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== Newspaper Comics ==

* [[Defied]] in ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'', eventually. When going out for a three-day holiday, Beetle slaps Sarge on the back just before leaving. He runs after him and whacks him with a chair. After a trashcan thrown from a roof and ''dynamite'', when Beetle is pointing at Sarge with an enormous artillery piece of some sort, Sarge tells him to wait and points out that while what they're doing is fun and all, Beetle should perhaps consider what kind of shape he wants to be in for his holiday.

 

 

 

 

* The ''[[Insecticomics]]'' routinely has one of these between the Insecticons and Vector Prime.

* Rose Lalonde in [[Homestuck]] is engaged in an escalating war of passive aggression with her Mother (or so she thinks, anyway).

'''Marge''' ''(drinks a glass of water and then sees the walls start to run)'': Ooooh. The walls are melting again. ''(giggles)'' }}

** An episode of [[Show Within a Show|Itchy & Scratchy]] features this trope with each character pulling out bigger and bigger handguns at each other. In the end the guns are the size of the Earth.

* Artha and Moordyrd do this in the ''[[Dragon Booster]]'' episode "Pride Of The Hero." It starts with them getting into a fight at the racetrack, this soon escalates to Artha talking Moordyrd into riding Beau, then their little feud gets out of control when Moordyrd uses a bonemark on Beau. The episode ends with both Artha and Moordyrd realizing their mistakes or as Artha puts it, "Think about that, I will".

* [[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]] and [[Evil Twin|Negaduck]] do this almost accidentally in the episode "Disguise the Limit," when Darkwing is momentarily transformed into a duplicate of Negaduck (I know, it makes my head hurt too) and the two of them keep pulling larger and larger weapons on each other.

* Bobby and Luanne get in an escalating prank war in an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', which eventually leads to Luanne convincing Bobby that he got her pregnant. Hank and his friends assist Luanne by arranging a fake [[Shotgun Wedding]] . . . then turn the prank back on Luanne by telling her the wedding was real.

* Dan's feud with the Lemonade Stand Gang in ''[[Dan Vs.|Dan Vs]].'', ''Dan Vs The Lemonade Stand Gang''. It starts with the Lemonade Stand Gang stealing Dan's parking space, strong-arming him and Chris into buying overpriced lemonade, and throwing a lemon with a threat written on it through Dan's window. Dan responds by making Chris dress up as a monster and break into the ringleader's house -- it goes horribly wrong of course. The Gang goes on to outright ''mug'' Chris and Dan for their wallets. Dan and Chris wreck their bicycles with an axe. The Gang wrecks Chris' ''car''. At this point Elise is prepared to ship the Gang to a Korean weapons factory where they would never be heard from again. Chris puts a stop to this insanity and they defeat the gang by showing their parents proof of their crimes.