Basic Trope: Two heroes dislike each other.
- Straight: Captain Justice and Black Bullet are both heroes who hate each other.
- Exaggerated: Captain Justice and Black Bullet are superheroes, despite the fact that they have an epic battle every time they meet.
- Downplayed: Although they don't hate each other, Captain Justice and Black Bullet don't like each other either.
- Justified:
- Captain Justice is a Lawful Good cape who does not kill, while Black Bullet is an Chaotic Good Anti-Hero who often shoots the dog. Their personalities are too vastly different for them to be good friends.
- Captain Justice and Black Bullet is a Good Is Not Nice character and Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Captain Justice always believes in obeying the law no matter what while Black Bullet believes in just doing the right thing even if he has to rebel against it.
- Captain Justice and Black Bullet come from different races who had a bad history with each other; they took this to account.
- Captain Justice or Black Bullet had done something that would tarnish their heroism; even after one of them redeemed themselves, the other refuses to let it go.
- Captain Justice and Black Bullet are rivals whose egos clash easily.
- Being on the same side and even working together doesn’t always make people friends or like each other.
- Inverted:
- Emperor Evulz and Hellbringer are villains who are good friends.
- Emperor Evulz and Hellbringer are villains, but strongly dislike each other for various reasons.
- Subverted:
- Double Subverted: But then, either Captain Justice and Black Bullet did something to set each other off, turning the two into enemies again.
- Parodied: The two have contests of "Heroics", with each trying to out-hero the other, while inadvertently causing Amusing Injuries to by-standers.
- Zig Zagged: Captain Justice and Black Bullet hate each others' guts in one episode, but they team up to fight the Big Bad and become friends, only to fall out with each other again. This cycle repeats itself for the entire season.
- Averted: Captain Justice and Black Bullet don't hate each other.
- Enforced: "This show needs more drama! How about we make the two heroes hate each other?"
- Lampshaded: "Geez, and I thought all heroes were buddy-buddy with one another..."
- Invoked: Black Bullet knows that Captain Justice disapproves of his methods, and uses this knowledge to goad Captain Justice into defeating The Dragon for him, whilst he takes on the Big Bad himself.
- Exploited: The Big Bad pits the Captain Justice and Black Bullet against each other in order to distract them from his plot to Take Over the World.
- Defied:
- "That's absurd! Just because we never see eye to eye on how to fight villains doesn't mean we hate each other!"
- Colonel Destruction, who is their team leader and has a Berserk Button about emnity amongst the ranks courtesy of his Dark and Troubled Past, makes clear that this kind of attitude will never be tolerated from this point onwards, and he will use any necessary punishments (even the one he really prays they won't force him to utilize) to bring it to heel.
- Discussed: "When will those two get along already? I'm so tired of them fighting each other."
- Conversed: "It's always got to be heroes who always hate each other in shows like this."
- Implied: When Captain Justice and Black Bullet see each other, the two ignore each other and get on with their business.
- Deconstructed:
- The enmity between Captain Justice and Black Bullet causes them to neglect their duties in order to one-up the other. The Rogues Gallery takes this time to cause major damage.
- The reputations of Captain Justice and Black Bullet (and the team they are members of, and maybe even the franchise they appear in) takes a huge dive in reputation because if the alternatives are "being harmed by the world-destroying schemes of the Big Bad" and "being harmed as collateral damage to the city-destroying spats of these two jerks", what's the point?
- Reconstructed: Captain Justice and Black Bullet learn to put aside their differences and defeat the villains and they are back on track in their duties. Even if they still hate each other, it isn't as bad as before.
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