History TeethClenchedTeamwork / ComicBooks

** In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaTowerOfBabel'', Ra's al Ghul has incapacitated the JLA using Batman's anti-JLA contingency plans. Like exposing ComicBook/{{Superman}} to red kryptonite. Once Batman reveals that he's the one responsible, most of the team (especially ComicBook/PlasticMan, ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} and the ComicBook/MartianManhunter) are closer to killing him than working with him, but they push through. In the end, he's expelled from the League. For a few issues. In a neat epilogue, Batman's extended family is shown being mistrusted by their own teams (the Titans don't trust ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Young Justice doesn't trust Robin, and the JLA stop calling Oracle for advice).

* Crops up whenever Franchise/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/JudgeDredd have a {{crossover}} -- since Batman is a somewhat freelancing vigilante, while Dredd ''[[CatchPhrase is]]'' [[CatchPhrase the law]], they're willing to work together to bring down their enemies, but that doesn't mean they have to enjoy each others' company. Especially given Batman's strict no-killing rule, while Dredd won't bat an eyelid to shoot a criminal if necessary.

* Brody and Talia in the first part of ''ComicBook/BrodysGhost'', with Talia constantly insulting Brody for his slobby slacker lifestyle and Brody for how pushy Talia is to make him hunt down a SerialKiller. Over time they warm up to each other, [[spoiler:although when he learns that she lied to him about ''why'' they were hunting the killer down, their relationship breaks back down into this once more.]]
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]] has, on occasion, teamed up with [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]]... but only when something really big was in it for Doom, as he usually loathes the Skull (Doctor Doom is of Romani descent, while Red Skull is a Nazi).
* Stan Lee's ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' might be the TropeMaker (especially when it comes to the Thing and Human Torch), but even they resorted to ThePowerOfFriendship when they were in deep trouble...
* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'': In #30, Indy is forced into a uneasy partnership with a TriggerHappy IRA agent named Michael Cobb as they travel to China to retrieve items belonging to them from a warlord: a shipment of arms he swindled the IRA out of, and a mummy destined for Indy's museum that he misdirected as part of a smuggling scheme.

** Adam Warlock only rejoins the team during ''War of Kings'' because of the threat of the destruction of everything, everywhere, and makes clear he's still extremely pissed at Peter for the whole "using Mantis to convince everyone to join" thing. They agree to at least not yell in front of each other in front of the others. [[spoiler:But they never get a chance to properly reconcile, thanks to Adam becoming the Magus.]]
* ''The Janus Directive'' was a crossover pitting the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} under Amanda Waller, [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom Project Atom]] under Wade Eiling, and the Department of Metahuman Affairs under Sarge Steel against each other. Despite its initial success, everyone chose to eat crow and fight together rather than allow Kobra to fire his microwave cannon. However, the President had enough of the three's InterserviceRivalry and reorganized all three agencies under the same umbrella rather than the original freedom each enjoyed.
* ComicBook/JonahHex ''really'' doesn't like ComicBook/BatLash, a frequent teammate, to the point when saving a drowning man and finding it to be Lash, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he threw him back in the river.]] However, this is mostly one-sided -- Lash often finds Hex annoying, but regards himself as in Hex's debt due to the number of times he's saved Lash's life. And the easygoing Bat honestly tries to get along with everyone he meets.
* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
** In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaTowerOfBabel'', Ra's al Ghul has incapacitated the JLA using Batman's anti-JLA contingency plans. Like exposing Franchise/{{Superman}} to red kryptonite. Once Batman reveals that he's the one responsible, most of the team (especially ComicBook/PlasticMan, ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} and the ComicBook/MartianManhunter) are closer to killing him than working with him, but they push through. In the end, he's expelled from the League. For a few issues. In a neat epilogue, Batman's extended family is shown being mistrusted by their own teams (the Titans don't trust ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Young Justice doesn't trust Robin, and the JLA stop calling Oracle for advice).

* ''Franchise/XMen'': Kitty Pryde is this when it comes to Emma Frost, due to her past with her. That is, until [[VitriolicBestBuds they finally got along]] when [[spoiler:the former is trapped in the space bullet]].
* In ''ComicBook/LesbianZombiesFromOuterSpace'': Ace is a guy who fantasizes about hot lesbians who want to bang him. Gwen is a lesbian who hates guys like that. And now they have to work together.
* The comic ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' has the Nextwave Squad, a superhero team formed by what turned out to be a supervillain corporation, on a mission of retaliation with stolen equipment and feeling like it.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' almost always has to employ this trope whenever Frank Castle teams up with someone who isn't an AntiHero like him. He and ComicBook/SpiderMan can't stand each other, but they can usually swallow their bile long enough to cooperate against whichever bad guy they're both after.
* ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' deconstructs this trope alongside LetsYouAndHimFight. After several crossovers involving nothing but superheroes fighting each other, this is all they have left to keep them from falling apart. But with no real trust between them, there's no motivation to patch things up or a desire to help each other beyond what is absolutely necessary. So when Evil Captain America swoops in, he all-too-easily plays divide-and-conquer to keep everyone from foiling his plans.
* ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman: Gothamazon'': Gotham goes to hell in a matter of hours, four to be exact, when the Bat-Rogues manage to actually team up properly for once. Barbara Gordon outright states the Bat-Family and ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey often rely on the Joker, Two-Face, and Crane's complete inability to work together so everyone putting aside their differences is very not good for Gotham. The only one whose not fully on board is Man-Bat, who doesn't really want to hurt anyone but is not very intelligent in his transformed state and has been convinced Joker can give him the serum to turn back. In the end the rogues start turning on each other anyway.
* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' two of Robotnik's henchmen, Tundra and Akhlut, hate each other and only work together because Robotnik orders them to. Before Robotnik showed up they were rivals locked in a bitter turf war, so there's ''a lot'' of bad blood going on. Eventually, the idea gets deconstructed when [[spoiler: their extreme hatred of each other leads to them almost blowing a major operation by getting into a fistfight mid-mission, nearly getting the rest of the Egg Bosses killed.]]
* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:
** [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green and Red Lanterns]] don't get along... ''at all''. However, in ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' Hal Jordan's GL squad and Guy Gardner's RL group worked together to help Supergirl to get her mind and her sanity back while she was suffering from power ring-induced madness.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comic, this often happens when opposing factions face an EnemyMine situation (the Time Wars and attack of Unicron, for instance), but some set groups within the canon fall victim to it as well. The car-based Decepticon [[CombiningMecha combiner team]] the Stunticons are noted to loathe their loud, [[RankScalesWithAsskicking browbeating leader]], Motormaster, and generally not get along with each other, as their team includes a vain but [[NietzscheWannabe depressingly fatalistic killjoy]], a [[BeingWatched paranoiac]] who fears he's being watched by everything (including inanimate objects), a [[GlorySeeker over-competitive braggart]] with an ego the size of an immodest planetoid, and an [[PsychoForHire unhinged maniac]] ''who terrifies the other four'' with 'Terrorist' for a function.

* In the 2007 ''ComicBook/UnionJack'' miniseries, the Israeli agent Sabra is forced to work alongside the modern Arabian Knight, who works for the Saudi Arabian government, in order to help Union Jack stop a planned terrorist attack in London. Neither is exactly thrilled by the notion.
* ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} left the ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'' because he couldn't stand U.S.Agent. When he returned, the latter was still on the team. The dislike was mutual, leading them to start trading blows quite often. They still worked together pretty well when the situation called for it.
* ComicBook/SpiderMan feels this way about ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, disliking Wolverine's willingness to kill and his generally sour attitude. It doesn't help matters that Wolverine long since figured out Spider-Man's civilian identity on account of his heightened senses, and he has no problem knocking on Peter Parker's front door when he wants to talk Spider-business -- nor the fact that Spidey and Wolverine have actually fought multiple times over their different viewpoints. Again, when the chips are down they've got each other's back.
* ''ComicBook/XMenRed2022:'' The dynamic between Thunderbird and Cable, since John ''despises'' Cable partly because he thinks he manipulated John's little brother, but also just because Cable is Cyclops' son. By the time everything's over, Cable takes John merely threatening to tear his head off and shove it somewhere unpleasant as him warming up to Cable.
* In ''ComicBook/XForce'' and later ''ComicBook/XStatix'', this was the dynamic between the Anarchist and the rest of the team, Spike and the rest of the team, and ''especially'' Spike and the Anarchist. The Anarchist and Spike are both African-American, but the Anarchist is adopted and his parents are white; Spike feels that this makes him, well, not a real black guy, and will never let him forget that; On rare occasions where the two agree on anything, it's usually in the form of DumbassHasAPoint. Eventually, however, they reconcile, with Spike acknowledging that he never really had anything against the Anarchist, and it was all talk to make him look good on camera.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comic, this often happens when opposing factions face an EnemyMine situation (the Time Wars and attack of Unicron, for instance), but some set groups within the canon fall victim to it as well. The car-based Decepticon [[CombiningMecha combiner team]] the Stunticons are noted to loathe their loud, [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking browbeating leader]], Motormaster, and generally not get along with each other, as their team includes a vain but [[NietzscheWannabe depressingly fatalistic killjoy]], a [[BeingWatched paranoiac]] who fears he's being watched by everything (including inanimate objects), a [[GlorySeeker over-competitive braggart]] with an ego the size of an immodest planetoid, and an [[PsychoForHire unhinged maniac]] ''who terrifies the other four'' with 'Terrorist' for a function.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' almost always has to employ this trope whenever Frank Castle teams up with someone who isn't an AntiHero like him. He and ComicBook/SpiderMan can't stand each other, but they can usually swallow their bile long enough to cooperate against whichever bad guy they're both after. Even in crossovers as the trope picture on the main page is from the second crossover with Franchise/{{Batman}}, where Bruce expresses no love for Castle.

* The main cast of ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'' mostly work with each other quite well, but this is ''definitely'' the case for EleventhHourRanger [[PinkertonDetective Caleb Hammer]] and ComicBook/KidColt. Caleb even refuses to drink with him because Colt had killed his friends in a fit of rage.

** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Gates/Igle's run]]'' final arc ''Day of the Dollmaker'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and Catherine Grant have to work together to find a child kidnapper even though they can't stand each other.

* Spidey feels this way about ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} too, disliking Wolverine's willingness to kill and his generally sour attitude. It doesn't help matters that Wolverine long since figured out Spider-Man's civilian identity on account of his heightened senses, and he has no problem knocking on Peter Parker's front door when he wants to talk Spider-business. Again, when the chips are down they've got each other's back.

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* ComicBook/JonahHex ''really'' doesn't like ComicBook/BatLash, a frequent teammate, to the point when saving a drowning man and finding it to be Lash, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he threw him back in the river.]] However, this is mostly one-sided - Lash often finds Hex annoying, but regards himself as in Hex's debt due to the number of times he's saved Lash's life. And the easygoing Bat honestly tries to get along with everyone he meets.

** In ''ComicBook/ThePhantomZone'', the inmates imprisoned in the Zone try to work together to escape from the "Twilight Dimension" and destroy Superman. However, two of them -General Dru-Zod and Faora Hu-Ul- cannot stand each other ''at all''. Zod does not tolerate insubordination, and Faora refuses to follow a male's orders.

--->'''Pharma:''' I'll tell our lord and master that you're still playing chase with the others - don't stay out too late!\\

* Crops up whenever ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' have a {{crossover}} -- since Batman is a somewhat freelancing vigilante, while Dredd ''[[CatchPhrase is]]'' [[CatchPhrase the law]], they're willing to work together to bring down their enemies, but that doesn't mean they have to enjoy each others' company. Especially given Batman's strict no-killing rule, while Dredd won't bat an eyelid to shoot a criminal if necessary.

* In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaTowerOfBabel'', Ra's al Ghul has incapacitated the JLA using Franchise/{{Batman}}'s anti-JLA contingency plans. Like exposing Franchise/{{Superman}} to red kryptonite. Once Batman reveals that he's the one responsible, most of the team (especially ComicBook/PlasticMan, ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} and the ComicBook/MartianManhunter) are closer to killing him than working with him, but they push through. In the end, he's expelled from the League. For a few issues. In a neat epilogue, Batman's extended family is shown being mistrusted by their own teams (the Titans don't trust ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Young Justice doesn't trust Robin, and the JLA stop calling Oracle for advice).

* ComicBook/KittyPryde is this when it comes to ComicBook/EmmaFrost, due to her past with her. That is, until [[VitriolicBestBuds they finally got along]] when [[spoiler:the former is trapped in the space bullet]].

* ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman: Gothamazon'': Gotham goes to hell in a matter of hours, four to be exact, when the Bat-Rogues manage to actually team up properly for once. ComicBook/{{Oracle}} outright states the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bats]] and [[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Birds]] often rely on the Joker, Two-Face, and Crane's complete inability to work together so everyone putting aside their differences is very not good for Gotham. The only one whose not fully on board is Man-Bat, who doesn't really want to hurt anyone but is not very intelligent in his transformed state and has been convinced Joker can give him the serum to turn back. In the end the rogues start turning on each other anyway.

* ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} left the ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'' because he couldn't stand U.S.Agent. When he returned, the later was still on the team. The dislike was mutual, leading them to start trading blows quite often. They still worked together pretty well when the situation called for it.

* ''The Janus Directive'' was a crossover pitting the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} under Amanda Waller, [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom Project Pegasus]] under Wade Eiling, and the Department of Metahuman Affairs under Sarge Steel against each other. Despite its initial success, everyone chose to eat crow and fight together rather than allow Kobra to fire his microwave cannon. However, the President had enough of the three's InterserviceRivalry and reorganized all three agencies under the same umbrella rather than the original freedom each enjoyed.

* The comic ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' has the Nextwave Squad, a superhero team formed by what turned out to be a supervillain corporation, on a mission of retaliation with stolen equipment and feeling like it.
-->'''ComicBook/MonicaRambeau:''' No. Enough. You people will by God act like a team, or at least like people who know each other, or I'll incinerate the bunch of you here and now.

* This pretty much describes the Crime Syndicate of America, a group of {{Evil Counterpart}}s of the Justice League from Earth-3, at least when they ''do'' show teamwork. Unlike the true League, they ''despise'' each other, each member using blackmail, threats, or both as protection from betrayal.
* In ''ComicBook/XForce'' and later ''ComicBook/XStatix'', this was the dynamic between the Anarchist and the rest of the team, Spike and the rest of the team, and ''especially'' Spike and the Anarchist. The Anarchist and Spike are both African-American, but the Anarchist is adopted and his parents are white; Spike feels that this makes him, well, not a real black guy, and will never let him forget that; On rare occasions where the two agree on anything, it's usually in the form of DumbassHasAPoint. Eventually, however, they reconcile, with Spike acknowledging that he never really had anything against the Anarchist, and it was all talk to make him look good on camera.
* Crops up whenever ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' have a {{crossover}} -- since Batman is a somewhat freelancing vigilante, while Dredd ''[[CatchPhrase is]]'' [[CatchPhrase the law]], they're willing to work together to bring down their enemies, but that doesn't mean they have to enjoy each others' company. Especially given Batman's strict no-killing rule, while Dredd won't bat an eyelid to shoot a criminal if necessary.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' almost always has to employ this trope whenever Frank Castle teams up with someone who isn't an AntiHero like him. He and ComicBook/SpiderMan can't stand each other, but they can usually swallow their bile long enough to cooperate against whichever bad guy they're both after. Even in crossovers as the trope picture on the main page is from the second crossover with Franchise/{{Batman}}, where Bruce expresses no love for Castle.
* Spidey feels this way about ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} too, disliking Wolverine's willingness to kill and his generally sour attitude. It doesn't help matters that Wolverine long since figured out Spider-Man's civilian identity on account of his heightened senses, and he has no problem knocking on Peter Parker's front door when he wants to talk Spider-business. Again, when the chips are down they've got each other's back.
* ComicBook/KittyPryde is this when it comes to ComicBook/EmmaFrost, due to her past with her. That is, until [[VitriolicBestBuds they finally got along]] when [[spoiler:the former is trapped in the space bullet]].

* In ''ComicBook/LesbianZombiesFromOuterSpace'': Ace is a guy who fantasizes about hot lesbians who want to bang him. Gwen is a lesbian who hates guys like that. And now they have to work together.
* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' two of Robotnik's henchmen, Tundra and Akhlut, hate each other and only work together because Robotnik orders them to. Before Robotnik showed up they were rivals locked in a bitter turf war, so there's ''a lot'' of bad blood going on. Eventually, the idea gets deconstructed when [[spoiler: their extreme hatred of each other leads to them almost blowing a major operation by getting into a fistfight mid-mission, nearly getting the rest of the Egg Bosses killed.]]
* The main cast of ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'' mostly work with each other quite well, but this is ''definitely'' the case for EleventhHourRanger [[PinkertonDetective Caleb Hammer]] and ComicBook/KidColt. Caleb even refuses to drink with him because Colt had killed his friends in a fit of rage.
* Brody and Talia in the first part of ''ComicBook/BrodysGhost'', with Talia constantly insulting Brody for his slobby slacker lifestyle and Brody for how pushy Talia is to make him hunt down a SerialKiller. Over time they warm up to each other, [[spoiler:although when he learns that she lied to him about ''why'' they were hunting the killer down, their relationship breaks back down into this once more.]]
* ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' deconstructs this trope alongside LetsYouAndHimFight. After several crossovers involving nothing but superheroes fighting each other, this is all they have left to keep them from falling apart. But with no real trust between them, there's no motivation to patch things up or a desire to help each other beyond what is absolutely necessary. So when Evil Captain America swoops in, he all-too-easily plays divide-and-conquer to keep everyone from foiling his plans.
* ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman: Gothamazon'': Gotham goes to hell in a matter of hours, four to be exact, when the Bat-Rogues manage to actually team up properly for once. ComicBook/{{Oracle}} outright states the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bats]] and [[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Birds]] often rely on the Joker, Two-Face, and Crane's complete inability to work together so everyone putting aside their differences is very not good for Gotham. The only one whose not fully on board is Man-Bat, who doesn't really want to hurt anyone but is not very intelligent in his transformed state and has been convinced Joker can give him the serum to turn back. In the end the rogues start turning on each other anyway.
* ''The Janus Directive'' was a crossover pitting the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} under Amanda Waller, [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom Project Pegasus]] under Wade Eiling, and the Department of Metahuman Affairs under Sarge Steel against each other. Despite its initial success, everyone chose to eat crow and fight together rather than allow Kobra to fire his microwave cannon. However, the President had enough of the three's InterserviceRivalry and reorganized all three agencies under the same umbrella rather than the original freedom each enjoyed.
* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'': In #30, Indy is forced into a uneasy partnership with a TriggerHappy IRA agent named Michael Cobb as they travel to China to retrieve items belonging to them from a warlord: a shipment of arms he swindled the IRA out of, and a mummy destined for Indy's museum that he misdirected as part of a smuggling scheme.

* Stan Lee's ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' might be the TropeMaker (especially when it comes to the Thing and Human Torch), but even they resorted to ThePowerOfFriendship when they were in deep trouble...

-->'''Comicbook/MonicaRambeau:''' No. Enough. You people will by God act like a team, or at least like people who know each other, or I'll incinerate the bunch of you here and now.
* In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaTowerOfBabel'', Ra's al Ghul has incapacitated the JLA using Franchise/{{Batman}}'s anti-JLA contingency plans. Like exposing Franchise/{{Superman}} to red kryptonite. Once Batman reveals that he's the one responsible, most of the team (especially ComicBook/PlasticMan, Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} and the ComicBook/MartianManhunter) are closer to killing him than working with him, but they push through. In the end, he's expelled from the League. For a few issues. In a neat epilogue, Batman's extended family is shown being mistrusted by their own teams (the Titans don't trust ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Young Justice doesn't trust Robin, and the JLA stop calling Oracle for advice).

* In the ''{{Transformers}}'' comic, this often happens when opposing factions face an EnemyMine situation (the Time Wars and attack of Unicron, for instance), but some set groups within the canon fall victim to it as well. The car-based Decepticon [[CombiningMecha combiner team]] the Stunticons are noted to loathe their loud, [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking browbeating leader]], Motormaster, and generally not get along with each other, as their team includes a vain but [[NietzscheWannabe depressingly fatalistic killjoy]], a [[BeingWatched paranoiac]] who fears he's being watched by everything (including inanimate objects), a [[GlorySeeker over-competitive braggart]] with an ego the size of an immodest planetoid, and an [[PsychoForHire unhinged maniac]] ''who terrifies the other four'' with 'Terrorist' for a function.

* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' two of Robotnik's henchmen, Tundra and Akhlut, hate each other and only work together because Robotnik orders them to. Before Robotnik showed up they were rivals locked in a bitter turf war, so there's ''a lot'' of bad blood going on. Eventually, the idea gets deconstructed when [[spoiler: their extreme hatred of each other leads to them almost blowing a major operation by getting into a fistfight mid-mission, nearly getting the rest of the Egg Bosses killed.]]

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' almost always has to employ this trope whenever Frank Castle teams up with someone who isn't an AntiHero. He and ComicBook/SpiderMan can't stand each other, but they can usually swallow their bile long enough to cooperate against whichever bad guy they're both after. Even in crossovers as the trope picture on the main page is from the second crossover with Franchise/{{Batman}}, where Bruce expresses no love for Castle.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' almost always has to employ this trope whenever Frank Castle teams up with someone. He and ComicBook/SpiderMan can't stand each other, but they can usually swallow their bile long enough to cooperate against whichever bad guy they're both after. Even in crossovers as the trope picture on the main page is from the second crossover with Franchise/{{Batman}}, where Bruce expresses no love for Castle.

* ''The Janus Directive'' was a crossover pitting the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} under Amanda Waller, [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom Project Pegasus]] under Wade Eiling, and the Department of Metahuman Affairs under Sarge Steel against each other. Despite its initial success, everyone chose to eat crow and fight together rather than allow Kobra to fire his microwave cannon. However, the President had enough of the three's InterserviceRivalry and reorganized all three agencies under the same umbrella rather than the original freedom each enjoyed.

* ''The Janus Directive'' was a crossover pitting the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} under Amanda Waller, [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom Project Pegasus]] under Wade Eiling, and the Department of Metahuman Affairs under Sarge Steel against each other. Despite its initial success, everyone chose to eat crow rather than allow Kobra to fire his microwave cannon. However, the President had enough of the three's InterserviceRivalry and reorganized all three agencies under the same umbrella rather than the original freedom each enjoyed.

* ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman: Gothamazon'': Gotham goes to hell in a matter of hours, four to be exact, when the Bat-Rogues manage to actually team up properly for once. ComicBook/{{Oracle}} outright states the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bats]] and [[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Birds]] often rely on the Joker, Two-Face, and Crane's complete inability to work together so everyone putting aside their differences is very not good for Gotham. The only one whose not fully on board is Man-Bat, who doesn't really want to hurt anyone but is not very intelligent in his transformed state and has been convinced Joker can give him the serum to turn back. In the end the rogues start turning on each other anyway.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' almost always has to employ this trope whenever Frank Castle teams up with someone. He and ComicBook/SpiderMan can't stand each other, but they can usually swallow their bile long enough to cooperate against whichever bad guy they're both after.

* In the "Tower of Babel" arc in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'', Ra's al Ghul has incapacitated the JLA using Franchise/{{Batman}}'s anti-JLA contingency plans. Like exposing Franchise/{{Superman}} to red kryptonite. Once Batman reveals that he's the one responsible, most of the team (especially ComicBook/PlasticMan, Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} and the ComicBook/MartianManhunter) are closer to killing him than working with him, but they push through. In the end, he's expelled from the League. For a few issues. In a neat epilogue, Batman's extended family is shown being mistrusted by their own teams (the Titans don't trust ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Young Justice doesn't trust Robin, and the JLA stop calling Oracle for advice).

* ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' deconstructs this trope alongside LetsYouAndHimFight. After several crossovers involving nothing but superheroes fighting each other, this is all they have left to keep them from falling apart. But with no real trust between them, there's no motivation to patch things up or a desire to help each other beyond what is absolutely necessary. So when Evil Captain America swoops in, he all-too-easily plays divide-and-conquer to keep everyone from foiling his plans.

* In the "Tower of Babel" arc in ''JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'', Ra's al Ghul has incapacitated the JLA using Franchise/{{Batman}}'s anti-JLA contingency plans. Like exposing Franchise/{{Superman}} to red kryptonite. Once Batman reveals that he's the one responsible, most of the team (especially ComicBook/PlasticMan, Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} and the ComicBook/MartianManhunter) are closer to killing him than working with him, but they push through. In the end, he's expelled from the League. For a few issues. In a neat epilogue, Batman's extended family is shown being mistrusted by their own teams (the Titans don't trust ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Young Justice doesn't trust Robin, and the JLA stop calling Oracle for advice).

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* ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' deconstructs this trope alongside LetsYouAndHimFight. After several crossovers involving nothing but superheroes fighting each other, this is all they have left to keep them from falling apart. But with no real trust between them, there's no motivation to patch things up or a desire to help each other beyond what is absolutely necessary. So when Evil Captain America swoops in, he all-too-easily plays divide-and-conquer to keep everyone from foiling his plans.
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