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* Karno's webcomic PeRKS has Savage Squirrel and Happy Jack cross paths while working two different cases. [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4753342/ Savage orders Happy Jack to surrender]]--[[SubvertedTrope and Happy Jack promptly does]] and explains that [[spoiler:s]]he is working a slavery ring (Savage Squirrel is working a kidnapping). The two team up.

* Karno's webcomic PeRKS has Savage Squirrel and Happy Jack cross paths while working two different cases. [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4753342/ Savage orders Happy Jack to surrender]]--[[SubvertedTrope and Happy Jack promptly does]] and explains that Happy Jack is working a slavery ring. The two team up.

--> This is surprising! There’s someone who can land Onimaru –San in this much trouble. He must definitely be an amazing fighter. [[FalseFriend First I should become friends with this person]], then teaming up would be the best course of action.

** In a [[WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn]] cartoon, Henery Hawk watches next to a boiling stew pot as Foghorn and Barnyard Dawg fight it out.

* In a [[LooneyTunes Foghorn Leghorn]] cartoon, Henery Hawk watches next to a boiling stew pot as Foghorn and Barnyard Dawg fight it out.

* ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom''. It having ''JetLi and JackieChan in the same movie first time ever!!'', of course they have to fight at first. This is achieved by having Jet Li's character first steal the MacGuffin, taking Chan's character and the kid to be a couple of thieves.

* In ''KingdomHearts358Over2Days'', Roxas is tasked to defeat a "[[BossBattle giant heartless]]" in Halloween Town - said Heartless [[spoiler:happens to be Xion, who attacks him because she is under the impression that he is ''her'' target. Their missions were rigged by the Organization so that one of them could assimilate the other.]]
** In the original ''KingdomHearts'', Sora ends up in a fight with Leon shortly after he arrives in Traverse Town.
** In [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII the sequel]], the Organization tricks [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast The Beast]] into going berserk and attacking the protagonists who spend the fight trying to calm him down. Throughout the series, [[Disney/{{Hercules}} Hades]], being the ManipulativeBastard that he is, uses various means to get his enemies to kill each other, such as making a deal with Cloud and brainwashing Auron.

* In the ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'' [[BadFuture Dark World]] Arc, Twilight's group ''does'' end up fighting with the rest of the mane six due to the others being BrainwashedAndCrazy until Discord's spell was broken. However, this is averted with Applejack and Twilight, who broke Discord's spell independently of one another and when they run into each other mistake the other as still being brainwashed. While Applejack does panic and kick her (leading to a comical moment of Twilight ending up under a Dirt Maid's skirt and being kicked back onto Applejack), they quickly put two and two together (such as Twilight calling her ''Applejack'' instead of Liarjack and Applejack having washed her CoolHat for the first time since the Day of Chaos) and realize the other isn't acting like Twilight Tragedy[=/=]Liarjack. They each quickly realize the others pulled a HeelFaceTurn and decide to trust each other and team up.

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* [[FanFic/{{Cenotaph}} Cenotaph]] features resident teen [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] Skitter, manipulateing [[spoiler: Lung and Kaiser]] into a battle to the death. Then, when it looks like Kaiser might get away, she makes sure he is distracted and off-balence at a crucial moment. Kaiser was the one she thought would be harder to take down, ultimately.
* ''FanFic/{{Fate Stay Night Ultimate Master}}'': Ben and his servant Avenger against Saber and Archer. Ben and Avenger are always the one '''being''' attacked and are just defending themselves (with one exception, and even then there was a justification). Saber, Archer and Rin are too busy seeing him as a threat (actually outright attacking him on sight) to [[PoorCommunicationKills actually stop and talk with him and realise he]] doesn't want to win the Grail and is [[GenreSavvy wary of it's]] [[JerkassGenie wish granting ability]].

--> '''Sergeant Green''': You make the notes, and leave your brains alone. If you're real good we'll let you sing Mother Machree at the police smoker.
--> '''Detective Dayton''': The hell with you, Sarge, if I may say so with proper respect for your rank.
--> '''Marlowe (to Green)''': Let's you and him fight. I'll catch him when he drops.

* In ''Film/DrNo'', JamesBond's investigation into an MI-6 operative's death leads him to Quarrel, who's already working with CIA agent Felix Leiter. Because Leiter saw Bond leave the airport with one of Dr. No's men, Quarrel attacks Bond; their fight is broken up when Leiter arrives to clarify the whole mess.

* In ''Film/IronMan 2'', [[spoiler:Rhodey suits up as War Machine to reign in Crazy Drunken Self-Destructive Tony]]. It seems played for laughs at first, but gradually turns very un-funny.

* Two cops in ''HardBoiled'' end up on either sides of a ''major'' gang shootout taking place in a warehouse. One is undercover. The other drops in from the skylight to do a bust, and does not know about the cop undercover. This is a very, very straight example.
* ''TheForbiddenKingdom''. It having ''JetLi and JackieChan in the same movie first time ever!!'', of course they have to fight at first. This is achieved by having Jet Li's character first steal the MacGuffin, taking Chan's character and the kid to be a couple of thieves.
* In ''HeroicTrio'', all three main characters fight each other in different scenes before finally teaming up.
* In ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest'', Jack Sparrow uses this tactic to escape Will and Norrington.

* In the film adaptation of ''The Sum of All Fears'', the villains try to get the two world superpowers, the U.S. and Russia, to destroy each other.

** In the audiobook ''Son of Sobek'', Percy crosses paths with Carter Kane while they are both hunting the titular giant crocodile, and they get into a fight when Percy mistakes Carter for a rogue demigod.

* In ''{{Sharpe}}'' at one point, Hakeswill orchestrates it so that Sharpe and Harper, on a mission to ransom a general's kidnapped wife, attack and almost kill a pair of Frenchmen... who are there for exactly the same reason, but for the French officer's wife. Fortunately, Sharpe realizes what's going on before anything irreversible happens.

* Season 3 of {{Dexter}} starts with the death of a semi-innocent man due to this trope.

* When Spider-Man met {{Daredevil}} for the very second time, the Masked Marauder deliberately engineered it so they would come to blows. He did this by having guys in Daredevil costumes taunt Spidey until he hunted down the real one. Why, you ask? So the only two threats to his plans would be too tied up dealing with each other to stop him.

* Occurs in ''DeathsHead'' #10, when an UpperClassTwit manipulates Death's Head and IronMan 2020 to fight each other while he bets on the outcome.
* ''BlueBeetle'' and [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Guy Gardner]] had one when they first met, as his ring detected Jaime's Reach technology as a threat. Also notable for the rematch having been broken up by one fighter's ''mother''.

* A variation in ''AvengersArena'', in which Arcade kidnaps a number of young mutants and heroes and forces them to fight each other for his amusement in a parody/ShoutOut to ''BattleRoyale''. The involved heroes are even ''aware'' of his plot right from the start and most of them actively try not to play it straight because they do not want to play Arcade's game and try not to kill anyone. Sadly, fights still happen because of misunderstandings.

* In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' Mal breaks through an Alliance blockade waiting for his single ship by [[spoiler:luring an entire Reaver armada into it]]. The result is a massive battle, with the Serenity slipping through the now very-distracted Alliance fleet.

->''"The game they played was called '[[TropeNamer Let's You and Him Fight.]]'"''\\
--'''Shadow''', ''Literature/AmericanGods'' (quoting [[Comicstrip/{{Popeye}} J. Wellington Wimpy]])

* ''{{Castlevania}}: Curse of Darkness'' has this with the main character Hector, and the famous vampire slayer Trevor Belmont. Trevor believed that Hector was the Devil Forgemaster causing all of the trouble, and it's only until ''after'' the fight that Trevor learns better.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': "Puppet Show" (Sid the Dummy), "What's My Line?" (Kendra), among others. Also, Spike and Faith are both characters who have gone through HeelFaceTurn character arcs. By "Dirty Girls," both of them are on the side of good. When they meet for the first time since they were both evil, they trade blows for a bit, because Faith thinks Spike is still evil, and Spike just gets pissed off enough to hit back.

* Arguably combined with GambitRoulette in ''BattalionWars 2''. Kaiser Vlad, leader of the Germany-equivalent Xylvania, orchestrates a preemptive invasion by the UK-based Anglo Isles on the Japan-esque Solar Empire, who promptly counterattack by invading the Anglo Isles with Russian-stand-in Tundran Territory support. All this to invade the Tundran Territories in an attempt to find a weapon placed there. It's implied that he may have done it once before, setting the America-counterpart Western Frontier against the Tundrans to set up mining operations in the Frontier.

* This can be used in levels in the ''Franchise/SlyCooper'' series that contain patrols other than guards ([[BearsAreBadNews Bears in Canada]], [[EverythingsWorsewithWolves Wolves in Holland]], and Carmelita) to escape detection. When a guard spots you, you can alert said patrols and the two of them will typically fight it out while you run away.

* Subverted in PaperinikNewAdventures:the first time [[PhysicalGod Xadhoom]] met Paperinik,she saved him from a group of Evronians,so he went to thank her...and she tries to kill him,too,thinking ''he'' was an Evronian.
** It was played straight during his first encounter with Urk,but is more justified because Paperinik has some proof that he was the misterious kidnapper who was terryfing Duckburg,and Urk had no idea who he was.

** Sanji and Zoro trading insults until things get physical has become a RunningGag (especially during the Davy Back Fight arc.)

** Sanji and Zoro trading insults until things get physical has become a RunningGag.

* Hilariously averted in the first ''[[Film/XMen1 X-Men]]'' film, where Cyclops demands that Wolverine prove that he isn't the ShapeShifter Mystique:
-->Wolverine: Hey, hey- it's me!
-->Cyclops: Prove it.
-->Wolverine: [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay You're a dick]].
-->Cyclops: ({{Beat}}) Okay.

* In ''SkyHigh'', Lash causes Will to trip, spilling his food over Warren. Already on a short fuse, Warren starts a fight with Will.