Basic Tropes: Two characters who are in a team don't exactly get along.
- Straight: Bob and Charlie team up to defeat Alice while arguing with each other.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob and Charlie team up to defeat Alice while physically trying to kill each other.
- Enemy Mine
- Downplayed: Bob and Charlie team up to defeat Alice, but while they respect each other, that doesn't stop them from berating each other.
- Justified:
- Bob and Charlie just have different methods on how to defeat Alice. Bob wants to send Alice to jail, but Charlie prefers killing her.
- Bob and Charlie were formerly enemies, and even if they have buried the hatchet, they will never let go of what they did to each other.
- Bob and Charlie's personalities clash frequently.
- Bob and Charlie are both jerks who hate getting along and working together with other people.
- Bob and Charlie are arch enemies who are working together for a common goal, but the fact they're enemies makes their alliance difficult.
- Inverted: Friendly Enemy.
- Subverted:
- Bob and Charlie are professional/committed/mature enough to acknowledge the greater threat and put their differences aside, at least while they are teaming up.
- Don't mistake their vitriol for animosity.
- Double Subverted: ... but then it turns out their shared past/clashing personalities are too overwhelming to ignore for too long.
- Parodied: Bob and Charlie are honored as the greatest example of true teamwork because of their undying hatred for one another.
- Zig Zagged: Bob and Charlie vary from hostile to friendly, at least until one of them does something to get them to start fighting again.
- Averted: Bob and Charlie team up with no problems with each other.
- Enforced: The writer doesn't want to enforce The Power of Friendship too much, so he wants to demonstrate to the audience that teamwork isn't always easy.
- Lampshaded:Alice: Your little disagreements won't help the both of you to defeat me!Richter: Are they still arguing? Good. Gives me time to escape.Bob: I won't let you kill Charlie! I mean, I don't like him either, but you don't see me doing it!
- Invoked: Alice, who delights herself in creating conflicts, allows Bob and Charlie to start fighting.
- Bob and Charlie plan on catching Alice off-guard because they know that no one would expect them to work together that well.
- Exploited: Alice needs time to charge up her secret weapon, so she allows Bob and Charlie to go at each other's throats for a while.
- Bob and Charlie were also waiting for Alice's secret weapon to charge so they could destroy it through all the power it's gained.
- Defied:
- Bob and Charlie know they have different ways of life, but that doesn't mean they have to hate each other for them. That being said, they insist on using The Power of Friendship to save the day.
- Dave, tired of Bob and Charlie always at each other's throats, threatens extreme bodily harm on them if they don't put aside their differences and work together for the rest of their (they better hope are long) lives.
- Bob and Charlie know they won't be able to work well with each other, so they decide to part ways and each do things on their own terms.
- Discussed: "Well, not all teammates can get along that easily."
- Conversed: "What could get Bob and Charlie to tear each other apart in today's episode?"
- Implied: Bob and Charlie are all seen with Dave, Mike and Leah, but never with each other.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob and Charlie's uneasy alliance has got the best of them as Alice succeeded in her plans to take over the world. This made both Bob and Charlie to hate each other more than ever before, which leads to a fight to the death between the two. Alice is enjoying every minute of it.
- The citizens whom Bob and Charlie save get sick of the two constantly bickering that they either secretly pray for Alice to win, or they turn to a third hero instead.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice succeeds in her plan, which causes both Bob and Charlie to realize just how much their bickering is screwing things up, and decide to work together in spite of their differences. The two aren't any more affectionate toward each other afterwards, but both come out a little wiser.
- Bob and Charlie start arguing in front of Alice, who's provoked them into it, using this as a trick to distract them. It seems to work, but the two gang up on Alice while her guard is down, since she's assuming they'll be too busy killing each other to go for her. They even knew she would pull this trick and more or less played along in order to prove that it is her that they want to kill the most.
- Played For Laughs: Bob and Charlie immediately agree to work together with no problems at all, despite how they keep saying that they don't even like each other.
- Played For Drama: Bob and Charlie nearly kill each other in a duel, causing them to realize that they can't keep acting like this. At least not when it will take both of them to defeat Alice.
I Don't Like You And You Don't Like Me, but we have to team up to return to the main page. Just don't get in my way.
