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It's a sad (but exciting) [[Truth in Television]] that <s>sometimes</s> most of the time [[Cycle of Revenge|revenge triggers revenge, triggers revenge, triggers revenge]]... [[Moral Myopia|you know how that goes]]. When this happens on a large scale, we have [[War Tropes]]. When it happens on a more private scale and usually inside the same nation, we have the blood feud or vendetta.
If the families of the first perpetrator and victim are [[The Clan|large enough]] and roughly equals in power and resources, this can go on for a long, long time. So long, in fact, that it's rather easy for them to forget what the original cause of their fighting was. [[Big Screwed
# The near extinction of one or both warring families. Feuding clans usually start with picking out the men of their opponents. When they begin to kill the women and children too, that's the sign that things are headed straight to hell and there will be no conciliating. [[Revenge By Proxy]] or [[Sins of Our Fathers]] are also ''bad'' signs.
# One family yields and flees the area. This rarely happens, because people are stubborn like that and it's also anticlimactic. Plus, the other family might just chase them.
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Many depictions of Feuding Families show a [[Grey and Gray Morality]], as the feuding parties are not evil but full of grief and rage, doing cruel things because of it.
This scenario offers possibilities to explore all these themes, like the cause of war and peace, hate and forgiveness, right and wrong, and family loyalty. Following ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', there will often be a pair of [[Star
The origin of the feud is sometimes unmentioned or very vaguely explained, as in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' or ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''.
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In a [[Fur Against Fang]] setting, may result in a [[Vampire Werewolf Love Triangle]]. See also [[Dueling Dojos]] and [[Small Town Rivalry]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* The Tennos and Sanzenin families of ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' are said to have this kind of a relationship, hinted at being a rivalry of fortunes. What with only one person of child-bearing age each and both of them after the same guy, it's likely one of the families will die out, if not both.
* The title characters of ''[[Noir]]'' end up taking a contract on an ex-KGB officer who had ordered genocidal purges on a specific ethnic group some decades before. It turned out that this particular incident was just the last atrocity committed between that ethnic group and the officer's ethnic group in a feud that had been going on for centuries. The ultimate cause of this feud was never mentioned.
* In ''[[Wild Rock (Manga)|Wild Rock]]'', although they avoid bloodshed, the lake clan and the forest clan have tense relations because their natural hunting grounds overlap. Thanks to Emba's prowess the forest clan is not getting much meat at all, hence Yuuen gets sent on a [[Honey Trap]] mission to convince Emba to give him some of his catch. In the end Yuuen's and Emba's genuine feelings for each other lead to the clans setting aside their rivalry and uniting, and Yuuen's and Emba's [[Double
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Scare Tactics (Comic Book)|Scare Tactics]]'' included a generations old feud between the Ketchums (a clan of werewolves) and the Knightsbridges (a family of ghouls).
* ''[[Lucky Luke]]'''s episode "The Rivals of Painful Gulch."
* A major plot point in ''[[Nikolai Dante]]'' is the feud between the Romanovs and ruling Marakovs. When this erupts into all-out war, Nikolai is forced to fight against his [[Star
* The two big [[The Flash|speedster]] families of [[The DCU]], the West/Allen line and Thawne line. Bart Allen - Impulse/Kid Flash II - is an heir to both, and aware of it, but totally neat in he doesn't angst over his lineage like most other people (he doesn't really think or talk about it unless you insist on pressing the issue) and practically laughs at Zoom's "corrupted bloodline" rant.
* The Raven and Heron kingdoms in ''[[Scion]]''.
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* In the [[Star Trek Expanded Universe (Franchise)|Star Trek Expanded Universe]]:
** In the novel ''Imzadi'', two planets have been hostile--not open warfare, but anger and resentment--for generations, until a window into the past reveals the extremely trivial origins of the hostility. It's played exactly like [[Feuding Families]].
** In the ''[[Star Trek New Frontier]]'' novel "Martyr," the Unglza and Eenza tribes of the planet Zondar had been at war for over 500 years, and Calhoun's arrival was predicted to usher in peace. Then in "Cold Wars" in the ''Gateways'' series, the Aerons and Markanians had been separated warring for the "sacred world" of Sinqay, with the Gateways recently renewing their hostilities, until the ''Excalibur'' and ''Trident'' actually return them to their "sacred world," {{spoiler|now an uninhabitable black rock}}. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]], [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Israel and Palestine?]]
** Q-in-Law featured a pair on massive space ships, literally making Enterprise the man in the middle, trying to provide neutral ground for the intermarriage. Since Q is around, it definitely does not go as planned. A case of [[Hilarity Ensues]] done well.
** So to recap, Peter David really likes [[Feuding Families]].
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