History PlayingWith / EnemyMine

* '''Zig Zagged''': Hiro and Nego refuse to team-up against Black Hole, but both are quickly defeated in seperate fights, so they decide to work together. Despite promising to work together, they can't even get along enough to work out a plan and are beaten again by Black Hole. Finally, they decide the fate of the world is too important and come up with a decent plan, but as Hiro is striking the final blow againstBlack Hole, Nego tries to literally stab him in the back. Hiro knew he would do this and had already set a plan into motion to take out both villains.

** Hiro offers a mutually beneficial pact: no betrayals until AFTER they've killed Black Hole. Nego, deciding to act on PragmaticVillainy, agrees.

** Alternatively, their different outlooks are the key to making their teamwork effective, as each provides ideas the other never would have thought of, and the other builds off them in ways the first never would have.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Hiro and Nego team up and at one point, are placed in an awkward position, fueling HoYay and FoeYay at the same time.

* '''Played For Drama''': Nego and Hiro team up and quickly learn they are NotSoDifferent.

** "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy."

* Black Hole is a [[NecessarilyEvil Well Intentioned]] OmnicidalNeutral who doesn't want to see in-fighting from Hiro and Nego. He [[SecretTestOfCharacter delibrately attempts to destroy the universe to prompt unity between them]]. When they both find out his true intentions, Black Hole suffers a VillainousBSOD as the adversaries fight against other again.

* '''Defied''': "Team up with you, Hiro? That's just as bad as you beating me."

* Black Hole is a [[NecessarilyEvil Well Intentioned]] OmnicidalNeutral who doesn't want to see in-fighting from Hiro and Nego. He delibrately attempts to destroy the universe to prompt unity between them. When they both find out his true intentions, Black Hole suffers a VillainousBSOD as the adversaries fight against other again.

* Hiro and Nego are fighting, and then Black Hole shows up. The duo wordlessly stop, look at Black Hole, then back at each other, and then shoot Black Hole in the head. [[StatusQuoIsGod Immediately afterwards, they start fighting again.]]

* '''Discussed''': Some of Hiro's teammates discuss the pros and cons of teaming up with Nego.

%% * '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': Enemies forces to fight against another enemy that threatens both.

'''Basic Trope''': Enemies team up to fight against a bigger threat.

* '''Exaggerated''': Hiro is [[IncorruptiblePurePureness ultimately good]] and Nego is [[AlwaysChaoticEvil irrevocably evil]]. Together, they form an official team to fight against the even more irrevokably evil EldritchAbomination Black Hole, promising to put aside all animosity for next few years in order to achieve one goal.

** Nego was a personal hatred of Black Hole because he finds him so annoying.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Hiro and Nego refuse to team-up against Black Hole but both are quickly defeated in seperate fights, so they decide to work together. Despite promising to work together, they can't even get along enough to work out a plan and are beaten again by Black Hole. Finally, they decide the fate of the world is too important and come up with a decent plan but as Hiro is striking the final blow againstBlack Hole, Nego tries to literally stab him in the back. Hiro knew he would do this and had already set a plan into motion to take out both villains.

* '''Implied''': Black Hole is defeated off-panel with Hiro making a passing reference to Nego's assistance.

* '''Reconstructed''': But as it turns out, they wanted to appear to have trouble with in-fighting so that Black Hole would become overly confident, allowing them to take him by surprise.

* '''Played For Drama''': Nego and Hiro team up and quickly learn they AreNotSoDifferent.

** [[NiceGuy Hiro]] and [[{{Jerkass}} Nego]] team up to teach Black Hole a lesson.

* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''': Hiro is [[IncorruptiblePurePureness ultimately good]] and Nego is [[AlwaysChaoticEvil irrevocably evil]]. Together, they team up to fight against the even more irrevokably evil EldritchAbomination Black Hole.

* '''Straight''': {{Arch Enem|y}}ies [[TheHero Hiro]] and [[BigBad Nego]] form an alliance to battle [[BiggerBad Black Hole]].

** [[NiceGuy Hiro]] and [[{{Jerkass}} Nego]] team up to battle a bigger jerk in Black Hole.

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': Hiro is [[IncorruptiblePurePureness ultimately good]] and Nego is irrevocably evil. Together, the team up to fight against the even more irrevokably evil EldritchAbomination Black Hole.

** Nego then betrays Hiro and sides with Black Hole...

** ...of course, Nego still continues doing evil, but [[FriendlyEnemy they would be honored to team up again if necessary]].

* '''Averted''': Hiro and Nego never consider to form an alliance.
* '''Enforced''': ???