History Main / WithFriendsLikeThese

** A borderline example, though; Belkar and V are part of the same group, but never actually considered each other ''friends''. Then again, V considers very few people to be his friends, and the only creature that Belkar might see as one is his cat. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0483.html It might not be so borderline after all.]] However, as V postulates, Belkar only hates or lusts after everyone in a binary fashion, so he probably has a very large number of these.

** Even BEFORE that were the scuffles of Sonic and Knuckles, but they got better, although they still argue. A lot.
** The Babylon Rogues from the ''Sonic Riders'' series come across as this, mostly Wave and Storm bickers to no end, although Jet is annoyed with Wave's nagging and Storm's daftness.

* The Legion and the Trow in ''VideoGame/{{Myth 2}}''. There's even a mission named after the trope. On the evil side, the Watcher and the Deceiver, whose rivalry stretches back over a millenium, and who actually seem to prefer fighting each other than dealing with the good guys.

* ''HunterXHunter'': Leorio & Kurapica. Though fans will tell you that they act like a bickering old married couple.

* In ''ShamanKing'' Ren Tao seems to demonstrate this towards everyone. Especially Chocolove and Horohoro.
* [[ImmortalImmaturity China]] from ''AxisPowersHetalia'' is friends with [[TheHero America]], [[PsychopathicManchild Russia]], [[AnythingThatMoves France]] and [[TheMeanBrit England]] (making up the Allied Forces). However, he is easily the woobie of the group, getting hell from the others, from being forced to make lunch for them to assembling airplanes for them.

* [[OnePiece Sanji and Zoro]]. [[VolleyingInsults So, so much.]] But like the above ''Sailor Moon'' example, they're like brothers who fight for the role of dominant male.

* Mio from ''KOn'' suffers heavily under Ritsu's constant manipulative behavior, but still seems to care for her friend quite a bit.

* [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] has this kind of relationship with virtually every other character (except possibly Kasumi, but [[BewareTheNiceOnes even she has her moments]]). Almost all of them greet him with either [[PrepareToDie death threats]], taunts, or [[TheGlomp glomps]] which incite the wrath of [[ClingyJealousGirl any nearby fianees]]. Despite this they stand up for him when he's weakened, accompany him on treacherous journeys (though they often supply the treachery part), and willingly stand with him against impossible odds.

* A couple of OneSceneWonder characters from ''HighSchoolOfTheDead'' demonstrate this. When her so called Best Friend Forever gets dragged down on a staircase by zombies, what does the other girl do? She kicks her in the face to get free. She only gets about half a step before the zombies get her as well.
* In ''TokyoMewMew'', Retasu hangs out with a few other girls from her school who treat her terribly before joining the Mew Mews. She believes they have a certain problem in their lives, and she, by being around them, can help them get over it.

* In the earlier seasons of ''{{Smallville}}'' Clark and Lex make a big deal of how important their friendship is while lying to each other, accusing each other of various crimes (often without cause or evidence of any kind) and making pointed remarks about each others psychological and relationship problems. How much of this is planned building on their [[{{Superman}} later]] [[ArchEnemy relationship]] is an exercise left up to the reader.

** Barney is a terrible person, but a very good friend and wingman, since he follows the Bro Code [[{{Dissimile}} except when he doesn't want to]]—sleeping with a bro's ex is against the Bro Code, after all).

** Barney is a terrible person, but a very good friend and wingman, since he follows the Bro Code [[Dissimile except when he doesn't want to]]—sleeping with a bro's ex is against the Bro Code, after all).
*** Actually, Barney is a pretty assholish, selfish, manipulative, abusive, and generally crappy friend as well when things are good and the consequences aren't serious. However, you can always count on him whenever when the shit hits the fan (see: Marshall and Lily's breakup, Ted's car accident, Robin's deportation).

* Joker and Penguin, believe it or not. Between regularly scheduled betrayal, multiple acts of attempted murder, and verbal and physical abuse(both men seem to really enjoy watching each other suffer), they still insist they're friends. Joker even [[ http://www.comics101.com/comics101//news/Comics%20101/63/jokermourning.jpg cried]] when he thought Penguin had died and worked with Batman to catch the culprit.

** Quick, one of your best friends is getting praised for becoming a local hero. If your reaction to this is to come up with a needlessly complicated plan that could potentially endanger lives, systematically destroys the confidence of aforementioned friend and turns the entire town against them, then congratulations, you're Twilight Sparkle.

* The page image shows [[{{Batman}} Dick Grayson]] (during his Batman days) and [[GreenArrow Roy Harper]] at the lowest point in their friendship. And afterwards Dick abandoned Roy in prison. This isn't the first time these best friends came to blows either. When they were both on the Outsiders an argument concerning how the team was run devolved into petty insults. When Roy [[BerserkButton badmouthed Batman]] Dick responded by badmouthing Green Arrow and brought up Roy's [[NeverLiveItDown heroin addiction]]. Then they started beating the crap out of each other. Of course they make up like they always do and go back to their HoYay filled friendship.

* Vorenus and Pullo from ''{{Rome}}''. Just a few examples: Vorenus kicking Pullo to the curb claiming he is dead to him, the two of them beating each other up to the point of falling off a balcony, insults on the other one's quality of character.

** Special examples include dumping Jen when discovering she's not a virgin, ending his friendship with Joey when she gets a new boyfriend a ''year after he rejected ''her'', almost killing Pacey in a boat race, forgetting his brithday, admitting straight up he's uses him to make himself feel better and laughing at Pacey's AbusiveParents behaviour because they're 'just kidding'. (This is after being 'best friends' for sixteen years, in comparision Jack sees Pacey and his dad interacting ''once'' and immediately understands the fraught relationship they have).

* DawsonsCreek: Dawson to ''everyone''. He constantly belittles Pacey, manipulates Joey, treats Jen like crap, ignores Jack and can't acknowledge any problems other than his own. While he's [[{{CreatorsPet}} idolized]] by the other characters the audience is left wondering why any sane human would talk to him.
** Special examples include dumping Jen when discovering she's not a virgin, ending his friendship with Joey after she gets a new boyfriend a year after ''he'' rejected ''her'', almost killing Pacey and laughing at Pacey's AbusiveParents behaviour because they're 'just kidding'. (This is after being 'best friends' for sixteen years, in comparision Jack see's Pacey and his dad interacting ''once'' and immediately understands the fraught relationship they have).

* DawsonsCreek: Dawson to ''everyone''. He constantly belittles Pacey, manipulates Joey, treats Jen like crap, ignores Jack and is generally unable to even acknowledge any problems other than his own. Despite this he is [[{{CreatorsPet}} idolized]] by the other characters. The audience is still figuring how why anyone would even talk to him.

* Muttley to [[WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]].

** In the same series, Blackadder gets the same treatment from one of the many incarnations of Flashart.

* ''{{Saiyuki}}''. Sanzo and Gojyo bicker hilariously in one arc when they have to work together without [[TheChick Hakkai]] to mediate, while Gojyo and Goku constantly toss insults back and forth, to Sanzo's eternal frustration (it's no wonder he goes from smoking few cigarettes occasionally to full-blown chain smoker).

* Almost the entire cast of ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' and its SpinOff s ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'' and ''Webcomic/DownTheStreet''.

* Mame Dennis and Vera Charles in ''Mame''. As Vera put it in "Bosom Buddies:"
-->If I say that your sense of style's as far as off as your youth;\\

Will tell you the whole stinkin' truth.