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One shall stand, one shall fall.
Now I hate him, and he hates me
What a wonderful animosity
Besides his hat he wears no clothes
Now I have someone to oppose
Yes, I have a nemesis!
— A song about Perry the Platypus and Dr Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb, My Nemesis.

The following have their own pages:

  • Action Man: Action Man has Dr. X in both television series.
  • Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers had a pretty good sized Rogues Gallery for an 80's cartoon, but two out of the four definitely had archenemies. The Queen of the Crowns had Zachary as an archenemy while Killbane and Shane had a long, nasty history that only got worse after most of the Supertroopers went renegade.
  • The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Jimmy has either King Goobot or Professor Calamitous. Goobot was the antagonist of the movie, and an entire special-length episode was dedicated to his return in the series. He also serves as the main antagonist of the Grand Finale, in which he assembles the entirety of Jimmy's Rogues Gallery to defeat him once and for all. However, those are his only 3 appearances in canon, whereas Jimmy faces off against Calamitous far more often. Professor Calamitous also served as the representative Jimmy Neutron villain in both The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour: When Nerds Collide and two installments of Nicktoons Unite!, the former of which saw him teaming up with the other Nicktoon protagonists' nemeses and the latter of which saw him as the unambiguous Big Bad.
    • Ultra Lord has Robo-Fiend.
  • Adventure Time: The Lich for Billy and Finn the Human.
    • Also, the Ice King for Finn and Jake in the first two seasons, from later seasons Fern would then also be this. Martin making a good case for this as well.
    • Jake has his own nemesis in the form of Warren Ampersand.
    • Marceline's own father (Hunson Abadeer) is this to her.
    • For Princess Bubblegum, it's something of a draw between The King of Ooo and Gumbald.
    • Lemonhope has Lemongrab.
    • Much like Marceline, Flame Princess has one in the form of her own father, Flame King.
    • Normal Man has GOLB.
    • BMO has AMO, who serves as something of an Evil Counterpart to him.
    • Slime Princess has Blagertha, who tries to seize control of the Slime Kingdom for herself.
  • In Aladdin: The Series Aladdin had Abis Mal and Mozenrath.
  • The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • Alfred J. Kwak has Dolf, his school bully who grows up to become a fascist dictator, an arms dealer, a corrupt politician, and the henchman of an oil magnate.
  • In Amphibia, Anne Boonchuy has King Andrias. While his antagonism doesn't come apparent to her until over halfway through the season, the king quickly earns Anne's hatred when he tries to kill Sprig by dropping him from his floating castle, and remorselessly stabs Marcy Wu when she used the Calamity Box to create a portal to Earth. The repeated attempted assassinations and Earth invasion plan only make this enmity worse. The fact that Anne ends up the only one who can really do anything about his plans makes this relationship mutual, especially in the Final Battle where she expresses sympathy over his situation of losing his friendships while she restored hers. Despite Andrias ultimately surrendering peacefully, she still makes it clear that she will never forgive him since he had his chances to stop.
  • American Dad! Stan Smith has his high school bully Stelio Kontos.
    • Generally, Santa Claus is the Arch Enemy of the Smiths.
    • Played for laughs with one of Roger Smith's more infamous personas, Ricky Spanish. One episode revealed that another of Roger's personas, Jeannie Gold, is not only his arch enemy, but also...his sister!
  • The Huntsman is Jake's Arch Enemy in American Dragon: Jake Long. Interestingly, he is only #4 on the Dragons' list of the top thirteen threats to the magical world. The #1 threat, the Dark Dragon, is Jake's Grandpa's Arch Enemy.
  • Archer:
    • Sterling Archer has Barry Dylan. Barry worked for the agency's rival ODIN and had prior grude against Archer for droping him off a building. After he's turned into a cyborg, Barry kills both Archer's fiancée and the mostly likly candidate to be Archer's father. Weridly, after several years of tring to kill each other, they actual bury the hatchet in season 11.
      • Archer gets a new arch enemy in season 12 in the form of Fabian Kingsworth, the head of IIA. Not only does Fabian routinely mock Archer and try to steal the agency's work, but he also kidnaps Archer and brainwashes Barry in his attempts to create a protection rack against the entire world.
  • Archie's Weird Mysteries: Jughead Jones has Mr. Avericci, who puts Pop Tate's Chock'lit Shoppe (a restaurant which Jughead is the best customer of) out of business, turns his friends into mannequins, and eventually tries to kill him after Jughead keeps defying Avericci.
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Aqua Teens have the Mooninites, with them being the most reoccurring nuisance they face. They even lead their own Legion of Doom in the Season 2 finale in an effort to destroy the team.
  • Atomic Betty has Maximus I.Q., an Evil Overlord who she opposes on a regular basis, and who created three evil clones of her.
  • The universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender and associated works has the Avatar operate as the force of good and guidance for their lifetime, so some Avatars wind up with multiple enemies, or oppose concepts or the state of society. Part of the role of the Avatar is to not be caught up in personal grudges and attachments. The Avatar Spirit, Raava the spirit of light and peace, does have her personal nemesis equal and opposite in Vaatu the spirit of darkness and chaos. The two were so linked that if one of the two killed the other, the defeated would be reborn from the victor in due time. The two were locked in eternal conflict until Wan interfered and became the first Avatar by upsetting their stalemate.
    • For the series Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar Aang's challenge was the burden of responsibility and the concept of war. His villain was Fire Lord Ozai, though the conflict was not personal for Aang. The deuteragonist Prince Zuko was pushed to see the Avatar as his arch-enemy, the obstacle whose defeat would supposedly allow him to reenter his father's good graces. However Zuko's conflict was also an internal one of ethics versus expectations. Character development for both Aang and Zuko meant confronting the Fire Lord as a proxy for confronting themselves.
      • Zuko has an antagonistic relationship with younger sister Princess Azula. She becomes Zuko's final opponent in the series, while Aang is confronting Ozai.
    • The Legend of Korra follows an arc villain format, where each of the four seasons represents a different conflict and lesson for Korra. Amon was an inherited grudge from an enemy of Avatar Aang, though even for him the personal conflict wasn't the center of his purpose. Zaheer and the Red Lotus were opposed to the concept of the Avatar, and authorities itself, and while they also were not personal, they left a long term psychological impact. Kuvira is directly referred to as Korra's foil, and was meant to embody a possible post-Avatar world. However the most personal and consistent nemesis of Korra, who did have a personal grudge against her, was her uncle, Unalaq:
      • Unalaq was opposing Korra's father since before she was born, and has actively been antagonizing Korra since she was discovered to be the Avatar, as he sided against Wan and Raava in their conflict with Vaatu, and believed humans and spirits should coexist. He is also the only villain to have menaced Korra throughout her life, and even beyond it. He was responsible for the Red Lotus' kidnapping attempt on her as a child, inflicted the most lasting damage to her and the Avatar itself by severing her connection with all of her past lives, taught her Spiritbending, and was a part of what led her to believe Wan was wrong and the human and spirit worlds should be reconnected, effectively getting his goal for the next 10,000 years. Furthermore he became the only Dark Avatar, by freeing and fusing with Vaatu.
    • Some Avatars do have a personal nemesis. This is most closely seen with Avatar Kuruk and the spirit Koh the Face Stealer, who stole his wife's face. Additionally, Avatar Roku had his lifetime friend turned enemy and cause of his death, Fire Lord Sozin.
  • Babar has Rataxes in Babar although how much he is his literal Arch-Enemy and his Friendly Enemy may vary depending of the episode, Rataxes goes from trying to took over Babar's kingdom, kidnap him and the turtle king to avoid the passing of a treaty and threaten to declare war over an stolen good to just having a rivalry in sports' competitions.
    • A more darker Arch-Enemy, of course, is The Hunter, who literally killed his mother.
  • Beavis and Butt-Head have Principal Principal McVicker, who is hostile towards the duo because of the trouble their antics cause.
  • Bob's Burgers
    • Bob Belcher has Jimmy Pesto, Bob's business rival who frequently one-ups him. He also has one in Hugo Habercore, the city health inspector who aims to get the restaurant shut down after Linda left him for Bob. That said, it's more one-sided on Hugo's end.
    • Louise Belcher has guidance councilor Phillip Frond, with his ideas always making her school life harder.
  • The Boondocks:
    • Huey Freeman has Uncle Ruckus. The former is an African-American left-wing activist, while the latter is an African-American (which he is in denial about) Boomerang Bigot. The two of them outright fight in the season 2 premiere, with Ruckus stating he's been waiting for this ever since Huey came into town.
    • Robert Freeman has Colonel H. Stinkmeaner. Stinkmeaner beat and humilated Robert in a fight, and Robert accidently kills Stinkmeaner in their rematch. However, Stinkmeaner's spirit would return to Earth by possessing the body of Tom DuBois, seeking vengeance against Robert.
  • BraveStarr:
    • Marshal BraveStarr has Tex Hex, one of his most recurring adversaries. Although BraveStarr and Tex Hex both have supernatural abilities, BraveStarr is the Marshall of New Texas, while Tex Hex is the leader of the Carrion Bunch outlaw gang responsible for much of the crime in New Texas.
    • Shaman, BraveStarr's mentor has Stampede, Tex Hex's master. Stampede is responsible for the deaths of his people. Shaman came to New Texas because of Stampede.
  • The Evil Emperor Zurg to the title character of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Buzz's secondary archenemy is his former parter Warp Darkmatter. Buzz has also his Abhorrent Admirer Gravitina and his evil Alternate Self, Evil Buzz Lightyear.
  • Cat and Rancid Rabbit from CatDog.
    • CatDog and the Greaser Dogs.
  • Camp Lakebottom: Buttsquat to McGee.
    • Suzi to Gretchen.
  • Camp Lazlo: Lumpus and Edward both see Lazlo as theirs, although Lazlo is nothing but friendly and outgoing toward them.
  • ChalkZone: Rudy Tabootie has his own creation Skrawl, who seeks revenge on Rudy for his grotesque appearance (even though it was Reggie Bullnerd and his friends who ruined his appearance).
  • Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: The Rescue Rangers have Fat Cat and Professor Norton Nimnul as their most prominent enemies.
  • Chowder: Mung Daal has Endive, his large, condescending, and snobbish rival who seeks to screw Mung over whenever she can. "A Taste Of Marzipan" even had them start an outright food war just because Endive copied Mung's food fair recipenote  and the two tried to one-up each other.
  • Clémentine and her Guardian Angel Héméra have Malmoth, a demon after Clémentine's soul.
  • Code Lyoko: The Lyoko Warriors have X.A.N.A., a malevolent artificial intelligence who the Lyoko Warriors spend the entire series and the sequel series Code Lyoko: Evolution opposing.
    • X.A.N.A. is also this to his creator Franz Hopper.
  • The Delightful Children for the main operatives of the Kids Next Door. Especially Numbuh 1.
    • Each operative has their own Arch-Enemies as well. Numbuh 1 had Father who is his Evil Uncle and Chad aka Numbuh 274, the former leader of the KND who hated him because Numbuh 1 was considered to be a better operative than him (which was eventually proven true). Numbuh 2 had Mr. Fizz and Mushi Sanban, Numbuh 3 has Mr. Boss, Numbuh 4 with the Toiletnator and Ernest, and Numbuh 5 has her sister Cree.
  • Conan the Adventurer: Conan has Wrath-Amon, an Evil Sorcerer who turned his family into stone.
  • Katz and Courage had been battling each other from the beginning.
  • Baron Silas Greenback, in henchman Stiletto's words, is the "life long anniversary" of Danger Mouse.
  • Dan Vs.: Dan Mandel has Imposter Dan, who stole Dan's identity, which backfires on the imposter when the real Dan misses his court date, resulting in the imposter being imprisoned for six months. The vengeful Imposter Dan becomes a telemarketer to drive the real Dan crazy.
  • Vlad Plasmius to the eponymous character in Danny Phantom.
  • Daria: Daria Morgendorffer is often at odds with Ms. Angela Li, her corrupt and tyrannical principal.
  • Often played for laughs in Darkwing Duck, where Darkwing would frequently refer as his Arch Enemy/archrival/archnemesis any villain he would have met at least twice. Even a guys whose only power was to have a bunch of penguins at his service to commit robberies was once referred as his Arch-Enemy. However, from a serious point of view, at least three antagonists can be seen as his archenemies:
    • Megavolt initially owned the role, being both the first villain Darkwing chronogically faced (at least in his more "realistic" backstory), a personal enemy and one of the most recurring antagonists. He gradually lost the post to Negaduck however, to the point the recent comic sequel has him retired.
    • Negaduck is mostly considered as the main Arch-Enemy, due to both being an evil counterpart of the hero, the leader of the Fearsome Five and the most popular villain amongst fans.
    • Taurus Bulba, while having only two appearances in the animated series, was the first villain seen onscreen, as well as one of the most fearsome and competent. His link to Gosalyn makes him a personnal villain. As such, he can be considered, in a way, as an Arch-Enemy
  • Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter has Mandark as his archrival, being his Evil Counterpart and intellectual equal
  • Emperor Krulos to Questar and the Dino-Riders.
  • Dragons: The Nine Realms: Tom Kullersen and his dragon Thunder have Buzzsaw, who seeks revenge on Thunder for destroying his lumber company even though it was Buzzsaw's own fault.
  • Captain Hero on Drawn Together belatedly realized that the random homeless guy they ran over was "My... ARCH... NEMESIS!"
    • As an added, subtlety that would only be found on this show, his goal is not Captain Hero's destruction, but to get him to wash his balls. And has succeeded multiple times.
  • The Dreamstone: The Dream Maker, the head Dreammakers' Council, has Zordrak, a former Dreammaker who was exiled for using his powers for evil. Zordrak seeks to steal the Dreamstone from the Dream Maker so he can spread nightmares into the Sleeping World.
  • In DuckTales (1987) Scrooge McDuck's arch rival is Flintheart Glomgold, but his most threatening nemesis is Magica de Spell. If you have to have an obsessive, implacable arch nemesis, might as well be a sexy sorceress.
    • Similarly, the remake has Magica de Spell as Scrooge's "most dangerous" enemy with her secretly plotting against Scrooge for all of Season 1, while Glomgold is a recurring Harmless Villain who's obsessed with overcomplicated revenge plots which tend to cartoonishly backfire.
      Glomgold: Wait, how did you know it was me?
      Louie: It's always you.
      Glomgold: AND IT ALWAYS WILL BE! AHAHAHAHAHA!
      • The remake also give Gizmoduck one as well. Ironically, it's one of the original characters meant to go against Scrooge, but Mark Beaks has clashed far more and is far more personal a foe with Fenton.
      • Also in the remake, Della Duck has General Lunaris.
    • In the comics, he has three, Flimheart Glomgold, John D. Rockerduck and his most threatening nemesis is Blackheart Beagle who eventually recruits all the other recurring villains into his Legion of Doom.
    • With the reveal of him being the head of F.O.W.L. Bradford Buzzard, the former chairman of Scrooge's board of directors, have become one of, if not the, big nemesis for Scrooge. Unlike with his other nemesis Scrooge does treat Bradford very seriously due to how well Bradford knows him and his secrets, to the point that he doubts for a time that he can win against him. Later it is revealed that Bradford is the one who arranged for Della to learn about the Spear of Selene and get lost into space, cementing him as Scrooge's most personnal and hated enemy.
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Eds have the Kanker Sisters, their Abhorrent Admirers. Eddy also has an antagonistic relationship with Jerk Jock Kevin. In one episode, Kevin used Eddy's Embarrassing Middle Name to blackmail Eddy into humiliating himself, only for Kevin to tells the other kids Eddy's middle name anyways.
  • Vicky and Crocker on The Fairly OddParents! fits this for Timmy. The former is the reason why he had his fairies in the first place.
    • The episode "The Masked Magician" parodies the trope to Fairyland and back.
    • The Crimson Chin ostensibly has The Bronze Kneecap, but he's a pretty minor character overall and much more attention is paid to The Chin's conflict with The Nega-Chin.
    • For the fairies themselves, its their anti fairy counterparts.
  • Family Guy:
    • Ernie the Giant Chicken and Carter Pewterschmidt to Peter Griffin. Though the latter is sometimes mutual and sometimes one-sided (on Carter's part).
    • Glenn Quagmire to Brian Griffin. They eventually patch things up, though there's still some lingering friction between them.
      • Quagmire briefly had Jeffrey Fecalman, his sister Brenda's abusive boyfriend.
    • Stewie Griffin's arch enemy was his half brother Bertram, up until he was Killed Off for Real. You could also make a case for Lois Griffin, who Stewie was hellbent on killing in early seasons.
    • The Evil Monkey to Chris, up until it's revealed the Monkey was Good All Along and just bad at making conversation.
    • Joe Swanson had Bobby Briggs, who was responsible for crippling him.
  • Felix the Cat: The Professor serves as Arch Enemy for Felix.
  • Final Space:
    • The Lord Commander is one for the Galaxy One especially Avocato and Gary with holding the former's son hostage and ripping off the arm of the latter.
    • Oreskis made enmity with Bolo after he gave Bolo's lover an STD. Invictus also functions as one for Bolo due to Invictus being behind the Titans' corruption.
    • Wehrent became Ash Graven's archenemy after he ate her little sister.
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends:
    • Mac and Terrence
    • Bloo and Berry
    • Imaginary Man has one literally named Nemesister
  • Freakazoid! is another example of a series where the Arch Enemy and the most dangerous enemy are not one and the same. The Lobe is the Arch Enemy, but Freakazoid's most genuinely threatening foe is Corrupt Corporate Executive Armando Gutierrez.
  • In the Futurama movie Into the Wild Green Yonder, the Encyclopod and the Dark One. Their species have been archenemies since time immemorial: the Encyclopods wish to preserve all life and the Dark Ones want to destroy it. After the last Dark One is killed, the last Encyclopod reluctantly decides to preserve its ancient enemy's genetic code. Fortunately, the last Dark One's remains are immediately wholly destroyed making this impossible so the Encyclopod doesn't have to carry its worst enemy on its back.
    • Farnsworth and Wermstorm, thanks to a A- Farnsworth gave to Wernstorm. Farnsworth can also have this with Mom depending on the episode.
  • David Xanatos to Goliath in Gargoyles. Though Xanatos fits best from a series standpoint, from a personal standpoint Demona, the Archmage, and Thailog might also want to claim that spot. From the same series, Tony Dracon is Elisa Maza's Arch Enemy (though he's not much of a threat to the Gargoyles themselves), while the line of Hunters consider themselves Demona's collective Arch Enemy (though in truth hers is probably MacBeth).
  • Generator Rex: Rex Salazar has Van Kleiss, the Big Bad of the first two seasons, a supporting antagonist in the third season, and the killer of Rex's parents.
  • In Gravity Falls, Gideon Gleeful and Bill Cipher are archenemies to Dipper Pines and, in broader strokes, the rest of the Pines family.
    • While the latter treats his feud with the Pines family as something like a amusing game at best, he has a far more personal, venomous hatred for the Time Baby, and the Time Baby isn't very fond of him either. When Bill finally is able to manifest a physical form, the moment Time Baby shows up at his doorstep, he vaporizes Time Baby on the spot.
  • Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai: Sam Wing has Riley Greene, who ate his grandfather.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy:
    • Grim has Boogey, his high school bully who continues to torment him in the present and whose actions led to the falling out between Grim and his good friend Velma Green and in turn Grim being the Grim Reaper in the first place. Grim also has Jack O'Lantern, who forced Grim to grant him eternal life centuries ago, causing Grim to retaliate by removing Jack's head.
    • Billy sees Jeff as his, although it's entirely one-sided and irrational as Jeff just wants Billy to love him. He could be said to have a true nemesis in the form of Sperg.
    • Mandy has Mindy, her rival at school.
    • For the trio as a whole, there's Eris and Nergal. Though, the latter became more of a Sitcom Arch-Nemesis in the later seasons
  • Grossology: Abby and Ty Archer have Lance Boil, a treacherous former member of the Grossologists who is repeatedly defeated by the duo.
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021):
    • Invoked by the Sapient Cosmic Forces of Grayskull and Havoc. If a person wields one of the powers, the other power will eventually find someone to wield it, creating a "Nemesis". To fully master either power, one must overcome their Nemesis in a final confrontation. As it happens, every Master of the Universe had a prior antagonistic relationship with who became their Dark Master Nemesis.
    • Keldor kidnapped his nephew Adam and used him as a hostage to try and steal the Power of Grayskull. But where Keldor failed a Secret Test of Character and was cursed with Havoc, Adam passed the test and was chosen for Grayskull. Events lead to Adam losing his memory and thus his family in Eternos thanks to Keldor, and years later as He-Man prevented Keldor from claiming the Power of Grayskull for good. Keldor then embraced Havoc and was transformed into Skeletor, who threatens all of Eternia in his powerlust.
    • Evelyn took the Street Urchin Teela under her wing to use her to steal artifacts related to the Power of Grayskull, a power Evelyn spent her entire life studying to obtain. Teela is eventually guided by the voice of the Guardian of Grayskull and is chosen by its power to become Sorceress, making her leagues stronger in magic than Evelyn. Evelyn is now Driven by Envy to use Havoc and prove herself the better spellcaster than someone who "lucked into" getting what she desired.
    • Kronis was Duncan's Evil Mentor who forced the boy to do all of his menial inventive work. Duncan was strictly under Kronis's thumb until the day he was ordered to burn down a village full of innocents, at which time he finally defected and became a Master of the Universe. Kronis doesn't like his apprentice turning against him and takes perverse delight in trying to kill his former ward.
    • The beastopoid R'Qazz had captured and enslaved the sapient tiger Cringer in his youth to make him fight in Beastly Bloodsports. Cringer refused to fight, which lead to his insulting name and R'Qazz declawing Cringer. Cringer eventually escaped, but still bears the physical and emotional scars from his imprisonment. Meanwhile, R'Qazz sees Cringer as the one that got away and is hellbent on having Cringer fight to the death for his amusement.
    • A Driving Question for Krass in season two is why she's the only Master of the Universe who doesn't have a Nemesis, which seems to relate to why she hasn't mastered the Power of Grayskull to the same level as her fellow Masters. As it's revealed in the season two finale, Krass is her own Nemesis due to having both powers within her.
  • Hercules has Hades, his Evil Uncle who tried to have him killed when he was a baby. He is later indirectly responsible for the death of Meg, who is killed by a cyclops Hades sent to kill Hercules.
  • How to Train Your Dragon: Drago Bludvist to House Haddock. Bludvist is responsible for the deaths of both Valka's Bewilderbeast and Stoick the Vast, the latter of whom was killed by Hiccup's dragon Toothless under the hypnosis of Drago's Bewilderbeast.
    • Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III had Dagur the Deranged, who sought vengeance on him after learning he deceived Dagur. Dagur eventually loses the position of Hiccup's archenemy to Viggo Grimborn, one of the few people capable of outsmarting Hiccup.
    • Toothless has Grimmel the Grisly, who is responsible for the Night Fury genocide which made Toothless the Last of His Kind. Grimmel also becomes this to Hiccup by trying to force him to hand Toothless over to him, burning his house, and threatening to "destroy everything [Hiccup] [loves]" if does not cooperate, which prompts Hiccup to migrate his people from Berk to the Hidden World.
  • Infinity Train: MT has the Flecks, who spend the first two seasons relentlessly hunting her down. It seems to be particularly personal between her and Mace, the leader of the duo, as Sieve at least tries to be personable, while Mace is nothing but cold. She and Mace eventually get an entire episode together that puts the hatred between the two of them on full display.
  • Inspector Gadget, has Doctor Claw, a Diabolical Mastermind who constantly swears vengeance against Gadget, unaware that it is actually Penny and Brain who do most of the work in foiling Claw's plans.
  • Invader Zim: Zim has Dib Membrane. Zim is an alien trying to Take Over the World, and Dib seeks to expose him.
  • On Jackie Chan Adventures, Shendu is this to the Chan family as a whole, Jackie is particular. He's the Big Bad of the first two seasons, the Final Boss of Season 3, and the father of Season 5 villain Drago. He's their most dangerous and persistent enemy, and the one who seems to have the greatest grudge against them.
    • Speaking of Drago, he apparently had this relationship with Jade in the future, and it sorta trickles down to her present day self.
    • And then, of course, there's Uncle and Daolon Wong.
  • Jem:
    • Jerrica Benton has Eric Raymond, her corrupt business rival who schemes to take to take over Starlight Music.
    • Jerrica's alter ego Jem, the lead singer of the Holograms, has Pizzazz, the lead singer of the Misfits, a rival band who antagonize the Holograms.
  • Jimmy Two-Shoes: Jimmy Two-Shoes has Lucius Heinous VII, who seeks to make people miserable and despises Jimmy for being The Pollyanna.
  • We never learn the details, but as per some kind of feud stretching to before the series, Dr. Quest and Dr. Zin seem to both hate and grudgingly respect one another's guts in Jonny Quest.
  • Johnny Test and Bling-Bling Boy are sorta this. They're a dubious example mainly because Johnny also doubles as his Only Friend.
  • Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous: The Camp Fam have Daniel Kon, who is the President of Mantah Corp and the emotionally abusive father of Camp Fam member Kenji. In Season 5, he temporarily manages to turn his son Kenji against the rest of the Camp Fam, and in the Grand Finale, he reveals that he had Kash D. Langford blackmail Sammy's family.
  • Kid vs. Kat: Coop has Kat, with Coop being the only one wary of Kat's plans of world domination and his bent on stopping and exposing him.
  • Dr. Drakken is Kim Possible's self-proclaimed arch foe, although Shego is her foil and the one she actually locks fists with. More specifically Drakken is an arch foe and Shego is the nemesis.
    • Kim also has Professor Dementor, who sought her Battle Suit. He hijacked control of the Battle Suit while Kim's boyfriend Ron was using it, and forced Ron to attack her. He later kidnapped Kim's cousin Larry.
    • Ron Stoppable's Arch Foe is Monkey Fist, but that's mostly because Fist is the only one who recognizes Ron's name; that and the "Mystical Monkey Power."
  • Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness:
    • Po has Temutai and Hundun.
      • Temutai is a warrior king who Po prevented from enslaving a princess. Temutai later attacks the Jade Palace in both "Owl Be Back" and "Master and the Panda".
      • Hundun has a vendetta against Po for causing his to lose his job as a guard for the Chorh-Gom Prison by Tai Lung, who was the sole person incarcerated there. Although Po befriended and trained Hundun in an effort to help him get his life back on track, Hundun turned on Po once he found out Po was the Dragon Warrior who defeated Tai Lung, and even threatened Po's father Mr. Jing. Hundun's attempt at revenge results in his horn being broken, and him being incarcerated at Chorh-Gom Prison. In Challenge Day", Hundun escapes prison and seeks to replace Po as the Dragon Warrior.
    • Shifu has Junjie, has Evil Former Friend.
  • The Legend of Vox Machina: Percival de Rolo has Lord Sylas and Lady Delilah Briarwood, who massacred most of his family.
  • Imperiex and Superman clone Kell-El in Legion of Super Heroes (2006).
  • Lilo & Stitch have Jacques von Hämsterviel (the treacherous former partner of Stitch's creator) and Gantu (who was forcibly retired from his job as a Captain of the Galactic Federation after his conflict with them in the first film) as their most prominent enemies.
  • The Lion King: Simba has Scar, his Evil Uncle who killed his father and usurped the kingdom Simba was supposed to inherit.
  • The Little Mermaid: King Triton has Ursula, who seeks to usurp him.
  • The Loud House: Lincoln Has Chandler. Chandler refused to allow Lincoln and Clyde to come to them party after scamming him for money from Lincoln's oldest sister Lori at Gus's games and grub in Chandler's debut episode "The Waiting Game". As of Season 5, they are also bitter classmates since "Schooled".
  • Looney Tunes:
    • Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck have Elmer Fudd, a hunter who keeps trying to kill them. Yosemite Sam is also a prominent recurring foe to Bugs.
    • Even though they only encountered each other in one of the classic shorts, subsequent media often pitted Duck Dodgers against Marvin the Martian (referred to as X-2 in the 2003 animated series).
    • Tweety has Sylvester, a cat who keeps trying to eat him.
    • The Road Runner has Wile E. Coyote, who keeps trying to eat him, often by using Acme Corporation equipment, which constantly backfires of Wile E. Coyote.
  • Dr. Pretorius to The Mask in the animated series, at least for being the most recurring villain.
  • Masters of the Universe:
  • Max Steel: Max Steel has Psycho, who caused the accident that gave Josh his superpowers.
  • Max Steel (2013):
    • Max McGrath has Miles Dredd, his parents' treacherous former associate.
    • Steel has Makino, the the leader of the Ultralinks, who Steel betrayed.
  • ''Men in Black: The Series": Agent J and K have Alpha, one of the founders and the original leader of MIB, who's now the most recurrent and dangerous enemy of the Men In Black. Kay in particular has a very deep and personal feud with Alpha, as Alpha was his friend and mentor before the rogue agent betrayed and nearly-murdered him.
  • Metalocalypse:
    • Dethklok have Mr. Salacia and Magnus Hammersmith.
      • Mr. Salacia is the leader of the Tribunal, an organization which spies on Dethklok. In Season 4, Salacia kills The Team Benefactor Roy Cornickelson.
      • Magnus Hammersmith is a former member of Dethklok who seeks revenge against them for kicking him out.
    • Charles Foster Offdensen has several encounters with the Metal Masked Assassin. In one of their encounters, Offdensen break's the Assassin's arm, stabs his back, and kicks him into a bay. In a later encounter, the Assassin cuts Offdensen's cheek.
  • Mickey Mouse:
  • Mighty Max:
    • Max and Virgil have Skullmaster, who is both the villain Max is destined to defeat, and the Evil Former Friend and the former apprentice of Vergil.
    • Norman has Spike, who killed his father thousands of years before the events of the series.
  • Milo Murphy's Law: Milo Murphy has King Pistachion, an Evil Overlord who was created when a sentient blob inadvertently created by Milo merged with a pistachio plant. Milo later has the Alien Commander, who spies on, and later kidnap Milo twice. Their conflict ends when Milo helps her save her home planet, which was the reason she was trying to capture him in the first place.
  • Miraculous Ladybug:
    • Ladybug and Cat Noir have a collective one in Hawk Moth, who seeks to take their Miraculouses and use their power to achieve a world-altering wish. For the latter he also doubled as a Archnemesis Dad, though neither father or son are aware of this.
    • Ladybug/Marinette also has Lila Rossi, who despises both of her identities despite not knowing they are the same person. Both of them have crushes on Adrien, which led to Lila developing a vendetta against Ladybug for exposing her lies to him, and when Marinette made it clear she wouldn't take any of Lila's verbal bait, she sought to turn all of her friends against her, at one point even getting Marinette expelled.
  • Moral Orel: Orel Puppington has his abusive father Clay, who seeks to raise Orel into becoming like him. Despite his abuse, Orel looked up to Clay until he (Clay) shot Orel in a hunting trip, blamed Clay for it, ripped his lucky shirt, joked about his (Clay's) "lucky gun [trumping] [Orel's] lucky shirt", and drunk a bottle of rubbing alcohol to spite him.
  • Mr. Pickles has the titular demonic Border Collie and Grandpa Henry Gobbleblobber who dedicates his time trying to expose Mr. Pickles for what he was.
  • My Life as a Teenage Robot: Jenny to Vexus and Vexus to Jenny.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • Although the show works on a Monster of the Week format that discourages recurring enemies, Princess Celestia is only ever shown to have personal animosity towards one individual: Discord. He was the first character Celestia ever actually sent the Mane Six to defeat, and the first time we ever see her angry or genuinely surprised are when he steals the Elements of Harmony. He, of course, thinks this is all great fun. Now that Discord has pulled a Heel–Face Turn, this probably no longer applies, even if he's still a loose cannon.
    • Diamond Tiara and (occasionally) Silver Spoon to the Cutie Mark Crusaders (but mostly Apple Bloom). Diamond Tiara does not like Apple Bloom one bit and all of her appearances show her trying to hurt and humiliate the "blank-flank". She eventually makes a Heel–Face Turn too, though she quickly suffers from Demoted to Extra for the remainder of the series.
    • Spike and Garble have an intense, personal, and mutual hatred of each other — Spike hates Garble for being a violent bully, and Garble hates Spike for being a Category Traitor. All three of Spike's trips to the Dragon Lands have had him put Garble in his place. His fourth trip ends with the two burying the hatchet.
    • Applejack, the living embodiment of honesty, has a heated rivalry with Snake Oil Salesmen Flim and Flam. It doesn't help that at least two of their cons have involved personally screwing over her and her family.
    • For the Mane Six as a whole, Queen Chrysalis is the most prominent threat who refuses to either a. turn good or b. stay down.
    • Discord and Lord Tirek both share an intense, mutual hatred. Tirek took great pleasure in manipulating and betraying Discord. Discord is the one who seals Tirek's ultimate fate of being turned into stone. And it's implied that the two of them have met long before and not on good terms.
  • My Gym Partner's a Monkey: Adam has the school's resident bully, Bull Sharkowski.
  • Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas, with their rivalry originating from the prequel games.
  • Ninjago:
  • OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: K.O. has his Archnemesis Dad Professor Venomous, and Venomous' alter ego Shadowy Figure. K.O. also has Lord Boxman, who seeks to destroy Lakewood Plaza Turbo, which is where K.O. works.
  • The Owl House:
    • Eda Clawthorne and Lilith Clawthorne had not seen eye to eye for years largely because of Lilith working for the Emperor's Coven. Worse, "Agony of a Witch" reveals that Lilith cursed Eda so she could have a likelier chance to win a position. Lilith had to do a lot to regain her relationship with her sister.
    • Boscha is this to Willow having bullied her for years and is still hellbent on terrorizing her even when Amity started to defend her.
    • Luz Noceda and Emperor Belos. This is sealed when Luz uses fire glyphs to destroy the portal to the human world thus earning Belos' fury. Their further encounters in the second season only make this worse, as Luz has to live with the realization she helped Belos rise to power in a stable time loop while Belos gets tricked and branded by Luz in the Season 2 finale, putting him at risk of his own genocide plan.
    • Amity Blight's relationship with her mother Odalia was always tense, but Amity disowns her in the season 2 episode "Clouds On The Horizon" when Odalia reveals that she is backing Belos in achieving the Day of Unity under the notion that she (primarily) and her family would rule as lesser royalties in the new world. She also finds out that Amity was dating Luz and tries to drive a wedge into it.
  • The Penguins of Madagascar: The titular penguins, especially Skipper, Dr. Blowhole, a Mad Scientist dolphin who they have multiple encounters with. Even before Blowhole's first onscreen introduction, Skipper refers to him as "my mad dolphin nemesis" in the episode "Eclipsed", during which he belives Blowhole as having blown out the sun when he sees a solar eclipe. In "Dr Blowhole's Revenge", he kidnaps King Julien under the belief he is Skipper's best friend.
  • Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero: Penn Zero has Rippen, who trapped his parents in the Most Dangerous World Imaginable.
  • Perry the Platypus and Dr Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb are acknowledged to be this, though Perry likely doesn't really respect Doofenshmirtz as a nemesis. Even so, the relationship is very important to both of them, and any time it's interrupted is treated like a romantic break-up.
  • Popeye
    • Bluto, despite only appearering in one storyline in the original comic strip, became by far the most recurring antagonist in the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios cartoons, and has been Popeye's go-to archenemy ever since. He has appeared in multiple cartoons and comics, and was even the Big Bad of the 1980 live-action film.
    • The Sea Hag is an even earlier villain than Bluto, serving as the primary and most recurring antagonist in the original comics. She was absent from the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios cartoons, but later became one of Popeye's primary foes in 1960s Popeye television series. In The All-New Popeye Hour, the Sea Hag was much less-frequent as an adversary than Bluto, but usually served as a more serious threat. She is the Big Bad of Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy.
  • The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
    • Mojo Jojo for all 3 girls. Not only is he the girls' most common enemy, as well as the one who most consistently comes close to actually defeating them, he's also connected to their origins since not only did he gain his super-intelligence from the same accident that created the girls (which he himself caused), but as The Powerpuff Girls Movie shows, he's also the first villain they stopped, which led to the girls using their powers to become heroes.
    • Princess Morbucks for Blossom.
    • HIM for Bubbles.
    • The Gangreen Gang for Buttercup.
    • In the 2016 series, Buttercup has Manboy, a He-Man Woman Hater who targets her for defeating him.
  • Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: Randy Cunningham has the Sorcerer, who repeatedly turns his fellow students into monsters.
  • ReBoot: Bob, Enzo Matrix, Dot Matrix, and Hexedecimal have Megabyte.
    • Megabyte betrays Bob during the Web War, resulting in Bob being stranded in the Web, and who later impersonates Bob and nearly marries Dot.
    • Enzo Matrix is forced to assume the role of Mainframe's Guardian when Megabyte banishes Enzo's idol and predecessor Bob into the Web. After Megabyte takes over the city of Mainframe, Matrix confronts and defeats Magabyte in one-on-one combat (with a help of a trident AndrAIa tosses to Matrix).
    • Dot Matrix was nearly tricked by Megabyte in to marrying her. Later, when Megabyte took over Mainframe and renamed it Megaframe, Dot formed a rebellion against him with the help of Mouse.
    • Megabyte has a violent Sibling Rivalry with his sister Hexadecimal, who is the Chaos to Megabyte's Order.
  • Regular Show:
    • Pops is eventually revealed to have one in the form of Anti-Pops.
    • Benson arguably has Gene, the manager of a rival park that is engaged in a constant prank war for the main characters.
    • Skips has Klorgbane, who killed his girlfriend and with whom he engages in an epic cosmic battle every 157 years.
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show: Ren and Stimpy hads Victor, a bully who beats them up.
  • Rick and Morty: The Council of Ricks and the Galactic Federation for Rick Sanchez C-137.
    • The first episode of Season 5 introduces Rick's personal arch-nemesis, Mr. Nimbus. Funnily enough, neither his family nor the viewers ever heard about him until then.
    • Rick used to have Tammy Guterman, a Galactic Federation agent who shot his friend Birdperson in the Season 2 finale. Rick eventually kills her in the Season 4 finale.
    • Rick also has Evil Morty, The Man in Front of the Man to Evil Rick, the first person to hack into Rick's portal gun. Evil Morty later hacks into Rick's portal gun again, preventing him from teleporting, and leaves Rick and Morty stranded in space until they are rescued by Space Beth.
    • Rick's most personal adversary, however, is Rick Prime, who killed his original family.
  • Robot Chicken: Chicken has Fritz Hühnermörder, the Mad Scientist who reanimated him as a cyborg and forced him to watch television for the first five seasons of the show. When Chicken escapes, Fritz kidnaps Chicken's wife Cluckerella, which sends Chicken on a Roaring Rampage of Rescue. This results in Chicken defeating Fritz, who is subjected to the same torture he inflicted on Chicken.
  • Robotboy: Robotboy has Dr. Kamikazi, a Mad Scientist who seeks to capture him.
  • Rocko's Modern Life: Rocko Rama has his antagonistic neighbor Ed Bighead.
  • Rocky and Bullwinkle: Rocky and Bullwinkle have Fearless Leader, whose evil plans repeatedly bring him into conflict with the duo.
  • Rugrats: Tommy has his selfish older cousin Angelica, but there many episodes of the show where he doesn't think of her as a enemy and usually repeats her regardless of how she normally is.
    • For Chuckie its Coco from the second movie, she almost became his mother when she seduced his father Chas and temporarily stole his teddy bear.
  • Samurai Jack: Jack's arch-enemy is the shapeshifting demonic Big Bad Aku, who is responsible for both destroying Jack's old kingdom and killing his father, as well as flinging him into the Bad Future where Aku believed he would have no trouble dispoosing of the "FOOLISH SAMURAI!". Deconstructed in Season 5, where it's shown that both have gotten plain tired from being in a stalemate for the last 50 years.
  • Scaredy Squirrel gives us Scaredy, Nester and Paddy
  • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Scooby-Doo has Professor Pericles, the overall Big Bad of the series and Scooby's Evil Counterpart. Both Scooby and Pericles are Anunnaki, and Pericles is the for mascot of the original Mystery Incorporated (who Pericles betrayed). In Where Walks Aphrodite, Pericles uses Scooby as a pawn. When Season 1 ends with Pericles in an advantageous position over the heroes, Scooby vows to come after him.
    Scooby-Doo:I'll get the gang back together, Pericles, we'll be coming for you, or my name isn't Scooby-Dooby-Doo!
  • The Secret Saturdays: The Saturday family has V.V. Argost, who is responsible for the deaths of several of Doc's friends, and who killed Drew's parents (and by extension Zak's maternal grandparents).
  • She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Adora and Catra. The two were raised together, and are functionally sisters in all but blood, but the manipulations of their mother-figure Shadow Weaver left a lot of deepset issues between them. Namely, that Adora feels anything Catra does is her responibility, while Catra believes she's Always Second Best to Adora. After Adora's Heel Realization and defection to the Rebellion, Catra feels personally betrayed, and becomes increasingly determined to finally "win" over Adora, no matter the cost, even sacrificing her chance to start a new life as a crime-lord in the Crimson Wastes where everyone admired her strength. This finally reaches it's breaking point in the Season 3 finale when Catra triggers The End of the World as We Know It just so she can finally "beat" Adora at something, with only Queen Angella's Heroic Sacrifice preventing it. After that, Adora makes it clear that whatever their previous relationship may have been, Catra's dead to her now.
  • Eric Needles and Professor Pampelmoose in Sidekick.
  • Mon*Star to Stargazer, Quicksilver and the SilverHawks. (Funny part is that they were voiced by the same actor.)
  • The Simpsons:
    • Bart Simpson has several archenemies, varying from simple school rivalries with fellow students and teachers to much more serious life-and-death scenarios:
      • In Season 1, Bart has Nelson Muntz, a fellow elementary school student who bullies him leading to Bart raising an army of fellow victims to fight back against him. In later seasons, Nelson's character is softened and the pair become Friendly Enemies, although Depending on the Writer Nelson can sometimes return to being Bart's bully.
      • Principal Seymour Skinner, who has no patience for Bart's pranks and efforts to bring chaos to the school and seeks instead to bring order.
      • Sideshow Bob, who Bart had put in jail after Bob attempted to frame Krusty the Clown for armed robbery. This is a much more serious and deadly relationship with Bob trying to kill Bart in revenge and Bart trying to put Bob back in jail. Bob has even admitted that he would have no idea what to do with his life if he ever actually succeeded in killing Bart.
      • According to a throw-away gag in one episode, he also has Dr. Demento, though Demento is yet to appear in person on the show.
    • In the movies-within-the-show, McBain's archrival is Mendoza. Mendoza!!!!!!!
    • Even Maggie has the the one-eyebrowed Baby Gerald.
    • Homer Simpson's archenemies are Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Frank Grimes, and Patty and Selma.
      • Although with Grimes it's mainly one sided, Homer seemed to actually quite like him. It's also one-sided with Homer and Flanders, since Flanders considers him to be a close friend.
      • Homer has also repeatedly come into conflict with the mob boss Fat Tony. In Homie the Clown, Tony mentions that Homer once "crashed his car through the wall of [his gang's] club." In Mayored to the Mob, Homer learns Fat Tony is secretly selling rat milk to the school his children attend. Homer convinces Mayor Quimby to shut down the operation, and later foils Tony's attempt to have Quimby assassinated in retaliation. In Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge, Homer establishes a security company which arrests Fat Tony, who tries to kill Homer in retaliation. In Donnie Fatso, Homer infiltrates Fat Tony's syndicate on behalf of the FBI. Fat Tony dies of a heart attack after discovering Homer's betrayal.
    • Played for Laughs, along with Violent Glaswegian, when Groundskeeper Willie attributes this status to Scotland and a variety of other countries...including Scotland.
      Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
  • Skysurfer One and Cybron from Skysurfer Strike Force. On the one hand, Cybron is responsible for stealing a an experimental computer brain from an A.I. lab, then blowing it to kingdom come, letting Sky's father (who Cybron may have also killed) take the blame. On the other hand, Skysurfer One and the other Skysurfers routinely stop his attempts to Take Over the World.
  • Eric Cartman and Kyle Broflovski from South Park. It was mostly onesided on Cartman's side earlier on, but the two snowballed into mortal enemies somewhere in the fifth season, and has jumped up a notch with every subsequent season. Cartman even acknowledges that he and Kyle are arch enemies in "Grounded Vindaloop".
    • Also, Scott Tenorman to his half-brother Cartman.
    • Wendy Testaburger probably also considers Cartman her archenemy.
    • Cartman's alter-ego the Coon is this to Mysterion (Kenny McCormick).
    • Stan Marsh's Arch Enemy is his abusive sister, Shelley, until she gets overshadowed by their father Randy, who becomes the Arch Enemy for both of them. In A Nightmare on Face Time, Randy forces his family to work at a Blockbuster store he bought, which prevents Stan from trick-or-treating. Shelley ends up burning the store down. In Season 22, Randy uproots him family from South Park so he can become a weed farmer, which eventually causes so much friction between Randy and the rest of the family that by the time of the Season 23 episode Season Finale, Stan, Shelley, and their mom/Randy's wife Sharon celebrate Randy's arrest. In the Bad Future of Season 24, Stan burns Tegridy Farms down, accidentally killing Shelley in the process, which drives Sharon to suicide, with Stan and Randy both blaming each other for their deaths.
    • Nathan is this to Jimmy Valmer and, to a lesser extent, Timmy.
    • Season 19's Big Bad Leslie Meyers is this to PC Principal.
    • President Herbert Garrison is this to Tweek Tweak.
    • The Boys have their on-and-off teacher, Mr. Garrison (temporarily known as Mrs. Garrison). In Weight Gain 4000, he accidentally kills Kenny. In The Death Camp of Tolerance, his attempts to intentionally get fired result in Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and many of their fellow students being sent to tolerance camp when they try to complain about his conduct. In Follow That Egg, Garrison, now a woman, attempts to sabotage the science project she gave Stan and Kyle as part of a plot to prevent the legalization of gay marriage. In Go God Go, she pushes for the abolition of religion, creating the Bad Future which Cartman is stranded in. After becoming a man again, Mr. Garrison becomes a President Evil after being fired from teaching, spending several seasons as one of the show's Big Bads. In Super Hard PCness, Kyle inadvertently convinces President Garrison to nuke Canada, leaving Kyle horrified. In The Pandemic Special, Garrison prolongs the COVID-19 pandemic by sabotaging efforts to find a vaccine, which eventually leads to Stan, Kyle and Cartman dissolving their friendship in South ParQ Vaccination Special. An older Kenny blamed the dissolution of said friendship for the Bad Future seen in Post Covid.
    • Gerald Broflovski has Lennart Bedrager during Season 20. Gerald is an online troll who goes by SkankHunt42, while Lennart is the CEO of TrollTrace, a company developing technology that can trace the identities of online trolls. Lennart tests this technology on Fort Collins, resulting in Gerald's associate Anthony Webster being burned alive by the father of a disabled girl he insulted. Lennart later captures Gerald and other fellow trolls, and reveals to Gerald that his ultimate goal is to use TrollTrace to start World War III For the Evulz, which horrifies Gerald.
  • The Smurfs: Gargamel is the most recurring villain in the franchise and the one who causes the Smurfs the most trouble in his quest to capture them.
  • In SpongeBob SquarePants:
    • Mr. Krabs and Plankton.
    • For a couple episodes in the first season, SpongeBob himself had Bubble Bass; a slimy, devious and notoriously hard-to-please connoisseur who served as a Foil to SpongeBob, the workaholic, perfectionist fry cook. This relationship faded out after Bubble Bass vanished from the series, though it's since returned in full force after the latter fully returned.
    • The Flying Dutchman is one of SpongeBob's most dangerous recurring enemies. He attempts to steal the souls of SpongeBob and/or his friends on multiple occassions.
    • Sometimes: SpongeBob and Plankton.
    • Squidward has his far more successful rival, Squilliam Fancyson.
    • Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy have Man-Ray.
  • Squirrel Boy: Andy and Rodney have their bullies, Kyle and Salty Mike.
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks: The Gelrakians (a crystal-based society) consider the inhabitants of Mavok Prime (a wood-based society) to be their sworn enemies.
  • Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
    • While not always a THREAT, Star Butterfly's arch enemy is the bird man Ludo. He's always sending monsters out to take her wand in Season 1. Then in Season 2, things got more interesting when Ludo Took a Level in Badass, and also became her Evil Counterpart complete with half of star's original wand that he uses for dark magic.
    • Star's mother Moon Butterfly's most hated enemy is Big Bad Toffee. Toffee murdered her mother. In exchange, Moon earned her moniker "the Undaunted" when she used dark magic she acquired from Eclipsa to take out his finger and prevent its regeneration, terrifying the army of monsters that were about to invade Mewni alongside him. Toffee's schemes are all ultimately driven by his bitterness over Moon's humiliation of him all those years ago.
    • Marco's archenemy is Miss Heinous/Meteora Butterfly. He started the rebellion that shut down her Boarding School of Horrors, and she repeatedly tries to get revenge on him and take back the school. Even when her goals change after she remembers her true identity, she still goes out of her way to try and kill Marco. The feeling is mutual for most of the series, but after Meteora is reverted to infancy, it becomes one-sided on her part, with Baby Meteora maintaining an Irrational Hatred of Marco.
  • Steven Universe:
    • Steven Universe has Yellow Diamond, the most actively antagonistic member of the Great Diamond Authority in the first three seasons of the show, who seeks to destroy Earth to avenge her sister Pink Diamond, who was supposedly killed by Steven's mother Rose Quartz (who was actually a disguised Pink Diamond), and since Steven has Rose's gem in his body, he is incorrectly assumed to be Rose. In the Season 5 episode "The Trial," Yellow has Steven tried in a Kangaroo Court for Pink's death.
    • Lapis Lazuli has Jasper. Two two spent several months fused together at the bottom of the ocean.
    • Peridot has Yellow Diamond, her former superior who she defies and insults in "Message Received", angering Yellow Diamond and effectively making Peridot a traitor to Homeworld. This causes Peridot to suffer Sanity Slippage in the following episode, "Log Date 7 15 2". When Peridot confronts Yellow Diamond in "Reuinited", however, Peridot confronts Yellow Diamond again, she denies remembering Peridot and poofs her.
  • In Stormhawks, Aerrow's Arch Enemy is not the Big Bad Cyclonus; rather, it's The Dragon Dark Ace. Cyclonus is the Evil Counterpart and Arch Enemy of Piper.
  • Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!: The Hyperforce, especially Chiro, have the Skeleton King, who seeks to take over their homeworld of Shuggazoom, and who created the five Robot Monkeys before his turn to evil. Chiro is the one who found the five Robot Monkeys and awakened them, becoming The Leader of the Hyperforce opposing the Skeleton King. In "The Sun Riders", the Skeleton King sends the titular Sun Riders, who Chiro was a fan of, to destroy the Hyperforce. Despite the Sun Riders' failure, the Skeleton King takes comfort in Chiro losing his faith for the Sun Riders. The Skeleton King also had a Stalker Shrine consisting of Chiro's stuff.
  • The Warden of Superjail! has both the Mistress and Lord Stingray. Although the Mistress debuted first, it's lampshaded that while the Warden considers her an archenemy, he barely gets to see her that often. The Mistress and Stingray even teamed up and attempted their own relationship in the Season 3 premiere (after taking over the jail), though the relationship fell through.
  • SuperTed has Texas Pete, whose plans SuperTed repeatedly foils.
  • SWAT Kats: Chance "T-Bone" Furlong and Jake "Razor" Clawson have Dark Kat. An ill fated confrontation between the duo and Dark Kat led to T-Bone and Razor being discharged from the Enforcers.
  • Tak, Cheif and Lok in Tak and the Power of Juju.
  • Tales of Arcadia:
    • Jim Lake Jr. has Bellroc and Gunmar the Black.
      • Bellroc is the overall Big Bad of the franchise, who sends the Green Knight to capture Jim, resulting in him being turned into a full troll which gets turned into a pawn, while Jim's human soul is trapped in the Shadow Realm. It is Jim who ultimately kills Bellroc.
      • Gunmar the Black seeks to kill Jim's loved ones as retaliation for Jim killing his son Bular.
    • Douxie has Bellroc, Skrael, and their servant the Green Knight for attacking Camelot at the beginning of Wizards, and later for the Green Knight killing Merlin.
    • Aja and Krel Tarron have General Morando, who took over their homeworld and caused their parents to lose their physical bodies.
    • Bellroc and Skrael are also this to their former ally Nari.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
    • In almost all incarnations of the franchise, the Shredder has always been at odds with the Turtles and Splinter, and always at a deeply personal level. However, the one who arguably displays this trait strongest is the Utrom Shredder of the 2003 TMNT cartoon series. His hatred of them was so deep that it culminated into the climax of the Turtles Forever movie, where he was willing to destroy the multiverse to destroy all turtles, even at the cost of his own life and that of his daughter Karai, the only other living being that he honestly cares about.
      • In the 1987 series, Oruku Saki (the future Shredder) was responsible for the banishment of Hamato Yoshi (the future Splinter) from the Foot Clan. The Shredder later attempts to kill Yoshi with mutagen, which instead turns Yoshi into Splinter, and turns Yoshi's pet turtles into the Ninja Turtles. To a lesser extent, the Ninja Turtles also have the Shredder's partner Krang, who also repeatedly comes into conflict with the Turtles. In "Turtles on Trial", Krang prevents the Shredder from having the Turtles taken out so that Krang can kill them himself on national television.
      • The 2012 version was most definitely this to Splinter as well, willing to go to truly insane lengths to make his former brother suffer. In the same series, Leonardo has a love-hate relationship with Karai before her Heel–Face Turn, with both of them betraying the other at some point. Also in the same series, Raphael struck up quite the rivalry with Fishface, aka Xever, though it got downplayed as time went on.
    • In the 2003 series, General Blanque, the military head of the Federation, as Zanramon, the leader of the Triceraton Republic, who the Federation are at war with. Even after their respective factions make peace, and both induviduals are imprisoned in adjacent cells, Blanque and Zanramon still try to continue their conflict.
    • In the 2012 series, Dr Victor Falco aka the Rat King is Splinter's second nemesis and the only enemy toward who Splinter has a blood feud, having subjected him to Mind Rape several times in order to make him forsake his humanity and turn him into his servant, having managed to control him for a short time and made him hurt his students/sons during that time.
    • In the 2012 series, Bishop has his brother Kraang Subprime.
    • In the 2012 series, Alopex has her brother Tiger Claw, whose tail she cut off and kept as a Creepy Souvenir.
    • Although personalities and histories are different in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Turtles and Splinter have their own specific enemies they have the most feud with.
      • Baron Draxum is Splinter's most personal enemy due to Oroku Saki's role being different. Draxum is the one who mutated him and the Turtles, taking away any chance he had at having a normal life.
      • The Foot Clan as a whole remain this way to the Turtles, due to the Lieutenant and the Brute being the most recurring villains in the show and the ones involved in many of the major events, from the Shredder's resurrection to the Krang invasion.
      • The Krang become this to Leonardo in the movie, especially Krang One, after Raph is captured during a Heroic Sacrifice to save him.
  • While Diesel from Thomas & Friends is antagonistic towards all of the steam engines, he shares most of his enmity and rivalry towards Thomas in the later seasons. In his debut appearance, Diesel's original enemy was Duck.
  • In ThunderCats (1985) and Thunder Cats 2011 Mumm-Ra (the Ever Living) to Lion-O and the ThunderCats. The latter series also had Grune and Panthro after the former betrays him and leaves him for dead, and in the backstory, it seemed like Slythe and King Claudus had this sort of arrangement, at least on the side of Slythe.
  • Mocked (unsurprisingly) by The Tick:
    The Tick: Oh, for crying out loud...
    Brainchild: So, at last, The Tick, my arch enemy, sits helpless before me!
    The Tick: 'Arch enemy'? You must be joking, Charles. I mean, I don't like you and everything but if I ever do have an arch enemy it's not going to be some creepy little brat with a glass head.
  • El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera: Sartana of the Dead to Manny Rivera, who accidentally scarred himself in a confrontation with her.
  • Tom and Jerry are each other's longtime foes. Tom often tries to catch Jerry, and Jerry sometimes goes out of his way to antagonize Tom.
  • Toxic Crusaders: Toxie has Dr. Killemoff, who endeavors to pollute Toxie's hometown.
  • In Transformers, Megatron is Optimus Prime's Arch Enemy. Or Optimus Primal's, depending on the series.
  • Underdog: Underdog has Simon Bar Sinister, a Mad Scientist whose plans are constantly thwarted by Underdog.
  • Unikitty!: The All-Loving Hero Unikitty has Master Frown, who seeks to spread misery to others.
  • The Monarch from The Venture Bros. wants to be Doctor Venture's Arch Enemy, but Doctor Venture doesn't consider him a threat.
    Hank: What's your problem with our dad anyway?!
    The Monarch: (awkwardly) Well, I- he- he's my nemesis. My Arch Enemy.
    Dean: I don't think pop thinks you're his Arch Enemy.
    The Monarch: Come on, I'm sure the walls of the Venture Compound are practically caked with the lingering curses of the Monarch's name.
    Dean: Uhh, no. I've never even heard him mention you.
    Hank: Yeah, I always thought Baron Underbheit was dad's arch-enemy.
    The Monarch: (astounded) Underbheit!?! Why, that dime-store Doctor Doom isn't fit to — just you wait till your father calls me back!!
    • Initially, at least. The Monarch quickly revealed himself to be a Not-So-Harmless Villain and an actual Diabolical Mastermind over the course of the first and second seasons. He was also involved in a vicious feud with Underbheit over who could kill Venture (before they decided upon a Villain Team-Up). By the end of the second season, Rusty wasn't willing to bury the hatchet, even though the Monarch was (though it's all back to the same routine by the later season).
    • Phantom Limb actually became this to The Monarch and Dr. Venture towards the end of Season 1, but underwent Villain Decay after his defeat.
    • Underbheit, on the other hand, has made very rare appearances now and again, until La Résistance deposed him of his throne.
    • And, as of Season 3's "Home Is Where The Hate Is", Dr. Venture's new Arch Enemy was Sergeant Hatred, who was assigned by the Guild of Calamitous Intent. His actual goal is to be as nice to Dr. Venture as possible, so as to annoy the Monarch and pay him back for his henchmen robbing him. However Hatred eventually becomes the new Venture Bodyguard and Monarch gets himself a free pass to antagonize Venture once again.
    • The shiow has an interesting system wherein archrivalries are assigned, not chosen, by the OSI and Guild of Calamitous Intent (hence the coinage of a term: 'arching' to describe the act of being an archnemesis). In Season 3, it's revealed that a reason for Dr. Mrs. The Monarch's attraction to her husband is that The Monarch's archrivalry of Venture doesn't stem from this stodgy system, but actual, living, breathing, unfounded hatred.
    • August St. Cloud is the archnemesis of Billy Quizboy. He eventually joins the Guild just to make things official, bribing Watch and Ward to get Quizboy assigned as his arch.
  • Voltron: Legendary Defender: Team Voltron has Haggar, who remains a threat to them across all nine seasons, and becomes the Final Boss for the team to defeat.
    • Shiro, the pilot of the Black Lion, has Emperor Zarkon, the former Black Paladin.
  • In Wakfu, Qilby the Traitor has deeply personal conflicts with the people who were once his closest friends and companions namely the other original Eliatropes and their Dragon siblings. Those who still remember him loathe him utterly, while those who have forgotten are quickly reminded of why they hated him so much. The twisted part is that deep down Qilby really wants them all to be friends again, which is why he subconsciously hampers his own efforts with overly complex plans. Too bad for him he burned those bridges a long time ago.
  • Examined and deconstructed in Wander over Yonder. Lord Hater considers Wander his archenemy, but it's a very one-sided situation as Wander is too much of a Nice Guy to hate Hater. Over the course of the series, as Wander inadvertently foils more of Hater's plans, Hater goes into a gradual Villainous Breakdown and becomes increasingly obsessed with beating Wander, to the exclusion of actually taking over the galaxy like he's supposed to be doing. At the start of the show Lord Hater is poised to succeed in taking over everything and is feared by many; by the end of Season 2 he's lost what little territory he controlled and is seen as a complete joke by all the other supervillains.
    • Wander himself has a legitimate archenemy in Doctor Screwball. Also, at least two instances show that some deep down part of Wander considers Lord Hater to be an archenemy as well, saying he's a "bad guy" and he's going to "stop him".
      • In one instance he had his venerable side stripped out of him, leaving him to briefly take on a more overtly heroic personality and announce that as a "good guy", he has to "Stop that heartless evildoer Lord Hater once and for all".
      • In another instance, in a desperate bid to help in a town full of people that didn't need any, he drops the friendly act and flat out tells Hater straight up that he's going to stop him from taking over the planet. Turns out Hater was just there for lunch and blows Wander off.
  • In Winx Club, the Trix serve as this for the Winx, especially Bloom. They have been the Winx's most consistent foes throughout the entire series, having went from stealing Bloom's powers and attempting to conquer Magix in the first season to serving as The Dragon to various Arc Villains in most of the succeeding seasons just for an opportunity to destroy the Winx and take over the Magic Dimension.
  • Woody Woodpecker frequently comes into conflict with the con man Buzz Buzzard.
  • Xiaolin Showdown: Omi has Chase Young, who spent Season 2 trying to corrupt him.

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