History Main / ThisIsMySide

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' episode "Civil Wart", The town is split between a Hunter side and an Alastair side upon watching a romance film, the town separates on the movie's LoveTriangle, the border marked with a row of stones. One poor civilian realizes that his home is on the wrong side and is attacked trying to cross the border.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', a babysitter did this to try to stop Arthur and D.W. from fighting. It didn't work, as the two soon begin fighting over a jacket draped over the tape line.

* ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' has a pseudo-FlashBack to just such a situation during its second-episode ClipShow, parodying it when the ''third'' roommate indignantly reminds Dante and Randal that he lives there, too.

* The 2017 ''[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 DuckTales]]'' series shows that at least one room in the Duckburg Billionaires' Club is divided into 2 halves with a line down the middle for members Flintheart Glomgold and Scrooge [=McDuck=]. Each half has a giant portrait of that half's owner on the wall, [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Scrooge's half is mostly red while Glomgold's half is mostly blue and green]], and Glomgold keeps a [[SharkPool shark]] he likes using in his {{Evil Plan}}s on his side.

* In "Pig Trouble" on ''WesternAnimation/GoldieAndBear'', TheBigBadWolf ("Big Bad") blows down the pigs' straw and stick houses, in the hope that if they're all forced to be together in the brick house, they'll [[FeudEpisode make up and stop arguing.]] Instead, they just split the interior of the brick house three ways.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' episode "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E24Frenemies Frenemies]]," Pepper and Zoe divide the day camp room with a thick red line down the middle to keep each other's parties separate.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'' episode, "A Backyard Divided", when Gonzo and Piggy get into a feud, they divide the backyard into two separate halves, and since they're pretending the backyard is a medieval setting, they imagine their halves are are kingdoms. The feud only grows stronger when Piggy's magic wand is on Gonzo's side, and Gonzo's soccer ball is on Piggy's side. Later in the episode, Kermit, Summer, Fozzie, and Animal demand their own kingdoms, dividing the backyard into sixths.

** Downplayed in "Slice of Life"; We see that Octavia (The cello Earth Pony) and Vinyl Scratch (The disc jockey pony) are housemates, and their house is literally split down the middle, each side reflecting their styles ala [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Two-Face.]] Nothing is made of it, and there's no indication that Vinyl and Octavia are on bad terms.

* On ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', Pinch and Jelly do this in "The Silent Treatment," but can't even agree on where the line that divides the sides should be, resulting in a sort of theoretical middle-ground that neither of them can be in.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', Nikki and Caitlin split their working sides in the mall in [[Recap/SixteenS2E4FishAndMakeUp "Fish And Make Up"]]. [[PottyEmergency This ends up causing problems for the latter later on,]] [[BrickJoke due to the washrooms being on the former's side of the mall.]]

* The page image comes from the children's book ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears Get in a Fight''. Because [[FeudEpisode they both woke up in a foul mood and are having a bitter argument]], Brother and Sister divide their treehouse in half. They later clean off the line used to divide it once Mama and Papa resolve the their argument and reconcile.

* Parodied in one ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' comic strip, when some of the characters start arbitrarily painting lines across the local meadow, cutting off one person each time: "This is ''our'' 'state'! Stay out of our 'county'/'town'/'house'!" Then only two of them are left and they're standing on a hilltop - with no room left for further lines. "Now you're in my personal space." Cue the shoving match.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', Donkey tries to build a wall through half of Shrek's swamp while they have a falling-out.

* Happened once in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' where [[FieryRedhead Jessie and Misty]] fell onto a small rock ledge on a cliff together. Misty draws a line on the rock to give each of them a side while they wait for rescue. Her side is much larger than Jessie's.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In "Wall Buddy", this is what the Wall Buddy is intended to be used for. Rigby uses this to invoke Mordecai into cleaning up the trash that's on his side. He's not having any of it, and turns it against him.

* The page image comes from the children's book ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears Get in a Fight''. Because [[FeudEpisode they both woke up in a foul mood and are having a bitter argument]], Brother and Sister divide their treehouse in half.

* On ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar1'', Alex draws a line on the beach to divide the island between Marty, who likes being out in the wild, and the others, who want to go back to New York. Marty calls his side the "fun side", to which Alex responds, "You're in the [[{{Joisey}} Jersey]] side of this cesspool!"

* Happened once in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' where [[FieryRedhead Jessie and Misty]] fell onto a small rock ledge on a cliff together. Misty draws a line on the rock to give each of them a side while they wait for rescue. Her side is much larger than Jessie's.

* Parodied in one ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' comic strip, when some of the characters start arbitrarily painting lines across the local meadow, cutting off one person each time: "This is ''our'' 'state'! Stay out of our 'county'/'town'/'house'!" Then only two of them are left and they're standing on a hilltop - with no room left for further lines. "You're violating my personal space." Cue the shoving match.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'' titled "Jungle Makeover" has this with the [[CharacterTitle titular characters]] dividing their treehouse after Whiskers drives Brandy nuts while they were decoratingg for the party.

** Calvin and Hobbes bickered in the back seat of Calvin's parent's car once.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11191235/68/Harry-Potter-and-the-Prince-of-Slytherin Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin,]]'' after Harry's twin brother Jim is revealed to be a Parselmouth, some anonymous soul splits the Gryffindor boys' dorm with a conjured brick wall so he and Neville are on one side with the rest of the boys on the other.

** East and West Germany, with the most visible part being the Berlin Wall. This was taken to such an extreme that when the Berlin U-Bahn was divided, a couple of ghost stations existed where the trains passed through on the wrong side of the wall.
** North and South Korea.
** North and South Vietnam.

** The [[UrbanSegregation Peace Lines]] in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which unlike most examples on this page were imposed by a neutral third party (for a given definition of 'neutral') rather than something the feuding factions devised for themselves.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} The Musical'' has a good one, at around the same time as Donkey's example above... but it's not Donkey saying it this time.

* In Joseph L. Schott's ''No Left Turns'' he mentions a two-man FBI field office where the agents involved grew to hate each other so much that they put a plywood partition in the middle of the office, with a space near the bottom so they could take turns answering the phone.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'', Alex draws a line on the beach to divide the island between Marty, who likes being out in the wild, and the others, who want to go back to New York. Marty calls his side the "fun side", to which Alex responds, "You're in the [[{{Joisey}} Jersey]] side of this cesspool!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Donkey tries to build a wall through half of Shrek's swamp while they have a falling-out.

* ''Literature/FireAndBlood:'' During the Dance of the Dragons, Queen Alicent Hightower suggests doing this on a country-wide scale to Rhaenrya. The side loyal to her son Aegon II get one half, Rhaenrya and her side gets another. Note that Alicent is imprisoned at the time, and her son missing, and the entire country is in the middle of a civil war, and that Alicent doesn't seem to consider the opinions of the various lords fighting on either side, or that neither Aegon or Rhaenrya might want to settle for anything less than the entire country. ''And then'' there's the fact that Ageon's side would consist of the wealthy Westerlands, fertile and populated (and pretty wealthy) Reach, and the resource rich Stormlands, while lands of Rhaenrya's side are poorer, less populated, and more devastated by the war. Rhaenrya rejects the idea.

If two characters who don't like each other, or who happen to be angry with each other at the moment (especially in a FeudEpisode), live in one house or apartment, one of them will be eventually seen painting a colored line in the middle of the residence, explaining: "This is my side; this is yours. Don't go on my part!" Naturally, it's SeriousBusiness.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'', at the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab, Purah and Symin have very different working habits as Purah's side of the lab is unkept and disorganized while Symin's is neat and tidy; it got so bad that Purah drew chalk lines on the ground splitting the lab into parts. Yes, that's "lines", plural. The lines show that the lab was split roughly in half, but on two occasions, Purah redrew the line to make her side bigger.