When you are creating a work in which two clearly distinct entities are in conflict or compete against each other, a common way to name your work is to identify the two entities and insert a word or symbol indicating the conflict.
These most frequently take the form of X Versus Y (or X vs Y). Titles of this form were particularly common for older B Movies, and is now something of a Dead Horse Trope within that field, though often used straight in homages. They continue to be frequently used in names of episodes of Western Animations and Live-Action TV shows.
Another variant, replacing "Versus" with a simple X, as in Alice X Bob, is particularly common in Video Games developed in Japan. Where it is a crossover, it may take the form of X Meets Y, although these are relatively rare. Not to be confused with the Just for Fun page X Meets Y, which describes works as combinations of two or more other works.
May involve an The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny or Cool Versus Awesome. Where both entities are antagonists, this may be an Antagonist Title. Similar to The Noun and the Noun and Name and Name. Often mirrors Character Name and the Noun Phrase.
- All Work vs. All Play
- Arrogant God vs. Raging Monster
- Bird vs. Serpent
- Brains Versus Brawn
- Career Versus Man
- "Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate
- Cool Versus Awesome
- David Versus Goliath
- Dragons Versus Knights
- Elves Versus Dwarves
- Emotions Versus Stoicism
- Evil Versus Evil
- Evil Versus Oblivion
- Family Versus Career
- Flesh Versus Steel
- Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand
- Girls vs. Boys Plot
- Good Versus Good
- Good Witch Versus Bad Witch
- Guns vs. Swords
- Harmony Versus Discipline
- Heaven Versus Hell
- Individualism vs. Collectivism
- Kids Versus Adults
- Lancer vs. Dragon
- Magic Versus Science
- The Magic Versus Technology War
- Man Versus Machine
- Meat Versus Veggies
- Nature Versus Nurture
- Older Hero vs. Younger Villain
- Old Guard Versus New Blood
- Order Versus Chaos
- PC vs. Console
- Player Versus Environment
- Player Versus Player
- Primate Versus Reptile
- Right Hand Versus Left Hand
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
- Scientist vs. Soldier
- Scry vs. Scry
- Slobs Versus Snobs
- Snake Versus Mongoose
- Spinosaurus Versus T. rex
- Soldier vs. Warrior
- Subbing Versus Dubbing
- Technician Versus Performer
- Tiger Versus Dragon
- Wants Versus Needs
- Warrior vs. Sorcerer
- Watsonian versus Doylist
Examples:
- Dragon Ball Z episode "The Nameks Versus Frieza".
- Grendizer Vs Great Mazinger.
- King of Kings: GaoGaiGar vs. Betterman
- Several episodes of Naruto and it's sequels have them
- "Chunin Challenge: Rock Lee vs. Sasuke!"
- "Gaara vs. Rock Lee: The Power of Youth Explodes!"
- "Byakugan vs. Shadow Clone Technique!"
- "Light vs. Dark: The Two Faces of Gaara"
- "Eye to Eye: Sharingan vs. Sharingan!"
- "Roar, Chidori! Brother vs. Brother!"
- "The Battle Begins: Naruto vs. Sasuke"
- "Showdown: Gaara vs. Kimimaro!"
- "Hot-Blooded Confrontation: Student vs. Sensei"
- "The Eight-Tails vs. Sasuke"
- "The Next Challenge! Naruto vs. The Nine Tails"
- "Battle in Paradise! Odd Beast vs. The Monster!"
- "Shino vs. Torune!"
- "Jinchūriki vs. Jinchūriki!!"
- "Naruto vs. Mecha Naruto"
- "The Blue Beast vs. Six Paths Madara"
- "The Sharingan vs. The Lightning Blade, Kiba the Fang!"
- "Boruto vs. Shikadai"
- "The Hidden Leaf vs. The Hidden Sand"
- "Inojin vs. Houki"
- Pokémon episodes "Haunter Versus Kadabra" and "Princess Versus Princess".
- Pokémon Adventures also uses this as Idiosyncratic Episode Naming, with a few exceptions like saga finales.
- The Japanese title of the 10th Pokémon movie, Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai, exhibits this trope - Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl the Movie: Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai.
- The 15th Pokémon movie incorporates this naming structure as well - Pokémon: Kyurem vs. The Sword of Justice in English, and Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! The Movie: Kyurem vs. The Sacred Swordsman: Keldeo in Japanese.
- Shin Getter Robo Vs Neo Getter Robo.
- Several chapters in One Piece.
- Lupin III Vs Cat's Eye
- Mazinkaiser Vs The Great General of Darkness
- Cyborg 009 VS Devilman
- Voltron episode: "Voltron Versus Voltron"
- Several episodes of Tamagotchi have one.
- Episode 41a, "Go! Typhoontchi VS Secret Base"
- Episode 46a, "Datchi! Kuchipatchi VS Mecha Kuchipatchi"
- Episode 69a, "Lazy Reasoning? Detective Anpan VS Melody Investigator"
- Episode 73b, "Go Go! Gluttony! Kuchipatchi VS Kuishinbotchi"
- Episode 79b, "Dream Co-star? Gotchiman vs. Detective Anpan"
- Episode 118, "Big Fight!? Moriritchi vs. Anemoriritchi"
- Yume Kira Dream episode 9, "Queen of Tears vs. Yume Kira Comedians"
- GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 4a, "Guruguru Battle! Memetchi vs. Makiko... Again!!"
- Jewelpet:
- Episode 22 of Jewelpet (2009) is titled "Bachi Bachi☆ Rinko VS Akira".
- Episode 19a of Jewelpet: Magical Change is titled "The Revenge! Ruby VS Luea".
- The 2020 Doraemon episode "Battle! Gian vs. Army of Monsters".
- My Hero Academia has several of these:
- “Deku vs. Kacchan” (episode 7) and “Deku vs. Kacchan, Part 2” (episode 61)
- “Bakugo vs. Uraraka” (episode 22) and “Todoroki vs. Bakugo” (episode 25) in the Sports Festival arc
- “Hero Killer: Stain vs. UA Students” (episode 29)
- “Deku vs. Gentle Criminal” (episode 84)
- “Clash! Class A vs. Class B!” (episode 91)
- “League of Villains vs. UA Students” (episode 121)
- Motu Patlu: Season 2 episode 50b, "Motu Vs. John".
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf:
- Joys of Seasons episode 17, "Gentleman vs. Loafer".
- Happy, Happy, Bang! Bang! episode 25, "Fruits vs. Wolffy".
- The Firesign Theatre, on one of their TV Guide parody sequences, announce a Late Late Show movie entitled Mud Wrestlers from Outer Space vs. the Mexican Mole Women.
- Alien vs. Predator
- Aliens Versus Predator Versus The Terminator
- Avengers vs. X-Men
- Asterix vs. Caesar.
- Batman vs. Bigby! A Wolf in Gotham
- Bunny vs. Monkey
- Darkman vs. Army of Darkness
- Dracula vs. King Arthur.
- Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash.
- Friday the 13th: Jason vs. Jason X.
- Godzilla Vs Barkley.
- Godzilla vs. The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
- Jason vs. Leatherface.
- Marvel Versus DC
- RoboCop Versus The Terminator
- Santa Versus Dracula
- Santa Vs. Zombies
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe.
- Simon's Cat vs. the World
- Spider-Man versus Wolverine Mostly takes place in Germany.
- Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man
- Wonder Woman and the Star Riders vs. Purrsia
- Garfield: In this strip
, Garfield is about to watch a movie titled "The Giant Bloodsucking Leech Versus a Personal Injury Attorney".
- Spy vs. Spy.
- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfiction Progress has all its chapters titled "Luna vs. [subject of chapter]".
- Similarly, the Leap of Faith series; every story in it is titled "Leap of Faith: [Character identifier] vs. [Character identifier]".
- Dexter's Lab: Equestria: "Colt Genius vs Changelings"
- Zero vs Kira
- Cave Story Versus I M Meen
- The Non-Bronyverse story TD vs Equestria Girls (found here
)
- Tales of the Canterlot Deportation Agency: Luna vs. The Law Machine
: Luna must become personally involved when a damaged Law Machine from the Gallimaufry becomes the target of an Incursion... and declares that it shall begin enforcing the Law on Equestria as it did in its home dimension.
- Friday Night Funkin' Vs. Dave and Bambi, Friday Night Funkin' VS Whitty, Friday Night Funkin' Vs Hex Mod, Friday Night Funkin' Vs Tabi Ex Boyfriend, Friday Night Funkin' VS Sunday, Friday Night Funkin' VS. Kapi - Arcade Showdown... Yeah, it's safe to say that this is a popular format for Game Mod titles of Friday Night Funkin'. It is peculiar, though, that most if not all of these have the entire game as the left-side opponent of the title, rather than any specific character.
- The Palaververse: Mr Stripes Versus A Cthonic Horror: Where he's got such a creature between him and his daughter's birthday present.
- Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K
- Many of the Abbott and Costello's later movies had titles of the form Abbott and Costello Meet (something else from Universal).
- Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies.
- AVP: Alien vs. Predator.
- A variation occurs in the case of Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. The movie is actually about Ecks and Sever teaming up.
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
- Billy the Kid vs. Dracula.
- Boa Versus Python.
- Bonnie and Clyde vs. Dracula
- The opening titles of Army of Darkness present the film as Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness.
- Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs
- Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead
- Dahmer vs. Gacy and its sequel Dahmer vs. Gacy 2: In Space.
- Dracula Versus Frankenstein.
- Dinocroc Versus Supergator.
- Eagle vs Shark.
- Earth vs. the Flying Saucers.
- Earth vs. the Spider.
- Ford v Ferrari
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
- Freddy vs. Jason.
- Gladiators vs. Werewolves: Edge of Empire
- Various Godzilla movies have followed this pattern:
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- Mothra vs. Godzilla
- Godzilla vs. Monster Zero
- Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
- Godzilla vs. Hedorah
- Godzilla vs. Gigan
- Godzilla vs. Megalon
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
- Godzilla vs. Biollante
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
- Godzilla vs. Mothra: The Battle for Earth
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
- Godzilla Vs Spacegodzilla
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
- Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
- Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
- Godzilla vs. Kong, the MonsterVerse entry
- Humans Versus Zombies.
- Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter.
- Joe Versus the Volcano.
- Karl the Butcher vs. Axe
- Komodo Versus Cobra.
- Kramer vs. Kramer (also the original book, on which the film was based).
- Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
- Mega Python Versus Gatoroid.
- Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus, and it's sequel Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus.
- The People vs. Larry Flynt, based on a Real Life court case which was actually named Hustler Magazine v. Falwell.
- Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys.
- The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy
- Sadako vs. Kayako
- Movies starring El Santo frequently had titles of this type:
- Santo & Blue Demon vs. Dracula & the Wolfman
- Santo vs. the Diabolical Hatchet
- Santo vs. el Estrangulador
- Santo vs. Frankenstein's Daughter
- Santo vs. the Infernal Men
- Santo vs. the Martian Invasion
- Santo vs. the Mummies of Guanajuato
- Santo vs. the Riders of Terror
- Santo vs. the She-Wolves
- Samson vs. the Vampire Women
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022). In Japan, the film is titled Sonic vs. Knuckles.
- Strippers Vs. Werewolves
- Strippers vs. Zombies.
- The Navy vs. The Night Monsters.
- Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.
- Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl.
- Wife vs. Secretary, based on a novel of the same title.
- Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle
- Ultra Galaxy Legend Gaiden: Ultraman Zero vs. Darklops Zero
- Versus. That's it, that's the whole title.
- Vampires vs. Leprechauns.
- Vampires vs. Zombies
- The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
- Cats vs. Robots
- Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, a collection of essays by Nick Hornby.
- "Nietzsche contra Wagner," in which Friedrich Nietzsche explains his disillusionment with Richard Wagner.
- Katt vs. Dogg
- King of Kings: GaoGaiGar vs. Betterman
- There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns: The chapter, "Nature Vs Nurture"
, about a nature mage discussing how a dungeon is raising its monsters.
- Zombies Versus Unicorns
- All in the Family episodes "Edith Versus the Bank" and "Edith Versus the Energy Crisis".
- Buffalo Bill episode "Buffalo Bill Versus the Kremlin".
- Chuck uses this as its Idiosyncratic Episode Naming.
- CSI episode "Grissom Versus the Volcano".
- Curb Your Enthusiasm episode "Larry vs. Michael J. Fox"
- Deadliest Warrior uses this as its Idiosyncratic Episode Naming.
- The first The Flash and Arrow crossover was titled Flash vs. Arrow.
- Good Vs Evil (originally known as G vs E).
- Reality Show Hogan Knows Best episode "Hogan Versus City Hall".
- How I Met Your Mother episodes "Mystery vs. History", "Robots versus Wrestlers" and "Girls versus Suits".
- Leave It to Beaver episode "The State Versus Beaver".
- Mama's Family episode "Harper Versus Harper".
- Man v. Food.
- Man vs. Wild.
- Melissa & Joey episode "Joe Versus the Reunion".
- Parenthood episode "Man Versus Possum".
- Private Benjamin episode "Ross Versus the Robot".
- Sarabhai vs Sarabhai
- Smart Guy episode "T.J. versus the Machine".
- Common in Toei's Toku series:
- The Super Sentai "Vs. Series" featuring two teams together in a crossover. However, it's rare for the "vs." to actually mean that the teams end up fighting each other; more often they become allies immediately.
- Super Sentai’s use of this is Parodied in Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger - after the team's show is taken over by Ultraman pastiche Hikonin Kyoujin Prism Ace, they convince the studio executives to produce an "Akibaranger vs Prism Ace" team-up movie so they can have one last hurrah. However, as soon as the movie starts they form their team bazooka and shoot Prism Ace in the face, mocking him for not knowing what "versus" means.
- Kamen Rider’s Movie Wars series initially start their titles with "Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider [X] & [Y]", though like with its Sentai counterpart Kamen Rider [X] and Kamen Rider [Y] tend to work together rather than fight each other.
- And then there's the multi-franchise Superhero Taisen series, which like with Movie Wars starts its titles with a form of "[X] X [Y]": the first and fifth were "Kamen Rider X Super Sentai", the second was "Kamen Rider X Super Sentai X Space Sheriff", and the third is "Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider" (referring to the two subdivisions of the Kamen Rider franchise). In these cases, though, the various sides do fight each other.
- It finally appears in a series itself with Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger, which features two heroic teams competing with one another. Played with in that "VS" is used in contexts besides just meaning "versus"; the teams' shared tech is called the "VS System" (pronounced Vee-Ess, with VS Changers, VS Vehicles, etc.) and each team wears one of the letters as their logo (the Lupinrangers wear a V insignia while the Patrangers have the S). Noel Takao, inventor of the VS System and a member of both teams, refers to the Lupinrangers and Patrangers collectively as the "VS Sentai". It isn't made clear if VS stands for anything in-universe; the closest it gets is that later in the series the Lupinrangers receive a Victory Striker mecha while the Patrangers’ counterpart is a Siren Striker.
- Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites (twice), Heroes vs. Villains, et cetera. A variant in Blood vs. Water (twice), where the title doesn't refer to the castaways.
- The Beverly Hillbillies episode "Granny Versus the Weather Bureau".
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis episode "Dobie Versus the Machine".
- The Walker, Texas Ranger episode "Texas vs. Cahill", where Alex is brought up on charges for a murder she didn't commit. The victim in this case is the defense attorney in her current trial, who was one of her ex-boyfriends and while Walker, Trivette and her father try to prove she is innocent, they eventually find out that the defendant in that trial framed her.
- Wizards of Waverly Place has a few episodes with this:
- The "Wizards vs. Vampires on Waverly Place" Story Arc, ending with "Wizards and Vampires vs. Zombies".
- "Wizards vs. Werewolves"
- "Wizards vs. Finkles"
- "Alex vs. Alex"
- Zorro (1957) episode "Zorro Versus Cupid".
- Lostprophets song "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja".
- The World/Inferno Friendship Society song "Me V. the Angry Mob,"
- General Patton Vs. The X-Ecutioners, a collaboration album between Mike Patton and hip-hop trio The X-Ecutioners.
- "Concerto for Two Pianos vs. Orchestra" by P.D.Q. Bach
- Kero Kero Bonito's song "Cat Vs Dog"
- Test Icicles' "Boa Vs. Python"
- The Aquabats! vs. the Floating Eye of Death! and Other Amazing Adventures, Vol. 1, the Aquabats' third studio album.
- "XTC vs. Adam Ant" by They Might Be Giants
- The Kinks stretch it out into a long title with their album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One.
- Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome, Parliament album
- Gucci Mane The State vs. Radric Davis
- T.I. T.I. vs. T.I.P.
- Alice Cooper takes on West Side Story (1961) in "Gutter Cat Vs. The Jets" from the album, School's Out.
- Dantai Taikosen LLPW vs. AJW
- UWFi vs. WAR: Super Summer Wars
- AWS Sonjay Dutt vs Super Dragon
- Carmen Electra's NWWL, Vol. 1: Bush vs Hussein
- IWC vs WMF Confrontation ~ Super Hardcore Night
- FWA Academy vs. WAW Academy - Academy Warfare
- WWE vs ECW: Head To Head
- PWU Versus JCW
- ChickFight VII: The UK vs The USA
- CWA Pro Skirts vs. Fins
- GOUGE vs ACW Legends
- EVOLVE 1: Richards vs. Ibushi
- DG:UK: Yokosuka vs. Shingo 2
- Chikara vs Osaka Pro
- NWA Houston Showdown... Tennessee vs. Texas
- Invacion de I.W.A Vs W.W.C
- PWE Elite vs. Phenomenal
- WSU vs Beyond
- XICW 158: Rhino vs. Williams III
- ROH vs NJPW: Global Wars
- WC Christopher Daniels Vs. Lance Storm
- Lucha Underground #1.22 - Mask Vs. Mask
- IMPACT Wrestling #578 - TNA vs. GFW
- Heavy Montreal Presents Freedom To Fight - IWS VS CZW
- Zelo Pro vs Journey Pro: Kingdom Come
- Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4-D, though it's only briefly at the beginning; the real conflict is an Enemy Mine between Godzilla and the EVAs against King Ghidorah.
- WCW vs nWo: World Tour
- 1 vs. 100
- Afrika Korps vs. Desert Rats
- Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth: The last case takes place during "The Kingdom of Allebahst versus The Republic of Babahl Goodwill Jubilee". Kay asks why the seemingly confrontational title if the event is supposed to be an attempt to foster a possible reunification of both two countries. She's never given a straight answer.
- Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja
- Billy vs. SNAKEMAN
- Calorie-kun vs. Moguranian
- Capcom is fond of titles of this form as noted in Capcom vs..
- Ford vs. Chevy
- Ghouls vs. Humans
- Games in the Gundam Vs Series.
- Jordan vs. Bird: One on One
- Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death
- The Legend of el Lobodestroyo Vs. la Liga de los Villanos
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong
- Maximo vs. Army of Zin.
- Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.
- Mr. Do! vs. Unicorns
- MSVs, a Gundam game for the WonderSwan.
- The MX vs. ATV series.
- Naruto Shippuden: Naruto vs Sasuke
- North vs. South.
- Pac-Man Vs.
- Pizza Vs. Skeletons
- Plants vs. Zombies.
- Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. They're actually allies through most of the game (and even when going against one another in court, they're still allies and Layton is playing Devil's Advocate).
- Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army and its sequel, Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
- RoboCop vs. The Terminator.
- Samurai vs. Zombies Defense
- The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants, Bart vs. the World, Bartman Meets Radioactive Man, Bart vs. the Juggernauts
- Smackdown vs. Raw
- Spectral Vs Generation
- The crossovers Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter, with the first name in each game's title indicating which respective series' game engine is being used for the game (for example, Street Fighter x Tekken runs off of the game engine of the Street Fighter series; specifically, Street Fighter IV).
- Timothy vs. the Aliens
- Virgo Versus the Zodiac
- Vs., a Fighting Game (converted from Fighters' Impact) for the PlayStation and published by THQ.
- Weetabix Versus the Titchies, an early example of cereal advergaming.
- Ys vs. Sora No Kiseki — a PSP game published by Falcom.
- Z.H.P.: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman.
- The Zombie vs. Ambulance
- Animator vs. Animation
- Lady Lumps VS Boy Bumps
- Red vs. Blue
- Four mini-movies from Quirky Misadventures of Soldine the Cyborg YouTube series, all following the Monster of the Week format:
- Soldine vs. Vagineer
- Soldine vs. Handsome Rogue
- Soldine vs. Madic
- Soldine vs. Robosol
- PvP: Player vs Player
- Princess Pi comics almost always have titles in this format: "Dan Vs. Chuck vs. The Tick vs. Princess Pi".
- El Goonish Shive has the storyline "Talon vs. Scythe".
- xkcd has an entry on this kind of titles aptly called the "Versus Bracket
".
- French Baguette Intelligence: Many French Baguette Intelligence videos use versus titles, usually with 'debate' on the end. Such as: A typical French vs English Debate
, Science vs Ethics Debate
, Dark Humor vs "Dark Humor
", Another Typical French vs English Debate
, Mister Incredible vs Darth Vader Debate
, etc.
- Hogan Vs Flair
- Man vs. the World
- Feminist Frequency: Anita Sarkeesian's original Tropes vs. Women series, and its variants, depending on where the videos are viewed. She's not challenging tropers to a fight, btw:
- The original Tropes Vs. Women
series.
- The Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games
series, which on YouTube, all the original Tropes Vs. Women episodes have been re-titled to use Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games.
- The original Tropes Vs. Women
- Bobby Lashley vs Boogeyman
- Mitten Squad: The video, "Paper Mario: Part 20 | Plumber vs Martial Arts Master"
.
- Numberphile: The video, "Tau vs Pi Smackdown - Numberphile"
.
- Two different Let's Play shows are just simply titled this word, though with different spellings: Versus by JoshJepson and AttackingTucans, and VS by Achievement Hunter.
- SomecallmeJohnny titles his video game reviews under the title scheme "Johnny vs. [name of game]".
- The Kittisaurus branch of Cream Heroes often titles videos as "Cats Vs." whatever Claire has the cats responding to.
- Arthur:
- "Arthur vs. the Piano" sees Arthur worrying about making a mistake in a recital.
- "Arthur vs. the Very Mean Crossing Guard" has Arthur and Brain think of ways to outwit an ominous new crossing guard, fearing that he'll eventually follow up on his threats and won't let them get to school. They later find out that the crossing guard is an old friend of Grandma Thora.
- "Binky vs. Binky" is about Binky's internal struggle with a bike rice, wondering whether he should focus on beating others or just trying to improve his own times.
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode "Hulk Versus the World".
- The Batman vs. Dracula.
- Dan Vs. is an interesting case where the Episode Finishes the Title, such as the first episode, New Mexico, intended to be read as Dan Vs. New Mexico.
- Doug, in both the Nickelodeon and Disney versions, all of which being Quailman episodes:
- "Doug Vs. the Klotzoid Zombies"
- "Quailman Vs. Supersport"
- "Quailman Vs. the Annoying S.T.U.A.R.T."
- "Quailman vs. the Whackhammer"
- "Quailman Vs. the Quizzler"
- "Quailman Vs. the Triad of Terror"
- "Quailman Vs. the Little Rubber Army"
- Eek! The Cat episode "Eek vs. the Flying Saucers" (a play on Earth vs. the Flying Saucers).
- Gravity Falls:
- "Dipper vs. Manliness".
- "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future".
- OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes has the episode "K.O. vs. Fink" and the short "Enid vs. Rad".
- Samurai Jack episodes "Jack Versus Demongo, the Soul Collector", "Jack Versus Mad Jack", "Samurai Versus Ninja", "Samurai Versus Samurai", "Jack Versus Aku", and "Robo-Samurai Versus Mondo Bot".
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode "Raphael Versus the Volcano".
- The Simpsons has a number of episodes like this, such as:
- "Bart vs. Australia"
- "Bart vs. Itchy and Scratchy"
- "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"
- "Bart vs. Thanksgiving"
- "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
- "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
- "Homer vs. Dignity"
- "Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment"
- "Homer vs. Patty and Selma"
- "Homer vs. the 18th Amendment"
- "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"
- "Marge vs. the Monorail"
- "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays" (also known as "Marge vs. Everyone")
- The Tick uses this as its Idiosyncratic Episode Naming.
- The Super Globetrotters also uses this as its Idiosyncratic Episode Naming.
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- "Krabs vs. Plankton" is a Courtroom Episode about Plankton sueing Krabs for an injury.
- "SpongeBob vs. the Patty Gadget" is a Rhyming Episode that features SpongeBob's battle against Squidward's efficient new patty-cooking robot.
- "Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob" has Plankton brainwash Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy to turn them against SpongeBob and the Krusty Krab.
- "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. the Big One" has SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward wash up on a mysterious island. Taught by a surf legend, they must successfully ride a sentient giant wave known as the Big One to make it home.
- "Sharks vs. Pods" is about SpongeBob joining a street gang named The Sharks, unaware of their rivalry with a fellow group, the Pods. He tries to find a way out of the gang before their "showdown", which turns out to be a dance-off.
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil
- Strawberry Shortcake in official YouTube by Wild Brain is "The Berrykins vs. The Boat".
- Kid vs. Kat
- The episode "Hong Kong Phooey vs. Hong Kong Phooey" (about an impostor of the hero accepting all the rewards he's turned down).
- Ultimate Spider-Man vs Sinister 6
- The Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! episode "The People Vs. Fred Jones."
- The Big City Greens episode "Cricket Versus".
- The Hair Bear Bunch episode "King Klong Vs. The Masked Marvel."
- The Powerpuff Girls (2016) has the episode "Buttercup vs. Math".
- It is standard in civil court cases in many western countries to be named in the form Plaintiff v. Defendant.
- Do keep in mind when both sides of the v. are the same (such as a family feud), it's not a Mirror Match. note
- Partially averted in Commonwealth countries, where the v. is read as and.