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5->'''Waitress:''' Do you two know each other?\
6'''Amanda:''' Oh, they have warring karate dojos.
7-->-- ''Series/CobraKai'' (in a nutshell)
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9A pair of rival schools of martial arts, run by a pair of masters who have probably been feuding for years before the series even started. If ''dojo'' is applied to non-Japanese martial arts, its use is an example of the InterchangeableAsianCultures trope.
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11Most often, but not always, the two masters were students of the same martial arts style before branching off to [[OpposingCombatPhilosophies different styles]]: the protagonist usually (but not always) learning under [[TheMentor the benevolent master]] who [[PacifistDojo teaches wisdom and self defense]], while the rival school is run by an EvilMentor who encourages its students to be [[ThugDojo ruthless, aggressive and brutal]]. A tough SenseiForScoundrels who takes the [[CombatPragmatist pragmatic middle-of-the-road approach]] could substitute for either of them.
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13A subset of this trope comes in the form of members of one school (or even an [[ArrogantKungFuGuy unaffiliated challenger looking to show his prowess]]) going to the other dojo and challenging the sensei or top student to a match, usually as an excuse to then completely ransack the dojo, maim everyone inside, and steal a memento of their victory (typically the dojo's marquee). This kind of act, whose exact term is ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dojoyaburi dojoyaburi]]'' (道場破り, "dojo storming"), is TruthInTelevision, and there are stories about brutal dojo wars in historic Japan and more recently in the [[UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts Brazilian vale tudo]] scene.
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15Very often comes up in FightingSeries (with an ElvesVsDwarves bent). This situation often involves or ends with the main students from both schools eventually becoming friends or at least allies (usually after [[DefeatMeansFriendship one of them defeats the other),]] effectively ending the feud, or turning it into a [[FriendlyEnemy friendly rivalry]] (if it wasn't already) instead.
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17See also FeudingFamilies, EnemyMine and FireForgedFriends.
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25* Being the quintessential FightingSeries (at least in Manga), ''Manga/DragonBall'' of course has this, with Goku learning the Turtle Style from the Muten Roshi, while his rival Crane Hermit's teaches his students styles of brutal assassination. Goku fights two members of the Crane School, the Crane Hermit's brother Tao Pai Pai and his star pupil, Tenshinhan. Tenshinhan defeats Goku the first time, but, in a rare occurrence for this trope, his HeelFaceTurn begins even before Goku eventually bests him.
26** The two styles get revived after the events of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' in ''VideoGame/DragonBallOnline'', though the rivalry is more {{friendly|Rivalry}} in nature since they're headed by Kuririn/Krillin and Tenshinhan. There's still a schism between their philosophies, inspired by what each took away from their time fighting alongside [[TheHero Goku]]: the New Turtle School is all about [[SupportPartyMember playing support]], while the New Crane School focuses on performing powerful, decisive [[KiManipulation ki]] attacks.
27* ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' did an episode about a pair of rival Gyms. Each of them tried to earn the right to be the town's official Gym, but their rivalry was escalating into a MobWar that was driving everybody else out of town. In the end, neither of them were worthy enough to be declared as an official Gym.
28* ''Manga/BambooBlade'' has rival Kendo schools.
29* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' has the Ryozanpaku Dojo vs. the criminal organization YAMI. They both are run by superhuman martial artists (that have CharlesAtlasSuperpower to the point they are "PhysicalGod"-level badasses), and they re both (in a way) ArrogantKungFuGuy-types (only the former is the "CondescendingCompassion because they are the only ones that can fight other Masters" type vs. ''actual'' '''murderous''' arrogance), and their conflict essentially boils down to "ThouShaltNotKill and use martial arts to protect people vs. martial arts should be used to kill people and lord over them".
30** On the ''dojoyaburi'' subset, Ryozanpaku gets challenged once in a while... And has a number of specific rules designed to ''extort the challengers'', and once they win they force them to get cured at the clinics of two of their members for an outrageous fee. In Ryozanpaku's defense, they're ''very'' poor and extorting challengers is one of their main ways to fund themselves... And the cures they provide are actually worth more than the challengers are forced to pay (Kenzei and especially Akisame are ''that'' good).
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36* Creator/{{Jackie Chan}}'s first starring role, ''Film/SnakeInTheEaglesShadow'', is about two rival schools, Snake Hand and Eagle Claw. Eagle Claw has exterminated almost every student from Snake Hand. Jackie becomes the last student of the Snake Hand, and incidentally is able to fight the master of Eagle Claw without being killed, so he learns about his style and [[YinYangBomb combines both of them]] into the style that names the film.
37* The central conflict in the Bruce Lee film ''Film/FistOfFury'' is between the hero's Chinese kung-fu school, and an antagonistic Japanese karate school. [[spoiler:By the end, an open conflict between the two schools has left everyone dead except for a few of the hero's friends from the kung-fu school]].
38* ''Franchise/StarWars'': The original trilogy establishes the Light and Dark sides of the force, mastered by Yoda and Darth Sidious, respectively. The Jedi and the Sith teach opposing philosophical approaches to similar martial and magical skill, and have been at each others' throats for twenty-five thousand years.
39* ''Film/NinjaAcademy''. Oddly enough, one of the students at the Hero ninja academy is a mime.
40* ''Film/FistOfLegend'' has the local kung fu school as rivals of the karate dojo of the occupying Japanese. The Chinese are the heroes and the Japanese are the villains, though the most powerful Japanese master is unaffiliated with the local dojo and stands neutral in the feud, even helpfully giving a few tips and lessons to the hero that he uses in the final fight.
41* ''Film/ShaolinAndWutang'', sometimes released as ''Shaolin vs. Wutang'', naturally showcases the rivalry between the two eponymous schools of kung fu, [[LetsYouAndHimFight exacerbated]] by a power-hungry nobleman who fears they might unite against him. Which, of course, they eventually do, once his trickery is revealed.
42* Implied in ''Film/ExecutionersFromShaolin'', where Hung Hsi-Kuan, a former Shaolin monk who practices Tiger Style kung fu, refuses to learn the Crane Style practiced by his wife, Wing Chun, suggesting some bad blood between the two styles. Their son, Wen-Ding, combines both styles, and is ultimately able to defeat the villain where his father had failed.
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47* ''The Gone-Away World'' by Nick Harkaway has a rivalry between a ninja school and a mime school. (Yes, the mimes are martial artists. Don't ask.)
48* As they draw significant influence from UsefulNotes/EuropeanSwordsmanship, (see RealLife below) the Literature/ElsabethSoesten books have this come up quite often. In ''Bait And Switch'' Elsabeth and Husson nearly get into a duel over the superiority of their respective masters.
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54* Bobby Wasabi's (whose local sensei is an AdultChild BigBrotherMentor) and the [[ThugDojo Black Dragons]] (a Cobra Kai {{Expy}}) in ''Series/KickinIt''.
55* ''Franchise/SuperSentai''/''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
56** In ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' and ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', three Rangers are from the Hayate/Wind Ninja Academy and two are from the Ikazuchi/Thunder Academy. They clashed at first with the Thunder ninjas acting as PsychoRangers to the Wind trio, but eventually pulled together to fight the BigBad.
57** Almost the entirety of ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'' is about the battles between the heroic [=GekiJuken=] Beast Arts school and the evil [=RinJuken=] Akugata school. [[spoiler:They wind up joining forces to defeat the Long and his [=GenJuken=] school after Rio discovers he and the rest of the [=RinJuken=] Akugata have been manipulated by Long.]] ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' kept most of this, ''except'' for the part where the villains were portrayed as a school; instead showing them more like the usual MonsterOfTheWeek group.
58* While ''Miyagi-do'' wasn't really a dojo in the original films of ''Film/TheKarateKid'', instead being a single master and disciple, the sequel series ''Series/CobraKai'' plays this trope straight, as original trilogy protagonist Daniel [=LaRusso=] opens a formal ''Miyagi-do'' dojo specifically to counteract the rise of the revived Cobra Kai, which he considers too dangerous to ignore. This is shown to be a misguided error on Daniel's part, as despite the best efforts of both him and Cobra Kai sensei Johnny Lawrence, the rivalry escalates into violence, culminating in [[spoiler:a massive all-out brawl that rips the local high school apart, hospitalizing both Daniel's daughter and Johnny's prize pupil, the latter with a broken spine]].
59** Later in Season 3, Johnny Lawrence opens up a new dojo (Eagle Fang) to serve as a LaResistance to Kreese's Cobra Kai with ex-Cobra Kai students (Miguel, Mitch, Bert, Hawk) as the former's pupils. Eagle Fang later forms an EnemyMine with Miyagi-Do with the common goal of taking down Cobra Kai once and for all.
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65* This was the whole point of the ''FWA Academy vs. WAW Academy - Academy Warfare'' event. This was ''mostly'' put on, since the academy happened to share some of their students, ''mostly''.
66* Coastal Championship Wrestling saw a rivalry between CCW's Bodyslam University and Main Event Training Center after Pablo Marquez left Bodyslam and founded Main Event in protest to Bodyslam's head trainer, Cash Money Alex G, abuse of female students. As it is also in Ft. Lauderdale Florida, The Spot can sometimes act as a third wheel. For those of you worried, this rivalry was just an angle to give CCW Wrestlers something to fight over, Alex G doesn't actually try to hurt students, female or otherwise.
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72* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' naturally has a variant on this (It's technically the same school, but the two teachers use different styles). You get to decide which master's teachings come out on top.
73* ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'': The current official Gym in Saffron City is dedicated to the Psychic-type under Sabrina. Immediately next door is the Fighting-type dojo, which used to be the sanctioned Gym until Sabrina and her followers crushed it (thanks to an ElementalRockPaperScissors advantage), though they still devote themselves to the practice. And then ''the Player'' comes along and sacks the Fighting-dojo ''a second time'', forcing the Karate King to beg him not to take their emblem, instead offering up one of their prize Pokemon.
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79* Judo founder Jigoro Kano had to defeat several other jujutsu schools, among them Teshin Yoshin-Ryu and Ryoi Shinto-Ryu, in order to push his own and create the art as we know it. Ironically, he had to endure a massive loss when his school lost to the Fusen-Ryu faction, from where he brought the groundfighting principles to his art.
80* So common was this in Japan that Kyokushin karate founder Mas Oyama kept [[BatterUp baseball bats]] on his dojo in case of a dojoyaburi.
81* In Brazil, the UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu and Luta Livre, a UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling derivate, schools were bitter enemies, as they featured opposite combat philosophies and taught different social demographics (BJJ was the martial art of the high class and Brazilian elite, while LL dojos were cheaper and friendlier to lower classes and poor people). Eventually Brazilian jiu-jitsu side, led by the ubiquitous Gracie family, got the upper hand and expanded internationally via the UsefulNotes/UltimateFightingChampionship, while luta livre became a shadow of itself and almost faded out.
82** Within the Gracie clan of Brazilian jiu-jitsu schools, Hélio and Carlson Gracie's schools were rivals due to their different approaches to grappling: Carlson defended a very physical, aggresive and top-heavy game, propponent of cross-training to other martial arts like Judo and Wrestling to better one's game, while Hélio's branch had a more orthodox, defensive guard-based Jiu-jitsu. This rivalry was exemplified by a match between Carlson's student Wallid Ismail and Hélio's son, UFC champion Royce Gracie. Royce was choked unconscious after he rolled into turtle position due Ismail's intense game trying to pass his guard.
83** Another branch of BJJ led by Oswaldo Fadda was against the Gracie doctrine overall. Fadda got his black belt through Luiz França, and trained with the poorer folk in the outskirts of Rio while the Gracies focused in the richer strata. In a famous challenge between both schools in 1955 and 1956 resulted in victory in the majority of Fadda's students through leglocks, which were seen as "cheating" and "suburban" by Gracie's students. Although later the relationship between both academies would turn into a FriendlyRivalry, leading to the founding of the Jiu-Jitsu Federation of Guanabara in 1968 by both the Faddas and the Gracies.
84* UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts has a few examples:
85** Chute Boxe and Brazilian Top Team (BTT), with its heyday in the early 2000s at PRIDE. Chute Boxe was mostly based in a very aggressive UsefulNotes/MuayThai style, using BJJ defensively to sprawn-and-brawl, while BTT was founded by Carlson Gracie's student and had a more well-rounded BJJ-based approach. As the two top gyms in Brazil, they started to export their fighters to Japan where they met at PRIDE, supposedly the rivalry started in a discussion-turned-brawl between Ricardo Arona and Wanderlei Silva at the Tokyo Hilton hotel and it just escalated from there: every match where fighters from both camps met were wars filled with hatred, the corners hurled insults at eachother and security had to be careful to stop any potential brawls. The rivalry mostly died out after the demise of PRIDE in 2007, as most fighters of both camps left to [[StartMyOwn Start Their Own]] gyms.
86** {{Invoked}} by defunct MMA promotion International Fight League (IFL), created to rival the {{UsefulNotes/UFC}}. In order to differentiate from their competitor, each IFL card was a showdown between two MMA dojos of at least three fighters, each fighter fighting one match against another in the opposing dojos. The promoters were hoping this would create great rivalries but sadly the IFL went under very soon.
87* Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, which boasted that professional wrestling was the strongest martial art in the world, was notorious for shutting the doors to its dojo when someone came in to challenge any of the professional wrestlers and then giving out {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}}s to the unlucky challengers.
88* Count Dante's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dante#The_Dojo_Wars Dojo Wars]].
89* Comes up throughout the history of UsefulNotes/EuropeanSwordsmanship as well. The rivalry between the Brotherhood of St. Mark and Federfechter in particular stands out, as the former held a monopoly on instruction in the Holy Roman Empire, which the latter infringed upon.
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