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Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. |'''[[William Shakespeare]]''', ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''}}
 
{{quote|It is rare to find a country where the people are not at daggers drawn with the aristocracy, or the nobles not divided among themselves...The inhabitants of two different localities will usually be on bad terms. Their hostility derives from disputes over water, woodland, or pasture. Each village wishes to expand its borders at the expense of another.|Quoted from an eighteenth century [[Badass Spaniard|Spanish]] [[Four -Star Badass|General]] in ''Military Experience in the Age of Reason'' by Christopher Duffy }}
 
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.
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Not to be confused with [[Family Rivalry]], which is about something quite different.
 
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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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Real Life]] example: The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Hatfield-McCoy_feudMcCoy feud|Hatfield and McCoy]] feud. It was the inspiration for the [[Lucky Luke]] album ''The Rivals of Painful Gulch''.
* ''[[Real Life Comics]]'' example: The [http://reallifecomics.com/archive/080111.html Aggie and Longhorns] feud.
* L.A. Banks's short story "Spellbound" has the two families practicing voodoo, making things complicated when the newest generations meet at college and fall in love.
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