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They're best friends. You can tell because they bicker [[Like an Old Married Couple]].

 

Contrast with [[Headbutting Heroes]], who just cold-out despise each other despite being the best of heroes. Compare [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]] for a romantic equivalent.

 

* [[Mazinger Z/Characters|Kouji Kabuto and Boss]] from ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' and its sequels (''[[Great Mazinger]]'' and ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'') and spin-offs (''[[Mazinkaiser]]'', ''[[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]]'', ''[[Shin Mazinger Zero]]''...). Their first meeting consisted of Boss picking one fight with Kouji. They often bicker with each other, but they do get along rather well.

* Vegeta and Goku from ''[[Dragon Ball]]''.

* ''[[Slam Dunk]]'': Akagi and Sakuragi and to an extent, all of Shohoku.

 

* ''[[Groo the Wanderer|Groo]]'' is oblivious to how much his sister Grooella hates him and thinks every insult and raging verbal assault shows how much difficulty she has showing her affection. But, then, Groo is oblivious to practically everything.

* [[Depending on the Writer]], [[The Joker]] either imagines that he and [[Batman]] have an extreme variation on the trope, or just pretends he does because it bugs Batman.

** Asterix himself usually has a bad argument with Oblelix at least [[Once Per Episode]]. It never takes long for them to make up, though.

* In one ''Thimble Theater'' Poopdeck Pappy, the father of [[Popeye]], says that the reason he made his one friend, the diminutive "Pookie" Jones, is because they used to be fierce enemies until one day Pappy suddenly considered Pookie and realized that he simply wasn't worth hating, so he made friends instead. Upon hearing this Pookie flies into a rage. Pappy holds him away at arms length as he punches at him furiously, chuckling, "Ain't he cute?"

* In ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'', Channon Yarrow and Yelena Rossinni, Spider Jerusalem's "filthy assistants," come to mind. In one issue they escape from Spider's apartment and go on a shopping spree without his knowledge, {{spoiler|(or so they think)}} but when the conversation turns to Spider himself, both women find that, however much they despise their boss's personal character, they both respect and admire his integrity as a journalist and his staunch dedication to the truth.

** And afterwards he, who was listening all along, remarks to the audience that they love him. Then he proceeds to eat a live pigeon.

* As children, Sam and Max (of ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' fame) seemed to be this way. Max used to mercilessly make fun of Sam, who was too shy to ever stand up for himself, but wouldn't stand for anyone else doing the same.

* [[The Defenders]], in most incarnations. They are in every way a "non-team" of "non-friends," and the standard Defenders' parting words are "Let's never do this again," but if one of them comes to the group for help, s/he'll get it.

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

'''Gimli''': [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|"Aye. I could do that."]] }}

* Sam French and Jake Wyer in ''Fifty/Fifty'' have this in spades, although Jake likes to pretend he can't stand Sam.

 

== Literature ==

* [[The Colbert Report|Stephen Colbert]] treats everyone this way and it's common practice at the ol' ''[[The Daily Show|Daily Show]]''. Notably, Stephen has mad Vitriolic love for his Papa Bear, Bill O'Reilly. (O'Reilly knows Colbert is shitting him, though.)

** Actually, in an honest talk between them, Colbert did admit that, even though he disagrees with O'Reilly on alot of things, he has a great respect for him and pretty much owes his career to him. O'Reilly has also said he respects Colbert since he's rarely ever mean-spirited about any of his jabs at people.

* The three presenters on ''[[Top Gear]]'' ''love'' taking jabs at each other constantly.

{{quote|'''James May''': We’re good mates because it just wouldn’t work otherwise. But we also quite enjoy hating each other. If Jeremy [Clarkson] was drowning, I probably would go and pull him out. Eventually. But only after laughing for a bit and making him think I wasn’t going to.}}

* Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser of [[Pardon the Interruption]] are like this both on and off screen. The main difference, according to Kornheiser [[Word of God|on his radio show,]] is that when they're not on camera, there's a lot more profanity.

* Jade and Cat from ''[[Victorious]]'', almost to the point of being "friends in name only". Cat will share a thought or suggest an activity to Jade, Jade will make a snarky statement or even a death threat. Cat will happily laugh it off, only for Jade to say "I'm serious" in a completely serious tone. Cat then laughs for a couple more seconds before all the joy disappears from her face. This has happened NUMEROUS times.

 

== Music ==

* John Williamson's song "The Kiwi and the Emu" depicts the pair, symbolically representing the nations of Australia and New Zealand, as having this kind relationship:

{{quote|''So don't be fooled if you see 'em fight

* The Midnight Beast's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UlEv_t-fxc Friends for never]

* Bowling For Soup's song "BFFF" from their album ''Sorry for Partyin'' describes the relationship to a T:

{{quote|''You're gonna say I'm gay, when you hear me say

* ''[[Gorillaz]]'': Particularly in Phase 1, 2D never seemed to harbor any resentment towards Murdoc, who ran him over, put him in a coma and fractured his eyeball, ran him over ''again'' and fractured his ''other'' eyeball, knocked out his two front teeth at some point, regularly beats and insults him, and stole several of his possessions, at least one of his girlfriends, and (according to the website) most of his internal organs. 2D still once announced, "Aww, I love you, Murdoc!" in an interview, much to Murdoc's annoyance. He attempted to stand up for himself when the band re-formed, but evidently it hasn't gone very well, as he's currently being held captive by Murdoc on Plastic Beach. He did recently declare that he hates Murdoc, so he seems to be coming to his senses, either because of time spent away from Murdoc or because he's reduced his medication intake.

* [[The Police]]. Despite catapulting each other to stardom, frontman Sting and founder Stewart Copeland could not agree on ''anything'', even coming to blows during the recording of their last album, and their clashing egos severely alienated guitarist Andy Summers. However, after [[Blatant Lies|permanently]] disbanding in 1986, Sting invited the other two to his wedding in 1992 and they performed an impromptu gig for the other guests. The three came together one last time in 2007-08 to play 152 shows on a worldwide tour: on opening night, Copeland wrote a disparaging review of their performance, which finished by describing how they [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|fell into each other's arms laughing backstage]].

* [[Simon and Garfunkel]].

* [[John Lennon]] always dished out his fair share of constructive criticism and potshots at [[Paul McCartney]] in the media post-[[The Beatles|Beatles]] breakup, but he truly loved and admired Paul and said he would not want to hear fans or journalists slag him off, thinking that that was what John wanted to hear. John very often defended his friend, and he greatly praised ''Band On The Run'' when it came out. Likewise, Paul greatly admired John, and downhearted stopped seesions for his ''Tug Of War'' album for several months after learning of John's murder (he wrote "Here Today" in tribute).

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* [[Krazy Kat]] and Ignatz Mouse. Krazy loves Ignatz, Ignatz constantly insults/expresses his "hatred" for/tosses bricks at Krazy. However, Krazy ''loves'' getting hit with bricks...and Ignatz, for his part, genuinely cares about Krazy and spends a lot of his spare time dishing the dirt with the Kat ([[Friendly Enemy|though it nearly always ends with the inevitable brick toss]]).

* Nate, Teddy, and Francis from the newspaper comic, recently turned into a series of kid's books, ''Big Nate''.

 

== Puppet Shows ==

* [[The Undertaker]] and Kane, despite being 'half-brothers'. They've fought as a tag team together and fought each other multiple times. As JBL noted on the reunion match of the Brothers of Destruction, "You mess with Kane, you got Undertaker. You mess with Undertaker, you got Kane." Also on their reunion match, most of that time was shown "one-upping" each other as if they were having fun.

* It usually can be seen with announcers, in some cases more than others, especially [[Gorilla Monsoon]] and [[Bobby Heenan]] who delighted in heaping insults on each other much to the fans' and their own amusement.

 

== Radio ==

{{quote|1444. My Ally advantage and Arch Enemy flaw can't both represent the same person.}}

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' example: Leman Russ and Lion El'Johnson hated each other's guts for quite some time after their first encounter, in which the two primarchs ended up fighting each other over an honor issue, fueled by their [[Boisterous Bruiser|vastly]] [[The Stoic|different]] personalities, but over time, they became accustomed to each other's personalities and eventually became very close friends. Their rivalries remained, however, so this is the kind of friendship that evolved. Their successors sadly only remember the rivalry part of their relationship, however.

 

== Theatre ==

* The broadway musical ''Mame'' features a song about this, entitled "Bosom Buddies", where Vera and Mame take turns sniping at each other while still simultaneously declaring their great affection. This is a type two.

* Rod and Nicky in "Avenue Q" are this way too. From the song "It Sucks to be Me":

** By the end of the play, {{spoiler|Nicky finds Rod a boyfriend to make up for outing him at Brian and Christmas Eve's wedding}}.

* Why, [[The Producers|Bialystock & Bloom]], of course! Their friendship comes into question {{spoiler|when ''Springtime'' turns out to be a huge success}}, but by the end, they've become [[Fire-Forged Friends]].

** Disgaea3 has Mao and Raspberyl. One an Honor Student (meaning total jerkass) and one a Delinquent (goody two-shoes). They can't stand each other, insult each other, fight each other, and by the end of the game would clearly gladly lay down their lives for each other. They actually end up running the school together.

* In [[Katawa Shoujo]], Hisao has a Type 1 with Kenji and a Type 2 with Emi. Kenji gets on his nerves by constantly asking Hisao to loan him money and his misogynist rantings (especially when they're targeted at Hisao's current girlfriend), but there are times when he appreciates having Kenji around, such as {{spoiler|when he gets Iwanako's letter}} in Shizune's route and {{spoiler|when he hears that Lilly is leaving for Scotland}} in Lilly's route. Hisao and Emi often exchange playful insults in Emi's route, and in Rin's route.

 

== Web Animation ==

** Meanwhile, Bubs and Coach Z describe the second type.

{{quote|'''Coach Z:''' Aw, Bubs loves me like a brother. ''([[Beat]])'' Hates me like a brother, too!}}

 

== Web Comics ==

* Trixie and Jack of [[Black Jack Justice]] fit the bill. Not an episode goes by where the two PI's don't bicker and threaten each other at a pace that would make the Gilmore Girls jealous. They even have some pat, oft-repeated gibes for when they're tired ("You miss me?" "With every bullet so far" is pretty common). Police Lt Victor Sabien fits this bill with both of them. In fact, when an episode opens with Vic walking in and not insulting them, that's their first, best clue that he's truly upset.

** For that matter, Jack and Freddie the Finger have a relationship of this sort, but a little softer and more gentle than the rest of the cast.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Bender and Leela in ''[[Futurama]]''. The only thing preventing the two from leaving each other stranded to die a horrible interplanetary death are the two's feelings for Fry by proxy. That and keeping their jobs.

* David Seville and ''[[Say My Name|AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL]][[Catch Phrase|VVVVVVVVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN]][[Alvin and The Chipmunks|!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]''

 

== Real Life ==