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'''WARNING: Some of these are a little detail heavy, so SPOILER alert.'''

* Several [[Final Fantasy]] games use this trope:

** {{spoiler|Doga and Unei}} in ''[[Final Fantasy III (Video Game)|Final Fantasy III]]''. Especially annoying because it's a {{spoiler|tough Sequential Boss with no healing in the middle...}} even though they're ON YOUR SIDE!

* ''[[The Nameless Mod]]'' features this in the WorldCorp storyline. You'll be forced to fight {{spoiler|Slicer and Deus Diablo at some point. You also attempt to fight Phasmatis at one point, but this goes nowhere since he is effectively immortal.}} And if you attempt to do the {{spoiler|Ryan}} ending on a WC playthrough, you'll get this with {{spoiler|Kylie}} if you have rekindled your relationship with her.

* ''[[Twenty Twenty Seven|2027]]'' has this with {{spoiler|Magnus}} at the end of the game, or not, depending on your choices.

** ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]'' also does this, as in the first game Geo is forced to fight Bud, Sonia and Luna when they are tricked by the evil FM-Ians (Taurus, Lyra and Ophiuca), into getting revenge against people who wronged them (i.e. Vaughn and Veil Platz for Luna, her (Luna) and Geo for Bud and Chrys Golds for Sonia). Then in the second game as both Bud and Luna are taken over by what Omega-Xis calls residual energy and then as Vega and Hollow trick Sonia into doing their dirty work for them. Finally in the third game as Taurus becomes corrupted by the bad guys and is forced to merge with Bud as a result of it.

* Julius in ''[[Castlevania Chronicles of Sorrow (Video Game)|Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow]]''.

** You will also have to fight Wynne if you choose to ally yourself with the templars.

* In Atlus's ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]'', {{spoiler|Serph and Heat stage a fight between themselves in an attempt to make the local villain drop his guard.}}

* The ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' SNES game featured a sequence where one of the trio had to fight the other two. This is one of the last variety, where the other guys are being mind-controlled, and in fact, you're supposed to ''lose''; if you kill them, you get a game over. This is actually made kind of hard, or at least boring, by the fact that their AI is utterly crappy and it can take ''forever'' for them to kill you with their piss-weak attacks.

** The same case happened in the anime: in one episode, Hikaru and Umi were [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] thanks to the still not [[Heel Face Turn|Heel Face Turned]] [[Master of Illusion|Caldina]], therefore Fuu had to fight and disable them on her own.

{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Flynn}}''': I can't even win with a sword anymore.<br />

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

** The [[PS 3]] version adds several more opportunities to fight your friends, most notably {{spoiler|in the team battle mode in the coliseum, the final battle of which will pit all the party members you're not using against the party members you ''are'' using.}}

*** Also in the arena Karol (in a poor disguise and loudly claiming not to be Karol) will fight alongside his Hunting Blades guildmates if he's not in your current party. In addtion {{spoiler|If Raven isn't with you he'll appear as Captain Schwann alongside the Schwann Brigade also claiming not be Raven, although he's aware he's fooling no one.}}

** Saurfang Jr. is turned into a boss in Icecrown

* ''[[Persona 3]] FES'': {{spoiler|Aigis and Metis must defeat the rest of SEES team (except [[Mission Control|Fuuka]]) to get the true key.}}

* In ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'', you finally fight the Conductor, who {{spoiler|takes control of Shiki using the Red Skull pin. This leads to a cutscene in which the still-possessed Shiki launches a final attack which knocks out Beat, but Neku knocks her out and slices her Red Skull pin, ending the possession.}}

* ''[[Melty Blood (Video Game)|Melty Blood]]'' occasionally has the Back Alley Alliance of Satsuki and Sion fighting each other to prevent the other from getting killed.

** And of the ''Ac!d'' spin-off series, a fight with {{spoiler|Venus}}.

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' does this a few times actually with Riku. He is first evil and is jealous of you, then attacks, and the next time he's possessed by darkness and becomes [[That One Boss]] for several players.

*** Aqua has to fight {{spoiler|both her friends, Ventus possesed by Vanitas at the end of her chapter, and Terra possessed by Xehanort in the final chapter. Both of these character are being directly controlled by another though and in fact will help Aqua out by resisting as best they can.}}

* In the C path of ''[[Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume]]'', {{spoiler|every friend you sacrificed to the Plume [[Player Punch|is now an einherjar fighting on Valkyrie's side against you]].}}

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

* ''[[Street Fighter]]'' has indulged in this trope more than a few times, most prominently in ''[[Street Fighter Alpha (Video Game)|Street Fighter Alpha]] 3'' and (''Super'') ''[[Street Fighter IV (Video Game)|Street Fighter IV]]'''s Rival Battles.

** ''IV'': [[Fortune Teller|Rose]] believes that Ryu is [[The Chosen One]] destined to defeat Bison, but doesn't want him to preemptively rush into danger (according to her visions, he can vanquish Bison ''only'' at a specific time). On the other end, Guy tries to prevent Rose from facing Bison herself because while she intends to eradicate ([[Heroic Sacrifice|or at least]] [[Taking You With Me|stall]]) Bison, [[Senseless Sacrifice|she has seemingly resigned herself to death and holds a far greater importance to the world than she believes]] (he tried this before in ''Alpha 3'' but failed, leading Rose to eventually be [[Grand Theft Me|possessed by Bison]] in the interim between ''Alpha 3'' and ''II''; it should be noted that he and Rose were not [[True Companions]] at this point). Cue battle (and some [[Relationship Writing Fumble|unintentional]] [[Ship Tease]]). He also confronts Cody again, mainly for the same reasons as their fight several years prior, as well as trying to convince Cody to [[Bash Brothers|join him]] in the fight against Seth and S.I.N.

* ''[[Agarest Senki]]'' has Valeria fighting against you in the 2nd generation when Ladius runs away from his enemies, forcing two childhood friends to fight against each other.

** In ''[[Agarest Senki 2]]'', this happens twice in the entire game. It happens first with {{spoiler|Sophia because Gray gets a [[Grand Theft Me]] from Chaos and she doesn't trust Chaos herself.}} The second one only happens if one goes to the Bad Ending and that is {{spoiler|Eva who pulls off a [[Face Heel Turn]] when the party minus the protagonist Gray decides to kill Chaos because Gray gets [[Killed Off for Real]].}}