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* The Sacred Band of Thebes consisted of 150 [[BattleCouple pairs of male lovers]] under the theory that a man would fight harder in the presence of his lover, so as not to be disgraced. The Sacred Band was tough enough to win repeated encounters with the Spartans but was ultimately defeated at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE (read: [[CurbStompBattle killed to the last man]]) by a force led in part by a young UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat in his first appearance as a military commander.

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* The Sacred Band of Thebes consisted of 150 [[BattleCouple pairs of male lovers]] under the theory that [[InvokedTrope a man would fight harder in the presence of his lover, lover]], so as not to be disgraced. The Sacred Band was tough enough to win repeated encounters with the Spartans but was ultimately defeated at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE (read: [[CurbStompBattle killed to the last man]]) by a force led in part by a young UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat in his first appearance as a military commander.
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* The Spartans encouraged soldiers to have a good friend so that they'd fight harder to protect them. And if they died, hopefully they'd go AxCrazy in a quest for vengeance.

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* The Spartans encouraged soldiers to have a good friend so that they'd fight harder to protect them. And if they died, hopefully they'd go AxCrazy in a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge quest for vengeance.]]
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* U.S. stealth fighter pilot Dale Zelko was shot down by Serbian missile operator Zoltan Dani during the Kosovo War. They [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20209770 became good friends]] after the war ended.

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* U.S. stealth fighter pilot Dale Zelko was shot down by Serbian Yugoslav missile operator Zoltan Dani during the Kosovo War. They [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20209770 became good friends]] after the war ended.
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* U.S. stealth fighter pilot Dale Zelko was shot down by missile operator Zoltan Dani during the Kosovo War. They became [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20209770 good friends]] after the war ended.

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* U.S. stealth fighter pilot Dale Zelko was shot down by Serbian missile operator Zoltan Dani during the Kosovo War. They became [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20209770 became good friends]] after the war ended.
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* [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20209770 Dale Zelko and Zoltan Dani]]

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* U.S. stealth fighter pilot Dale Zelko was shot down by missile operator Zoltan Dani during the Kosovo War. They became [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20209770 Dale Zelko and Zoltan Dani]]good friends]] after the war ended.
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* During the 1980s [=AIDS=] epidemic, many [=LGBT=] activists like Larry Kramer initially hated Dr. Anthony Fauci due to his ties to the homophobic Reagan administration and medical establishment. However, unlike many of his peers, Fauci reached out to the [=LGBT=] patients to understand their suffering and to develop new treatment options. Over time, many in the [=LGBT=] warmed up to Fauci with Kramer calling him "the only true and great hero" during the [=AIDS=] epidemic.

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* During the 1980s [=AIDS=] epidemic, many [=LGBT=] activists like Larry Kramer initially hated Dr. Anthony Fauci due to his ties to the homophobic Reagan administration and medical establishment.him erroneously stating that routine social contact could spread [=AIDS=]. However, unlike many of his peers, Fauci reached out to the [=LGBT=] patients to understand their suffering and to develop new treatment options. Over time, many in the [=LGBT=] community warmed up to Fauci with Kramer calling him "the only true and great hero" during the [=AIDS=] epidemic.
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* Both Creator/SimonCowell and Music/PaulaAbdul will freely admit that they genuinely ''despised'' each other for the first two seasons of ''Series/AmericanIdol'' -- it wasn't a flirty act for the cameras, the fights were very real and Paula has said that only maybe 10% of their fights ever made it to air. But by the time the third season started, something "clicked" and the two became truly close both on-camera and off, with Simon noting that they truly do love each other. (There's still plenty of [[VitriolicBestBuds squabbling]], though.)

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* Both Creator/SimonCowell and Music/PaulaAbdul will freely admit that they genuinely ''despised'' each other for the first two seasons of ''Series/AmericanIdol'' -- it wasn't a flirty act for the cameras, the fights were very real and Paula Simon has said that only maybe 10% of their fights ever made it to air. But by the time the third season started, something "clicked" and the two became truly close both on-camera and off, with Simon noting that they truly do love each other.other now. (There's still plenty of [[VitriolicBestBuds squabbling]], though.)
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* Both Creator/SimonCowell and Creator/PaulaAbdul will freely admit that they genuinely ''despised'' each other for the first two seasons of ''Series/AmericanIdol'' -- it wasn't a flirty act for the cameras, the fights were very real and Paula has said that only maybe 10% of their fights ever made it to air. But by the time the third season started, something "clicked" and the two became truly close both on-camera and off, with Simon noting that they truly do love each other. (There's still plenty of [[VitriolicBestBuds squabbling]], though.)

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* Both Creator/SimonCowell and Creator/PaulaAbdul Music/PaulaAbdul will freely admit that they genuinely ''despised'' each other for the first two seasons of ''Series/AmericanIdol'' -- it wasn't a flirty act for the cameras, the fights were very real and Paula has said that only maybe 10% of their fights ever made it to air. But by the time the third season started, something "clicked" and the two became truly close both on-camera and off, with Simon noting that they truly do love each other. (There's still plenty of [[VitriolicBestBuds squabbling]], though.)
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* Both Creator/SimonCowell and Creator/PaulaAbdul will freely admit that they genuinely ''despised'' each other for the first two seasons of ''Series/AmericanIdol'' -- it wasn't a flirty act for the cameras, the fights were very real and Paula has said that only maybe 10% of their fights ever made it to air. But by the time the third season started, something "clicked" and the two became truly close both on-camera and off, with Simon noting that they truly do love each other. (There's still plenty of [[VitriolicBestBuds squabbling]], though.)
-->'''Simon''': ...she and I are good friends, and will remain good friends. And you don't make many friends in this business, to be honest with you. People say they are, but they're not. But she -- she's genuinely a good friend.
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* During the 1980s [=AIDS=] epidemic, many [=LGBT=] activists like Larry Kramer initially hated Dr. Anthony Fauci due to his ties to the homophobic Reagan administration and medical establishment. However, unlike many of his peers, Fauci reached out to the [=LGBT=] patients to understand their suffering and to develop new treatment options. Over time, many in the [=LGBT=] warmed up to Fauci with Kramer calling him "the only true and great hero" during the [=AIDS=] epidemic.
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* [[http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/lion-tiger-and-bear-make-for-odd-yet-happy-family-at-ga-sanctuary/ A lion, tiger, and bear]][[note]][[Film/TheWizardOfOz Oh my!]][[/note]] were under the care of an abusive drug dealer when they were cubs. After they were rescued, they proved to be inseparable and continued to live and play together for well over a decade until their deaths.

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* [[http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/lion-tiger-and-bear-make-for-odd-yet-happy-family-at-ga-sanctuary/ A lion, tiger, and bear]][[note]][[Film/TheWizardOfOz Oh my!]][[/note]] were under the care of an abusive drug dealer when they were cubs. After they were rescued, they proved to be inseparable and continued to live and play together for well over a decade until their deaths.the deaths of the two big cats.
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* Website/YouTube personalities Vaush and [=Shoe0nHead=]. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (he's very far-left, while she's more center-left), they seem to genuinely have become friends.
** Vaush also has this kind of dynamic with fellow streamer Destiny. Despite Destiny being center-left compared to Vaush’s far-left, along with some personal issues outside of politics creating a rift between the two, it is still clear that they have a great amount of mutual respect for one another, and each seems to view the other as a WorthyOpponent whenever they debate each other. [[EnemyMine They have also teamed up to debate a pair of right-wing personalities on at least one occasion]], have some common enemies even within the online left who they will root for each other against, and even have FriendlyFandoms (sometimes).
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** Vaush also has this kind of dynamic with fellow streamer Destiny. Despite Destiny being center-left compared to Vaush’s far-left, along with some personal issues outside of politics creating a rift between the two, it is still clear that they have a great amount of mutual respect for one another, and each seems to view the other as a WorthyOpponent whenever they debate each other. [[EnemyMine They have also teamed up to debate a pair of right-wing personalities on at least one occasion]], have some common enemies even within the online left who they will root for each other against, and even have FriendlyFandoms (sometimes).
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* Website/YouTube personalities Vaush and [=Shoe0nHead=]. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (he's very far-left, while she's more center-left), they seem to genuinely have become friends. He also has something of a [[WorthyOpponent friendly rivalry]] with Hunter Avalone and Blaire White.

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* Website/YouTube personalities Vaush and [=Shoe0nHead=]. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (he's very far-left, while she's more center-left), they seem to genuinely have become friends. He also has something of a [[WorthyOpponent friendly rivalry]] with Hunter Avalone and Blaire White.

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* The Thespians refused to retreat from the Battle of Thermopylae, fighting alongside the Spartans in their final stand. The Spartans marveled at this; Spartans were raised as warriors and expected to lay down their lives on command, but the Thespians were volunteer soldiers, mostly farmers and tradesmen. The Spartans saw the Thespian's willingness to sacrifice themselves as a kind of courage beyond even their own, and were very proud to have such allies in their last moments. The world has not [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae#Thespian_monument forgotten.]]

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* The Thespians refused to retreat from the Battle of Thermopylae, fighting alongside the Spartans in their final stand. The Spartans marveled at this; Spartans were raised as warriors and expected to lay down their lives on command, but the Thespians were volunteer soldiers, mostly farmers and tradesmen. The Spartans saw the Thespian's willingness to sacrifice themselves as a kind of courage beyond even their own, own and were very proud to have such allies in their last moments. The world has not [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae#Thespian_monument forgotten.]]



* Although not a life threatening situation, the cohesion formed by working to achieve superordinate goals (a superordinate goal is a desire, challenge, predicament or peril that both parties in a conflict need to get resolved, and that neither party can resolve alone) was the key of the third phase of the ''Robber's Cave Experiment'', information can be found [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_conflict_theory here]], and [[http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/sherif_robbers_cave_experiment.html here]].
* LA Lakers basketball players Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. Their friendship was forged by playing basketball together in the NBA, but was most apparent when they were opponents in the final match of the 2012 Olympics- Kobe as captain of the US team and Pau as superstar of Spain's team. After the US won, the two immediately gave each other a long, tight hug.

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* Although not a life threatening life-threatening situation, the cohesion formed by working to achieve superordinate goals (a superordinate goal is a desire, challenge, predicament predicament, or peril that both parties in a conflict need to get resolved, and that neither party can resolve alone) was the key of the third phase of the ''Robber's Cave Experiment'', information can be found [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_conflict_theory here]], and [[http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/sherif_robbers_cave_experiment.html here]].
* LA Lakers basketball players Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. Their friendship was forged by playing basketball together in the NBA, NBA but was most apparent when they were opponents in the final match of the 2012 Olympics- Kobe as captain of the US team and Pau as superstar of Spain's team. After the US won, the two immediately gave each other a long, tight hug.



* Website/YouTube personalities Vaush and [=Shoe0nHead=]. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (he's very far-left, while she's more center-left), they seem to genuinely have become friends. He also has something of a [[WorthyOpponent friendly rivalry]] with Hunter Avalone and Blaire White.

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* Website/YouTube personalities Vaush and [=Shoe0nHead=]. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (he's very far-left, while she's more center-left), they seem to genuinely have become friends. He also has something of a [[WorthyOpponent friendly rivalry]] with Hunter Avalone and Blaire White.White.
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Shoe's a social democrat. That's center-left, not center-right.


* Website/YouTube personalities Vaush and [=Shoe0nHead=]. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (he's very far-left, while she's more center-right), they seem to genuinely have become friends. He also has something of a [[WorthyOpponent friendly rivalry]] with Hunter Avalone and Blaire White.

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* Website/YouTube personalities Vaush and [=Shoe0nHead=]. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (he's very far-left, while she's more center-right), center-left), they seem to genuinely have become friends. He also has something of a [[WorthyOpponent friendly rivalry]] with Hunter Avalone and Blaire White.
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* One of the reasons of the [[AllTheLittleGermanies Unification of Germany]] and the formation of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_German_Confederation North German Confederation]] was that all the northern German countries banded together to fight the southern German countries during the Austro-Prussian war, and ultimately found out that they were far more alike than they were different.

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* One of the reasons of the [[AllTheLittleGermanies [[UsefulNotes/AllTheLittleGermanies Unification of Germany]] and the formation of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_German_Confederation North German Confederation]] was that all the northern German countries banded together to fight the southern German countries during the Austro-Prussian war, and ultimately found out that they were far more alike than they were different.
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* One of the reasons of the [[AllTheLittleGermanies Unification of Germany]] and the formation of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_German_Confederation North German Confederation]] was that all the northern German countries banded together to fight the southern German countries during the Austro-Prussian war, and ultimately found out that they were far more alike than they were different.
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* Website/YouTube personality Vaush and [=Shoe0nHead=]. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (he's very far-left, while she's more center-right), they seem to genuinely have become friends. He also has something of a [[WorthyOpponent friendly rivalry]] with Hunter Avalone and Blaire White.

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* Website/YouTube personality personalities Vaush and [=Shoe0nHead=]. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (he's very far-left, while she's more center-right), they seem to genuinely have become friends. He also has something of a [[WorthyOpponent friendly rivalry]] with Hunter Avalone and Blaire White.
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* ''Website/YouTube'' personality Vaush and Shoe0nHead. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (He's very far-left, while she's more center-right), they seem to genuinely have become friends. He also has something of a [[WorthyOpponent Friendly rivalry]] with Hunter Avalone and Blaire White.

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* ''Website/YouTube'' Website/YouTube personality Vaush and Shoe0nHead. [=Shoe0nHead=]. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (He's (he's very far-left, while she's more center-right), they seem to genuinely have become friends. He also has something of a [[WorthyOpponent Friendly friendly rivalry]] with Hunter Avalone and Blaire White.
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* LA Lakers basketball players Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. Their friendship is forged by playing basketball together in the NBA, but was most apparent when they were opponents in the final match of the 2012 Olympics- Kobe as captain of the US team and Pau as superstar of Spain's team. After the US won, the two immediately gave each other a long, tight hug.

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* LA Lakers basketball players Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. Their friendship is was forged by playing basketball together in the NBA, but was most apparent when they were opponents in the final match of the 2012 Olympics- Kobe as captain of the US team and Pau as superstar of Spain's team. After the US won, the two immediately gave each other a long, tight hug.
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* [[http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/lion-tiger-and-bear-make-for-odd-yet-happy-family-at-ga-sanctuary/ A lion, tiger, and bear]][[note]][[Film/TheWizardOfOz Oh my!]][[/note]] were under the care of an abusive drug dealer when they were cubs. After they were rescued, they proved to be inseparable and still live and play together twelve years later.

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* [[http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/lion-tiger-and-bear-make-for-odd-yet-happy-family-at-ga-sanctuary/ A lion, tiger, and bear]][[note]][[Film/TheWizardOfOz Oh my!]][[/note]] were under the care of an abusive drug dealer when they were cubs. After they were rescued, they proved to be inseparable and still continued to live and play together twelve years later.for well over a decade until their deaths.
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* ''Website/YouTube'' personality Vaush and Shoe0nHead. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (He's very far-left, while she's more center-right), they seem to genuinely have become friends.

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* ''Website/YouTube'' personality Vaush and Shoe0nHead. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (He's very far-left, while she's more center-right), they seem to genuinely have become friends. He also has something of a [[WorthyOpponent Friendly rivalry]] with Hunter Avalone and Blaire White.
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* {{YouTube}} personality Vaush and Shoe0nHead. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (He's very far-left, while she's more center-right), they seem to genuinely have become friends.

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* {{YouTube}} ''Website/YouTube'' personality Vaush and Shoe0nHead. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (He's very far-left, while she's more center-right), they seem to genuinely have become friends.
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* While ''Series/TheXFiles'' had protagonists Mulder and Scully engaging in BelligerentSexualTension amidst the personality conflicts, in real life, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson [[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/08/gillian-anderson-on-therapy-rebellion-and-being-weird were constantly]] [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3406966/The-X-Files-David-Duchovny-Gillian-Anderson-admits-nine-seasons-monsters-us.html on each other's nerves]], not helped by grueling shoots (in Anderson's words, “I think the grind of working every single f------ day, 17 hours a day, with each other, in those circumstances, just took its toll."). That being said, once the show ended, [[http://variety.com/2016/tv/features/x-files-revival-fox-david-duchovny-gillian-anderson-1201682379/ they actually became friends]].

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* While ''Series/TheXFiles'' had protagonists Mulder and Scully engaging in BelligerentSexualTension amidst the personality conflicts, in real life, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson [[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/08/gillian-anderson-on-therapy-rebellion-and-being-weird were constantly]] [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3406966/The-X-Files-David-Duchovny-Gillian-Anderson-admits-nine-seasons-monsters-us.html on each other's nerves]], not helped by grueling shoots (in Anderson's words, “I think the grind of working every single f------ day, 17 hours a day, with each other, in those circumstances, just took its toll."). That being said, once the show ended, [[http://variety.com/2016/tv/features/x-files-revival-fox-david-duchovny-gillian-anderson-1201682379/ they actually became friends]].friends]].
* {[YouTube}} personality Vaush and Shoe0nHead. Despite [[AlphaBitch her general reputation]] and them disagreeing on a lot (He's very far-left, while she's more center-right), they seem to genuinely have become friends.
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* LA Lakers basketball players Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. Their friendship is forged by playing basketball together in the NBA, but was most apparent when they were opponents in the final match of the 2012 Olympics- Kobe as captain of the US team and Pau as superstar of Spain's team. After the US won, the two immediately gave each other a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming long, tight hug]].

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* LA Lakers basketball players Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. Their friendship is forged by playing basketball together in the NBA, but was most apparent when they were opponents in the final match of the 2012 Olympics- Kobe as captain of the US team and Pau as superstar of Spain's team. After the US won, the two immediately gave each other a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming long, tight hug]].hug.
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* Creator/StephenColbert admitted he didn't like Creator/JonStewart when the latter first began hosting ''Series/TheDailyShow'' in 1999, but they've long-since become HeterosexualLifePartners.

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* Creator/StephenColbert admitted he didn't like Jon Stewart when the latter first began hosting ''Series/TheDailyShow'' in 1999, but they've long-since become HeterosexualLifePartners.

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* The Spartans encouraged soldiers to have a good friend so that they'd fight harder to protect them. And if they died, hopefully they'd go AxCrazy in a quest for vengeance.
* The Thespians refused to retreat from the Battle of Thermopylae, fighting alongside the Spartans in their final stand. The Spartans marveled at this; Spartans were raised as warriors and expected to lay down their lives on command, but the Thespians were volunteer soldiers, mostly farmers and tradesmen. The Spartans saw the Thespian's willingness to sacrifice themselves as a kind of courage beyond even their own, and were very proud to have such allies in their last moments. The world has not [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae#Thespian_monument forgotten.]]
* The Sacred Band of Thebes consisted of 150 [[BattleCouple pairs of male lovers]] under the theory that a man would fight harder in the presence of his lover, so as not to be disgraced. The Sacred Band was tough enough to win repeated encounters with the Spartans but was ultimately defeated at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE (read: [[CurbStompBattle killed to the last man]]) by a force led in part by a young UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat in his first appearance as a military commander.
* Centurions Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo. You know, the pair who became incarnated in HBO's ''Series/{{Rome}}'' series, except Titus Pullo got demoted to a mere career legionary. In Real Life, an incident is documented in Gaius Julius's memoirs of his Gallic ventures, where the two men who were fierce rivals ended up fighting off a large group of enemies, taking turns to rescue each other, to the cheering of the legion.
* Although not a life threatening situation, the cohesion formed by working to achieve superordinate goals (a superordinate goal is a desire, challenge, predicament or peril that both parties in a conflict need to get resolved, and that neither party can resolve alone) was the key of the third phase of the ''Robber's Cave Experiment'', information can be found [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_conflict_theory here]], and [[http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/sherif_robbers_cave_experiment.html here]].
* LA Lakers basketball players Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. Their friendship is forged by playing basketball together in the NBA, but was most apparent when they were opponents in the final match of the 2012 Olympics- Kobe as captain of the US team and Pau as superstar of Spain's team. After the US won, the two immediately gave each other a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming long, tight hug]].
* Louisiana Senator Judah Benjamin challenged Senator Jefferson Davis to a duel on the Senate floor over a perceived insult. The men worked out their differences without violence and became friends. When the South seceded, Confederate President Davis appointed Benjamin to three different cabinet positions in his government. Benjamin thus became the first Jewish cabinet member in a North American government.
* [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20209770 Dale Zelko and Zoltan Dani]]
* A significant part of military training is to get recruits into this mindset, often by having their instructors play the role of mutual opponent.
* [[http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/lion-tiger-and-bear-make-for-odd-yet-happy-family-at-ga-sanctuary/ A lion, tiger, and bear]][[note]][[Film/TheWizardOfOz Oh my!]][[/note]] were under the care of an abusive drug dealer when they were cubs. After they were rescued, they proved to be inseparable and still live and play together twelve years later.
* John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played the longest Wimbledon match ''ever'' in 2010, taking over 11 hours stretched across three days to finish their first-round match (Isner won 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, '''70-68'''). The fifth set alone (eight hours) would have broken the previous match length record. They [[ContrivedCoincidence met again in the first round the very next year]], and BBC coverage showed that they had become very close friends after their marathon match.
* Creator/StephenColbert admitted he didn't like Jon Stewart when the latter first began hosting ''Series/TheDailyShow'' in 1999, but they've long-since become HeterosexualLifePartners.
* Boxers Micky Ward and Arturo Gatti [[http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a9137/micky-ward-arturo-gatti-121710/ were described]] as "united by all that damage they had done to each other", first bonding in the hospital after their second fight (out of three).
* A Spanish proverb goes, "It is good to have friends, even in hell."
* Creator/KeithOlbermann argues in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPheceVlG6k this video]] that this happens with sports teams and the unique bond among members of sports teams is part of the reason why gay slurs are so prevalent in sport, as men are not always able to understand those feelings.
* While ''Series/TheXFiles'' had protagonists Mulder and Scully engaging in BelligerentSexualTension amidst the personality conflicts, in real life, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson [[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/08/gillian-anderson-on-therapy-rebellion-and-being-weird were constantly]] [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3406966/The-X-Files-David-Duchovny-Gillian-Anderson-admits-nine-seasons-monsters-us.html on each other's nerves]], not helped by grueling shoots (in Anderson's words, “I think the grind of working every single f------ day, 17 hours a day, with each other, in those circumstances, just took its toll."). That being said, once the show ended, [[http://variety.com/2016/tv/features/x-files-revival-fox-david-duchovny-gillian-anderson-1201682379/ they actually became friends]].

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