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{{quote|''"Nobody sucks the life from my penguins except '''me!'''"''|'''The Ice King,''' ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]''}}
A subtrope of [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]], and/or [[Friendship Moment]]. [[Alice and Bob]] are going out, and Alice never misses a chance to call Bob a jackass. Then, one day, Bob screws up big time in front of Charlie, who calls Bob a jackass. Cue [[Unstoppable Rage]] from Alice.
May include an impassioned speech on what Alice will do to Charlie if he ever ''[[Who Dares|dares]]'' disrespect Bob again... before the payoff that it's not because she doesn't want Bob to be abused, it's because doing so is ''her'' job, dammit!
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Frequently a sign of [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]], [[Vitriolic Best Buds]], or [[Tsundere]]. Also pretty much sums up the relationship between many [[Sibling Rivalry|siblings.]] Compare [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]], where a character's enemy will come to his or her defense if anyone else attacks him/her.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'', Mal calls Inara a whore all the time. But he's also the first to defend her if anyone else calls her (or implies she is) a whore. He later states that that while he loathes and insults her job, he's not insulting the woman herself and actively tries to protect her professional reputation (just never to her face). On the other hand, the person who triggered his [[Hypocritical Heartwarming]] was treating Inara herself (instead of her job) like a whore, and even a slave. And mutually, their [[Volleying Insults]] could range from [[In
* In ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', [[The McCoy|McCoy]] is always trying to get an emotional rise out of [[The Spock|Spock]], but in the episode "Plato's Stepchildren," McCoy jumps to Spock's defense when powerful aliens force him to cry and to laugh. And in other episodes he's usually the first to jump to Spock's defense any time ''anyone'' attacks or insults him, possibly because his issues with Spock are more of a giant angry moral debate while other people tend to be full racism.
* Although it's never expressly stated, it's pretty obvious that [[The A-Team (TV)|B.A.]] is the only one who's allowed to be mean to Murdock and Face. He frequently verbally abuses them and threatens them with physical violence (Murdock is his main target, but Face gets quite a bit of this too, at times). And then you'll get a scene where the team is facing the [[Villain of the Week|slimeballs of the week;]] Murdock and Face, the physically weaker half of the team, frequently find themselves fighting a [[Mook]] who's too big for them to handle. Cue B.A., who proceeds to knock the sucka's lights out. Five minutes later he's back to insulting Murdock and Face and threatening to beat them up himself. Happens every few episodes.
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* [[NCIS (TV)|Tony]] gets to insult [[Nerd|McGee]]. You don't get to insult McGee. Tony does. ''Not you.''
** Pretty much the whole team can be like this. It is part of what makes them a Nakama.
* On ''[[
* On ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore may hate each other and mess with each other all the time, but woe betide anyone else who tries to hurt or kill the other.
* On ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]'', Michael gets this way when his new girlfriend/PR manager insults the other Bluths. Subverted in that he only defends her until [[Papa Wolf|she picks on his son]], at which point he leaves her at the mercy of his sister and his mother.
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* On ''[[Home Improvement]]'', Brad and Randy say that anyone who calls Mark a dork for wearing glasses will have to answer to them, because they are the only ones allowed to call him a dork.
* While [[Frasier]] Crane will happily mock, belittle and humiliate his little brother Niles all day long, he hates Niles's wife Maris with a burning passion because of ''her'' abusive treatment of her husband. Occasionally expressed by Frasier [[Hypocritical Humor|encouraging Niles to stand up for himself, and then yelling at him and bossing him around while telling him precisely how to do so.]]
* In the pilot episode of ''[[The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]'', the fiery, sarcastic Detective Sergeant Havers - who doesn't even ''[[Fire
* In ''[[Absolutely Fabulous (TV)|Absolutely Fabulous]]'' Edwina and Patsy constantly belittle Edwina's daughter Saffron. Patsy goes as far as wishing Edwina had an abortion. But Edwina is often a bitch to Saffy. however when Saffy revealed that the man who was coming onto her was married and she didn't want his attention. Edwina decked the man and yelled "STAY AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER"
* Leverage features this with [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] Eliot and Hardison. When the [[Villain of the Week]] tries to throw Hardison off the roof:
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