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Sometimes the result of an [[Enemy Mine]] plot. Related to [[Punch Clock Villain]]. See also [[Capulet Counterpart]] and [[Sympathetic POV]]. Most likely not related to [[One of Us]].
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* This trope makes up most of the plot of ''[[Enemy Mine (Filmfilm)|Enemy Mine]]''.
** The movie [[Anvilicious|hit the audience over the head with this trope]].
*** The shortstory it's based on went more in depth into the aliens' culture, but the message was generally the same.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Done, kind of, in the [[PSPlay Station 3]] game ''[[Lair]]'' in which the hero ends up joining his once-enemies mostly out of necessity, only to see that they are not the monsters his old kingdom made them out as.
* [[Vanguard Bandits]] with its multiple branches can have [[The Hero|Bastion]] learn that there's good people in [[The Empire|the Empire]] which he's been raised to despise since birth.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Land Before Time]] II'', the gang raises a young sharptooth. True to form, they have a song about it.
{{quote| "We're a family and you're one of us now!"}}
** Most of Land Before Time has something like this, thanks to Cera's dad's bigotry. He comes around by the end of the story, but reverts as soon as new danger shows up.
* [[Anvilicious]] in the case of ''<nowiki>~[[Avatar: The Last Airbender~]]</nowiki>''. Aang attended a Fire Nation school, and in the process learned that the Fire Nation isn't completely evil. This message was present since the first season, but the third season kept pounding the message into the audience as if it was a new concept.
** The first two seasons took places solely in territories the Fire Nation was invading, and thus both the Gaang and the audience only ever saw invading soldiers doing what invading soldiers do to territories they are invading. The third had to show what a hundred years of warfare do to a nation's resources and culture - reduce it to a [[Crapsack World]]. [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]].
** Not to mention the fact that it's a realistic depiction; there are good and bad people on both sides, as one comes to understand after studying history.
* ''[[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'', when Jenny was trapped on the Cluster homeworld.
* Happened on ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', when Cyborg was infiltrating Brother Blood's academy (of EVIL)... he actually liked it there, made some friends, had a brief romance with Jinx (She's got pink hair, though, so that's understandable), and actually looked like he was going to [[Becoming the Mask|become the mask]] for a while...
* In ''[[The Lion King|The Lion King 2]]'':
{{quote| '''Kiara:''' A wise king once told me, we are one. I didn't understand him then. Now I do. <br />
'''Simba:''' But they...<br />
'''Kiara:''' Them? Us. Look at them, they ''are'' us. What differences do you see? }}
 
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