace.
63	* The second ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyTransformersFriendshipInDisguise'' series sees several Autobots, Decepticons and ponies (including both Megatron and Twilight Sparkle) falling under King Sombra's mind control, forcing the remainders to put aside their differences and fight back together. The finale sees [[spoiler:Megatron and Optimus Prime fighting side by side; afterwards they honor the truce and refrain from fighting further... that day, at least.]]
64	--> [[spoiler:'''Megatron''']]: [[spoiler:As an '''old friend''' of mine always says-- "'''Freedom''' is the right of all sentient beings." And today you fought for my freedom. What monster would I be if I didn't assure '''yours?''']]
65	* In ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'', Linea offers to help the heroes in stopping her father, the mad high priest of Issus out to destroy life on the planet. She makes a point that she dislikes the Red Martians, and is only helping them to ensure a future for her people.
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