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{{quote| "Then Maedhros ... persuaded his brothers to feign to treat with Morgoth, and to meet his emissaries at the place appointed; but the Noldor had as little thought of faith as had he. Wherefore each embassy came with greater force than was agreed; but Morgoth sent the more, and there were Balrogs."}}

* The novelization of the strategy game ''[[Warhammer]]: Mark of Chaos'' had this going on with its Chaos protagonist. It's made clear from the beginning that he and his superior loathe each other since the latter is a sorcerer and he is a Khornate Champion, meaning he abhors most magic. When they get to the resting place of the [[MacGuffin]], {{spoiler|the sorcerer decides he doesn't need his champion anymore and turns around to incinerate him, only to notice and narrowly evade the axe headed for his head. The following fight ends after the initially losing Champion receives a gift of his god making him near-immune against all magic.}}

* In the [[Percy Jackson]] series Zeus, Poseidon and Hades - the Big Trio of gods exhibiting sibling rivalry of divine proportions - make an oath not to have any more children with mortal women, since said children become too powerful and could be used against each other. As even gods cannot be expected to keep it in their pants for too long, Zeus and Poseidon both break the oath and father children. (Hades had fathered children before they made the oath, and he hides them in a [[Place Beyond Time]] to protect them from the other two.) When the children or 'demigods' are found, it escalates the rivalry from divine proportions to... [[Buffy-Speak|something even more divine]].

 

* In ''[[Lost]]'' season 3, Ben agrees to send Jack home in return for Jack surgically removing his spinal tumor. Once into the operating room, Jack uses his momentary advantage to facilitate Kate and Sawyer's escape, risking Ben's life. Later, Ben reveals he never had any intention of letting Jack leave the island.

* In season 3 of ''[[The Wire]]'', {{spoiler|Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale, who've been partners since the beginning of the series,}} end up simultaneously betraying each other. {{spoiler|Stringer}} gives {{spoiler|Avon}} up to the police; {{spoiler|Avon}} arranges for {{spoiler|Stringer}} to be killed. Both continue to swear that they're brothers, reminisce, and embrace, even after their mutual betrayal.

* The ''[[Hustle]]'' episode "Picture Perfect" ends this way. In the episode, Mickey's team promises a forger a cut of their scam if he forges the fake Mondrian they need to make it work. The forger is already under a fraud investigation and pretending to be unfit to stand trial; he also says that in order to do make the forgery convincing he needs them to steal him a real Mondrian to study. When they go to pay him off, he says that if they don't give him all the money he'll report the theft of the Mondrian, but it turns out that Mickey let the investigators who are after him know that he's faking his medical problems.

 

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* ''[[Tosca]]'' has a very similar set-up: Scarpia tells Tosca that, if she sleeps with him, he'll tell the firing squad executing her lover Mario to fire blanks. After he sends out the order, she stabs him instead; it turns out that the order was to execute Mario normally.

 

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* ''[[Angel Moxie]]'', in [http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/3/4/342.html these] [http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/3/4/343.html three] [http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/3/4/344.html strips].

{{quote| '''Breya:''' We worked well together! We used to be friends! Is ''this'' how you repay that?<br />

'''Tagon:''' You know, you'd be wracking my poor heart with guilt if your marines hadn't just attempted to ''hijack my ship''. }}

 

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* Stewie and Bertram's first confrontation in ''[[Family Guy]]'':

{{quote| '''Stewie''': You came unarmed?<br />