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The Rival: Western Animation
Craig Tucker and his friends are this to the main four boys in South Park Mandark is Dexter's rival in Dexters Laboratory a lot though Mandark does have a serious thing for Dexter's sister Dee Dee.
Plus, the episode "Dee Dee's Rival" did a Gender Flip of this trope by pitting Dee Dee against Mandark's sister, who was apparently created specifically for the episode and proceeded to never be mentioned again. She nonetheless went through the complete arc of this trope during her brief screen time, right down to the grudging respect (by the end of the episode, she and Dee Dee have decided to be friends).
In Spongebob Squarepants In Chowder Yandere Stalker with a Crush instead.
Apparently Panini was originally supposed to be just that when the creator pitched the series . He decided to retool her when it got picked up.
On American Dad invokes this trope in a horse race when he tells one of the other jockeys he got it on with his wife. Roger did this deliberately because he thought the race would be more interested if he had a rival to compete against.
When Steve put together peewee football team to compete against his father's one of his recruits is a Chinese kid named Li-Fung who doesn't speak English. Steve's Japanese friend Toshi attacks for stealing his bit.
Jimmy Neutron and Cindy Vortex, NON-STOP, in Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius Relationship Upgrade from his rival and enemy in the first season/movie to his rival-friend in the second season to his girlfriend in the third season.
Randall Boggs from Monsters Inc The Dragon as well.
In The Mighty B Anton St. Germain .
The Little Man from The Pink Panther Pink Panther And Pals Nester, his mom and Paddy in Scaredy Squirrel Principal Pixiefrog from from My Gym Partners A Monkey Kyle and Salty Mike from Squirrel Boy Cheif and Lok from Tak and the Power of Juju Gordie, Kendal and Ronaldo from Kick Buttowski Nova (Sam Alexander) to Spider-Man in the Ultimate Spider-Man In one episode of The Simpsons In "Lisa's Rival ", Lisa forms a one-sided rivalry with the new girl, Allison Taylor. Too bad she is Demoted to Extra for the remainder of the series, even after their reconciliation. (It seems any new girl in school is destined to be Lisa's enemy - see also "Lard Of The Dance" and "Bye Bye Nerdie.")
In can also be said that Marge has an occasional rivalry with her gossiping fair-weathered acquaintance, Helen Lovejoy.
Mr. Burns also has his own business rival at the Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant, Aristotle Amadopolis.
Then there's Seymour Skinner's rivalry with Principal Valiant of Shelbyville Elementary School, due to the school's better funding and academics.
Lisa claims that Maggie's arch-rival is Gerald, the baby with one eyebrow, though we never see them do anything other than glare at each other while ominous music plays.
In The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack 's second in Third seasons, Peppermint Larry is Flapjack and K'nuckles ' rival.
Mr. Wilter and Reggie Bullnerd from Chalk Zone Ratty from Mr Bogus On Beetlejuice Trixie sees herself as Twilight Sparkle's rival in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Magic Duel canonizes it. (Twilight tends to think differently.)
