History TeethClenchedTeamwork / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': The first season in particular featured a few cases where certain members of the Maximals or Predacons were frustrated at working together on certain projects, ranging from Blackarachnia frustrated at having to work with Terrorsaur and Waspinator on a plan to infiltrate the Maximal base or Rattrap and Dinobot arguing when they were meant to be finding Tarantulas to get a cure for the virus he had just infected Rhinox with. However, the episode "Equal Measures" features a particularly significant moment when the Maximals managed to send a bomb to the Predacon ship just after Cheetor (who had infiltrated the enemy base earlier) had discovered that both ships were positioned over the same energon vein, so destroying one would destroy them both. With less than thirty seconds to deal with the bomb and save both ships, Cheetor had to persuade Megatron to let him disable the bomb's magnetic locks so that Terrorsaur could subsequently take the bomb out of the ship, detonating "harmlessly" in the air (and distracting Megatron long enough for Cheetor to escape).

%%* ''WesternAnimation/BattleTech'': The 1st Somerset Strikers don't exactly get along all the time.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' has this happen occasionally, notably in the episode "Go Team Go" when Shego teams up with Kim and her estranged family to defeat Aviarius.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': While the Decepticon ranks have their fair share of [[TheStarscream disloyalty]], the alliance between the standard Decepticons and the Insecticons is extremely tenuous. Megatron plans to destroy the Insecticons [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the moment he no longer needs them]], while the Insecticons rightfully distrust the Decepticons and cook up their own schemes. Despite the two groups betraying each other a couple times, they always end up on the same side because of their mutual foe in the Autobots.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Slade teamed up with the Titans to save Raven and the world in the "The End" episode arc. Slade and the Titans still absolutely hated each other's guts but managed to cooperate for some time. (Craziest part? Slade was at least ''trying'' to be polite about it, Robin was not.)

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'':

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': This happens a lot; the ISIS employees tend to get into petty fights on a daily basis. Whenever Archer and Lana are on mission together, Archer tends do stupid things that mess up their mission. Things get worse when the rest of ISIS take part in a mission, at least one of them will slip up, or were the cause of why their mission is compromised.

* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'': Tigress and Paper Star have a hatred for each other despite them both being in VILE as shown in the epusode "The Haunted Bayou Caper" even to the point of being completely uncoordinated in combat with Carmen Sandiego herself.
* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': Trevor's abrasive personality makes it difficult for anyone to co-operate with him. When he rescues Sypha from petrification in the castle dungeons and she stays with him to find the Sleeping Soldier, she still considers him to be rude and considers the merit of making him drink her urine. It's even worse when they join up with Alucard, who, being a {{Dhampyr}}, naturally has reservations about working with a VampireHunter like Trevor. With that said, though Alucard and Trevor frequently trade barbs and threats with one another, they still sometimes make one another laugh.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': The FiveManBand starts out like this, evolving into TrueCompanions as the series goes on. Though technically fueled by their PowerOfFriendship towards Aelita, in the beginning they don't really have much loyalty to each other, and it's kind of easy to get them to break up or lose at least one member.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': It's heavily suggested Operatives O and K from the Guys in White don't like each other very much, or are willing to stab the other in the back to avoid looking bad. After Freakshow escapes their custody, they were more than willing to affix blame on each other.

** In Jack in the Scotsman's relationship starts out this way, with them (despite Jack's best efforts) getting into a prolonged fight almost immediately after meeting each other and only end of (reluctantly) working together, because a group of bounty hunter [[ChainedHeat handcuffed them together]]. Though after they get themselves out of that predicament, they have grown to respect each other as warriors, with the Scotsman even becoming Jack's only real recurring ally for the first four seasons, with them still occasionally butting-heads, but more as a friendly rivalry, than genuine displeasure with the other.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Slade teamed up with the Titans to save Raven and the world in the "The End" episode arc. Slade and the Titans still absolutely hated each other's guts, but managed to cooperate for some time. (Craziest part? Slade was at least ''trying'' to be polite about it, Robin was not.)

** ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': While the Decepticon ranks have their fair share of [[TheStarscream disloyalty]], the alliance between the standard Decepticons and the Insecticons is extremely tenuous. Megatron plans to destroy the Insecticons the moment he no longer needs them, while the Insecticons rightfully distrust the Decepticons and cook up their own schemes. Despite the two groups betraying each other a couple times, they always end up on the same side because of their mutual foe in the Autobots.

* ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'': The Season 2 opener ends with Force Works dissolving as Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Century decide to quit after Tony fakes his death and War Machine and the Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman deciding to stay. While Spider-Woman, Century, and Scarlet Witch don't hold anything against each other, War Machine and Hawkeye do have contempt for the other's respective side, with the latter being an ass to Rhodey and Julia for staying with Tony, and Rhodey likewise being hostile towards Clint and even making a snide remark about Wanda in regards to their leaving after she and Clint return (Century, at least on-screen, escapes Rhodey making snide remarks about him).

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E25ToWhereAndBackAgainPart1 To Where and]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E26ToWhereAndBackAgainPart2 Back Again]]", the sixth-season finale, a team of misfits assembles to do the world-saving typically done by the protagonists, who are indisposed. Although the group members are not all averse to teamwork, none of them are used to being team players, and at least one is actively antisocial. Of course, this just makes the group dynamics all the more interesting, and the eventual victory all the more fulfilling.

*** Starscream and Megatron are stuck working together for good part of season 3. They clearly hate each other and don't even bother to hide their contempt for the arrangement.

** This also occurs between Kid Flash and Artemis for a while after Artemis' arrival, since Wally saw her as usurping the position that should have been occupied by his friend Spee- sorry, Red Arrow. All of this ends when they enter a relationship in season 2.

* ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'': The Season 2 opener ends with Force Works dissolving as Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Century decide to quit after Tony fakes his death and War Machine and the Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman deciding to stay. While Spider-Woman, Century, and Scarlet Witch don't hold anything against each other, War Machine and Hawkeye do have contempt for the other's respective side, with the latter being an ass to Rhodey and Julia for staying with Tony, and Rhodey likewise being hostile towards Clint and even making a snide remark about Wanda in regards to their leaving after she and Clint return (Century, at least on-screen escape Rhodey making snide remarks about him).

* ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'': The Season 2 opener ends with Force Works dissolving as Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Century decide to quit after Tony fakes his death and War Machine and the Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman deciding to stay. While Spider-Woman, Century, and Scarlet Witch don't hold anything against each other, War Machine and Hawkeye do have contempt for the other's respective side, with the latter being an ass to Rhodey and Julia for staying with Tony, and Rhodey likewise being hostile towards Clint and even making a snide remark about Wanda about their leaving after she and Clint return.

* ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'': The Season 2 opener ends with Force Works dissolving as Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Century decide to quit after Tony fakes his death and War Machine and the Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman deciding to stay. While Spider-Woman, Century, and Scarlet Witch don't hold anything against the others, War Machine and Hawkeye do have mutual contempt for the other side, with the latter making being an ass to Rhodey and Julia for staying with Tony and Rhodey likewise being hostile towards Clint and even making a snide remark about Wanda about their leaving after she and Clint return.

* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego2019'': Tigress and Paper Star have a hatred for each other despite them both being in VILE as shown in the epusode "The Haunted Bayou Caper" even to the point of being completely uncoordinated in combat with Carmen Sandiego herself.

* The Killer Bass of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'' invoke this trope in the second episode when self-designated TeamMom Courtney forces them to work together to build a hot tub, HilarityEnsues.

* In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E25ToWhereAndBackAgainPart1 To Where and]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E26ToWhereAndBackAgainPart2 Back Again]]", the sixth-season finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', a team of misfits assembles to do the world-saving typically done by the protagonists, who are indisposed. Although the group members are not all averse to teamwork, none of them are used to being team players, and at least one is actively antisocial. Of course, this just makes the group dynamics all the more interesting, and the eventual victory all the more fulfilling.
* The FiveManBand from ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' starts out like this, evolving into a TrueCompanions as the series goes on. Though technically fueled by their PowerOfFriendship towards Aelita, in the beginning they don't really have much loyalty to each other, and it's kind of easy to get them to break up or lose at least one member.
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' the villains Sportsmaster and Cheshire obviously can't stand each other from their first appearance together. [[spoiler: FridgeBrilliance kicks in a few episodes later when it is confirmed that Sportsmaster is Cheshire's (verbally and emotionally abusive) father, who she ran away from home to escape.]]

* In the ''[=BattleTech=]'' animated cartoon, the 1st Somerset Strikers don't exactly get along all the time.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'':
** Anytime [[WeUsedToBeFriends Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime]] have to work together in any significant way, it results in this. Optimus at least tries to ignore Sentinel’s jabs to focus on the job at hand, but once things are handled, he’s more than happy to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbally rip Sentinel a new one]].
** Starscream and Megatron are stuck working together for good part of season 3. They clearly hate each other and don't even bother to hide their contempt for the arrangement.
** Lugnut and Shockwave are united in one thing and one thing only; UndyingLoyalty to Megatron. Otherwise they absolutely despise each other and spend most of their time fighting to prove who’s the better underling, whilst an increasingly annoyed Megatron wants them to just shut up and do their jobs.
* This happens occasionally on ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', notably in the episode "Go Team Go" when Shego teams up with Kim and her estranged family to defeat Aviarius.
* Slade teamed up with the WesternAnimation/TeenTitans to save Raven and the world in the "The End" episode arc. Slade and the Titans still absolutely hated each other's guts, but managed to cooperate for some time. (Craziest part? Slade was a least ''trying'' to be polite about it, Robin was not.)
* This happens a lot in ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', the ISIS employees tend to get into petty fights on a daily basis. Whenever Archer and Lana are on mission together, Archer tends do stupid things that mess up their mission. Things get worse when the rest of ISIS take part in a mission, at least one of them will slip up, or were the cause of why their mission is compromised.
* Happens frequently between Dudley Puppy and Kitty Katswell on ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy''; they are a dog and a cat, after all.
* Sideswipe and Strongarm in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'', Sideswipe's rebellious attitude clashes with Strongarm's ByTheBookCop tendencies.
* The Season 2 opener of ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'' ends with Force Works dissolving as Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Century decide to quit after Tony fakes his death and War Machine and the Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman deciding to stay. While Spider-Woman, Century, and Scarlet Witch don't hold anything against the others, War Machine and Hawkeye do have mutual contempt for the other side, with the latter making being an ass to Rhodey and Julia for staying with Tony and Rhodey likewise being hostile towards Clint and even making a snide remark about Wanda about their leaving after she and Clint return.
* The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Robomechabotatron" involves Wander attempting to convince Sylvia and their enemies Lord Hater and Commander Peepers to stop squabbling over the titular HumongousMecha, which, after all, can only be controlled by four people at once. He finally gets them to successfully mobilize, [[spoiler:[[{{Anticlimax}} only to stop the whole operation dead]] after [[ActualPacifist realizing that the others intend to fight]] the BigBad]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'':
** In Jack in the Scotsman's relationship starts out this way, with them (despite Jack's best efforts) getting into a prolonged fight almost immediately after meeting each other and only end of (reluctantly) working together, because a group of bounty hunter [[ChainedHeat handcuffed them together]]. Though after they get themselves out of that predicament, they have grown to respect each other as warriors, with the Scotsman even becoming Jack's only real recurring ally for the first four seasons, with them still occasionally butting-heads, but more as a friendly rivalry, than genuine displeasure with the other.
** There's also a villainous example with Josephine and Ezekiel Clench, a pair of formerly married bounty hunters, who reluctantly put their differences aside to capture Jack, but spend just as much time bickering with each other. [[spoiler: They actually ''do'' manage to capture Jack, but Josephine lets her greed get the better of her and betrays her former husband, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain giving Jack the opportunity to free himself]].]]
** Jack was also forced to do this with [[NoNameGiven The Labyrinth Thief]], despite both of them wanting the MacGuffin for themselves, but having to work together to survive the labyrinth's MechaMook guardians and other hazards. [[spoiler: Predictably, they end up [[NiceJobBreakingItHero destroying said item, after they start fighting over]] and Jack leaves him, without another word.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "the Ricks must be Crazy," Rick and Morty encounter Zeep, an inhabitant of the micro-verse Rick created to power his car. When Rick demands to know why the micro-verse isn't generating electricity anymore, Zeep reveals that he created a mini-verse to power his world, where they discover that an inhabitant of the mini-verse intends to do the same thing in a teeny-verse he's just created. [[YearInsideHourOutside After being stranded for months]] inside the teeny-universe, [[InsufferableGenius Zeep and Rick spent that time arguing over who's smarter.]] When Morty shows up leading [[HollywoodNatives the Tree-People,]] he tells Zeep and Rick to work together and fix the machine that will transport them home, just as they are going to explain why they can't work with someone whose intelligence they consider inferior, Morty sics the Tree People on them. Sometime later, they fix the machine, they exit the teeny-verse, and their rivalry resumes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', Trevor's abrasive personality makes it difficult for anyone to co-operate with him. When he rescues Sypha from petrification in the castle dungeons and she stays with him to find the Sleeping Soldier, she still considers him to be rude and considers the merit of making him drink her urine. It's even worse when they join up with Alucard, who, being a {{Dhampyr}}, naturally has reservations about working with a VampireHunter like Trevor. With that said, though Alucard and Trevor frequently trade barbs and threats with one another, they still sometimes make one another laugh.

* An AlternateCharacterInterpretation of a certain band of teenagers:
--> I fucking hate my job. I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:\\
First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.\\
The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store, she moans like a cat in heat.\\
But the crown jewel has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work. He probably hasn't been sober anytime in the last ten years, and he's only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to UsefulNotes/McDonalds and Burger King, every single fucking day.\\
Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van, [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo solving mysteries and shit.]]

* Starscream and Megatron of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' are stuck working together for good part of season 3. They clearly hate each other and don't even bother to hide their contempt for the arrangement.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "the Ricks must be Crazy," Rick and Morty encounter Zeep, an inhabitant of the micro-verse Rick created to power his car. When Rick demands to know why the micro-verse isn't generating electricity anymore, Zeep reveals that he created a mini-verse to power his world, where they discover that an inhabitant of the mini-verse intends to do the same thing in a teeny-verse he's just created. [[YearInsideHourOutside After being stranded for months]] inside the teeny-universe, [[InsufferableGenius Zeep and Rick spent that time arguing over who's smarter.]] When Morty shows up leading [[HollywoodNatives the Tree-People,]] he tells Zeep and Rick to work together and fix the machine that will transport them home, just as they are going to explain why they can't work with someone whose intelligence they consider inferior, Morty sics the Tree People on them. Sometime later, they fix the machine, they exit the teeny-verse, and their rivalry resumes.