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There are many kinds of friendship. Work friends, friends from your class, drinking buddies and more. Yet one of the very closest types of friendships is that of the '''Childhood Friends'''. Before you have to worry about the shock of betrayal or the possibility of romance, this is the friend that will have your back. No one knows you better than these friends. And it shows when childhood friends are treated more intimately or are trusted more than other friends.
This is a supertrope of [[Childhood Friend Romance]], [[Patient Childhood Love Interest]], [[Beleaguered Childhood Friend]], [[Forgotten First Meeting]] and [[Forgotten Friend, New Foe]]. Please do not add examples to this page that would fit better on one of those instead. Also contrast [[Old Flame Fizzle]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Nagi, Sakuya, Wataru and Isumi are all childhood friends in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]''. While Wataru does like Isumi, for the most part it's entirely platonic. A large portion of the cast dynamics revolves around their relationships together. And surrounding them is their families and how ''they'' interact. In fact, they seem to be [[Generation Xerox
* Reinhard von Lohengramm and Siegfried Kircheis in ''[[Legend of the Galactic Heroes]]'' had a bromance as epic as the title of the show. Their shared childhood memories were commonly shown in flashbacks.
* Lelouch and Suzaku in ''[[Code Geass]]''. Basically the only reason why Lelouch didn't brainwash or kill him early on.
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== Literature ==
* One of Larry's regrets in ''[[The Stand]]'' was how he ruined a childhood friendship by quibbling over a small amount of money when he knew perfectly well he was wrong. It's one of the memories he holds to convince himself that he 'aint no nice guy.' We never see his friend in the present (he probably died in the [[The Plague|superflu pandemic]]), but it clearly bothers Larry at how pointlessly selfish he was and how he lost a really good friend over it.
* [[The Hero|Derek]] and [[Ice Queen|Laura]] of the web-novel ''[[Domina]]''. She moved away years ago for reasons he doesn't
* Cassel and Lila from [[The Curse Workers|White Cat]] by [[Holly Black]].
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* Kouin, Yuuto, Kaori and Kyouko of ''[[Eien no Aselia]]'' fall into this. Kaori doesn't have much of the dynamic, and Kyouko is more of a romance, but Kouin and Yuuto definitely fall into this. {{spoiler|The third chapter focuses around Kouin and Kyouko equally with the main plot of the entire world blowing up.}}
* Yuuki and Heita in ''[[Big Bang Age]]''. Yuuki is apparently one of Heita's only real friends and the two are rather close. He's rather... surprised to learn [[Bifauxnen|the truth]] about Yuuki, too. Both are rather minor characters, though, so the relationship isn't as fleshed out as it could be.
* In the mage starter area in ''[[Dragon Age|Dragon Age Origins]]'', the player character and Jowan are quickly established as having been close friends since the age of five or
* Alex and Kyle from [[TCTRPG|The Colour Tuesday]]. Its the bedrock of their alliance.
* Phoenix Wright, Miles Edgeworth, and Larry Butz from ''[[Ace Attorney]]''.
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