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* ''[[My-HiME]]'', less because of any dislike between the characters than because Akira has a secret to keep from Takumi. Thus, Akira uses a curtain to separate the room, rather than a line.

* Suiseiseki in ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'', who initially dislikes Jun, draws an obviously biased one in his room.

* Happened once in "[[Pokémon]]" where [[Fiery Redhead|Jessie and Misty]] fell onto a small rock ledge on a cliff together. Misty draws a line on the rock to give each of them a side while they wait for rescue. Her side is much larger than Jessie's.

 

* A [[What If]] based off of ''[[Planet Hulk]]'' had a one-man version; Hulk lands on the planet the Illuminati meant to send him to, and he and Bruce Banner get into a back-and-forth war of screwing each other over. Eventually Hulk wakes up and sees that Bruce pulled this trope.

 

* Asuka uses her infamous "Wall of Jericho" line on two separate occasions in ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K]]''... once to Shinji, and once to Rei.

{{quote|'''Asuka''' (to Shinji): "This is the unbreakable wall of Jericho! Cross this line and I'll scream rape!"

'''Rei:''' ''(nods)'' }}

 

* ''[[The War of the Roses]]''.

* On ''[[Madagascar]]'', Alex draws a line on the beach to divide the island between Marty, who likes being out in the wild, and the others, who want to go back to New York. Marty calls his side the "fun side", to which Alex responds, "You're in the [[Place Worse Than Death|Jersey]] side of this cesspool!"

{{quote|'''Oscar:''' Here's a key to the back door. Now, you stick to the hallway and your room and you won't get hurt.}}

* Donkey did this with ''[[Shrek]]'''s Swamp.

 

* ''[[Discworld]]''

* The [[Gordon Korman]] young adult novel ''The Toilet Paper Tigers''. The bratty older brother has laid tape down the middle of the room, and penalizes any (real or imagined) affront with moving the tape to shrink the younger brother's side.

* In ''The War with Mr. Wizzle'' by the same author: After [[Bruno and Boots]] have a fight, Bruno divvies up the room and refuses to talk to Boots. (He does permit him to use the bathroom, though.)

* In ''[[My Sister's Keeper]]'', Kate and Anna did this at one point as children. Kate graciously allowed Anna to choose the side with all of her favorite toys on it, then smiled smugly as she left, since hers was the only side with a door.

 

 

* The [[Trope Maker]] may well be the ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' episode "Men Are Messy", in which Lucy—fed up with cleaning up after a careless Ricky—divides their apartment with masking tape and tells him to look after his own half.

** Another episode found the Mertzs and Ricardos running a diner together. When an argument erupted between which couple would greet guests and which couple would work in the kitchen, a line divided the diner in half, and across the middle counter stool.

* Alexia does this in the ''[[Pixelface]]'' episode "High Spirits" when the others get angry at her for taking their stuff with permission. She divides the console in half, with her on one side and everyone else on the other.

 

* Parodied in one ''[[Bloom County]]'' comic strip, when some of the characters start arbitrarily painting lines across the local meadow, cutting off one person each time: "This is ''our'' 'state'! Stay out of our 'county'/'town'/'house'!" Then only two of them are left and they're standing on a hilltop - with no room left for further lines. "You're violating my personal space." Cue the shoving match.

* One ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' arc has Calvin deciding to become a tiger, then finding out that tigers are territorial. He uses a boulder to define the boundary between his and Hobbes' territory, then brags about how much better his side is. Hobbes then rolls the boulder over toward Calvin and declares that "your side is smaller."

* Parodied in a ''[[Garfield]]'' strip where he instead just paints a circle around Jon's feet. "If you need me, I'll be in my kitchen."

 

 

* There is a song about this in ''[[Kiss of the Spider Woman]]''.

 

* Was supposed to be referenced in ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'', in the final battle, before the line may have been [[Dummied Out]]: An increasingly desperate GLaDOS offers to take a laser and inscribe a line right down the side of the entire research facility, and each of you can have a half, if that'll get you to stop hitting her with rockets.

* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'': Early on, when Vanille and Sazh stop for the night, she grabs a stick and draws a circle around her blanket, and orders him not to cross the line, to much eye-rolling on his part. It then cuts to her distinctly on the wrong side of the line, huddled against his back and sniffling.

 

* Also happened in an early ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/12/15/ strip]:

{{quote|'''Tycho:''' The fridge is on your side!

* [[Skin Horse|Nick Zerhakker's]] [[Character Blog]]: Unity, dimly recognising that she and the sentient helicopter are not getting along, [http://zerhakker.livejournal.com/17859.html spray-paints a line across the centre of the chopper cabin] and says they can both stay on their own sides. She refuses to see a flaw in this.

 

* Episode 11 of ''[[Freeman's Mind]]'' references this. After he hops over a laser tripwire, a Vortigaunt spawns on the other side of it. After killing it, he shouts:

{{quote|''Gordon''': "Stay on your side of the line! My roommate in college used to do the same thing. Your side is the one where everyone is dead and there are no exits. My side is the one filled with hope, love and submachine guns."}}

* Used in Djy's video adaption of ''[[Half Life: Full Life Consequences|Half Life Full Life Consequences]]''. [[Portal (series)|GLaDOS]] uses this on John Freeman, but he gets bored after 3 seconds and shoots her with a RPG.

 

* ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'' has a pseudo-[[Flash Back]] to just such a situation during its second-episode [[Clip Show]], parodying it when the ''third'' roommate indignantly reminds Dante and Randal that he lives there, too.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]''

* ''[[Taz-Mania]]'': In "Unhappy Together", an argument between the Platypus Brothers ends with them cutting their house in half.

 

* Legendary bar [http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3635/3396376241_b8d24629a4.jpg?v=0 Cafe Lautrec] in Adams Morgan, Washington DC closed after its two owners, who came from competing tribes in Eritrea, went to war against one another, ''War of the Roses''-style. [http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/17612/drinking-games They divided everything in the bar down the middle,] staffing alternate shifts, keeping separate books, and brown-bagging liquor, even going so far as to visit the bar on alternate nights to tell customers not to patronize the place, submitting bomb-threats and ABC violations against their own establishment when the other owner was on-duty.

* East and West Germany, with the most visible part being the Berlin Wall. This was taken to such an extreme that when the Berlin U-Bahn was divided, a couple of ghost stations existed where the trains passed through on the wrong side of the wall.

 

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