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== Literature ==
* The antagonists of [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''Rikki-Tikki-Tavi'' are the cruel king cobras Nag and his even crueler mate Nagaina. Nag is killed by the mongoose protagonist halfway through the story, causing Nagaina to seek revenge against him and his adoptive human family.
* Bibok and Calosta in [[Esther Friesner]]'s ''[[Majyk By Design]]''. On Orbix, Majyk is a psuedo-sentient tangible substance that actually provides the power behind spells. Our hero Kendar may have scads of Majyk, but the two of them together are positively dripping with it. Married wizards and sorcerers have a heck of a time getting divorced if their Majyk doesn't want to separate. {{spoiler|This is taken care of during the final fight when Kendar's ex-wife pretends to have had an affair with Bibok. Calosta proceeds to turn him into a variety of amusing shapes until finally he's turned into a rat which Scandal, Kendar's talking cat, eats, thereby gaining his share. Calosta was winked out of existence by Kendar's Aunt Carageena (Or was it Glucosia?) when her Sacred Eye of Delbert paperweight slipped out of her hands and struck Calosta in the chest. They didn't realize that the paperweight was, in fact, the actual artifact.}}
* In one of the ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' stories, titled ''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_People_of_the_Black_Circle The People of the Black Circle]'', a villainous sorcerer's [[Lady Macbeth|lover convinced him]] that he should betray his four masters and [[Take Over the World]] on his own. {{spoiler|He was actually able to use [[The Power of Love]] to hold all four of them off for a while -- until they realize what's happening, and target HER instead. He gets the last laugh as he [[Almost-Dead Guy|live just long enough]] to give Conan information on how to kill them}}.
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* ''[[In Death]]'' series: This has happened a couple of times, like in ''Salvation in Death'' and ''New York to Dallas''. However, in those cases, one of the couple is genuinely in love and the other has nothing but contempt for the other. The contemptuous one will murder the other one, thereby crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]]...if s/he has not already done so!
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: A number of stories has this going on between the bad guys, like in ''Lethal Justice'', ''Vanishing Act'', and ''Deadly Deals''. However, the "love" between such couples is apparently not genuine, and they will inevitably turn on each other once the Vigilantes and [[Karma]] start closing in on them!
== Live Action TV ==
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