Unknown Rival / Web Original

• Babylon Bee: Parodied by way of exaggeration when Neil Young demands Spotify to unperson Joe Rogan. Nobody knows who Neil Young actually is. Even Google returns blank pages.
• Back when it was still a parody magazine, Cracked relished in taking pot shot after pot shot at MAD. Not once did MAD ever even acknowledge that Cracked existed. This was averted in Real Life, as MAD publisher William Gaines was so acutely aware of knockoffs that he had a voodoo doll in his office, and each pin was labelled with the name of a different magazine. To Cracked's credit, theirs was the only pin left in the voodoo doll by the time Gaines died in 1992.
• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Not quite unknown, but Johnny Snow apparently repeatedly writes to Dr. Horrible, challenging him to showdowns, and doesn't seem to get that the feud is entirely one-sided.
  "…Okay. Dude. You are not my nemesis!"
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • After the Freeza saga, there's a Running Gag of the villains either not knowing or not caring about Vegeta.
  • Garlic Jr. is dispatched easily by Mr. Popo without ever encountering any of the main cast.
• From The Hard Times: ""Rival" Band Totally Indifferent to Your Existence". The band Gift Horse deeply hates the band Weed Killer, and are constantly playing pranks on them and trying to sabotage their success, which always backfires. Meanwhile, Weed Killer consider Gift Horse to be nice guys that they dimly remember meeting once.
• At the end of the pilot of Hazbin Hotel, Sir Pentious attacks Alastor, giving a hammy We Meet Again speech. Alastor's response is "Do I... know you?", although Alastor being Alastor, he might have been just trying to make Pentious mad.
• A variant in Kung Tai Ted. After being attacked by a hitman sent by bitter rival Solomon in his The Angry Dragon review, Ted pledges to find and defeat him. However, he takes so long in doing so that by the time he manages it in Golden Ninja Warrior, Solomon has long since forgotten about him.
• In SynthOrange's Let's Play of Princess Maker 2, Lizzie Shinkicker earned the rivalry of Wendy because her magic prowess was slightly better then the rest. Every encounter with Wendy was hilariously short, as Wendy was a Squishy Wizard and Lizzie was well-rounded enough that she could often One-Hit Kill Wendy with her sword. Cube even comments on Wendy's desire to beat Lizzie as a "suicidal delusion."
• Sword Art Online Abridged:
  • During the "Fairy Dance Arc", Kirito brings Yui up to speed on the situation regarding Asuna being held captive by Sugou within ALfheim Online. Yui decides to use all her power to help her father rescue her mother from Sugou. Vowing to kill Sugou "By Any Means Necessary". Sugou being the System Admin of ALO; who built the game off of the same coding as Sword Art Online is unaware of Yuis' existence as SAOs' Admin-grade AI, or that Kirito has her.
• True Capitalist Radio has Ghost's enthusiastic and entirely one-sided vendetta against Alex Jones.
• Anthony "A-Log" Logatto is this to Chris "Chris-Chan" Chandler; A-Log gained notoriety for his commentaries on Chris-Chan's videos, and would also wish harm towards Chris for, among other things, "giving autistics like him a bad name". Despite this, there has been no indication by Chris as to knowing who A-Log is.
  • After Chris lost a talent contest for the video game PaRappa the Rapper, Chris subsequently started a one-sided beef with the winner, a guy named Adam Stackhouse, who (at the time) had no idea who Chris was.
• Mythical Kitchen: Mythical Chef Josh claims to be trying to start a feud with Gordon Ramsay. It's not clear to what extent Gordon Ramsay even knows who he is.
• The Nostalgia Critic invokes this trope when he made a video telling The Angry Video Game Nerd to stop letting his fans draw comparisons between them.
  Critic: So, please, leave this petty, jealous rage behind you and simply acknowledge that I'm the better man. If you accept this defeat, please respond by leaving absolutely no comment whatsoever. In fact, don't even respond to this video. In fact, act like you have a million other things going on in your life that you wouldn't even have time to WATCH this video, let alone respond to it. Do that, and I will accept your apology.
• The Pittsburgh SOAPranos has Sami entirely unaware that she has a rival soap shop, let alone that it's run by The Mafia and that they've attempted to issue death threats to her.
• The Dorkly series Pokémon Ralphie focuses on Ralphie, a former Bug Catcher who Red beat when he first became a trainer. He's now a middle-aged man with delusions about being Red's number one rival and is intent on proving it. Red has become the head of a multi-million dollar Master Ball company and doesn't even remember him, saying that Blue is his only rival.
• In Red vs. Blue, Carolina is obsessed with proving that she is better than Texas and reclaiming her status as Number One on the leaderboard. Meanwhile, Texas doesn't really care about their one-sided rivalry and at times, even seems to pity Carolina, which only infuriates Carolina further. Unfortunately, the rivalry ended up causing the death of a simulation trooper named Biff, and the annoyed dismissal of Biff's death by Carolina drove his friend Temple to declare a war against the Freelancer Project and all participants. In a classic case of From Nobody to Nightmare, Temple and his cohorts end up killing at least half a dozen of Freelancers, who are normally considered to be Super Soldiers of near-SPARTAN levels.
• In Welcome to Night Vale, Cecil will express disgust with the rival town Desert Bluffs whenever they come up in his broadcast and will go on about how awful it is. When Night Vale comes up in Kevin's broadcast to Desert Bluffs, however, he makes no mention of any negative feelings between the towns and says that he bets Night Vale is wonderful and beautiful.
  • Cecil also very vocally declares his disdain for his supposed Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Steve Carlsberg. Steve is actually the human personification of a puppy dog, and treats Cecil with happy excitement.
• There's a couple of cases in the Whateley Universe.
  • One is Phase and Golden Girl — Golden Girl wants to be the boss of her martial arts class, but Phase continually blows her out of the water by combining his weapons, his damn good powers and his gift for strategy. Phase really doesn't care about Golden Girl beyond 'she's an occasional annoyance', because he has real problems to deal with, while Golden Girl despises Phase utterly.
  • Another is Nemesis and She-Beast — She-Beast's father, Dr Diabolik, attacked a city and ended up killing over a hundred people, one of whom was Nemesis' grandfather. Nemesis blames Jadis personally, and Jadis' only response to her declaration of war was 'Take a number and get in line, bitch.'
• TV Tropes versus Wikipedia (That Other Wiki if you're feeling bitter about it) with TV Tropes as the unknown one. Well, mostly unknown — they do have an article about us, at least.
  • Played far straighter with Uncyclopedia vs Wikipedia. The former can't stop badmouthing the latter. It is a shitpost site, after all.

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