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* In ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', Ryoko is extremely forward about her plans. She wants to kill Kyon in order to provoke a massive data explosion from Haruhi. Admittedly, this could cause the end of the world, depending on how much Haruhi loves Kyon. Yuki stops her and deletes her. Fast forward to nine novels later. Yuki is sick. ( {{spoiler|She's become ambassador to the Sky Canopy Dominion, because they aren't allowed to kill her after Kyon's threat. Next best thing is to send her to Cthulhu, and hope that'll break her completely.}}). Just when Suyoh comes out, and attacks Kyon, Ryoko arrives, in a [[Big Damn Heroes]] arrival, and protects Kyon. She still wants to kill him, but for now, only she can kill him.
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Kimidori'''}}: ''Your potential usefulness was marginally greater than the threat you present.''}}
* ''[[Bleach]]'': [[Mad Scientist|Mayuri]] (who is technically a good guy) achieves his [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment when he ''saves'' Ishida and Renji from Szayel Aporro Granz, who was gleefully torturing them by snapping every bone and tendon in their bodies one by one.
** Kenpachi (who is also technically a good guy) versus Nnoitra Gilga.
* ''[[Kekkaishi]]'' is oddly getting to be like this. Aside from the guardians of Karasumori, there are two main factions. {{spoiler|Sousui}} is attempting to bring down the Urukai, and Shinyuuchi-hunting. {{spoiler|Yumeji}} is attempting to stop the former, but is also Shinyuuchi-hunting and trying to destroy Karasumori. (For those unfamiliar with the series, Shinyuuchi-hunting is the act of killing a god and taking over its domain. Considered to be the ultimate perversion of the laws of nature.)
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** And don't forget about the Rail Tracer, who basically makes this a three-way bad guy fight.
* ''[[Battle Royale]]'' has Kazuo Kiriyama against Mitsuko Souma.
* ''[[Gundam]]'' also used it a few times. ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Zeta Gundam]]'' featured the first three-way of the series with the Titans fighting with Haman Karn's Neo Zeon, followed by the infighting of the Glemmy faction versus the Haman faction in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|Gundam Double Zeta]]''.
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Wing]]'' starts out OZ vs the Earth Sphere Alliance, then the Treize Faction (of OZ) vs (Romafeller Foundation) OZ, then the White Fang vs OZ.
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]'' and its [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|sequel]] have the Earth Alliance/Blue Cosmos/Logos versus ZAFT.
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** The second season initially appeared to be leading towards this type of conflict, but very quickly {{spoiler|abandoned this approach by having Claude, previously morally ambiguous a la Sebastian, off Alois, briskly setting him up as the main antagonist and effectively eliminating the [[Black and Gray Morality|moral ambiguity]] aspect.}}
** The whole principle of Ciel's role as the Queen's watchdog is like this. Ciel achieves the Queen's desires and keeps stability through many times evil means. It is not too surprising that a police officer calls the Earl a demon.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' pits Greed against the other homunculi and Dante/Father. He betrayed his creator and "siblings", and remains against them right up to his death.
{{quote|'''Al:''' That makes you a friend of Envy, Lust and the others, doesn't it?
'''Greed:''' I wouldn't say 'friend'; more like 'sworn enemies' if you wanna get down to the grit. }}
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** {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain|Sasuke]] Vs [[Mad Bomber|Deidara]]. This time, Sasuke's opponent supports terrorists and his "reason" for fighting is "[[For the Evulz|just because]]".}}
** Also [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|[[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Pain]] vs [[Complete Monster|Hanzo]]. Hanzo takes Konan hostage to force Nagato to kill Yahiko, and Nagato, after becoming Pain and defeating Hanzo (bear in mind that Hanzo is strong enough that he was able to simultaneously handle Jiraiya, Tsunade ''and'' Orochimaru during the previous Great Ninja War; the thing that made the trio legendary in the first place was that they even survived against him), kills all the people who are associated with him and declares himself a god}}. Only descriptions and a single flashback panel allude to what surely was an epic war.
** Also, [[Rival Turned Evil|Sasuke]] vs. {{spoiler|Kabuto}}. At this point, Sasuke has [[Moral Event Horizon|little redeeming qualities left]] to the point that {{spoiler|he claims that his quest to destroy his former home village is [[Motive Decay|"for himself"]]}}, but both him and {{spoiler|Kabuto}} happen to have a personal vendetta with each other and Sasuke [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|still feels enough loyalty]] to his less villainous brother to help him fight, which might just lead to Sasuke [[Big Damn Villains|helping to defeat the guy who's currently attacking the good guys with a sheer endless army of immortal zombie warriors.]]
* The Namek saga of ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' has Vegeta almost in the role of [[Villain Protagonist]]. Keep in mind that he is the [[Big Bad]] of the previous arc (barely a month before), and that his methods for obtaining Dragon Balls (devastate the village it is kept) are exactly the same that Frieza and his men employ. But, with Goku in [[Deus Exit Machina|space/healing]] and Piccolo dead, he is the best chance of holding off or defeating Frieza for most of the saga.
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' is an example of this in some respects. Lucy is a [[Villain Protagonist]], but the organization that's trying to capture her is led by a [[Complete Monster]] and has field agents who are [[Anti-Hero|very questionably heroic]]. Most of the good characters can't really do much in this conflict; Nana is the only "good" diclonius, and she's a bit of a [[Jobber]].
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* The quintessential comic book example: ''[[Wanted (Comic Book)|Wanted]]'', the story of the son of one of the world's most skilled supervillains in a world where a much, much more grotesque, inhuman villain is waging war with -- yes -- other supervillains, for control of the world, which has fallen under the control of -- hey, you guessed it! -- supervillainy.
* [[The DCU]] has the [[Suicide Squad]], a US government black ops unit made up primarily with [[Boxed Crook|jailed supervillains]] who agree to undertake dangerous missions against other supervillains with promised clemency if they survive.
** [[Marvel Comics]]' [[Alternate Company Equivalent|Alternate Company Equivalents]] are [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Freedom Force]] and the [[Thunderbolts]].
* The [[Larry Hama]]-written ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comics by Marvel had the Cobra Civil War storyline, where Serpentor and {{spoiler|the Crimson Guardsman masquerading as}} Cobra Commander fought over control of Cobra. Destro and his Iron Grenadiers represented a third villain faction in the conflict. The Joes didn't have much to do but bear witness to events {{spoiler|though Serpentor's faction had bought their support from corrupt elements within the Pentagon}}.
** The recent revival comic also had a storyline or three about Cobra factions gunning for each other, including one named... Cobra Civil War.
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* In UDON's ''[[Street Fighter (comics)|Street Fighter]]'' comic series, {{spoiler|Bison meets his end at the hands of Akuma after a sound thrashing and [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]}}.
* The ''[[Secret Six]]''. Balancing them fighting bad guys with occasional suggestions of just how brutal they really are is a large part of the series.
* One issue of the ''[[Spider-Man]]'' comics featured [[Psycho Electro|Electro]] getting the security blueprints of the banks he planned to rob from a crooked sales representative. Unfortunately, the representative was selling Electro out to [[Make Me Wanna Shout|the Shocker]], who would get to the banks before Electro did and empty the vault. When Electro realizes that he's being double-crossed, he goes back to the crooked sales rep with the intention of frying him, only for the Shocker to interrupt and [[Big Damn Villains|save the sales rep]]. Electro and the Shocker then fight for all the loot they both intended to steal. {{spoiler|Electro wins}}.
* ''[[Countdown to Final Crisis]]'' is made of this trope, with [[Evil Overlord|Darkseid]], [[Multiversal Conqueror|Monarch]], [[Ax Crazy|Superboy-]][[The Scrappy|Prime]], and [[Stupid Evil|Bob]] [[The Mole|The Monitor]] all gunning for each other for various convoluted reasons, mostly having to do with their [[Unwitting Pawn|superhero enemies]] and said heroes' [[Shaggy Dog Story|bizarre, fragmented, mixed-up]] [[Four Lines, All Waiting|parallel plotlines running throughout the]] series.
* The presidential election in ''[[Transmetropolitan]]''. The incumbent, [[Only Known by Their Nickname|the Beast]], is a [[Richard Nixon]] [[Expy]] who firmly believes that he has done his job if, at the end of the day, a majority of his constituents are still alive, and whose major accomplishments in office consist of abusing his powers to punish demographics that support his opponents and getting the Supreme Court to rule that campaign contributions are personal gifts. Over in the Opposition, meanwhile, the race for the nomination has come down to two men: Bob Heller, a [[Social Darwinist]] who ''would'' be [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]] if the characters didn't keep openly referring to him as a Nazi, and Gary Callahan, a [[The Sociopath|sociopath]] who confides to the protagonist that he wants to be President [[For the Evulz]]. In the end, {{spoiler|Callahan cuts a backroom deal with Heller to win the nomination, goes on to defeat the Beast, and becomes a poster boy for [[President Evil]]}}.
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* The videogame / comic / novel ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]'' had the Emperor keep Darth Vader and Prince Xizor, head of the criminal enterprise Black Sun, at his right and left hands. Naturally they hated each other; for Xizor it was [[It's Personal|personal]]. But they had to remain outwardly civil with each other until the end. It's implied that the Emperor set things up like this because he found it entertaining.
** And because it distracts his minions from plotting against ''him''; a man who rose to ultimate power by treachery naturally takes many precautions to avoid falling victim to more of the same.
** Unfortunately, this policy led to a complete fragmenting of the Empire upon his death with warlords running rampant.
** Also in the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' it is heavily implied that one of the reasons the Empire was created was to defend the galaxy against extragalactic threats like the Yuuzhan Vong. This is unambiguously one of Grand Admiral Thrawn's key motivations.
*** This was just an excuse, made by Imperials trying to justify it's actions many years later.
* Hannibal by Thomas Harris. On one hand you've got Dr. Hannibal Lecter himself, serial killer and cannibal, versus {{spoiler|Mason Verger}} who abused his own sister as a child, moved on to molest more children and planned on {{spoiler|feeding Dr. Lecter to some pigs he's had trained to eat human flesh}}.
* [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] generally features [[Grey and Gray Morality]], but occasionally two [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]] are thrown into the ring together: Ser Gregor Clegane vs Vargo Hoat, for example.
* In the ''[[1632]]'' series, the [[Thirty Years' War]] is basically described as this. This does have basis in [[Truth in Television|truth]]. While mostly thought of as a Protestant versus Catholic conflict in real life -- and, indeed, religious tensions did play a significant part -- it was largely just a massive, selfish power play between the nobles of the Holy Roman Empire and most of Europe which resulted in the loss of countless of lives. Heck, even the "Catholic" and "Protestant" sides were not rigidly divided along those religious lines. Their armies were often composed of mercenary troops with mixed religions. Both sides' armies also had the tendency to rape, pillage, and burn villages, regardless of the religious make up of said villages. The [[Author Filibuster|author repeatedly hammers this point home]] in the series, as well as the fact that 17th century Europe in general was not a pleasant place.
** The [[Truth in Television]] was not just limited to the nobility's power grabs. Groups of Catholics and Protestants (who were themselves divided mostly among equally hostile Calvinists and Lutherans) frequently tore each other apart when the opportunity presented itself. Rape, looting, and mass murder were employed with equal frequency by any one of the factions against the others.
* Harry [[Flashman]] is a loathsome, profiteering, traitorous cowardly braggart who'll [[Kick the Dog]] for fun, betray his country at the drop of a hat, and lie shamelessly about it all to look like a hero afterwards. But he's generally up against some of the nastiest pieces of work the 19th century has to offer, so you'll (almost) forgive him for it as long as they lose in the end.
* Carrion Comfort, by Dan Simmons. While there are good guys and they are the point of view about a third to half the time, the plot is ultimately driven by the two big bad chessmasters. Most of the cast happen to be their pieces (literally, in some cases), and a good chunk of the cast are sociopathic mind vampires.
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** By the end of the series, {{spoiler|Ben gets redeemed. And Charles seemed to be on that track, but then Ben killed him... His full redemption doesn't come until after that.}}
* The ''[[Smallville]]'' episode "Injustice". A group of [[Boxed Crook|supervillains]] are sent to take down [[The Juggernaut|Doomsday]].
* ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'' saw Rita and Zedd attempting to undermine the Machine Empire. In the end, it was ''Rita and Zedd'' that destroyed The Empire, rather than the heroes.
** This trope is a major part of the ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'' series. The {{spoiler|Corona Aurora}}, an object of god-like power, is so sought after that there are a total of four distinct villain factions fighting the Rangers and one another for it; they occasionally get along, but most of the time, they're fighting one another as often as they fight the Rangers. Even after being shown they're a much greater threat working together, they go right back to trying to kill each other afterwards.
** ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'' had Mesogog, the current [[Big Bad]], [[Villain Team-Up|team up]] with [[Power Rangers Ninja Storm|the previous season's]] [[Big Bad]] Lothor. Once their plans fail, they instantly turn on one another and duke it out. Of course being the present [[Big Bad]], Mesogog ultimately wins.
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** 4th Edition has several instances, the most notable being the [[Evil Overlord|god of war Bane]] and his eternal war versus [[Complete Monster|god of destruction Gruumsh]]. While Bane revels in conquest and power, one of his prime commandments is to [[Even Evil Has Standards|ALWAYS obey the rules of war]]. He also likes his followers to be rigidly disciplined and wants to preserve the world so that it will be worth conquering. Gruumsh on the other hand revels in utter destruction and encourages savagery in his followers. Both want to be the uncontested god of war, and thus they've been fighting for eons over their differences.
** Another example is between the god of fear, Bane (no, [[Name's the Same|not that one]]) and the god of murder, Cyric, in the ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' setting. This isn't a case of [[Order Versus Chaos]] or trying to decide which is [[Eviler Than Thou]]. These two just hate each other on a very personal level. The problem is that Cyric is currently [[Sealed Evil in a Can|sealed in a can]], so they can't fight directly. Instead, they're marshalling their respective [[Religion of Evil|worshippers]] to go on an (un)holy war against one another. Since in the Forgotten Realms, [[Gods Need Prayer Badly|the gods need worshippers to survive]], this is the only way they have to kill one another.
** More generally, this applies to many of the [[Always Chaotic Evil]] races
*** An orc tribe's worst enemy tends to not be a human kingdom, a clan of dwarves or even a [[Hidden Elf Village]], but a rival orc tribe, and the same applies to hobgoblins and ''their'' tribes. Only a sufficiently powerful [[Big Bad]] can terrify rival tribes into working together, and the result tends to be a [[Keystone Army]]. If the [[Big Bad]] dies, rival orc and hobgoblin tribes who were previously intimidated into cooperating will turn on each other with a vengeance.
*** The Chromatic Dragons (black, blue, green, red, and white), are all evil (blue and green are Lawful Evil, black red and white are Chaotic Evil), and all obsessed with gathering hoards, gaining territory, building power, and destroying anything good (especially the good Metallic Dragons). However, they have no love for each other either, and they will fight to kill or chase each other away (even if two dragons, a black and a green for instance, manage to form a truce, eventually and inevitably one or the other will break the truce and resume hostilities). The worst are red dragons, the archetypal evil dragons, who will slaughter ''anyone and anything'' in their pursuit of their desires.
*** Frost giants (Often [[Chaotic Evil]] according to the Third Edition ''Monster Manual'') often kill white dragons for food and armour or capture them to use as guards. There are both many evil and many non-evil githzerai, but both attack the githyanki and mind flayers on sight. Meanwhile, githyanki and mind flayers are both evil and attack each other on sight as well.
*** Salamanders hate efreet. Most beholders want to wipe out all other beholders.
* Any two ''[[Ravenloft]]'' darklords whose domains share a border are quite likely to be bitter enemies, and most domains have one or more [[The Starscream|lesser villains]] waiting in the wings to seize power if the dominant evil should slip up. The most famous of rivals, Strahd and Azalin, have been feuding and sabotaging each other's schemes for centuries, although the nature of the Land of Mists prevents opposing darklords from simply overrunning their rivals' territory.
* The post-war ''[[Dragonlance]]'' setting is like this. With [[Big Bad|Takhisis]] banished to the Abyss, her five Dragonarmies turn on each other. Now, the five factions are just as apt to fight each other as they are to attack the good guys.
* This is the very principle behind the [[Tabletop RPG]] ''Necessary Evil''. An alien invasion has wiped out all the superheroes, so the only ones left to defend the world is the supervillains. After all, you can hardly conquer the world if it's already been destroyed by aliens, right?
* The [[Character Alignment]] system for Palladium games (such as ''[[Rifts]]'') establishes that Aberrant characters (think [[Lawful Evil]]) refuse to have anything to do with the other Evil alignments and finds them disgusting. It's quite possible to have an all-Aberrant party run a lot like an all-[[Lawful Good|Principled]] party with only a few slight differences.
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** In the [[Old World of Darkness]], Agents of the Wyrm don't take kindly to someone mixing in traces of the Weaver with their plans. This is likely to cause some mayhem when [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Pentex]] figures out the true backing of the head of their Avalon toy company subsidiary.
* [[Savage Worlds]]: Necessary Evil envisions a world where supervillains are the only powerful humans left after a massive alien invasion. They form a resistance to fight back the occupiers, but aren't necessarily reformed. If they drive back the aliens, they'll be in a position to take over the planet.
* An option for ''[[In Nomine]]'' casts the setting as Dark Low Contrast, where angels and demons are both wicked, violent fanatics and nobody at all is looking out for humanity's interests. The PCs in such a campaign will normally try to be better than the rest, though.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' has a path pitting the [[Affably Evil]] [[Mad Scientist|Doctor Eggman]] against [[Complete Monster]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|Black Doom]].
* ''[[Syndicate]]''. Set in a future where human life is cheap (and entire populated areas are subject to "lunchtime nuclear testing"), corrupt syndicates vie for control of the world, with no qualms whatsoever about the idea of killing civilians in the process. Or just brainwashing their enemies into doing their bidding if violence is too much of a hassle.
* ''[[Gargoyles Quest]]'', a spinoff of ''[[Ghosts 'n Goblins (series)|Ghosts N Goblins]]'', puts you in the role of Firebrand the Red Arremer, a recurring miniboss from those games and a member of the invading demon army. He takes a break from laying waste to the human world in order to heroically defend Hell from the invading demon hordes of another Hell.
** The sequel, ''Demon's Crest'', sees Firebrand escape from gladiatorial combat to hunt down Phalanx, a demon who has stolen several powerful crests from him and is using their power to rule the world. The catch? Firebrand wants the crests so ''he'' can rule the world.
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** The Dark Iron dwarves initially fought in the service of Ragnaros against the Blackrock Orcs, who served the Black Dragonflight. In Cataclysm, however, Ragnaros has joined forces with Deathwing.
** The main opposition to the gronn-ruled ogres of Outland, which prove a threat to the Alliance and Horde's Outland allies, happens to be the [[Always Chaotic Evil]] Black Dragonflight, which is seeking to avenge the deaths of many of its members at the hands of Gruul the Dragonkiller.
** In "Wrath of the Lich King", the Scourge conquered the Nerubians and has almost conquered the Drakkari ice trolls, both of which are quite evil (the ice trolls especially so, even compared to the evil and barbaric majority of the non-playable trolls). In Drak'Tharon Keep, both the living trolls and their allies, and the undead trolls and other Scourge members attack the party as they make their way up the keep.
* ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' pits Bowser up against Fawful, who's taken over the Mushroom Kingdom and booted him out of his own castle. [[Super Mario RPG|Again.]] This time, however, the Super Mario brothers, for the most part, play a supporting role in the game, powering up his body when necessary (including [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|making him a giant]] in order to [[Megaton Punch]] castles). Later on after {{spoiler|Fawful and the Dark Star go [[One-Winged Angel]]}} it's up to Bowser to save the Mushroom Kingdom.
* If you take the evil path in the vast majority of [[RPG|RPGs]], you're still going to have to fight the same evil [[Big Bad]]. In a [[BioWare]] game, your quest will be close to the same regardless of your alignment, including a struggle against the minions of the [[Big Bad]]; ''maybe'', at the end, you'll be given an option to join them instead of fighting them; otherwise, you'll just prove to be [[Eviler Than Thou]].
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*** This feud between the Barons of Hell and Cacodemons is also noted in the expanded universe Doom books.
*** Cacodemons crucified Barons, despite lacking hands or anything resembling tool-manipulators. That's some serious hate.
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' has this as a thing that can be done in the game provided there are 2 sets of enemy forces on a battlefield, Primary Enemies (Red) and Neutral/Secondary (Yellow) despite them usually targeting you, they will go for each other if they are in range at times, firing shots and destroying each other, which in larger levels can make life a tad easier. Different villains from various anime are often pitted against each other, with additional original villains throw in.
** In ''[[Super Robot Wars Advance]]'' Shadow Mirrors are trying to take control over [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|Devil Gundam]] and get rid of all aliens.
** In ''[[Super Robot Wars Judgment]]'' [[Voltes V|Boazanians]] are sworn enemies of [[Blue Comet SPT Layzner|Gradosians]] and [[Full Metal Panic!|Gauron]] at one point picks up a fight with [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|ZATF forces]]. The Fury are trying to kill everybody.
** In ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'' [[GaoGaiGar|Zonderians]] oppose [[Tekkaman Blade|Radam]], who are sworn enemies of [[Detonator Orgun|Evolouders]] who, in turn, hate [[GaoGaiGar|11 Masters of Sol]].
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne]]'' this occurs between {{spoiler|Chiaki, Isamu, and Hikawa}} and depending on which ending {{spoiler|the Demi-Fiend as well}}.
** The ongoing battle throughout the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' series between {{spoiler|Lucifer and YHWH}} counts as well.
* [[Our Demons Are Different|Uram]] and [[Undead|Hokan]] of ''[[Spellforce]]''.
* ''[[Modern Warfare 2]]''. {{spoiler|General Shepard's Infamous Shadow Company vs. Makarov's Ultranationalists.}} And you in the middle. How fun! Although it only lasts a mission but it's far easier just to make the fight as even as possible then sit back and watch the carnage (typically shadow is ahead).
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* The ''[[Mega Man Legends]]'' Spinoff ''The Misadventures Of Tron Bonne'' have you controlling one member of the main series' [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] and her [[Adorable Evil Minions]] trying to pay her brother's ransom. Sure, the main antagonist is an evil bastard trying to rule the world and your motive is quite noble...but you still accomplish it by robbing livestock from a farm, stealing containers from the docks, and blowing up a bank while fighting the police.
* In ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)|Fahrenheit]]'' you have two factions fighting over one [[Apocalypse Maiden|little girl]] who could give them the power to rule the world. First you have the {{spoiler|Orange Clan}}, an [[Ancient Conspiracy|ancient]] [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|organization]] who already control the world, but wish to expand their power. The second is the {{spoiler|Purple Clan}} a group of [[AI Is a Crapshoot|artificial intelligences]] who wish to use the girl's power to create a [[Apocalypse How|new ice age]], killing humanity, and becoming the new dominate race. In between these two you have the hero, Lucas Kane, the [[Unwitting Pawn]] of both groups, who has power over [[The Force]], and {{spoiler|later gets killed, and brought back as [[The Undead]]}}.
* ''[[Command
* A good many of the members in the Organization of ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories|Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories]]'' are working against each other in order to further their own individual evil agendas. Then in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', Maleficent and the Heartless take on the Organization and the Nobodies. When the Organization takes control of the Heartless, Maleficent then has to pull an [[Enemy Mine]] with the main heroes.
* In ''[[Baldur's Gate]] II'': Throne of Bhaal, one part of the Watcher's Keep involves a maze with three stones needed to escape, and two factions of warring demons, on opposite sides of the Blood War, hold one stone each. You can kill one of the factions and claim one stone off them while taking the other as a reward, or you can [[Take a Third Option|kill both of them]]. If you are a good-aligned character, you will have no choice but to kill them all -- the leaders of both sides will sense your innate goodness and try to kill you.
** Actually, it's having any member of your party be [[Lawful Good]] that causes both of them to attack you. Any other good-aligned character can still interact with them. If you don't team up with one or the other of the fiends, you'll miss out on a powerful magical item that they'll reward you with, but having a Lawful Good party member is required in order to get a different powerful magical item found in the same level of the dungeon. You can get both if you do not have any Lawful Good characters when you run into one or the other of the fiends and choose to assist them and get rewarded with the Rogue's Hood (a helmet that buffs thieves), then come back into the maze after that with a Lawful Good character to get the enchanted Paladin-only Bastard Sword.
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* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'', the cruel Talon Company (see ruthless mercs) go toe to toe with super-mutants.
* The main plot of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' revolves around this trope: The Mojave is caught in a stalemate between Caesar's Legion, a brutal dictatorship which indiscriminately crucifies people and wipes out whole towns, and the New California Republic (NCR), which committed a massacre of civilians at Bitter Springs, and whose soldiers will shoot to kill over minor crimes. Both have issues keeping the Fiends, a group of [[Ax Crazy]] Chem abusers, in line.
* The backstory if [[Fallout]] was basically this. The [[Alternate History]] starting after World War 2 had the Soviet Union collapse much quicker than in our timeline and the Middle Eastern powers go to war with each other. This caused a huge economic crisis. Europe collapsed and became a war torn hell hole, and the US and China tried to solve their oil problems by invading their neighbors (in the US's case, Canada, in China's case, the former Soviet nations). Eventually, these last two functional governments went to war, which started in Alaska and spread to the Chinese mainland, causing China and the US to nuke one another and bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. At the time of the war, China was an imperialistic, aggressive, tyrannical nation with an army of [[Sociopathic Soldier|Sociopathic Soldiers]]. The United States was the exact same, except ruled by a puppet government controlled by a Nazi-esque [[Ancient Conspiracy]] called The Enclave in addition to all of that.
* Lampshaded in the GTA IV Episodes when you play as Luis and see {{spoiler|Niko and Johnny (who are against you in this but played in the previous games) fight against some Mafia goons in the museum.}}
* Somewhat [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] in ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'', where the Blood War between the devils and the demons inevitably gets mentioned. You might think it's okay for the very, very [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|nearly]] literally [[Always Chaotic Evil|always lawful/chaotic evil]] beings to slaughter each other, but the suffering the war causes around the multiverse is so great that the [[Knight Templar]] angel Trias thinks allowing it to continue is an act of supreme passive evil on part of his fellow Celestials.
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== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Kickassia]]'', It is decided that "The only way to deal with a madman is to send in another madman", despite the fact that being ruled by {{spoiler|Dr. Insano}} would be even worse than being ruled by [[The Nostalgia Critic]].
* In ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]'', it could be argued that both Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer are evil, only the latter has enough [[Villain with Good Publicity|good PR]] that he has everyone convinced he's [[The Cape (trope)]].
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', we have [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Marik]] and Florence versus [[Complete Monster|Melvin]] and Team [[4Kids! Entertainment]].
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*** Which is then followed several episodes later by the arrival of {{spoiler|Unicron}}, who's such an epitome of evil that Megatron {{spoiler|allies with the Autobots to stop him}}.
* ''[[Gargoyles]]''. Oh dear God do they ever. How many times has [[Magnificent Bastard|Xanatos]] been betrayed or outright attacked by someone more evil than he is? And then there's [[Anti-Villain|Macbeth]], who frequently fights against [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Demona]].
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]],'' another [[Greg Weisman]] show, as well. The series begins with [[Evil Albino|Tombstone]] having firm control of New York's criminal underworld, but then he has to defend it from [[Manipulative Bastard|the Green Goblin]]. Then Gobby disappears, but in the next season the "Gangland" arc pits him against [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous|Dr. Octopus]]'s [[Legion of Doom|Sinister Six]] on the one hand and returned former crimelord [[Wicked Cultured|Silvermane]] on the other, ''along'' with {{spoiler|his [[The Dragon|Dragon]] [[Use Your Head|Hammerhead]] becoming [[The Starscream]]}}. And then what happens? {{spoiler|The Green Goblin comes back and [[The Chessmaster|defeats them all in one fell swoop]]}}.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|Dungeons and Dragons]]''
** Tiamat and Venger hate each other so much that they tend to fight, completely forgetting about the children. In the infamous "Dragon's Graveyard" episode, the children seek Tiamat's help in trying to kill Venger.
** Another example from the same series was where the kids were outclassed by an evil wizard. Presto tells Venger what the wizard is up to... queue Venger marching in to deliver a beatdown and the kids running like hell.
* [[The Powerpuff Girls]] formed an [[Enemy Mine]] with [[Evil Genius|Mojo Jojo]] to combat an alien force. He was determined to prove [[Eviler Than Thou|he was the most evil]].
* Lucius Heinous VII ([[Villain Protagonist]]) against the Weavils ([[Always Chaotic Evil]]) in ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' certainly qualifies. Also Lucius vs [[Monster Clown|the Rodeo Clowns]] in "Heinous vs Clown".
* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'', the villains of Gotham City hold a very, very delicate balance between them all. The memorable [[Bad Guy Bar]] episode "Almost Got 'Im" features such villains as the Joker, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, the Penguin, and Killer Croc playing poker, all looking like they might kill each other at any moment- and at the end it's revealed that Harley Quinn has Catwoman tied up ready to be fed into a food processor.
** Two-Face and Poison Ivy have an interesting rivalry, as they used to date before Harvey Dent became Two-Face. One episode shows that as district attorney, Dent had wanted to develop a park into housing, and Ivy pretended to take a romantic interest in him so she could kill him by poisoning him.
** This leads to a [[Batman: The Animated Series/Funny|Crowning Moment Of Funny]], when Harvey says half of him wants to strangle her and the other half wants to hit her with a truck. Ivy then explains to the others "We used to date." Joker and Penguin immediately nod and say "Aha!" in understanding.
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