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** To a lesser extent, Kobato Hasegawa, a 13-year-old [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]], and Maria Takayama, a [[Nuns Are Mikos|10-year-old nun]], who engage in outright childish fights over the attention of the former's older brother, Kodaka.
* The Evil Organization Florsheim from ''[[Astro Fighter Sunred]]'' are the sitcom arch nemesises of Sunred, who finds them all incredibly annoying for constantly picking fights with him. Florsheim, on their side, are [[Contractual Genre Blindness|Contractually Genre Blind]] and know that as an Evil Organization they must fight the superhero in order to [[Take Over the World]]... But they're ''really'' bad [[Harmless Villain|at the whole 'being villains' part]].
== Comic Books ==
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* [[Donald Duck]] and his neighbor Jones (essentially a larger version of Donald).
* [[Deadpool]] and [[Squirrel Girl]] had this kind of relationship when the former hung around the [[Great Lakes Avengers]].
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[[Ultimate Sleepwalker|Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams]]'', Kenny Anderson has an unexplained hatred of [[John Kricfalusi]]. He's never said exactly why he hates John K, and his friends decide they're probably better off not knowing.
== Film ==
* In ''[[The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou]]'', Steve perceives that he has a professional rivalry with Hennessy, but it's pretty obvious that in reality the former is simply bitter that the latter is a more successful oceanographer, the former husband of Steve's ex-wife and kind of a jerk.
* In ''[[Office Space]]'', Michael Bolton feels this way about Michael Bolton.
== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[
* In the first chapter of ''[[Lunar Park]]'', Bret (in a semi-fictionalized account of the author's real life) takes several personal shots at [[Keanu Reeves]].
▲== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Seinfeld]]'', Jerry had Newman.
** Jerry also had Kenny Bania although that was one sided as Jerry was Bania's idol.
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* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' often referred to Ricky's rivalry with fellow mambo singer Xavier Cougat.
* ''[[Married... with Children]]'': Along with his neighbor Marcy, Al Bundy also had a deep loathing for [[Michael Bolton]].
== Newspaper Comics ==
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** It's probably safer to say Bucky is Fungo's Sitcom Arch Nemesis, rather than the other way around. Bucky seems to dislike Fungo (and ferrets in general) on the basis that they're too clever by half, and attempts to wage a campaign of harassment against Fungo; Fungo, on the other hand, doesn't really seem to care much about Bucky at all, outside of subverting Bucky's gambits by being too clever by half.
* ''[[Garfield]]'' and Nermal.
== Radio ==
* Phil Harris, of the radio sitcom ''[[The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show]]'', had two of these on his show: his brother in law Willy and the grocery boy Julius, who is in love with his wife, Alice.
* Possibly the grandfather of them all, [[Jack Benny]] and [[Fred Allen]].
== Theatre ==
* A very dark version from ''[[Cabaret]]'' in the form of the promiscuous Fraulein Kost, who turns the play's extremely sympathetic Jewish character over to the Nazis, then rallies a bunch of background characters to Nazism in the [[Epic Song|truly spectacular]] [[Villain Song]] that closes act one. Her motive in doing this? ''To spite her landlady''.
== Video Games ==
* The relationship between Tycho from ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' and ''[[Homestar Runner]]'''s Strong Bad in ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory]]''.
* Raul Tejada and "Best Friend" Tabitha in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''. In the Black Mountain Radio channel, Tabitha is often threatening Raul with [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|execution]]. However, Raul merely needs to remind her that he has ''not'' outlived his usefulness and is the only one who could possibly repair her beloved robot Rhonda (as well as being a useful repairman in general), to her frustration. If the Courier does not complete their quest, the two are still at it for a long time.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[PvP (webcomic)|
** Later on, Cole admits that he doesn't even really have a good reason for hating Max, he's just petty and begrudges Max the fact that he's an overall good guy ''and'' more successful than Cole.<ref>the only hint of anything less than exemplary character on Max's part, in fact, was an inability to see Skull the troll, and this is hinted to be more self-
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Gwynn seems to feel she and Torg have this relationship at times. Torg actually thinks of her as a really good friend, if maybe a little too hot-headed.
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' has Jean and Voluptua. Jean has always considered Volly to be a rival for Bob's affections and resented her for it. After years of ambiguity, her suspicions have now proven to be true.
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* [[True Capitalist|Ghost]] has Alex Jones and Howard Stern.
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== Western Animation ==
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* Wilbur Cobb from ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' apparently had an antagonistic relationship with [[Walter Lantz]] ("No-account son of a bus driver...") back in the good ol' days.
* On ''[[American Dad]]'' Francine has a pathological hatred of George Clooney; she spent an entire year trying to get him to love her just so she could break his heart. When that didn't work, she ''chopped her own hand off'' so she could escape from some handcuffs to kill him.
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