Vitriolic Best Buds / Web Animation

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• The two hosts of DEATH BATTLE!, Wiz and Boomstick. The two are constantly taking shots at each other, and Wiz isn't above using Boomstick as a test dummy to show off some of the combatants' powers. However, several episodes show that they are very close friends, with several episodes starting with them posing together and when Boomstick learns that Wiz is Happily Married in "Flash Vs Sonic", he seems genuinely happy and hopes that his marriage goes better than his own.
• Dreamscape:
  • Vampire Lord has this kind of relationship with Anjren and especially Dylan. He and Dylan's disagreements quickly escalate into heated arguments, but they are still very close. Anjren's and his escalate even quicker, because Anjren pushes back harder than Dylan does.
  • Due to his Friendless Background, this concept makes no sense to Izane, and he finds it rather mean.
• DSBT InsaniT: Alex and Seth. They are at each other's throats almost constantly, but they are still great friends.
• Frollo and Gaston from The Frollo Show. They're the best of friends and will fight to the death for one another, but can't help but dick each other over at every opportunity.
• Helluva Boss: Blitzo and Moxxie are absolutely this. Blitzo relentlessly insults Moxxie, and Moxxie is constantly aggrevated by Blitzo's Bunny-Ears Lawyer approach to being an assassin and business owner. However, Blitzo only berates Moxxie as often as he does because he wants to drive Moxxie to realize his full potential as an assassin. Moxxie, despite his frustration with Blitzo's eccentricities, looks up to Blitzo as a mentor and boss and views him as the first real friend he ever had. When it comes down to it, they have each others' backs no matter what and form the backbone of the show's Power Trio.
• Homestar Runner:
  • Homestar Runner and Strong Bad. (Though Strong Bad is occasionally almost decent to Homestar, Homestar is oblivious to Strong Bad's constant insults almost all of the time.) This is noted a few times in Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People:
    Strong Bad: I thought we were bros!
    Homestar: Wait, I thought I thought we were bros, and you're always beating various stuffings out of me.
  • Meanwhile, Bubs and Coach Z describe the second type. The two hang out frequently and usually get along, but in the Strong Bad Email "current status", they make fun of each other's bodies after getting their head swapped by Strong Bad's shenanigans, and in the Thanksgiving toon "Fall Float Parade" Bubs dedicates a float to calling Coach Z a jerk^note Though the DVD commentary for the toon states that Bubs had just done some market research and found that "hating Coach Z was popular". Then there's this line from episode 3 of SBCG4AP:
    Coach Z: Aw, Bubs'll be back. He loves me like a brother! (beat) Hates me like a brother, too.
• Vendetta hates Charlotte in Making Fiends, often attempting to kill her with her fiends. However, Charlotte (being a Cloudcuckoolander Genki Girl) thinks they're the best of friends.
• Matt and Dusty from... well, Matt 'n' Dusty, strongly invoke this whenever they talk to each other. Even by themselves, Dusty is a Jerkass to everyone and Matt occasionally gives off some passive-aggressive vibes.
• Quite a number of character pairs from The Most Popular Girls in School, both types.
• Red vs. Blue:
  • When Caboose comes to Church's new base in Reconstruction, Church tries to literally snipe him, but his aim is so bad that he repeatedly misses. Church is still clearly devastated when Caboose seemingly dies, though. This comes up when Church meets the version of himself inside of Caboose's head. Mental Church claims to be Caboose's best friend. Real Church is not amused.
    Church: You're not Caboose's best friend, okay? You don't have a best friend. You know why? You don't need one. You're Church! Knowing other people just waters down the experience. Live the dream, buddy!
  • Simmons and Grif also qualify quite nicely for this trope. Even though they're always throwing insults or worse at each other, they never stop being Heterosexual Life-Partners. In fact, the very first scene of the series set them up to have this kind of friendship.
• RWBY: Emerald and Mercury, Cinder's minions, constantly snipe at each other and have even resorted to physical fights when arguing over whether Emerald is deluded to think Cinder genuinely cares about her. However, they always close ranks to defend each other if someone antagonises them in any way, such as when Tyrian targets one or the other. Despite the vitriol, they can turn to each other when they need to have serious conversations about the situation they're in.
• Sonic for Hire:
  • Sonic and Tails are portrayed this way, due to them both being Adaptational Jerkasses, with Sonic acting as the idiot leader of their little gang and Tails as his Straight Man.
  • Their old Arch-Enemy Dr. Eggman also ends up among their "friends", despite acting like a gross and annoying wierdo most of the time.
• Steve And Carlos have a version of this, with Carlos repeatedly threatening to stab Steve and Steve insulting Carlos repeatedly. It's to the point you can hardly tell that they are indeed friends.
• The entire main cast of Tomorrow's Nobodies are this to eachother. Especially Eric and David, at least in terms of vitriol displayed.
• In X-Ray & Vav, our titular heroes are this. X-Ray is a major It's All About Me kind of guy while Vav wants to be portrayed as The Cape and the two will clash over their ideas all the time. But, when worse comes to worst, the two will stand up for each other and save the day.

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