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* If any cartoon was defined by a rivalry, it was ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''. While Tom is usually the aggressor, he seems far more obsessed with winning than hurting Jerry, while Jerry seems far more content with humiliating and outwitting his foe.

* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' was often defined by its rivalries too:

** Take a ''[[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] pairing and make them rivals, and you've got Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd's conflict down perfectly. The yearn - possibly obsession - the serious-minded Elmer has over nabbing the free-spirited Bugs has spanned over seven decades and is still going strong. And it seems in all that time, Elmer never learns to see through Bugs' [[Paper-Thin Disguise| lame disguises.]]

** Take a [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] pairing and make them rivals, and you've got Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd's conflict down perfectly. The yearn - possibly obsession - the serious-minded Elmer has over nabbing the free-spirited Bugs has spanned over seven decades and is still going strong. And it seems in all that time, Elmer never learns to see through Bugs' [[Paper-Thin Disguise| lame disguises.]]

** Daffy Duck is a rival to Bugs in a different way. An egotist to the core, Bugs is the [[Always Someone Better]] whom Daffy can never seem to best.

** Sylvester to Tweety. At first, it seems like a predator-prey thing, but like the case with Tom and Jerry, this has become a personal obsession for Sylvester. Why else would he be so dead-set on catching one little bird? (In fact, one cartoon ends with him [[Know When to Fold'Em| deciding to fold and go to a restaurant for spaghetti]], but this attempt to quit didn't last.