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{{quote|'''Monica:''' No. Enough. You people will by God act like a team, or at least like people who know each other, or I'll incinerate the bunch of you here and now.}}
* In the "Tower of Babel" arc in ''[[Justice League of America]]'', Ra's al Ghul has incapacitated the JLA using [[Batman]]'s anti-JLA contingency plans. Like exposing [[Superman]] to red kryptonite. Once Batman reveals that he's the one responsible, most of the team (especially [[Plastic Man]], [[Aquaman]] and the [[Martian Manhunter]]) are closer to killing him than working with him, but they push through. At the end, he's expelled from the League. For a few issues. In a neat epilogue, Batman's extended family is shown being mistrusted by their own teams (the Titans don't trust [[Nightwing]], Young Justice doesn't trust Robin, and the JLA stop calling Oracle for advice).
* This pretty much describes any teamwork shown among the Crime Syndicate of America, a group of [[Evil Counterpart]]s of the [[Justice League]] from Earth-3, at least when they show teamwork at all. Unlike the true League, they ''despise'' each other, each member using blackmail, threats, or both as protection from betrayal.
* In ''[[X-Force]]'' and later ''X-Statix'', this was the dynamic between the Anarchist and the rest of the team, Spike and the rest of the team, and ''especially'' Spike and the Anarchist. The Anarchist and Spike are both African-American, but the Anarchist is adopted and his parents are white; Spike feels that this makes him, well, not a real black guy, and will never let him forget that; On rare occasions where the two agree on anything, it's usually in the form of [[Dumbass Has a Point]]. Eventually, however, they reconcile, with Spike acknowledging that he never really had anything against the Anarchist, and it was all talk to make him look good on camera.
* Crops up whenever ''[[Batman]]'' and ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' have a [[Crossover]]—since Batman is a somewhat freelancing vigilante, while Dredd ''[[Catch Phrase|is]]'' [[Catch Phrase|the law]], they're willing to work together to bring down their enemies, but that doesn't mean they have to enjoy each others' company.
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* [[X-Men|Kitty Pryde]] is this when it comes to Emma Frost, due to her past with her. That is, until [[Vitriolic Best Buds|they finally got along]] when {{spoiler|the former is trapped in the space bullet}}.
* In the [[Transformers]] comic, this often happens when opposing factions face an [[Enemy Mine]] situation (the Time Wars and attack of Unicron, for instance), but some set groups within the canon fall victim to it as well. The car-based Decepticon [[Combining Mecha|combiner team]] the Stunticons are noted to loathe their loud, browbeating leader, Motormaster, and generally not get along with each other, as their team includes a vain but depressingly fatalistic killjoy, a paranoiac who fears he's being watched by everything (including inanimate objects), a over-competitive braggart with an ego the size of a fairly sizable planetoid, and an unhinged maniac ''who terrifies the other four'' with 'Terrorist' for a function. It's a wonder that their combined form Menasor doesn't spend most of his time punching himself in the face.
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