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*** Near the beginning of the Android Saga, Krillin mentions this pattern when Bulma asks the guys why they don't just find Dr. Gero and stop him from ever creating the Androids. So long as they have a common enemy, Vegeta is less likely to revert to being a full-blown villain.
* Every time Gun for Hire Katana joins the rest of the Techode pilots in ''[[Gad Guard]]'' to stop a rogue Gad from destroying everything it touches. Interesting in that half the team (both girls, who met him under different circumstances) don't consider him an enemy. His adorable [[Morality Pet]] helps.
* ''[[One Piece]]''
** The Impel Down arc
** {{spoiler|You can also add Mr. 2 Bon Clay to the list of former enemies Luffy has teamed up with in Impel Down (though its debatable whether Bon Clay still counts as a bad guy).}}
*** {{spoiler|Debatable? I think that debate was settled when Bon Clay sacrificed himself to help Luffy escape, ''for the second time''.}}
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**** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the Whitebeard War arc. {{spoiler|Crocodile protecting Luffy, fighting alongside the Whitebeard pirates, and generally being the closest thing to altruistic he's ever been thus far. Buggy fights on Luffy's behalf (even if Luffy forced him into it). This war is absolutely crazy in the temporary partnerships it has formed.}}
** Earlier on, Luffy's crew, the Galley-La company, and the Franky Family, despite having fought in a three-way battle before, team up when they realize that they're facing the same enemy, albeit for different reasons (rescuing Robin, dealing with Iceberg's assassins and preventing Pluton's revival, and saving Franky, respectively). Then again, the Galley-La crew had been fighting the Straw Hats under the mistaken belief that they were responsible for the attempt on Iceberg's life, which they just realized.
** While not as plot relevant as Impel Down, the movie ''One Piece: Stampede'' had the Straw Hats and many of their allies form a large team with several of their old foes (including Mihawk, Crocodile, Foxy, Wapol, Buggy, and Smoker) to oppose the common enemy. Justified, as the story takes place at the Pirates' Festival where everyone who is anyone in piracy was there.
** During the Egghead Arc, [[Murder, Inc.|CP0]] sides with the Straw Hats once they realize the Celestial Dragons are a common enemy intending to do them both in.
* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', several Enemy Mine alliances emerge among the various members of the [[Love Dodecahedron]]. Shampoo, Ukyō and Kodachi regularly team up against any external threat to Ranma (or a new potential suitor). Ranma himself teams with Ryōga and Mousse against Prince Herb. Ranma and Ryōga do this often enough that they inch into [[Friendly Enemy]] territory by the end of the series.
** And inverted with Ryōga and Mousse in the anime: although they aren't enemies when they initially team up against their common enemy Ranma, by the end of the episode, they work so poorly together that they can't stand each other. The fact that Mousse is far more ruthless than Ryōga, and also has no qualms whatsoever about hurting others to get rid of Ranma—even Akane Tendō, Ryōga's [[All Love Is Unrequited|oblivious crush]]—does not help matters.
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* In ''Cosmic Odyssey'', [[New Gods|Darkseid and Highfather]] team up, recruiting [[Superman]], [[Batman]], and various other DC Universe heroes to prevent the [[Eldritch Abomination|Anti-Life Entity]] from [[The End of the World as We Know It|destroying the entire galaxy]]. [[Sarcasm Mode|To everyone's great surprise]], [[Darkseid]] [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|betrays his newfound allies]], only to be stopped by Batman's [[Betrayal Insurance]].
** This was hardly the first or the last time that [[Darkseid]] pulled one of these. In ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'', for example, ended up being instrumental in finally defeating the Anti-Monitor (but making it very clear he was only doing it not to help the heroes or anything, but rather to ensure that the Anti-Monitor wouldn't destroy everything).
* Circumstances have forced [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]] to team up with members of his [[Rogues Gallery]], including [[Magnificent Bastard|Loki]], [[More Expendable Than You|the Executioner]], and [[Dating Catwoman|the Enchantress]]. In Loki's case, this is often when a villain - such as Surtur - wants to destroy Asgard; Loki's goal is to rule Asgard, [[Evil Versus Oblivion|and he knows that won't happen if it is burned to the ground.]]
* In the ''[[Darkwing Duck (comics)|Darkwing Duck]]'' comic revival, Steelbeak teams up with Darkwing to stop [[Bigger Bad|F.O.W.L. High Command's]] plan to unleash [[Eldritch Abomination|Duckthulu]], because [[Even Evil Has Standards]].
* {{spoiler|After the death of the Human Torch}}, [[Doctor Doom]] and [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Reed Richards]] have ''very'' reluctantly agreed to work together in the Future Foundation. This arrangement was brokered by Reed's genius daughter Valeria who convinced Reed that the FF needed someone as ruthlessly pragmatic as Doom if they were going to save the world. She got Doom on board by {{spoiler|promising to help undo the brain damage the Intelligensia inflicted on him in [[Fall of the Hulks]]}}.
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* The example from [[Wild Mass Guessing]] for ''[[The X-Files/WMG|The X-Files]]'', suggesting that as soon as the aliens arrive on Earth, they'll promptly be beaten back by ''every single [[Monster of the Week]]'', who tend to favor continuing to live on their planet.
* In ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'', during the Herald fight, the Migou recall some of their forces so that the NEG Military, with the newly freed-up forces, can assist in defeating the Herald. Humanity doesn't return the favor.
* One issue of ''[[Ultimate SpiderWoman
* ''[[A Dark Knight Over Sin City]]'' features [[Batman]] and the [[Anti-Hero|anti-heroes]] from [[Sin City]] teaming up together and with other criminals in order to achieve their goals.
* In ''[[Hogyoku Ex Machina]]'', Yoruichi is surprised when she finds out that the Vizards fought alongside Soul Society against [[Big Bad|Aizen]] in the [[Time Travel|original timeline]], since they have no reason to like them. [[The Smart Guy|Ishida]] suggests it was because of this trope.
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** Subverted in one of the scenes set in [[Ghost in the Machine|Jade's mindscape]]—Hero tries to form an alliance against [[Super-Powered Evil Side|The Queen]] with his apparent rival Father, but is rejected.
** In a similar subversion, the J-Team refuses to ally with [[Future Badass|Karasu]] against Drago, as they don't see any good coming from working with a Shadowkhan.
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10239811/1/Pencils-down-Death-rays-up Pencils Down, Death Rays Up]'' by "Vaunt", in which the hostile factions of the [[Old World of Darkness]] unite with the normals/sleepers of Earth to fight off the Reapers of ''[[Mass Effect]]''.
== Films -- Animation ==
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* In ''[[Once Upon a Texas Train]]'', the retired outlaws and the retired Rangers are forced to combine forces to combat a gang of younger, more ruthless outlaws.
* ''[[Fantastic Four (film)|Fantastic Four]]: Rise of the Silver Surfer'' has the titular team teaming up with Dr. Doom to get the Silver Surfer. Eventually the Fantastic Four team up with the Surfer {{spoiler|after Doom betrays them and takes the Surfer's board for himself. And probably after to prevent Galactus from destroying Earth.}}
* In ''[[Assault on Precinct 13]]'', police temporarily join forces with convicts to fight off the titular assault.
== [[Literature]] ==
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** The fact that each man at least respects the other's abilities helps.
* ''[[Worldwar]]'', by [[Harry Turtledove]]. Aliens invade in 1942. The Axis are working with the Allies. Another one occurs between the Jews in Europe and the Race. Aliens who never figured out discrimination or Nazi Germany. Played with in the sense that they aren't quite sure who'd be worse for mankind. (The Jews play it both ways,[[Heel Face Revolving Door|working with the Race or the Germans depending on who's a bigger threat at the time.]])
* In ''[[
* ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'': Mara Jade sees her having to constantly work with Luke as this trope, especially with that [[Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand|not-so-covert wish to kill him]]. He doesn't see it the same way, though. At the end of the trilogy, they've become [[Fire-Forged Friends]], and by the ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' series, they're a married [[Battle Couple]].
* ''[[The Truce At Bakura]]'' is this trope personified, with the Imperials forced to work with the Rebels to defeat the evil Ssi-Ruuk. {{spoiler|Once it becomes clear that the aliens are in retreat, the Empire reverts back to their evil selves and re-declares war on the Alliance.}}
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** ''Edge of Battle'' has {{spoiler|Zakharov and Task Force TALON}} reluctantly cooperating after Comandante Veracruz's double-cross, though it doesn't last.
** ''Strike Force'' is centred on an Iranian coup leader and former enemy of Dreamland who now needs their help. The blurb tells you as much!
* ''[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Pict_Song A Pict Song]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]]. "No indeed! We are not strong, But we know Peoples that are..."
* ''The White Rose'' by Glen Cook. In the final battle the Lady—sorceress leader of the northern empire—needs the help of the white rose to take down the dominator, her husband and a much better sorcerer. The white rose creates a area where magic cannot be used and therefore is vital to taking down the greatest sorcerer in known history.
* In ''[[The Icewind Dale Trilogy|Streams of Silver]]'', Drizzt Do'Urden and Artemis Entreri declared a temporary truce in order to join forces against a common enemy. Some time later, in ''[[Legacy of the Drow Series|Starless Night]]'', Catti-Brie and Entreri teamed up to rescue Drizzt from the drow, who were holding all three of them captive and who would have eventually executed both Drizzt and Entreri. (Or condemned them to a [[Fate Worse Than Death]].)
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* The Light Warriors of ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'' are in a constant state of this. It's stated that the greatest threat to the team is each other.
* ''[[Basic Instructions]]'': [http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2011/3/3/how-to-unite-against-a-common-foe.html How to Unite Against a Common Foe]
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', the Prospitian and Dersite armies briefly [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922004702/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003840 unite against Jack] before being [[Redshirt Army|slaughtered en masse]]; the survivors are pretty chummy from then on.
* In ''[[Kiwi Blitz]]'', when Blitz' kiwi mecha gets impounded, she decides to steal it back. She enlists the help of an earlier foe, a master thief known as The Raccoon.
* In ''[[Fafnir the Dragon]]'', the far right wing of the Republican Party allies itself with al Qaeda to kill [[Barack Obama]] on the day of his inauguration, which sets off the first arc of the series.
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{{quote|Master: You know, Doctor, I believe TV Tropes calls this situation "Enemy Mine". It seems we must join forces to face this common threat.
Doctor: -sigh- [[Yaoi Fangirl|The fangirls]] [[Foe Yay|are going to have a field day with this...]] }}
* From ''[[SCP Foundation]]'';
** The Foundation itself has many rivals and enemies, the least of which is the GOC, the [[Government Conspiracy| Global Occult Coalition]]. Regardless, the GOC has often cooperated with them on some endeavors, often to oppose [[Knight Templar| the Serpent’s Hand]], a group who seeks to destroy both of them.
** And despite being enemies of the Foundation and allies of the Serpent’s Hand, the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist| Church of the Broken God]] will side with the Foundation if the threat involves [[Religion of Evil| Sarkicism]]. In fact, many organizations who don’t like the foundation - including the Serpent’s Hand itself, [[Hollywood Atheist| S.A.P.P.H.I.R.E.]], the [[Saintly Church| Horizon Initiative]], and [[Soviet Superscience| GRU Division P]] - will side with them if Sarkites are involved. The Foundation, Horizon Initiative, and GOC have even created a cooperative splinter group called the Triumvirate simply to oppose Sarkites and their evil creations. Yeah, nobody likes them.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** ''[[Transformers Armada]]'' is ''technically'' an anime, but whatever. In any case, its very ''title'' refers to the Autobot-Decepticon alliance formed in the final episodes to combat Unicron.
** ''[[Transformers Prime]]''. The Autobots temporarily team up with Megatron to stop Unicron from awakening.
* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'':
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** [[Lex Luthor]] and the entire Legion of Doom were forced to help the Justice League defend Earth from invasion by Apokolips.{{spoiler|''Luthor'' was the one who did Darkseid in.}} It was a collective decision of [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|"the only one allowed to take over the planet"]]. The heroes aren't willing to simply let the bad guys walk after the crisis is averted, but they ''are'' willing to give them five-minutes to flee before trying to apprehend them.
** [[Wonder Woman]] and Hades against Felix Faust although this wasn't by choice. She was ordered to reinstate Hades by the Gods, and when she still had some reluctance, it ended when Hermes pointed out how Faust was indirectly harming Wonder Woman's magical friends by usurping Hades' post.
* In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' episode "Marabounta", Jérémie's newest attempt to destroy XANA goes haywire and threatens to destroy Lyoko itself. XANA sends monsters to help the good guys destroy the threat. When the combined team is victorious, the heroes expect the monsters to immediately turn on them. Instead, the monsters bow and then leave without incident.
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*** There is evidence that at one point Germany offered to let the USSR join the Axis, but the USSR wanted too much in exchange (control of Finland, Turkey, and eventually the Persian Gulf). Plans to invade the USSR were drawn up soon after.
*** In ''Mein Kampf'' Hitler declares his intention to conquer USSR. It appears that the Soviet Union was the only place where it was read.
** The United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union worked side by side to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy. The Allies, particularly the U.S. and Churchill, had at least some contempt over the Soviets for their communist ideology, but as they were fighting a shared enemy it would make sense for them to form a temporary alliance at the very least.
** Winston Churchill was a staunch anti-Communist, but he promised help to the Soviet Union immediately after Hitler attacked it. He once said, "If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."
** Various people classified as sub-humans by the Nazis, such as Japanese, Chechens and Indians, teamed up with the Nazis against a common enemy (the Soviet Union for Chechens, Britain for Indians). Many slavonic people actually served in the Wehrmacht itself.
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** Similarly, the alliance between militant feminists and the Christian Right in banning the wearing of burqas (as seen in France and Belgium). Militant feminists think burqas oppress women and restrict their rights while the Christian Right tend to cite "fundamentalism" creeping into society. Although burqas are banned in several explicitly Islamic nations already, so it's a bit more complicated than that, and burqa bans create an enemy mine on the other side of the fence: religious Muslims and political liberals (in the "small l" sense of "let people do what they want within reason."
** The list of things these two factions agree on gets longer: both have been critical of [[The New Rock and Roll|heavy rock music,]] have shown a liking for [[Moral Guardians|purging libraries]] of controversial books, both favor harsh 'law and order' stances against sex crimes, lean towards thinking that [[All Men Are Perverts]] whom it is woman's duty to [[Women Are Wiser|set on the straight and narrow]] and in extreme cases, fully believe that [[Sex Is Evil]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121008053729/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Wayne-B-Wheeler-The-Man-Who-Turned-Off-the-Taps.html?c=y&page=4 It seems] that the enactment of Prohibition in the US was facilitated by some very strange bedfellows indeed—Klansmen allied with militant labor unions?
* Islamic and Christian fundamentalists are generally opposed to each other, with the subscribing to opposing religions and all. However, creationist works and arguments critical of Darwinism tend to pass between both groups, as do tracts critical of homosexuality.
* The ongoing problem of piracy near the coast of Somalia has occasionally forced the naval forces of countries that would otherwise be enemies to invoke this trope by fighting together in skirmishes against the Somali pirates. A notable example of this was seen when the crew of the American USS ''James E. Williams'' fought alongside North Korean sailors to defeat pirates who had captured a North Korean cargo ship in late 2007.
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** Similarly in 1824, [[John Quincy Adams]] and Henry Clay against [[Andrew Jackson]].
* Astonishingly common in US political history, compared to other countries. In fact, both main parties were this during a great deal of their history. To make things further complicated, there often have been alliances between members of opposite parties, which sometimes lead to political realignments. Indeed, both the Whig and the Republican parties were in large part formed by different interests that teamed up in opposition to the policies of the Democratic governments of the day.
* Automotive example: Holden and Toyota teamed up to produce the Holden Commodore VR and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811100149/http://www.redbook.com.au/used-cars/Toyota/Lexcen/values-model-make.htm Toyota Lexcen]. However, the Lexcen was not a [[Market-Based Title|export model]], but solely an Australian version of the Commodore, but without the Commodore's big, brash, American V8 engine, instead only getting a Buick V6 engine. This was created so Toyota had a rival for the Ford Falcon (apparently the 1991-1995 Toyota Camry, incidentally, this was sold as a Holden too, the Holden Apollo being roughly the same size as a BMW 3-Series), a big car, and one of the Asia-Pacific region's biggest sellers. Needless to say, General Motors' (owners of Holden) alliance with Toyota ceased in 2005.
* In 2006, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo tried to change the constitution to allow himself to contest for a third term in office the next year. This led to a feud with his Vice President (and heir-apparent) Atiku Abubakar. To stop the amendment, Atiku teamed up with opposition leader Muhamadu Buhari who was planning a presidential bid as well. They successfully kept Obasanjo out of the race, but their alliance fell apart soon after since neither would step aside for/endorse the other. Obasanjo's new hand-picked successor, Yar'Adua, won.
* In a more martial Nigerian example, imprisoned Niger Delta rebels like Isaac Boro were released by the government and admitted into the Federal Army to help thwart the Biafran secession. The Niger Deltans figured being minority ethnicities in a Nigeria with 3 mutually hostile major tribes was more palatable than being minority ethnicities in a Biafra with 1 very dominant tribe, the Ibo.
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* This trope is one of the reasons [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] exists. Even if 40 people in a platoon can't agree on ANYTHING else, they can always unite around the fact that the sergeant's an ass.
* In street demonstrations against Israel, the crowd will often include fundamentalist Muslims, anarchists, neo-Nazis, and anti-Zionist Hassidic Jews who believe the Messiah must come before Jews return to Israel.
* [[Ronald Reagan]] seemed to be a fan of this trope, and in fact saw it as a potential avenue toward world peace. He once made a speech in which he wondered how much better the world would be if [[Alien Invasion|space aliens invaded]], thus forcing the US and [[Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and So On|the Soviet Union]] to put aside their differences and fight the threat together. He felt this would remind both sides of their shared humanity, and lead to an end to human conflict. Lest you think he was joking, he actually brought up this scenario in ''several'' speeches, including one to the general assembly of the [[United Nations]].
* [[Slayer]], bane of Religious Conservatives everywhere (at least in the 80's), released a ''pro-life song''.
* Another great example from history is the Catholics and the Protestants for teaming up against the Anabaptists. In the end the took back the city of Munster and then called it a day for their alliance and begin to promptly fight one another again.
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* The pro-life movement includes numerous groups arguing from different angles, many of whom wouldn't usually agree with the religious conservatives traditionally associated with the movement. Staunch atheists, self-styled liberals, American Democrats and feminists of various kinds have all been known to team up with them.
* The Hangook peninsula has two oppressive dictatorships with poor records on human rights. Naturally ''everyone in the world except China'' helps the southern one because it's not trying to start World War 3.
* David BenGurion said, "Fight the [[World War II|war]] as if there was no White Paper (immigration laws) and fight the White Paper as if there was no war." The Pre-Israel protectorate took that literally, sending Haganah commando teams for outpost skirmishing, using some of it's secret agents to help the allies and contributing men to a full brigade of infantry toward the end of the war, while never ceasing to smuggle immigrants to Palestine.
* This happened internally in Russia during [[World War
** There was some of this in Germany too. It is hard to say how much actual support Hitler had or how long it lasted and claims very all the way from [[All Germans Are Nazis]] (obviously untrue) to "they were his victims too" (in the sense that the foolish boy who takes up with a street gang is a victim they certainly were but how much more one is going to say is sketchy). But in any case one of Hitler's main appeal's in the later stages of the war was simply [[Death From Above|"The Americans and British are bombing us"]] and [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|"The Russians are coming".]]
** Stalin was this with the Orthodox Church at that time. He previously spearheaded a ruthless campaign against religious institutions with clergymen either imprisoned or killed and churches demolished if not turned into warehouses or museums, in line with state policy of eliminating the "opium of the people". When the war raged on, the Soviets under Stalin's rule saw an opportunity to rouse patriotic fervour against the Nazis by enlisting the Orthodox Church as an ally (albeit a rather pragmatic one at that), knowing all too well that the populace isn't really going to give up on their faith any time soon anyway.
* In 2017, Intel partnered with its long-time rival AMD for a line of CPU-GPU packages known as [https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codename/136847/products-formerly-kaby-lake-g.html "Kaby Lake G"]. Intel was at the time struggling with their integrated graphics (starting with the i740, and later with the "Extreme" Graphics, GMA and HD Graphics lines having been dismissed as a low-end part at best and a joke at worst), and while they did have a storied history between each other (lawsuits, rivalries, AMD's reverse-engineering of Intel chips and all that), they share a common rival with Nvidia and their GeForce line of GPUs who has a stranglehold on the graphics market. This perhaps gave Intel a stopgap solution until they were able to come up with a more competitive line of GPUs in the form of the xE and later Arc series of GPUs in 2022.
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