Fighting Your Friend: Difference between revisions

* The major boss fights (against Trinity and Seraph) in ''Enter the Matrix'' are like this. The former is a sparring match between friends. In the latter case... he fights EVERYONE he meets with, apparently.

* Done pretty well in ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'': {{spoiler|After the latest argument between Flynn and Yuri about what Yuri's doing, Flynn seems to finally give up,}} until Yuri offers him a way to make his point: a swordfight.

** The two then proceed to trash-talk each other while beating each other up. They feel better afterwards, but {{spoiler|Flynn still loses the argument.}}

'''Yuri''': (teasingly) Hahaha... Loser. }}

** Yuri also fights {{spoiler|a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Estelle}} in an [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]].

* In the final battle in Beyond Good & Evil, the [[Big Bad]] possesses (and clones) Jade's friends, complete with mind fuck. ("It's your fault we're suffering!")

* In the Chicago History Museum mission in ''[[Stranglehold]]'', {{spoiler|your ally for most of the game, Jerry Ying, betrays you and murders Billie after you take down Damon Zakarov. After you chase his ass down, the [[Boss Battle]] begins with Jerry revealing that he acted on orders from Wong, the "same guy who sent you to find her."}}

* This becomes more and more the case with [[Pokémon]] [[Final Boss|League Champions]] through the first four "generations" of games. In Red/Blue, it's your [[Jerkass]] [[The Rival|Rival]]. In Gold/Silver, you have Lance, who is on the side of [[Good Is Not Nice]] and is all "I see potential in you; now I'll try to utterly crush you to see if I'm right". In Ruby/Sapphire you have Steven who's pretty much your chum. Then in Diamond/Pearl you have Cynthia, the do-gooder [[Adventurer Archaeologist]] who wants to be your BFF, helps you save the world and wants you to know this whole battling-you thing is ''tremendously fun'' for her. ''Then'' in Black/White you have Alder, a kindly old man who [[Walking the Earth|walks the earth]], does his best to give you a hand and has the most festive and upbeat battle theme ever. At this rate it won't be long before we have a game where the League Champion is a [[Care Bears|Care Bear]].

** While your rivals in the first two generations of the game are both [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]], [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire|May/Brendan, Wally]], [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Barry]], [[Pokémon Black and White|Cheren, and Bianca]] are all considerably friendlier.

* The penultimate fight of Story Mode in ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'' is {{spoiler|Raiden vs. Liu Kang.}} '''[[Tear Jerker|It doesn't end well.]]''' It also happens a bit earlier in Kitana's chapter, where she duels her [[Heterosexual Life Partners|servant]] Jade (the latter having been sent by Shao Kahn to keep an eye on Kitana). This fight isn't nearly as emotionally heartwrenching {{spoiler|and doesn't come at the cost of presumably destroying a long-lasting friendship.}}

* Like any other fighting game worth its salt, ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' has cases of this. The above quote is a lampshade by Makoto, who was forced into fighting Tsubaki just to keep her from [[Murder the Hypotenuse|killing Noel]]. She even went out of her way to ''forge an order to withdraw'' just to avoid hurting Tsubaki herself, and the fighting was pretty much a last resort.

* [[The Dragon]] of ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' will try to convince some of your party members to join him and the [[Big Bad]] against you. If you fail Influence checks with these characters, they will be swayed. Special mention goes to Qara and Sand: their rivalry means it is literally impossible to keep one without having the other turn on you.