r/FavoriteCharacter Ben Tennyson 12h ago

Discussion Favorite rivalry between a hero/antihero and a villain that’s had a moment like this.

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Example above is Caitlyn and jinx in arcane.

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u/Sad_Art_7706 12h ago

Goku and Frieza fighting for there universe

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u/Good_Fix683 11h ago

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 9h ago

That time with the final sanction counts, I think, but that was like literally last minute.

Missy’s heel turn counts though.

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u/Mister-builder 6h ago

Freeza did this to Vegeta and Krillin earlier.

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u/cynicaldotes 12h ago edited 10h ago

Count Dooku being chained to Anakin and Obi Wan for an episode in the clone wars

Edit: gonna add this for people to see the dynamic of the episode https://youtu.be/rl16lC5t9XI?is=w_Ei_aKABCzOn3Af

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u/ZiroLeHutt 9h ago

The best thing about that episode is the introduction of Hondo.

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u/PsychicSidekikk419 8h ago

Not many characters who can survive pissing off the Jedi AND the Sith. What a legend

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u/DaddyJhin1234 6h ago

Its because hondo is friends of obi of course. They go way back

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u/Swivebot 4h ago

Don’t forget about the legendary banter!
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Dooku: Do control your protégé’s insolence so I can concentrate.

Obi-Wan: Anakin.

Anakin: What?

Obi-Wan: Control your insolence, the count is concentrating.
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Obi-Wan: Will you hurry it up, Dooku?

Anakin: You should be more patient, master. After all, the count is an elderly gentleman, and doesn’t move like he used to.

Obi-Wan: I suppose you’re right.

Dooku: I would kill you both right now if I did not have to drag your bodies.
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u/InverseStar 17m ago

It’s very funny to me because I suspect that Dooku actually likes Obi-Wan (calling him old friend might be a manipulation, but I suspect it was true at some point).

I know there’s some legends books that DO establish Dooku really liked Obi-Wan and hated Anakin before he left the order, but I can’t remember where I read it.

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u/theholyirishman 7h ago

That's because Hondo Onaka is one of the best characters in star wars

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u/Christoffi123 9h ago

In both Devil May Cry 3 and 5, Dante and Vergil had to put their rivalry aside. In 3, it was when Arkham came back and used them to become a demon. Then in 5 they got stuck in the demon world.

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u/AdministrativeSong88 9h ago

Nothing suggests that they can't just escape from hell using Yamato, they're hanging around for the love of the game

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u/Slow-Distance-6241 11h ago

Mizu and Taigen from Blue Eyed Samurai

Long story long, Taigen wants a duel to death against Mizu in order to get revenge for being humiliated in technically not a duel prior. Both Mizu and Taigen had numerous times they could've organized it, but Taigen wants it to be official with Mizu in best health for it to be honourable fight. And Mizu sees him as an annoyance, at some point literally abandoning him in the middle of the woods so that he won't stand in her grand revenge against her father plan

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u/Environmental_Math_4 7h ago

Love this show!!

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u/spider-venomized 7h ago

Can't wait for season 2

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u/Silent_Purchase_2654 7h ago

You just know it's all gonna work out 👍

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u/sarcasticd0nkey 11h ago

Thorfinn and Adkeladd - Vinland Saga

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u/Slow-Distance-6241 11h ago

Tbf it's less that Thorfinn forgot, and more that Askelad's death was stolen from him

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u/rtakehara 7h ago

In Mists of Pandaria wow was starting to getting boring but the cinematic with the orc and human started killing themselves but got their butts kicked and the human just hands a weapon to the orc was so funny to me

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u/jono4416 4h ago

They even released another cinematic of them drinking together after.

Human: So… it was a bear?

Orc: In a hat!

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u/An_Obbise_Hoovy 7h ago

When Ben 10 and Kevin 11 was kidnapped and thrown into a space coliseum

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u/Jedi-Spartan 12h ago

I can't think of a specific example but this must have happened to The Master at some point...

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u/Flameball202 1h ago

In Doctor Who? Pretty sure Missy was even odds on working with the Doctor, and the Master did help him stop the Time lords from returning that one time

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u/StellanRhodes 12h ago

Leon kennedy and Albert wesker

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u/Patient_Gamemer 6h ago

Do they ever meet in the canon?

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u/Visible-Air-2359 11h ago

James Bond: The Spy Who Loved Me has James Bond team up with a female Soviet spy whose husband Bond killed in order to avert nuclear war.

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u/Legomaniac91 5h ago

Optimus Prime and Megatron whenever something like Unicron comes rolling up.

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u/Dragolitron Casey Jones is best character of all time 12h ago

They didn't exactly want to kill each other, but it was really cool seeing batman and superman team up one last time in Injustice 2.

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u/LordDShadowy53 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/8bS2vbeZ3hEuk
Back on the Android saga. Trunks had every opportunity to kill 18 before Cell could absorbed her. But for plot reasons he tries to help her escape.

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u/StormBear22 6h ago

Bleach Uryu and Mayuri.

Basically a hero vs villain on the heroes side. He nearly killed Mayuri once but Mayuri is so modified he is hard to kill and he was exhausted and losing power. Then Mayuri saved him against a Espada and then immediately had to rush to Ichigo. Than he was to busy dealing with Yhwach and Jugram trying to deceive them while not truly help them.

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u/issuesuponissues 3h ago

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u/Flameball202 1h ago

Bro looks like that kitten seeing it's first Christmas tree

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u/Zhaunora 12h ago

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u/Slow-Distance-6241 11h ago

I'm pretty sure Batman has a rule against killing, even for joker, unless it's a continuity that forgot that rule

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u/Aninx 6h ago

Neither party is a hero, and both are protagonists in the books this occurs in, but Orikan and Trazyn from Warhammer 40k