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* In ''[[The Dark Elf Trilogy]]'' a feud between the Do'Urdens and Hun'etts leads to the downfall of both houses in the end.
* The Montanas and Petrocchis in [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' ''[[Chrestomanci|The Magicians of Caprona]]''.
* Venezuelan novel ''Doña Bárbara'' averts this. While in the backstory is mentioned the long rivalry of the Luzardo with the Barquero. the protagonist, Santos Luzardo (a character so perfect he almost is a [[Mary Sue]]) ends the feud with Lorenzo Barquero, both of them the last of their family.
* ''[[Dune]]''. In fact, feuding families are so prevalent in the ''[[Dune]]'' universe that it has evolved into an art form. There's "Kanly," which is one-on-one combat, and the all-out War of Assassins, which is just what it sounds like. The rules are codified in the Great Convention, which sets out exactly who are the acceptable targets and what weapons or poisons are permitted. Noble families in the ''[[Dune]]'' universe accept the fact that you can be knifed in the back at any time as just another hazard of the job.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
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* ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]'':
** The Bennet-Givens feud which started during Prohibition when a Bennet thought a Givens had sold him out to the cops and killed him in revenge. Almost a century later there are suspiciously few Bennets and Givens left in Harlan County. The women of the two families had kept a truce going for the last fifteen years since Rylan Givens and Dickie Bennet got into a fight during a baseball game and Dickie ended up limping for the rest of his life. After {{spoiler|Raylan kills Coover Bennet}} the feud starts heating up again and it culminates with {{spoiler|the deaths of Aunt Halen, Doyle Bennet and Mags Bennet}}. It remains to be seen whether {{spoiler|Dickie Bennet}} will be able to come back and try to finish it.
** Season two also had a Crowder-Bennet feud start up when Dickie Bennet threatened Boyd Crowder and Boyd robbed Dickie's dope deal to send a message as to who is in charge of crime in the area. The Crowders make short work of a Bennet attempt at retaliation.
* ''[[Coronation Street]]'' has this as a stock plot, and for some reason it seems to keep happening to the Platts. First there was feud with the Windasses which ended when David got Gary sent to prison. Currently there seems to be a feud between the Barlow's and the Platt's which started when Tracy Barlow lied to incriminate Gail for murder, while she was serving time herself and trying to cut a deal. It continued when Deirdre tried to steal Audrey's(Gail mum) boyfriend, only to have him turn around and steal four grand from her stepson Peter's business. With it recently being revealed that Gail's son Nick was having an affair with Peter's wife this feud looks to be continuing for quite a while yet.
* The Starks and Lannisters in [[Game of Thrones]]. As of the end of season one, they are {{spoiler|at war.}}
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* ''[[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.
* More [[Real Life]]:
** The Pazzi family and the Medici family of Renaissance Florence, Italy. The former is famous for their botched assassination attempt on Lorenzo and Guiliano de' Medici on April 26, 1478 after High Mass on the steps of the Duomo. To be fair to the Pazzi family, [[The Pope]] didn't like the Medicis either. Not many people did, except the people of Florence.
** And thus, the inspiration for first arc of ''[[Assassin's Creed]] II''. Only the main character is on the Medici's side.
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* The a German branches of the House of Welfs and the House of Hohenstaufen in the 12th century. Not even marriage between them could end it, though both families where much too large and powerful to actually die out from a mere feud.
* The Japanese have had a bunch of these. Several of which led to country wide civil wars. Most famously the Gempei war between the Taira (Heike) and the Minamoto (Genji) clans.
* The Vikings of the Scandinavian lands were infamous for this. They would always fight each other for even the smallest things. The only thing that would make temporary truces was to invade England or France. It was only when Christianity came to the northern lands, and then the viking cheiftains took inspiration of the feudal systems in the mainland and reformed their turfs into united kingdoms, that the feudings ended.
* In several Italian city-states one of the requirements of citizenship was to forswear vengeance as that supposedly now belonged to [[The Government]] which was supposed [[Lawful Neutral|dispense it impartially]]. The fact that that had to be made explicit tells things about Medieval Italian culture.
* In Korea, the Shims and the Yooms. The feud started in the mid 1700's and went on for about 250 years.
* A more lighthearted version of this is from many [[Brits With Battleships|British regiments]]. The British military system still maintains traces of the eighteenth century [[Proud Warrior Race|warrior fraternity]] air in an age of heavily bureaucratized warfare. Several regiments are traditional "enemies" and will continue their feuds with [[Practical Joke|practical jokes]] and [[Bar Brawl|bar brawls]].
* Similar ritual feuds have been noted by anthropologists among low-tech cultures. As lethal weapons are sometimes used the proportion of ritual and the proportion of feud is debatable and in any case probably depends on the nature of the dispute.
* Oddly enough ''potential'' feuding does have a positive(or at least [[Not Quite the Right Thing|less negative]] ) side effect in serving as a substitute for military and constabulary deterrence in places where [[The Government]] is weak. In such places a common custom is to pay blood-money for cross-tribal offenses weighted at the economic or political value of the person injured. This provides a face-saver that allows [[The Patriarch]] s of a given [[The Clan|clan]] to settle the dispute without a feud, but the [[Prove I Am Not Bluffing|threat of feud]] remains a feature of local politics.
* The Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach, located about 15 miles northwest of Nuremberg, is today considered one of the greatest laboratories for sociologists thanks to a local family feud that has since expanded to ridiculous proportions. It all started in 1924 when hometown boys Adolf "Adi" Dassler and his brother Rudolf opened an athletic shoe company which is today known as Puma. The Dasslers achieved worldwide fame when Jesse Owens ran in their shoes when he won several gold medals at the 1936 [[Olympic Games]]. But the Dassler boys - the biggest employers in town - hated each others' guts, and their hatred for each other only grew worse during [[World War II]]. In 1948, the brothers announced to their workers that their hatred for each other had reached an irreconcilable point and that Adi was leaving to open a rival company – Adidas - on the other side of town, across the Aurach River. The employees then started choosing sides. After a quarter century, most of the people in town had relocated themselves to the side of the river that corresponded with whichever company they favored. Now the town - which had been united for over 900 years – is like a house shared by two pissed-off divorcees who refuse to move out after everything else has been settled. Except that instead of two people, there are about 24,000 people. Today, each side of the river has its own businesses, athletic teams, schools, etc. And if you wear Pumas on the Adidas side of the river, or vice versa, you probably won't get served at local businesses, you probably will be heckled, and you may be assaulted.
* The clans of Scotland were known for this for a long time, though it died down after the country's acquistion by the United Kingdom, which served to unite many of them to rebel against a percieved common enemy.
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