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'''Obi-Wan''': ''"You were my brother, Anakin... I loved you."''|''[[Star Wars]]: [[Revenge of the Sith]]'' }}

And [[Two Roads Before You|I went east and he went west]]<br />

[[Reformed Criminal|I took to law and wore a star]]<br />

== Film ==

* ''[[Star Wars]]'' - Taken to the extreme in the third Episode of the ''Star Wars'' saga during the battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan.

'''Obi-Wan''': "You were a brother to me... I loved you." }}

* ''[[13 Going on 30|Thirteen Going On Thirty]]'' deals with this. Jenna abandons Matt when she becomes more popular. They reconcile, though. Has something to do with [[Time Travel]].

== Live-Action TV ==

* Wesley Wyndam-Pryce from ''[[Angel]]''. After Wesley translated a prophecy that predicted for Angel to kill his son, Wesley took the child to save his friend from his horrible fate. When he was about to leave town with the boy, he got his throat slit by [[The Dragon]] of Angel's nemesis and the baby was now taken from him and brought to a Hell dimension. His friends didn't take it that well. As a result to this, his friends never wanting to see him again, he takes a major in [[Took a Level In Badass|Badassery]] and is from then on very reserved concerning his former friends.

'''Wesley:''' I had my throat cut and all my friends abandoned me. }}

** Wesley steadily reconciles with them during the fourth and fifth seasons, however - despite the pain of what happened, Angel later states that overcoming this trope made their friendship afterward stronger than ever.

* Shepard and the Virmire Survivor in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. Joining up with terrorists (no matter how noble your intentions) will do that.

** Worse at the start of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', although they're prepared to hear you out. Depending on whether you take the time to clear the air, they can end up {{spoiler|rejoining you, going to work with Hackett or, uh, dying at your hands. That last one's not too hard to avoid, though.}}

'''Virmire Survivor''': [[Broken Pedestal|I used to.]] }}

* In [[Ace Attorney]], Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth were part of a [[Power Trio]] with Larry Butz during the fourth grade after Miles and Larry were the only ones to stand up for Phoenix when he was accused of stealing Miles' lunch money. {{spoiler|It was Larry. When something smells, it's probably the Butz.}} Then Edgeworth switched schools after his father was murdered and switched career goals from defense attorney to prosecutor. Phoenix was inspired by Edgeworth and Butz to become a defense attorney himself, which led to a legendary courtroom rivalry between Wright and Edgeworth. They do become somewhat friends by the final case of the first game when Edgeworth actively helps Wright get the true killer of a case to confess.

* It's always well publicised and seems particularly poignant when two musicians who are songwriting/performing partners and/or relatives fall out. Examples include [[The Beatles|John Lennon and Paul McCartney]], [[Simon and Garfunkel|Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel]], [[Guns N' Roses|Axl and Slash]], [[The Band|Levon Helm and Robbie Roberson]], [[The Kinks|Ray and Dave Davies]], and Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

* Before [[Genghis Khan]] was Genghis Khan, he was Temüjin, and he was best friends since child hood with boy named Jamukha. Eventually, Jamukha was declared a Khan himself. Temüjin refused to accept this, and the two who had been as brothers went to war with one another, with Temüjin being victorious due to his more progressive methods and tactics, along with Jamukha's forces betraying him. After [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves|rewarding the traitors]], Temüjin offered the defeated Jamukha a place by his side so that they could resume their friendship, but Jamukha declined with the following speech;

* Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. Big time.

* [[Sigmund Freud]] and [[Carl Jung]]. After a few years as colleagues, Jung tried to convince Freud that focusing purely on the sexual roots of human motivation was too limiting. He believed that the subconscious is not so much the repository of repression as it is the wellspring of creativity. He also promoted the idea of the [[Archetypal Character]], and that many actions are based on patterns that tend to repeat themselves. (Perhaps this makes him the ultimate [[Trope Codifier]] of ... well, of tropes.) Freud disagreed with what is now called Jungian psychology because, naturally, he believed that [[All Psychology Is Freudian]].