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* Rene Belloq from ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', the [[Evil Counterpart]] to [[Indiana Jones]], is probably the closest thing he has to this.
* Darth Vader is [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]]'s archenemy; meanwhile, Vader probably counted [[The Obi-Wan|Obi-Wan]] as his.
* [[Godzilla]]: King Ghidorah who fought Godzilla in eight films across four continuities. In one of them he's, oddly enough, the good guy. Mechagodzilla might also count, being Godzilla's most recurring enemy after Ghidorah. Both are [[Hero -Killer|Hero Killers]] and both have come closer to killing the big guy then anyone else. Ghidorah also fought Mothra solo (and had an [[Expy]] fight her solo as well).
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'''s Jack Sparrow and Barbossa. Once both men have died at least once, the conflict between them becomes more of a friendly rivalry.
** Commodore Norrington might also want to put himself in for consideration as Jack's [[Arch Enemy]], though Jack seems to regard him as more of an obstacle and sometimes pawn.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''
** [[The Master]] (at one point the Doctor specifically refers to him as "my archenemy") and Davros to the Doctor. Also the Daleks are the most recurring villains and were described as the Doctor's archenemy by Amy Pond in "Victory of the Daleks".
** Each Doctor appeares to have a personal rival...
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* Ganondorf is [[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|Link]]'s eternal archenemy.
** However, Link is a [[Legacy Character]], and no version of him has fought Ganondorf more than once. It is possible that Ganondorf considers all pointy-eared, green-suited blond boys to be his archenemy, while each Link just thinks of Ganondorf as another Rogue.
** However each Link is usually educated about the Triforce and how they are fated to face Ganon some way or another. But particularly Link from ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' had a grudge against Ganon for kidnapping his sister and Zelda and Link from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' was the first Link to face Ganondorf for endangering Zelda, killing the [[The Obi-Wan|Deku Tree]], and directly ruining every other society he had to rescue.
** Justified, and borderline Deconstructed, in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]''. {{spoiler|Ganondorf is the reincarnation of [[Bigger Bad|Demon King Demise's]] endless hatred for Link and Zelda, and that continues to haunt them even as they keep reincarnating. The three are literally bound to fight for eternity.}}
** It's also mildly subversive, since the revelation that {{spoiler|Zelda is the mortal incarnation of Hylia, the goddess who initially sealed Demise,}} means ''she'' was his original archenemy, not Link.
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* In ''~Assassin's Creed~'', the [[The Hashshashin|Assassins]] and [[The Knights Templar]] have been arch enemies for thousands of years, {{spoiler|although the Assassins are losing as of now.}}
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'', it's actually pretty one-sided; the protagonist, Cloud, eventually has plenty of reason to hate the [[Big Bad]], Sephiroth, but Sephiroth barely acknowledges Cloud at all, and even then as an insigficant pawn, until the very end when Cloud's group actually beats him. After this, as in the movie ''[[Advent Children]]'' (or ''Dissidia'', below), they certainly are arch-enemies both ways, though it's possible the very reason Sephiroth has it in for Cloud is that he hates having been beaten by someone so insignificant.
* The ten heroes and their respective villains, [[Female Angel, Male Demon|Chaos and Cosmos]], and [[Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)|Shantotto]] and [[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Gabranth]] in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]''.
** More in depth we have...
*** From [[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]] [[The Cape|The Warrior of Light]] to challenge [[Blood Knight|Garland]] the human incarnation of the [[Big Bad]] Chaos.
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** Blackfire to Starfire.
** Trigon to Raven.
** Terra to Beast Boy (because she was his [[Psycho Ex -Girlfriend]]).
** And the Brotherhood of Evil to EVERYONE.
*** On a personal level the Brotherhood (and specifically, the Brain) is Beast Boy's [[Arch Enemy]]. He was a member of the team that opposed them before he joined the Titans, and his past with them is what draws the other Titans into the conflict. Interestingly, this is a rare case of the hero taking it more seriously than the villain- the Brain considers Mento, the Doom Patrol's leader, to be his [[Arch Enemy]], and regards Beast Boy as little more than an irritant. Yet, thanks to Beast Boy (and by extension, the Titans), the Brain considers ALL [[Kid Hero|kid heroes]] his archenemies.
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** And Baker also turns up in [[Start of Darkness]] (the trope namer, that is) as one of Xykon's rivals for the position of second-in-command to the Unholy Master early on in the book.
* Bobby Kennedy and [[Lyndon Johnson]] hated, ''hated'' each other with a passion. Bobby felt Johnson was a devious coward, Johnson thought Bobby was a foul tempered "little shit." Intensified tenfold after [[John F Kennedy|JFK's]] [[Who Shot JFK?|assassination]].
** Also, [[The Fog Of War|Robert McNamara]], the Secretary of Defense and a close personal friend of Bobby's who only got ''closer'' to him after Jack's assassination, got caught in the crossfire. This may have influenced some of Johnson's decisions in [[The Vietnam War]].
* Mark Gottlieb, the rules manager of ''[[Magic the Gathering]]'', is the archenemy of Mark Rosewater, the game's head designer. That's according to [[Fan Nickname|MaRo]], at least, but he's [[Cloudcuckoolander|nuttier than a bag of squirrels]].
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Othniel_Charles_Marsh:Othniel Charles Marsh|Othniel Charles Marsh]] and [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Drinker_Cope:Edward Drinker Cope|Edward Drinker Cope]] were two of the major pioneers in the field of paleontology and between them identified over 142 new species of dinosaurs. Unfortunately, they hated each other with a passion and each became obsessed with defeating the other and proving himself the better scientist. Their frenzied race, known as the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bone_Wars:The Bone Wars|Bone Wars]], extended over fifteen years and ended in a virtual stalemate, and both men were nearly bankrupted by the effort. In the end, they both made enormous contributions to the study of dinosaurs, committed any number of shady deeds to undermine each other, and ended up in the poorhouse. [[Not So Different]], indeed.
* [[John Adams]] and [[Thomas Jefferson]], the second and third presidents respectively, were this; after [[George Washington]] left the office, these two formed bitterly divided parties against each other. Ironically, due to how voting worked at the time, Jefferson wound up as vice to Adams when he entered office, making things even worse than they were before. After both of their terms as president were over, however, they went on to become good friends.
** Actually, they were good friends before Adams became president, having collaborated on the Declaration of Independence and worked together overseas. But when their political ideologies started to diverge, their relationship fell apart. Luckily they patched it up when they retired.
** Then there was [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Burr-Hamilton_duelHamilton duel|Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton]], a political and personal rivalry that actually ended with Burr (then Vice-President of the United States) killing Hamilton in a duel.
** Another example from US politics: [[Bill Clinton]] and Newt Gingrich.
** In the current Congress, John Boehner vs. Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell vs. Harry Reid.
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** Sweden and Denmark also have this.
* Athens and Sparta, even as there were some times that they helped one another.
* The U.S. and the Soviet Union during the [[Cold War]]. Became more like [[The Rival|rivals]] during [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detente |Detente in the late '60s and '70s]], but escalated back into archenemies during the '80s until the Soviet Union's fall in 1991. These days they are on more or less good terms, though Russia has a habit of blowing a lot hot air every now and then, but it's treated more like an [[Unknown Rival]] now.
** The US-Soviet rivalry is odd in that the recent rise of China as an economic superpower seems to have made some Americans [[Why We're Bummed Communism Fell|nostalgic over the Soviet Union]]. The recent Russian spy scandal was rife with jokes about how the FBI and CIA were ecstatic about a return to the good old days.
* The Roman and Persian Empires battled each other for ''centuries'', but Rome's traditional archenemy was Carthage, as per ''[[The Aeneid (Literature)|The Aeneid]]''.
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** India and Japan are petitioning for permanent security council seats, while Pakistan and Korea are in committee to vote them down. This would strangely make Mexico a burgeoning rival for Brazil.
* Australia and New Zealand - but only in the sporting arena, elsewhere we're [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] at worst, [[Best Friends]] when having to be part of [[The Squad]] at best...
* In any [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Duopoly |duopoly]], the two dominant companies could be considered this.
** Pepsi and Coke
** [[Marvel Comics]] and [[DC Comics]]
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