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[[File:Apple_of_Discord.png|frame|[[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]]]
A group of people are [[True Companions|thick as thieves]], [[A Friend in Need|supporting each other in all things]]. If they ever reiterate this, it's [[Tempting Fate]]. You will soon see a third party enter and ask them to decide something. It may be something as mundane as deciding what toppings they want on their pizza, or something as serious as which one of them is the leader. A sister trope to [[Centipede's Dilemma]] and a great way to hand a group of people the [[Conflict Ball]]. If the decision is whether to trust a once-villainous member of their group, it is the [[They Still Belong to Us Lecture]].
Compare [[Yoko Oh No]]. For an object that everyone wants and drives them into conflict, see [[Artifact of Attraction]]. For the religion, see [[Principia Discordia]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', {{spoiler|Chao}} uses a future version of Negi's family tree to disrupt his entire party as they all want to know who he will marry.
{{quote|Negi party self-destructs!! [Record time of 57 seconds]}}
* The [[Litchi Hikari Club]] appears to be tearing itself apart after the capture of Bishojo schoolgirl Kanon.
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* ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'': The trolls are holding Virginia captive, and Wolf throws a box into the room. The note says that it's a present for the strongest, bravest troll. Cue all three knocking each other out.
* In ''[[Better Off Ted]]'', [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] and coworkers Phil and Lem start arguing when Rose, Ted's daughter, asks if one is the other's boss. In the end, they make up when they decide to give each other equal authority.
* In a season 4 arc of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Spike nonchalantly brings up issues that almost break the Scoobies up entirely. By the end of the season, they figure out that their arguments were just Spike messing with them, but they don't completely feel comfortable around each other again until they team up and defeat the [[Big Bad]] through the [[Power of Friendship]]. {{spoiler|Literally.}}
* In a sketch by [[Loriot]], two couples go to a restaurant together to celebrate the friendship they started when they vacationed together. At the end of the meal, the waiter recommends the house specialty dessert, the ''Kosakenzipfel'', which both husbands then order. Unfortunately it turns out there is only one left. The two decide to share it, but this becomes so complicated that it devolves into a shouting match between the two families who are now presumably enemies for life.
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* The hero causes the wolves to fight over who is stronger in ''[[Happily N'Ever After]]'' with this.
* ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' short "The Truce Hurts": Tom, Jerry and Spike make a pact to stop fighting. Then they find a steak and fight over how to divide it.
* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "The Fighting 69th" has a similar ending. Two ant armies fight over a picnic until the humans pack up, leaving only one small pastry with a cherry. Realizing the futility of their struggle, they decide to end hostilities and split the pastry evenly. However, they can't decide which side gets the cherry, and the war begins anew.
* In the [[Classic Disney Short]] "Toy Tinkers" Donald Duck does this to Chip and Dale. Pretending to be Santa Claus he gives one a large walnut and the other a small walnut. Instantly they are fighting over who deserves the large one.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' had Beast Boy and Aqualad pull this off on the clones that a villain made of himself. The villain had an enormous ego and believe he was perfect, as did his clones. The effect of the question "If you're all perfect, which one of you is the best?" should not be hard to imagine.
** An earlier episode had a more humorous example where the normally cohesive Titans were unable to agree on pizza toppings. (Notably, Starfire thought ice cream was a topping and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|suggested that they have it on their pizza]].)
* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'': Garfield once got the Buddy Bears, [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong|those bastions of conformity and cooperation]], off his back by asking them what they want on their pizza. Garfield even Lampshades this by stating it to be a fundamental human behavior.
{{quote|'''Garfield:''' In the history of mankind, no two people have ever been able to agree on the toppings for pizza.}}
* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** And in Season 2, we now LITERALLY have an Apple of Discord.
** Near the end of the episode "Lesson Zero", Twilight ''creates'' one by putting a "Want-It-Need-It" spell on her plushie, hoping that it will allow her to solve a problem and thus have something to report to Celestia. [[Gone Horribly Right|It works too well.]]
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