Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 215 - Enemy Mine

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

In the event of a tie between 4 or more nominations, a tiebreaker poll will be run the next day to determine a winner.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope list:
Kindhearted Simpleton
The Woobie
Trauma Conga Line
Evil Costume Switch
Torch the Franchise and Run
Trash the Set
Grand Finale

The winners of yesterday's trope, Fat and Skinny, were Junkrat and Roadhog (Overwatch), who got 4 votes.

Previous winners: Day 181 onwards
Cliffhanger - The Snap (Avengers: Infinity War)
Anti-Climax Boss - Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X)
Lights Off, Somebody Dies - Devil / Anthology of Interest (Futurama) / And Then There Was Shawn (Boy Meets World)
Broken Base - Genwunners (Pokemon)
Difficult But Awesome - Ana (Overwatch)
Disc One Nuke - Hawlucha (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
Lampshade Hanging - How did Yzma and Kronk get there first? (The Emperor's New Groove)
Tier Induced Scrappy - Meta Knight (Super Smash Bros Brawl)
Squishy Wizard - Alakazam (Pokemon)
Clipped Wing Angel - Genie Jafar (Aladdin)
Cruel and Unusual Death - Executions (Danganronpa)
That One Level - Escape from the Water Slums (Jak II) / Water Temple (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence - Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
The Reason You Suck Speech - Quagmire to Brian (Family Guy)
Magic Knight - Geralt (The Witcher) / Bayonetta
Dem Bones - Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Acrofatic - Po (Kung Fu Panda)
Game Breaker - Detective Mode (Batman Arkham Series)
Fluffy the Terrible - Fluffy (Harry Potter)
Deathbringer the Adorable - The Grand Master of All Things Bad (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon)
Storming the Castle - Leeroy Jenkins
BFS - Buster Sword (Final Fantasy VII)
Fat Bastard - Eric Cartman (South Park)
Mentor Occupational Hazard - Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
Oddball Doppelganger - Mimikyu (Pokemon)
Mood Whiplash - The destroyed village ends "A Girl Worth Fighting For" early (Mulan)
Names to Run Away From Really Fast - Shelly DeKiller (Ace Attorney)
Hostile Show Takeover - Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)
Lean and Mean - Voldemort (Harry Potter) / Waluigi (Super Mario Bros.) / Slenderman (Marble Hornets)
Identical Stranger - Guy Incognito (The Simpsons) / Kingsonn Dededoo (Brawl in the Family)
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You - Bowser (Super Mario Bros.)
Humiliation Conga - Yzma (The Emperor's New Groove)
Shock and Awe - Pikachu (Pokemon)

Today's trope is Enemy Mine. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyMine

A shorter form of the Sanskrit proverb "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Another phrase used to describe this is "War makes for strange bedfellows." This results in a scenario where foes must work together to achieve a common goal. Note that this is different from Villain Team-Up or Legion of Doom: although all three involve two parties working together to achieve a common goal, this trope usually involves two rivals that have opposing views (such as being good vs being evil) while the latter two involves characters that share similar views (such as both of them are evil), though they don't necessarily like each other.

This type of team-up usually starts with the villain coming to the hero's aid, usually saying that a certain threat is a danger to them both, or "No one kills you but me!" when they save the hero from certain doom. May arise from a Mexican Standoff. After the team-up, the villain will usually let the hero live for now because they were so useful, so everything can return to status quo.

Frequently, if it is a goodie-baddie partnership, the baddie will look for opportunities to pull something that gets them a profit (or, in the case of really bad baddies, allows them to stab the goodie in the back). If the villain doesn't betray the hero right away, but there is still animosity between them while they are working together, then you have Teeth-Clenched Teamwork. If the Status Quo is not maintained there could be a creep towards Friendly Enemy status. Can become a HeelFace Revolving Door if it happens more than once.

TL,DR: Sworn enemies must work together to face a common threat.

Nominations:
The X-Men and Brotherhood (X-Men)
Crash Bandicoot and Dr Cortex (Crash Twinsanity)
Chell and GLADOS (Portal 2)

Mario and Bowser (Super Mario RPG)
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Mario and Bowser (half the Mario RPGs)
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FBike1 posted...

Mario and Bowser (half the Mario RPGs)

Ash and Team Rocket (some episodes of Pokemon)
Rey and Kylo Ren (The Last Jedi)
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FBike1 posted...

Mario and Bowser (half the Mario RPGs)

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Seth Gecko & the Fuller family vs Vampires (From Dusk Till Dawn)
Marquis Warren and Chris Mannix (The Hateful Eight)
Neo and the Machines vs Agent Smith (Matrix Revolutions)
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Mario and Bowser
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Seth Gecko & the Fuller family vs Vampires (From Dusk Till Dawn)
Marquis Warren and Chris Mannix (The Hateful Eight)
the Leblanc Syndicate and the Gullwings (Final Fantasy X-2)
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Thor/Loki (Thor: The Dark World and Thor Ragnarok)
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Mario and Bowser (half the Mario RPGs)
Edge and Chris Jericho join the fight aganst Nexus (WWE)
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Rankings so far:
Mario and Bowser (half the Mario RPGs) - 5 votes
Seth Gecko & the Fuller family vs Vampires (From Dusk Till Dawn) - 2 votes
Marquis Warren and Chris Mannix (The Hateful Eight) - 2 votes
The X-Men and Brotherhood (X-Men)
Crash Bandicoot and Dr Cortex (Crash Twinsanity)
Chell and GLADOS (Portal 2)
Sonic and Shadow
Sonic and Robotnik
Goku and Vegeta (Freeza arc)
Ash and Team Rocket (some episodes of Pokemon)
Rey and Kylo Ren (The Last Jedi)
Neo and the Machines vs Agent Smith (Matrix Revolutions)
the Leblanc Syndicate and the Gullwings (Final Fantasy X-2)
Thor/Loki (Thor: The Dark World and Thor Ragnarok)
Edge and Chris Jericho join the fight aganst Nexus (WWE)

Goku and Frieza (Dragon Ball Super)
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Supernatural Sam, Dean and Crowley
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Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus
Mario and Bowser
Ash and Team Rocket

HM:
Xanatos and the Gargoyles
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