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* The Starks and Lannisters in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. The only reason they are civil to each other is because Ned Stark's best friend Robert Baratheon married into the Lannister family. {{spoiler|But once Robert dies (and it's strongly hinted at the his wife Cersei killed him), all bets are off and the Lannisters utterly devastate the Starks, though not without suffering some losses themselves.}} It's worth noting that Martin based this feud lightly on the [[Wars of the Roses]].

* In the [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]]:

** In the ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]]'' novel "Martyr," the Unglza and Eenza tribes of the planet Zondar had been at war for over 500 years, and Calhoun's arrival was predicted to usher in peace. Then in "Cold Wars" in the ''Gateways'' series, the Aerons and Markanians had been separated warring for the "sacred world" of Sinqay, with the Gateways recently renewing their hostilities, until the ''Excalibur'' and ''Trident'' actually return them to their "sacred world," {{spoiler|now an uninhabitable black rock}}. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]], [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Israel and Palestine?]]

** Q-in-Law featured a pair on massive space ships, literally making Enterprise the man in the middle, trying to provide neutral ground for the intermarriage. Since Q is around, it definitely does not go as planned. A case of [[Hilarity Ensues]] done well.

* One of the ''[[Nightside]]'' books involves a Romeo and Juliet type situation where the couple persuade their families to call a truce and get married, only to both be murdered at the wedding dinner.

* ''[[Kushiel's Legacy]]'' has a gradually building example of this. In ''Kushiel's Scion'' {{spoiler|one of Imriel's reasons for sitting on the information that cousin Bernadette de Trevalion tried to have him killed is to try to end the [[Cycle of Revenge]]; his mother was responsible for the disgrace of her and her husband's families}}.