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{{quote|''[Aziraphale was] The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.''
|'''Crowley'''
One of the most fun on-screen relationships antagonists can have isn't white-hot hatred, deep-seated revenge, or even bitter contempt, but... friendship.
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* [[Seth MacFarlane]] and Matt Groening. While it is implied on [[The Simpsons (animation)|both of]] [[Family Guy|their shows]] that they hate each other, they are actually pretty good friends.
** Seth MacFarlane and [[Rush Limbaugh]] too, despite being near polar opposites on the political spectrum. They are actually friends, who each see their own highly-politically-charged works as chiefly a matter of entertainment. Rush has even guest voiced on ''[[Family Guy]]'' more than once, occasionally [[Adam Westing|parodying himself]].
* Another, though involving more people, was the so-called ''Christmas Truce'' between the [[Punch Clock Hero|British and French troops]] and [[Punch Clock Villain|the German forces]] during [[World War I]]. Men left the trenches and started playing ''football'' (soccer) with each other on No Man's land (the war scarred area between the opposing trenches) and generally having a good time. That's right, in the middle of a war. Understandably, the higher
** Reportedly, there were many such instances between Union and Confederate forces during [[The American Civil War]] - brother against brother and all that.
*** Northern and Southern troops were eager to get together for pragmatic reasons, too: the Confederates had all the good tobacco, and the Union soldiers had all the good coffee. Informal trading went on whenever possible.
** During the Bangladeshi War of Independence, the Pakistani commander (occupying Bangladesh) and the Indian commander (invading in support of the independence movement) were personal friends who had studied together at Sandhurst military college.
* At the end of the [[World War
* In eighteenth century Europe there was an unofficial "soldiers union" composing every soldier in Europe. Two unions, really, an enlisted union and an officers one(the later overlapped with the aristocrat's union naturally as the aristocracy was a clique of landholding [[Military Brat|Military Brats]] in any event). This did not stop them from fighting hard but it did make them wish to keep the war from being harder then it had to be. For instance sentries did not shoot at each other unless there was a commando raid on as everyone wanted sleep when there was to be a battle the next day. Likewise victorious officers would entertain defeated. Similarly enlisted men would fraternize freely with their supposed enemies whatever the officers said. The memory of this explains Montgomery's controversial habit of entertaining German generals in [[World War
* Athletes on rival sporting teams often form friendships even while their fans are pummeling each other in the stands. One notable example of this is when Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre practically threw himself under Michael Strahan of New York so that the latter would break the sack record.
** The physios, too. When Alan Smith broke his leg playing for Manchester United against Liverpool, the Liverpool physio was first on the scene to do what he could to help. The Liverpool fans stayed true to form by bricking the ambulance taking him to hospital.
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* During the battle for Gallipoli in 1915, there were times when opposing armies' trenches were only a few yards apart. There are records of Turks and Australians tossing food to one another, and of a Turkish soldier carrying a wounded Allied soldier back to the Allied side...mid-battle.
* During the 2016 US presidential primary after Donald Trump won the Republican primary while the Democrat primary remained contested between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, Trump repeatedly spoke positively of Sanders. The media ''universally'' acknowledged (regardless of outlet leaning) this as a shameless and transparent attempt to pull votes away from his expected opponent in the general election,<ref>Hillary was certain to win through the Democrat primary's "Superdelegate" system where democrat political celebrities, which includes Hillary's husband, and party insiders have as much voting power as the primary results of entire states</ref> but were more divided on if he really meant it. This reflected the general consensus among Republicans that while Hillary was seen as deeply vile,<ref>allegations include allowing a US ambassador to be murdered, repeatedly working to bury women her husband had raped, knowingly storing state documents in an insecure manner that allowed them to be obtained by a hacker then by Russia who found out about the server from keeping tabs on said hacker, running a con charity to enrich herself, giving Russia Uranium for money, and having a history of pushing for video game bans</ref> Sanders was at worst merely a crazy old man. The feeling seemed mutual as Bernie supporters were reported by pools to overwhelmingly favor not voting or even voting for Trump in a Trump v. Hillary matchup.
*The first American to receive [[World War
**Hara was always generous to his opponents in the American Navy in his writing. Sometimes he treated them with more regard than his superiors.
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