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9->''"In normal times, evil would be fought by good. But in times like these, well, it should be fought by another kind of evil."''
10-->-- '''Aereon''', ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick2004''
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12The wicked versus the loathsome. As in, sometimes, everyone just needs a break from heroes. It can get a bit repetitive to have every protagonist be a [[LightIsGood white-as-snow]] [[IncorruptiblePurePureness goody-two shoes]] [[TheHero hero]]. A refreshing dose of moral ambiguity can do just the trick. When you're tired of watching heroes be heroic, watching a VillainProtagonist be villainous can be a nice change of pace.
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14However, there's a problem with this. Heroes are very popular because people take a liking to their benevolent acts. This is probably because people are, to some small extent, [[RousseauWasRight basically good]]; they like watching other people be happy, succeed against all odds, and so forth. [[HumansAreBastards At least most of the time anyways]]. The reason villains lose much of the time is because they do things that make the audience unhappy. Watching [[TheBadGuyWins a villain defeat the heroes]] and [[DownerEnding plunge the world into darkness and suffering]] might be refreshing at first, but it leaves a bad taste in their mouth.
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16The solution to this is to pit the VillainProtagonist against the VillainAntagonist. Someone so rotten that no matter how low you go on the KarmaMeter, you'll ''still'' want to go after them and carry out justice. That way, the character(s) can ''be'' evil while ''doing'' good. It's the best of both worlds. You don't have to do really rotten things like [[KickTheDog kicking puppies]], you can kick [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot fire-breathing demon puppies]] instead. It's kind of hard to TakeOverTheWorld when another EvilOverlord is already ruling it, [[EvilVersusOblivion or]] wants [[OmnicidalManiac to destroy it]]. It also wouldn't do to allow some other villain to kill your heroic archenemy before [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou you can score that triumph for yourself]]. For a GentlemanThief who wants the best loot, what better target than other thieves? TheStarscream has to have ''someone'' to overthrow, right? Or if everyone's a Starscream, then there has to be a DeckOfWildCards, right? And even the most vicious KnightTemplar is right once in a while, or at least goes up against the CardCarryingVillain. And if both bad guys are bad enough, having them killing each other is a victory for everyone!
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18Note that if a work's ''primary conflict'' is about Evil Versus Evil, then there is a serious risk of TooBleakStoppedCaring. If the viewers/players/readers cannot support any faction, they may simply not care. This may be averted by [[ALighterShadeOfBlack making one of the sides more sympathetic]], a villain with [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]], or at least some [[LikableVillain likable]] trait to endear them to the audience.
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20Of course, if they gain too many good traits, then the trope shifts into BlackAndGrayMorality which is a different trope.
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22See also EvenEvilHasStandards and BlackAndGrayMorality. Contrast GoodVersusGood. Also contrast EnemyCivilWar, EvilerThanThou, and TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil, which are about antagonists battling other antagonists. This trope is the opposite of a VillainTeamUp. Has a SubTrope in EvilVersusOblivion, where one side is world-destroying bad. One of the villains may be more sympathetic than the other, in which case it is ALighterShadeOfGray, or if one of the villains is far more sympathetic to the point of being capable of redemption, they become a SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain duo if the other stays completely and unambiguously evil.
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28[[index]]
29* EvilVersusEvil/AnimeAndManga
30* EvilVersusEvil/ComicBooks
31* [[EvilVersusEvil/LiveActionFilms Films – Live-Action]]
32* EvilVersusEvil/{{Literature}}
33* EvilVersusEvil/LiveActionTV
34* EvilVersusEvil/TabletopGames
35* EvilVersusEvil/VideoGames
36* EvilVersusEvil/WesternAnimation
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44* Comedian Juston McKinney mused about a hypothetical ride between a SerialKiller picking up a [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]]. Both keep trying to psych each other out over who should be the victim then GilliganCut to a police station where one of them files a report.
45-->[[spoiler:'''Serial Killer:''']] Yeah, I'd like to report a rape.\
46'''Police Officer:''' Do you know who did it?\
47[[spoiler:'''Serial Killer:''']] Yeah, he's right here. ''(puts a dufflebag full of remains on the desk)''
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51* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', [[https://web.archive.org/web/20081231021346/http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1999-02-07/ Mordac the Preventer vs. Catbert]].
52* ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'''s ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'', in all its various incarnations. Except for their arbitrarily assigned color scheme, the two sides are identical, committing the same horrible (if hilarious) atrocities on each other. (Which was creator Antonio Prohias's whole point.)
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56* Fan-made alternate timeline of ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'' setting, the "1005 Timeline" was kicked off by a "War on All Sides". And running on Mystara's GreyAndGrayMorality, it had a number of those.
57** One of the main conflicts has Empire of Thyatis (FantasyCounterpartCulture to UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire with all bad things that implies) and xenophobic, widely despised [[TheMagocracy Principalities of Glantri]] join forces against Alphatian Empire, which manages to pull an EvilerThanThou on both of them.
58** The other conflict involved almost everyone else joining forces against Hosadus, Master of Hule (counterpart to 80's UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}). Most unambiguously evil factions joined the Master, except for [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Von Hendricks]] who threw Master's [[WeCanRuleTogether offer]] [[ICanRuleAlone in his face]]. Master responded by sending a chunk of his army to sack Von Hendricks barony, only to find it well-defended. Meanwhile [[TheHorde Thar's Legion]] joined Hule and left its homelands defenseless, leading to them being taken over by [[OurElvesAreDifferent Shadow Elves]]. Finally, TheCavalry that saves the day is lead by UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan expy.
59** Future conflicts detailed by the author also have a lot of this. Thyatis new conquests put them in direct competition with [[ChurchMilitant Heldanic Knights]] and the next best place for them to try to conquer has not one but two evil {{Mayincatec}} hordes eager for a fight. The former king of Shadow Elves (possibly one truly 100% evil among them) has set off to retake the ancient city of his people, now filled to the brim with Orcs. Meanwhile, emboldened by his victory, the abovementioned Genghis Khan expy will conquer Elven nation of Wendar and eye as his next conquest Wendar's mortal enemy, [[{{Mordor}} Denagoth]], a realm full of monsters, ruled by the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Shadow]][[EvilOverlord lord]]. Finally, two trade powers of the setting will jump each other throats in a secret war for profits.
60* In ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'', [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia All For One]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse Emperor Belos]] once had a confrontation a decade before the story began, that nearly ruined the latter's FinalSolution plans as the former raised hell in the Boiling Isles.
61* ''Fanfic/AllMixedUp'': Mariana Mag doesn't just go after the townspeople of Toronto -- she goes after the villains in Precinct 13579's RoguesGallery as well. What's more, they're well aware of her presence and treat her as a new villain, but the last thing they expected was for her to attack ''them'' instead of Odd Squad (although she does attack Precinct 13579's agents later on).
62* ''Fanfic/AlternateTailSeries'': Moreau Garten, a member of a clan that has been putting numerous letter mages into a coma on their hunt for a powerful artifact, targets the warden/guild master of the Chained Ego guild and lets loose its prisoners, which include former enemies of Fairy Tail, to overwhelm the guards, Magic Council, and Fairy Tail wizards there. However, because everyone is still trapped in the perimeter of the prisoner by a rune wall set by Moreau's men, the former prisoners target him in hopes of escaping.
63* ''Fanfic/{{Antipodes}}'': The 10,000-year-old dragon Tantalus (who ultimately wants to destroy the world) versus the similarly old unicorn Rubidum (who is a power-mad tyrant). [[spoiler:Tantalus wins this one, thanks to Rubidium's stupidity.]]
64* This happens ''a lot'' in ''Fanfic/TheBridgeMLP'', arguably even more often than traditional Hero/Heroine vs. Villain(ess) duels. Most times its between two villains who are on different levels of BlackAndGrayMorality, with the more Gray moral characters going up against those closer to Black moral ones; or it can occur between two villains that have conflicting interests, such as the fight between the BigBad [[spoiler:Bagan]] and OutsideContextProblem [[Literature/NESGodzillaCreepypasta Shadow of Red]]. One story arc in the human realm relies on [[AntiVillain Monster X]] and the [[MindControlMusic Sirens]] being the realm's best defense against [[EldritchAbomination Enjin]]. Kaizer Ghidorah makes it clear that although he hates Grand King Ghidorah and wants to kill him, he's not a good guy either as he hates everybody else and will kill them for being there. [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis theorizes this will be the case with her EvilMentor [[GodOfEvil Grogar]] and Bagan should she succeed in fully restoring him, supporting Grogar. Legion's reaction to Grogar's power implies [[PhysicalGod Grogar is one of the few capable of taking on Bagan one on one]] and thus having any chance of doing so. [[FutureBadass Flurry Heart's]] BadFuture implies the end result of this would be ''devastating'' for ''everyone''.]]
65* Supervillains duking it out with each other is a common occurrence in ''Fanfic/CListers''. Firefly in particular is prone to getting other villains gunning for him, though he's tough enough himself that he generally comes out of it unscathed.
66* The premise of ''Fanfic/TheCadanceverse'' is that ''both'' Celestia and Luna were corrupted (becoming Burning Sun and Nightmare Moon, respectfully) and eventually waged war on each other, forcing Cadance to seal them both away. They eventually get loose in the present (in the first fic of the series) and go right back to fighting each other for dominance. Though, once they realize that the Musical 6 are on the verge of retrieving the Elements of Harmony to use on them, they briefly team up to destroy them [[spoiler:(they both lose)]].
67* ''Fanfic/CharlesMansonVsTheTeletubbies'': The main parties are a serial murderer (Charles Manson) and four {{Eldritch Abomination}}s (The Teletubbies) with RedBaron titles as a testament to their powers.
68* ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauNotJustPonies'' is a FixFic to ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'' as a whole, reimagining it as something far less polarizing and more viable for expansion. As a result of this is the HLF and PER, being more or less unchanged from their canonical selves, are both [[KnightTemplar extremist lunatics]] who completely misunderstand the situation (ponification is a genuine last resort to save humanity from what amounts to a natural disaster as well as a joint effort between humanity and Equestria and doesn't cause a DeathOfPersonality), and are naturally violently opposed to one another, with innocent people and ponies caught in the crossfire. Even their less extreme aspects, such as peaceful protesters, can't stand one another.
69* ''The Council Era'', a fanfic created through the cooperation of several writers on the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' Fanon Wikia (not Fan Fiction wikia) has an Evil Versus Evil plotline within the GreyAndGrayMorality of the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe. On one side is the LawfulEvil, morally-corrupt equivalent of a galactic United Nations, The Council, and [[TheStarscream their advisor Tyrin Lieph]]. On the other is a ruthless NeutralEvil species [[TheStarscream led by another Starscream, Halak Marr]], whose primary goal is becoming a MasterRace.
70* ''Fanfic/TheDarkNeverConsumesAllForTheLightRemainsWithinItsCore'' offers two cases:
71** At the start, there's [[AlphaBitch Lila]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing Rossi]] versus [[AdaptationalJerkass Lloyd Garmadon]], both of whom have their respective schools under their control.
72** Then there's Lord Garmadon against Hawkmoth, which was mild and practically non-existent [[spoiler:until the latter akumatized Ross Red and accidentally framed Gerda for his crimes]].
73* In ''Fanfic/DefendersOfTheUniverse'', the Galra Empire is at odds with the Diamond Authority. Both sides are genocidal conquerors who could care less about the lives of others and the civilizations they've ruined, and they frequently kill each other when they encounter, with Gem soldiers invading Galra occupied worlds and Galra wiping out Homeworld colonies.
74* ''Fanfic/ADevilAmongstWorms'': While [[Literature/{{Worm}} the Simurgh]] opposes [[Manga/ChainsawMan Makima's]] plans to gain control and create a WorldOfSilence, it does this purely so that it continues to sow conflict and suffering among humanity and ensure it has access to fresh streams of information.
75* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': The world has [[ADungeonIsYou Keepers]] working for the [[GodOfEvil Dark Gods]] constantly trying to one-up each other and seize their riches and land. This only gets worse when [[DarkIsNotEvil Keeper]] [[Manga/SailorMoon Mercury]] becomes a powerful and influential player, since her goal is to exclusively destroy the Dark Gods and their minions.
76* ''Fanfic/TheEquestrianWindMage'': The true villains of the story, [[ReligionOfEvil the Church of Majora]], engineer Ganondorf's resurrection in Equestria rather than Hyrule so that a) his presence in Hyrule won't interfere with their plans, and b) hopefully Vaati and the Mane Six will eliminate him for them. Somewhat downplayed, in that neither the heroes nor Ganondorf himself are aware of the involvement of Majora's minions.
77* A match up that nearly every ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fanfic writer dreams of is [[ArchEnemy Vlad Plasmius]] vs [[EvilMeScaresMe Dark Danny]], seen in stories such as the ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'', where Dark Danny usually comes out the winner due to being EvilerThanThou.
78* ''Fanfic/FallenKing'' has Maximillion Pegasus versus Yami Bakura; it works out much better for Pegasus than in ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' canon, as he forces Bakura to retreat.
79* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/26658298/chapters/65013415 A Far Cry from Home]]'' is a series of one-shot drabbles featuring interactions between characters from different ''Franchise/FarCry'' games. In the first chapter, [[VideoGame/FarCry4 Pagan Min]], the [[TheCaligula tyrant ruler of Kyrat]], goes to [[VideoGame/FarCry5 Hope County, Montana]] to confront [[{{Cult}} the Project at Eden's Gate]], who have taken Ajay Ghale captive. [[note]] Ajay is the son of Ishwari Ghale, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Pagan's former lover]].[[/note]] [[FemmeFatale Faith Seed]] is sent to seduce Pagan into joining the Project instead, by drugging him with [[LotusEaterMachine Bliss]] to make him see her as Ishwari. Faith initially appears to be succeeding, but then [[ImposterForgotOneDetail she mistakenly addresses Pagan as "my darling"]], instead of [[ExactWords "my love"]], as Ishwari always called him. Needless to say, Pagan promptly goes into TranquilFury and gives Ms. Seed a NeckSnap. [[note]] This drabble was written as a TakeThat to a piece of fan-art reposted by Greg Bryk on Twitter showing [[SinisterMinister Joseph Seed]], the BigBad of ''Far Cry 5'', having converted Pagan to his cause along with [[RuthlessModernPirates Vaas Montenegro]], the MascotVillain of ''VideoGame/FarCry3''. The writer felt that Vaas and Pagan would be more likely to engage in Evil Versus Evil with Seed than do a VillainTeamUp because Vaas has already experienced a malicious cultist like Seed [[spoiler:in his sister Citra]], and Pagan A) has taken enough drugs that [[NoSell the Bliss would not effect him]], B) is a '''king''' and doesn't take orders from anyone else, and C) would not want to work with Joseph Seed [[OffingTheOffspring after learning he killed his daughter]], [[spoiler:since Ajay's father did the same thing to Pagan and Ishwari's daughter Lakshmana]].]][[/note]]
80* In the third installment of ''Fanfic/GintamaChromaticChronicles'', we have [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Takasugi Shinsuke]] vs. [[Fanfic/MyImmortal Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way]]. [[spoiler:The former wins, simply by ''being more evil than'' the latter. MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.]]
81* ''Fanfic/TheGodOfDestructionComesToRemnant'': The White Fang are a group of Faunus who want Faunus superiority so they attack humans and Faunus who sympathize with them, often trying to kill them. They are contrasted by the Red Suns, a group of humans who want human superiority so they attack Faunus and humans who sympathize with them, often trying to enslave them. Though so far, the groups haven't met, they mention hating each other for obvious reasons.
82* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1114057 God of the New World]]'' [[Manga/DeathNote Light, Mikami]], and [[TokenGoodTeammate Matsuda]] struggle to survive in [[Series/DoctorWho "Harold Saxon's"]] world.
83* The third film in the ''Film/GodzillaMMD'', ''Planet Eating Wings'', features [[SmugSuper Godzilla Earth]] vs [[PlanetEater King Ghidorah]]. [[spoiler:King Ghidorah wins before Mothra [[EnemyMine empowers Godzilla]] enough to defeat him.]]
84* ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'':
85** When Nerissa decides that Daolon Wong's scheming is making him a threat to her own plans, she decides to kill him, leading to a WizardDuel between them. This fight ends in a draw, as she withdraws when she realizes that he's stronger than she thought.
86** Tarakudo forcibly puts Oni masks on Jackie and Viper, which begin [[TheCorruption corrupting them]] in different ways (turning her into a CardCarryingVillain and him into a WellIntentionedExtremist). This leads to them fighting each other [[MeleeATrois at the same time they're fighting the Guardians]].
87** Wong spends a large amount of time [[TheStarscream plotting against Phobos]], ultimately culminating in an attempted coup that sees the two face off in a WizardDuel.
88* In ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'' Draco believes (along most Slytherins, apparently) that Dumbledore was the Greater Evil and that Voldemort and his Death Eaters, though bad, were the only people with a chance to stand up to him.
89* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePowerOfTheDarkSide'' has [[Franchise/StarWars Sith]] versus [[Franchise/HarryPotter Death Eaters]].
90* ''[[Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds The Hasbroverse]]'': WordOfGod and WorldBuilding backstory establishes that at some point, [[Franchise/GIJoe COBRA]] somehow got the bright idea to attack ''[[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 the Decepticons]]''. The end result was COBRA being [[CurbStompBattle decimated]], with most of its leaders killed.
91* During the course of ''Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy'', a series of ''Film/TheHobbit'' and ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' fanfics, [[VillainProtagonist Smaug]] ends up fighting with other villains at different points; [[EvilOverlord Sauron]] attempts to goad Smaug into serving as the Dark Lord's beast of war even though Smaug wants to serve no one, [[HotWitch Andraya]] schemes to get Smaug to [[IWantGrandkids impregnate her daughter]] for [[DarwinistDesire a powerful offspring]], and [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Fankil]] wants to use Smaug's [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes beloved]] [[{{Seers}} Kathryn]] in [[spoiler:releasing his father [[GreaterScopeVillain Morgoth]] from the void]]. By the time of the trilogy's third part, Smaug allies with the Free Peoples in the War of the Ring against Sauron, though [[NotInThisForYourRevolution only because of what he can gain from Sauron's demise]] and to get revenge against the Dark Lord and Fankil for the grievances they've caused him and Kathryn.
92* In the ''Franchise/StarWars''[=/=]''Franchise/HarryPotter'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheHiddenEmpireSeries'', the True Sith Order despises Darth Bane's Sith Order to the point of considering them heretics.
93* ''Fanfic/TheImmortalGame'': [[BigBad Titan]] and Discord have been enemies for thousands of years, and prior to the former being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] by the Princesses, constantly fought over control of Equestria. [[spoiler:The desperate heroes exploit this to recruit Discord into an EnemyMine.]]
94* ''Fanfic/InvaderZimABadThingNeverEnds'' has a BigBadEnsemble between Zim's team, the VillainTeamUp between Tak and Lex, and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Aldrich Coathanger]]. All three of these factions despise each other and spend as much time fighting each other as they do the heroic Membrane siblings.
95* ''Fanfic/IWokeUpAsADungeonNowWhat:'' The two Empires fighting over Central: The Khanites are a horde of barbarians whose culture is built on slavery and MightMakesRight, while the Velthians are actively attempting a program of genocide against anyone of Khannite descent. The Ariman Empire, meanwhile, is incredibly isolationistic and xenophobic to the point where any Ariman who leaves the country can never return. Central seems to be the only faction whose leaders aren't total monsters.
96* The ''Fanfic/JWITCHSeries'':
97** The AuctionOfEvil in the chapter "J-WITCH Meets The J-Team!" eventually breaks down into all of the attendees [[MeleeATrois fighting each other as well as the J-Team and Guardians]] for the Heart of Kandrakar.
98** In "Divide and Conquer - Chaos and Hilarity", the heroes have to face off against three separate evil factions that are also opposed against each other. One consists of Cedric, Daolon Wong and the Dark Chi Enforcers, the other consists of Valmont and Hak Foo, and the last one is the Monkey King.
99* ''Fanfic/JewelOfDarkness'': There's elements of this in the CycleOfRevenge between the human and Metahuman supremacist groups like the Human Defense League and the Metahuman Protective Association.
100* Zan-Shocker vs. the Voidspace Army in ''[[http://alaxr274.deviantart.com/gallery/36864534 Kamen Rider x Super Sentai x Super Milestone Wars: Crossover Taisen]]''.
101* ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'': In the extended retelling of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "A Canterlot Wedding"]], Prince Jewelius usurps Equestria's throne by helping Twilight Sparkle in thwarting the Changeling invasion of Queen Chrysalis and then [[ManipulativeBastard destroying the other heroes' reputations]] by holding them responsible for how the invasion could have taken place. He afterwards plans to use the imprisoned Changelings as a SlaveRace. They escape though, and Chrysalis sets out to find a way to get back at Jewelius. [[spoiler:He's revealed to have convinced Chrysalis to commit the invasion as his partner and betrayed her when he saw a way to claim all the power for himself. When he's cornered by the heroes in the climax, Chrysalis appears and takes her revenge by ordering her Changelings to [[DevouredByTheHorde eat Jewelius]] whose heart has [[TheSociopath no love]] for them to feed on.]]
102* ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'' (''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' WesternAnimation, [[{{Series}} TV Series]], and ComicBooks.): Ember Mclain from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' and The Trix from ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' fight over who will attack Danny and Musa during their date.
103* In ''Fanfic/MasksWithinMasks'' Team Rocket is just as bad as Team Plasma, has similar goals, but often fight, something Giovanni lampshades when talking to Mewtwo.
104* ''Fanfic/MastermindStrategistForHire'': After [[VillainProtagonist Izuku (aka Mastermind)]] [[spoiler:kills All Might in the USJ attack]], Stain puts him on his hit-list for [[spoiler:murdering the man he believed to be the only true Hero in Japan. Izuku returns the favour by killing him]].
105* ''Fanfic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'' has the Conduit's plan to take out Wily; their forces get into a fight in episode 12.
106* ''Fanfic/MegaManRecut'' has Wily's forces vs. the Steel Crescent Syndicate.
107* One of the main plot points of ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'' is that Zim and Tak are constantly competing with each other for control of Earth, with Dib and his friends [[MeleeATrois stuck fighting both]].
108* In the ''Fanfic/ThereWasOnceAnAvengerFromKrypton'' series, many space faring empires and groups fall into this category. For instance, the Diamond Authority end up fighting against the Galra Empire in ''Close Encounters of the Gem Kind'', and they're also at war with the Kree Empire, who are also conquerors.
109* ''Fanfic/{{Paradoxus}}'': The '[[spoiler:Trisha]] versus Eudora' conflict turns into this after the former crosses the DespairEventHorizon and starts a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Said rampage is outright villainous regardless of how justified it is and how much the people on the receiving end had it coming (those bastards betrayed their dimension for power and facilitated Eudora's invasion). Both Trisha and Eudora have a high body count, lay waste while caring little for whoever gets caught in the crossfire, and have killed and tortured people to further their own twisted (respectively) goals/ideals. What morally lightens the former's actions and renders them a very dark gray is the fact that those atrocities succeeded in turning the tides of the war in the good guys' favor where everything else failed. Besides, it's not like Trisha enjoys the suffering she has brought; she's merely too overcome with mourning and rage to think straight. And, to nail the coffin, [[spoiler:it turns out she was subtly maneuvered to do so by someone else]].
110* In ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', The [[ParodySue SUEs]] are not only in conflict with the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]], but have mutually exclusive agendas with the canon antagonists and each other. In ''A Common Enemy Without A Common Cause'', the forced alliance between the [=SUEs=] quickly breaks down and [[EnemyCivilWar results in them killing each other]].
111* ''Narrowly'' subverted in the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries''. [[spoiler:Discord's mind games drive Princess Luna nearly to the point of turning back into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Moon]] to stop him. She just ''barely'' restrains herself enough to regain her grasp on sanity, but still assumes her Nightmare Moon form in order to trick him. Also subverted later, as many assumed the second BigBad [[WellIntentionedExtremist Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper]] would overlap and fight with Discord upon his release, but that wasn't the case.]]
112** Played straight in the [[BadFuture Epilogue/Dark World timeline]] -- about five hundred years prior to the "present" of the Dark World arc, [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends Grogar]] escaped from his [[SealedEvilInACan imprisonment]] and went to war with Discord for control of Equestria (given their respective M.O.s, this is also an all evil version of OrderVersusChaos). Notably, during the war many of Discord's enemies allied with Grogar, as they viewed his "[[LawfulEvil perfect order]]" as [[LesserOfTwoEvils preferable]] to Discord's "[[ChaoticEvil perfect chaos]]". Discord ended up winning, condemning Equestria to a further five hundred years of his rule. Though this might be a good thing, as WordOfGod has stated Grogar in this timeline is a monster in his own right and essentially a {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} {{Expy}}.
113** Also at some point in Dark World, [[Series/DoctorWho the Master]] overthrew Discord and his minions and made himself the new EvilOverlord of Equestria, only to be defeated by [[FallenHero the Valeyard]].
114** Also briefly in Dark World is [[spoiler: [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Proto-Nightmare]] Twilight]] versus Angry Pie, though the former is quickly [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone talked down]].
115** The Dark World also has [[spoiler: [[TheVoice The Nameless Passenger]]/Nightmare Paradox vs Discord. The former turns out to be a KnightTemplar and TheCorrupter, despite being out to defeat Discord as well. As it turns out, Discord lost a ''[[GroundhogDayLoop long]]'' time ago. And by the time he's able to defy her, [[HeelRealization he's not exactly evil of his own accord anymore]]]].
116** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Cocoon]] vs [[VillainProtagonist Chrysalis]] in Chrysalis' OriginsEpisode. While Cocoon did make Chrysalis a slave and was in general a terrible ruler who almost destroyed the changelings by pure incompetence, Chrysalis was still a budding [[TheSociopath Sociopath]] with a considerable body count by that point in time. Chrysalis even says she's not opposing Cocoon because EvenEvilHasStandards, but because she's disgusted with Cocoon's incompetence.
117** Flashbacks in the Wedding Arc reveal another example: [[spoiler: [[TheSociopath Chrysalis]] vs [[GeneralRipper General-Admiral Makarov]], who tried to kill her for no reason other than to satisfy his ego]]. And given that both were created by Pandora, this also counts as an all evil version of CainAndAbel.
118* This has popped up a couple of times so far in ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'':
119** First, Valmont used the first Oni mask to steal control of the Ninja Shadowkhan away from Jade and turned on her, forcing her into a brief EnemyMine with Jackie. Then Ikazuki showed up and, after a brief fight, forced Jade to serve him, at least until the J-Team defeated him. And seeing as Jade's ultimate plan is to overthrow Tarakudo as ruler of the Oni, this will probably show up some more.
120** In a situation not involving the Oni, Jade gets captures by the EvilSorcerer Lung, who wishes to break her to his will, thus granting him control over her and her tribe. Jade's minions, Left and Right, track him down and launch an [[StormingTheCastle assault on his fortress]], completely {{curb stomp|Battle}}ing his forces before fighting [[spoiler: and killing]] him and freeing Jade.
121** And then there's Drago, who comes back in time to eliminate all rivals to his power in the future, including Jade. Because of this, the Matriarch (Jade's future self) sends her servant Karasu back in time after him to stop him. Meanwhile, Drago also ends up fighting present-day Jade's foreman Blankman.
122** There's also the Shadow Hand fighting the various creatures [[SealedEvilInACan sealed]] in the Vault of Endless Night.
123* ''Fanfic/RemnantAndRuneterraATaleOfTwoWorlds'': During the fall of Beacon, [[EvilWeapon Aatrox]] slaughters the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Grimm]], including the [[DragonsAreDemonic Grimm Dragon]].
124* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheLastVillain'': The League of Villains versus the Shie Hassaikai. [[spoiler:Ends in a CurbStompBattle, in the former's favor, despite only Izuku and Himiko actively attacking Shie Hassaikai members.]]
125* ''Fanfic/ShadowsAwakening'' happens to have ''two'' {{Big Bad Duumvirate}}s ([[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] and [[OurGhostsAreDifferent The Phantom]], [[EnemyWithin The Queen]] and [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]]) that are [[BigBadEnsemble as opposed to each other]] as they are to the heroes.
126* ''Fanfic/TheShapeOfTheNightmareToCome'' has [[GalacticConqueror Abaddon's]] Chaos Imperium fighting against the Perturabo-Angron alliance (Abaddon wins with the aid of Typhus), and later on [[SpacePirates Huron Blackheart's Eastern Chaos Imperium]] and the [[EldritchAbomination Void Dragon's]] Necron forces. Even worse, a key element of the fic's setting is the removal of two factions engaged in a massive Evil Versus Evil war - The Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan and the Ork Empire of Octarius inadvertently gave birth to the New Devourer, [[FromBadToWorse Ork/Tyranid hybrid lifeforms]], who then proceeded to eat 1/3 of the galaxy.
127* ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'' has the Metarex versus Tsali, [[{{Satan}} Maledict]] versus the Metarex, and [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] against ''[[OmnicidalNeutral everyone]]''. The overarching conflict between Maledict and Allysion [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks can be seen as this too]], Maledict is the biblical Satan and all-around ManipulativeBastard, while Allysion is a crazed psychopath who wants to watch the universe burn and torture everything ForTheEvulz.
128* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fic ''[[Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil The Stronger Evil]]'', it's revealed that when Tarakudo and his Shadowkhan armies conquered Japan from Po Kong, she and the rest of the Demon Sorcerers banded together against him. Following the imprisonment of the Oni Generals and Tarakudo's [[FlyingFace disembodiment]], he fought against the Demon Sorcerers who imprisoned him to the Shadow Realm. Once Tarakudo's accidentally released by Drago, he makes Shendu's son his enemy by stealing the Ice Crew from him, leading to [[EnemyMine Drago temporarily allying himself with the J-Team against the Oni]]. In addition to that, as soon as Tarakudo learns that Shendu is trapped as a statue in Section 13 and his power is diminished, he attempts to have his revenge.
129* In ''Fanfic/TheTaintedGrimoire'', [[spoiler: Duelhorn]] declares war on Khamja.
130* Engineered by the Emperor in ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheEmperasque'': he causes Tyranid Hive to attack Dark Eldar, weakening them both. By extension, so many Dark Eldar souls going to Slaanesh, a villain himself, causes him to attack another villain, Khorne, effectively taking them out of the picture for centuries.
131* ''VideoGame/TSUnderswap'':
132** Temmie wants to work with Genocide Chara just like Flowey did in the original game, only here they find out a lot quicker that Chara isn't interested in being friends.
133** Also hinted to be the case with [[spoiler:the Temmie faction and Flowey, with the Temmies viewing Flowey as a rival and Flowey implied to have done not-so-nice things in the past]].
134* ''[[Fanfic/UltimateSleepwalker Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams]]'' has the supervillain 8-Ball going up against hired killer Bullseye when they're hired by rival syndicates during a MobWar. [[spoiler:8-Ball wins.]]
135* ''Fanfic/TheUnabridgedMemoirsOfDarthPlagueisTheWise'' gives Plagueis vs [[spoiler:a Yuuzhan Vong scout team]], which captures and experiments on him, until he manages to get free and slaughter them all. Later, he manages to track down another such [[spoiler:Vong scout team]] and takes great pleasure in massacring them.
136* Happens in ''Venus Flash'', as the goals of the [[Manga/SailorMoon Dark Kingdom]] and [[Anime/CuteyHoney Panther Claw]] happens to be mutually exclusive. That, and [[EvenEvilHasStandards Jadeite is disgusted by what some Panther Claw members are willing to do]] ForTheEvulz. That said, they don't fight that often, as Panther Claw ''doesn't even register'' on the Dark Kingdom's radar due the presence of the Sailor Soldiers (in fact the encounter between Jadeite and Panther Claw happened because the Dark Kingdom general had originally chosen Jewel Princess' shop for his jewel shop scheme, and took offense when he discovered what the Panther Claw minion had in her basement).
137* ''Fanfic/WhatYouAlreadyKnow'' sees this briefly discussed as a concept when Teyla asks Daniel why he wouldn't move to Pegasus to help with Wraith, as he explains about the nature of the Goa'uld and Teyla acknowledges that the Goa'uld are a greater evil and more insidious threat than the Wraith, as the Wraith just kill their victims where the victims of the Goa'uld could suffer for centuries while acting as a host.
138* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18997438/chapters/45112798 A World of Wild Wild Evolution]]'':
139** Caesar's goal is to acquire the power of the Winter Maiden and Relic of Creation and use them to conquer Earth. Taking them from Remnant would render Salem's plans permanently impossible to achieve. Both Caesar and Salem know this, so the Legion does everything they can to ruin Salem's plans.
140** While the Legion and the White Fang are allies early in the story, their alliance is hardly built to last, with only Adam Taurus and Legion POV character Servius not realizing it. [[spoiler:Sure enough, when tensions between the two come to a head, the Legion quite literally decimates the White Fang.]]
141* In ''Fanfic/{{XSGCOM}}'', the Tau'ri end up siccing Apophis and Anubis (plus their allies, including [[spoiler:Loki on Anubis's side]]) against one another, culminating in a truly epic battle over Delmak, where their respective motherships face off. The battle is said to involve two-thirds of Ha'taks in the entire galaxy. [[spoiler:Anubis uses the ancient weapon, powered by the Eyes, to obliterate Apophis's mothership, but then Ba'al and his allies turn against him, and he's forced to retreat, leaving his ship behind. He does make sure that it crashes into Delmak and leaves the planet uninhabitable]].
142* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', we have [[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds Marik]] and Florence versus Melvin and Team Creator/{{FourKids|Entertainment}}.
143* During the last third of the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' story ''Fanfic/Zero2ARevision'', [[ManipulativeBastard UmbraDevimon]] and [[EvilOverlord Demon]] both invade the Real World at the same time; apparently deciding that it's not big enough for both of them, they start throwing their armies at each other in order to wipe each other out. And ''[[FromBadToWorse then]]'', the Gravemon invade as well, and they suddenly find something more dangerous to worry about.
144* ''Fanfic/ZeroVsKira'' begins with [[Manga/DeathNote Kira]] versus the [[Franchise/CodeGeass Brittanian Empire]].
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148* ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'': [[VillainProtagonist Charlie]] vs [[BigBad Carface]]. Until orphan Anne-Marie softens Charlie up leading to his HeelFaceTurn.
149* In ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and the Vikings'', the villain schemes to outwit the other dumber vikings. He's clearly more civilized and competent than his intended victims, who, true to viking tradition, attack a town in the opening scene and keep the skulls of their victims all over the place. His plan however requires at least one murder.
150* ''Franchise/DespicableMe'':
151** ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'': Gru contends with Vector, but given that both of them are kid-friendly {{Harmless Villain}}s, it's played strictly for laughs.
152** ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'': [[spoiler:Scarlet's last attempt to steal the crown fails because Gru takes it from her]].
153* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'': Shere Khan and Kaa obviously hated each other as they are in pursuit of the man-cub Mowgli (as Kaa wants to eat Mowgli because Mowgli is delicious while Khan wants to kill Mowgli due to his hatred for mankind). However, Kaa is too scared to voice his hatred towards Shere Khan because of the latter's strength and ruthlessness.
154* ''WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse'':
155** The start of the New 52 movie universe, ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', deals with an AlternateTimeline's [[EvilCounterpart versions]] of Franchise/WonderWoman and ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} being at war with each other, both not caring how much they destroy to win. They also express secondary goals in riding the world of men and surface dwellers, respectively.
156** The last movie of the New 52 movie universe, ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'', has the universe's {{Big Bad}}s, ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} and Trigon duel with each other, with Trigon being the more sympathetic one due to [[PetTheDog being thankful to his daughter Raven for giving him a battle to enjoy]].
157* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', when he battles Titan. Of course, the one is an AntiVillain who cares more about the [[LargeHam showmanship]] of being an evil overlord than the actual conquering-and-ruling stuff, while the other is a JerkAss [[BewareTheSuperman given all of Superman's powers]], so there's definitely ALighterShadeOfBlack in the situation.
158* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': The fight between Maui and Te Ka for the heart of Te Fiti is described as this by Tala. [[spoiler:Subverted once their true motives are revealed.]]
159* In ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', two sub-genre groups, Reggaeton and K-Pop, have a dance-off over Branch. Neither group has any intention of helping him, though, because they're fighting to see who gets to keep the full prize for the bounty placed by Queen Barb. This would be quickly subverted, as like shown before in the movie, they were just doing their job out of desperation to keep their music. They end up teaming out of respect for one another, and agree to split the capture.
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163* In Assyrian and Babylonian mythology, Pazuzu (yes, of ''Film/TheExorcist'' fame) was a malicious demon believed to bring about storms and locusts. But he was also believed to be the bitter rival of the demon or [[GodofEvil evil goddess]] Lamashtu who caused miscarriages and captured and devoured infants, so his image was actually worn or carried around by those who sought to ward off Lamashtu.
164* The Egyptian god Set is often portrayed as Ra's ally in his battle against Apep, the serpent of chaos. While Set is also a god of chaos, the difference between them is that if Apep destroys the sun god, there would be no world left for Set to conquer.
165* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'': The usual endgame for cities and nations. Mormon asserts that this is LaserGuidedKarma and a part of natural law; "it is by the wicked that the wicked are punished; for it is the wicked that stir up the hearts of the children of men unto bloodshed."
166** Lamanites massacring the city of Ammonihah. The attackers were lashing out in frustration after their assault on the peaceful people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi didn't go according to plan. The defenders had exiled everyone who believed in God and then burned their families.
167** The final battles of the Nephites. The Lamanites feed their prisoners on the flesh of their own families. The Nephites rape their prisoners, torture them to death, and then eat them "like unto wild beasts".
168** The total mutual annihilation of the Jaredite factions. Both sides are so "drunk with anger" that even the king can't stop his supporters from fighting.
169** On a smaller scale, Korihor the anti-Christ, after being cursed mute and cast out, is trampled to death by the Zoramites, who have no sympathy for the poor.
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173* One episode of ''Podcast/TheStoragePapers'' had [[BigBad The Grinner]] and [[{{Cult}} the Order of the Divine Ones]] go up against an AnimalisticAbomination disguised as a dog over a victim both parties had set their sights on.
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177* Though less common than Face vs. Face, and FAR less common than {{Face}} vs. {{Heel}}, sometimes happens in pro wrestling, particularly when Wrestling/VinceRusso is at the helm. Making one a success can be difficult though, since one of the cardinal rules of any match is that the audience should be rooting for ''someone''. That said, it can work if the match is [[HeelFaceTurn a prelude for one of the Heels to turn Face]].
178** It is a fairly common result of "parejas suicidas" match ups, where the losing pair must then fight each other for the right to keep their [[HumiliatingWager mask/hair]].
179** The two most famous [[PowerStable stables]] in American pro wrestling ended up warring in Wrestling/{{WCW}} when Wrestling/RicFlair returned. The Wrestling/{{n|ewWorldorder}}Wo vs Wrestling/TheFourHorsemen.
180** The [=nWo=] Hollywood vs. [=nWo=] Wolfpac feud in 1998 was originally supposed to be this, but the Wolfpac became immensely popular with the WCW fans and their face status was cemented when Wrestling/LexLuger and Wrestling/{{Sting}} joined them.
181** One major example would be Wrestling/TheCorporation vs. The Wrestling/{{Ministry|OfDarkness}} feud, where both sides were portrayed as bad guys. Though in the end those two groups would merge together to form the Corporate Ministry, and it was revealed Wrestling/VinceMcMahon was the mastermind behind both stables all along. It still works as not every member was in on the plan, though those members left prior to the merger and [[HeelFaceTurn turned face]]. Though even in the Corporate Ministry there was fighting within the group, especially between Wrestling/TheUndertaker and Wrestling/TripleH.
182* Very common with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels whenever he was a heel. In addition to feuding with both mostly-heel Hart Foundation and theoretical heel Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, Shawn also feuded with heel Wrestling/RickMartel over the affections of [[Wrestling/SherriMartel Sensational Sherri]]. Beyond that, he was involved in a three-way feud with Wrestling/ChrisJericho and Wrestling/{{Batista}} in 2008, where of the three only Batista was really a face (Shawn eventually turned face after Batista left the feud and Jericho beat up his wife).
183** Happened a weird way a couple of times when Shawn, mostly a face, would be allied with another face (John Cena, Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, Austin) against a common (heel) foe, but with everyone involved painfully aware of Shawn's eventual inevitable betrayal… which, sure enough, always came. Almost always via Superkick.
184** Wrestling/ShawnMichaels vs. Wrestling/BretHart at Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 97 is the most infamous example. Shawn was a shamelessly selfish CardCarryingJerkass, a {{Troll}} and ThePrimaDonna, but Bret was a cold and bitter EntitledBastard, TheFightingNarcissist and TheProudElite. Shawn would routinely mock Bret's homeland of Canada, while Bret made racist remarks about Shawn using Mexican-style wrestling. While Bret had the crowd behind him during the actual match because it was Canada, he was still in storyline a mean and humourless Heel. It's interesting considering it was Face vs. Face last time.[[note]]You could make a case it was face vs. face here too. Bret might have been a heel in the U.S. but to Canadians he was (and pretty much still is) almost to a national hero, and was also very over as a babyface in Europe. He was only booed in the USA. Meanwhile Shawn might have been ''booked'' like a heel, but every American boy between 10 and 17 years of age wasn't doing the "Suck it!" taunt at each other and buying DeGeneration X shirts like crazy because they hated HBK. This was around the time that WWE (and wrestling as a whole) stopped booking people as faces and heels and just kind of let people decide for themselves, and after a brief period of success (thanks to having the best talent in the world) it's basically killed professional wrestling.[[/note]]
185** He also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT_9P5TQ9MI spoofed the trope]] when forced to defend his European Title against then-ally Triple H, overdramatizing the buildup, throwing the match, and then cutting a tearful promo about the loss.
186* Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling is known particularly for the rivalries between Great Bash Heel, CHAOS, Suzuki gun, Wrestling/BulletClub and Los Ingobernables De Japon. In Wrestling/RingOfHonor Bullet Club has also gone after The Kingdom and The House Of Truth, though they ironically had a HeelFaceTurn before The Kingdom splintered and it's centerpiece, Wrestling/AdamCole, [[VillainTeamUp joined the Club]] in exchange for a shot at heel world champion Wrestling/JayLethal.
187* On [[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]] 1/24/11 Wrestling/TheNexus was confronted by The Corre and later the leaders, Wrestling/WadeBarrett and Wrestling/CMPunk faced each other with the loser and his group out of the Wrestling/RoyalRumble. Which led to a [[Funny/{{WWE}} Crowning Moment of Funny]] when Wrestling/JohnCena was appointed special guest referee, and disqualified both Barrett and Punk for '[[FelonyMisdemeanor excessive use of profanity on a PG show]]', eliminating both factions from the Rumble. He was overruled.
188* Any Wrestling/TripleH vs. Wrestling/KurtAngle match from 2000-2002 was this essentially. Triple H was against the pompous SmugSnake Kurt Angle who wanted to take the guy's wife. Though they were both heels, they were tenuous allies at best and vicious enemies at worst. They would feud on and off from year to year, with neither really turning face at all (the closest being their ''No Way Out'' match where Triple H was running off of {{Determinator}} face heat). During this period Triple H even paused during his catchphrase to allow the audience to finish it -- a way of hinting to the smart marks that he was going to turn face. [[spoiler: He didn't.]]
189* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin vs. The Hart Foundation could be viewed as this, had it not been for the overwhelming crowd reaction in Austin's favor. When Austin had to forfeit the Intercontinental Title due to Wrestling/OwenHart [[GameBreakingInjury injuring his neck]], the finals in a tournament for the vacant title featured Owen against [[Wrestling/RonSimmons Faarooq]]. Austin helped Owen win the match, so [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he could beat him for the title]].
190* Undertaker vs Wrestling/BigBossman in a Hell In A Cell match was this. This one wasn't so successful, mostly because they had no real chemistry or feud, so the crowd had nobody to root for, though also because the match was painfully tame compared to other Cell encounters.
191* During the "Kayfabe" era, the only time villains typically fought were in battle royals. However, there were at least two "heel vs. heel" matches in the WWF, both in 1986, and one in Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA two years later:
192** The Hart Foundation vs. Wrestling/TheIronSheik and Wrestling/NikolaiVolkoff. Wrestling/BretHart and Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart – with Wrestling/JimmyHart absent – were enthusiastically cheered.
193** In late-1985, Sheik and Volkoff were in another heel-vs.-heel match, where they challenged then-tag team champions, the Dream Team (Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine) for the titles. The fans sided with Beefcake and Valentine, and the match ended in a double-disqualification.
194** Wrestling/RandySavage vs. Wrestling/JakeRoberts on an episode of ''Saturday Night's Main Event'' (a match that bore no resemblance to their matches five years later, where Savage was the face and Roberts the worse-than-evil heel). Both were heavily booed and neither showed much respect for the other. In fact, somewhat foreshadowing Roberts' behavior toward Wrestling/MissElizabeth during the 1991 feud, he once tried to counter Savage's then tactic of pulling Elizabeth in front of him to shield off an attack by pulling Damien from his bag and nearly throwing it on Elizabeth!
195** The WWF was indirectly responsible for the 1988 heel vs heel match as well. When Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard signed with Vince, they were World Tag Champions. NWA was not going to let the belts go with them. Due to their status in [[Wrestling/RicFlair The Four Horsemen]] the only team with as much heat as Tully & Arn was [[Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress Jim Cornette's Midnight Express]]. [[spoiler: The fans cheered for Beautiful Bobby and Sweet Stan, who became the first team to simultaneously hold the US and World belts.]]
196* At the 2013 edition of Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank, WWE had an interesting experiment with the match composition. While the WWE championship match was 6 main event and upper mid card faces[[note]]Wrestling/RandyOrton, Wrestling/{{Christian}}, Wrestling/CMPunk, Wrestling/RobVanDam, [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], and Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}[[/note]], the World Heavyweight Championship match earlier in the card was 7 midcard heels[[note]]Wrestling/DamienSandow, [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Cesaro]], Wrestling/CodyRhodes, [[Wrestling/JonMoxley Dean Ambrose]], Wrestling/{{Fandango}}, Wrestling/JackSwagger, and Wrestling/WadeBarrett[[/note]] though Cody Rhodes had a breakout performance that effectively turned him face by the end of the match.
197* During the early 1990s in EMLL / Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, there was the Los Infernales vs Los Intocables feud, revolving around Masakre, who had been booted from the former and formed the latter, as well as the both desiring to hold the prestigious world trios title belts. Los Infernales would later split into two groups calling themselves Los Nuevos Infernales.
198* Any match that has more than two wrestlers (or two wrestling teams) will commonly have a mixture of Faces and Heels, which can add to the drama while getting around the problems of the crowd not having anyone to root for.
199* In tournaments the face will usually win one match and a heel the next to set up a confrontation between the two in the next bracket. There are some exceptions: Wrestling/KingOfTheRing matches that qualify include Marc Mero vs. Wrestling/JeffJarrett in the quarter-finals in 1998 and Wrestling/{{Test}} vs. Wrestling/BrockLesnar in 2002.
200* Wrestling/KurtAngle vs. Wrestling/SteveBlackman at ''[[Wrestling/ArmageddonWWE Armageddon]] 1999''. Kurt Angle was an ArrogantKungFuGuy who thought very high of himself, but nonetheless he played the match cleanly and beat Blackman without using any cheap trick. Steve Blackman on the other hand, behaved like a SoreLoser and his decision to attack Kurt Angle after the match was uncalled for.
201* Wrestling/MollyHolly:
202** In early-2003, she had several matches against other female heels, like [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]] and [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]]. She even [[EnemyMine teamed with]] Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}}, who was a face at the time, against Jazz and Victoria. Some have speculated WWE were planning a HeelFaceTurn for Molly, but the poor crowd reaction she got killed it.
203** Another took place on Smackdown in the summer of 2002, when Molly (still in her SourPrudes persona) defended the WWE Women's title against Wrestling/{{Nidia}}, in her WhiteTrash gimmick with Jamie Noble. Nidia had vowed to flash the audience if she won the title and, oddly enough, Molly was "the face" for that match.
204* Face and Heel aside, the various feuds and matches between The Undertaker and Wrestling/{{Kane}} count. Both wrestlers, even when portraying Faces, maintain a gimmick of being pure evil. At best, they can be in the NobleDemon category. This means that any match between them is literal evil vs evil.
205* Nikki Strychnine's [[ReligionOfEvil The Ministry Of Hate]] vs Diabolic Khaos, a group of demonic vagabonds, in Gateway Championship Wrestling. The two did try to work together first but split when Strychnine got too friendly for Wrestling/MsChif's liking.
206* Wrestling/RingOfHonor saw a four way race for the {{tag team}} titles between Hangmen 3, The No Remorse Corps, The Age Of The Fall and The Vulture Squad. Of the four, only the latter group were faces.
207* After the Main Event Mafia had dumped Wrestling/{{Sting}}, defeated the Wrestling/{{TNA}} Front Line and pacified Wrestling/SamoaJoe with Jenna Morasca's money, there seemed to be no one left to save the promotion from them, except for [[EvilForeigner World Elite]], who turned out to be even worse.
208* The feud between Madison Eagles and Nicole Matthews in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}, which mostly involved Eagles confronting and intimidating Matthews while Mathews did mean things to Eagles behind her back and talked her way out of matches afterwards. This came to an end when Mathews became SHIMMER Champion, as she quickly proved to be the most vulnerable and cowardly woman to hold the belt to that point, and won it by hitting Eagles with a {{fireball|s}}. However, it continued in SHIMMER's {{spinoff}} RISE, where Eagles did not become ALighterShadeOfBlack, mostly due to the regular HateSink TagTeam partner of Matthews, Portia Perez, being injured.
209* The two biggest trios in earlier 2014 Wrestling/TheShield and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily are both heels, and after several teases, have wrestled at Elimination Chamber. Throughout the feud, both teams were heavily cheered by the fans, due to them all being interesting and well-developed characters.
210* After winning the WWE Universal Championship in 2017, Wrestling/BrockLesnar's first title defense as champion came against fellow heel Wrestling/SamoaJoe. He would have another Heel vs Heel title defense two months later against Wrestling/BraunStrowman. Interestingly, Strowman ended up having a HeelFaceTurn not long after despite wrestling as a heel in this match.
211* Starting in 2020, Wrestling/BrayWyatt and Wrestling/AlexaBliss' feud with Wrestling/RandyOrton is portrayed this way. Wyatt and Bliss are essentially horror movie villains, attacking Orton with supernatural powers like fireballs, causing Orton to start coughing up blood, and appearing and disappearing when the lights go out. Meanwhile, Orton is extremely cocky and sadistic, willing to play dirty and set his opponents on fire.
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215* Creator/WilliamShakespeare's play ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' graphically portrays a CycleOfRevenge. It starts with an act of HumanSacrifice and escalates from there, until by the end only three named characters have managed not to commit any outright moral atrocities: Lavinia (who gets [[spoiler:raped, mutilated, and murdered]]), Young Lucius (who's just a child), and Aaron's son (who's literally an infant).
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219* ''Ride/DuelingDragons'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]] was centered around Pyrock and Blizzrock, two evil dragons locked in eternal combat with one another over control of the land's castle and its riches.
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223* In the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series, more than a few murders involve an AssholeVictim and an unsympathetic killer, and in a few cases, the victim tried to kill the murderer.
224** In the first game, it turns out that the victim, Jack Hammer, drugged [[NiceGuy Will Powers]] and tried to kill the actual killer, [[spoiler:Dee Vasquez]], for {{blackmail}}ing him over accidentally killing a co-star. After killing Hammer, [[spoiler:Vasquez]] then tries to frame Powers for the crime.
225** In the second case of ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', the victim, Pal Meraktis, tries to kill [[spoiler:Alita Tiala, a nurse]], when the killer tried to [[spoiler:stop him from going public with the fact that he'd botched Alita's fiance Wocky's operation and that Wocky didn't have long to live, since Alita [[GoldDigger planned on marrying Wocky for his inheritance]].]] Unfortunately, he didn't finish the job, and ended up being murdered by his intended victim.
226** The final case of ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'' has [[spoiler:Ambassador Quercus Alba]], the leader of the smuggling ring and the BigBad, kill two people- [[spoiler:his right-hand man Manny Coachen and the fake Mask☆[=DeMasque=] Coachen hired.]] The former is one of the most loathsome murder victims in the series, due to not only being a high-ranking smuggler, but also being responsible for Cece Yew's murder. It's lampshaded when the cast remark that the first victim and the killer were both horrible people.
227** The second ''Investigations'' game has the murder in the third case. Both the victim and the murderer were in cahoots to win a dessert-making contest, but the former betrayed the latter once he was no longer useful, kidnapping the latter's son (who doubled as his taste tester) in order to ensure he couldn't win on his own. After the killer murdered the victim then fled the country and abandoned his son (whom he no longer needed after regaining his ability to taste), and willingly let an innocent man be imprisoned for 18 years as an accomplice to the murder.
228** In the final case, the BigBad, [[spoiler:Simon Keyes, who'd manipulated the cast and caused several murders as a revenge plot]], murders [[spoiler:the president of Zheng Fa's body double]], who was part of a conspiracy to [[spoiler:KillAndReplace the actual president]] and was one of the other main antagonists of the game.
229* [[Franchise/FateSeries Fate Series]]:
230** In the Heaven’s Feel route of [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Fate/stay night]], [[SinisterMinister Kirei Kotomine]], the [[BigBad Big Bad]] of the first two routes temporarily sets aside [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt his own designs for the Grail]] in order to aid the heroes in getting rid of [[TheWormThatWalks Zouken Matou]]. This is partially because [[EvenEvilHasStandards he genuinely despises Zouken]] and partially because he’s not keen on forfeiting his own ambitions, and he [[ManipulativeBastard notably never]] [[XanatosSpeedChess stops his plotting entirely]].
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234* ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation''
235** Downplayed, depending on how you interpret the conflict between the animator and his creations. One would interpret that both the animator and the stick figures were completely flawed in their moral qualities. The animator was at fault due to his {{lack of empathy}} to his [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman stick figures]] confining them and only created the stick figures just to fight them. He was, however, right to contain them as his creations had gone out of control with their destructive powers, [[OmnicidalManiac annihilating everything and everyone even to the point of destroying Alan's computer]].
236** [[spoiler:Herobrine, the Big Bad of the original Minecraft video, Animation vs. Minecraft, fights off against King, the Big Bad of the AVM Shorts Season 3, for a good while during the episode "The King"]].
237** Invoked in ''An Actual Short'' "King Orange vs. The Dark Lord" with two of the most strongest stick figure villains pitted against each other in the Nether. The fight ends with a biblically-accurate angelic version of a ''pig'' interrupting the fight where it turns out that both Green and Yellow were imagining the fight with toy versions of TDL and King respectively with Red interrupting the "fight" with his pet pig.
238* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' has several episodes which pit villains against other villains with similar traits. These are "[[Franchise/StreetFighter Akuma]] vs. [[Franchise/MortalKombat Shang Tsung]]", "[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Goomba vs. Koopa]]", "[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]] vs. [[Franchise/MegaMan Dr. Wily]]", "[[Franchise/MortalKombat Shao Kahn]] vs. [[Franchise/StreetFighter M. Bison]]", "[[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] vs. ComicBook/DoctorDoom", "[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] vs. [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganon]]", "ComicBook/TheJoker vs. [[VideoGame/TwistedMetal Sweet Tooth]]", "ComicBook/{{Venom}} vs. ComicBook/{{Bane}}", "[[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Shredder]] vs. [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Silver Samurai]]", "[[Franchise/FinalFantasy Sephiroth]] vs. [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Vergil]]", "ComicBook/{{Ultron}} vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX Sigma]]", "ComicBook/{{Thanos}} vs. ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}", "[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganondorf]] vs. [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Dracula]]", "[[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Heihachi Mishima]] vs. [[VideoGame/FatalFury Geese Howard]]", "[[Anime/DragonBallSuper Goku Black]] vs. [[ComicBook/TheFlash Reverse-Flash]]", "[[ComicBook/{{Invincible}} Omni-Man]] vs. [[ComicBook/{{TheBoys}} Homelander]]", "[[ComicBook/XMen Magneto]] vs. [[Manga/{{AKIRA}} Tetsuo]]", "ComicBook/BlackAdam vs. ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}", "[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] vs. [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]]", "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]] vs. [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft the Lich King]]", "[[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] vs. [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Obito Uchiha]]", "[[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher]] vs. [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Discord]]" and "[[ComicBook/FantasticFour Galactus]] vs. [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Unicron]]".
239* In ''WesternAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', we have Sniffles vs. the Ant family. On the one hand, Sniffles constantly goes out of his way to devour the Ants, even destroying their home at one point. On the other hand, the Ants attack him such ways ''[[DisproportionateRetribution far]]'' [[DisproportionateRetribution beyond self-defense]] by inflicting wickedly brutal ColdBloodedTorture onto him. In any instance, Sniffles is easily the lesser of two evils.
240* ''WebAnimation/{{ToonSandwich}}'': The second episode in their series, ''WebAnimation/SuperHeroBowl'', "SUPER-VILLAIN-BOWL!", is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, with every villain [[spoiler:with Scarlet Witch being one of the said villains due to her role in ''Film/XMenDarkPhoenix'']] fighting over who is the best villain among them. [[spoiler:Somehow, [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 Harley Quinn]] wins the battle royale via using the [[Film/TheFellowshipOfTheRing ring that grants the wearer invisibility,]] allowing her to do sneak attacks.]]
241* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'': Yahtzee Croshaw states repeatedly he's tired of the "Nutters Vs. Fascists" trope in post-apocalyptic videogames.
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245* ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort''. There's only a couple people that are actually ''good'': everyone else is a murderer, psychopath, {{Jerkass}} or all of the above, no matter which side you look at.
246* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'': Some potential matches, particularly Cell vs Dabura [[spoiler:Winner is Cell]] and U13 Nappa vs Frieza [[spoiler:Winner is Frieza, but not without being one-upped by Nappa]] so far. There's also upcoming matches - U13 Vegeta vs Dr. Raichi, and Cell vs Bojack [[spoiler: Cell kills Bojack and wins]].
247* The "Midnight Crew" Intermission in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' pits the eponymous Midnight Crew against The Felt. The Midnight Crew is a small yet dangerous gang that effectively rules their city [[spoiler:and turn out to be Alternia's versions of the BigBad and his cohorts though they aren't ''nearly'' as evil]]. The Felt is a rival gang whose members possess time related powers [[spoiler:and take orders from an EldritchAbomination called "Lord English"]].
248** And much later, averted when [[spoiler:[[KillerGameMaster Vriska]], [[FourEyesZeroSoul Eridan]], and [[MonsterClown Gamzee]] almost have a three-way showdown... Only for [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome all three]] to be taken by surprise by [[BigDamnHero Kanaya]]]].
249* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Post-TimeSkip, and the Geisterdamen (servants of the Other who brough about a ZombieApocalypse and is a big fan of mind control) are against the Queen of Dawn (who stole and is using the Other's tech to try and build her own Empire of slaves), also known as Zola. [[spoiler:Although it's hinted that it's all a set-up on the Queen's part to make herself look innocent]].
250* ''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'' certainly qualifies, with its main characters being a mass murderer who'll do anything to not get sent back to the deepest circle of Hell, and the TriggerHappy ex-detective who's happy to help her kill someone every day. But even if they aren't really better than the people they're killing, [[ALighterShadeOfBlack at least they're better than]] the antagonists, one of whom is Satan himself.
251* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick,'' there's frequent conflicts of interest between villains. They include:
252** [[HeroicComedicSociopath Belkar Bitterleaf]], the TokenEvilTeammate of the titular D&D adventuring party, is in this almost all the time. Party leader Roy notes that he uses Belkar in this fashion because a) Belkar has proven able to escape from jail before and b) without a minder he would probably be inflicting his skill at murder on innocents and Good-aligned people; at least while he's in a benign adventuring party, he'll be pitted against people who actually need to/deserve to get killed.
253** [[EvilTwin Nale]] and [[spoiler: his father]] [[EvilOverlord Tarquin]] have been in scuffles before, though they temporarily agree to bury the hatchet when it becomes apparent Nale needs help with his plans.
254*** Tarquin's right-hand man Malack has it out for Nale because the latter killed his three children. [[spoiler:Aware that Malack will never forgive him or let it slide, Nale kills him first.]]
255*** [[spoiler:Vampire!Durkon works with the Order again (for his own reasons). When Nale offers him a membership, the vampire necksnaps his friend Zz'dtri, an EvilSorcerer who admittedly had it coming.]]
256*** [[spoiler:When he finds out about Nale killing Malack, Tarquin offers him [[LastSecondChance one last chance]] to fix things between them; Nale [[TooDumbToLive foolishly]] declines it, Tarquin stabs him in the gut, pointing out that after killing his father's best friend [[DidntThinkThisThrough he should have seen that coming.]]]]
257*** Tarquin prefers to [[DefiedTrope avoid]] this trope when possible. While he obviously doesn't want [[BigBad Xykon]] to succeed in his plans, villain vs villain conflicts tend to be "a toss-up", in his words.
258** The three Archfiends are a [[ZigZaggedTrope mixed example]]. They don't like the blood war that exists between the Devils, Daemons and Demons of the setting and are working to end it; meanwhile, they happily manipulate conflicts between people from all over the moral spectrum. They aren't big fans of the heroes, but they don't believe in the idea of "EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily" -- all villains in the comic are pawns to be manipulated, just the same as the heroes, and that includes Xykon and his followers.
259** The Western Continent technically has this by default, since its ever-changing political landscape consists of hot-shot young conquerors rolling over each other's kingdoms in successive waves. It's become so [[StatusQuoIsGod normal]] that people have basically stopped caring about it. Subverted as [[spoiler: TheManBehindTheMan ''always'' consists of a member of Tarquin's old adventuring party, who maintain control by pitting their "rulers" against each other]].
260** PlayedForLaughs [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0453.html here]], when two {{Mooks}} from different villains fight over [[KillSteal who gets to kill]] [[SupportingLeader Hinjo]].
261** There is the rivalry between Redcloak and Tsukiko about who would become the real [[TheDragon dragon]] for Xykon. [[spoiler: Until Redcloak kills Tsukiko, at least]].
262* This is how [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized the Insurrection]] views the war between [[ScaryDogmaticAliens the Covenant]] and [[UnitedNationsIsASuperPower the UNSC]] in ''Webcomic/HaloAFistfulOfArrows''.
263* In ''WebComic/TheSearchforHenryJekyll'', Hyde gains a villainous rival when he injects Dr. Lanyon with [=HJ7=], giving him an evil split personality and a personal interest in Hyde and Jekyll.
264* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': Bun-Bun, being a SociopathicHero, tends to get this whenever an arc focuses on him. Particularly the "Oceans Unmoving" arc where he's pitted against a naval empire out to enslave everyone in their dimension. It's not that Bun-Bun's got any ethical objections to slavery (he takes a few himself), he just doesn't want to be the one enslaved. He still comes out as the sorta good guy, because, unlike the Navy, he's [[EvilIsCool evil in a cool way]]. He's a frickin' {{Space Pirate|s}}, after all.
265** Oceans Unmoving plays it even straighter with Bun-Bun against his treacherous former first mate Blacksoul, [[spoiler:aka the Bun-Bun we'd been following throughout the comic as it turns out that Captain Bun-Bun was from before the comic started]].
266** Likewise the R&D Wars, a conflict between amoral corporations employing mad science which is fixing to turn the world into either a bare rock with a single nightmarish city on it or a literal living hell.
267** There is also the war between the Vorpyr, Vrykolakas, and Strakoi vampires, pitting 3 different factions of parasitic monsters at one another's throats.
268* Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}} instigates a war which is essentially this.
269-->'''Vexxarr''': Which side do you pity the most? The side that attempts to [[EvilOverlord enslave anyone it meets]] or the side that attempts to [[ImAHumanitarian eat anyone it meets]]?
270* Mac and Shmeerm live up this gloriously in one of the longer more epic ''Webcomic/VoodooWalrus'' storyarcs titled [[http://voodoowalrus.com/?p=777 Meatnecks and Boomsticks]]
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274* Website/ChannelAwesome:
275** In ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', It is decided that "The only way to deal with a madman is to send in another madman", despite the fact that being ruled by [[spoiler:Dr. Insano]] would be even worse than being ruled by WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic.
276** ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'': On one side, there's the BigBad, [[spoiler:Malachite]], who intends to use the Gauntlet to rid the world of all technology. On the other side, there's [[spoiler:Jaffers]] and the various folks he recruited to keep the Gauntlet safe and hidden. While [[spoiler:Malachite]] is obviously dangerous (he ''rips a guy's heart out'' for watching too much television!!!), [[spoiler:Jaffers]] and his crew attack the reviewers and even try to shoot them several times.
277* In ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', both Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer are evil, only the latter has enough [[VillainWithGoodPublicity good PR]] that he has everyone convinced he's TheCape.
278* Lampshaded in ''WebVideo/DragonballZAbridged'' during the Cell Games, when Yamcha asks if they are honestly rooting ''for'' [[{{Jerkass}} Vegeta]]. Tien corrects him by pointing out that they are ''against'' [[OmnicidalManiac Cell]].
279* In the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', this is {{subverted|Trope}}. [[BigBad Dream]] states in Season 4 that he sees the server as this as he thinks that just about everyone on the server has done terrible things and openly sees himself as a bad person (not that he thinks there's anything wrong with that), but considering the facts that 1) not all crimes are equal (case in point, Dream himself is said to have crossed the MEH through copious amounts of child abuse [[spoiler:to the point his victim almost killed himself]], but most characters have not committed crimes to ''this'' severity), 2) some people have perfectly or at least relatively sympathetic reasons for doing bad things, and 3) several characters have recognized that their previous actions were bad and are actively [[TheAtoner working towards a redemption arc]], the Dream SMP actually leans closer towards either GreyAndGrayMorality, BlackAndGreyMorality, or MoralityKitchenSink than this trope. Also, considering the one voicing this opinion is ''Dream'', the resident child-abuser and serial killer who did so to satisfy his own ControlFreak nature and/or for his own amusement (and, for the record, is utterly ''shameless'' about this), we should probably take this viewpoint [[UnreliableNarrator with all the salt in the shaker]].
280* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' occasionally pitches two villains against one another:
281** The Darth Vader vs. Hitler battles of the first three seasons, with both parties bragging about how much more ''evil'' they are compared to the other.
282** ComicBook/TheJoker vs. [[Literature/{{IT}} Pennywise]] sees a face-off between two {{Monster Clown}}s.
283%%* The ''WebVideo/HitlerRants'' videos usually pit Hitler against antic masters, other dictators, other Nazis, and even [[WhichMe other Hitlers!]]
284* Given the fact ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'' takes place in a world where almost everyone is a CardCarryingVillain, these types of clashes happen fairly often. The main CorruptCorporateExecutive regularly butts heads with his maniacally Evil rival, [[DatingCatwoman and love interest]], as well as a [[AIIsACrapshoot hostile A.I. program]] and DirtyCommunists all within the first few episodes.
285* ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'': The episode “Honey Queen” pits wealthy debutante Linda against primadonna barista Zoey as they compete to win their town’s local beauty pageant. On one side is Linda, who is willing to bribe a boat captain to strand an opponent at sea, and blackmail her competition. One the other side is Zoey, who is willing to [[spoiler: kill her own grandmother and kidnap Linda’s kid]] in order to win.
286* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'': Both Yahweh, the being worshiped as {{God}} in the Judeo-Christian community and {{Satan}}, fought over the world. They regarded human beings as weaklings they could [[ForTheEvulz torment]] or demand [[BlindObedience unyielding obedience from]]. The former turned damned humans into his playthings and meals. The latter turned loyal humans into his abused servants. In 2008, both decided that humanity's time was up. Humanity responded rather violently.
287* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has the [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/competitive-eschatology-hub Competitive Eschatology Canon]], where [[AllMythsAreTrue every single myth]] detailing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt kicks into full gear, all at the same time. Each world-ender wants to end the world in their own specific way, which puts it in conflict with every other world-ender and ''their'' plans to end the world.
288* ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'': In the episode about [[ScrewedByTheLawyers Spider-Man's MCU scare]], the producer from Marvel Studios and the producer from Sony quarrel over who gets to have the rights to make money off of Spider-Man. Downplayed in that while they aren't monstrously evil, they're equally greedy, and aren't sympathetic enough for it to be a case of GreyAndGrayMorality.
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