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* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'''s finale focus on the return of an EldritchAbomination named Diagon, leading to its ArchEnemy Sir George to come back from retirement. However, Diagon didn't show up until the finale, and George turned out to have some KnightTemplar tendencies, (he ''was'' the founder of the Forever Knights, a group who's role is in the capture and or extermination of aliens on Earth), so the episodes building up to this finale partially focused on Ben and his team fighting with Sir George and his Forever Knights over the way to deal with Diagon (as well as the anti-alien persecutions caused by George).

* Candace's constant attempts to bust the eponymous stepbrothers in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' although it can also be viewed as OrderVersusChaos or ChaoticNeutral versus Good [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation depending on one's perspective of Candace and the boys]]. It helps that if in real life, she'd be a responsible older sister trying to stop kids from hurting themselves with power tools and massive and dangerous projects. Only problem is, their world runs on RuleOfFun. Candace does ultimately have good intentions, but she is pretty high-strung and neurotic in her approach along with the typical teenage attitude.

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* This trope can be applied in real life to every conflict involving two groups of which none is explicitly evil: political parties, sports teams, etc.
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* While in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' this isn't really the case because either the Adrestian Empire or the Church of Seiros will start doing rather despicable things to try to counter the PlayerCharacter (Rhea will burn down her allies' capital city at the end of the Crimson Flower route, and Edelgard will order attacks on civilians and [[FateWorseThanDeath turn people into Demonic Beasts]] in the other three routes), in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'' the game is very clear that Rhea and the Church of Seiros are good people who genuinely do not deserve to have war declared against them, but the sad reality is their ideology is fundamentally incompatible with those of Edelgard and [[spoiler:Claude]], and there's simply no peaceful way of resolving the conflict. Sadly this is a rare example where the two sides ''don't'' recognize each other's mutual goodness and put aside their differences; the war's only endings are with [[spoiler:Rhea and most of the Church's leadership dead, Rhea missing and presumed dead in circumstances that would have at the very least badly injured her along with most of the Church's leadership dead, or Edelgard having suffered a FateWorseThanDeath]].

* While in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' this isn't really the case because either the Adrestian Empire or the Church of Seiros will start doing rather despicable things to try to counter the PlayerCharacter (Rhea will burn down her allies' capital city at the end of the Crimson Flower route, and Edelgard will order attacks on civilians and [[FateWorseThanDeath turn people into Demonic Beasts]] in the other three routes), in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'' the game is very clear that Rhea and the Church of Seiros are good people who genuinely do not deserve to have war declared against them, but the sad reality is their ideology is fundamentally incompatible with those of Edelgard and [[spoiler:Claude]], and there's simply no peaceful way of resolving the conflict.

* The ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' crossover in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, where superheroes fought each other over a SuperRegistrationAct. (At least, this trope was the intention -- there's a lot of DependingOnTheWriter involved as to "who's right" and if/how much the other side gets demonized. When all was said and done, fans concluded that the pro-registration heroes crossed a few too many lines to be considered the "good guys".)

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' routinely shows Ash battling against his friends and travel companions, typically for sport or for training purposes. More often than not these battles are zero-stakes, but occasionally he does have to battle a friend with a lot on the line, such as battling Misty for the Cascade Badge not long after she started traveling with him, or the various friends he makes during his League Tournament runs that he inevitably battles (to various results), such as Ritchie, Morrison, Alain, Stephan, and Cameron. In general, the very nature of Pokémon battling in the series means that 99% of battles are between "good" people, battling for fun or for glory.

* In ''LightNovel/DateALive'', Spirits occasionally come to Earth, and [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds create spacequakes that destroy everything at the point of arrival]]. The Ratatoskr organization aims to stop this by sealing their powers, allowing them to live normal lives. The AST organization aims to simply kill them, and they feel justified because Spirits have killed many people with their spacequakes.

* In ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', it is stated that the Organization, Koizumi's faction, and the time travelers, Mikuru's faction, are fiercely against each other. However, both sides are out to maintain the status quo, and protect the titular character. Meanwhile, Yuki's faction are formless data entities, with their own inner power struggles and wars. On the whole, they prefer to maintain the status quo by not interfering except to maintain [[{{Masquerade}} the masquerade]], while trying to learn how Haruhi's powers work. As for the three agents, they have stated that should their factions go to war, they will stand by the SOS Brigade, breaking ties if they have to.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Timeless", Harry Kim is trying to alter the timeline to make sure ''Voyager'' wouldn't crash, while [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain LaForge]] is trying to stop him, partly to protect his own crew, and partly because messing with time travel does not tend to end well in the ''Star Trek'' Universe.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'''s finale focus around the return of an EldritchAbomination named Diagon, leading to its ArchEnemy Sir George to come back from retirement. However, Diagon didn't show up until the finale, and George turned out to have some KnightTemplar tendencies, (he ''was'' the founder of the Forever Knights, a group who's role is in the capture and or extermination of aliens on Earth), so the episodes building up to this finale partially focused on Ben and his team fighting with Sir George and his Forever Knights over the way to deal with Diagon (as well as the anti-alien persecutions caused by George).

* Candace's constant attempts to bust the eponymous stepbrothers in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' although it can also be viewed as OrderVersusChaos or ChaoticNeutral versus Good [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation depending on one's perspective of Candace and the boys]]. It helps that if in real life, she'd be a responsible older sister trying to stop kids from hurting themselves with power tools and massive and dangerous projects. Only problem is, their world runs on RuleOfFun. Though the occasional implication that she's developing an AmbiguousDisorder blurs things. Candace does ultimately have good intentions, but she is pretty high-strung and neurotic in her approach along with the typical teenage attitude.

** The finale of Volume 7 sees allies turn against each other over the matter of whether it is better ToBeLawfulOrGood. [[spoiler: With Salem on route with her army and the military exhausted from the on-going civilian evacuations, General Ironwood makes the decision to declare Martial Law. He argues that the city of Mantle has to be sacrificed, to prevent the two Relics and the Winter Maiden from falling into the BigBad's hands. Ruby and her team argue that leaving civilians to die to save themselves is playing into Salem's hands and plead with the General to reconsider. Ironwood activates a lockdown and issues arrest warrants for Ruby and all her allies, leading to several battles between Atlas forces and the protagonists. The chaos of the heroes fighting against each other is exploited by Salem's agents -- Neo is able to steal the Relic of Knowledge, and Tyrian is able to murder Ace-Ops Captain Clover Ebi before escaping custody. As Salem's army arrives on the horizon, the heroes are left scattered and exhausted from fighting each other. Once Volume 8 rolls around, though, aside from brief conflicts within Team RWBY themselves, this trope gets subverted as Ironwood begins to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope do questionable action after questionable action]], turning the conflict into more Good Versus EvilVersusOblivion]].

** The finale of Volume 7 sees allies turn against each other over the matter of whether it is better ToBeLawfulOrGood. [[spoiler: With Salem on route with her army and the military exhausted from the on-going civilian evacuations, General Ironwood makes the decision to declare Martial Law. He argues that the city of Mantle has to be sacrificed, to prevent the two Relics and the Winter Maiden from falling into the BigBad's hands. Ruby and her team argue that leaving civilians to die to save themselves is playing into Salem's hands and plead with the General to reconsider. Ironwood activates a lockdown and issues arrest warrants for Ruby and all her allies, leading to several battles between Atlas forces and the protagonists. The chaos of the heroes fighting against each other is exploited by Salem's agents -- Neo is able to steal the Relic of Knowledge, and Tyrian is able to murder Ace-Ops Captain Clover Ebi before escaping custody. As Salem's army arrives on the horizon, the heroes are left scattered and exhausted from fighting each other]].

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' is revealed to be this. [[spoiler: Godzilla was only attacking because he sensed Apex using Ghidorah’s remains to build Mechagodzilla. And when he attacked Kong in the ocean battle, it seems more like a way to vent his frustration at not being able to find it, and it was Kong that initiated rounds 2 and 3. Once Mechagodzilla is defeated, Godzilla leaves with no further aggression.]]

** ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' gives us Apollo versus Klavier. Both have dedicated their lives to uncovering the truths in the cases their involved in, but just happen to be on opposite sides of the court as a defense attorney and prosecutor. The two occasionally even share information or help each other out in the interest of finding the true guilty party, [[spoiler:including when Klavier's own bandmate and, later, brother are on the stand.]]

* ''Film/OtherPeoplesMoney''. Jorgy and Larry have fundamentally, radically opposed notions of what a business is for and how one ought to be run, and this leads to an irreconcilable conflict between them, but they are both good men. One of the appealing things about the film is that it avoids the all too easy fallacy of portraying Larry as the bad guy.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' this is the case with N (a FriendToAllLivingThings who wants to free Pokemon from humans) and the player character, to the point where [[spoiler:they are both recognised as heroes by Zekrom and Reshiram]].

-->-- '''Yang Wen-li''', ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes''

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' pictured above, focuses on a battle between superheroes over a SuperRegistrationAct, with Captain America's Anti-Registration Team clashing with Iron Man's Pro-Registration Team. Unlike the Civil War comic [[spoiler: the registration debate becomes a secondary concern as the conflict shifts to a personal conflict over Bucky Barnes, and his murder of Iron Man's parents.]] The climax of the film whittles down to just Captain America vs. Iron Man.

Compare with BothSidesHaveAPoint, YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters, UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, FightingYourFriend (assuming both are good) and LetsYouAndHimFight. Contrast to BlackAndWhiteMorality and EvilVersusEvil.