History Main / SillyReasonForWar

* [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} Splatoon]]: This is basically what Splatfests are. There are two teams in the [[VideoGame/Splatoon1 first]] [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 two]] games, and three teams in [[VideoGame/Splatoon3 the third]], and they choose between a certain topic, and then compete over which is better. The topics in question have a wide variety of ranges, such as [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokemon Red or Pokemon Blue,]] [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob or Patrick,]] Rock, Paper, or Scissors etc. The topic even varies depending on the regions.

** And it also happens in ''Slayers: Great'', where the father and son of a famous golem-making family, Galia and Huey, are fighting a personal battle that they eventually try to settle by building giant golems and having them fight each other. The reason: Galia is obsessed with making [[{{UsefulNotes/Kawaisa}} Kawaii]] golems, to the extent he builds his mega-golem in the form of a {{Chibi}} Lina Inverse, even going so far as to spend time and effort causing it to make cute sound effects when it steps or does anything. Huey, on the other hand, is into ultra-realistic golems -- and his favorite source material are beautiful, buxom women. His mega-golem is designed as a humungous statue of [[GagBoobs Naga]], and he devotes effort to making sure the breasts [[{{Gainaxing}} jiggle like hers]]. When they finally reconcile, their first combined effort golem is a WesternAnimation/BettyBoop reference; a SuperDeformed woman's face atop a realistically sculpted sexy woman's body.

* ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' starts with a dispute over tariffs that make the Trade Federation upset enough to blockade Naboo as a means of protest. It could possibly have been resolved peacefully (the blockade itself is perfectly legal) had Darth Sideous not been a TreacherousAdvisor to them who convinced them to take their grievance much further into unethical and immoral actions, which eventually triggered the Clone Wars, Order 66, and Palpatine's rise to power.

* ''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth'': The warring factions includes [[MeatVersusVeggies the meat eaters fighting vegetarians]], and flat-footed people fighting buck-toothed people. Though that last one is probably FridgeBrilliance, as the squirrels are likely unknowingly describing UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, with the "buck-toothed people" being [[BritishTeeth the British]], and the "flat-footed people" being the Germans (with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_feet fallen arches]]). Being completely ignorant of the gigantic clusterfuck of political causes of the conflict, they assume it's just [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters monstrous humans]] murdering each other over trivial deformities.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing''. The Cola Wars were fought between the followers of [[BlandNameProduct Dyspepsi-Cola and Cloaca-Cola]]. The war between the Hippies and Frat Boys gets started over the (apparent) murder of an animal mascot.
** At least the latter groups were raiding and killing each other well before the mascot's death (or before you have any quest relating to the war), and were in an arms buildup at the time of it. The mascot was just the final straw.

* ''WebVideo/SMPEarth'': The [[spoiler:Antarctic Empire]] and [[spoiler:Business Bay]] go to war after [[spoiler:Wisp calls TimeDeo bad at Skyblock]].

* The "pro-/anti- Skub" comic from ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship''.

* ''VideoGame/ShootasBloodAndTeef'': The Orks from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer4000'' will find any reason to go to war, but this one is especially ridiculous -- our Ork protagonist Gargaz got his Hair-Squig stolen by their Warboss then punted off the aircraft, and thus takes over an army of Goff Klan Orks to rampage across the planet of Looteus and get it back.

* The entire conflict in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' is initially presented as two color-coded teams fighting to control two bases in a box canyon, and a rare example where those involved in the conflict are fully aware of how silly it is (except for [[TheNeidermeyer Sarge]] and [[TheDitz Caboose]]). But later it's revealed [[spoiler: that the real reason for the war is to give the [[SuperSoldier Freelancers]] as many combat scenarios as possible, and that the soldiers recruited for the war were all military rejects who were put there as CannonFodder]].

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* SillyReasonForWar/RealLife

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' humans and the Hath have been in a endless struggle for control of a colony for generations. The war has gone on so long neither side remembers what started it, but they're both hell-bent on fighting until the other side is wiped out. The plot twist is that the war has been going on for only seven days. They're all artificially gestated in machines (an army can be cranked out in a couple hours) with such high casualty rates that nobody from the original "generations" has lived through the entire war. Both sides were on the original colonization ship together, built the colony, and later squabbled over what to do after their commander died which turned into an armed conflict.

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* In ''Literature/AgainstADarkBackground'', this is essentially Golter's "[[PlanetOfHats hat]]", coming up on the ten thousand year anniversary of an apocalyptic war that all but hit that reset button on their whole civilization... having fought any number of minor wars in the intervening time with the idea that they would stave off greater conflicts, or would usher in a new order that would prevent any future war -- but they were bloody all the same, and rendered large swaths of the planet's surface all but uninhabitable. Protagonist Sharrow herself fought in one of the more recent conflicts: the Five Per Cent War, implied to have been fought over a tax hike.
* In the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book ''The Ellimist Chronicles'' a race called the Capasin receives a transmission from another race (the Ketrans) about a videogame they had made that's about creating new species of creatures and making them fight. The problem? Capasins don't have videogames and thus think the Ketrans are really creating creatures and making them fight. [[PoorCommunicationKills So the Capasins decide to wipe out the Ketrans.]]
* The Arends in ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' tended to fight constantly for foolish reasons. Their civil war over which Duke would become King was fairly significant, but the fact that the fighting continued for an additional five hundred years after the issue was finally resolved, due to a legal technicality, qualifies. (The Asturians refused to swear fealty to the crown because they had already sworn fealty to their Duchess. The fact that the Duchess of Asturia and the Queen of Arendia were the ''same person'' was irrelevant. Once this is discovered, the Duchess arranges for her subjects to be released from their vows so that they might swear fealty to her in her persona of Queen -- as well as to her husband, but only in his persona as King of Arendia, ''not'' in his persona as the Asturians' cultural archenemy, the Duke of Mimbre.)
* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', someone complains that the so-called "War of the false Eldest" was this, as it was just about who should rule the country ... more precisely, which sister from the ''same family''. To the population, this didn't matter at all, but the side-effects of the war, were, of course, severe.
* "Literature/CChute": Humanity and the Kloros went to war over the mining rights of an asteroid. None of the protagonists describe this in very positive terms, from naked [[WarHawk nationalism]] and [[FantasticRacism bigotry]], to outright describing it as foolishness.
-->"If it weren't for the stupidity of some of their people-and, by God, of some of ours-we wouldn't be at war."
* In ''The Chromium Fence'' by Creator/PhilipKDick, a meek man is unsure of which side to take in a social conflict that seems to be leading his future-society towards a full-blown civil war. The issue at stake? Mandatory shaving and hygiene laws (up to and including minor surgery to reduce body odor and sweating for egregious offenders). As violence begins to erupt on the streets and even in his own home (between his hygienic son and his politically active, hairy, sweaty, and stinky brother-in-law), the main character refuses to take a side and can't understand why either side is taking the issue so seriously. He confesses to his less-than-helpful robotic psychologist that he feels like the OnlySaneMan, but worries that feeling is a sign that ''he'' is the one who is really insane for not caring about it.
* In ''Literature/ACivilCampaign'', it's mentioned that the Barrayarans once fought a minor war over whether the Emperor or his District Counts had control over a substance extremely useful in the terraforming effort. Since Imperial power is SeriousBusiness on Barrayar, and since terraforming a planet with almost no technology is ''hard'', this war isn't that silly--but since the useful terraforming substance is ''horse manure'', the whole thing sounds kind of ridiculous to most readers. The way Miles tells it in-story, it was the sort of war that underemployed minor aristocrats start whenever they have a cashflow problem or feel like expanding their territory and think they can get away with it, but it seems to have ground to a halt quite quickly when the [[HonorBeforeReason Barrayaran]] [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Vor ruling class]] became dimly aware it was a silly PretextForWar even by their standards.
* In Creator/StevenBrust's ''Cowboy Feng's Space Bar And Grill'', the Sugar Bear conspirators' society is so terrified of Hags Disease that they repeatedly engineer nuclear attacks to try to exterminate the rest of humanity, fearing the other human colonies' inhabitants are carriers. By the time they're found out and stopped, said "rest of humanity" have long since found a cure for the disease in question, yet the conspirators have stayed so isolated from everyone else that they've never heard that their "quarantine" efforts no longer serve a purpose.
* [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker German philosopher Oswald Spengler]] pointed out in his non-fiction book ''Literature/TheDeclineOfTheWest'' that many wars in RealLife were started like this -- more than one, apparently, because some courtier wanted to break up the developing relationship between some general and his wife.
* The first war depicted in the ''{{Literature/Deverry}}'' novels was between two nobles who were fighting over whose peasants had the right to forage in the local woods for pig fodder. It should be noted that the two families had been feuding for three generations at this point, and had already exhausted just about every other reason they could find to go to war with each other, including who owned the forest in question.
-->'''Cullyn:''' Pity we can't arm the swine. Everyone will fight for their own food.
* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'': A twofer, in the main plot and an anecdote.
*** The war that nearly takes place in the book is over a small island with no usable resources, and no potential for any use economically or industrially, that suddenly pops up in the water between Ankh-Morpork and Klatch. While neither side actually wants the island, they don't want the other side to have it either, since both sides believe it belongs to them. Humorously, [[spoiler:the war is ultimately prevented when [[MagnificentBastard Vetinari]], after visiting the island, surrenders it to Klatch because he had determined that the island will inevitably sink again, making it even more worthless than it already is]]. This is a reference to an actual island between Sicily and Malta, called Ferdinandea by Italy, Julia Island by France, and Graham Island by the British. In mid-1831, the volcanic island emerged after an eruption, sparking a brief diplomatic row by the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, France, Britain, and Spain over who would claim the new island, [[spoiler: until the "island," actually made of weak [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tephra tephra]], washed away over the course of the next six months]]. The Italians (or to be specific, the Sicilians) recently renewed their claims in 2000 by inviting the heir to the defunct Bourbon throne out for a ceremony to plant both a flag and a plaque on the summit, [[spoiler: by sending a diving team down]].
*** There's also a story about two smaller nations nominally claimed by the Klatchian empire, who had only recently eased off on a centuries-old war, having run out of rocks to throw. The reason for the conflict is a one-word difference in their holy book, which one country translates as "man" and the other translates as "god". This trope is applicable because the difference between the two words, in Klatchian script, comes down to how a single dot is positioned over one letter ... and it ''especially'' applies if, as heretical theologians suggest, the dot is actually a bit of fly poo. Apparently if the dot was moved slightly more it would mean "licorice". This (well, the first part, not the licorice) is a reference to the split between the Eastern and Western Churches over a Greek word that could mean either 'of God' or 'of man' in the Nicaean Creed depending on if it differed by an iota (the smallest Greek letter). Hence the phrase 'not one iota of difference'.
** ''Literature/{{Thud}}'': Commander Vimes discovers that the Battle of Koom Valley, which ignited a long-standing animosity between Dwarfs and Trolls, was actually caused by a misunderstanding. The dwarf and troll leaders intended to broker a peace in Koom Valley, but a thick fog caused their armies to mistakenly believe the other side was ambushing them. With the leaders washed away by a flash flood, the survivors spread the story of the "double ambush" and continued their racial feud. A group of conservative dwarfs tried to prevent this knowledge from spreading in order to prevent a new peace accord between the two races.
* Creator/DrSeuss loved this trope:
** Inspired by Swift, ''Literature/TheButterBattleBook'' has two peoples fighting over which side of the toast should be buttered. It [[LensmanArmsRace escalates]] to ridiculous extremes, becoming an obvious parody of the then-current UsefulNotes/ColdWar, and [[NoEnding ends with an ambiguous]] MexicanStandoff. Seuss himself [[TakeAThirdOption liked to butter the crust]].
** ''Literature/{{The Sneetches|AndOtherStories}}'': The presence of a star on their bellies is used as a sign of racial superiority by the titular Sneetches until Sylvester [=McMonkey=] [=McBean=] shows up with a contraption that applies (or removes) stars, all for a modest payment. In the end, he has all their money, and the hopelessly confused Sneetches get the [[AnAesop Aesop]].
** ''Litreature/TheZax'': A North-Going Zax and a South-Going Zax happen to meet face-to-face, and they both refuse to budge "an inch to the east, nor an inch to the west" to let the other pass. Like ''The Butter Battle Book'', it just ends with them at an impasse (also under an overpass).
* ''Literature/TheElenium'':
** The Lamorks are in a constant state of war, with the minor nobles declaring war on each other for any perceived slight. One war ended up getting started over a bee sting.
** In ''Literature/TheShiningOnes'' it is revealed that a man angry his betrothed was [[HeterosexualLifePartners paying more attention to her sister than to him]] is the true origin of centuries of warfare and machinations in both the Eosian kingdoms and the Tamul Empire.
* Andre Maurios's children's book ''Literature/{{Fattypuffs and Thinifers}}'' is set in an underground world where people are divided according to their weight, which is deliberately stupid in the first place. When the book begins, they are in an uneasy truce in a war over something, which is never made clear, to do with an island in the sea between their countries. At a hopeful peace conference, the Fattypuffs insist on calling the island "Fattyfer", while the Thinifers demand it be called "Thinipuff". And so the war resumes over the name of an island (of course, neither side asked the natives for their opinion). In a happy ending, the reconciled Fattypuffs and Thinifers agree to call it "Peachblossom Island" instead.
* Hari Seldon from the ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' prequels once mentions a youth subculture conflict on his home planet between people who shave the left side of their head and those who shave the right side of their hair.
* In ''Literature/TheGreatGodsWar'' the nations of Amika and Belleger have fought a centuries-spanning ForeverWar because the founder of one of them was jilted by a woman in favour of the founder of the other one, and he killed them both on their wedding day as revenge. Everyone agrees on that much, but both countries insist that it was ''their'' founder who was the victim and the ''other'' country's founder that was the murderer. In practice, though, Amika mostly fights the war because its King wants to rule over both countries, and Belleger mostly fights the war because, well, the Amikans keep running over and attacking them.
* In ''Literature/GulliversTravels'', the Lilliputians fought a long war over which end of a boiled egg should be broken (the Big-Endians and the Little-Endians). This was a metaphor for the contemporary conflicts over the eucharist, specifically the belief and disbelief in transubstantiation. This reason for war is actually discussed in ''The Adventures of Series/{{Wishbone}}'' book "Gullifur's Travels" (an adaptation of the original story). In the original book, Gulliver does not offer an opinion on the cause, merely promising to defend their country from invaders. In this version, while talking with Reldresal, Gulliver brings up the possibility of [[TakeAThirdOption breaking eggs in the middle]]. Reldresal (who personally agrees that the reasoning for the war is silly) nervously tells him to keep that thought to himself, because compromisers are seen as being disloyal and put to death.
* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'':
** Higher-dimensional beings like playing Brockian Ultra-Cricket, a game so complicated that a complete compilation of its rules became a ''black hole''. The more popular it gets, the less it is being played because almost all the teams (and substantial parts of the population) are now in a state of permanent warfare with each other over the interpretation of these rules. This is, however, all for the best, because in the long run a good solid war is less psychologically damaging than a protracted game of Brockian Ultra-Cricket.
** The Vl'hurgs and the G'Gugvuntt fought a long war because the Vl'hurg leader was supposedly insulted by the G'Gugvuntt leader. After noticing that it was actually Arthur Dent (and a hole in the space-time continuum), they teamed up and flew thousands of light-years towards the Milky Way, only to be swallowed by a little dog.
* ''Literature/TheHobbit'' is the {{Trope Maker|s}} for ElvesVersusDwarves, yet the reason for the conflict provided in the book is remarkably petty. Apparently the elves commissioned the dwarves of Erebor to fashion some raw jewels into jewelry, but once the work was done, the dwarves refused to return it. The elves claim that the dwarves kept it out of greed, despite being fairly compensated. The dwarves, on the other hand, claim that they were never paid, and kept the jewelry as compensation. Then again, [[Literature/TheSilmarillion wars based on jewelry]] [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings seems to be a recurring element]] in Creator/JRRTolkien's works.
* British statesman Lord Chesterfield wrote in ''Literature/LettersToHisSon'': "Such closet politicians never fail to assign the deepest motives for the most trifling actions; instead of often ascribing the greatest actions to the most trifling causes, in which they would be much seldomer mistaken." (letter 93)
* In Norton Juster's ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'', the two major powers in the Kingdom of Wisdom, Dictionopolis the City of Words (ruled by King Azaz the Unabridged) and Digitopolis the City of Numbers (ruled by the Mathemagician), were at odds over whether words or numbers were the most important aspect of wisdom. When the princesses Rhyme and Reason advised that both words and numbers were equally important, the kings ordered them banished, a move which turned out to be the last time they ever agreed on anything. Milo manages to LogicBomb Azaz and the Mathemagician into agreeing to lifting their banishment and in the end the two appear to have restored peace, although there is still some bickering.
* Creator/AlexanderPope's ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock'' dramatizes a real-life incident that happened to friends of his, wherein a young lady's fiancé stole a lock of her hair without asking permission (again, "rape" here meaning "seize forcibly", as in the case of the infamous bucket, below). The brouhaha was so ridiculous that Pope turned it into a full-scale ''epic,'' complete with miniature gods and [[MundaneMadeAwesome descriptions of coffee, card games, and petticoats that would make]] [[ManlyTears Achilles weep.]]
* The ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' novel ''Carnival of Fear'' was set in a country where criminals were transformed into circus freaks and mind-wiped, then gleefully mocked and abused by the ordinary citizens. Hating the odd-looking became so essential to their mindset that, when the Carnival's performers learned the truth and fled the region, the remaining citizens turned on one another: in the epilogue, a gang of children are seen throwing stuff at another boy because his ''eye color'' is different from theirs.
* ''La Secchia Rapita'' (''The Rape of the Bucket'') is a mock-heroic epic poem by Alessandro Tassoni first published in 1622. It tells of a war between the Italian cities of Modena and Bologna over the possession of a wooden bucket. It was a real war. Honest. See the Real Life section for some details. (That's "rape" in the archaic sense of the word, "carried off, seized by force", by the way, not a CargoShip.)
* ''The Semantics War'', a short story by Bill Clothier, has humanity arbitrarily divide itself into two factions, one declaring that THE WISTICK DUFELS THE MORADDY, the other that THE MORADDY DUFELS THE WISTICK. [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves War and the collapse of human civilization ensues.]]
* ''Every major conflict'' in ''Literature/SeparatedAtBirthAmericaAndDrakia'' from the 1850s onwards occurs due to trivial incidents in the Levant involving [[NoodleImplements pieces of furniture]].
* In a ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' novel, a tribe of prairie dogs and a tribe of gophers went to war periodically over possession of an ugly statue, which gave the victors exclusive rights to use the nearby hot springs' water. The springs produced enough hot water to meet the needs of both tribes, but their egos were too caught up in the competition to care (also [[BloodKnight they]] ''[[BloodKnight liked]]'' [[BloodKnight killing each other]]). Jon-Tom decides that [[MightyWhitey obviously this means that they need a UCLA law student to tell them to stop fighting]] and destroys the statue so that they can "learn to cooperate and find common ground." He succeeded; [[GoneHorriblyRight they found the common ground of wanting to kill Jon-Tom more than they wanted to kill each other]]. Cue Jon-Tom and Mudge [[ChasedByAngryNatives making a hasty exit]].
* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] novel ''Literature/{{IQ}}'' told of a war between the Q and another race of similarly omnipotent beings, the M. These two [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien impossibly advanced species]] both admitted the real reason for their cataclysmic conflict was "there's just something about you that just really pisses me off." The war itself is kicked off when one of them blurts out, "[[MinorInsultMeltdown Your mother!]]"; nobody now knows who said it or who it was directed at (and it's not like any of them even ''had'' a mother). Both sides also show near [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breaking]] [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]]: they're both aware enough to realize that in their reality every race ''always'' manages to get balanced out by some other race which exists to be an opposing force and source of plot. If they made up with their obvious opposite numbers, it would inevitably lead to a serious threat to both of them showing up.
** Another ExpandedUniverse novel, ''Imzadi'' mentions two feuding worlds whose centuries-long strife ultimately stemmed from the hard feelings caused by an unintentional diplomatic incident. Specifically, a dog analogue owned by a dignitary from one world killing a cat analogue owned by a dignitary from the other. When this was discovered, this resulted in the first ever peace treaty to include a section about leash laws.
* The Franchise/StarWarsLegends novel ''[[Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy Planet of Twilight]]'' visits Nim Drovis, a planet inhabited by a species that has been in a CivilWar for centuries... because one tribe thought the word "truth" was singular and the other thought it was plural. A Drovian queried on it by a New Republic officer says he doesn't care what started the war with the Gopso'o, he just wants to beat them.
* Averted in ''[[Literature/TalesOfDunkAndEgg The Sworn Sword]]''. Ser Duncan tries to convince Lady Rohanne not to invade his lord's land over a 'pissing contest' about who can dam the river. Lady Rohanne points out that these contests are how nobles judge each other's strength, and [[RapePillageAndBurn worse will happen]] if she doesn't put up a strong front.
* Creator/CSLewis started but never finished a story about UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar called ''Ten Years After''. In the story Helen's jilted husband, King Menelaus, is bewildered and distressed by the assumption of his advisers that the real reason for the Trojan War is to do with securing food supplies. As far as he is concerned, ''that'' is a silly and ignoble reason for war, whereas war to take back the most beautiful woman in the world is something that any true warrior can get behind.
* In ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', the Duke of Buckingham was willing to go to war with France if diplomatic relations broke down... because it would keep him away from the Queen of France that he was in love with.
* ''Literature/TristramShandy'' has a chapter-long aside about a war between France and Switzerland that starts when the countries disagree about what to name the French heir.
* In ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday'', the Nimrogs were an alien race who were driven to the brink of extinction by three hundred years of civil war that started over ''[[ParkingPayback a parking space]]''.
* In ''Literature/UseOfWeapons'', part of ''Literature/TheCulture'' series of sci-fi novels, one of the many, many, many military conflicts the protagonist took part in was an unending and brutal war on an ice planet. Ostensibly, the war was for control of the constantly shifting iceberg masses that made up the only land surface on the planet. But since these icebergs are inevitably destroyed/melt as they move towards the equator, no victory ever means anything for more than a few months, but the war continues on and on, as both sides had grown to hate each other too much to admit the whole thing is pointless...
* Played for drama in ''Literature/WarriorCats.'' Following a string of betrayals and tragedies, Bluestar, the leader of [=ThunderClan=], becomes paranoid and fearful that the other Clans are plotting to destroy her Clan. When her warriors find remains of dead rabbits on their territory, Bluestar assumes that the culprits are [=WindClan=] (who regularly eat rabbits), assumes that they have been stealing prey, and plans to attack them, despite her deputy Fireheart pointing out that the rabbit remains were most likely left by a dog. When Bluestar refuses to back down, Fireheart sets up a peace talk with [=WindClan=] behind her back in order to prevent needless bloodshed.
** Earlier, a flood shifted the course of the river, transferring a barren, prey-poor piece of land called Sunningrocks from the [=RiverClan=] side to the [=ThunderClan=] one. Cue generations of bloody warfare over it, only ending when all the Clans were forced to leave by human activity. Ironically, they actually gather there before evacuating, because it's the last place that hasn't been bulldozed, chainsawed, or littered with traps and poison.
* In ''Literature/WelkinWeasels'', the protagonists come across an island that is home to a pair of dodo tribes. They apparently hate each other because of the color of their eyes, and over ownership of a bunch of little models made of fish bones. Apparently, whenever they go to steal the other tribe's, the other tribe gets the same idea and they're back where they started. They manage to solve this by the protagonists having them burn all of the models. It doesn't really work, though, as the chieftain of the tribe they first met recommended that the group leave before the darts started flying.
* These are the kinds of wars [=JidaiGeki=] Japan is presented as waging in one ''Literature/WheresWaldo'' where Waldo is wandering around various eras of history.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
Note: While many of these wars were ''triggered'' by ridiculous things, they are often the culmination of larger tensions between two enemy states that may go back for generations.

!!In approximate historic order:
* The Spartans liked to take this trope [[ExaggeratedTrope one step further]] by going to war for ''no reason at all.'' At one point, according to Xenophon, they attacked the city state of Elis, literally and entirely "[[BloodKnight because they had no one else to fight at the time]]." The Spartans also routinely declared war on their own slave population on the flimsiest of pretenses as part military exercise and part population control.
* In the Han dynasty, a brief war erupted in 154 BCE between the nobles of the royal family due to a game of [[TabletopGame/{{Go}} weiqi]]: the losing royal [[RageQuit pitched a fit]] and beaned his playing buddy to death with the board; the grieving father blamed the other boy's father for being a [[SacredHospitality terrible host]] and attacked. This war is known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_of_the_Seven_States Rebellion of the Seven States.]]
* The Nika Riots of 532 AD, when supporters of two rival teams of chariot racing (supported by two different Christian sects) broke out in fighting that ended up snowballing into riots that burned half the city of Constantinople ''and'' a full-fledged coup attempt, and resulted in the deaths of thousands massacred by the professional army. Chariot racing was SeriousBusiness -- it was closely tied to Imperial politics and the legal system to such an extent that toughs representing a team that was in favor often had nothing to fear from law enforcement, almost regardless of what they did.
* By some accounts, the rebellion of William Wallace began circa 1297 because some English soldiers tried to steal his fish and he killed some of them, so they put a warrant out for his arrest. And his wife was killed for hiding him, which is why he went to the nearby fort and burned it down.
* In 1325, Italy was still divided into city-states. A regiment of soldiers from the city-state of Modena invaded Bologna to steal a brown, oak bucket. During the raid, several ''hundred'' Bolognese citizens were killed by the Modenese troops. The ensuing war lasted 12 years. Modena won, and still has the bucket. It's still on display in Modena's cathedral tower, the "Ghirlandina". Here's [[https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/176/465245775_cf388f5fc9_z.jpg a photo.]]
** The true reason for the battle of Zappolino was the control of the region during the [[CivilWar war between Guelphs and Ghibellines]] (which definitely counts as SeriousBusiness) and the bucket was taken as a mock trophy when the battle, although bloody, ended in the stalemate. This is also exactly the reason that a large battle (comparable with battles of Agincourt or Tannenberg numbers-wise) is largely unknown and usually mentioned only in reference to the mock-heroic poem written three centuries later.
* UsefulNotes/TimurTheLame once attacked India as part of his conquest campaigns because he felt the local rulers were growing ''too tolerant of the Hindu population''. On the topic of India, the Sepoy Mutiny was started because the British made packages of gunpowder, lubricated by either pork, beef, or lamb tallow but nobody could tell which was which. More on this [[https://www.guns.com/2013/01/19/how-gun-lube-brought-down-the-british-empire/ here]]. You see, a nation filled with Hindus (believe cattle are part of the divine) and Muslims (believe pigs are unclean), forced to open a package that has a 1 in 3 chance of being exactly what they can't touch, and get this, they have to open it with their mouth.
* Originally, the pre-conquest Mesoamericans had a general agreement to not begin a war until a messenger had been sent to the enemy and announced the reason why war was being declared. This worked just fine for a time, but after the Aztecs and their [[HumanSacrifice desperate]] [[BeatStillMyheart need]] for war prisoners came to power, wars began to be declared so often that they soon ran out of good excuses, and the "reasons" for declaring war became increasingly silly. For example, in 1473 the Aztec emperor declared war on the king of Tlatelolco (who was his brother-in-law) because he didn't sleep with his wife [[SeriousBusiness often enough]] and that made her sad -- the king was thrown off Tlatelolco's main temple and his state annexed to the Aztec Empire. It's safe to assume that everybody else eventually ran out of excuses too, because by the time the Spanish showed up, all the surviving states had agreed to have some limited wars with each other each few years, the "flowery wars", with no single purpose but to provide sacrifice victims to everybody.
* The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748): Britain was looking for an excuse to go to war with Spain, and someone eventually pointed out that ''eight years earlier'', Spanish coast guards had boarded an English ship, captained by the aforementioned Jenkins, and cut off his ear. Parliament was duly outraged and war was declared. Unlike some of the other examples of this list, this one was not a minor skirmish; it wound up involving the ''second largest ever'' amphibious assault (it remained ''the'' largest until the [=WWII=] Normandy Landings) and involved a stunning level of HilarityEnsues for all of its duration - down to a [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain royal command from the loser of the largest battle to never mention it again (order which was still in effect well into the [=XX=] century)]] that ''almost'' makes us forget that literally ''tens of thousands'' of British and Spanish soldiers died in it. The war was eventually subsumed in the UsefulNotes/WarOfTheAustrianSuccession, an all-European conflict that began when Prussia invaded Austrian Silesia in 1740. To further highlight the pointlessness of the conflict, there's even considerable doubt about whether or not some guy named Jenkins really lost an ear that way in the first place.
* The [[MeaningfulName Pastry War]] of 1838. A Franco-Mexican war that expanded to include Great Britain and United States. During the course of the conflict, France captured almost the entire Mexican fleet, the Republic of Texas moved further into the orbit of the USA, and former Mexican dictator Santa Anna was wounded in a clash with Mexican soldiers, paving the way for him to return to power. In the end, the British intervened and forced Mexico to pay France the 600,000 pesos compensation that France had demanded in the first place. Compensation for what, you may ask? The property of a French baker in Mexico having been damaged by Mexican army officers, ''10 years previously''.
* Downplayed in 1859 with "the Pig War", when an American farmer on the San Juan Islands near Vancouver, Canada, disputed between the US and Britain (The most recent treaty between the US and UK regarding that region clearly marked the border between America and Canada on the mainland, but was vague as to who owned which coastal islands near said border, and where the territorial waters of the islands owned by one side ended and the territorial waters of the islands owned by the other side began), killed a British-owned pig rooting in his garden. British authorities tried to arrest the farmer, and the American community on the islands called for US protection, which they got from a notoriously (even at the time) incompetent local general with the British governor calling in local naval forces to counteract the decison, which resulted in British and American Troops very nearly going to war with each other. When higher ups from both sides realized that it was insane to "involve two great nations in a war over a squabble about a pig," in the words of the British commander on the scene, they set up a joint military presence and called in German mediation. (Which eventually decided in favor of the Americans.)
* In 1870, the throne of Spain was offered to a prince from a Catholic side-branch of the ruling house of Prussia. The French government vehemently objected, so the Prussian prince withdrew his candidacy. Then the French government demanded that Prussian king never allow such an offer to occur again. Prussia refused. [[UsefulNotes/FrancoPrussianWar The French declared war on Prussia (despite Prussia's bigger army), which led all the other German states to declare war on France.]] The Germans quickly defeated the French, taking Alsace-Lorraine. The festering dispute over Alsace-Lorraine helped cause both world wars. Both the Prussian king and the French emperor Napoleon III (nephew of the first) realized it was a really silly pretext for war and were slowly backing down, but Bismarck, who wanted a war to kickstart the German unification, published part of their messages, enflaming German public opinion over the perceived harsh language (thanks to Bismarck's cautious editing of what got published). That in turn enflamed ''French'' public opinion because they thought it was a perfectly legitimate request (even though France had had no problems prevailing when the Habsburgs had ruled over Germany and Spain at the same time), who forced the government to declare war. Napoleon III is recalled complaining about this a few days before he had to sign the declaration.
** On the backdrop of that war, the final act of the UsefulNotes/WarsOfItalianIndependence, the Italian conquest of Rome and the consequent dissolution of UsefulNotes/ThePapalStates, took place for a very simple reason: [[SeriousBusiness the Italians as a people are fixated with Ancient Rome]], to the point that a unified Italian state that has the capital anywhere else in time ''loses legitimacy''. Thus the House of Savoy and their ministers tried to secure Rome peacefully even before they managed to proclaim the Kingdom of Italy, after which they had to ignore Pope Pius IX's continuous provocations while using the French protection of the Pope as a reason to do so... Then France had to recall the garrison due the losses suffered in the war against Prussia just as Pius IX was using the First Vatican Council for yet another provocation, at which point, after one last attempt to secure Rome peacefully, Italy invaded with overwhelming force, surprising the international community with the obsession in putting their capital there.
** And on the opposing side, one of the reasons for Pius IX' hostility to the Italian independence and unification movement was that, under the Holy Roman Empire, it was the Pope's prerogative to appoint the King of Italy (and, by extension, the Holy Roman Emperor, but the Italian patriots weren't interested in that), and the Italian patriots ''hadn't asked his permission''. The Count of Cavour, the prime minister for the Kingdom of Sardinia that was leading the unification, tried to get around this by forming a confederation of three kingdoms where the Pope would have been ''primus inter pares'' with the King of Northern Italy (of the House of Savoy, formerly King of Sardinia) and the King of Southern Italy (of the House of Borbone, formerly King of the Two Sicilies), but Pius IX refused to recognize them as his peers, resulting in Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies calling himself out of the unification movement to not go against the Pope-and the enduring hostility between Pius IX and the Kingdom of Sardinia first and the Kingdom of Italy later.
* The Dog Tax War, the last of the Maori wars fought in 1898. The Hokianga County Council in New Zealand introduced a tax of 2/6d on dogs, the local Maori rose in armed protest and a short military campaign was fought. The war was bloodless and the upshot was the dog tax stayed.
* In 1900, in what is now Ghana, a war broke out between the British and Ashanti Empires over a golden stool. To the Ashanti, the golden stool was an object of immense cultural and spiritual significance, representing the souls of all Ashanti, dead, living, and unborn. The British governor, Frederick Hodgson, was unaware of this, believing it was simply a throne, and rather unfortunately demanded the Ashanti hand it over so that he could sit on it. The result: the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Golden_Stool War of the Golden Stool]]--3,000 deaths, the dissolution of the Ashanti Empire, and the British never found the stool. The Ashanti to this day consider it a win, since their objective has been fulfilled--Hodgson never sat on it. In fact, the Ashanti would have been happy, since they had already been defeated by the British in another war, for ''Queen Victoria'' to sit on the stool, seeing as she was ruler of the British Empire and someone they saw as an equal and victor. Hodgson? Not so much...
* Although it has not escalated to military conflict, UsefulNotes/{{Egypt}} and UsefulNotes/{{Sudan}} have a long-standing border dispute over an area called Bir Tawil -- specifically, they each allege that the ''other'' party owns it. The reason for the dispute is that each nation claims a different historical border to be the correct boundary between their nations (each of them favoring a border that includes [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halaib_Triangle a much more valuable piece of land]] within their nation--currently administered ''de facto'' by Egypt),[[note]]This is one of the major reasons Egypt and Sudan will probably ''never'' fight over this border dispute. The reasons this dispute is unlikely to lead to war are that (1) they are strategic allies (they have strong economic links and share a common interest in preventing countries upstream of them on the Nile--particularly Ethiopia--from messing with the amount of water that flows down to them), (2) they have strong cultural links (beyond both being Arabic-speaking countries, they share many cultural traits in common not shared with other Arab states), and (3) Egypt is ''much'' stronger (with a far larger population and far more developed economy) and has a far stronger military than Sudan. Number 3 means that so long as Egypt has actual control of the land both countries actually want, Egypt has no reason to attack Sudan, and Sudan knows it would get its ass beat if it tried to take the territory by force.[[/note]] and both of their preferred borders exclude Bir Tawil from their nation. Thus, even if the other side doesn't want it, one side can't simply claim that territory as their own since it would be implicitly giving up the territory they actually want. While the countries have never fought over it, Egypt has sent [[UsefulNotes/EgyptiansWithEagleFighters its army]] to the territory a few times, most recently in 1992 (leading to the current situation of it being a ''de facto'' part of Egypt; before then, the territory was usually a ''de facto'' Egyptian-Sudanese condominium).
** Which led to the amusing happening of an American man flying there, planting a homemade flag, and declaring it as the "Kingdom of Northern Sudan". Just so his daughter could be a princess.
* UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck -- "Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal ... A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all ... I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where ... [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Some damned silly thing in the Balkans will set it off]]".
* Following UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, relations between Greece and Bulgaria were rather strained. One day, a dog ran away from his owner in Greece over the border into Bulgaria, and his owner, a soldier, ran after him. The soldier was shot dead by Bulgarian sentries. The resulting war was called "The War of the Stray Dog."
* One of the many incidents over Chaco in South America was inflamed in 1932 by a postage stamp showing it as part of Paraguay.
* In Australia, to curb bird overpopulation messing with the crops, the military actually [[https://allthatsinteresting.com/great-emu-war declared war on emus]]. The birds, despite having no opposable thumbs, were extremely effective in scatter maneuvers, and the army quickly wasted huge amounts of ammunition. They tried ambushes, actual military campaigns, and even driving around with a machine gun mounted to a jeep. Ultimately, they declared the war a loss. Yes, you read that right: Australia became the only country in recorded history to lose a war to ''birds''.
** One could argue that China did so too in their sparrow genocide that ended up killing 38 million Chinese people (the extermination of birds sparked a huge pest control problem with subsequent crops losses and deadly famine). However, those guys at least did not officially declare a war.
* Averted with Canada and Denmark's [[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/world/what-in-the-world/canada-denmark-hans-island-whisky-schnapps.html "war" over Hans Island]]. As it's within 12 miles of ''both'' country's shores, either side could technically lay claim to it under international law, but neither side really knew what to actually do about the island or the border situation of the strait it's in. Then in 1984 Canada visited the island, planted a flag, and left a bottle of Canadian whiskey. "War" was declared and Denmark visited the island, swapped the flag for their own, drank the whiskey, and left a bottle of Danish schnapps. This went on back and forth for ''years'' until, in 2005, the two countries finally decided to resolve the issue once and for all but little actually happened until June 2022 when they agreed to divide the island roughly in half-- presumably they couldn't agree on what to drink during the negotiations.
* Cod Wars. A series of four gradually escalating conflicts started by Iceland over how big its naval territory of uncontested cod fishing should be (starting with 4 miles around the coast, ending up with 200 by the end of the fourth Cod War). Iceland fought (and won!) Great Britain, Germany and France to get the rights for exclusive fishing.
** In case you are wondering how could Iceland defeat the Royal Navy (for the record, Iceland's entire population was smaller than British naval crew reserves, not to mention Britain already being a nuclear power, and Iceland's largest warship at the time being classified as ''frigate''), the answer is simple. Iceland hosted the only NATO naval base in the northern seas at a time; when denied its rightful cod, Iceland simply threatened to rent the place to USSR. Cue the United States showing Britain the way out on Iceland's behalf.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W12vb_Crf00 "The Football War"]] was a brief four-day war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 that started with a soccer riot. 3000 people (soldiers and civilians) died and 300,000 people were displaced. However, this is more a case of the riot lighting the fuse on existing tensions than actually going to war over the match.
* In 1976, Operation [[MeaningfulName Paul Bunyan]] was started because two US Army officers were killed. This operation included two eight-man tree-trimming squads backed up by three platoons of soldiers with a supporting company waiting in helicopters. This was further backed up by major air support including an aircraft carrier. The reason? They were chopping down a tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Granted, South Korea and North Korea had quite a lot of tension between them, this was supposedly a scheduled trimming. Note that the high level of military force was intended as a deterrent to prevent a more serious conflict from erupting. This wasn't quite as silly as it initially seems. A previous work detail of two men and no back-up had been sent out to chop down the tree, which was blocking the view of a South Korean observation post, when they were attacked and killed by DPRK troops. The massive show of force was to both protect the tree-trimmers and to basically ''dare'' the North Koreans to mess with them a second time.
** In 2014 North Korea claimed that South Korea had broken the ceasefire treaty when soldiers erected a Christmas tree on the southern side of the DMZ.
* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars Yugoslav Wars]] were the worst genocide in European history since [[FinalSolution the Holocaust]], and one of the catalysts was the "Đorđe Martinović incident" in which a Serbian farmer was allegedly the victim of an AssShove with a broken beer bottle by Albanians in 1985. To this day it's not known whether he was a real hate crime victim or just a sexual deviant, but either way he became a martyr to the Serbians and 140,000 people died among a myriad of crimes against humanity.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_naming_dispute The Macedonia naming dispute.]] Now, none of those countries have openly declared they want each other's territories (although Greece is afraid of an implied Macedonian expansion). This is more the political equivalent of a FlameWar. It was eventually resolved by the Republic of Macedonia officially changing its name to the Republic of North Macedonia (the treaty was signed in 2018 and legal enforcement of this went into effect in 2019).
* The East Coast/West Coast HipHop feud, fought in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates over regional variants of rap music. Music/TheNotoriousBIG (representing the East Coast) and Music/TupacShakur (representing the West Coast) both got assassinated during this conflict.
* [[https://bit.ly/3Qmp1Ul The Google Maps War]], fought in 2010 between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. After Google Maps erroneously portrayed Costa Rica's border with Nicaragua south of the accepted line, they sent 50 soldiers to the Isla Portillos in Costa Rica, [[InsaneTrollLogic justifying it by saying that, according to Google Maps, it was a part of Nicaragua]]. Costa Rica responded by sending 70 police officers to the island (as they do not have a real military). It ended with Google Maps correcting the error, and the UN ruling that technically, Nicaragua invaded Costa Rica.


!!Additional:
* Website/{{Cracked}}:
** A list of [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17123_the-5-most-retarded-wars-ever-fought.html the five most retarded wars ever fought.]]
** And a list of [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18512_5-lesser-known-completely-ridiculous-american-civil-wars.html lesser known (but completely ridiculous) civil wars.]]

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This is a {{subtrope}} of SeriousBusiness. Related to HumansKillWantonly and FantasticRacism. See FelonyMisdemeanor for when it's humans acting like this, and it doesn't (usually) end in war. Compare PretextForWar, where two sides seize upon any reason they can to go to war, without actually caring about the reason itself. When it's a mere domestic squabble, it might be a ToiletSeatDivorce. See also BlueAndOrangeMorality, which can potentially justify this trope. Sometimes, the real reason is the pride of the rival parties. If so, this would be HonorBeforeReason.

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* Averted with Canada and Denmark's [[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/world/what-in-the-world/canada-denmark-hans-island-whisky-schnapps.html "war" over Hans Island]]. As it's within 12 miles of ''both'' country's shores, either side could technically lay claim to it under international law, but neither side really knew what to actually do about the island or the border situation of the strait it's in. Then in 1984 Canada visited the island, planted a flag, and left a bottle of Canadian whiskey. "War" was declared and Denmark visited the island, swapped the flag for their own, drank the whiskey, and left a bottle of Danish schnapps. This went on back and forth for ''years'' until, in 2005, the two countries finally decided to resolve the issue once and for all but little has actually happened -- presumably they couldn't agree on what to drink during the negotiations.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''. The two brothers destroyed Unova in a battle over what was arguably a theoretical debate on philosophy--or, rather, they were fighting over whether it was better to live your life according to your ideals, or to live your life searching for the truth. The brothers weren't even fighting over ''specific ideals''; they were just fighting over the ''concept'' of ideals themselves. The sequel reveals that they were incited to war by their own ambitions, as anthropomorphized by another legendary Pokemon.
* While we're on the topic of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', let's not even get into the idiocy that is the Team Magma / Team Aqua war as seen in ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', its UpdatedRerelease ''Pokemon Emerald'', and its remakes ''Alpha Sapphire'' and ''Omega Ruby''. One side wants to dry up all the oceans because more land is good for humanity, at the expense of Pokemon. The other wants to flood the entire landmass because more water is good for Pokemon, at the expense of humanity. The result? Either the sun turns baking hot, the rain falls uncontrollably, or you get ''both'' ridiculous weather conditions alternating rapidly back and forth. No matter what happens the entire Hoenn region is almost rendered unlivable for both Pokemon and humans alike if not for the timely intervention of our heroes.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus:'' The divide between the Diamond Clan and the Pearl Clan is over which Pokémon created Hisui and is therefore "Almighty Sinnoh"; Dialga or Palkia. Both clans are no longer actually fighting about this, but relations are still extremely strained. Once they find out both sides were wrong, there's more than a few [=NPCs=] talking about how embarrassing the situation feels.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica%E2%80%93Nicaragua_San_Juan_River_border_dispute#2010_Isla_Calero_dispute The Google Maps War]], fought in 2010 between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. After Google Maps erroneously portrayed Costa Rica's border with Nicaragua south of the accepted line, they sent 50 soldiers to the Isla Portillos in Costa Rica, [[InsaneTrollLogic justifying it by saying that, according to Google Maps, it was a part of Nicaragua]]. Costa Rica responded by sending 70 police officers to the island (as they do not have a real military). It ended with Google Maps correcting the error, and the UN ruling that technically, Nicaragua invaded Costa Rica.

* [[http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2012/02/28/the-first-google-maps-war/?referer= The Google Maps War]], fought in 2010 between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. After Google Maps erroneously portrayed Costa Rica's border with Nicaragua south of the accepted line, they sent 50 soldiers to the Isla Portillos in Costa Rica, [[InsaneTrollLogic justifying it by saying that, according to Google Maps, it was a part of Nicaragua]]. Costa Rica responded by sending 70 police officers to the island (as they do not have a real military). It ended with Google Maps correcting the error, and the UN ruling that technically, Nicaragua invaded Costa Rica.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'': In one episode, the chargers go to a planet where it looks like the (comically identical) aliens are fighting over being different colors. Each gives group gives the "self-defense" excuse, then it appears to be a religious squabble, and ''then'' both generals admit to using war as a scapegoat for all their problems. In the end, Ben pulls a TakeAThirdOption by accidentally destroying the giant statue of their former united leader (while trying to paint it purple to stop the Blue vs. Red war), turning both sides against him. The episode ends with the same little alien girl who wrote to Ben asking for help at the beginning, writing him a letter about how much she hates him now (but she does reveal that her world has finally found internal peace as they unify against their new common enemy).

* In the [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish epic]] ''Literature/TheCattleRaidOfCooley'', Queen Medb of Connacht started a war with Ulster in order to take possession of a bull. Why did she want the bull? To beat her husband in a "Who's the richest" competition.

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** The Ohguino Wastelands are divided between two factions: Meat-lovers and vegetarians, in an all-out war.
** A post-game quest deals with the various Scum Digimon (Numemom and Sukamon) declaring war on ''toilets''. Pretty much every other character is baffled by the sheer passion they have about this.

** "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbNerdsOfAFeather Nerds of a Feather]]" has armies of sci-fi and fantasy {{Fanboy}}s going to a Rated PG gang fight over a FandomRivalry, with Phineas and Ferb (who are fans of both ''Space Adventure'' and ''Stumbleberry Finkbat'') getting caught in the middle and trying to resolve things peacefully, They did by creating a Hologram Monster that Candace (who's wearing a Ducky Momo Cstume) unintentionally defeated herself. The sci-fi and fantasy fans at first, thanked Candace, but then when they heckled her for her love of Ducky Momo.